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The following is a list of episodes for the television series The Boondocks.

Season 1: 2005-2006

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"The Garden Party"

File:Garden-party.jpg November 6, 2005

In this, the first episode aired on Adult Swim, Huey and Riley are forced to adjust to life in Woodcrest. Grandad is invited to a ritzy garden party by Ed Wuncler. Riley hangs out with Wuncler's fresh-from-Iraq, faux-"gangsta white boy", and gun-crazy grandson, Ed Wuncler III, while Huey sees the party as his opportunity to spread some of his revolutionary beliefs to people with power. Perhaps it is after these events that the government seemed to have noticed Huey's actions, leading to his future confrontation with White Shadow in later episodes.

"The Trial of R. Kelly"

File:Rkelly-trial.jpg November 13, 2005

The R. Kelly statutory rape trial (an event that had not happened as the episode went to air) is parodied, as Kelly is brought to trial for having urinated on an underage girl. Both Huey and Riley go to Chicago to view the proceedings, though while Huey views the trial and the overwhelming evidence against Kelly and sees a guilty man, Riley is another of Kelly's fans who appear oblivious to the evidence and the facts of the case, including a video tape, among other things, and sees Kelly as a star who makes good music.

"Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner"

November 20, 2005

Granddad falls in love with a ho who shows obvious signs of being a ho, even allowing the woman full access to the Freeman residence. Huey and Riley try several methods to make Granddad see the woman for who she really is--a gold digger--and to get him to understand the old cliche: you can't turn a ho into a housewife.

"Granddad's Fight"

File:Colonelstinkmeaner1.jpg November 27, 2005

Granddad gets his butt whooped by a slightly older, blind man. Granddad tries to regain his reputation (after being mocked on television and by Riley) by challenging the hateful Colonel Stinkmeaner for a rematch. Riley builds up the hype, taking bets for the rematch. Meanwhile, Granddad is being trained by Huey for the up coming match, who is convinced that the blind man is actually a skilled Samurai swords-man.

"A Date with the Health Inspector"

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Tom DuBois is arrested for "fitting the description" of the "Xbox Killer". Huey and Riley enlist the help of Ed Wuncler III and his white friend Gin Rummy (who has similar black affectations) to clear Tom's name by the end of the day. Their efforts include pistol-whipping several black neighbors for information (Huey simply asks them, to much greater success), and getting into a gun battle with a convenience store clerk. This information would hopefully save Tom from being put in holding and facing his worst nightmare of being anally raped by inmates that he, as a prosecutor, helped to put there. Eventually, the real Xbox Killer is caught (looking, of course, nothing like the clean-cut Tom except that both are black men). The entire episode can be seen as a metaphor for the conflict in the Middle East. It was also the first speaking appearance of Jazmine, Tom's daughter, who thinks her father was kidnaped by terrorists.

War on Terror / Iraq War

In this episode, the entire sequence of Gin Rummy and Ed Wunscler looking for the "X-Box Killer" with Huey and Riley can be seen as a parody of the War on Terror and the 2003 invasion of Iraq:

  • The four go looking for the killer (bin Laden), but Wunscler and Rummy (President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld) end up robbing and shooting at everyone else (Afghan citizens).
  • Huey and Riley find that the killer is down the street through simple intel (bin Laden being reported to be at the border of Pakistan), but when Rummy and Wunscler drive near there, they get sidetracked by thirst and decide to go to the 7/11 (Iraq). The decision is made despite Huey yelling, "But we know where he is! He's around the corner!"
  • While in the store, Wunscler gets Riley to steal some beer (oil), and when the clerk (resembling Saddam Hussein) catches them, Rummy yells that the clerk has a gun (WMDs) which he clearly doesn't have. The frightened clerk knows the boys well, and even comments to Wunscler, "Your father helped me build this place!" (reference to the former President Bush's relationship with Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s). The clerk also comments, "You must be thinking of the Korean place north of here" (in reference to North Korea's stated nuclear ambitions).
  • Wunscler and Rummy bully the police officer (the American public, Britain, and the rest of the world community) into thinking that he sees the gun which he knows isn't there. Wunscler and Rummy then open fire, which starts a shootout (the Iraq war); the two express surprise, saying "I didn't think they'd actually shoot back at us!"
  • Once the conflict is over, the larger public sees them as heroes even though they failed at their initial purpose, which was to get the X-Box Killer, who has struck again while everyone else was distracted by the incident at the 7/11.

