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** One whole storyline revolves around Huey trying to have Music/MichaelBolton murdered. At least one hitman implied that he'd ''love'' to do it, if only Huey could pay him enough to cover the expenses (he couldn't). And don't get Huey started on Jar Jar Binks.
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** One whole storyline revolves around Huey trying to have Music/MichaelBolton murdered. murdered for real. At least one hitman implied that he'd ''love'' would've ''loved'' to do it, if only but still refused because Huey could couldn't even pay him enough to cover the expenses (he couldn't).expenses. And don't get Huey started on Jar Jar Binks.
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I'm not seeing how this fits the Broken Aesop definition, in particular since the supposed connection between the two points is shaky.
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* BrokenAesop: The comic once had the moral that video games don't make one more violent... the ''show'', however, states that BET makes you a retard. [=McGruder=] clearly has a distaste for what BET considers "black" entertainment.
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** [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2001/10/06/ In one famous strip,]] Huey calls the FBI and tells them to arrest George W. Bush because he gave $43 million to the Taliban in May 2003, saying that money would be spent on weapons used against American soldiers. [[https://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/17/us.afghanistan.aid/index.html The $43 million in question]] wasn't cash; it was the value of food aid (mostly wheat) the US sent to Afghanistan to alleviate a potential famine, including in areas the Taliban didn't control. In areas where they were in control, the aid was given through the UN and [=NGOs=] rather than through the (unrecognized) Taliban government. While some of this value could be considered indirect subsidization of the Taliban (since international aid leaves them free to starve their subjects and instead spend everything on their military), that's far from what Huey (and the author) were claiming and it'd be pretty hard to argue that the Americans should've cut all aid and let hundreds of thousands of uninvolved civilians die-easily preventable deaths instead.
** The strip immediately prior also had Huey claim that the Reagan administration "trained" Osama bin Laden and gave him "countles" funds. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden This is is considered]] at best DatedHistory, at worst always a fringe ConspiracyTheory. As of the 2020s, there's still no evidence to support any of the claims regarding collaboration between U.S. government agencies and bin Laden. The most that can be argued (and is still unproven) is that his group (which represented less than 1% of the rebels fighting the Soviets) might have come across some of the funding third-hand (the Americans funneled it through Pakistan, who then funneled it through Afghan rebel groups, who could sometimes funnel it to foreign volunteers like bin Laden's Arabs). Even this is unlikely though, as bin Laden's group was self-funded. As for the training claim, no one in the American government ever even set foot in Afghanistan, much less trained one obscure band of foreign volunteers.
-->'''Mohammed Yousaf:'''[[note]]Head of the Pakistani mission.[[/note]] It was a cardinal rule of Pakistan's policy that no Americans ever become involved with the distribution of funds or arms once they arrived in the country. No Americans ever trained or had direct contact with the mujahideen, and no American official ever went inside Afghanistan.
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2001/10/06/ In one famous strip,]] Huey calls the FBI and tells them to arrest George W. Bush because he gave $43 million to the Taliban in May 2003, saying that money would be spent on weapons used against American soldiers. [[https://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/17/us.afghanistan.aid/index.html The $43 million in question]] wasn't cash; it was the value of food aid (mostly wheat) the US sent to Afghanistan to alleviate a potential famine, including in areas the Taliban didn't control. In areas where they were in control, the aid was given through the UN and [=NGOs=] rather than through the (unrecognized) Taliban government. While some of this value could be considered indirect subsidization of the Taliban (since international aid leaves them free to starve their subjects and instead spend everything on their military), that's far from what Huey (and the author) were claiming and it'd be pretty hard to argue that the Americans should've cut all aid and let hundreds of thousands of uninvolved civilians die-easily preventable deaths instead.
** The strip immediately prior also had Huey claim that the Reagan administration "trained" Osama bin Laden and gave him "countles" funds. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden This is is considered]] at best DatedHistory, at worst always a fringe ConspiracyTheory. As of the 2020s, there's still no evidence to support any of the claims regarding collaboration between U.S. government agencies and bin Laden. The most that can be argued (and is still unproven) is that his group (which represented less than 1% of the rebels fighting the Soviets) might have come across some of the funding third-hand (the Americans funneled it through Pakistan, who then funneled it through Afghan rebel groups, who could sometimes funnel it to foreign volunteers like bin Laden's Arabs). Even this is unlikely though, as bin Laden's group was self-funded. As for the training claim, no one in the American government ever even set foot in Afghanistan, much less trained one obscure band of foreign volunteers.
-->'''Mohammed Yousaf:'''[[note]]Head of the Pakistani mission.[[/note]] It was a cardinal rule of Pakistan's policy that no Americans ever become involved with the distribution of funds or arms once they arrived in the country. No Americans ever trained or had direct contact with the mujahideen, and no American official ever went inside Afghanistan.
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Surprisingly, Gangsta Rap does not have a Music tag on it
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** To a lesser extent, Riley. While he says and does some boneheaded things while trying to emulate the Music/GangstaRap lifestyle, he can be pretty clever and perceptive at times too.
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** To a lesser extent, Riley. While he says and does some boneheaded things while trying to emulate the Music/GangstaRap GangstaRap lifestyle, he can be pretty clever and perceptive at times too.too.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Huey obliquely tells this to Jazmine in [[https://hueyfreemanonlyspeaksthetruth.tumblr.com/post/43525554570/the-boondocks-comic-strip-461-hueys-sweetest one strip]] where he interrupts her complaining about she hates her big poofy hair to ask her whether or not she likes the clouds in the sky, which she does because they're big and soft.
