The Boondocks

Creator Aaron McGruder stretches his controversial comic strip format into an innovative, thought-provoking half-hour assault on hypocrisy not seen since Hippocrates caught a parental beating for visiting the ladies vomitorium as "Hippochrissy." Urbanites Huey and Riley Freeman are taken into their grandfather’s home in the Boondocks (affluent WASP community), where their inner-city street knowledge, and distrust for all things whitey, leaves upwardly mobile Granddad to clean up their "Da Man"–battling aftermath. Boondocks dives into racially-charged derisive stories willing to show the absurdity of both sides of bigoted finger-pointing (McGruder promises R. Kelly is going to be pissed) that should be scoffed at in hopes of desensitizing epithets for the next generation. Both distinctly voiced by Ray's Regina King, the brothers Freeman sound exactly like you imagined while reading the funny pages. With other characters voiced by "it" comedy actors Charlie Murphy (Chappelle’s Show) and Cedric Yarbrough (Reno 911), Boondocks excels at melding sociopolitical awareness with enough ‘N’ bombs to make the kiddies think it is the word of the day.