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Being a good Christian woman, she gives her marriage one last chance because Jesus said so.
A deep dive comparing The Boondocks and Atlanta's parodies of Tyler Perry's universe, analyzing cultural impact and satire.
Key Takeaways
- Both The Boondocks and Atlanta use satire to critique Tyler Perry's media empire and its cultural impact.
- The Boondocks episode is older, more focused on homophobic humor and internalized issues, while Atlanta offers a more contemporary and layered parody.
- Tyler Perry had significant influence over media networks, evidenced by his successful effort to pull The Boondocks episode.
- Cultural references and storytelling techniques differ, with Atlanta using more subtle visual storytelling and The Boondocks relying on fast-paced humor.
- The video creator encourages viewers to engage with and support independent content creators.
Summary
- The video compares parody episodes of Tyler Perry's universe from The Boondocks (2010) and Atlanta (2022).
- It explores how both shows depict Tyler Perry's compound with cult-like vibes and critique his influence in black media.
- The Boondocks episode features Granddad pursuing a role in a Winston Jerome play, highlighting homophobia and internalized self-hate.
- The Atlanta episode centers on Vanessa and her daughter Lottie being cast in a Mr. Chocolate show, with more nuanced satire.
- Tyler Perry's reaction to The Boondocks episode is discussed, including his influence over networks and pulling the episode from airing.
- The video notes cultural references like the Willy Wonka line in Atlanta and critiques of black media and religion.
- It highlights differences in humor style, with The Boondocks using more homophobic jokes and Atlanta focusing on cult and industry critique.
- The creator references previous deep dives and acknowledges influences from other YouTubers like Reel James.
- The video includes personal opinions about the episodes and calls for support via Patreon and memberships.
- Overall, it evaluates which parody episode better captures Tyler Perry's cultural footprint.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and opening scene analysis
- 00:57Initial critique and personal commentary
- 02:10Boondocks episode background and Tyler Perry's influence
- 03:34Atlanta episode context and cultural references
- 04:43Episode breakdown comparison introduction
- 05:47Boondocks episode detailed analysis
- 06:54Homophobia and humor in Boondocks
- 08:58Atlanta episode first act and cult vibes
- 09:55Further episode comparisons and critiques
- 11:32Closing thoughts and call to support creator
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I am dark-skinned and bald, so I hate you and I hate Jesus. Oh. What the hell's going on here?
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Didn't I tell you couldn't have any friends? Charles, I love you. My mama's crazy. What's your mama?
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[laughter] YOU BETTER TELL HER. [laughter] I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH MR. JEROME for nearly 10 years.
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Well, your family must be very proud. Honey, I don't talk to my family anymore. This is my family now.
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Soon it'll be yours, too. I'm going to get me some Kool-Aid. It's an old American saying that when you point one finger, it's four pointing back at you, which doesn't make sense unless your thumb is broke. It's really
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three, but for the sake of this comedy channel disguised as a deep dive commentary channel, we'll say that it's true.
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Hey yo Aaron. Let me holler at you, man. I think I know what it is.
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Black girls wouldn't date you 'cause your hair wouldn't nap enough, and the hood bullied you 'cause your style wasn't black enough, then you got a little show, and I guess that's how you getting back at us. Well, I got a little motion,
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no brakes. I ain't backing up. Atlanta and The Boondocks both did parody episodes of the Tyler Perry universe.
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Both black shows, critically acclaimed. Main plot is a character gets wrapped up in the world of Tyler Perry. The Boondocks episode from around 2010, Atlanta's 2022. So, that's about 12 years apart.
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Now, the question is, did Atlanta copy The Boondocks, and who did the better parody episode? Well, today that's what we talking about, and that's what we going to figure out. Now, The Boondocks episode revolves around Granddad going out for the leading role in a Winston
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Jerome, aka Tyler Perry, play, being pressured to leave his family and live on a compound with a heavy cult vibe.
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The Atlanta episode revolves around Vanessa being cast as a small role in the Mr. Chocolate show aka Tyler Perry. Her daughter Lottie is added. He attempts to steal her and the whole compound has heavy cult vibes.
