The Top 10 Episodes of The Boondocks
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10. Wingmen
Season 1 Episode 13
Original Airdate: March 05, 2006
While Robert attempts to eulogize his late friend, Huey finds himself alienated from Cairo, one of his oldest friends.
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9. Pause
Season 3 Episode 8
Original Airdate: June 10, 2010
“The Boondocks” ruthlessly parodies Tyler Perry as the leader of a homoerotic cult that drags Robert into its sphere of influence by giving him a big acting role. But it comes with an even bigger price... -
8. The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show
Season 2 Episode 15
Original Airdate: n/a
During the second season of “The Boondocks,” two episodes were unaired because Adult Swim was supposedly nervous about showing them. Both episodes in question skewered the BET network. In this one, BET decides to give Uncle Ruckus his own reality show.
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7. It's a Black President, Huey Freeman
Season 3 Episode 1
Original Airdate: May 2, 2010
Two years after Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, “The Boondocks” devoted an entire episode to the event as the Freeman family and their supporting cast reacted to it in unusual ways.
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6. The Story of Catcher Freeman
Season 2 Episode 12
Original Airdate: January 28, 2008
“The Boondocks” goes Rashomon as Robert, Uncle Ruckus and Huey tell three different stories about the Freeman family’s ancestor, Catcher Freeman and his role in a slave uprising.
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5. Granddad's Fight
Season 1 Episode 4
Original Airdate: November 27, 2005
A mean and nasty blind man named Stinkmeaner beats Robert in a fight. After arduously training Robert to defeat Stinkmeaner in the rematch, Huey realizes that they’ve made a terrible mistake... but far too late to prevent a death.
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4 The Garden Party
Season 1 Episode 1
Original Airdate: November 6, 2005
The pilot episode sets the tone for the rest of the series, as the Freemans get invited to an upscale party where Robert desperately tries to fit in and Huey’s antagonistic speeches only draw condescending applause from the guests
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3. The Hunger Strike
Season 2 Episode 14
Original Airdate: n/a
The first of the pulled BET episodes is even funnier when you realize that one of its targets is Reggie Hudlin, an executive producer of “The Boondocks” from back when it was first pitched to Fox.
But the greatest part of the episode is its transformation of BET CEO Debra L. Lee into an over-the-top villainess, Deborah Leevil; a mad woman bent on destroying black people with the power of BET.
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2. The Passion of Reverend Ruckus
Season 1 Episode 15
Original Airdate: March 19, 2006
After experiencing a racist religious epiphany, Uncle Ruckus forms a new branch of Christianity built around loving the white man. As for Huey, he desperately tries to come up with a way to prevent a wrongly convicted man from being executed.
In his darkest hour, Huey gets his miracle and Uncle Ruckus gets some epic comeuppance... seemingly from God himself.
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1. Return of the King
Season 1 Episode 9
Original Airdate: January 15, 2006
What if Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t die?
“Return of the King” depicts a reality in which King survived the attempt on his life and spent decades in a coma before emerging in a present that he barely recognized. In the post 9/11 world, King finds that he’s apparently become irrelevant in the lives of the people he was fighting for. And when King finally stops holding back his opinions, it’s a truly jaw-dropping moment.
There’s a reason that this is the episode that won “The Boondocks” a peabody award. “Return of the King” had the sharpest jokes of the series... and also the most heart.
