This season’s second “banned” episode of Adult Swim cartoon The Boondocks has leaked online, after airing in Canada.
In what was supposed to be the Season Finale, racist black character Uncle Ruckus is given a reality show on BET. The show sees Ruckus giving a tour of the mini-shrines to white people in his home, welcoming white kids onto the school bus he drives while shooing black child characters Riley and Huey away from it, and criticizing the idea of school desegregation.
Midway through the episode, Ruckus takes a heritage test and gets results that say he’s 102% African. Previously saying that he had a disease in which his white skin was turned black, he goes through a stupor of depression for the remainder of the episode.
Character Wedgie Rudlin—presumably, a parody of the name Reggie Hudlin—has more of a prevalent role in this episode than in the previously-leaked “The Hunger Strike.” [click here to read] He introduces the concept of “BETAnimation,” and offers a cartoon version of McDonald’s Hamburglar (“He’s a hungry thug,” he beams) as the show “Beef” as an idea for the segment. He also has a monologue in which he tells Ruckus about BET’s mission to destroy black people, and how passionate he is about it.
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This episode matches the description of the second show that an anonymous source told HipHopDX was banned [click here to read]. In the exclusive interview, the source said that rumors circulated that higher ups at BET were pressuring Sony to not air the episodes. Cartoon Network has confirmed that the shows weren’t scheduled to air in the U.S., but they’ve denied claims of being pressured by BET.