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Tommy Hilfiger stood out. The football had never been in your collection. Boondocks episode history airs in 2010.
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Tyler Perry was still only black famous. You might remember him for such movies and shows as I Can Do Bad All By Myself, House of Payne, and The Adventures of Teenage Jesus and Medea.
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Tyler himself called like and said you guys better not ever air that again.
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Mhm. You know, at the time he had a lot of shows at TBS. You know, we were just the little small black cartoon. Like Tyler Perry was God.
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At this time he was already his first studio that opened in 2008. And he famously called TBS and had the episode pulled.
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And for a while you could only watch it on DVD for years, but thinking back, I'm like 95% sure that this episode aired one time on Adult Swim. Now, I can't confirm that. I don't know. Maybe I could have confirmed it, but I'm pretty
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sure it's a lot of confusion. But yeah, so he had a lot of power at TBS and their parent company also owned Adult Swim. So, he famously got this episode pulled. Let me know in the comments. I can't remember.
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But as you can see, he was already a shot caller on networks in Atlanta.
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So, the Atlanta episode Also, before I jump into it, my previous video where I did a full deep dive into the Atlanta Mr. Chocolate episode, I missed a direct Willy Wonka reference.
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When the tour guide points to the Mr. Chocolate factory and says, "No one goes in or comes out." That is a direct line from the original Willy Wonka movie in like the '70s. I don't remember when that came out.
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Anyway, this episode premiered in 2022, a few years after his mega compound opened. Now, it's safe to assume that most Americans know who he is by the time this episode aired. The Madea verse is huge and we all agree on the tropes,
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which gives this episode a lot more to play with. Tyler later sent shots in one of his shows about the show being for white people.
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Him and the FTC signified actually have something in common. I was going to include a clip of the Tyler Perry sending shots, but it's like super low-res and it's from some show that nobody has ever heard of. I don't even
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want to give them no gas. It's shows of garbage. I'm sorry. I'm not apologize.
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Now, let's get into the episode breakdowns to compare who done it better. Oh, and this is kind of a rip-off of since this YouTuber, the Reel James video series, Simpsons Did It. Yep.
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Also, this video is not sponsored. It's supported by my Patreon and YouTube channel subscribers.
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Or if you only want to be nice, just buy me a coffee for one time. All right, let's jump back into the video. Like I said, no sponsors.
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Now, the very first time I shot me a Drake, the homie had told me to aim it this way. I didn't point down today. I'll show you I learned from those mistakes.
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So, The Boondocks episode starts with a Madea type stage play. I guess in 2009, the plays were still pretty well known.
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I don't know. I feel like by '09, he had stopped. But, keep going. Now they're moving at 100 miles a minute in this intro. I legit thought that my laptop that I watched these on to edit was accidentally set to 1.25 speed. But,
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no. They're just moving super fast. Now, contrary to some people's opinion because I made an almost 3-hour video talking about how the Boondocks don't really care about black people, a lot of episodes still make me laugh. I just
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needed to slap the ass out of somebody had me laughing my ass off. That might be the biggest laugh I got in this episode. Madea is twerking, she shoots the house up, sexually assaults the light-skinned dude.
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All of this happens in like 15 seconds. Then it's done with the cold open.
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Granddad loses as he's going out for the play to find out we later find out that he had dreams of being actor back in the day.
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Oh, Mr. HANDYMAN. OH, MY FOOT. MY FOOT. CRAP. CRAPPING MY BED.
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ALSO, I actually forgot about this episode and the Uncle Ruckus reality show when I made my Boondocks deep dive a couple years ago.
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Anyway, this is really a sign of the times that this episode was written in 2009, like peak homophobia. Riley tells us about the no homo pause game. And if you watch one of Dame Dash three to four time weekly videos that he drops about
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Jay-Z, you know that certain older men still play pause and no homo. Anyway, here we get us a rundown of the Winston Jerome movie beats.
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How can you do this to me? Get out. I'm going to marry this white person because you are too virtuous and strong and might make me a better man.
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Then a dude who looks like Shemar Moore shows up as the shirtless light-skinned gardener who just got out of jail.
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Excuse me, uh may I rake your leaves? Are you a Kirk with chocolate fan?
