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A Pimp Named Slickback

Remember Don Imus? He was this corpse-looking cowboy who used to have a radio show before saying racist comments on the air causing everyone in America to take a serious look at the country’s race relations (for two weeks). He was ultimately fired. I bring up Mr. Imus to illustrate what audience size allows one to get away with on the air with or without the masses calling for your head. His reach was millions (tens of millions?) whereas The Boondocks, which airs Monday’s on Adult Swim, maybe attracts one million viewers. The difference? No one is going to complain about The Boondocks, because most people in America, and certainly not those people with the power, even know the show exists. More after the jump…

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The last time The Boondocks had a new episode was March 19th, 2006, making Monday night’s premiere of the second season the end of a Sopranos-like hiatus. Adult Swim is a better place now that the series is back. I used to watch the cartoon-block relentlessly during the earlier part of this decade, though over the past couple years my interest has waned as the programming became increasingly focused on non sequiturs, surrealism and Family Guy. And yet under the moniker “Adult Swim” none of these series were particularly mature. The Boondocks is an exception (as is Venture Brothers, but that’s for another post on another day). It’s a show that is made for adults, not for high school kids or pot enthusiasts. More after the jump…

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