The Boondocks’ Season 2 Comes To DVD
The first season of The Boondocks was decent, but it couldn’t quite step out of the shadow of Aaron McGruder’s consistently hilarious comic strip. That’s why we were so surprised when Season Two, which debuted last October, turned out to be the best half-hour on television.
By focusing less on Huey (the “conscious” brother) and more on Huey (the wild, wanna-be thug brother), the show hit comedy gold. There were so many classic stories: Tom’s girl getting stolen by Usher. The whole saga of Thugnificent moving to the neighborhood. Lil Wayne crashing the house with a family of Katrina refugees. But after reviewing the new DVD box set (which comes out today and features the controversial banned BET episodes), we settled on our favorite moment from the entire series. It was from the episode called “Home Alone,” where Granddad goes on vacation and leaves Riley and Huey to fend for themselves with a jar of money for food. Watch the scene that had us rolling after the jump.
