The Boondocks

Reverend Ruckus

Uncle Ruckus has seen the light.

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Season 1

EP 1 The Garden Party

Granddad's perpetual fear that Huey and Riley will embarrass him in front of their new neighbors reaches paranoid heights when the family attends a stuffy, high-class garden party. The good news is: only one person gets shot.

EP 2 The Trial of Robert Kelly

When the trial of R&B star R. Kelly comes to town, Huey and Riley are on opposing sides of the hot-button "underage peeing" issue.

EP 3 Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner

Granddad's bad luck with the ladies is about to change when he meets a very beautiful young woman. The boys disapprove when they discover that something is just "different" about her. Like the fact that she's a prostitute.

EP 4 Granddad's Fight

Granddad and Colonel Stinkmeaner have a beef. One man's blind. One man's feeble. Both are really, really old. Let "The Slugfest in Woodcrest" commence!

EP 5 A Date with the Health Inspector

District Attorney and law abiding citizen Tom Dubois fits the description of the elusive "X-Box Killer" and is arrested. Huey has to find the real killer, before Tom is shipped off to "real" prison where he will most assuredly be made very, very uncomfortable.

EP 6 The Real

While Riley's convincing two reality shows that Granddad's blind and running a homeless shelter, Huey is being shadowed by a secret government agent. But is he real?

EP 7 The Story of Gangstalicious

Riley's favorite rapper Gangstalicious is shot and hospitalized in Woodcrest. When he goes to visit the rapper he finds more than he anticipated... like maybe rappers that make songs like "Thugin' Luv" aren't necessarily as tough as they seem. Go figure.

EP 8 A Huey Freeman Christmas

A well meaning, liberal teacher offers Huey the chance to direct the elementary school Christmas play, and Huey decides to release his vision onto the world: "The Adventures of Black Jesus."

EP 9 Return of the King

When Martin Luther King comes out of a coma after 32 years and finds himself thrust into the 21st century and life in the post-September 11 era, his "turn the other cheek" philosophy quickly takes him from beloved national hero to despised terrorist sympathizer.

EP 10 The Itis

Granddad opens "The Itis," the first and only soul food restaurant in Woodcrest. White people never expected it. They also didn't expect high cholesterol, heart disease and obesity.

EP 11 Let's Nab Oprah

Huey has to stop Riley and a small gang of misfit idiots from nabbing the talk show deity, Oprah.

EP 12 Riley Wuz Here

Riley's affinity for graffiti goes too far when neighbors wake up to giant murals on their homes. Maybe a sweet natured, psycho war vet art teacher can help reel him in.

EP 13 Wingmen

When Granddad's oldest friend dies, the Freemans go back home and both Granddad and Huey have to learn to put the past behind them.

EP 14 The Block is Hot

Jazmine learns the true meaning of "Capitalism" when she sells her lemonade stand to corporate tycoon, Ed Wuncler.

EP 15 The Passion of Reverend Ruckus

While Ruckus spreads the word of White Jesus to get into White Heaven, Huey tries desperately to save his friend from death row.

Season 2

EP 1 ...Or Die Trying

Granddad forces the kids to sneak into the long awaited sequel for Soul Plane 2. What follows is bootlegging, nunchucks, and twenty dollar popcorn - everything a day at the movies should be.

EP 2 Tom, Sarah and Usher

After a chance meeting with Usher at a restaurant puts a strain on Tom and Sarah's marriage, Tom turns to A Pimp Named Slickback to help rescue his relationship.

EP 3 Thank You For Not Snitching

A rash of home invasions has Woodcrest in a panic and the neighborhood watch on high alert. The Freemans are all too eager to mind their own business. But when Riley witnesses the theft of Granddad's precious car Dorothy, will he crack under questioning? We're not telling.

EP 4 Stinkmeaner Strikes Back

Granddad's nemesis, Colonel H. Stinkmeaner, returns from hell to seek vengence on the Freemans and picks an unlikely vessel in poor Tom.

EP 5 The Story of Thugnificent

A superstar rap group moves in across the street and records a diss record about Granddad after a neighborly disagreement escalates into full blown rap beef.

