Cartoon Network said ‘no way,’ but TELETOON says ‘Bring ’em on.’ The Canadian broadcaster has announced that it will air two controversial episodes of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks, which were pulled from the Adult Swim schedule earlier this year due to edgy content. TELETOON will present the installments during its late-night block, The Detour, which airs The Boondocks and other Adult Swim shows, as well as original animated content.
By dropping ‘The Huey Freeman Hunger Strike’ and ‘The Ruckus Reality Show,’ Adult Swim reduced the long-delayed second season of Boondocks to 13 episodes. In the latter, an African American character named Uncle Ruckus gets his own reality show and uses it as a platform for spouting racist views of his own people. An episode that did make the cut, however, is ‘The N-Word,’ in which the notorious racial slur is thrown out repeatedly and seemingly in the face of crusader Al Sharpton and others who have protested the show for its use of word.
The Boondocks is based on McGruder’s award-winning comic strip of the same name, which he chose to give up in order to focus on the animated incarnation. The Detour on TELETOON started airing episodes from the second season last November and will broadcast the two final episodes on Sunday March 16 and March 23 at 10:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