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Uh I haven't really watched this stuff in a while so Yeah, I hate it personally.
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Oh. No offense. No. [laughter] No, truly none taken. Now, probably the most famous line from this episode is the I am dark-skinned and bald, therefore I hate you and I hate Jesus.
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Now, for the first act of the show, it out pretty funny. Even though I'm not a big fan of the series post season 2 as it became more of granddad show.
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I don't know what it is. I guess TV writers just find it more interesting to write about adults. We see this happen at the after the first couple seasons of The Simpsons. It pretty much becomes the Homer Simpson show even though obviously
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Bart still gets a lot of time. But that ends the first act of The Boondocks. Immediately this isn't one of my favorite episodes of the season or series, but let's see how Atlanta first act plays out.
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Now before any dialogue is spoken, they follow the golden story rule of show, don't tell. We see billboards for casting then fake movie posters for this world. The guard who takes his job super seriously searching kids backpack. I
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What the hell's going on here? Didn't I tell you couldn't have any friends? Charles, I love you, but a woman has needs and boundaries.
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You represent me when you walk out of this house. And of course the fan out brainwashed tour guide group.
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Now this episode was actually inspired by Donald Glover going on a tour a lot.
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The conversation between Van and the hair lady sets up how people are afraid to critique and it gives heavy cult vibes.
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And it sets this up a little bit earlier in the episode compared to The Boondocks. You don't really see the cult stuff in The Boondocks. So one thing I do like that both of these shows they have different pacing.
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But the cult thing it seems to be something you have to be in the industry to get or maybe in Atlanta because as much as we know about Tyler Perry, the cult thing seems like some Atlanta insider stuff. Atlanta folks, let me
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know if y'all been hearing that too that he kind of moves like a cult leader.
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Now if I recall Adult Swim headquarters where The The was made at least back then was also in Atlanta.
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Another thing I'm like 99% sure of. Again, instead of giving us a rundown of his cliches, Atlanta the show shows us with the fake show.
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Now, in The Boondocks' defense, the episode aired way back in 2010 when not as many people would be familiar with Tyler Perry's work or his tropes.
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[music] And act one of Atlanta ends with Lottie being cast in the show after a funny outburst. Now, if I was doing the boxing scoring, it was a 9-10 round in favor of Atlanta.
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I'm not going to explain boxing scoring. Like half you all don't even like sports.
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Mr. Jerome would like to see you. He would? You won't be needing that shirt.
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Oh God, I'm ready to double the wage. I'd rather do that than let a house [ __ ] make John Singleton turn in his grave.
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Now, act two in The Boondocks episode is explaining to Granddad you get to play in a movie in a play based on a movie, then a spin-off of the play, and you set for life.
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Someone on The Boondocks staff is a goner. I'm going to say it's Aaron McGruder because he has the Asian wife and I don't date black women haircut.
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And I say that because we have the busty adult film star woman who actually doesn't work for this episode because Tyler Perry has never been one to cast for the male gaze, but goner's going to gone. If you seen FT Signifier video
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just know anything about Tyler Perry he actually cast for the female gaze or what he prefers.
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Do you renounce Ice Cube and all his works? Well, you know, I got to like Friday.
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DO YOU RENOUNCE ICE CUBE AND ALL HIS WORKS? I RENOUNCE ICE CUBE. LOUDER. I RENOUNCE ICE CUBE.
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AND ALL HIS WORKS? AND ALL HIS WORKS. And a different busty lady, she brings Granddad to the back and he's picked to be the shirtless love interest. And that's mentioned that he has to be shirtless.
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We meet the Tyler Perry saying in much earlier and he has some weird accent. I have no idea what it's supposed to be, but it reminds me of that weird accent that Damon Wayans had in the movie Bamboozled.
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We find out this version of Tyler Perry was told by Jesus to make plays about shirtless men and to cross-dress.
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This episode leans way more into the edgy atheist role with all the black church jokes.
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Granddad is then forced to renounce Ice Cube movies on some casting demons out of [ __ ] church [ __ ] And this scene was actually really funny to me. As someone who grew up on Ice Cube movies,
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I forgot he somehow made rated R and family movies at the same time. Like, low-key Ice Cube is a legend in two games like Pee-wee Kirkland.
