- [TooBased] Hey what's up it's TooBased.
Just like the title says, we're gonna take a look at The Boondocks series to find out what
happened to it.
So let's get the video started, roll the intro.
- [Huey Voiceover] The life of a black hero has never been for the meek of heart.
You will not get out of here alive, do you hear me?
- The Boondocks was created by Aaron McGruder.
McGruder has been drawing on-and-off throughout his childhood, but it wasn't until high school
that he started to take drawing more seriously.
He decided around that time that he wanted to draw superhero comics, but found the task
to be more difficult than he had imagined.
He worked on drawing superhero comics for a couple of years.
He even took a year off college to do so, putting in 14 hours a day submitting his work
to comic book companies, but making a superhero comic didn't really get him anywhere.
In between working on his comic submissions, he would make little comic strips in his leisure
time to relax.
These comic strips later would be known as The Boondocks.
The Boondocks first premiered on hitlist dot com as a welcome in 1996.
The Boondocks was also in the Diamondback newspaper at the University of Maryland for
a short time.
It also appeared in The Source, which is a hip-hop magazine, for a short while.
Eventually The Boondocks became a syndicated comic strip when McGruder signed with the
Universal Press Syndicate in 1999.
How McGruder was able to get his comic strip syndicated is that he met the Universal Press
Vice President by accident at a NBJ convention in Chicago.
He sat down with her as soon as he saw her name tag.
McGruder gave the Vice President a copy of his script, and after she read his script
she went back to the Syndicate and pushed them to get him a contract.
The premise of the comic strip was about social satire, race, and politics in pop culture.
Usually seen in the eyes of elementary school students, mainly Huey, but there's also other
characters, but I'll talk about them later.
The comic strip had the third largest launch in comic strip history after Calvin and Hobbes
and For Better or For Worse.
In an interview, McGruder explained, when he launched the comic strip he didn't really
catch any flak for it, mainly because all the negative feedback went to the newspaper
company instead, and most of his reader feedback sent to his email address was positive.
The comic strip follows a couple of characters.
Huey and Riley, of course, but Jasmine also one of the main characters instead of having
a supporting role like in the TV series.
And there's also another character by the name of Caesar who was introduced as Hey's
best friend.
I'll revisit this part later, mainly because there's other characters I want to talk about,
so we'll come back to this.
In 2003, McGruder signed with Sony Entertainment to write a TV pilot for The Boondocks.
The goal was to have a TV date around 2004 or 2005.
Originally McGruder started working on The Boondocks TV pilot for Fox, but for some unknown
reason that deal fell through.
McGruder even said making that Fox pilot made him feel like a zombie when he was working
on it.
Eventually McGruder got a call from Mike Lazzo, who was one of the executives for Adult Swim.
He contacted McGruder and asked to look at the pilot that he made, and of course we all
know what happened next.
- Yo.
- Excuse me, everyone, I have a brief announcement to make.
Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lyin' about 9/11.
- No.
- He really did it, he did it.
- [TooBased] The Boondocks premiered on Adult Swim on November 6th, 2005.
The TV series followed the Freeman family, Huey, Riley, and Robert Freeman, with Huey
and Riley both being voiced by Regina King, and Robert being voiced by John Witherspoon.
The Freemans moved to the suburbs of Woodcrest in order to start a new and better life.
The TV series was inspired by Japanese animation.
The ones that were listed by McGruder was Cowboy Bebop, Speed Race, and Samurai Champloo.
When the show premiered, it had a million and a half viewers that night, which is something
Adult Swim never experienced before, especially with a premiere.
It was pretty much safe to say that Adult Swim had a hit on their hands.
Episodes were so popular at that time on the internet, most of the topics trending worldwide
on Twitter were related to The Boondocks.
The series was pretty popular, but also pretty expensive.
The Boondocks was one of the most expensive shows that Adult Swim produced, spending 400
thousand dollars an episode mainly because of the marketing and licensing fees.
Season one is probably my favorite season overall.
I like how this guy attacked Eat Dirt in one scene of the episode, but in the next shot
he's on his side threatening Gangstalicious.
- [Reporter] Tensions exploded at an awards show last year, when a chair was thrown at
Eat Dirt.
- Look here man, a lot of these niggas tryin' to have what we didn't have, but they ain't
done what we didn't done to have what we didn't had, you know what I'm sayin', especially
you 'Licious.
You ain't done nothin'.
- What.
- [TooBased] There are a few differences from the comic strip and the TV series.
McGruder did this on purpose so that the comic strip and the show could be kept separate
and not depend on one another.
Because of this, a couple of characters didn't show up into the TV series, like Caesar.
I mean there was a rumor that he was going to be in season three, being voiced by Kali
Troy but that didn't happen.
Some characters from the comics got a redesign, and some relationships were changed between
characters.
Like how Riley, who has a low haircut in the comic strip but has braids in the TV series.
Cindy also went through a couple of changes, she wore her hair in a standard ponytail in
the comic strip and acted kinda ditzy, whereas in the TV series she has her hair in a braid
and talks in slang.
- This is our block, now you gonna get down, or you gonna lay down, and if they be like,
uh, I don't know, let me think about it, we pull out the roscoe and we be like bla-kow,
bla-kow.
- [TooBased] And she's best friends with Jasmine in the comic strip, and she hung out more
with Huey than she did with Riley, mainly because they were in the same class, but in
the TV version Cindy barely interacted with Huey and only associated with Jasmine during
the fundraising episode.
The show had a lot of surprise voice guests, like Lil Wayne, Katt Williams, Snoop Dogg,
Adam West, Charlie Murphey, even Sway.
Tara Strong's there too, but, come on, she's on everything.
Oh, and fun fact, Thugnificent was originally supposed to be voiced by Ludacris, but he
backed out at the last minute.
So Carl Jones who was a producer on the show voiced him instead.
- [Carl] When we created this character Thugnificent, originally that was supposed to be Ludacris.
He had this deal with Ludacris.
So he said he would do the show, and he would play Thugnificent if I drew his album cover.
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- [Carl] So I was like, cool, so you know I started working on some ideas for the album
cover, and then every time I tried to get in touch with him I could never reach him
because I was trying to get some feedback.
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- So time passed, time passed, time passed.
Finally I did get him on the phone, except I had to block my number to get him.
So I got him on the phone-- and he was like yo, who dis, and I was like, yo this is Carl
from The Boondocks.
He was like, well yo, you know, normally I don't answer the phone if I don't see a number
I recognize.
I'm like, but you did this time?
He was like, he said, yeah but what you want.
I said, well I'm trying to do this cover or whatever, and he was like, well I ain't got
time right now.
So he got off the phone, and the cover never got done.
- [Interviewer] Hmm.
- [Carl] So what happened was, when it was time for him to record, he was like, I'm not
gonna do the part because y'all never did my album cover.
I'm like, nigga we been trying to get in touch with you for four months, you know.
So anyways, he backed out at the last second.
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- [Carl] So, what happened is, I temped the voice in the animatics just so that the animators
could have something to work with.
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- [Carl] And because Aaron really liked it and thought it worked, I just ended up doing
it.
You know, we didn't have any time.
- [TooBased] In 2007, McGruder won a Peabody award for the episode Return of the King.
This is when season two was just about to wrap up with a third season in the works and
being made.
People were raving about the episodes, giving them positive reviews, but as you know, good
things don't last.
Entering the third season, the writing felt a little off.
Honestly, season three was okay to me, I probably only liked three episodes out of the whole
season.
Well, at least Tom got some character development.
- You can't have it.
- [TooBased] Towards the end of season three, Carl Jones and Aaron McGruder had a small
falling out, mainly because Carl Jones had to take some time away from The Boondocks
to go and work on Black Dynamite, and I guess McGruder wasn't too pleased.
