A reference to Uncle Tom, Amos Rucker, a slave who purportedly wanted to stay a slave after the Civil War, and. At the end of the episode, he decides that he shouldn't hate black people, but rather, feel sorry for them. He starts as just a self-hating, bitter, black man who works 47 jobs and claims to have "re-vitiligo," a made up disease that makes him black. And only "Rilery Wuz Here" has a real conflict and development. "Pretty Boy Flizzy" shows Sarah kicking out Tom yet again, but an annoyed Robert decides to keep Tom out of the Freeman house this time. After season 3, there were aborted plans to give Uncle Ruckus a live-action feature film via Kickstarter; however, the project failed to receive enough funding. In "Bitches to Rags", the jig is up, and Thugnificent is being supported by Leonard, who really did get a job at Wendy's, until Thugnificent decides to just sell crack. In "The Story of Gangstalicious", Gangstalicious is being chased by a few gangsters who want him dead. The best GIFs are on GIPHY. The eponymous character from "The Lovely Ebony Brown" spent the entire episode. This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 08:17. It's available on the web and also on Android and iOS. The kid dropkicks someone, gets on the couch and hits a moonsault. Shabazz's execution has been thwarted, and Ruckus' sermon was disrupted. Their grandfather Robert Freeman (John Witherspoon) is a Grumpy Old Man who is quite likely too senile for his own good, and can usually be found chasing younger women. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. She tries to kill Granddad because she thinks he's cheating on her, locks up Huey and Riley so they can't help him and kidnaps Tom when he comes to help the family. Uncle Ruckus enjoys white women. The Boondocks (2005) - S01E08 A Huey Freeman Christmas, The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans (2009), Fresh Off the Boat (2015) - S02E21 Rent Day. Robert Freeman's old wingman from the war leaves behind several tapes for Robert to hear that asks for Robert to deliver his eulogy and later what he had left behind for Robert. "A Date with the Booty Warrior": Tom hits the Booty Warrior in the groin, while the former almost gets. Rather than just overt social commentary, the series's brand of humor is far more over-the-top, with the Freemans constantly getting into wacky misadventures with weird people, along with the obligatory martial arts action scene. If Riley thinks it's cool, it's probably nigga behavior. In "A Date with the Booty Warrior", a prison gang of. A fourth season was produced without McGruder, due to work on Black Jesus and conflicts with the network. Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? Grandpa to Ruckus as old-fashioned men with very different beliefs as to what old-fashioned wisdom and right is, a major reason why they are often played off each other as "friends," and the very point of one episode's subplot. Riley's first clue that Lamilton is crazy. The "complete disaster" is. Ed Wuncler I and his grandson Ed Wuncler III are parodies of Prescott Bush and his grandson George W. Bush. Robert has been seen dating both black and white women. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Boondocks animated GIFs to your conversations. But nobody gets this greater than Cindy McPhearson, who is a, There's lots of other profanity in this show, such as "fuck" and "shit", which are usually. Huey, an actual leftist radical, finds him disgraceful. The Booty Warrior is a carbon copy of Fleece Johnson, a prisoner interviewed on an MSNBC documentary about prison life. we have the lightning, that solved the two hopeless plots at once. Ed III's best friend Gin Rummy is a parody of Donald Rumsfeld. The Season 1 opening prominently features a profile of Huey seen from the side, reminiscent of how he appears in the comic strip. The appearance of Ed "Eddie Jr." Wuncler II often is accompanied by sleazy lounge music. One revolving around Granddad and Stinkmeaner. Uncle Ruckus was, Thelma. Cut to the next episode "A Date with the Booty Warrior". "The Story of Gangstalicious": Three gangsters, one of whom had two guns, run out of bullets without hitting one naked, blindfolded, and slowly-walking man. Just a few months later in June 2019, it was officially announced that a "reimagining" of the animated series was in development at Sony Pictures Animation, with McGruder also returning to produce. Unfortunately, no one but Jazmine read Huey's plan, and because Riley and Granddad refused to listen to him for their own selfish ends, nine people occupy the house, the power goes out, and food becomes scarce. "Granddad's Fight" gets three sequel episodes, forming a tetralogy (one episode per season), all of them about Robert's Nigga Moment with Stinkmeaner, and how it keeps coming back to haunt him. In "The Lovely Ebony Brown", when Huey and Riley hear that Granddad has a new date, the boys remember Granddad's past dating experiences and they freak out. The main protagonist and narrator is Huey Freeman (Regina King), a preteen radical leftist activist who despite his extreme politics, is usually depicted as the lone voice of reason. "Home Alone": While Uncle Ruckus babysits Huey and Riley, they shoot him in the groin with airsoft pellets. Tom says "shit" repeatedly after his basketball team loses at the end of "Ballin'". The Boondocks is an animated comedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television based on the newspaper comic strip of the same name that was created by Aaron McGruder, who serves as the executive producer and main writer. Huey's solution? Siri. Even being a established main character, Season 1 only has three episodes focused on him. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect spot. Kill Ed II with a homemade bomb. In "The Garden Party", while the Freemans attend a party full of rich white people, Huey attempts to tell ", In "Ballin'", it not only references but also deconstructs the whole concept of, Played straight in "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy". The reason for their vendetta? engage in a deadly shootout with the WUC gangsters and an FBI HRT squad, Ironically, the episode presents the Tigers as the, and killed Bushido Brown, an already established badass, The police are called, and the Hateocracy surrender without a fight, several KFC restaurants run out of chicken, while Tom suffers the symptoms of the illness right behind them, having eaten tainted buffalo wings, She even Photoshops his image into an Al Qaeda terrorist, copies his voice and threatens to nuke the U.S., and orders a drone strike on his position, When Robert becomes too scared to continue dating her, Don't perpetuate negative stereotypes about your own people. Ed Wuncler I's business rival, Mr. Long-dou of Wushung, China, is a gambler who decides to bet Wuncler's debt to him over a kickball game, and even bribes the referee to allow the Chinese team to cheat (Wuncler bribed him too, Long-dou's bribe was just bigger). and I'm going to make sure those young boy's anuses are just fine too! Your MOMMAS ain't shit! "...Or Die Trying": revealed that the trod-upon movie theater employee Huey had talked into unionizing got the whole place shut down by the management and lost their jobs. "Tom, Sarah and Usher" alludes to a story arc from the comic strip about Tom staying with the Freemans after Sarah kicks him out, although the reasons for their split are completely different.