4d ago

And God said, "I will give thee a pattern-seeking brain"

And Man said, "Like, for identifying predators and foraging for berries and stuff?"

And God said, "...Totally."

And Man said, "Season 3 of The Boondocks was first announced in December of 2009 and began airing in May of 2010, which means it's very conceivable that it began production contemporary with the original broadcast of K-On! season 1 (April-June 2009); indeed, this episode, 'Lovely Ebony Brown' (S3E11), aired only three months after the last episode of the English dub of K-On! season 1."

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That was a great episode of The Boondocks
Very meta
- "I don't know how many episodes I have left"
  Exactly 14, as it turns out...
Boondocks is so good
- Honestly, shame on me for taking until November of 2023 to finally start watching it. It'll probably take another year or so for me to finish it.
- it's good but there's a lot of gen x "pull your pants up" kinda shit in it that's getting more discourse lately.
Everytime I hear the opening intro to Boondocks I think Samurai Shampoo's Battlecry. RIP Nujabes
- That was the inspiration, wasn't it?
  
  I assume so, but I've never heard that from an official source. tbh, it felt more like appropriation or an outright ripoff, at the time. This was before anime was normalized in the US, Avatar the Last Airbender had only premiered earlier that year, so very few people had even an inkling that The Boondocks was drawing so much from it.
- I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  Link 1:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video
  Link 2:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video
I've seen episodes from season one of the boondocks and enjoyed it, never actually sat down and watched it in it's entirety.
- I've contemplated showing it on Blorptube once I'm done watching it with my mom.
  
  I'll have to swing by and watch a couple episodes then
It’s a pretty standard rock band formation shot from a high angle with a wide lens. Not exactly an unusual composition. I tried a quick image search to show some other examples but it was filled with fake AI slop so I gave up, but there’s a lot of promo photography and music videos that use the same kind of shot.
- Yes, it is a very good composition for a four-person rock band promo photo, so it's very dubious to think that the two pictures are actually connected in any way beyond coincidence.
  However, consider the following:

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