History Recap / TheBoondocksS1E10TheItis

-->'''Huey:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall We're gonna pause this for the benefit of all y'all that didn't see Soul Food.]] Soul Food is a movie about a big humongous black grandmother, aptly named "Big Mama". "Big Mama" demonstrates her love by feeding herself and her family ''[[NutritionalNightmare copious amounts of pig lard.]]'' Then, ''[[SarcasmMode get this]]'', [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome "Big Mama"'s arteries are]] ''[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome so clogged]]'', [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they gotta]] ''[[AnArmAndALeg amputate]] [[InUniverseFactoidFailure her arm!]]''
-->'''Grandad:''' It [[NotHelpingYourCase was her leg!]]
-->'''Huey:''' Right, okay, whatever... Then, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome she dies of a heart attack.]] Or another stroke, or something...

-->'''Huey:''' And ''what'' does the family do after she dies? [[AesopAmnesia They get together for a Sunday dinner and eat the]] ''[[NutritionalNightmare same damn food that just killed "Big Mama"!]]'' '''''[[AesopAmnesia The same food!]]''''' ''[[AesopAmnesia They didn't learn a lesson! Nobody went on a diet!]]'' And that's the end of the movie.

* FoodPorn: For as unhealthy as Robert's cooking is, the intricate way he describes the process of making it certainly gets one's mouth watering. This is mostly avoided from a visual perspective, as the animation renders the food as mostly just ugly-looking greyish-brown slop.

* FoodPorn: For as unhealthy as Robert's cooking is, the intricate way he describes the process of making it certainly gets one's mouth watering.

** Just because you look healthy on the outside, doesn't mean you're healthy on the inside. Janet manages to get back to her original weight through multiple surgeries and medical procedures, but the damage the soul food did to her insides is still there. When she makes a request for one last Luther Burger after getting back to her original weight, she quickly ends up experiencing a heart attack.

** Just because you look healthy on the outside, doesn't mean you're healthy on the inside. Janet manages to get back to her original weight through multiple surgeries and medical procedures, but the damage the soul food did to her insides is there. When she makes a request for one last Luther Burger after getting back to her original weight, she quickly ends up experiencing a heart attack.

* NutritionalNightmare: All of The Itis' food. The most prominent item on the menu is the "Luther Burger", which is ''a full-pound burger patty'', covered in cheese, with grilled onions, five strips of bacon, and two Krispy Kreme donuts as buns. Other disgusting and terrible foods include broccoli boiled in ham broth, and "two pig knuckles glazed in honey; pig tongue marinated in butter for two days; chitlins (pig intestines) soaked in hot sauce, drizzled in mayonnaise, and then set to harden on our back porch in three pounds of cheddar cheese".

* VillainHasAPoint: Despite the detrimental health effects the soul food is having on the entire town as a whole making them too sleepy, obese and animalistic to resume their lives as usual, Robert still refuses to shut down his restaurant. Ed Wuncler has to step in and call out Robert that opening the Itis was a mistake. This was, of course Ed’s EvilPlan all along to devalue the area so he could buy Meadowlark Park.

* FoodComa: The episode more or less revolves around this trope (called "[[TitleDrop the itis"]], as it's one of the main driving points of the restaurant's business, which is even named, "The Itis"). Everyone except Huey ends up feeling sleepy after eating the meal Robert cooked up and eventually passing out, with Sarah even falling off her chair.

* FoodComa: The episode more or less revolves around this trope (called "[[TitleDrop the itis]], as it's one of the main driving points of the restaurant's business, which is even named, "The Itis"). Everyone except Huey ends up feeling sleepy after eating the meal Robert cooked up and eventually passing out, with Sarah even falling off her chair.

* NutritionalNightmare: All of The Itis' food. The most prominent item on the menu is the "Luther Burger", which is ''a full-pound burger patty'', covered in cheese, with grilled onions, five strips of bacon, and two Krispy Kreme donuts as buns. Other disgusting and terrible foods include broccoli boiled in ham broth, and "two pig knuckles glazed in honey; pig tongue marinated in butter for two days; chitterlings (pig intestines) soaked in hot sauce, drizzled in mayonnaise, and then set to harden on our back porch in three pounds of cheddar cheese".

