The Boondocks vs. The Simpsons

which show was better

  • Boondocks

    Votes: 20 35.7%
  • Simpsons

    Votes: 36 64.3%

  • Total voters
    56

Dr. Acula

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eh....The old seasons of The Simpsons is absolutely classic. Part of my childhood. Boondocks is funny no doubt but if we're comparing to the old episodes, its not really a contest.
 

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The Simpsons.

I mean come on now. It actually kind of sucks that the Boondocks show never really lived up to its potential. The problem is that the Boondocks episodes weren't really stories about the characters so much as excuses for McGruder to bash whatever he dislikes about black culture at the moment. While there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, it kind of limited the show's potential since the characters didn't get too much development outside of being political Straw men.

For example, Huey was a very interesting character in the comics, but in the show he rarely got any focus, and when he did he was mostly just the Straight Man to Riley/Granddad. Caesar never appeared at all. And after the first season the show was mostly just "Let's have Granddad and Riley do something stupid so we can make a point about black culture".


Didn't mean to go on a rant there, I just think the show had a lot of unfulfilled potential.
 
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