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The Boondocks

Directed by: Anthony Bell, Joe Horne, Seung Eun Kim

RS: 2.5of 4 Stars

2006

The animated version of Aaron McGruder’s comic isn’t as riotously rapid-fire as The Simpsons, but it still successfully skewers suburbia and hip-hop. Ten-year-old revolutionary Huey and his rap-struck younger brother Riley try to puzzle out the meaning of the R. Kelly case, and why their grandfather is falling for a gold digger. Huey concludes, “That’s how it starts: taking bitches out to eat.”