History Recap / TheBoondocksS3E6SmokinWithCigarettes

* MidBattleTeaBreak: During Lamilton and Riley's fight on the roof, Uncle Ruckus pops up (turns out he's a school security guard or janitor) to see what all the "ruckus" is about, but seeing it's black-on-black violence, Ruckus walks away ("Proceed.")

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Riley is totally fine with doing loads of reckless and outright dangerous pranks with Lamilton (including throwing a burning mattress onto a busy highway). But the moment Lamilton wants to escalate by marauding around the neighborhood with a gun, Riley immediately wants out and finally falls in line with his family.

*** He's also an expy of [[Film/TheGoodSon Henry Evans]]. Both are {{false friend}}s of the protagonist, both are {{sadist}}s who do evil things for fun, and both kill dogs. Also, both end up falling from a high place (a school building for Lamilton, a cliff for Henry), though Lamilton survived due to his fat protecting him from the fall, while Henry is confirmed to be dead.
*** Finally, he's one of [[{{Film/Juice}} Bishop]]. Like Bishop, Lamilton is an extremely unstable juvenile deliquent who at first just likes to cause mischief, but steadily slips into much more harmful urges. He also holds Riley basically hostage as an accomplice like Bishop did Q and Steel, and has a final fight scene on a roof with Riley just like Bishop and Q.

* ShoutOut: Numerous, from the plot's structure to its characters.
** ''{{Film/Juice}}''
*** [[WholePlotReference The plot is a pseudo-summary]] of ''Juice'', and Lamilton Taeshawn is partially based on Bishop. Riley and Lamilton are introduced as friends who just enjoy causing mischief, even if the latter is a bit off. Lamilton is shown to have a fondness for slasher flicks, much like Bishop's excitement over watching ''Film/WhiteHeat''. He then shows Riley a gun and wants to cause trouble with it, forcing Riley into tagging along, much like how Bishop bought a gun to rob a store with, peer-pressuring Q into it. When Ms. Von Housen's dog barks at the duo, Lamilton shoots it dead, then claims it got loose and tried to bite him. Riley calls bullshit and points out that it was perfectly chained to the tree. In ''Juice'', Bishop murders Old Man Quiles who was turned around, had his hands up, and was begging for his life, claiming he made a move, though Q and Raheem rightfully call that out. Lamilton later catches Riley at school, giving him a JumpScare behind his locker door, accusing him of snitching. Riley claims he didn't, and calls him crazy. Lamilton points out that everyone calls him "crazy", and that he doesn't care; about the accusations, about his grandmother, or ''himself'', only Riley. This is exactly what happens in ''Juice'', with Bishop acknowledging that he is "crazy" and simply not caring. The final scene in which Riley and Lamilton fight on the top of the school that culminates in a (supposed) DisneyDeath is similar to Q and Bishop's brawl which ''did'' result in Bishop falling to his death. The final shot of the episode with a kid asking Riley for a cigarette with him giving the kid a ThousandYardStare is taken from ''Juice'''s iconic ending scene where someone tells Q that with Bishop's death, he "has the juice now", to which Q stares disapprovingly.

* WholePlotReference: To ''Juice''.

* AbsenteeActor: The [=DuBois=] family.

* KarmaHoudini: Riley never faces legal repercussions for his many crimes throughout the episode because StatusQuoIsGod. The worst he got for his crimes was Granddad beating him with a belt.

* StupidEvil / TooDumbToLive: Lamilton even claims to not care much about himself. His reckless crimes threaten not only other people but himself as well; he smokes even though it poisons his lungs, almost got himself killed when trying to joyride in his grandma's car, and he even wanted to burglarize the home of a heavily armed old woman.

* CardCarryingVillain / ForTheEvulz: See Lamilton's ArcWords above.
* CreepyChild / EnfantTerrible: Lamilton's former school counselor actually suggested that he's TheAntiChrist.

** Juice

** He's also an expy of [[Film/TheGoodSon Henry Evans]]. Both are {{false friend}}s of the protagonist, both are {{sadist}}s who do evil things for fun, and both kill dogs. Also, both end up falling from a high place (a school building for Lamilton, a cliff for Henry), though Lamilton survived due to his fat protecting him from the fall, while Henry is confirmed to be dead.

** He's also an expy of [[Film/TheGoodSon Henry Evans]]. Both are {{false friend}}s of the protagonist, both are {{sadist}}s who do evil things for fun, and both kill dogs. [[spoiler:Also, both end up falling from a high place (a school building for Lamilton, a cliff for Henry), though Lamilton survived due to his fat protecting him from the fall, while Henry is confirmed to be dead.]]

* TheStoic: Done to very creepy effect, with Lamilton barely making any facial expressions, or speaking differently from his [[CreepyMonotone constant monotone]]. It seems he only knows a few emotions: sadistic joy, violent anger, and fear [[spoiler:([[NotSoStoic you too would scream if you fell from a building and got injured]])]].

* WouldHurtAChild: However, the only child Doomis wants to hurt is [[CreepyChild Lamilton]] [[EnfantTerrible Taeshawn]].

* CreepyChild / EnfanteTerrible: Lamilton's former school counselor actually suggested that he's TheAntiChrist.

* FreudianExcuse: His grandmother states that he came from a very {{abusive| parents}} and {{dysfunctional family}}. Despite this, Lamilton himself never brings up the subject, so she might’ve been lying.

* KidsDrivingCars: Lamilton takes his grandmother's SUV for a joyride, resulting in destruction of property and the car itself taking a severe hit losing a wheel. This is parallel to the resultant state of the car Latarian Milton drove when the car's front axle snapped off after hitting a curb.

* KnightOfCerebus: Some of Lamilton's scenes were not {{played for laughs}}. His threatening behavior towards Riley was {{nightmare fuel}} played very straight.

* SaveTheVillain: Despite, Lamilton trying to kill him moments before, Riley's immediate instinct is to try and save him when his life is in danger, though Dr. Doomis stops him from doing so.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The most stand-out example of the series so far.
* WouldHurtAChild: However, the only child Doomis wants to hurt is [[CreepyChild Lamilton]] [[EnfanteTerrible Taeshawn]].

* BlatantLies: Lamilton is dead guilty of joyriding his grandmother's car, ignoring the police and causing damage while almost running over people. His grandmama cranks out the excuse that "all children his age love stealing cars and going on high-speed chases". The reporter gave out that every other child besides him and Riley were at home playing video games!

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Well, what do you expect? Lamilton's only eight.

* DotingGrandparent: Lamilton's grandmother despite the financial toil and physical abuse she gets from Lamilton still tries keeping out of jail by begging the public to keep forgiving him over and over. Therefore, she enables her grandson and spoils him rotten.