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Riley then finds out that Granddad is Madea love and Tristan begins to mock him for doing the love scene with a man.
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Episode missed a chance to show how others like Tom or Thugnificent feel because, as we know, whether you enjoy his stuff or not, everybody has an opinion about Tyler Perry.
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They don't have any black female characters to include, so Granddad goes back to the compound and a subtle blink-and-you'll-miss-it joke, he's greeted with a glass of Kool-Aid and an nod to the cult fight vibes.
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And I feel like I don't need to explain the Kool-Aid thing. I feel like everybody's watched something about cults, but the quick 10 second is there was this cult uh guy named James named uh Jim Jones, not the rapper, the white white guy.
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He had a cult. He made people uh drink Kool-Aid and they died and stuff. It it was crazy. I'm not going into it.
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[music] And as Granddad enters the house, the big musical drag scene of this episode.
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As someone raised on The Simpsons, this musical just didn't hit. It made me think of shows that have done better, like much better. Like The Simpsons episode Planet of the Apes the musical.
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Hey, I've never been to a drag show, so maybe this was really accurate and I don't get the joke. Just for me personally, it didn't really work for the episode. And it's also hard to compete with an animated breakdancing
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ape. I mean, you put a musical you might as well just not put a musical in your animated show if it's not going to be better than a breakdancing ape from the Planet of the Apes the musical.
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We didn't get a full tour of the compound. But Granddad, we find out that he'll be staying the duration of the of the shoot to avoid any distractions like his grandkids and phone calls to the outside aren't allowed.
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Now, I'mma say it again. The Gooner animators had a ball. All these busty women Granddad is just perving on while they're supposed to be praying.
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At one point Winston Jerome breaks character when Granddad phone keeps going going off and promises Granddad all the hoes if he gives himself. And that ends The Boondocks second act.
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As someone who can still appreciate the first two seasons and a couple episodes of season 3, this episode just doesn't feel like classic Boondocks. I don't know if it's the heavy focus on Granddad, the lack of things for the
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kids to do except a few scenes, but revisiting it for the first time in over 10 maybe 15 years, it's not as many laughs as I thought.
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Anyway, Atlanta second act begins with Vanessa not being sure she wants her daughter Lottie to act on the show even though it could be a fun experience.
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Where Atlanta is a lot better parody, Boondocks focuses mostly on the homo phobic erotic and drag elements.
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[laughter] You white piece of [ __ ] I hope you get shot in the theater.
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This part seems glued as hell. Amazing. Moving on. Boondocks focuses on those elements. Atlanta hits Tyler Perry with more of a meet the grams diss and tears its entire run apart as dark-skinned heavy set church lady give a van a very ridiculous
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advice about letting Lottie act and somehow Jesus wants this. Both shows they can use Jesus to weaponize compliance. We get the cult elements, him trying to abduct Lottie to be his muse in multiple parodies, sitcom style show with a slave drama, and
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overly dramatic crack sandwich scene. Like just in this episode, I think it's run time is like maybe 25 minutes, we get all of that from Atlanta.
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Well, like I said so many times, you can only do so much with parody, which I think held The Boondocks as an entire series back after a while. Like if you all don't want to watch a full video, you can only do so many like
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straight satire parodies. It you would have to watch a video. Atlanta, it goes in its own direction.
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It takes a little bit and it uses absurdism. You see, Atlanta episode is more satire and absurdist with the scenes that could fit in a line from like a line from the Abraham Lincoln movie or the random extra in the background laughing. Like
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that Abraham Lincoln scene is absolutely hilarious cuz it feels like something that Tyler Perry would make. And like I said in my last video, that also feels like a show that they would be watching on Insecure.
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The conversation we've all had about Tyler Perry and black art, the show never comes out and says Vanessa or the people or the people who genuinely enjoy his work are right or wrong. They both make points. Where The Boondocks is more
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of a haha these idiots enjoy this slot. But if I'm scoring it's like a boxing round, once again, Atlanta scored a knockdown. So instead of a 10-9 round, that's going to be a 10-8 round for Atlanta.
