The Garden Party
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The Garden Party is the first episode in the animated series The Boondocks.
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The Boondocks Season 1 |
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[edit] Plot Summary
The main characters, Huey and Riley Freeman, begin to adjust to life in Woodcrest. Meanwhile, the boys' grandfather Robert (called "Granddad" by Riley and Huey) receives a visit from Ed Wuncler Sr., who owns the Freeman house.
Ed invites Robert, Huey and Riley to a garden party at his mansion to celebrate his grandson's return from Iraq. At the party, the Freemans meet Ed Wuncler III, who talks about his life in Iraq and delivers his trademark line " The fuck y'all Looking at?" for the first time and is an obvious "wigga" (a white person who acts like an exaggerated version of a young black person), and Uncle Ruckus, who is a self-hating black man who is ironically the darkest character on the show.
Huey tries to convince the other people at the party that Jesus was black, The government is hiding the truth about 9-11, and that Ronald Reagan was the Devil. They don't seem to care due to the fact that they are rich. Meanwhile, Riley and Ed III go to Ed's room and begin to mess with Ed's large closet full of guns. Ed III, while wearing a bulletproof vest, dares Riley to shoot him with a loaded SPAS-12. Meanwhile, Uncle Ruckus is singing a song he wrote called "Don't Trust Them New Niggas Over There", to the crowd. The "niggas" in question being Robert and Huey. Riley fires the gun, and shoots Ed out of the window. Ed, apparently was unhurt, and delivered his catchphrase "Fuck y'all lookin at?" for the second time.
Later, Riley brags about shooting Ed Wuncler III. Robert Freeman apologizes to Ed Wuncler Sr. for the incident, and Ed Sr. says "In thirty years, that boy will be president of the United States... and he'll still be a fucking idiot.". In the end, they have a toast to the old school.
[edit] Trivia
- The opening scene was originally supposed to be a Star wars parody scene.
- When Riley fires the shotgun, he hurts his right arm. But when he is shown with a cast, it is on his left.
- Ed Wuncler III is a parody of George W. Bush (see Ed Sr.'s quote at the end of the summary for clarification)
- This is the first episode Ed III says "the fuck ya'll lookin at?"
- Riley wears a suit similar to the suits worn by Tony Montana in Scarface. He makes a second allusion to the film when he shouts "Say hello to my leetle friend" before shooting Ed in the chest.
- The priest, the violinist in the green dress, and the man with the red hair and beard appear in other episodes as people in the background often.
- The scene where Robert is doing Tae Bo naked is uncensored on the DVD Boxset.
- Every time a character drinks orange juice in the series, they will say "A full day's supply of vitamin C." This is the first instance of that recurring theme.
- When Huey looks out the window with the airsoft gun, it seems similar to the famous picture of Malcolm X peering out of his window with an M1 carbine.
[edit] Cultural References
- Riley's line before he fires the shotgun is a line that Scarface used.
- Riley wears a suit similar to the suits worn by Tony Montana in Scarface
- Uncle Ruckus saying to Robert: "They must think the sun shines out your ass." could be a reference to the movie Monty Python's The Life of Brian, where the same line is spoken by a prisoner.
