**Askia’s, that is ** :smack: :smack:
Strike that last post, christ, ignore me for the rest of the evening please :mad:
It’s available on Adult Swim’s website until 6AM today. Check it out while you still have a chance.
I just finished watching it, and I think the show definitely has a lot of potential.
On it!
I did watch the premiere online and I liked it. Haven’t read much of the comic strip. Since the thing airs tonight, I guess we might as well keep this thread going…
The grandfather sounds exactly like I thought he should.
Oh man,
I’ve never read the strip, but I’m laughing my ass off over here. This one’s a must-watch.
My favorute line:
Riley: Grandad, are you ashamed of us?
Grandad: Very!
I can’t wait to see Star Wars Guy.
I really liked the “Kindred Spirits” ending, and the little thing about republicans during the first commercial break.
John Witherspoon is damn near pitch-perfect as Grandpa Freeman. Wow.
Many of the voices are top notch: Ed Asner’s especially. The security guard (Rastus?) cracked me up, especially when he was singing, “Don’t Trust Those New Niggers Over There.”
I’m having a really hard time with Riley’s and Huey’s voices. In the strip, Riley is a little thug, (“My name is Esco, y’heard! What?! What!”)and on the Tv show he’s played much too cutesy for my tastes. It would be funnier straight up lil’ thug. The woman doing Riley’s voice needs to butch it up a couple of notches. I expected Huey to have a cadence to his voice like an crazed orator spouting on about the Illumanati, conspiracy theories and the new world order.
Still, the plot was nicely unpredictable and most of the graphics justy made my jaw drop. I love the opining sequence, especially grandpa with the belt and Riley as Scarface homage.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the cast introduced: Caesar, Jazmine and her parents and schoolmate Cindy, Star Wars Dude and, of course, the appearance of The Free Huey. I also want Huety to crack on black TV, entertainers, politicians, music and movies.
I sooOOooooo want to see Riley change the names of the street signs like in the strips. Hell, I want to live on “Buckshot Avenue.”
It sounds great! I’m a big fan of The Boondocks, having read all of the books as a freshman in school. Unfortunately, I don’t have cable/satellite TV. Any way I can watch this?
Cartoon Network replays the Adult Swim toons Friday night starting at 11pm on their website.
I wasn’t impressed. The animation was good but the dialogue was stilted. Too many pauses between lines. It made it seem like they blew the budget on animators and skimped out on voices, writing, dubbing, etc.
This seemed like a watered down version of the strip. There were a couple of funny bits, but the rest was straight filler. It may have potential.
Two, actually. After Thurgood’s wife told the gals at the beauty parlor that Thurgood only has one testicle:
Sister-in-Law: “How’s it hangin’, Only-One-Cojone?”
Thurgood: “Right back at ya, Princess Lay-All.”
Regia King plays the voices fo both Riley and Huey. WHY? shrug.
I liked that when Grandad was younger, he missed the civil rights protest because he stopped to get his raincoat.
And I really didn’t mind Riley’s voice. Riley is trying to live the thug life, but he’s also 8, and not really very good at it.
I saw it last night. I liked it, it was quite a bit better than the other new shows on [AS] lately, IMO. The voices seemed good. I liked the white dude’s grandson being the most ghetto-thug-dude there. And Reily’s “I shot a niggah” at the end. I’m lloking forward to future episodes.
I saw it; I think it looks like a winner. Considering my record on these matters, it’ll probably be gone after 3 episodes.
However, if Rev. Wildmon doesn’t like it, it can’t lose.
I loved how they pixelated Granddad’s ass during the Tae Bo scene.
As a fan of the comic, I was pretty dissapointed. I agree that Riley’s voice was no good and that the comedy was…well…not really there. It almost seems like McGruder forgot to make jokes now and again. He does it with the comic, just not as regularly. Plus, on the comic page, I often wonder if anyone remembers they’re supposed to be funny. But hell, it was the first episode. The strip found its voice after a shaky start so I’m going to pray that the animated series does too.
The animation itself was great while Charlie Murphy & Ed Asner were nice surprises. The shows that followed were among the most atrocious I’ve ever seen. I almost went Travis Bickle on my TV during “Squid Billies.”
Just caught it after having TiVo’d it last night. I thought it was quite funny. I especially liked how no matter what out-there stuff Huey spouted at the party, everyone commented on how well-spoken and articulate he was. Made even funnier by recalling Chris Rock’s bit on that several years back: