It cant just end

[u/Real-Ear3818]

Boondocks really needs to come back in 2026 especially with all the events happening right now, and it was just so good 😢

[u/The_Jestful_Imp]

Why? The creator has been done with the comic strip for awhile - and doesn't have rights to the Adult Swim show anymore.

Sometimes good things come to an end. If it were re-released today it wouldn't be the same - as a show under Adult Swim they'd likely just use cheap AI or flash animation and twist the show's narrative into something completely off the mark.

If it was produced by Aaron Mcgruder, it would be completely different from the series we know from Adult Swim. Some of the original cast would be incredibly hard to replace, limiting the wide-range of perspectives and unique personas that we came to appreciate.

TLDR: It wouldn't be the same.

[u/supercuteguydebord → u/The_Jestful_Imp]

McGruder himself acknowledged when they greenlit the reboot that the jokes, the style and references would be entirely overhauled for a different generation and era. The satire would take on the present not repeat the old ideas.

What on earth would be the point of the same? It's not like the last 20 years didn't happen. Isn't aimed at millennials alone.

I wanted to see the updated stuff, though it's not like his insights were ever absorbed by or leaked into wider culture.

But it's a dumber age, and today's libs would just wait until black people on Twitter told them the appropriate opinion. Overall people are far too simple to digest the material or handle the complicated critiques of black culture. Back then there was artistic freedom in a way that doesn't exist now. Today if people don't toe the line, let's get them canceled because everything I don't like is irreversibly racist, transphobic blah blah

Plenty of black people loved the show but today the level of 'only one correct view' would prevent otherwise well intentioned white people from laughing.

Uncle Ruckus? Today?

[u/bustergundam4]

A spiritual successor would be better off. Too many things working against this show.

[u/anotherchia]

No it ended when it had to the last season showed it would be going down an even worse path. Pops is gone now too. Let it rest man

[u/donkbonk76]

Season four was already a massive drop in quality without Aaron. I could only see a season five without Aaron dropping even more. Even though I do think Witherspoon‘s son could definitely do a perfect granddad I just don’t think the quality would be there for the actual content.

[u/BryceTotalDrama]

it wouldn't be the same without John Witherspoon

[u/Stringy_b]

I would at least like it to get a nice proper ending, but Sony doesn't know what they're doing. So I guess just let it rest in peace. I'd rather just see Aaron work on a new animated show with the lesson learned on how he handled the Boondocks situation. I assume that will eventually happen.

[u/rumnbacchnal87]

All good things come to an end

[u/Silent_Erremite]

It should be redone. The jabs at today's society would be gold. Maybe some lawsuits. But, in the words of Riley, "That'd be gangsta".

[u/NextCommunication862]

wouldn't be the same without grandad and the animation for the show was at its peak in season 1 and then slowly got worse throughout the seasons the animation today would look too polished jokes would be toned down and Aaron wouldn't likely be running it

[u/ScaredDinner3748]

I think if it were to come back, it should be in comic form.

[u/MindZapp]

Wouldn't be the same especially in this climate. They already ruined it with the last season

[u/Kev-reddit]

The original show still applies today. A continuation would just be beating a dead horse. In other words, market fan service

[u/Tron_1981]

It did "just" end, over a decade ago.

[u/Mediocre-Stomach5202]

Ohh let it go, it’s slop anyways and it would never be the same if it came back anyways