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The Boondocks
2005 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Aaron McGruder
ActionAdventureComedyAnimation
When Robert “Granddad” Freeman becomes legal guardian to his two grandsons, he moves from the tough south side of Chicago to the upscale neighborhood of Woodcrest (a.k.a. "The Boondocks") so he can enjoy his golden years in safety and comfort. But with Huey, a 10-year-old leftist revolutionary, and his eight-year-old misfit brother, Riley, suburbia is about to be shaken up.
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I remember when that was tried and ignored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
I find this sort of suggestion to be 100% reminiscent from Ship of Fools, or to be slightly more charitable and work-safe, the protestors in the lemonade episode of Boondocks. The captain is nuts, Jasmine is almost a slave, and you're going to protest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-BXw_8RbI
> Hard "R" or not makes little difference
Should have told that to that teacher from decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9Zy2-C_lY
Such a wild interview that Boondocks outright sampled it for an episode.
I lost it when they removed the DnD episode of 'Community'. Then Boondocks. It is woke BS and I'm tired of the revisionist BS too
It's far worse in anime/video games. A lot of localizer stories running rampant over it- understandably the original authors weren't happy about Western pandering and DEI/political views were being shunted into their stories.
There's a reason the fansub community abhors anything from funimation et al.
Canceled all subscriptions now, and I'm much happier.
But you are left with the issue of "curated" incomplete and edited versions.
In June 2020, when the initial run of The Boondocks was uploaded to HBO Max, the Season 3 episode "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" was intentionally excluded due to perceived racial insensitivities over the episode's portrayal of a racist country singer named Jimmy Rebel (a parody of real-life white supremacist country singer Johnny Rebel).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondocks_(2005_TV_series)
Sure, the episode had some seriously racist historic material reanimated in a black american cartoon series by black creators for primarily black audiences .. and committed the sin of portraying southern white supremacists exactly as they recorded themselves on film and in the studio.
I'm not a culture warrior, I'm not even from the US - I do however spend a few hours every week curating meta data and subtitles - and a great many episodes of things yo may other wise not expect have been altered between original aired versions and versions later streamed.
There's a slew of edits between Community episodes and one of the pirate packs from a major streamer and I've yet to fathom why so much material was cut for streaming, it's not like they have time constraints.
Tyler Perry and his studio system are parodied relentlessly in an episode of the last season of Atlanta and in The Boondocks, these episodes assume one knows about Tyler Perry’s studio.
Regardless of reason differences exist.
If you have an original DVD collection of The Boondocks [1] then you have the episode
Boondocks, The S03E04 The Story of Jimmy Rebel
banned after first showing on Adult Swim for excessive depictions of racism and perceived racial insensitivities over the episode's portrayal of a racist country singer named Jimmy Rebel (a parody of real-life white supremacist country singer Johnny Rebel). [2]
There are many other examples of broadcast episodes still available on DVD, BluRay, torrents, and still indexed on IMDB theTVDB etc. but not available via online streaming.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondocks_(2005_TV_series)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondocks_(season_3)
Good fried chicken is like a narcotic, it can just knock you out. The Boondocks have an episode about it called "The Itis" and the effect is very real.
The problem, as with every memory-holed episode ever, is that people watching/listening for the first time (or say they only use X platform to consume whatever) will never know they existed.
In other words, lying by omission is still lying.
Edit to add- just to show how unbelievably petty the reasoning can be- Tyler Perry threw a bitch-fit about an episode of Boondocks and had it pulled (as was an episode ripping on BET when they screamed). For something that was pure satire and a cartoon they not only had it pulled from airing, they now no longer list the episodes at all on Hulu/HBOMax, pretending they never existed at all, even re-numbering the episodes.
All because of Tyler Perry/Some BET exec's ego? GTFO.
We have Holocaust deniers while still having people alive that survived it. We have people constantly denying proven, recent history and some people think it's ok to censor shit and pretend it never happened and it'll be all roses and sunshine.
>I explained to her that these kinds of movies can’t be made anymore because too many people would be outraged.
I don't get this attitude. I think movies like this aren't made any more because they wouldn't be original or worth making. They wouldn't be commercially viable. Outrage is only going to come from a minority, and everyone else just won't care.
I think we have so far passed the degree of shock that people don't even notice any more.
Borat, South Park, Tropic Thunder, Shameless, The Boondocks, examples are easy to find and I don't even care for this flavor of humor.
I guess these examples are mostly from several years ago or more, but I have been hearing "these kinds of movies can't be made anymore" for the last 20 years.
As memorably recalled by U. Ruckus in the Boondocks episode “Invasion of the Katrinians”
Another great posthumous reference to Ross is the character based on him in this episode / scene from Boondocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhn_TAbvSH8
I remember hearing that from Samuel L Jackson in one of The Boondocks episode. Best episode ever.
>>For all we will ever know both parties collude to keep the system in place.
There was an episode of Boondocks that did this. In the end, Ann Coulter turns out not to be a republican. She's just faking everything to cause controversy sell books.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seThIG34R8 - Warning, lots & lots of bad language. Can't find the AdultSwim censored version.