Let's Nab Oprah
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"Let's Nab Oprah" was the 11th show in the animated series The Boondocks. It originally aired on February 12, 2006.
[edit] Plot
Ed and Rummy are driving to get some lunch. Ed is sitting in the passenger seat sending text messages from his pager. Rummy comments about the stupidity of what he referrs to as "nigga technology".
"And you don't start trippin and shit callin me a racist cuz I don't mean 'nigga' in a disrespectful way. I'm mean it as a general term for ignorant motherfuckas'."
The conversation about the relative merits or lack thereof of text messaging is a reference to Jules and Vincent's conversations about cheeseburgers in Pulp Fiction. This is the second Pulp Fiction refernce made by Rummy in the series, and a logical joke since Samuel L. Jackson provides Rummy's voice.
The conversation ends as the car pulls up at a bank. Riley approaches and holds out a box of chocolates, asking if Ed and Rummy would like to buy one to help inner city children. Rummy asks how much and Riley responds, "Three... you hear that? THREE!" A quick title appears, indicating that Riley is the lookout. Ed and Rummy run into the bank and Ed fires his gun into the air. A title indicates that he is the leader of the operation. The style of these two titles is nearly identical to that employed in the introductory scene in the movie Snatch, which similarly identifies main characters by name. Rummy starts shouting and telling everyone to get down and do what he says (his title indicates his role as the muscle). There is an uncomfortable silence and then the bank manager asks, "Would you like us to take you to the safe?"
Rummy has apparently forgotten to ask for the money. They make it out of the bank with some big bags of cash and assorted jewels and the bank manager as a hostage. Ed checks the time and is overjoyed to see that the entire robbery has only taken 22 minutes. Rummy feels that this is pitiful. Riley comments that it would be bad if Ed's grandfather didn't own the bank and the police. As it happens, Ed is allowed to do whatever he wants. The bank manager takes the money back inside, obviously used to this routine.
Rummy still wants to prove himself as a criminal mastermind. He gets the idea to kidnap Oprah Winfrey when she comes to Woodcrest to sign books, reasoning that Oprah controls the minds, buying habits and summer reading patterns of millions of women. The trio run a similar operation to the bank jobs with Riley as lookout and Ed and Rummy running in and firing their guns. There is a long gun battle, much confusion, and Ed and Rummy go running out of the bookstore carrying a body in a sack. They start to drive away when Ed gets a text message from Riley.
"Dear Ed, That's not Oprah!"
Ed and Rummy ran into the wrong bookstore and kidnapped Maya Angelou. Riley says that Ed and Rummy are idiots that plan things badly. Rummy says that it was an honest mistake and that anyone could have made it. He decides to kidnap Oprah when she films an episode of her show the next day.
Predictably, Ed and Rummy's plans fail again due to sheer stupidity, and they end up kidnapping Bill Cosby (whom they promptly return, due to Dr. Cosby being very annoying).
[edit] Trivia
- Most of Ed and Rummy's activities are statements about the Iraq War and the poor planning that went into it.
- This episode used the songs "Raid", "All Caps", and "Strange Ways" by Madvillain.
- Rummy makes several references to Oprah's legal battles with the beef industry in 1998
- On the first airings of this episode on Teletoon, the music, bleeps and music of the Sony Pictures Television International logo are warbled. The problem was later corrected.
- Huey and Riley have a fight scene in this episode that is choreographed much like fights in Japanese animation.
- Oprah's security guard, Bushido Brown, has a similar design to Jim Kelly's character in the martial arts film Enter the Dragon, going as far to use the quote "Man, you come straight out of a comic strip," similar to Kelly's "Man...You come right out of a comic book" line from the aformentioned movie. This is the second reference to the film in the series. It also alludes to the fact that Huey actually is straight out of a comic strip.
- Huey mentions a previous episode in which Ed III and Rummy stopped for a drink and robbed the store.Riley comments withso they were terriosts why do you hate america huey why!
- In the fight scene where Huey attempts to stop Riley from meeting up with Ed and Rummy; Huey wields a reverse blade sword, made famous by the legendary anime samurai, Himura Kenshin; of Rurouni Kenshin
