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While promoting her upcoming comedy 'Our Family Wedding,' actress Regina King couldn't contain her excitement for the return of the hit Cartoon Network series 'The Boondocks.'
She also talked about her frustration too.
After a more than two-year hiatus, post-production is underway for the third season of the beloved show, which should be airing in coming months.
Although the Cartoon Network has yet to send out an official announcement confirming a premiere date for the new season, 'Bonndocks' creator Aaron McGruder said via his social networking site that it should air March 28. The news coincides with his previous Twitter message on Christmas Day, in which he wrote, "Finally got an airdate for Season 3. Not sure if I'm allowed to put it out yet, so I'll just say you got about three months."
King, who voices two of the show's lead characters, brothers Huey and Riley Freeman, has been a little peeved about how the show's producers are handling the long-awaited return.
"I am so happy that it is coming back," King told BV Newswire, but added, "I wish there was some Web site that people could send [a message] to Sony [Television Entertainment] ... and say 'What are you doing?'" she charged.
"'Boondocks could be so bigger than what it is," the former '227' actress furthered. "If I had the money to buy 'The Boondocks' off Sony, I would because all of you would be wearing 'Boondocks' T-shirts and there would be Huey and Riley dolls. I would capitalize off of that, and I would be a very rich woman."
King cited Sony's lack of experience with animation as a reason for the show's delay and its failure to capitalize on 'Boondocks' merchandise.
The 38-year-old 'Ray' actress says her work on the show, based on McGruder's popular comic strip of the same name, is her most popular to date.
"Actually more than any other project that I have done, that's the one that I get asked about the most," King revealed. "For a show to take two and half year hiatuses and people still want it to come back, that's big," she said.
The NAACP Image Award winner, who currently appears on TNT's 'Southland,' says this season won't disappoint with talked-about topics. It will continue to follow the footsteps of previous controversial episodes such as 'The Trial of R.Kelly,' 'Let's Nab Oprah' and 'Return of the King.'
"We are coming for some people, ya know, in true 'Boondocks' fashion," King revealed.
The divorced mother of a 14-year-old son said that she is happy with how teenagers and young adults respond to the show and its satirical subject matters.
"[With[ the kids that are 16 through 25, they see the ridiculousness in things that are in videos when we make a parody out of it. ... They get it for exactly what it is, and I think it calls them on a lot of the stupid things that they embrace."
"They have never seen it in a caricature way," she added. "[When the kids] are seeing it in a video, it's cool, but when you see it silly in a cartoon, it's like, 'Yeah, Soulja Boy isn't that dope,' she laughed.
"No diss to him, but we have in the new episodes this song where they guy is [rapping] 'Crank That Artichoke' because some of the hooks are so ridiculous. Of course, Aaron is going to go in and I'm excited about it."
Before new episodes of 'The Boondocks' see the light of day, King will star in 'Our Family,' opposite Forest Whitaker, America Ferrara and Lance Gross. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa, the movie hits theaters on March 12.
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By: jsloroll on 3/01/2010 7:32PM
Sorry to inform you Pat, children do see and hear far worse in their homes, by both white and black parents. If you let kids hang out with grown folks, then they will absorb grown folk's business. The damage was done long before Boondocks, I bet by people like you.
Furthermore, there's a plethera of caucasian folk who troll these blogs claiming to be black to make a point to divide and conquer. This is the technological version of it. First they infiltrated our organizations to create dissention between us, now they're using cyberspace to infiltrate our websites to do the same thing. BEWARE of the devil. If he can't tear you apart one way, he'll do it another way. Kill, steal and destroy is his purpose. He'll twist a lie into the truth and the truth into a lie. I don't trust him as far as I can see him and it looks like it's everywhere.
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By: Ms Lisa-Joy on 3/04/2010 10:13PM
The Boondocks is pure garbage pure and simple. It's characters are rude, disrespectful and simply bad. My kids dare not look at it. I looked at it twice, and frankly, it should be rated X. Kids cannot learn anything positive from this piece of trash. It should be taken off television. I am sure there are some countries where this trash will not be showed. People who care about what their kids see and hear should not let them look at this mess. Yes, I know that kids will see far worse and hear far worse, but at least they do not have to hear it in their homes
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What show are you talking about? Please take another glimps. You'll see two kids with two different points of view. One has a thug point of view and the other has the veiw point of a socially thoughtful Black person.
I ask you to look at it not with the state of mind that says 'is this the bs they are talking about?' Instead open your mind to the two different ways of seeing things. Try to see the message in the names that's used such as Tom and Ruckus. Ask yourself some questions. You just might like the show.
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By: jesse jackson on 3/01/2010 5:06PM
This show, like tyler perry's movies further the stereo-type that 'blacks' are loud, violent and dumb and continued use of the "N" word is only hurting black culture! And by the way saying anything to the fact that "now that we have a BLACK president" sounds so stupid and racist and remember he is 1/2 white and 1/2 black and was raised by his white grandma after being abandoned by his black father!
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By: RLT on 3/01/2010 5:01PM
I think this show is very disrespectful to black people who are trying to rise above certain social stigmas. How can one use the "N" word in jest or parody and then get angry when others use it? What's more, the story lines and characters are very anti-social and degrading to kids and parents/grandparents. I thought Regina was a better actress and person than this. Sad.
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By: Shameka on 3/01/2010 5:53PM
My mother and I love the Boondocks. My mom is 45 yrs. old and I am 28 yrs. old. We have been watching since season 1 and own both seasons on DVD. The show may seem crass of like ghetto nonsense, but it actually make a lot of valid points. Not just pertaining to the African-American community, but the community as a whole. Love it, can't wait for Season 3
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By: emily29388 on 3/01/2010 5:01PM
Regina who? In the boon what?
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By: MIKE on 3/01/2010 5:03PM
Honestly, I watch ADULT SWIM every night and Boondocks is my least favorite show. They are trying to capitalize on being ignorant. Yeah, real good idea, lets make people in the U.S. more stupid. Our recent presidential election already shows us that we don't need to dumb down our country anymore than it already is. The only character that I like on the show is the old Black guy who hates Blacks...haha. That guy is funny as hell.
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By: Edward on 3/01/2010 5:03PM
GHETTO!!!!!!!!!!!!! King was to busy failing as an actress in Southland, while her Ghetto cartoon was shelved. This garbage is only airing because it's a black show. It makes ZERO money for Sony, so King shouldf shut her trap and be lucky to have her little demographic imperative spot on an equally as weak show.
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By: martee on 3/01/2010 5:05PM
I think Regina is absolutely correct about the poor handling of The Boondocks by Sony. They have really dropped the ball on the marketing opportunities for this show. By now, the show coud be big as Family Guy.
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By: Bob on 3/01/2010 5:09PM
The more I see of her, the more attractive she looks. Brains and beauty, what a great conbination.
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