Let's Nab Oprah
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| The Boondocks episode | |||
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| "Let's Nab Oprah" | |||
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| Episode no.: | 11 | ||
| Prod. code: | 112 | ||
| Airdate: | February 12, 2006 | ||
| Writer(s): | Aaron McGruder Yamara Taylor |
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| Director: | Seung Eun Kim | ||
| Guest star(s): | Samuel L. Jackson Charles Q. Murphy |
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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 pull up the car to the 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!". Riley successfully plays his part as the lookout. Ed and Rummy then run into the bank and Ed fires his gun into the air. Rummy starts shouting and telling everyone to get down and to do what he says.
Rummy has apparently forgotten to ask for the money. They make it out of the bank with the spoils of the robbery and the bank manager as a hostage. 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. However, Rummy still wants to prove himself as a criminal mastermind by kidnapping Oprah at a book signing. 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, saying that they kidnapped Maya Angelou who was at a book signing across the street.
Due to Rummy's tenacity, they attempt to kidnap Oprah again before her show. Huey tries to stop them and bring Riley home, but he fails when he is defeated by Oprah's top bodyguard, Bushido Brown. Fortunately, Ed and Rummy's plans fail again due to sheer stupidity as they go to the wrong dressing room. They end up kidnapping Bill Cosby, but they don't follow through because Bill Cosby was 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.
- The Caption scenes with the characters names(example: "Ed Wuncler III: The Leader") are inspired by the movie Snatch by Guy Ritchie
- 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 aforementioned 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. The fight between them could also be perceived as a reference to the fight between Bruce Lee's character and that of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in The Game of Death, the main difference being that Brown eventually defeats Huey.
- Huey mentions a previous episode in which Ed III and Rummy stopped for a drink and robbed a gas station run by people of Arabic descent. Riley comments with "They was fighting terrorism. Making the world safe for the freedoms we enjoy today! That's messed up. You don't support the troops, Huey."
