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      CommentAuthoragentarsenic
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010 edited
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    I think season 2 of The Boondocks ended in 2007, and after three years the show is coming back - possibly for one final time before calling it quits. The trailer for the new season has been released on the web and it looks fantastic, definitely like three years of polish has been added to the animation.

    I know a lot of people are a fan of the show - hell, it was the only reason I'd turn on a TV for awhile - and it'd be a shame to put The Boondocks down before it's time. Reminds me of The Chappelle Show all over again, a few seasons of comedic brilliance and then POOF gone.



    SOURCE : Boondocks Bootleg
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    I loved the strip, and I love the show, but I hate that either the producers or Cartoon Network can’t get their shit together with this show. When are new episodes running? Whenever they make it on the air, maybe they’ll be announced, maybe not. Want to try recording the show because it’s on late and new episodes get shown sporadically? Too bad, because it starts anywhere from five minutes early to thirty minutes late. I can tolerate that kind of inane mismanagement with Aqua Teen Hunger Force because every episode is like a Dada poem. But The Boondocks might very well be the smartest show on American television, and it really deserves better treatment, in a better time slot. Anway, here’s to hoping that season three kicks ass and gets handled well.
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      CommentAuthorLokiZero
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
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    That looks gorgeous.
    • CommentAuthorSteadyUP
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
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    On one hand I'd be happy to see Boondocks continue for a long time, but if it takes them three years to get a season on the air - even if that season is awesome - I dunno, maybe they should try something else. Maybe even animated movies.
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      CommentAuthortedcroland
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
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    This is an example of how Adult Swim kinda works: Most of the time, they produce a billion episodes of things for dirt cheap (see Aqua Teen, same fifteen animations per season, maybe a dozen unique ones), then they make tons of cash off the marginal ratings they get, which are huge when compared to production cost, and laugh all the way to the sock drawer.

    The problem is when they produce something like Boondocks or Venture Bros., production takes forever because the show can't afford staff writers and usually work with skeletal animation studios, and the voice actors are few. Venture Bros. typically has over a year between the end of one season and the start of the next because of this, and those guys are working on it year round. Boondocks was probably a tougher production, and has suffered for it. New episodes being sparse and this insane time between seasons is not surprising, but it may be an unfortunate casualty because of the channel's obsession with cheap product with high sales.
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      CommentAuthorrickiep00h
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
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    @tedcroland - I never thought of it that way. That explains the continued production of Tim and Eric, even though every episode is a painful waste of electrons shooting through the cables.
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      CommentAuthorLokiZero
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
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    I'm happy to wait for quality (I follow comic writers, not characters, after all), and all good things must come to an end. These shows shouldn't just go on forever like the Simpsons or something.
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    Love the show. I REALLY hope it's not the final season.
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    the first season was utter perfection. the second, i thought, tried too hard.
    stoked about a third though.
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      CommentAuthorCameron C.
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
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    Only seen the first season but I really enjoyed that. Cannot wait for this!
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    The second season had some win, but I felt that there were too many guest stars grabbing the spotlight. In one episode Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Fat Man Scoop, and Sway all guest starred. In fact, looking at Wikipedia, every episode but one in the second season had a guest star (most of the first season did as well, but the guest stars were not focuses of the show).
    The best episode of the second season is when Stinkmeaner comes back from hell, for sure.

    The kickball segment in the trailer for the third season looks amazing, like candy coated DBZ.
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    In one episode Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Fat Man Scoop, and Sway all guest starred…

    Did anyone else find it a little odd to see a bunch of Gangsta Rappers on a show that criticizes gangsta rappers for being frauds and closet queens? I’m still not sure if McGruder did that because he loves them just as much as he loves to criticize them or if he was just holding them up to be laughed at as guys who can’t get the joke when they are the joke.
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      CommentAuthorrickiep00h
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
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    No, man. He's reminding them to keep it real. Or something.

    In all honesty, I'm pretty sure at least Snoop and Busta Rhymes knew exactly what they were getting into. They're definitely smart dudes with pretty decent senses of humor. At least, that's the impression that I've gotten, watching from the periphery for a few years.
    • CommentAuthorTAL
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
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    This is news I like. For some odd reason I was reading The Source back in the late 90s when it started there. Now I have all the trades and the dvd box. And a pile of The Source that I have no need for.
    • CommentAuthorgzapata
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
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    I think most rappers know. I remember hearing 50 Cent said no when asked to be voice actor for himself in it. I read on Lesean Thomas's Da that this might be the last series that the studio that produces it does (they also do spectacular spidey if I remember right). Sad since that studio was doing some of the best american tv cartoons
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    I always liked the show, but I gave up on it during that "Weggie Wudlan" era of obsessive and thus, crappy, series of episodes. Though if this is the final season, I'll give it another chance.
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    What is a weggie wudlan?
    • CommentAuthorSteadyUP
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
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    Reginald Hudlin. The BET guy.
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    I dunno if he still, but Hudlin was the producer, and friend to McGruder, of the show. Hudlin took a job at BET and McGruder went berserk. The show then went on this multiple episode vendetta against him that, for my money, sucked any laughs out of the series that were there.
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    Holy wow episode four. Go watch it on adultswim.com. Uncle Ruckus meets Jimmy Rebel (obviously a caricature of Johnny Rebel) and shit gets crazy. This is probably the most racially offensive episode of any show ever.

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