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: {{Invoked}}. Huey disapproves of the message of ''Film/SoulFood'', taking issue with the fact that no one seems to be bothered that their family tradition involves coming together to eat the same food that killed the family matriarch. This, notably, is not a fully accurate summary of the movie: Big Momma's ailment is diabetes rather than clogged arteries as Huey claims, and is implied to have been caused old age rather than her diet.

-->'''Huey:''' Sausage and waffle and fried chicken breakfast lasagna? Bacon-wrapped chitlin stuffed catfish? Grandad, you can't serve this kind of food to people. It'll cause... death.

* FoodComa: The episode more or less revolves around this trope (called "[[TitleDrop the itis]], as it's one of the main driving points of the restaurant's business, which is even named, "The Itis". Everyone except Huey ends up feeling sleepy after eating the meal Robert cooked up and eventually passing out, with Sarah even falling off her chair.

* TooDumbToLive: Even after Janet is forced to go through gastric bypass surgery and immediate liposuction because of all the soul food she's eaten, she still requests ''another Luther Burger''. Luckily, one of the works took a CPR class and saves her when she suffers a heart attack.

* TooDumbToLive: Even after Janet is forced to go through gastric bypass surgery and immediate liposuction because of all the soul food she's eaten, she still requests another Luther Burger. Luckily, one of the works took a CPR class and saved her when she suffered either a heart attack or choking.

* CriticalResearchFailure: [[invoked]] Downplayed: when summarizing the plot of ''Film/SoulFood'', Huey states that Big Mama needed an arm amputated, only for Robert to angrily correct him.
-->'''Huey''': (as Big Mama is in a hospital bed) Then, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer get this]], Big Mama's arteries are so clogged, they gotta amputate her arm. (cutting sound; Big Mama's arm is replaced with a bandaged stump)\\
'''Robert''': [[NotHelpingYourCase It was her]] ''[[NotHelpingYourCase leg]]''[[NotHelpingYourCase .]]\\
'''Huey''': (dismissive) Right, okay, whatever, leg. ([[CrossesTheLineTwice Big Mama's arm returns; leg is replaced with a bandaged stump]])

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: During the Rap Song Montage, The fat lady tries to get the Luther Burger. However, the other lady stabbed the other in the hand, and the rap song suddenly fades out and stops.

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Contrary to what viewers may have assumed, this episode didn't invent the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burger Luther Burger]]. Although they sure did make the burger garner a lot more attention and popularity (in spite of the episode bad-mouthing it for detrimental nutrition). It's just as bad as the episode makes it out to be.
** Despite what you may presume, ''Film/SoulFood'' is in fact a real movie. They even BreakTheFourthWall by pausing the episode's action to explain the film's plot.

* TooDumbToLive: Even after Janet is forced to go through gastric bypass surgery and immediate liposuction because of all the soul food she's eaten, she still requests another Luther Burger.

* FoodComa: The episode more or less revolves around this trope (called "[[TitleDrop the itis]], as it's one of the main driving points of the restaurant's business, which is even named, "The Itis". Sarah's daughter ends up feeling sleepy after eating the meal Robert cooked up.

* AesopAmnesia: Janet, one of the Itis' customers, displays a major case of this. She became addicted to their food, and turned grotesquely overweight in the process. Even after reverting back to her original weight, not to mention trying to sue the restaurant for emotional and health damages, she makes a request for ''one last Luther Burger''. She immediately suffers a heart attack (though thank goodness that Chico knew how to do CPR on her).

* FoodComa: The episode more or less revolves around this trope(called "[[TitleDrop the itis]], as it's one of the main driving points of the restaurant's business, which is even named, "The Itis". Sarah's daughter ends up feeling sleepy after eating the meal Robert cooked up.

"The Itis" is the 10th episode of the 1st season of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. It originally aired on January 22, 2006.

* FoodComa: The episode more or less revolves around this trope(called "[[TitleDrop the itis]], as it's one of the main driving points of the restaurant's business, which is even named, "The Itis". One of Sarah's kids ends up feeling sleepy after eating the meal Robert cooked up.