BET Blocks Airing of The Boondocks Episode??

[Styles1]

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.6275/title.dx-exclusive-boondocks-vs-bet

Over the past couple of weeks there has been rumors hovering about a certain Boondocks episode waiting to be aired. A clip leaked to youtube that previewed the episode which takes a critical and humorous look at BET and its programming. The snippet heightened curiosity of when the episode would eventually air. After the rumored original air date (January 7th) had passed, there would be even more speculation as to what happened to the episode. The clips on youtube were also taken down with no explanation.

Message boards ran wild with talk that BET put a halt to the episode ever airing but there was absolutely no confirmation from either sources at BET or Boondocks. It’s no secret that the Boondocks has attracted controversy (ie: last year’s controversial “Return of the King” episode) but to hear that an episode may possibly never air has raised more than a few eyebrows.

Today, an anonymous source close to the situation issued a statement exclusively to HipHopDX.com explaining that not one, but two episodes have been banned from airing. Here's his statement as to what has transpired in recent weeks…
“It now appears official that TWO episodes of The Boondocks second season -- clips of which surfaced on and then were pulled from Youtube -- will not air. At all. Ever.

Fans who were waiting for the show to reach the levels of controversy that last year's Peabody Award-winning "The Return of Martin Luther King" episode achieved will have to cross their fingers and hope that Sony execs don’t also pull the episodes from the second season DVD, which is slated for late spring.

The two episodes were originally scheduled to air on November 16 and December 17, respectively. No official reasons were given for the banning of the episodes from either Sony or Adult Swim as of yet. Rumor has it the higher ups at BET have been pressuring Sony behind the scenes for months to yank the episodes, including threatening legal action. Now I’m pretty biased as a BET hater, but it’s sad the people in charge over there are more worried about being teased by a cartoon than producing good television. Not surprising, but still sad.

I’m a fan of the show and I've seen the episodes and they are undoubtedly the most cutting, brilliant and funny episodes of the season. In the first one: "The Hunger Strike" – Huey teams up with an Al Sharpton-like character (played by Cee-Lo Green from Gnarls Barkley) and goes on a hunger strike to protest BET. In what has since become a bizarre example of life imitating art, BET execs ‘Deborah Leevil’ and ‘Weggie Rudlin’ (imagine Black female Dr. Evil and Reginald Hudlin as Number 2) go through extraordinary lengths to thwart young Huey’s crusade. In the second one, titled "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show”, BET gives Uncle Ruckus his own show, and what follows is one of the most fucked up and hilarious things I’ve seen on TV in years.

Is this controversy good for the Boondocks? Probably. For McGruder, controversy has never been a bad thing. But it’s doubtful any of this can be good for BET, which seems to be under perpetual fire from community activists and critics alike for its garbage programming. Now with this and BET founder Bob Johnson’s cheap shots at Obama, Huey Freeman may not be the only one hungering for a BET boycott.”

Calls and emails to Aaron McGruder’s office have yet to be returned. An exclusive clip has also been leaked to HipHopDX.

Link to the Video Clip:  http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.665/title.boondocks-hunger-strike-banned

[Nat Turner-reincarnated]

yea i heard about this fuck bet hating on one of the only cartoons i watch. i saw that youtube clip too--exposing BET for what it truthly is.

[Turf Hitta]

Fuck BET. Do black people even watch BET anymore? I think the last time I watched was when there was a show talking about what a negative influence on the youth that mainstream rap is nowadays, and they kept using clips from videos that were in heavy BET rotation at the time. I can't remember how long ago that was, but I know it was on at like 2 or 3 AM. Jeff Johnson Chronicles or something like that. Great contradictory messages you're putting out there BET! Be ignorant, sell rocks, have several illegitemate children, be smart enough to realize how ignorant everything you're doing is, but make sure to be lazy enough to not do anything about it!

[Sanford - V. President of the Dangerous Crew Movement]

aaron mcgruder is the truth.

the boondocks is just a reality told through comedic animation.

on of the best shows on tv.

[Nat Turner-reincarnated]

Fuck BET. Do black people even watch BET anymore? I think the last time I watched was when there was a show talking about what a negative influence on the youth that mainstream rap is nowadays, and they kept using clips from videos that were in heavy BET rotation at the time. I can't remember how long ago that was, but I know it was on at like 2 or 3 AM. Jeff Johnson Chronicles or something like that. Great contradictory messages you're putting out there BET! Be ignorant, sell rocks, have several illegitemate children, be smart enough to realize how ignorant everything you're doing is, but make sure to be lazy enough to not do anything about it!

soooo true i think the show u talkin about was bet: uncut some shit like that.

[i B 2 QUIK 2 c]

word up, BET is poison... but i can't lie, shit was bumpin back in 2000 and 2001...


anyways, I like the Boondocks, but this episode looked kinda weak and unfunny... they left out the clip of the Wal-Mart employees collecting money for BET employees which was kinda funny... anyways, last week's episode with Riley's teacher callin him a nigga was the weakest episode of the season, in my opinion


PEACE!

[Nat Turner-reincarnated]

word up, BET is poison... but i can't lie, shit was bumpin back in 2000 and 2001...


anyways, I like the Boondocks, but this episode looked kinda weak and unfunny... they left out the clip of the Wal-Mart employees collecting money for BET employees which was kinda funny... anyways, last week's episode with Riley's teacher callin him a nigga was the weakest episode of the season, in my opinion


PEACE!

not even that shit was bumpin when all it should was music video, no programs are the rest of that shit. before there was even host. just straigh real music being put out.

[Turf Hitta]

Fuck BET. Do black people even watch BET anymore? I think the last time I watched was when there was a show talking about what a negative influence on the youth that mainstream rap is nowadays, and they kept using clips from videos that were in heavy BET rotation at the time. I can't remember how long ago that was, but I know it was on at like 2 or 3 AM. Jeff Johnson Chronicles or something like that. Great contradictory messages you're putting out there BET! Be ignorant, sell rocks, have several illegitemate children, be smart enough to realize how ignorant everything you're doing is, but make sure to be lazy enough to not do anything about it!

soooo true i think the show u talkin about was bet: uncut some shit like that.

nah it wasn't BET Uncut, it was some panel of seemingly half ass intelligent people talking about rap.

[Turf Hitta]

word up, BET is poison... but i can't lie, shit was bumpin back in 2000 and 2001...


anyways, I like the Boondocks, but this episode looked kinda weak and unfunny... they left out the clip of the Wal-Mart employees collecting money for BET employees which was kinda funny... anyways, last week's episode with Riley's teacher callin him a nigga was the weakest episode of the season, in my opinion


PEACE!

not even that shit was bumpin when all it should was music video, no programs are the rest of that shit. before there was even host. just straigh real music being put out.

for real, BET hasn't been good since about 98.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

LOL@The Austin Powers rip-off.

[CoreG37]

BET lost me when Big Tig's mama kicked him out the bassment.  The other programming sucks, they could do so much better and be way more creative than what they are.  People complain about how bad it is and still watch

[Nat Turner-reincarnated]

here a preview of the bet one http://anonym.to/?http://megavideo.com/?v=9W3PU4SV

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

fuck BET.

[Mackin]

Ah that's messed up!!!!!!!
damn!

[Plague]

Fuck those stupid ass kikes that think they run a black entertainment channel.