History HilariousInHindsight / TheBoondocks

** {{Creator/BET}} starts producing animated shows, and an employee is shown to be reading a ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' comic, which became funny when BET developed [[WesternAnimation/BlackPanther their own adaptation]].

* In real life, people have compared certain black guys to Uncle Ruckus, either by having a similar physical appearance and/or [[BoomerangBigot personality]]. A great example is [[https://i.imgur.com/zzUAdU6.jpg this overweight black man hanging out with a white nationalist]], which is even funnier because of "The Story of Jimmy Rebel", which had that premise for its plot.[[note]]The two men in the photo are, respectively, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis Daryl Davis]], a musician and activist who tries to fight racism by [[TurnTheOtherCheek befriending Klansmen]]; and Frank Ancona, a {{UsefulNotes/K|uKluxKlan}}KK Imperial Wizard who developed some respect for Davis, though he would later be [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/13/kkk-imperial-wizard-found-shot-dead-mo-river-bank/97842832/ murdered by his own wife and stepson]].[[/note]]

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a {{UsefulNotes/KFC}} restaurant throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted.[[note]]This was actually loosely based on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be a real-life incident at a Popeyes restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something even more similar to this episode's scene happened again when Popeyes launched their chicken sandwich, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20191111153009/https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html with multiple incidents where customers were fighting and even killing people over the sandwich]].

* In "Return of the King", a UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr biopic film has the misfortune of premiering one week after the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. Later in 2014, the MLK biopic ''{{Film/Selma}}'' had the misfortune of being released after several racially and politically charged UsefulNotes/{{Black Lives Matter|Movement}} protests, which contributed to its poor box office performance. This seems to be a rather bitterly ironic case of LifeImitatesArt.
* In "Let's Nab Oprah", when Ed and Rummy mentioned that they were once in the U.S. Army Special Forces, Riley quips that they should've been in the Special Olympics because of their stupidity. Ironically, in the last episode "The New Black", Robert and Rollo lie that Riley is mentally disabled, and force him to participate in the Special Youth Olympics.

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeyes restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeyes launched their chicken sandwich, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20191111153009/https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html with multiple incidents where customers were fighting and killing people over the sandwich]].

* "Freedomland" has, as its premise, a theme park where people are kidnapped and forced to reenact antebellum slavery. 2020 would see the release of ''Antebellum'', a film with the same premise, only played dead serious.

* "Freedomland" has, as its premise, a theme park where people are kidnapped and forced to reenact antebellum slavery. 2020 would see the release of ''Film/Antebellum'', a film with the same premise, only played dead serious.

* Gangstalicious, an ArmoredClosetGay rapper whose songs contain poorly hidden homosexual themes becomes this in light of the explosion in fame and infamy of Music/LilNasX, an openly gay rapper whose songs contain very deliberate homosexual themes.

** Gangstalicious, an ArmoredClosetGay rapper whose songs contain poorly hidden homosexual themes becomes this in light of the explosion in fame and infamy of ''Music/LilNasX'', an openly gay rapper whose songs contain very deliberate homosexual themes.

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeyes restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeyes launched their chicken sandwich, with multiple incidents where customers were fighting and killing people over the sandwich.

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeyes restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeyes launched their chicken sandwich, with [[https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html multiple incidents where customers were fighting and killing people over the sandwich]].

* In "Return of the King", a UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr biopic film has the misfortune of premiering one week after the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. Later in 2014, the MLK biopic ''{{Film/Selma}}'' had the misfortune of being released after several racially and politically charged UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatter protests, which contributed to its poor box office performance. This seems to be a rather bitterly ironic case of LifeImitatesArt.

* In "Return of the King", a UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr biopic film has the misfortune of premiering one week after the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. Later in 2014, the MLK biopic ''{{Film/Selma}}'' had the misfortune of being released after several racially and politically charged UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement protests, which contributed to its poor box office performance. This seems to be a rather bitterly ironic case of LifeImitatesArt.

** Stephen, [[TheDragon the loyal right-hand slave of the villain]], acts a lot like Tobias. Not to mention that Stephen bears a ''very strongly uncanny'' resemblance to [[BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus]] (or more precisely, his father Mister Ruckus from "The Color Ruckus"). Stephen was also played by Creator/SamuelLJackson who voiced Gin Rummy in the show.

