Customer Reviews

The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season

5 star:		(58)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
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Length:: 2:59 Mins

This is easily one of the smartest and funniest shows on television... animated or otherwise! It's a shame that Sony has yet to greenlight season 3 (possibly due to the fact that the two episodes that were banned from airing stateside appear on this set and Sony might be taking a wait and see attitude to see what BET will do in response since it was BET's threat to sue that got the episodes banned in the first place). If you are easily offended by any sort of vulgar language or racial humor and satire, this show is NOT for you! However, if you enjoy great animation coupled with intelligent writing, non-stop laughs and great underlying messages, BUY THIS SET NOW AND DEMAND SONY GREENLIGHT SEASON 3!!!

As for BET... if BET execs are so concerned with how they're portrayed in these episodes, perhaps they should consider improving the quality of their programs rather than broadcasting... whatever it is they continue to pass off as entertainment. Sorry... I'll get off my soapbox now.

Length:: 3:40 Mins

So what do I think about "The Boondocks"? It's good. How good? Reeeeaaaal good. What do I like about it specifically? Everything. the first season knocked me upside my head and made me laugh until I begged it to stop. Season two is a step down, but still has the show going strong and laying the social satire, cutting parody, and excessive vulgarity nice and thick while battling the evil forces trying to make the world a stupider place. Aaron McGruder is a superhero. Do not doubt this. Not only did he create a successful and controversial newspaper comic strip that lashed out at nearly every reader who came across it and dared them to say they didn't deserve it, but he created an even less friendly animated version pairing the most crude and vulgar content imaginable with even more in-your-face racial commentary and somehow got it aired on basic cable. Unbelievable. This man has enriched my life and given me hope for a better future. God bless him and Cartoon Network.

10 things I love about the Boondocks season two DVD set:
1) Killer kung-fu wolf b!+ches voiced by the heavenly Aisha Tyler.

2) "Soul Plane" sequel parodies featuring a mumbling 50 Cent as a heroic air marshal.

3) An episode commenting on the baffling "no snitching" culture while simultaneously mocking bluetooth headsets and other useless technology.

4) Katt Williams reprising his role as A Pimp Named Slickback (That is his actual full name. Like A Tribe Called Quest) to act as marriage counselor to an emasculated Tom Dubois. Example: "Has NOT hitting the b!+ch been working? I mean, scientifically speaking, has not hitting the b!+ch achieved the desired result?"

5) Lines like "It's not the fact that you clearly have a possessed man tied to a bed upstairs...it's that you lied about it." GOLD!

6) Watching the voice actors at work on the extras with the N-bombs all cut together.

7) Spending an entire episode systematically linking gay and hip-hop cultures while puzzling about how rappers and those who idolize them could be so homophobic. Then giving you the answer. Come out of the closet already, Fiddy.

8) Not one, but TWO unaired episodes blasting the corporate ignorance-peddlers known as BET for their incessant mongering of negative black stereotypes to the world at large. Talk about selling out your own people.

9) Not one but TWO episodes parodying a certain overweight, overexposed media hog posing as a civil rights activist for personal gain.

10) Showing us the truth behind snarky Fox News darling Ann Coulter's parade of ignorance. Speaking of hot conservative bee-yatches, I long for the day when Michelle Malkin's racist BS comes back on her and Rupert Murdoch only allows her to speak using the Vietnamese prostitute's lines from Full Metal Jacket. "Me so horny, baby."

What else is there to say? This show still swings for the fences, devours every sacred cow, pays homage to the finer things in life (like Bruce Lee flicks), and causes fits of laughter that could be mistaken by a passerby for epilepsy. There are a few bits that don't work out as well as they could have (did we need an entire episode about Usher macking on somebody's wife?) and the gaps in production are starting to take a toll, but I still can't get enough of "The Boondocks". There is no more socially relevant series out there and even South Park dares not tread where this show lives. It asks the hard questions and delivers the answers that some may not want to hear, but that's reality. This is the show that dared to wonder aloud in it's very first season just what the immortal Martin Luther King Jr. would think of what his people have done with the freedom he and so many others sacrificed so much for.

