Boondocks gets renewed!

[yendi]

Boondocks has been renewed, with a 20-episode order for next season!

This is one of the funniest shows on TV right now (Huey's attack on Soul Food last week was just priceless). And the MLK episode, although technically the least humorous episode of the season, was also something that everyone should see.

Comments

[asim.livejournal.com]

That is some of the best news I've heard all fuckin' day.

As for this:

the Rev. Al Sharpton has criticized the show for an episode depicting Martin Luther King Jr. -- who in the storyline didn't die in 1968 and woke from a decades-long coma in the present day -- using the word "n****r."

Al Sharpton should sit down and STFU. He's EXACTLY the kind of two-faced trifin' "n****r" the episode was talking about. I want his kind of out my goddamn Civil Rights Movement so bad, but I'd have to hire a bloody bulldozer to move him and his ego.

[yendi]

*nod* My reaction to the article was pretty much the same. The real thing that offended Al wasn't the language; it was the fact that the episode held a mirror up to him, and he didn't like what it showed.

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

Sharpton and especially his hair has been a longtime punching bag for the strip...no surprise he'd start yowling...he showed u on Tucker Carlson other night and Tucker(who was rather obviously represented by the host Huey slammed with the chair) was amening Al...

At least this'll hopefully keep Al from showing up in Memphis aymore...

[sainthuck.livejournal.com]

Fantastic news. That show is whipsmart AND funny, and I totally agree on the MLK episode -- when it started with the "King didn't die" premise, i wasn't sure where they were going with it, but then it became a profound statement that I think the minister would have appreciated.

It's stupid how high-quality that show is, and I'm glad it's sticking around.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so cool! Yay, even.:)

Gessi