-->'''Jazmine:''' You don't pay attention to me.
-->'''Huey:''' Neither do you.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Huey obliquely tells this to Jazmine in [[https://hueyfreemanonlyspeaksthetruth.tumblr.com/post/43525554570/the-boondocks-comic-strip-461-hueys-sweetest one strip]] where he interrupts her complaining about she hates her big poofy hair to ask her whether or not she likes the clouds in the sky, which she does because they're big and soft.
-->'''Jazmine:''' You don't pay attention to me.
-->'''Huey:''' Neither do you.
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dewicked Angry Black Man
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* BeforeMyTime: Tom asks Huey whether he's named after [[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews Huey Lewis]], and Huey actually responds, "Before my time." Subverted in the fact that Huey has just given an erudite lecture on Black Panther [[AngryBlackMan Huey Newton]], who is older than Lewis.
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* BeforeMyTime: Tom asks Huey whether he's named after [[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews Huey Lewis]], and Huey actually responds, "Before my time." Subverted in the fact that Huey has just given an erudite lecture on Black Panther [[AngryBlackMan [[AngryBlackManStereotype Huey Newton]], who is older than Lewis.
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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** The comic strip to ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''.
** The strip has also been compared to a black version of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Huey (and sometimes Caesar) even mutter [[CatchPhrase "Good grief"]] occasionally, the first time being [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2001/06/08 in response to some of Riley's latest stupidity]].
** The comic strip to ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''.
** The strip has also been compared to a black version of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Huey (and sometimes Caesar) even mutter [[CatchPhrase "Good grief"]] occasionally, the first time being [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2001/06/08 in response to some of Riley's latest stupidity]].
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* AsideGlance: The most common type of gag. Something satirically odd or goofy happens, and instead of commenting the characters mug the camera and let the joke lie as is. Taken UpToEleven in [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2005/09/24 one of the post-Hurricane Katrina strips]] when Huey and three of his relatives who'd come to stay all glance at the camera at once, some of them having to lean forward to do so.
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* AsideGlance: The most common type of gag. Something satirically odd or goofy happens, and instead of commenting the characters mug the camera and let the joke lie as is. Taken UpToEleven in In [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2005/09/24 one of the post-Hurricane Katrina strips]] when strips]], Huey and three of his relatives who'd come to stay all glance at the camera at once, some of them having to lean forward to do so.
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* BreakTheCutie: Good God, Jazmine. [[UpToEleven As if she was designed for this trope...]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Good God, Jazmine. [[UpToEleven As if she was designed for this trope...]]
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* FacePalm: Huey's so cynical that it's hard for anything to surprise him enough to make him do this, but he did when [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/1999/06/28 Jazmine invited him to play "Gone With the Wind" with her]].
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** Huey namedropping someone from either history or popular culture in his snark and the person he's talking to responding "Who is [x]?"
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In February 2019, approximately 13 years after the original comic series ended (and about 5 years after the (seemingly) final season of the TV series had aired), Aaron [=McGruder=] and Seung Eun Kim [[https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/02/the-boondocks-comics-back-aaron-mcgruder created some new comic strips]] that were posted on Instagram by Charlamagne tha God, satirizing the current sociopolitical climate of the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump administration. These new comics were released just a few months ahead of a later announcement in June 2019 that [[https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/06/sony-return-the-boondocks-creator-aaron-mcgruder the TV series would also be continued]], now tackling social issues related to Trump- and Biden-era America as well.
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In February 2019, approximately 13 years after the original comic series ended (and about 5 years after the (seemingly) final season of the TV series had aired), Aaron [=McGruder=] and Seung Eun Kim [[https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/02/the-boondocks-comics-back-aaron-mcgruder created some new comic strips]] that were posted on Instagram by Charlamagne tha God, satirizing the current sociopolitical climate of the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump administration. These new comics were released just a few months ahead of a later announcement in June 2019 that [[https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/06/sony-return-the-boondocks-creator-aaron-mcgruder the TV series would also be continued]], now tackling social issues related to Trump- and Biden-era America as well.
well. Unfortunately, the reboot was later shelved.
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* AsideGlance: The most common type of gag. Something satirically odd or goofy happens, and instead of commenting the characters mug the camera and let the joke lie as is.
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* AsideGlance: The most common type of gag. Something satirically odd or goofy happens, and instead of commenting the characters mug the camera and let the joke lie as is. Taken UpToEleven in [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2005/09/24 one of the post-Hurricane Katrina strips]] when Huey and three of his relatives who'd come to stay all glance at the camera at once, some of them having to lean forward to do so.
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** The strip has also been compared to a black version of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Huey even mutters [[CatchPhrase "Good grief"]] once [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2001/06/08 in response to some of Riley's latest stupidity]].
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** The strip has also been compared to a black version of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Huey (and sometimes Caesar) even mutters mutter [[CatchPhrase "Good grief"]] once occasionally, the first time being [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2001/06/08 in response to some of Riley's latest stupidity]].
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I gotta remember to preview before I save...
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* GoshDarnItAllToHeck: In contrast to the unbelievably foul-mouthed series, the comic has no swearing in it, which is [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2002/11/11 sometimes lampshaded]].
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* GoshDarnItAllToHeck: GoshDangItToHeck: In contrast to the unbelievably foul-mouthed series, the comic has no swearing in it, which is [[https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2002/11/11 sometimes lampshaded]].
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