Caesar: Motorcyle cops? You mean like...
Huey: The movie is called Chocolate C.H.I.P.S.
Caesar: The sad part is, I have no idea if you're joking or not.
Huey: I know. Hey, here's one about a cross-dressing basketball player!
Huey and Caesar on Mario Van Peebles
Huey: First the deplorable Panther, Now he's playing Malcolm X. Is there any black revolutionary figure who's safe from Mario Van Peebles?
Caesar: Hey, maybe he'll try to play Angela Davis next!
Huey: This is not a laughing matter!
And of course, the illustrations are half the joy, so you really need to see both in order to truly give the comic justice.
Quick Fox chronology: Fox dumps Futurama. Futurama gets huge ratings for Cartoon Network. Fox dumps Family Guy. Family Guy gets huge ratings for Cartoon Network. So much show that the show is being revived. Fox dumps Boondocks before it even starts. If this were an SAT question, could you answer which of the following is more likely to occur?
(A) Boondocks incites race riots after first airing on Adult Swim. Chaos ensues. Boondocks pulled after one episode, Fox says "told you so."
(B) Boondocks gets low ratings on Adult Swim, followed by defamation of character lawsuits by Eddie Griffin, Vivica Fox, Queen Latifah, and Bill Cosby. Cartoon Network goes into bankruptcy. Fox says "told you so."
(C) Boondocks gets solid ratings on Adult Swim and DVD's sell through the roof. Fox says "our bad." Cartoon Network asks Fox "any other shows you'd like to throw our way?"
Related tune: Fight The Power by Public Enemy (mp3 via atu.edu)
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Article comments
1 - Thad Boyd
...Why does the info for Right to Be Hostile list Michael Moore as the author? He only wrote the foreword; Aaron McGruder wrote and drew it. I know Moore's name is an attention-grabber, but good Lord.
2 - Morgan
Great blog! I agree that that Fox have the worst track record when it comes to shows they pass up. Cartoon network does always does a good of taking Fox's trash and turning into treasure.
3 - Eric
I agree and was in the middle of posting about this on my blog. The only thing is tho, the way you put it makes it out like the shows really are trash. They're not. They're great. It's the shows that FOX keeps that are trash. And that's why people actually watch those on FOX. FOX shows trash, and people have come to expect that from them.