So are there any other huge fans of The Boondocks on here? I can't express just how much I love that show. Consistently one of the funniest shows on television, and almost always delivers a true message aimed at black youth about not falling into the negative cliches and stereotypes of lower class African Americans. I won't pretend to be a bastion of African American history or knowledge, and I wouldn't want to considering I'm white. But I think it's safe to say that Aaron McGruder is currently one of the best black writers working in TV if not the world.
And how can you not love that theme song?
The Boondocks are absolutely epic in every way possible. I became a HUGE fan of that show almost right off the bat. If y'all didn't know it's actually based on the daily comic strip that Aaron McGruder created. Absolutely hilarious, and the fight scenes they always have Huey in crack me up. The animation is top notch and the storylines are all great. McGruder is great for creating ridiculous characters either for recurring roles or just one shots. Examples would be A Pimp Named Slickback, which quite possibly could be Katt Williams' greatest role ever in movies or TV in my opinion, and then the "Killer Kung Fu Wolf Bitch" in her one episode of stalking Granddad. Hell, I'm not one for buying things of iTunes very often, but I bought the entire Season 2 off there, just goes to show how much I enjoy this show.
As far as the rest of AS goes, ATHF is awesome, my two friends and I would just blaze the fuck up all day long while watching entire seasons of the show, including the movie as well. Robot Chicken, well it's been said here already, one of the best shows on AS right now (I rate The Boondocks higher, just a little bit). Sealab 2021 was pretty damn funny as well, I'm disappointed they aren't making any new episodes for it. The Bizarro episode is one of my favorites.
There are just a ton of great shows on Adult Swim, ranging from Harvey Birdman, to Metalocalypse, 12 oz. Mouse, Lucy Daughter of the Devil, the list goes on and I haven't even got to the anime parts either, we'll get to that. However I am disappointed in some of the newer shows AS has been producing, Xavier I didn't find very entertaining, Tim and Eric Awesome Show just bores me to death, and some of the other shows are mindless and idiotic. So AS has become sort of hit and miss with me regarding their own produced material, mostly good, but some bad.
Now we get to why I started watching AS in the first place, the anime. Because of Adult Swim I found my favorite anime of all time in Cowboy Bebop after randomly going through channels one night. I was already into anime at that point in time but had never heard of Cowboy Bebop. I became a huge fan of AS after that and watched it religiously, especially all the anime programs they had going on there. Later on they included shows like Trigun, Tenchi Muyo, FLCL, Death Note, Lupin The 3rd, Full Metal Alchemist, Bleach, and one of my other favorite animes, Samurai Champloo. Ironically enough Samura Champloo was created by the same person that made Cowboy Bebop, hardly a coincidence if you ask me. So Adult Swim has had some terrific Anime to play on their programming block, but they've ventured away from it significantly, and I think this could be why I'm not watching AS much anymore. Well, that plus working at 7 am Monday through Friday and raising a kid doesn't help, but it just seems to me like the quality is dropping for Adult Swim, not saying that it's completely shit now, but I can't sit and watch anything that comes on it anymore like I used to.
So in the end, Adult Swim is still awesome, not as awesome as it used to be when it first started and wasn't a huge hit, but still pretty damn good, I hope they continue improving and maybe even bring Anime back to the spotlight once again.