Uncalled-for message from the soapbox incoming.

Screw BET, Fox News, MTV, and every other corporate entity feeding and profiting from our country's ignorance epidemic. Why bother teaching pride in one's race while glorifying ill-gotten material wealth, demeaning women, promoting violence, and ridiculing any sign of intelligence? Every person who sees a person different them them, be it ethnicity, nationality, religion, or political party and sees them as the other side only plays into the divide-and-conquer strategy that allows us all to be perpetually exploited by those in power. And as for an entire cable channel that claims to represent the values of entire race, what happened to "a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"? What kind of character is being fostered in American culture by the garbage on BET and MTV? Forget race. That's WHAT you are. What matters is WHO you are. This is what Dr. King taught, this is what Boondocks preaches, and this is what I personally believe. But it's way funnier when Boondocks tells it.

4 1/2 stars rounded up for telling it like it is.

I found info that this dvd will be uncensored and uncut just like the first season. And not only that, but it's the complete second season, all 15 episodes including the 2 that never aired in the US. So no censorship. It will also contain 4 featurettes, 2 'minisodes', and audio commentaries on selected episodes picked by Aaron McGruder. Enjoy.

We had to wait a long time for season 2 of Boondocks to air, but once it did,Aaron McGruder did not disappoint. The show was still as hilarious and inspiring as ever.There were indeed two episodes that did not air on television, both were aimed at BET. I've seen both episodes on the web (even though lots of websites such as youtube deleted the episodes shortly after they were posted so many people who look for them now cannot find them). If those two episodes are a part of this set i will definitely be buying it, but if they aren't...well, i'll still definitely be buying it.

"What does BET stand for?"
"Uh, Black Entertainment Television?"
"No you fools, Black EVIL Television! Ha, Ha!"
(from the unaired Hunger Strike episode, so funny!)

The Boondocks second season is masterful. The satire is ingenious and the comedy is hilarious. The characters represent different factions of the black community and different people will identify with different characters. Riley is the present hip hop generation and unfortunately you can hear many of his statements coming out of the mouths of grown men. Huey is an intellectual and pro black like the hip hop of the 80s and 90s. Grandapa is the civil rights generation and Uncle Ruckus is the embodiment of the self hating black man. Tom the ultimate integrationist. The Boondocks takes very touchy subjects and with the skillfull use of a cartoon brings them to light. The effeminization (homo thugs) of hip hop is one of the subjects he handles. The banned BET segment says a lot about what this country will allow and what they wont. Whether you think the Boondocks is deep social and political commentary or just a silly funny cartoon is up to you but I highly recommend it

If you are easily offended, stop looking at this product now, you will hate it.
For everyone else, I find this show to be an intelligent and funny show. As a whole, I think that season 2 has more laugh out loud hilarious episodes, and less with a major point to them than season 1.
If you like the Boondocks, pick it up. Especially to see the 2 hilarious unaired episodes.

I love this show. L*O*V*E this show. This was a great season, but...well...what happened to the price point? This DVD set has the same number of discs as the first season, the same number of episodes as the first season....why does it cost twice as much? It seems like the price was upped just because the production company knew we'd pay it.

For the fans of Boondocks Season 1, Season 2 will not disappoint you. My husband and I have been fans since the start of the show, and were very excited to buy this. As soon as we got it, we knew it was a good one. Is it Season 1 in terms of hilarity? No, but its not too far behind. The thing that Season 2 trumped 1 over with was its ability to touch on some real issues that were being seen at the time of its release, but still stay on top if its comedic tone. I havent heard of plans for Season 3 yet...but here's hoping because we will be buying that one too!

I love this show. It's a breath of fresh air, and manages to make the viewer think as well as laugh. BET is a horrible blight on society, and this show is the only one to make the point. I have to give Aaron credit for taking shots at BET, mindless of the consequences. Great show. I hope it continues for many seasons, like South Park. A move to Comedy Central would seem to be a better place for the show.