EP 6 Attack of the Killer Kung Fu Wolf Bitch

Granddad invites a total stranger to the house for the weekend and has the nerve to act surprised when she turns out to be completely insane.

EP 7 Shinin'

Riley finally gets what he's always wanted - a platinum and diamond chain - only to have it snatched by the local bully. Afraid of disappointing his new crew, Riley will stop a nothing to recover his chain and rep.

EP 8 Ballin'

Riley joins Tom's little league basketball team and learns there's more to the game than flashy moves... there's crushing, humiliating defeat.

EP 9 The Invasion of the Katrinas

When family displaced by hurricane Katrina show up looking for a place to stay, Granddad does what anyone would do - try to find a way to get rid of them as quickly as possible.

EP 10 Home Alone

When Granddad takes a much needed vacation from the boys, Huey takes control of the house but has to contend with a vicious insurgency from Riley.

EP 11 The S-Word

Granddad and the good Rev. Rolo Goodlove try to cash in big after a teacher calls Riley 'the n-word' in school.

EP 12 The Story of Catcher Freeman

Three very different versions of a slave revolt led by Huey and Riley's great great great great great great grandparents. Who says the 1860's couldn't be fun?

EP 13 The Story of Gangstalicious, Part 2

Gangstalicious is back with a new hit song, a new clothing line, but the same old secret. Gayness ensues.

EP 14 The Hunger Strike

Huey organizes a boycott of BET and gets some high-profile help. Will it be enough to bring the world's worst cable network to it's knees? We can only hope.

EP 15 The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show

A BET reality show forces racist handyman Uncle Ruckus to accept the truth about his own blackness. The show and man begin to quickly fall apart.

Season 3

EP 1 It's a Black President, Huey Freeman

Remember "Yes We Can"? No, you don't? A German documentary follows the Freeman family from the election to the Inauguration of the country's first Black President, giving us a look back at the hope and change that already feels like ancient history.

EP 2 Bitches to Rags

Thugnificent has seen better days. Auto-tune, rap beef, nothing can stop the IRS when his new album tanks. Faced with the horror of getting a real job, Otis Jenkins takes some pretty desperate measures to stay afloat. Is there life after rap death?

EP 3 The Red Ball

When the Chinese call in some old debts, Ed Wuncler is forced to gamble all of Woodcrest's economic fortunes on a kickball game with its sister city, Wushung, China. Kickball legend Huey Freeman is to come out of self-imposed exile from the game to do battle with the red ball one last time. It's a kickball game to end all kickball games.

EP 4 Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy

Colonel H. Stinkmeaner had no family and no friends... but he did have a mean crew. Three of Stinkmeaner's old crew arrive in town to exact payback on the Freeman family. Is revenge a dish best served old?

EP 5 Smokin' with Cigarettes

If it's fun to do bad things, then Riley is having the best time ever with juvenile felon Lamilton Taeshawn. But when Lamilton wants to prove he has the "juice", the good times come to a shocking end. Will Riley "know the ledge"? Well anyone get these movie references?

EP 6 The Fund-Raiser

Riley takes over the school candy bar hustle and floods the block with sugar. But when the competition comes looking for payback, it's all out war for control of the chocolate covered streets. Will the sweet life take Riley under?

EP 7 Pause

Granddad is cast as the leading man by mega-superstar of stage and screen, Winston Jerome. But when the theater group turns out to be a homoerotic evangelical cult, it's up to Huey and Riley to put a pause to it.

EP 8 A Date with the Booty Warrior

Having conquered his fear of prison rape, Tom volunteers to lead Huey, Riley, and some classmates on a trip to jail as part of a "Scared Stiff" program. But when a riot breaks out, Tom has to get the kids, and his delicate backside, out of jail in one piece.

EP 9 The Story of Lando Freeman

There's a new handyman in the neighborhood undercutting Uncle Ruckus... which is all good for Granddad and his garden until the man claims to be his long lost son, Lando. Will Granddad take responsibility and be a father to his child? Not without a talk show paternity test...

