History Recap / TheBoondocksS1E2TheTrialOfRKelly

* BadassBookworm: The tragically small group of three black intellectuals who came to oppose R. Kelly run to Huey's defense when the R. Kelly supporters try to ambush him, holding their own to spite being massively outnumbered. [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting Thus beginning a grand tradition of the show.]]

** Also, past oppression does not give a person a free pass to oppress or harm others.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: R. Kelly's unnamed attorney is a parody of radical lawyer William Kunstler.

* {{Pixellation}}: The eyes of the girl who was urinated upon by R. Kelly are always seen pixelated out (the rest of her face is visible, though).

* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Kelly's (white) lawyer points out that Tom Dubois has a white wife named Sarah (with whom they have a mixed daughter named Jazmine), which he claims must make him a hater of black women. This earns the Dubois family the scorn of the all-black jury.

* IronicEcho: Riley tells Tom before the trial that if he was the girl that R. Kelly allegedly urinated on, he would have escaped before it happened. When interviewed on the news, he asks the audience if they were in the same position as the girl, would they choose to either ''"smile and beg for more"'' or ''"get the hell of the way"''. During the trial itself, the recorded video shows the "victim" never resisting or fighting back during the deed. In fact, she casually, clearly, ''enjoyed'' it. When the very same girl takes the stand, she outright says if she didn't want to get peed on, whether or not it was from R. Kelly, she would have chosen to get out of the way, exactly what Riley said.

-->What the ''hell'' is wrong with you people? Every famous nigga that gets arrested is ''not'' Nelson Mandela! Yes, the government conspires to put a lot of innocent black men in jail on fallacious charges. But R. Kelly is ''not'' one of those men! We all know the nigga can sing! But, what happened to standards? What happen to the bare minimums? You a fan of R. Kelly? You want to help R. Kelly? Then get some counseling for R. Kelly, introduce him to some older women, hide his camcorder! But, don't pretend like the man is a hero!
* {{Pixellation}}: The eyes of the girl who was urinated upon by R. Kelly are always seen pixelated out (the rest of her face is visible though).

-->And stop the damn dancing, act like you got some goddamn sense people! Damn! Through playin' around here!

* AnAesop: The bad actions of some people -- famous or not -- just can't be excused or ignored, and it needs the support of fans looking past star idolism to have their favorite stars held accountable.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Huey chews out the entire courtroom for defending R. Kelly's actions just because they like his music.
-->What the ''hell'' is wrong with you people? Every famous nigga that gets arrested is ''not'' Nelson Mandela! Yes, the government conspires to put a lot of innocent black men in jail on fallacious charges. But R. Kelly is ''not'' one of those men! We all know the nigga can sing! But, what happened to standards? What happen to the bare minimums? You a fan of R. Kelly? You want to help R. Kelly? Then get some counseling for R. Kelly, introduce him to some older women, hide his camcorder! But, don't pretend like the man is a hero!

* IronicEcho: Riley tells Robert before the trial that if he was the girl that R. Kelly allegedly urinated on, he would have escaped before it happened. When interviewed on the news, he asks the audience if they were in the same position as the girl, would they choose to either "smile and beg for more" or "get the hell of the way". During the trial itself, the recorded video shows the "victim" never resisting or fighting back during the deed. In fact, she casually, clearly, enjoyed it. When the very same girl takes the stand, she outright says if she didn't want to get peeded on, whether or not it was from R. Kelly, she would have chosen to get out of the way, exactly what Riley said.

* TemptingFate: Tom believes that he can convict R. Kelly, regardless of the star's status. As Huey warned, that's not the case due to bias from his most loyal fans in the courtroom.

* AnAesop: The bad actions of some people -- famous or not -- just can't be excused or ignored.

* IronicEcho: Riley tells Robert before the trial that if he was the girl that R. Kelly allegedly urinated on, he would have escaped before it happened. When interviewed on the news, he asks the audience if they were in the same position as the girl, would they choose to either "smile and beg for more" or "get the hell of the way". During the trial, the recorded video shows the "victim" never resisting or fighting back during the deed. In fact, she casually, clearly, enjoyed it. When the very same girl takes the stand, she outright says if she didn't like what R. Kelly was doing to her, she would have chosen to get out of the way, exactly what Riley said.

* ScrewTheRulesImFamous: Despite the huge amount of evidence against R. Kelly, he was still acquitted. It didn't help that the jury consisted of some of his fans.

* TemptingFate: Tom believes that he can convict R. Kelly, regardless of the star's status. As Huey warned, that's not the case due to bias.

** A jury full of R. Kelly fans are easily convinced that the trial was all about racism against the defendant. Never mind that there's a lot of damning evidence against R. Kelly.

* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Kelly's (white) lawyer points out that Tom Dubois has a white wife named Sarah (with whom they have a mixed daughter named Jazmine), which he claims must make him a hater of black women. This earns the Dubois family the scorn of the all-black jury.

* DownerEnding: Huey's big speech changes nothing. R. Kelly is acquitted despite overwhelming evidence for his guilt, and his fans celebrate. Huey says in the ending narration: "I did battle with ignorance today... and ignorance won."

* ChewbaccaDefense: Kelly's attorney uses a defense strategy that's hardly relevant to the actual subject matter of the trial, such as claiming that illegal sexual contact with a minor is somehow still acceptable for modern society, or chastising the prosecutor for not being married to a woman of the same race as him.[[note]]The defending attorney is white, making this even weirder.[[/note]]