boondocks can fuck off
season 1 and 2 were alright
than they said fuck it for season 3 let's forget everything about the first seasons
everything about trying to rise above the medias portrayal off black people? NAH FUCK IT LET'S MAKE MORE RUCKUS EPISODES
OR MORE RILEY EPISODES
edited 7th Nov '15 11:22:33 PM by ChrissieMcNapkins
I live in a constant state of fear and misery.I remember when I started watching Boondocks because everyone at school was.
And then I realised they were watching it without understanding it was satire and taking all the black jokes to heart because they had never seen black people before and that was all they had to go off of.
Then the show started being unfunny.
that is actually when i stopped watching so hey it's not just me
edited 7th Nov '15 11:22:18 PM by WonderSquid
also huey kinda got mouthpiecey after a while
You know how one of the many complaints against Family Guy was that Brian was basically Seth MacFarlane's mouthpiece? Huey felt like that. He showed up to be right about things.
I mean I get that you kind of have to have a straight man to the funny man thing so I understand why the change was made, but the whole joke with Huey was that he was a radical reformist talking about all these wild political ideas and whatnot which is why nobody took him seriously. They had that for the first episode where they had a throwaway line from the comic about Ronald Reagan being Satan because all three of his names had six letters but after that he was just "there to be right" and faded into the background until the moral needed to be delivered.
edited 7th Nov '15 11:27:13 PM by WonderSquid
i really liked the first couple seasons, honestly
it did reach a point where it was more about cheap gags than anything else and i lost interest
i can see what you're saying about huey but
brian/family guy in general is so terrible i cant really put them in the same category
but yes he did undergo a similar problem
edited 7th Nov '15 11:32:10 PM by HilarityEnsues
when season 4 hit
the writing just dropped IMMENSELY in quality
there was one episode which was basically "Hey look, we can do Breaking Bad, too!" and then another was just sex jokes featuring old people, which sounds more like a Family Guy premise than a Boondocks one
Riley became a stereotyped version of himself which seemed impossible but it happened
he went from a wannabe kid who would follow any fad to just a gangster who could somehow do anything
the fucking Stinkmeaner arc kept going why the fuck was that still a thing holy shit
I live in a constant state of fear and misery.well i mean obviously boondocks's worst is still better than family guy's best
and you've gotta admit that animation was gorgeous
didn't stinkmeaner die?
twice?
whoops link fixed wrong one
edited 7th Nov '15 11:38:40 PM by WonderSquid
this series went from comedic satire about things going on in the black community
to
rehashed jokes and racism
for fucks sake, this series gave us Return of the King
what the fuck happened
hold on, no black person works at BET
edited 7th Nov '15 11:52:49 PM by ChrissieMcNapkins
I live in a constant state of fear and misery.@spazz: oh yeah, i never got the feeling you thought otherwise
but brian is just basically just two things
1. jokes about bestiality - oh look he's dating another human woman guys wow
2. angry rants that would not look out of place on the worst of r/atheism
it really makes me wonder why i don't just become a writer if this is the sort of bar that's being set
maybe i'll make a show about an animated cat that's always trying to get laid and talks about how great the Bush era was, just to do something different

i guess thats why the boondocks exists
if japan isn't going to make black animes than america will do it
and still kinda flub it because uncle ruckus is annoying and unfunny
edited 7th Nov '15 11:18:32 PM by HilarityEnsues