The Boondocks - "It's Goin Down" [8/15]

[Space Cadet]

The season finale airs tonight at 11:30 PM Eastern. This may well be the series finale unless a miracle happens. The ratings do justify a renewal. This season has been achieving the highest ratings in the show's history, beating out the Sunday airing on Family Guy on a consistent basis(at least in the 18-34 demo). Also, AS is billing this episode as the "season finale" in promos. However, the show has gone through numerous production delays and this was billed as the last season by Aaron McGruder before Sony execs told him to keep quiet. What will happen? Only time will tell.

Here is the synopsis:


A terror attack near Woodcrest is imminent, and retired domestic terrorist Huey Freeman is the main suspect.

Broadcast Order: Season 3, Episode 15
Production Order: Season 3, Episode 5

Writer: Aaron McGruder
Director: Sung Hoon Kim

[Kaveh77]

I love Boondocks but I want it to end while its good. Season 3 isn't bad but its the worst out of the 3.

[Super Sonic]

Please enlighten me on how Season 2 was better than Season 3. Not trying to be cute, I genuinely want to know.

[cuzin34]

to me all the 3 seasons were great in every way.

[Kitschensyngk]

So will this be the final episode? With the amount of time it takes to make a whole season, who knows? Though the way the ratings have been turning out, I wouldn't count this show out yet.

I for one hope it isn't the final episode. This show's too good to last just three seasons.

"Allah, make my testicles strong against the boot of evil!"

Someone's future wife is going to be VERY disappointed.

[chdr]

According to an AS bump, there may be a season four. Let's keep our hopes up...

[Kitschensyngk]

Whoa. One running start is all it takes.

Hmm. John C. McGinley is back as the White Shadow.

[Mesousa]

Long name terrorist man!

Hey, the US Army should use this tactic.

[Bloody Marquis]

Agent Dr. Cox is back!

[InfiniteAura]

Huey's imaginary friend is back...

[Kitschensyngk]

More nxxxa technology.

Ed and Gin return.

A security man who is really a fat guy who loves hamburgers and thinks the President's first name is Buck.

[trance2009]

The guard sounds familiar...who is that dude?

[Mesousa]

War on rich people? Sounds like our former govenor.

Look, I'm typing on my iTouch, it's not as hard as it seems, guys.

[ToonFaithful]

According to an AS bump, there may be a season four. Let's keep our hopes up...
*crosses fingers*

Episode is looking good so far, hopefully the ratings can be good also.

[Kitschensyngk]

iPhones are okay, but I draw the line at iPads. I prefer my computers with keyboards. And browsers that use Flash.

Either this guy needs a new job or a girlfriend made of stronger stuff.

[trance2009]

This guy is Jack Bauer, I think.

[Mesousa]

Wille E. Coyote? Really? His plans always fail.

Obvious 24 parody is obvious.

[InfiniteAura]

How much more old school can some one get than tying some one to a rocket? Maybe he could have had some one he loved tied to a train track.

[Mesousa]

God, my ears are ringing.

[Bloody Marquis]

Ruckus, no!

[FFmax]

Yikes that chick just got beheaded.:sad:

[Kitschensyngk]

How much more old school can some one get than tying some one to a rocket? Maybe he could have had some one he loved tied to a train track.

Or maybe dangling over a tank full of sharks with rocket launchers strapped to their heads.

A school bus is the last thing that should be shot at.

Well, crap, they need that much artillery to take down a retired domestic terrorist?

[trance2009]

Those 24 scenes are hilarity. A cow, a stripper in a thong. :sweat:


I can see why they saved this ep. as a finale. Only fitting it should end with the "main character's" story.

[Mesousa]

Is that Solid Snake's voice?

Random stripping!

[ToonFaithful]

Loving the 24 scenes.

[FFmax]

Crazy car chase FTW!:D

[Kitschensyngk]

Two car chases in one season. Consider this season amped up.

"No going rogue!"
"I'm going rogue."

You know, Ruckus, you ain't too old and fat to get kicked in the nuts.

[InfiniteAura]

Someone's been listening to too much Thugnificent. I was really hoping that Ed Wunceler was going to get what he deserved. Oh well, what can they do.

[Mesousa]

Huey got scared?! Say it ain't so!

...And he's back to being deadpan. He must've heard it that many times.

Never thought they woudk do a "musical sting" joke.

[trance2009]

Some people are above the law.

Ain't it the truth.

[Don_East]

I just realized, the security guard is suppose to be Jackie Gleason.

Thank God they aired this now, any sooned and it would be even more dated.

[FFmax]

Eat my ass? WTF?

[Kitschensyngk]

Thugnificent's "Stomp 'em In the Nuts" in the background.

Now I see how this got to be the series SEASON!!! finale instead of Fried Chicken Flu.

[Mesousa]

Worst. Password. Ever.

[trance2009]

Ruckus actually going against everything he was taught and lays out a white guy? Crowning moment of awesome.

[Kitschensyngk]

Never stop fighting until the fight is done. Here endeth the lesson.

Warning: end credits not recommended for people with histories of epileptic seizures.

