Boondocks (NRR)
funky16corners
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Anyone else catch the Boondocks last night? It had it's funny moments, but it seemed more about the grandfather than Huey and Riley...
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Lesean Thomas
sick artist. He did the latest rebirth of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. His style is deeply rooted in Japanimation... huge fan of it.
Also he has no formal trainging as an artist - picked everything up he knows on his own.
Were we watching the same thing? 11 PM EST, right? I thought the show was terrible. Not only do I think anime is a bad style for the cartoon, but last night's episode was just an attempt to squeeze in as many stereotypes as possible! (I know that's the name of the Boondocks game, but jeeze...) I always enjoy reading the cartoon in the paper, and I usually walk away with something to think about, but I was just happy it was over last night. Seriously, come with something stronger.
i can see cartoon network trying to do apply the comedy central chapelle model here (even to the point of having charlie murphy voice a character and do an "i'm rich bitch"), by having a "shockingly urban" show attract a different demographic while simultaniously building on their usual white college stoner target audience. but i don't know how sucessful it will be on that front, it doesn't seem to have the catch phrases of chappelle. the powers that be will have you think "the biting social commentary" is what fueled chappelle's successes, but in reality, dude wrote a bunch of great catch phrases and reoccuring characters that's what drives a sketch show. critically it'd be a good thing the boondocks doesn't sink to this level, i've never been a fan of chappelle show (and i definitely wouldn't want mcgruder to give riley a "what you talkin bout willis?") but commercially i just don't see it doing what they had hoped it would. and it doesn't really fit in the adult swim sunday block, with it's linear storytelling and very formal artwork amongst a bunch of surrealist and sloppily drawn shows. i don't think the adult swim viewership will be as shocked with "ronald reagan is the devil" when they just watched the sealab dude talk about how an acid trip was the equivalent of a koala crapping a rainbow in his brain. the political content/scandal that they're so heavily banking on is likely to get brushed aside by the audience as just another in a long line of non sequiters the other shows present. not that it's that particularly groundbreaking politically either...
the animation is actually lot better than i had expected, but the voice acting is terrible horrible no good very bad in that the children sound like regina king and not children. although i was happy to hear jill talley (mr. show) doing rich white people voices.
i'll give it a few episodes to see if it hits it's stride. it really has always been a great concept that and i do think the characters are pretty strong. but for next weeks ep, i really don't know what could be said about r. kelly that hasn't already been said.
i predict it will bomb, it wasnt funny
Or witty, even. It was just DRY.
Dude! It's like tou stole every word I had to say about it.
The Anime vibe left it feeling far too serious, dramaitc and joke-free. Not to mention the jokes that were there really werent on point. I'm hoping that they are still trying to find themselves and they improve over time. Who inks/ draws the comic strip? Is it McGruder? if so he should be drawing the series or find someone to emulate that style a little more, I think it would be easier to watch that way
What exactly in the episode made you think? All of the jokes were so glaringly obvious that I didn't have to think about any of it. I was hoping there'd be a point during the show that things would flip or there'd be some sort of new understanding, but the curtains closed permanently at what I thought should have only been the intermission.
really mcgruder... are you fucking kidding me?
i was shocked at that horrible song that the grandpas friend was singing... it wasnt funny it was a disgrace. i wanted to laugh at the white people jokes but i think i found myself just disgusted with mcgruder and his team who did this.
the voices!!! holy shit are you fucking kidding me?!?!?! please find a new voice for everyone... i dont even want to talk about it.
and yeah the animation was great and thats about it.
ill keep watching it but really... i hope to god this gets better... almost made me want to stop reading the strip...
Yes you can. Use that TiVO space for something else, man. Save it for Wednesday's "Meet Your New Mommy".
So... you didn't cry?
yes! i wanted to mention this. a fucking low point in the already soured "legacy" of the boondocks.
So... you guys didn't cry either?
soft.
Maybe I'm just out of touch with the streets opinion of the boondocks because I haven't read the strip in a while. Disagreements aside, this show has made the good list in my household.
It's not.
really cos? while i dont fall on the ground laughing every day... i find that i enjoy most of the strips ive read over the years. i used to get it emailed to me on the daily.
it can be quite witty with some very funny moments. ive laughed out loud a countless amount of times.
oh well... not everyone thinks its funny.
It's no "Cathy" I'll tell you...
15 minutes and counting until my self imposed ban...
racist
Its all about cathy. They were gonna do a show of that, but decided it would be too "contreversial".