The Boondocks: Season 2

So what do I think about "The Boondocks"? It's good. How good? Reeeeaaaal good. What do I like about it specifically? Everything. the first season knocked me upside my head and made me laugh until I begged it to stop. Season two is a step down, but still has the show going strong and laying the social satire, cutting parody, and excessive vulgarity nice and thick while battling the evil forces trying to make the world a stupider place. Aaron McGruder is a superhero. Do not doubt this. Not only did he create a successful and controversial newspaper comic strip that lashed out at nearly every reader who came across it and dared them to say they didn't deserve it, but he created an even less friendly animated version pairing the most crude and vulgar content imaginable with even more in-your-face racial commentary and somehow got it aired on basic cable. Unbelievable. This man has enriched my life and given me hope for a better future. God bless him and Cartoon Network. 10 things I love about the Boondocks season two DVD set: 1) Killer kung-fu wolf b!+ches voiced by the heavenly Aisha Tyler. 2) "Soul Plane" sequel parodies featuring a mumbling 50 Cent as a heroic air marshal. 3) An episode commenting on the baffling "no snitching" culture while simultaneously mocking bluetooth headsets and other useless technology. 4) Katt Williams reprising his role as A Pimp Named Slickback (That is his actual full name. Like A Tribe Called Quest) to act as marriage counselor to an emasculated Tom Dubois. Example: "Has NOT hitting the b!+ch been working? I mean, scientifically speaking, has not hitting the b!+ch achieved the desired result?" 5) Lines like "It's not the fact that you clearly have a possessed man tied to a bed upstairs...it's that you lied about it." GOLD! 6) Watching the voice actors at work on the extras with the N-bombs all cut together. 7) Spending an entire episode systematically linking gay and hip-hop cultures while puzzling about how rappers and those who idolize them could be so homophobic. Then giving you the answer. Come out of the closet already, Fiddy. 8) Not one, but TWO unaired episodes blasting the corporate ignorance-peddlers known as BET for their incessant mongering of negative black stereotypes to the world at large. Talk about selling out your own people. 9) Not one but TWO episodes parodying a certain overweight, overexposed media hog posing as a civil rights activist for personal gain. 10) Showing us the truth behind snarky Fox News darling Ann Coulter's parade of ignorance. Speaking of hot conservative bee-yatches, I long for the day when Michelle Malkin's racist BS comes back on her and Rupert Murdoch only allows her to speak using the Vietnamese prostitute's lines from Full Metal Jacket . "Me so horny, baby." What else is there to say? This show still swings for the fences, devours every sacred cow, pays homage to the finer things in life (like Bruce Lee flicks), and causes fits of laughter that could be mistaken by a passerby for epilepsy. There are a few bits that don't work out as well as they could have (did we need an entire episode about Usher macking on somebody's wife?) and the gaps in production are starting to take a toll, but I still can't get enough of "The Boondocks". There is no more socially relevant series out there and even South Park dares not tread where this show lives. It asks the hard questions and delivers the answers that some may not want to hear, but that's reality. This is the show that dared to wonder aloud in it's very first season just what the immortal Martin Luther King Jr. would think of what his people have done with the freedom he and so many others sacrificed so much for. Uncalled-for message from the soapbox incoming. Screw BET, Fox News, MTV, and every other corporate entity feeding and profiting from our country's ignorance epidemic. Why bother teaching pride in one's race while glorifying ill-gotten material wealth, demeaning women, promoting violence, and ridiculing any sign of intelligence? Every person who sees a person different them them, be it ethnicity, nationality, religion, or political party and sees them as the other side only plays into the divide-and-conquer strategy that allows us all to be perpetually exploited by those in power. And as for an entire cable channel that claims to represent the values of entire race, what happened to "a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"? What kind of character is being fostered in American culture by the garbage on BET and MTV? Forget race. That's WHAT you are. What matters is WHO you are. This is what Dr. King taught, this is what Boondocks preaches, and this is what I personally believe. But it's way funnier when Boondocks tells it. 4 1/2 stars rounded up for telling it like it is.

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Very well packaged. All DVDs play very well. No skipping. Excellent picture quality even though they are not blu-ray.

Aaron McGruder and the Boondocks crew return with the ruckus, Uncle and otherwise with The Boondocks - The Complete Second Season from Sony Home Entertainment. Picking up where Season One left off with the show's next 15 UNCUT and UNCENSORED episodes which include two banned eps ("The Hunger Strike" and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show"), this 3-disc (single-sided) set features Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) video; English Dolby Digital Stereo audio; Closed Captioning; plus the following Special Features: "Behind The Boondocks", "The Cast", and other featurettes; Introductions To "The Hunger Strike" and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show"; and Minisodes. Packaging for Season Two is consistent with the Season One set. Just as great as the previous season, Season 2 of The Boondocks does not disappoint. Aaron McGruder scored a major coup with this series which features a first-rate voice cast (under the pitch perfect direction of revered "Timm-verse" voice director, Andrea Romano), and excellent production values. Props to Sony for their continued commitment to preserving the show in a neatly packaged DVD season set which features excellent picture and sound and even more great extras. Here are the episodes, and how the discs will be configured: Disc 1: ...Or Die Trying Tom, Sarah And Usher Thank You For Not Snitching Stinkmeaner Strikes Back The Story Of Thugnificent Disc 2: The Hunger Strike Attack Of The Killer Kung-Fu Wolf-Bitch Shinin' Ballin'! Invasion Of The Katrinians Disc 3: The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show Home Alone The S-Word The Story Of Catcher Freeman The Story Of Gangstalicious, Part 2