Here's to season four in 2012 if we're lucky.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

that's one ballsy interogator :sweat: white shadow! uh oh ed & rummy are up to no good again plus ed is obsessed with yet another gadget! another decapitation?! this agent guy has no luck with the ladies. no bars :lol: huey is freaking out! grandad and riley sleeping through a raid lol. where did the army come from?? HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE KICKED IN THE NUTS! "bio nuclear anthrax" that sounds scary. suddenly ruckus is eager to help :) stompin in the nuts song :lol: that's an evil plot even if the security gaurd is a jerk :mad: yes they should listen to huey... :(

[Mesousa]

Grandad's line was probably the reason why this was the season finale.

WHOA, the credits almost gave me a seizure there.

[InfiniteAura]

You can't fight the future, but you can at least go down trying.

[Don_East]

"You know, we gotta start thinking about movin'. This neighborhood ain't what it use to be."

Even when he's hardly in the episode, Grandad manages to get one good line in. :D

Good finale to a good season, hope for more like this soon.

[Raidon Makoto]

"Imagine all the problems we could avoid if we just started listening to you."

Great closing line for the series. XD

[trance2009]

I confess this would be a good way to end the series, with all the crazy government things Huey has been "involved" in since the days of the comic strip coming to a head, and he's just as indifferent about it at the end as he was at the start. But hopefully MacGruder still feels like he has one more season in him.

[Game Freak 4]

Lesson learned. In The Boondocks, there is no Justice.

[Dudley]

"Imagine all the problems we could avoid if we just started listening to you."

Great closing line for the series. XD

Which was followed by a faint, "Oh, well!" Meaning nothing will change.

That was a fun episode that felt more like a season finale, than the one with the Chicken Flu. Good action as well.

Feel sorry for the people in the credits though. Damn, that was fast.

[Jayngfet]

Wait, why did Jack not just shoot him then and there? I mean he'd gone rogue already, and three seconds later he took Ed the third as hostage, so he isn't exactly getting his job back. It's not like he should actually care what obama had to say this point. Hell, given Huey's probably still pissed over obamas reaction to the Chicken Flu indicent, and could easily have taken care of it by himself.

Come to think of it, why would Ed Wuncler blow up his own building? That probably costs millions to repair, factoring out computer costs and finding new employees who don't want to be terrorist targets. Hell subtracting the cost of making the movie and all that merchandise he'd probably need to have twilight level success to see any substantial profits.

[jph139]

Come to think of it, why would Ed Wuncler blow up his own building? That probably costs millions to repair, factoring out computer costs and finding new employees who don't want to be terrorist targets. Hell subtracting the cost of making the movie and all that merchandise he'd probably need to have twilight level success to see any substantial profits.

Who says he'd have to rebuild it? Leave it empty as a reminder of the scar of terrorism... or something... like that. He's a smart guy. He knows what he's doing.

But man, that was DEFINITELY a great season/series finale. Loved the ending. Loved White Shadow's return (how long has it been now?). Good action, tense plot, and of course, great humor. The fact that have Ed III and Gin Rummy as the villains... perfect, since they're among the funniest on the show. And the ending? Has Obama at his beck and call in less than two seconds. Ed Wuncler is certainly a badass.

So yeah - if the show goes out on this high note, I won't be disappointed. Of course... I wouldn't mind seeing another season, either. :p

[Karl Olson]

I'm not sure you top satirizing 9/11, let alone after having done that so well. This is the kind of show they will run in classroom studying American Humor. It's easily as sharp and insightful as Carlin or Pryor.

I mean, I'd love to see a 4th season, but what more can they do!? :sweat:

[Sprocket]

Oh Karl, I think we're on the same page, and then you post that.

Laying it on a little thick, aren't we?

[Karl Olson]

Oh Karl, I think we're on the same page, and then you post that.

Laying it on a little thick, aren't we?

Well, I just haven't seen anything quite as ambitious as Boondocks, especially coming into this last season, for a while. I don't think it's unfair to put it in an echelon with stuff like, All in the Family at least.

Also, I've taken a course on American Humor to fill out a prerequisite, and Boondocks fits that mold of what that class seems enamored of - stuff that was funny, but some what cutting in the same stroke.

[Sprocket]

I wish I could share your praise, but it just seems like a bit of a stretch to consider it a triumph of satire. If you like the show, great, but it just seems like way, way more credit than the show deserves I'd love to hear what actual accomplished satirists would say about it, at least.

[shany94a]

Hoping this isn't the end - given the show's production history, I could wait until 2012/2013 for new episodes.

If not, it looks like Ed III's story has come full circle - shot out a window by Riley, to taken hostage by Jack Flowers. And his grandfather could still care less about him. And Uncle Ruckus raised a hand (or foot) to a white man, so maybe this really is the end.

Wasn't the funniest episode of the series, or even the season, but it was acceptable. If this was truly the finale, it will have to suffice.

("Oh well")

[mattsposting]

Did anyone else catch the Native Tounge Family references? Dan Stucky the security guard is a name used on De La Soul Three Feet High and Rising a bunch of times. The Terrorist name was Ali Shaheed Mohamand which is the DJ for Tribe Called Quest. Those two aspects made me laugh.

[brickrrb2]

While Ed lll capture was a long time coming they could have at least put the cuffs on Ed sr's greedy ***** as well:mad::mad::mad::mad: