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TK-069 said:

"I told you to stay away from those white women!"



Oddly enough, I got the same advice from my Pops when I was about 17. I didn't listen...at the time, they were the only ones that swallowed.

I'm diggin' the show but, definitely not as much as the strip. The use of the word "nigga" is whatever to me, as I feel it's just a throw-in to make the show seem really controversial without any actual substance. Also, copious use of the term seems to amuse white folk. The strip is much funnier and authentically controversial without the use of the dreaded N-WORD.

I think that McGruder is kind of "dumbing down" his stuff for the first season; perhaps to build a small loyal following from those who know the strip...and combine that with some folks that check it out on occasion to see what the fuss is all about. He also wants to reach the smaller segment of folks that just want to see niggas ackin' like niggas; hence the over-use of the word, the spot-on representation of well believed stereotypes and the self-loathing Uncle Ruckus. (or whatever the pop-eyed old black guy playing checkers with Granddada is called.)

This season is a test to see if a 'toon with this type of cast, activist agenda and hard left P.O.V. can make it in a neo-con, Christian (corrupt) conservative, barely-contained-racist-as-hell, brown-shirt-facist, radical right wing political, social and economic climate that we have today.

Having said that, though, I don't think that McGruder's aim is soley and specifically at the right. If you are familiar with his work then you will realize that he targets his core audience (i.e. urban, blue-collar black folks)just as much, if not more than the right. Absolutely nobody realizes how just how fucked up black people can be like other black people (hence the opener on last night's show about crazy niggas). And since McGruder is black, it gives him carte blanche to say things that are fucked up but ring true without having to worry about being P.C.

I don't know how may eps are in for this season but, I think if the show makes it to a 2nd year, true fans of The Boondocks will get to see the righteous noise that we've seen in the strip.

Gotta agree with whoever commented about Regina King's voice work. I lke her better as Riley than as Huey. Her pitch is a little off. Huey sounds too much like a girl. Someone like Gabrielle Union would have been a better choice as her voice registers a little deeper and lower than King's. I am enjoying the voice work on the other characters though. John Witherspoon is just giving voice to the same character he's played his whole career and I find him funny as always.


Chack out an article where McGruder shares some thoughts about the show:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785347/site/newsweek/

Oderint, dum metuant.


You are a god damned idiot, you know that? You ought to be smacked upside your dumb-fuck head, even after all these years. Shame on you!
-USCHI showin' some love