A scene from The Boondocks - intentional metaphor for the Iraq war

[Greeby]

Run time: 03:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5mJ5MsFtK4   Posted on YouTube: April 17, 2015 By YouTube Member: YouTube Help Views on YouTube: 6978089   Posted on DU: December 17, 2006 By DU Member: Greeby Views on DU: 1544

 
Ed Wuncler III (Charlie Murphy) and Gin Rummy (Samuel L Jackson) are two psychotic Iraq War veterans (and essentially younger versions of Shrub and Rumsfeld) who, after being asked by Huey and Riley to find the "Xbox killer", decide to rob a convenience store instead. Obvious references to the war abound.

[John Gauger]

1. I saw that just yesterday.

I liked it so much that I decided to buy the show on DVD. That is a wonderful episode - the whole thing is deriding the Bush administration. Jackson repeats many lines from 'Pulp Fiction' in the episode, and he even throws in reference to 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' I loved it. Definitely worth watching.

[Selatius]

2. They were supposed to go after a guy who killed another...over an X-Box

Remind anybody of the killings over the new PS3?

[Cocoa]

6. there was an actual X-box killing case

in Florida of course. A group of friends killed SIX PEOPLE over a stolen X-box.

[rucky]

3. "Of course they're shooting back at us. You robbed their store." n/t

[KeepItReal]

4. "The absence of evidence is *not* the evidence of absence!" - Sam Jackson

Dayum!

[file83]

5. That was a great metaphor.

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