- [Carl] Okay, I left after the third season, right?
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- [Carl] Part of the reason why I left is because I was developing a few other things
towards the tail end of that season.
I wasn't going to leave, I was just developing other stuff, but Aaron wasn't really too cool
about the fact that I was developing other things like Black Dynamite.
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- [Carl] So, he and I, we had a big fallout over that.
- [Interviewer] Mmm.
- [Carl] To the point where he didn't want me on the show anymore, because, you know,
it was a real, I don't even want to say family.
It was like a gang, really.
You know, you rockin' with Boondocks or you don't rock with nothing else.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- [Carl] At the same time, and I didn't quite understand that, so that's where we had a
big misunderstanding.
And then from there, it was, you know, I went on to do Black Dynamite and he was trying
to get another season going, season four you know it took forever.
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- [Carl] I remember at one point, we tried to work something out, like I was willing
to come back to the show and we were gonna try to work things out and he still, you know,
he didn't want it to happen.
- [TooBased] After season three ended, Aaron McGruder no longer worked on the show.
According to Carl Jones, Sony said McGruder wrote too slow and the show was falling behind
production.
Apparently Sony ordered 15 to 20 episodes for season four of The Boondocks, but only
got ten episodes.
- [Carl] Sony.
- [Interviewer] Mmm.
- [Carl] Is gonna cut the bleeding off.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- [Carl] So to my knowledge, because I wasn't actually there during the fourth season, but
to my knowledge the show was falling way behind production and eventually they had to you
know cut their losses because they couldn't-- I think they did like a 15 or 20 episode order
or something like that and they--
- [Interviewer] Mhmm.
- [Carl] And I think they delivered 10 I believe.
- So Aaron McGruder's so sick mad at Sony Pictures.
- Yeah, yeah.
- He sold his rights to TB to Sony, and they wanted to go three more years after this year.
- Yeah.
- But they wanted him to do three shows a week, he said, I can't write that fast.
They fired him and got some poot-butts to write.
- Oh.
- So he quit, and uh, we done.
- [TooBased] Sony even tried to get rid of the original voice cast but they couldn't
find anyone who had a close enough voice to match the original cast, the only person that
got replaced was Jasmine's voice actress.
- Get somebody to do my voices, all our voices, get the, out of here, people said, I can't
do no damn Spoon voice.
- [TooBased] Season four was kinda weird.
For some reason, Granddad became the main focus of that season.
And why bring Stinkmeaner back as a clone?
When the Freemans fought against Stinkmeaner's friends that was a perfect end to that trilogy.
Why ruin it by bringing him back as a clone?
- Do you understand what I've just told you?
- I'm a clone.
- Yes, created at this secret and highly illegal underground human cloning facility.
- Why am I so old?
- What?
- If you cloned me when you say you did, shouldn't I still be a little kid?
- [TooBased] Season four was definitely the most weakest season, the show didn't get picked
up for a season five.
Adult Swim just aired the reruns from time to time, until they eventually just took it
off the schedule altogether.
Right now Carl Jones is working on a show for Adult Swim called Lazor Wulf.
Regina King who voices Huey and Riley is still doing her acting thing for shows like the
Watchmen series.
As for John Witherspoon...
- Bang, bang, bang, bang.
- [TooBased] Well, he's being John Witherspoon.
As for Aaron McGruder, it seems that he wants to make a Boondocks app game, but doesn't
know what apps will let him get away with.
But judging from the comic strip he just released, it's safe to say that The Boondocks will be
back in some form of media.
So, that's it for this video.
This video kinda took me a while to research, but I had a lot of fun making it.
Plus it kinda gave me an excuse to re-watch The Boondocks episodes.
I never really know how to close these videos out, but if you enjoyed this video make sure
you hit the like button.
Also subscribe if you're new to this channel.
Also, tell me what's your favorite episode or season of The Boondocks down below.
So until next time, see you.
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