Memes / The Boondocks

Like any other popular comedy cartoon, The Boondocks has more than its fair share of memorably memetic quotes.

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• Nigga, you gay!
• Nigga hush!
• (What) the fuck y'all lookin' at?^ExplanationEd Wuncler III's catchphrase/greeting.
  • I sent that bitch a smiley face... bitches love smiley faces. ^ExplanationIn "Let's Nab Oprah", Ed receives a text from one of his 'bitches' right before he and his buddy Gin Rummy prepare to rob a bank. Rummy himself dismisses such things as "nigga technology", saying that they're only made to make life easier for idiots like Ed.
• A Pimp Named Slickback! It's like A Tribe Called Quest, you say the whole thing!
  • Let us pray the Pimp's Prayer. Lord, please pray for the soul of this bitch and guide my pimp hand and make it strong, Lord, so that she might learn a ho's place. Amen.
    • Amen! YEAH!
• The Kumite. (wa-cha!)
• My name is Uncle Ruckus, no relation.
• "READ NIGGA, READ!"^ExplanationUncle Ruckus tries to get a possessed Tom DuBois to look at an open book to exorcise Stinkmeaner's ghost in "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back". Much like the Double D's Facts Book and Scroll of Truth memes, has been snowcloned to represent forcing people in denial to accept objective truths.
  • NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
• I say, motherfuck America! Motherfuck America's mother! Motherfuck America's daddy! America can eat a dick! America can lick the balls!
• The Nigga Moment.^ExplanationFirst mentioned in "Granddad's Fight", Huey defines a "nigga moment" as one when a normally rational black man starts acting illogically, usually in response to some minor perceived slight.
  • Nigga Moment + Nigga Synthesis = Complete Fuckin' Disaster!
• And me, Colonel Motherfuckin' Stinkmeaner!
  • Holla atcha boy, I gets money!
  • He was the baddest motherfucker hell had ever seen. Why, he even called me...the devil himself...a - '''BITCH ASS NYUKKA!'''
  • "WHAT DID YOU SAY, NIGGAAAA?!"
  • "What's good, nigga? What's REALLY good?"
  • Hell ain't shit! I've got 3-stick nunchucks~!
  • Fuck your court, nyukka!
  • Oh yeah! Look atcha! You was poppin' all that GOOOD shit a second ago...and then you got kicked in yo chest! You eat a dick, nigga! YOU EAT A DICK!" ^ExplanationIn "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back", when Tom DuBois experiences his own "nigga moment" when a man steals his parking space. Stinkmeaner's spirit takes over, and Tom lays the annoying guy out with a standing dropkick, getting in some good trash talk before coming to his senses and wondering what happened.
• Don't drop the soap. You'll regret it.
  • That's hygiene, nigga!
  • Pray, baby, pray...I'm next!
• The Booty Warrior. And every word he says.
  "Hm, Hm. Take your time."
  "I came looking for booty."
  "I know who you are, Chris Handsome. You see, I called you Chris Handsome."
  "I like ya, and I want ya. Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way, the choice is yours."
  • "DON'T MAKE ME RUIN THAT BUTT, CHRIS! I'M A WARRIOR! I'M A WARRIOR!"
• Mr. Bushido Brown.
  "Now see, you already messed up. It's Grandmastah, Bushido Brown."
• "Hater alert! Hater alert!"^ExplanationIn "Granddad Dates a Kardashian", Riley accuses Huey of being in a sour mood because he didn't get toys like he did, while repeatedly proclaiming "hater alert". Even fans who otherwise didn't like Season 4 found the scene hilarious, and took to using "hater alert" as a response to people Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
• Dat's why we drinks Henessey, dat's why we smoke menthols, DAT'S WHYS WE'S NIGGAS
• You gave that girl a permanent severe limp!
  • (In Chinese) I don't like to be laughed at!
  • Kickball = Srs business.
• Don't trust them new niggers over there/Leaving they nigga essence in the air/Them happy, nappy head niggas/With their fingers on the trigger/Don't trust them new niggas over there...
  • Don't trust them big nostrils over yonder/They suck up so much air it'll make you wonder/Don't trust them new niggas/With their spidey little nigga figyas/Don't trust them new niggas...over there. *falls off stage*
    • I think the N-word is OK as long as they say it.
