BEST THE BOONDOCKS EPISODES SERIES
This is another example of both Seasonal Rot and Executive Meddling, as Adult Swim decided to continue the series after Season 3, which is widely considered to be the best season.The series finale, "The New Black", was a truly bad way to end the series.The humor was downgraded from being funny and clever, to being rather awkward and forgettable.This season rather focuses on relationships (as mentioned in #2 and #4), with Kim Kardashian even making an unnecessary guest appearance.This season has had very little as far as actual political-social commentary, real satire or any of the insights you'd normally expect from this show.This season has been extremely rushed because it only aired for 2 months and lasted for 10 episodes.Uncle Ruckus undergoing a crapload of Flanderization, going from being a self-hating racist but funny man into an annoying, unfunny character.The unnecessary decision to bring back Stinkmeaner again, who was killed off twice in Season 1 and 2.Many poor plots of Robert going into different situations, such as losing money and becoming a slave.This season also removed a lot of several popular characters such as Gin Rummy, Thugnificent and Cindy McPhearson.While Robert is one of the main characters, the whole season focusing on him doesn't make sense. Rather than focusing on Huey Freeman, who is literally the main character, this season focuses more on Robert Freeman.The biggest reason for this season's failure is the fact that Aaron McGruder intentionally had no involvement with this season, as he was making plans for the first season of the live-action religious sitcom Black Jesus, airing on the same network.Complex's Boondocks consortium put their collective heads together and paired down the show's history into the 15 best episodes of The Boondocks, which you can stream on HBO Max (well all of the episodes except for "The Story of Jimmy Rebel", which was recently removed from the service). The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom created by Aaron McGruder, based upon his comic strip of the same name, The show begins with an Afro-American family, the Freemans, settling into the fictional, peaceful, and mostly white suburb of Woodcrest from Chicagos South Side. While it's a goddamn shame that a) McGruder left after three seasons of the show and b) the fourth season left a meh taste in the mouths of many, The Boondocks goes down in history as one of the realest shows about the black experience in America, even if its just a bunch anime(-influenced) characters spitting foul language and getting into fuckery. It covered issues like soul food, the war in Iraq, homophobia, "nigga moments," slavery, and so much more in ways that were as witty as they were real, in an anime style that allowed for some truly memorable sequences. See, The Boondocks as a cartoon could do what shows like In Living Color couldn't: it was able to say things about current events and long-known struggles and situations in black America that some shows couldn't (although Dave Chappelle definitely got the closest). Never afraid to skewer everything from social issues to the state of hip-hop, when word got out that McGruder selling the rights to The Boondocks for an animated show on adult swim, it was wildly known that it was going to be "that show." We'd lost Chappelle's Show in 2005, and were missing the informed voice on all of the fuckery facing black lives in America. The show spent the next ten years gaining popularity, newspaper syndication, and causing controversy for McGruder's satirical voice, all filtered through three characters: Granddad, an older black man who saw the civil rights movement and is just trying to live in the suburbs with his two grandsons, Riley (the hip-hop-obsessed wannabe thug) and Huey (essentially, Boots Riley from The Coup)-although it further expanded its universe to include "Uncle Tom" (who was actually named Tom), a black guy who hates black people, a biracial girl who was confused af, and so many believable portrayals of the everyday black people we meet. Not many series-animated or live-action-nailed its subject as perfect as The Boondocks did, and as the years go by, we continue to see how impactful (and important) this series was.Īs many know, The Boondocks started out in 1996 as a comic strip written and drawn by McGruder (and a small team of like-minded individuals). Aaron McGruder's The Boondocksdeserves to sit in the pantheon of Black entertainment.
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