[DVD] Boondocks Season 1: Opinions?

[JoeGKushner]

Funny but seems pretty racist at the same time.

Opinions?

 

[Vigilance]

I thought the Boondocks was *hilarious*.

It does go out of its way to push buttons on race in an almost South Park-ian fashion, but to me that's a good thing.

Also, some of the most hilarious things about the show have nothing to do with race, like the way everytime someone gets into a fight (and it happens A LOT) it becomes this very over the top, Japanese gun-fu or Samurai Movie sequence with guns and martial arts and katanas.

I really enjoyed it myself.

Chuck

 

[Filby]

Man, I love The Boondocks. Maybe it's just because I'm a filthy liberal.

Also, some of the most hilarious things about the show have nothing to do with race, like the way everytime someone gets into a fight (and it happens A LOT) it becomes this very over the top, Japanese gun-fu or Samurai Movie sequence with guns and martial arts and katanas.

And someone throws a folding metal chair.

 

[Vigilance]

And someone throws a folding metal chair.

Always!

When the two kids fight each other, one using the samurai style (including katana) and the other in the streetfighter style (including using a pan as a melee weapon and a gun), I was laughing so hard I was crying.

And of course there's the dream of the blind samurai.

Boondocks does deal with race, so of course that is what everyone focused on. But it's so much more.

And don't forget, "Santa gonna PAY! what he OWE!"

Chuck

 

[JoeGKushner]

Well, I'm one of those crazy people who thinks that it can have some racism issues (and I'm not just talking about dumb white person syndrom as there are quite a few African American issues touched on as well) but that it can still be funny.

The whole Blind Swordsman bit, including the Zatoichi material, was great.

The episode with Oprah? "You're right out of a comic book?" direct line lifted from good old Enter the Dragon. Heck, some of those lines from Enter the Dragon were in the old Blind Swordsman skit as well. "It needs emotional content."

The Itis was another fun bit. People robbing each other and turning the neighborhood into a ghetto so that they can get their 'soul food'.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I loooooove The Boondocks.

The episode with Marting Luther King Jr. was by far one of the most hilarious and clever commentaries on culture I have ever seen. It was so rediculously true, and I'm sure that's exactly what would happen.

 

[The Serge]

The only thing that bugs me about The Boondocks is the overuse of the "N" word (which is also my problem with Dave Chappelle). Although I've noticed that most of the characters referred to in that fashion are behaving... inappropriately, I don't care for how it's thrown around (despite its prevalent use among many black people... I, despite my heritage, refuse to use it unless I truly despise the person and then apply it regardless of race).

Otherwise, it's a great, thought-provoking, but hilarious show.

Has it been renewed for a second season?

 

[JoeGKushner]

According to Wikipedia "The series has been renewed for a 20 episode second season which will begin airing March 2007.[1]The second season will feature animation produced by the Japanese animation studio Madhouse."

Take it with a grain of salt.

Me? I find it amusing that the use of the 'N' word can be so varied and that everytime it's uttered in rap or comedy that the arguement against it by those it's supposed to degrade, is further weakened.

 

[Jhamin]

I enjoyed the series quite a bit.

I just find the gang of white rich kid gangbangers painfully unfunny. Too bad they are major characterers. The half of the episodes that don't include them are brilliant.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I enjoyed the series quite a bit.

I just find the gang of white rich kid gangbangers painfully unfunny. Too bad they are major characterers. The half of the episodes that don't include them are brilliant.

When you equate them politically, they are, if you're of a certain affiliation. Which the authors make no attempt to hide.