"The Story of Gangstalicious"

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Gangstalicious, Riley's favorite gangsta rapper, is shot, ironically, while performing his hit song, "I Got Shot". Riley, using an excuse of going to pick up some orange juice, goes to visit his hero in the hospital. While there, he gets mixed up in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse between Gangstalicious and the men that shot him. Ultimately, Riley learns that Gangstalicious wasn't as "gangsta" as he seemed.

"A Huey Freeman Christmas"

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Featuring numerous references to A Charlie Brown Christmas, Huey is given permission to write, produce, and direct the school's Christmas play: The Adventures of Black Jesus. It becomes a grandiose and over-budget performance, featuring Quincy Jones as the musical director and many Hollywood talents, but it also ruffles the feathers of the school board for one key plot point. Meanwhile, Riley disguises himself as the "Santa Stalker" and stalks the Woodcrest Mall's Santa Claus, harassing him (and whoever took his place) until he can "pay what he owe", after not bringing Riley what he wanted for Christmas one year.

"The Real"

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Granddad's sunglasses, which he thinks make him resemble Dr. Bill Cosby, are thought by Riley to make him look blind. Riley uses this to concoct a plan to con reality television shows into giving the Freemans free goods and services by telling outrageous stories about Granddad, which get Tom and Jazmine DuBois involved in the act. Meanwhile, Huey's harsh remarks to Jazmine cause a secret agent, who Huey comes to refer to as the "White Shadow", to reveal himself. Huey suspects he may be part of a larger plan to blur his conception of reality, and there is no proof that the man actually exists in reality, as nobody else actually sees him.

"Return of the King"

January 15 , 2006

What would happen if Martin Luther King, Jr. came out of a coma after 32 years, instead of dying from an assassin's bullet, and found himself thrust into the 21st century and life in the post-September 11 era? He soon becomes a living legend, until his "turn the other cheek" philosophy quickly takes him from beloved national hero to despised terrorist sympathizer, after his views of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden are misconstrued by the media. Motivated by Huey, he attempts to lead a revival of the Civil Rights Movement, but becomes disgusted with the current state of the Black population.

"The Itis"

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Granddad, with financial help from Ed Wuncler, opens "The Itis", the only soul food restaurant in Woodcrest, located across the street from Meadowlark Memorial Park (Reference to Meadowlark Lemon), a piece of land that Wuncler has desired to own. Its signature entree is Granddad's own version of the Luther, and patrons at the restaurant would eat at tables designed as beds, so when "The Itis" kicked in, they could go straight to sleep. White people didn't expect it, but they found the food extremely delicious and highly popular, attracting an audience from outside of Woodcrest. They also didn't expect high cholesterol, heart disease, and obesity. As business booms, so, too, do the health and neighborhood problems in Woodcrest.

  • Special Guest: Ed Asner as Ed Wuncler. Candi Milo as Janet.

"Let's Nab Oprah"

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Searching for a big-time crime to pull off in Woodcrest as a way to "reach their potential", Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy decide to kidnap the talk show deity, Oprah Winfrey, when she is in Woodcrest for a book signing. Wuncler and Rummy see the apprehension of Oprah as a way to hold "control over bitches" and rule the world. Using high-tech surveillance equipment provided by Wuncler, Riley tags along and acts as the pair's lookout. After a failed attempt on Winfrey, where the pair actually kidnap Maya Angelou and later release her, they plan another attempt on Oprah at her television studio, but in order to reach her, they have to get past Bushido Brown, her elite and deadly personal bodyguard (who is highly reminiscent of the Williams character from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon). Can Huey, with his "Black Power Fist", stop the inept pair and his brother from getting themselves arrested or, more likely, killed by the lethal Brown?