EP 10 The Lovely Ebony Brown

Granddad finds a Black woman so beautiful and charming not even Ruckus can hate her. Ebony Brown is perfect in every way . . . so is this the end of Granddad's long, sad, desperate search for a woman? Not if he can help it.

EP 11 Mr. Medicinal

After a health scare, Granddad discovers the amazing life benefits of medical marijuana. But when Granddad suddenly becomes a balanced, well-adjusted person, Huey and Riley immediately know something is up.

EP 12 The Fried Chicken Flu

Is this how it all ends? When a fast food promotion crosses with a plague of biblical proportions, society spins out of control faster than you can say "white meat only." Will Huey Freeman's elaborate end-of-the-world survival plan stand up to the ultimate test? Will any of us ever get to eat fried chicken again?!

EP 13 The Color Ruckus

If you loved "The Color Purple," and can't get enough of "Precious," we present an equally powerful, emotionally gripping story of people senselessly beating on each other. Uncle Ruckus's family comes to town and Ruckus must settle some old business with his father. It's a tale of abuse, and triumph, and... actually no, it's just a tale of abuse.

EP 14 It's Goin' Down

A terror attack near Woodcrest is imminent, and domestic terrorist Huey Freeman is the main suspect. With super-agent Jack Flowers on his tail and Ed and Rummy on the loose, can anyone save the day?

Season 4

EP 1 Pretty Boy Flizzy

R&B singer and bad boy "Pretty Boy Flizzy" comes to town, and is arrested for armed robbery. Tom agrees to be Flizzy's lawyer in exchange for relationship advice. But Flizzy's guidance might have too harsh of a beat. Michael B. Jordan guest stars as Flizzy.

EP 2 Good Times

These are not "good times" for Granddad. He owes millions of dollars on his house to Eddie Wuncler (son of Ed Wuncler) who has some unique ideas of how Granddad can pay him back. And with Eddie appearing more like a gangster than a businessman, times are about to get worse.

EP 3 Breaking Grandad

It may not be meth, but the explosive hair product the Freemans are selling is just as dangerous. And even more lethal may be the black market of the hair-care industry run by Boss Willona.

EP 4 Early Bird Special

Granddad is hired by not-so-sweet grandmothers at a nursing home to escort lonely ladies. But this Woodcrest Gigolo is in for a surprise when he finds that the job is not as sexy as it sounds.

EP 5 Freedom Ride or Die

Civil Rights pioneers: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X... Robert Freeman? A young reluctant Granddad is held as an unwilling freedom rider by Revered Sturdy Harris, on a trip through the racist South. Despite his attempts to "turn the bus around" Granddad is led into dangerous territory. This isn't Woodcrest anymore. Dennis Haysbert guest stars as Reverend Sturdy Harris.

EP 6 Grandad Dates a Kardashian

Granddad co-stars on a reality show when he begins dating Kardashia, a newly discovered Kardashian sister. While Riley and Granddad love all of the swag they're receiving, Huey is more dubious of this new Kardashian's intentions. Can the Freemans keep up with Kardashia?

EP 7 Freedomland

The Freemans find that Eddie Wuncler's new slavery theme park "Freedomland" may be a bit too authentic, when they are trapped there and forced to be slaves. Huey must find a way to uproot them from this situation.

EP 8 I Dream of Siri

Granddad loves Siri on his new iPhone. Unfortunately, she loves him back, a bit too much. When she becomes obsessed with him, Granddad finds that Siri is one app that won't be deleted that easily.

EP 9 Stinkmeaner: Begun the Clone War Has

Stinkmeaner is back, or at least his clone is. After a fight with Granddad goes viral, Stinkmeaner turns into an instant celebrity. And seeking revenge, Granddad's hate may cause him to be yet another clone of Stinkmeaner. Edward Asner guest stars as Ed Wuncler.

EP 10 The New Black

Riley becomes the maligned target of gay rights groups after he calls his classmate "gay." In these sensitive times when everyone is offended by everything, Riley really has to watch what he says, even when his apology may upset people.