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You see, Boondocks focuses more on the homophobic elements for jokes. And it really make this episode age bad, but they did include a musical scene, so I mean, you got to They points for that.
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Now to the third and final act of the series. So, according to Winston Jerome, Huey tells him that Granddad needs to kiss him for the play. Now, the funniest person of the episode is the Kool-Aid lady. She cut off her kids because they
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like Ice Cube movies. Like scenes like that remind us how funny The Boondocks actually was. And in my It's the only time I can think of a black female character in this show delivering a joke where the punchline isn't her being fat,
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ignorant, or overly sexualized. And it is [ __ ] hilarious. Huey and Riley attempt to save Granddad by breaking into the compound and finding him.
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Now, I love this. This reminds me of The Simpsons episodes of Bart and Lisa solving mysteries. I wish we got more scenes and more episodes like this. I love seeing Riley and Huey behave like kids and siblings that work together. We
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missed out on some really great stories because for the most part in the series, they mostly were separated when doing plot.
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You see, we then get the classic Boondocks fight scene. Granddad says that he knows it's a homoerotic Christian cult, but he wants to be famous. He says [laughter] It's It's pretty graphic, but he says this is his fear factor. I don't even
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want to say what he said. Like he's talking about how they made him eat disgusting things for prizes on Fear Factor. He's like, "I'm willing to do this. I'm willing to kiss a man for fame." Now, the thing that threw me off cuz I
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haven't seen this episode in a long time that there is, like I say, people claim I hate The Boondocks because I criticize him. I just dislike Aaron McGruder. But, this episode it subverts most shows and the play actually does go on. He does kiss
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He does kiss Tyler Perry and all, but thing is he doesn't get any bad [ __ ] We find out Winston Jerome sold the play as a movie and it's going to star Granddad and make him a movie star.
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Then when Granddad finds out that he's going to have to wait to get the women, which is the only reason he wanted he's like, "Nah, I'm good." Winston Jerome breaks character and says that he wants gay sex with Granddad.
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Granddad finds out that he's a fraud and he did all of this just to sleep with men and the episode ends with Granddad and some fat black woman eating a bucket of fried chicken. Like I said, it always
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comes back to that when it's black women. And we see Riley mocking him. Now, I'm not going to act like homophobia wasn't semi-normal in media back then.
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The Hangover has that famous Asian doctor F slur joke, but by 2010 when it comes out, it's already seen as lowbrow humor.
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A first show that looks down on hip-hop and black media, black movies, BET so much. Most of the humor of this episode comes from "Aha, being a gay black man is weird, right?" jokes or black people being religious and believing in Jesus
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is dumb. So, act three of Atlanta, Mr. Chocolate wants to keep Lottie. We see how corny Chocolate Land is. The guards on duty they have fake shotguns. The fake media shoots one. Nessa runs up on them.
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Now, the foreshadowing from the back scene earlier when the guy said, "You'd be surprised who snuck guns in here." I missed that in my last video.
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Then when it comes to Mr. Chocolate, we see that he uses some type of piano-like device to write nonsensical plots.
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The studio runs on it. He actually doesn't even know how it works. The scripts just come out and he's like the It's low-key on some Wizard of Oz stuff if you really think about it.
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Vanessa says she'll call the police if she doesn't get her daughter. He owns the police in most of the town, and he claims Lottie as his daughter. Now, this could also be a nod to back in like 2007,
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whatever year it was, where Tyler Perry had the power to get that Boondocks episode pulled. He already had that pull in Atlanta.
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We did find out that he's a fraud who uses these movies to seem relatable and get black people to support. His offer is a lot funnier, make Lottie rich until age 20.
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Of course, Vanessa is like, "Hell no." She saves her daughter, Elise. Now, final judgment.
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Where the Boondocks sounds like the rantings of a failed comedian like Corey Holcomb who says black men have to do gay acts for fame.
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This happened. But, you won't even remember this when she wins that BET award. The script has a woman eating a crack sandwich.