  • Featured Music: "Raid", "All Caps", and "Strange Ways" - Madvillainy.
  • Special Guests: Samuel L. Jackson as Gin Rummy; Charlie Murphy as Ed Wuncler III.

"Riley Wuz Here"

(Originally called "The Joy of Grafitti")

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Riley's affinity for graffiti goes too far when neighbors wake up to giant murals on their homes. Granddad forces Riley to take art lessons in order to keep him from defacing property. Maybe a sweet-natured, psycho, war vet art teacher (who bears a striking resemblance to and is a parody of Bob Ross) can help reel him in? Meanwhile, Huey (in a spoof of Super Size Me) decides to see what would happen if he watched nothing but "black television" commercials included for 2 weeks.

  • Noteworthy: Huey performs a similar social experiment in The Boondocks comic strip from May 6, 2005 to May 14, 2005.
  • Featured Music: "Today" - Tom Scott
  • Special Guest: Rob Paulsen as the art teacher

"Wingmen"

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When Granddad's old friend Moe dies, he is asked to give the eulogy for the World War II vet that saved his life. The Freemans go back home to Chicago, where Huey reunites with his best friend, after telling Jazmine that she wasn't his best friend. While there, both Granddad and Huey will have to learn to put the past behind them, one way or another. As Huey realizes his departure changed his relationship between him and Cairo, Grandad realized that everything is not what they seemed, and sometimes it's too late to make things right.

  • Featured Music: "Fancy Clown" - Madvillainy
  • Special Guest: Mike Epps as Grandad's friend Moe a.k.a Mo Gunz

"The Block is Hot"

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Alluding to Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, an abnormally hot day creates tension between the citizens and law enforcement of Woodcrest. The events lead to the attempted shooting and beating of Uncle Ruckus, parodying the real-life events involving Rodney King and the late Amadou Diallo. Jazmine, on this hot day, opens up a lemonade stand, with the goal of making enough money to buy a pony. She, eventually, signs a business contract with Ed Wuncler, promising to give Jazmine a pony, named Sammy Davis Jr., as long as she sold enough lemonade to recoup the funds. Jazmine finds out, the hard way, the way the business world really works.

Do the Right Thing

This episode has several references to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. During the beginning of the episode, Huey is seen walking down the street with a boombox playing Public Enemy's "Fight The Power," a reference to Radio Raheem. Ruckus also quotes Sal, the pizzeria owner, when he hears Huey's "jungle music." At the end of the episode, Huey throws a trash can into the lemonade stand, similar to the way Mookie, Spike Lee's character, throws a trash can through the window of Sal's Pizzeria during the riots. The stand is burned down in a similar fashion as the aformentioned pizzeria after the riots.

"The Passion of Ruckus"

File:Vlcsnap-2523940.jpg March 19, 2006

Uncle Ruckus is diagnosed with a life-threatening form of cancer. After seeing "White Heaven" in a dream, and being told by the late Ronald Reagan that God hates black people, he begins preaching that Black people can, too, go to White Heaven if they hate the black in them, with the goal of making it into "White Heaven" himself. His ideology catches on with the public, even affecting one African-American Tom DuBois. Meanwhile, Huey is preparing a mission to free Shabazz K. Milton Berle, a black man who was unjustly convicted of murdering a police officer in the 1970s (even though there was comicly overwhellming evidence that proves he is innocent).

  • Featured Music: "I Believe In It" - Isabelle Antena.

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Season 2: 2006-2007

The Boondocks has been renewed for a 20 episode Second Season which will begin airing Fall 2006. The first episode will be titled The Return of Stinkmeaner.

See also

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