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NEW 'BOONDOCKS' DVD INCLUDES BANNED EPISODES: Season 2 collection features two unaired shows criticizing BET.
*The second season of Aaron McGruder's Cartoon Network series "Boondocks" comes to DVD Tuesday with two BET-skewering episodes that were never broadcast.
"The pair of shows take aim at BET's top executives and lampoon what it views as the cable network's harmful negative imagery and stereotypes," according to Los Angeles Times writer Greg Braxton.
In the episode "The Hunger Strike," a main character refuses to eat until BET is off the air and its executives commit hara-kiri. In "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show," a foul-mouthed black man who hates African Americans gets a show on BET.
A BET spokesperson told The Times that the network knew about the episodes and did not, as a network that runs its own satirical content, begrudge those who made fun of its programming.
According to the Times, the DVD release features stinging commentary from McGruder about the unedited episodes. In the introduction, McGruder said he targeted BET because network executives, in his view, failed to elevate standards as promised when Reginald Hudlin took the reins three years ago.
"I was looking for changes and improvements, and I didn't see any," McGruder said on the DVD. "I didn't see them. So I said, OK, it's fair game. It's hard not to address it. It really was an important part of the strip."
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