Boondocks to hit TV

[Fe 26]

so, like is this show supose to be funny?

[avatar]

It kinda is.

[Fe 26]

I get the same feeling watching this show, that I get when I wake up in the middle of calc 4. Confused, lost, and stupid.

[Frogacuda]

The strip is not, has not been, and never will be funny.

End of fucking discussion.

Wrong. It started out very funny, but after a few months became horrendous.

[1CCOSA]

"Um, waiter. There appears to be some editorial floating in my Adult Swim."

Saw the "Garden Party" episode. Let's throw alllll Left/right politics aside, this show is complete and utter TRASH and self congratulating nonsense.

A)McGruder is constantly railing against "the BET culture," yet Huey, Riley and Grandpa and everyone in general all say "nigger" more than a BET comedy session, Chris Rock (a friend of his in real life) and an angry 1930s lynch mob combined.

B)At the garden party, Huey calls out a priest on the fact that in the Passion, Jesus is played by a white actor and keeps saying something to the effect of "Why can't you understand Jesus was black and you still got a white dude playing him?" At first I thought to myself, "Well yeah of course, good point ha." Problem is, obviously, though not "black," it's very true most Jews and semitic folks in ancient Israel probably looked a lot more like Iraqis, more like Sayid on Lost than Jim Caviezel. But Huey's line would at least make a bit more sense if it weren't coming out of the mouth of a soft faced little "black boy" who is drawn more like a fair featured little japanese girl. Hello, contradiction.

This scene is also wasted because not only does McGruder make himself look foolish for the aforementioned reason, also for the sake of really making the audience think (since that is what he is trying to do I guess) like say ex: How about Huey calling out the priest on the church's support of Hitler and the fact that Mel Gibson's priest/dad is a holocaust sympathizer for cryin' out loud, or hey since it's supposed to be about current events within the last decade or two, how about calling him out on the molestation scandal?

Wasted opportunity, instead we get some dumb random, "hip" line about Jesus being a "black man played by a white dude." OK. Whatever. And then the priest just smiles and says "Oh, what a well spoken young man!" Huh?

And why do the garden party people keep saying "Oh, he is such a well spoken young man"? On the surface, we the audience are to assume that it is simply because the people at the party are idiots or just very clueless (which they are) But IMHO I think it's also McGruder's way of using his alter ego (Huey) to pat himself on the back.

C)McGruder, an avid Star Wars fan, has many times understandably said he hates Jar Jar Binks cuz he can be perceived as racial/minstrel, loud, annoying, ect. ect. Yet he has created Uncle Ruckus, the most moronic, LOUD, blatantly racist and offensively written minstrel character I have ever seen! And no, "He is supposed to be that way," is NOT an excuse. And did I mention that Ruckus is L-O-U-D and he is really ANNOYING? Every scene Ruckus is in, I wanted Grandpa to reach around and punch him in the face.

So, what is the difference between this and any given crappy, endlessly rehashed sitcom plot where the parent takes the wacky/"precocious" kids to a formal party where they mix things up with their "antics" only to have the host and everyone there reasure the nervous parent "Oh, they are so funny!"

Meh. Think I'll go out and buy a classic Spaceghost set on DVD this weekend and watch that instead of waiting to see tonight's episode. Time better spent.

edit: Or hey, Sanford and Son. If you want "older grandpa african american sparring with the young'ns" that show is much more funny as old as it is.

[Fe 26]

Thank god I'm not the only one that doesn't think the show was funny. After the fifth joke that I didn't laugh at, I started to wonder if there was something wrong with me.

[1CCOSA]

I mentioned Chris Rock which reminds me, I have yet to see Everyone Hates Chris, I assume that is a much better alternative from what I have heard, 'tho.

[Regus]

I mentioned Chris Rock which reminds me, I have yet to see Everyone Hates Chris, I assume that is a much better alternative from what I have heard, 'tho.

Everybody Hates Chris is pretty awesome, it's like the black version of Malcolm in the Middle.

As for the boondocks, the verdict is still out for me, unlike some of you guys, I actually like the art style, it's very clean and sharp. This episode was just okay though, but hopefully this thing lives up to its potential.

One thing I don't like is the voice of the smaller brother, whoever does his voice is annoying as hell.

Oh yeah, did you guys notice that Tommy Tallarico did the music for this show? That made me laugh more than this episode did.

[Jeremy]

I was more excited that John DiMaggio did some voice work for it. It was funny though, and the art style works really well given it being on AS.

[1CCOSA]

Everybody Hates Chris is pretty awesome, it's like the black version of Malcolm in the Middle.

As for the boondocks, the verdict is still out for me, unlike some of you guys, I actually like the art style, it's very clean and sharp. This episode was just okay though, but hopefully this thing lives up to its potential.

One thing I don't like is the voice of the smaller brother, whoever does his voice is annoying as hell.

Oh yeah, did you guys notice that Tommy Tallarico did the music for this show? That made me laugh more than this episode did.

Thanks for the recommendation on Everybody Hates Chris.

I like the art style too, everything else about the show though, writing, timing, characters blehhh.

The thing is, in the comic strip Huey usually has a sharp put down for Riley when he is being an idiot. In the cartoon though he just won't shut up and Huey doesn't reign him in like he does in the strip.

Huey and Riley are both voiced by actress Regina King. I actually think she does a very good job on both. I'm really glad they didn't get... (digs through IMDB)....Cree Summer who plays Susie on Rugrats (and was also the voice of Elmyra on Tiny Toons) among many other VA roles, plays many black girls/boys and tons of kids on other animated shows and games. She is raspy and has a really annoying and very exagerrated kid voice IMHO.

Watched "the trial of R Kelley," turned it off about 15 minutes through. Almost as bad as Garden Party, characters just basically yap, curse and shout non-stop back and forth and...oh goody, more idiocy with Ruckus as he flashes back to a trial he says he sat on where he delightfully yells at the judge "I demand you hang that blind nigger from a tree!!!!" Wow. Such brilliant 'edgy' humor....

Sadly, the occasional John Dimaggio spot isn't enough to keep me watching (whatever character he voiced)