• I GOT SHOT.
• Homies over hoes! Homies over hoes! Homies over hoes! Homies over hoes! Do the Homie! Do the Homie! Do the Homie! Do the Homie!
  • Stomp 'em in the nuts!
  • Korra? What are you doing here? ^ExplanationOne of the girls in the "Homies Over Hoes" music video resembles the titular protagonist from The Legend of Korra to a truly unbelievable degree; sporting a similar face, build, hairstyle, even her overall color palette is similar to Korra's Considering that the episode aired years before Legend of Korra was even conceived by the creators, there's no way that this is anything other than a massive coincidence. This has led to a lot of "bending over" jokes, among others.
• Ay man, you got any cigawettes?
• Pause.
  • I don't wanna say "No homo"! I'mma homo your ass, you don't stop saying "pause"!
    • Pause.
• This whole relationship is based on a lie! An UGLY lie!
• Would all you ignorant niggas puh-lease shut the hell up!?^ExplanationIn "Return of the King", Martin Luther King Jr. is about to give an inspirational speech at a church, but when he sees a large group of black people dancing, twerking, and generally making a mess of the place, he orders them all to be quiet before giving them a biting "The Reason You Suck" Speech for wasting all the hard work he had done years ago fighting for their rights. He then finishes the speech by saying he's going to Canada.
• Pa-raise Santa!
  • Dear Santa, you are a bitch (ass) nigga!^ExplanationRiley writing a threatening letter to Santa Claus.
• I wake up every morning and set one foot on the floor and the other up the ass of a 12-year-old Indonesian girl.
• There are known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns.^ExplanationIn an Actor Allusion with Samuel L. Jackson, Rummy acts out Jules Winnfield's "What?" scene from Pulp Fiction to Huey and Riley, while also rambling about "known unknowns" and "absence of evidence", mirroring Donald Rumsfeld's justification for attacking Iraq during the early days of The War on Terror (that because there was no concrete evidence that Saddam Hussein still had weapons of mass destruction didn't mean they weren't there)
  What?
  Look. There's shit we know we know, shit we know we don't know, shit we don't know we know, and shit we don't know we don't know. That's an unknown unknown. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
  What?
  Can't you say nothin but "what?" Nigga, where you from?
  Yeah.
  You from a place called "Yeah?" I ain't never heard of no place called "Yeah" before!
  What.
  SAY WHAT ONE MOTHERFUCKING TIME
• Dickridin' Obama^ExplanationEveryone thought that, by simply being black, Barack Obama's election changed everything.
• Nigga did I just catch you making a meme? (bitch slap)^ExplanationUncle Ruckus' father would routinely slap him for vague offenses. In one flashback, he "catches" Ruckus doing various innocuous activities, saying "Nigga, did I just catch you..." and slapping him hard across the face. Such offenses include "having fun" and "wanting to be shit" (as in, having future professional aspirations).
  • Oh, sweet Jesus! Lord have Mercy! My baby!
• Oh my god, a chair!◊^ExplanationAnother moment from "Granddad's fight". Riley, remembering a brawl break out at a hip-hop award show when a rapper got hit in the head with a folding chair, tosses one into a crowd to distract them before they kick his ass for cheating them out of money watching Robert's comically one-sided "fight" against Stinkmeaner. Predictably, they all notice the chair and start pounding on each other, leaving Riley free to escape.
• I think if Martin Luther King was alive today he would...◊
• Man. What did he do to make them niggas that mad?
• "If you lost your ho to T.I., I'd be like, 'Hey, that's T.I.!' But Usher?!"^explanationAfter Tom DuBois' wife Sarah flirts with Usher just a little too hard in front of him, Tom becomes insecure and asks the family for advice; Riley mocks him with the above line. In 2022, it became a popular audio on TikTok to describe the embarrassing feeling of being replaced by something that isn't even that impressive. This one gained a new lease on life after Usher's 2024 halftime show performance at the Super Bowl, where he intimately hugged Alicia Keys (who's married to Swizz Beatz) from behind during the song "My Boo."