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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: In the show's final episode, Base Head performs a rap number about his life and drug addiction called "Junkie's Delight." The rap was actually performed by Chance the Rapper, who managed to emulate the character's voice and distinctive lisp so perfectly that very few viewers could tell that the rap wasn't performed by Base Head's ''actual'' voice actor.

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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: In the show's final episode, Base Head performs a rap number about his life and drug addiction called "Junkie's Delight." The rap was actually performed by Chance the Rapper, Music/ChanceTheRapper, who managed to emulate the character's voice and distinctive lisp so perfectly that very few viewers could tell that the rap wasn't performed by Base Head's ''actual'' voice actor.actor (Creator/OrlandoJones).
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* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: All of the deliberate and accidental aspects of Blaxploitation was faithfully recreated for this film. They even used the same low-quality film stock in order to best recreate the poor image quality of the genre's original films.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Laurence Tureaud proclaiming that his new name is "First name Mister, middle name Period, last name T!" may just seem like a gag, but the real Laurence Tureaud did in fact legally change his name to "Mr. T."






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* ValuesDissonance: The episode "Warriors Come Out" shows a gay pride parade and several transgender characters--and uses the slur "tranny" frequently. The episode's portrayal of its LGBT characters is embarrassingly dated at best, and, at worst, hasn't aged well at all. However, since the show has a 1970s blaxploitation aesthetic, this can be seen as an example of DeliberateValuesDissonance.

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* ValuesDissonance: The episode "Warriors Come Out" shows a gay pride parade and several transgender characters--and uses the slur "tranny" frequently. The episode's portrayal of its LGBT characters is embarrassingly dated at best, and, at worst, hasn't aged well at all. However, since the show has a 1970s blaxploitation aesthetic, this can be seen as an example of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* ThrowItIn: There is a scene where several bad guys pull up in a car and get out to start shooting, and the car starts rolling away. The driver has to jump back in and stop the car. The commentary revealed that it was entirely accidental, but they decided to use it, because that was exactly the kind of thing that would happen in those low budget films.
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* ThrowItIn: There is a scene where several bad guys pull up in a car and get out to start shooting, and the car starts rolling away. The driver has to jump back in and stop the car. The commentary revealed that it was entirely accidental, but they decided to use it, because that was exactly the kind of thing that would happen in those low budget films.

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Riots against police brutality existed long before George Floyd.


* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: All of the deliberate and accidental aspects of Blaxploitation was faithfully recreated for this film. They even used the same low-quality film stock in order to best recreate the poor image quality of the genre's original films.



* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the "The Wizard of Watts", ninjas go on a riot after a police officer confronts them. This episode aired five years before the 2020 summer riots that sparked after the death of George Floyd.
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-->"Haha! I threw that shit before I walked in the the room!"

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-->"Haha! I threw that shit before I walked in the the room!"



** There is also Black Dynamite's brother Jimmy, who shows up in a single scene (in which he dies), but is very memorable for his distinctively LargeHam, flowery classic theater-like speech pattern clashing with [[SophisticatedAsHell the street lingo]] in his dialogue (a reference to black classical Shakespearean theater actors who ended up working in blaxploitation, e.g most famously William Marshall in Film/{{Blacula}}).

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** There is also Black Dynamite's brother Jimmy, who shows up in a single scene (in which he dies), but is very memorable for his distinctively LargeHam, flowery classic theater-like speech pattern clashing with [[SophisticatedAsHell the street lingo]] in his dialogue (a reference to black classical Shakespearean theater theatre actors who ended up working in blaxploitation, e.g most famously William Marshall in Film/{{Blacula}}).



* ValuesDissonance: The episode "Warriors Come Out" shows a gay pride parade and several transgender characters--and uses the slur "tranny" frequently. The episode's portrayal of its LGBT characters is embarrassingly dated at best, and, at worst, hasn't aged well at all. However, since the show is supposed to have a 1970s blaxploitation aesthetic, this can be seen as an example of DeliberateValuesDissonance.

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* ValuesDissonance: The episode "Warriors Come Out" shows a gay pride parade and several transgender characters--and uses the slur "tranny" frequently. The episode's portrayal of its LGBT characters is embarrassingly dated at best, and, at worst, hasn't aged well at all. However, since the show is supposed to have has a 1970s blaxploitation aesthetic, this can be seen as an example of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* ValuesDissonance: The episode "Warriors Come Out" shows a gay pride parade and several transgender characters--and uses the slur "tranny" frequently. This is a ''really'' bad case of SocietyMarchesOn, as the episode's portrayal of its LGBT characters is embarrassingly dated at best, and, at worst, hasn't aged well at all. However, since the show is supposed to have a 1970s blaxploitation aesthetic, this can be seen as an example of DeliberateValuesDissonance.

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* ValuesDissonance: The episode "Warriors Come Out" shows a gay pride parade and several transgender characters--and uses the slur "tranny" frequently. This is a ''really'' bad case of SocietyMarchesOn, as the The episode's portrayal of its LGBT characters is embarrassingly dated at best, and, at worst, hasn't aged well at all. However, since the show is supposed to have a 1970s blaxploitation aesthetic, this can be seen as an example of DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the "The Wizard of Watts", ninjas go on a riot after a police officer confronts them. This episode aired five years before the 2020 summer riots that sparked after the death of George Floyd.
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* VindicatedByCable: The movie was a flop in theaters but got a lot of notice through DVD and the Creator/{{Starz}} network and had an animated adaptation on Creator/AdultSwim.

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* VindicatedByCable: The movie was a flop in theaters due to its limited release, but it got a lot of notice through DVD and the Creator/{{Starz}} network and had an animated adaptation on Creator/AdultSwim.

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