# "The Boondocks" is Being CENSORED!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367 "2001-10-04T12:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/1 "2001-10-04T12:45:18Z")
It’s happening again. The New York Daily News and Long Island’s Newsday have censored ‘The Boondocks’. Yesterday the News ran the day’s strip, with Huey calling the FBI terrorism hotline. Newsday ran one of the original strips, with the boys realizing they lived on Timid Deer Lane. So I knew something was up. Today, the News put ‘Foxtrot’, the usual substitute for a vacationing strip, in its place. Newsday continues the Timid Deer series. Is this happening in any other cities? See the REAL strips [here.](http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/viewbo.cfm?uc_fn=1&uc_full_date=20011004&uc_daction=X&uc_comic=bo) ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/2 "2001-10-04T16:04:15Z")
The Washington _Post_, bless its heart, is running the current strips. They did the same thing with the “controversial” wedding strips in _For Better or For Worse_, so they’re batting close to 1.000 in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/3 "2001-10-04T16:20:15Z")
I don’t agree with the strips being censored for content – hey, kids, the American press is all about freedom of speech, and that’s the way it should be. However, I would be in favor of the strip going away for another, very simple reason – it just ain’t funny, IMNSHO. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/4 "2001-10-04T16:33:01Z")
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is still carrying the Boondocks, and had the original strips for FBOFW’s wedding with Michael and Deanna. I like the Boondocks. Some of it is isn’t all that funny (the Grandfather character is pretty one-dimensional) but the strip provides a point of view that I don’t see in ANY other strip. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/5 "2001-10-04T16:47:38Z")
Here in Dallas they’re running it, but they took it off the comics page and put it in “Cathy’s” usual spot on the page with the advice columnists, accompanied by a disclaimer that “Boondocks” is running material they felt was inappropriate for the comics page. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/6 "2001-10-04T17:53:27Z")
I thought the strip was funny as hell ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/7 "2001-10-04T18:24:03Z")
Not to hijack, but…well, okay, to hijack, why would any papers have censored a wedding storyline from _For Better Or For Worse?_ Weren’t Michael and Deanna the Pattersons’ son and his blind girlfriend? Why would they censor a heterosexual wedding storyline? ---
**Author:** ![Daikona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Daikona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daikona)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/8 "2001-10-04T18:36:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*Not to hijack, but…well, okay, to hijack, why would any papers have censored a wedding storyline from _For Better Or For Worse?_ Weren’t Michael and Deanna the Pattersons’ son and his blind girlfriend? Why would they censor a heterosexual wedding storyline? \*\* Several strips worth of conversation centered around the best man being gay. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/9 "2001-10-04T18:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > **Weren’t Michael and Deanna the Pattersons’ son and his blind girlfriend?** You may be confusing the blind girlfriend from _Fox Trot_ with _FBOFW_ and hijack of a hijack, I congratulated Lynn Johnston on her courage in the Lawrence storylines and got a nice email back from her a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/10 "2001-10-04T20:20:52Z")
Hey, me too! It was only a couple of lines but it was a very friendly thanks. Kinda cool, actually. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/11 "2001-10-04T20:31:40Z")
Boondocks is in the Chicago Tribune today. And it is hilarious. I wonder if he’s going to continue “naming names”??? 😃 Why would they censor that??? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/12 "2001-10-04T20:38:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zanshin \* > \*\*However, I would be in favor of the strip going away for another, very simple reason – it just ain’t funny, IMNSHO. \*\* Heathen! (_The Boondocks_ and _FoxTrot_ are the only things I’ve missed since I stopped getting the newspaper…) ---
**Author:** ![Jeeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@Jeeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeeves)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/13 "2001-10-04T23:53:37Z")
Boondocks is a strip that I regularly read online, and I wondered how newspapers were handling the current storyline. **rjung** , you can read both Boondocks and Foxtrot online at [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com). Jeeves ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/14 "2001-10-05T00:29:08Z")
I LOVE The Boondocks! Sadly, my newspaper (the Houston _Chronicle_) doesn’t carry it, the fascist pigs. Fortunatly, I get a daily e-mail from [ucomics.com](http://ucomics.com). The Chronicle did, however, run the “controversial” Lawrence wedding storyline, so it’s all good. 🙂 Robin ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/15 "2001-10-05T00:46:06Z")
The Boondocks rocks! Props to Aaron McGruder (a Syracuse alum!). I don’t always agree with him (especially the latest strips) but I thought the one where Huey reports Ronald Reagan as an American who extensively funded and trained OBL just cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![Solomon7t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Solomon7t](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solomon7t)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/16 "2001-10-05T02:12:40Z")
…but i want my bloomcounty! Best comic strip ever, to bad its been gone forever. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/17 "2001-10-05T02:20:06Z")
Hard to beleive I started a thread that almost five hundred people have looked at. That never happened to me before. What’s also hard to believe is [this](http://www.boondocks.net/main.html)! The Boondocks website hasn’t been updated in **over a year!** ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/18 "2001-10-05T04:58:44Z")
The Seattle P-I, which also runs Zippy the Pinhead, hasn’t censored Boondocks. God bless 'em. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/19 "2001-10-09T05:03:44Z")
In _For Better or Worse_, they were censoring the wedding because michael’s best man is gay. And there was and extended period in the strip where his spouse’s mother was pitching a fit over it. I love the _Boondocks_. But while the _Gone with the Wind_ sketch was Mc Gruder as his best, the one with Huey on the phone talking about how the CIA made bin Laden, was about as funny as the best of _Mallard Fillmore_, although with more truth. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boondocks-is-being-censored/85367/20 "2001-10-09T06:21:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > \*\*The Washington _Post_, bless its heart, is running the current strips. They did the same thing with the “controversial” wedding strips in _For Better or For Worse_, so they’re batting close to 1.000 in my book. \*\* I’m a big Post fan myself, but they’ve cancelled “Liberty Meadows” twice and only fan response saved it. And yeah, I can see where alot people think that “Liberty Meadows” may not be funny, but if want to see some strips that were censored (and funny as hell) go to [libertymeadows.com](http://libertymeadows.com). But it is BS that they censored “Boondocks.” C’mon freedom of speech, and while I don’t necessarily agree with what McGruder’s implying he definitly has a humorous way of showing his opinion. If your newspaper censors “Boondocks” fire off an e-mail or letter; it worked for “Liberty Meadows.”