This is a great continuation of the Boondocks series. It seemed that the whole Season 2 focuses more on the experiences of Riley instead of Huey, who seemed to be the focal point of Season 1. With Riley, there are more Hip-Hop flavored situations to satirize and funnier situations to laugh at. I've had the intention on buying this box set for a long time, but have been unwilling to spend thirty or forty bucks on it. Thankfully, I caught it during the holiday blitz and it was only fifteen bucks during what I suppose was a special. I look forward to Season 3 airing. If you're a fan of great satire, great animation and funny-as-all situations, look no further than this. The Boondocks is a great alternative to "The Simpsons," "Family Guy" or "South Park." It's very Afro-centric so finally, something that satirizes the Black Experience is here for any of us to enjoy and laugh at. Anyone can enjoy "The Boondocks" and appreciate the comedy that ensues with each episode.

Aaron McGruder is back with the second season of "The Boondocks," his explosive, brilliantly savage satire of Black American culture and race relations in general. As anyone who's familiar with "The Boondocks" knows, this is a (Japanese) anime-influenced series filtered through the eyes of the two main characters, Huey and Riley Freeman, two uncannily precocious and street-wise Black brothers whose constant, often ribald and unprintable repartee provide a running commentary throughout the show. Another constant is the liberal use of the N-word. Huey (who fancies himself as an intellectual revolutionary) and Riley (a would-be rapper/gangster) are wards of their "Grand-dad," who's moved them out of the Ghetto and into a largely white suburb. Neighbors include a mixed-race couple, two young, well off but rabble-rousing White men who speak in Black-oriented slang and street dialect, and the self-hating "Uncle Ruckus," whose constant stream of invective against the Black race defies belief, since Ruckus himself is Black. Ruckus is perhaps the series' most venomous and controversial figure as he harks back to the pathetic, obedient, toadying slave who desperately longs to be White. Tubby, balding and well into late-middle age, the noisy and ubiquitous Ruckus is used as a working-class stiff who keeps popping up throughout the series in any number of guises, at pivotal moments. But no one is spared in "The Boondocks," which lampoons everyone, be they male or female, corporate executives, thugs, pimps, gangsters, famous, high-flying celebrities or average Joes. In Season 2, there is, for example, the scathing spoof of the Black Entertainment Network, when Huey goes on a hunger strike to protest the network's content, which he finds innocuous and damaging. Meanwhile BET is busy filming a reality show featuring Uncle Ruckus, who constantly extols the virtues of Whites and puts down Blacks while going about any number of dirty, subservient or menial jobs (toilet cleaner, yardman, doorman) . "Tom, Sarah and Usher" is about the inanity of celebrity worship, while "Invasion of the Katrinians" finds Grand-dad's generosity stretched to the limit after taking in some relatives displaced by Hurricane Katrina. This episode also underscores the near-unbridgeable cultural and class gaps between ghetto denizens and their wealthier counterparts. Overall, the show is still funny, but the satirical bite is noticeably more cutting and sour! In contrast to season 1 (where the humor practically bled through almost every minute), this set was often merely provocative rather than "ha-ha" funny. Even so, I think that Season 2 is still worth checking out!

The Boondocks second season is masterful. The satire is ingenious and the comedy is hilarious. The characters represent different factions of the black community and different people will identify with different characters. Riley is the present hip hop generation and unfortunately you can hear many of his statements coming out of the mouths of grown men. Huey is an intellectual and pro black like the hip hop of the 80s and 90s. Grandapa is the civil rights generation and Uncle Ruckus is the embodiment of the self hating black man. Tom the ultimate integrationist. The Boondocks takes very touchy subjects and with the skillfull use of a cartoon brings them to light. The effeminization (homo thugs) of hip hop is one of the subjects he handles. The banned BET segment says a lot about what this country will allow and what they wont. Whether you think the Boondocks is deep social and political commentary or just a silly funny cartoon is up to you but I highly recommend it

It is for adults due to its graphic nature, so if you're an adult then buy it! Of course you have to not get offended easily. It is a satire of african american life. So with that said, satires--from literary to cartoons--often push the envelope. It is very creative in similar ways to the Simpsons or south park. Although it is funny, it often gets you to think about the society we live in because satires often infuse the truth, sometimes scary truth, into the script. Of course kids watch it despite the warnings, so it might be important to watch and be able to speak on the show with them. There are lessons in everything...plus we can't shelter kids from everything, all the time. I give it five stars because it is pretty much perfect.