* Tom [=DuBois=] is ''not'' supposed to be UsefulNotes/BarackObama. True, Tom is a light-skinned black man, and also a highly liberal attorney who strongly wants to make a difference in the world, even though he often gets screwed over by others, but the character was developed way before Obama became a national figure. [=McGruder=] apparently noticed this and [[LampshadeHanging took full advantage of it]] in "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman":
-->'''Creator/WernerHerzog:''' I can't help but notice you're like a [[PoorMansSubstitute less attractive, less wealthy, less powerful version of him]].
** In the same episode, the idea that a number of people only came at Obama's inauguration because they had been given fake VIP tickets becomes this given Donald Trump's petulant reaction to the fact that his numbers seem to have been way worse than his predecessor's.

* In "The Fried Chicken Flu", there's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeyes restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeyes launched their chicken sandwich, with [[https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html multiple incidents where customers were fighting and killing people over the sandwich]].

** Stephen, [[TheDragon the loyal right-hand slave of the villain]], acts a lot like Tobias. Not to mention that Stephen bears a ''very strongly uncanny'' resemblance to [[BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus]] (or more precisely, his father Mister Ruckus from "The Color Ruckus").

* In "Return of the King", a UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr biopic film has the misfortune of premiering one week after the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. Later in 2014, the MLK biopic ''{{Film/Selma}}'' had the misfortune of being released after several racially and politically charged Black Lives Matter protests, which contributed to its poor box office performance. This seems to be a rather bitterly ironic case of LifeImitatesArt.

* "The Fried Chicken Flu":
** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeyes restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeyes launched their chicken sandwich, with [[https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html multiple incidents where customers were fighting and killing people over the sandwich]].

** This whole episode, which was originally made as a satire of the then-recent swine flu pandemic of 2010, has become funny and relevant again due to everything about the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic of 2020; which has caused quite a lot of worldwide social chaos comparable to the events of the episode's plot, up to and including entire countries enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, while people are making all sorts of morbid jokes to cope with the crisis.

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted by a publicity stunt.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeye's restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeyes launched their chicken sandwich, with [[https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html multiple incidents where customers were fighting and killing people over the sandwich]].

* In "Let's Nab Oprah", when Ed and Rummy mentioned that they were once in the US Army special forces, Riley quips that they should've been in the Special Olympics because of their stupidity. Ironically in the last episode "The New Black", Robert and Rollo lie that Riley is mentally disabled, and force him to participate in the Special Youth Olympics.

** This whole episode, which was originally made as a satire of the then-recent swine flu pandemic of 2010, has become funny and relevant again due to everything about the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]], which has caused quite a lot of worldwide social chaos comparable to the events of the episode's plot up to and including entire countries enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, while people are making all sorts of morbid jokes to cope with the crisis.

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted by a publicity stunt.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeye's restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeye's launched their chicken sandwich, with [[https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html multiple incidents where customers were fighting over the sandwich]].

* [[http://hueyfreemanonlyspeaksthetruth.tumblr.com/image/41829907197 This comic strip]], [[{{Animesque}} thanks to the TV show]].

* In real life, people have compared certain black guys to Uncle Ruckus, either by having a similar physical appearance and/or [[BoomerangBigot personality]]. A great example is [[http://i.imgur.com/zzUAdU6.jpg this overweight black man hanging out with a white nationalist]] (which is even funnier because of "The Story of Jimmy Rebel", which had that premise for its plot).[[note]]The two men in that photo are respectively [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis Daryl Davis]], a musician and activist who tries to fight racism by [[TurnTheOtherCheek befriending Klansmen]]; and Frank Ancona, a {{UsefulNotes/K|uKluxKlan}}KK Imperial Wizard who developed some respect for Davis, though he would later be [[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/13/kkk-imperial-wizard-found-shot-dead-mo-river-bank/97842832/ murdered by his own wife and stepson]].[[/note]]

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC throw temper tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken, a special type that was being promoted by a publicity stunt.[[note]]This was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real life incident at a Popeye's restaurant]].[[/note]] