Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy
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| The Boondocks Character | |
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| Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy | |
 Ed Wuncler III (left) and best friend Gin Rummy |
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| Character Information | |
| Full Name | Ed Wuncler III Gin Rummy |
| Gender | Male |
| Relatives | Ed Wuncler (Ed's grandfather) |
| Hair | Ed: Short red Rummy: White cornrows |
| Occupation | Former soldiers, unemployed |
| Hobbies | Guns, criminality |
| Show Information | |
| First Episode | Ed: The Garden Party Rummy: A Date With The Health Inspector |
| Voice actor | Ed: Charles Q. Murphy Rummy: Samuel L. Jackson |
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Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy are two fictional characters from the Adult Swim animated television program, The Boondocks. They are both Iraq war veterans and occasional violent criminals. Ed Wuncler III, grandson of tycoon Ed Wuncler, is able to get away with just about any criminal activity he gets himself into due to the high status of his grandfather. Gin Rummy, Wuncler's best friend and fellow sociopath, usually serves as the "brains" and "muscle" of their plans, while Ed supplies the weaponry from his vast collection of firearms. The two are also obvious "wiggers" in terms of both their appearance and mannerisms.
[edit] Personality
Ed and Rummy are two sociopathic soldiers. They constantly drink, curse, and rob stores in order to prove their superiority. However, although the robberies are poorly-planned, they manage to get away with them. Riley Freeman points out that they get away with everything because Ed's grandfather is extremely rich and has the police on his payroll or because they rob people of "terrorist descent" (when he's talking about Arabs or those who appear Arab). Rummy ignores him and says they get away with crimes because he is a criminal mastermind.
Ed is the less intelligent and the more violent of the duo. In his first appearance on the show, he states, without any discomfiture, that he was discharged from the military because he had a habit of soiling himself under stress and other troops refused to be near him because of the smell. He likes to text messages, but Rummy doesn't approve because it can't be plugged into a printer. Ed is the de facto leader, but Rummy, being the somewhat more intelligent, plans the robbery (albeit poorly). Ed is a rough, foul-mouthed alcoholic. Sexually frustrated and foul-mouthed, he constantly drinks and likes to use physical force even when it's not needed. He also uses stereotypes and other vulgar insults (such as referring to a Middle Eastern shop owner as "of terrorist descent") in order to mock the people he is robbing.
Gin Rummy is a foil to Ed Wuncler III. Like Ed, he is another stereotype of a "wigger" with sociopathic undertones. As stated before, Rummy is the more intelligent one; however he is often shown to be a horrid tactician and planner. Unlike Ed, he is shown to be self-sufficient while Ed still lives with his grandfather. Also, he is shown to be more megalomaniacal while Ed is just plain idiotic. This is proven when he calls himself a criminal mastermind and when he covers up his failures by saying, "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence," and "it was a unknown unknown" which are allusions to Bush and Rumsfeld's belief of WMDs in Iraq.
Both of them seem to have a brotherly friendship. They both like weapons, alcohol, and robbing people. They both share the credit for the robberies, no matter how poorly-planned they happen to be. In addition, they are completely ignorant to the consequences of their actions and feel no remorse for them. However, they disagree about texting and Rummy makes fun of Ed's lack of swimming aptitude. Also, when they have a brotherly hug, Riley calls them gay (he also does this when Huey gives him one). Even with their access to dangerous firearms, ability to escape the consequences of their actions, and sociopathic tendencies, their stupidity often proves that they are bigger threats to themselves and to the people who are affiliated with them than anyone else.
