It took him long enough, but Aaron McGruder's post-black-president return to television last night, with the third season premiere of The Boondocks, exceeded just about all expectations. It was hilarious, thoughtful, poignant, realist without being cynical, did I mention hilarious?
In the fully loaded episode, Candidate Obama gets linked to "10-year-old domestic terrorist Huey Freeman," Huey retires, Tom's wife can barely contain herself at the thought of Barack's "fitness for leadership," Uncle Ruckus says "No You Can't," Bill Maher shows up to grill a suddenly politically active Thugnificient, Grandad and Riley go to the inauguration only to become two bros who got tazed, and Werner Herzog documents it all.
For evidence of just how much comic gold there is here, check out the above video for the doubtlessly viral anthem "Dick Riding Obama," which features the new and improved Thugnificient and artfully skewers everyone's favorite hip-hop rube, Will.i.Am.
We're thinking about doing short recaps of all the episodes this (final) season. You definitely cannot watch the whole thing here.
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Apple now has Rhapsody as an app, which is a great start, but it is currently hampered by the inability to store locally on your iPod, and has a dismal 64kbps bit rate. If this changes, then it will somewhat negate this advantage for the Zune, but the 10 songs per month will still be a big plus in Zune Pass' favor.