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Yeah. Donald Glover is a wild boy. Atlanta pokes fun at the creator of the show. Also, those who just doing the work to get bills paid, those who drink the Kool-Aid, those who believe black capitalism lies, and the absurdity of it
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all. So, it goes to the judges, Warner. Now, Boondocks has a great action scene in a musical. It came out like 15 years earlier, and it's still talked about.
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Probably one of the more famous episodes. Atlanta has parody of all types of Tyler Perry works. They both do the light-skinned ex-con joke, the gun-toting grandma joke. In Atlanta, we're laughing at the absurdity of a character eating a crack sandwich. While
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Boondocks, the joke is on fat black women eating fried chicken. Like, you really see Aaron McGruder's internalized self-hate in this episode.
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Or, the only other black women in this episode are all sex workers and only casted for the going to gaze.
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Boondocks relies more on black men being gay for a punchline. Isn't that crazy? That's the punchline. Atlanta picks apart every element, the hair, the rushed together shootings, the insane plot, the cult vibes. And for that, I have to
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give the crown to Atlanta. And no, I don't think they copied The Boondocks. There's way too many differences. Like all sports, we have to do the aftermatch commentary because it really annoys me that so many black creatives and on this website use
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The Boondocks as their North Star for black culture. Aaron McGruder worse is a Gen X black respectability culture vulture and at worse an anti-black lowercase c conservative. In case you didn't see my 2-hour video on The Boondocks, he has
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an extreme disgust for modern hip-hop and admits he fell out of love with it around the time Biggie and Tupac took the rap industry mainstream.
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His depictions of working class or working poor black men is like if Fox News made a cartoon that was actually good.
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YO, [ __ ] YO, [ __ ] THIS [ __ ] IS [ __ ] YO, PUT THAT [ __ ] IN YOUR MOUTH. [ __ ] EAT THAT [ __ ] CHEETO.
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BUT EARLY ON IN THE DAY, If you don't believe me, see the [ __ ] moment scene, the MLK Returns episode, Thugnificent or any other black men background characters in the show.
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Only thing stronger than his hate for non-bourgeoisie college-educated black men is his view on all black women in general.
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Every depiction is either a sex worker, see the episode Guess Who's Coming to Dinner or the Tyler Perry episode. It feels like some [ __ ] you see on a red pill channel or see Attack of the Killer Kung
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Fu Wolf [ __ ] Or the black women in this series are loud overweight ghetto and they have small character bits.
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Now, I did an entire segment on the lovely Ebony Brown episode, but yeah, this may be my last time talking about The Boondocks, but who knows? You know YouTubers, we lie all the time.
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to say you got chicken and you ain't I NO CHICKEN. YOU KNEW Y'ALL ALL going to do this FOR A YEAR. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN MY FAMILY NOW. I WANT MY CHICKEN. MY BABIES WANT THEIR CHICKEN.
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I just need all black writers and all black people in general to know an ancient black saying, "All skinfolk ain't kinfolk." And go where you're celebrated.
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While there are things to point out about Tyler Perry's work, The Boondocks offers just as many harmful and ignorant depictions of black culture, i.e. the episode Huey becomes a brainless zombie after banishing BET. The network, while not flawless at all, had shows on HBCU
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life. While The Boondocks' only mention was Uncle Ruckus' commentary on black Greeks jumping around like apes. Like, that's pretty much a word-for-word line for what Uncle Ruckus says, and I feel like Aaron McGruder is a lot closer to Uncle
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Ruckus than a lot of you all want to admit. The show lampooned movies like Soul Plane while ignoring black directors like Spike Lee, Robert Townsend Townsend, and OG John Singleton.
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White man out there getting Nobel Prizes and doing business deals in the fraternities. [ __ ] jumping up and down with candy canes and doing all kinds of silly [ __ ] with their hands.
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Like The Boondocks in Atlanta did, if I ever get in the right room, I'm going to find a way to send shots at McGruder directly on the show. Until then, support black shows that respect the culture. Whether you like them or not,
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we have a lot of good ones, old and new. Insecure, Atlanta Black-ish Southside Woke Abbott Elementary, Bust Down Boys.
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And until then, I'm John Lewis. Make sure y'all subscribe, support me on Patreon, buy me a coffee, YouTube channel memberships. I'm out.
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