Anybody watch The Boondocks????

[shaun0207]

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Banned Boondocks episodes to air in Canada.

Entertainment: Alright you canucks, you better have these "ready" after they air for the rest of us.

"The Boondocks" is about to take a detour into Canada .

Two episodes of the edgy, animated series, which is based on Aaron McGruder's explosive comic strip, are airing on Teletoon's adult-themed "Detour" programming block after being pulled from their originating U.S. broadcaster, the Cartoon Network. The episodes in question, "The Huey Freeman Hunger Strike" and "The Ruckus Reality Show," air this Sunday night and next Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT.

The episodes in question, however, are not banned in America due to concerns over taboo language or sexual content. Rather, the Turner Cable-owned Cartoon Network yanked the two half-hours because they savage another cable network, BET.

BET's CEO, Debra Lee, is depicted in Sunday's episode as "Debra Lee-vil," a sinister Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating a network "that would accomplish what hundreds of years of slavery, Jim Crow and malt liquor couldn't - the destruction of black people."

BET entertainment president Reggie Hudlin - once a "Boondocks" executive producer - is depicted as Dr. Lee-vil's Harvard-educated lieutenant whose bright idea is to steal five-year-old reality show ideas from MTV and graft them onto the BET brand.

Clearly, McGruder hates BET, and it is hard not to see the depictions in this episode as personal attacks. It's like sitting in on the first giddy draft of a satiric sketch in the writers' room, only to realize that it was painstakingly inked and animated. (A request was made through Teletoon to interview McGruder but he was unavailable in time for this article.)

McGruder pushes parody to the limits in a relentless attack which continues in the next episode, where Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man (voiced by Gary Anthony Williams), gets his own offensive BET reality show.

The Cartoon Network has not acknowledged that the BET attacks were the reason for pulling the "Boondocks" episodes. All a spokesperson there would say is that Turner Cable was not contacted by BET, Lee or Hudlin.

[t3chn1k4l]

If the Boondocks were on Comedy Central those episodes would have never been pulled. Comedy Central doesn't care who they offend.

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by t3chn1k4l

If the Boondocks were on Comedy Central those episodes would have never been pulled. Comedy Central doesn't care who they offend.

I said the samething. I dont know why he hooked up with Cartoon network to begin with. I dont think they are gonna pick up the 3rd season. If they do , they are gonna wanna have more creative control, which he wont allow.

[cheri]

i havent watched Boondocks in a while. I was liking it though. Such an uproar...over a comment about BET hmmm..i think i would have to see the episode but. Cartoon Network got in trouble for other stuff so they are probably going to back off...unfortunately

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by cheri

i havent watched Boondocks in a while. I was liking it though. Such an uproar...over a comment about BET hmmm..i think i would have to see the episode but. Cartoon Network got in trouble for other stuff so they are probably going to back off...unfortunately

I think the Boondocks is anyworse than the other cartoon on Adult Swim, like Assy McGee, Robot Chicken Cowboy BeBop. They all push the limits. I think they are concerned about the negative press BET will get about this and how BET will respond.

[cheri]

its a free country, freedom of speech. Its his opinion so what...if its funny its funny. They could run a disclaimer.
I think BET wouldlet it roll off their backs...it wouldnt tarnish their rep lol

[shaun0207]

That's what I say. But the are gonna fold on this issue.

[cheri]

whimps lol
sometimes i even see stuff that i think may border on inappropriate....doesnt mean other people dont like it...i say let the public decide....

[shaun0207]

Amen! Amen!

[Weapondrift]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

I think the Boondocks is anyworse than the other cartoon on Adult Swim, like Assy McGee, Robot Chicken Cowboy BeBop. They all push the limits. I think they are concerned about the negative press BET will get about this and how BET will respond.

I DARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! someone to insult Cowboy Bebop! I understand what your saying tho, but I swear if someone starts insulting C.B. Im going into my own version of PMS (psycotic mommy syndrome), and we will have a VERY long thread about it.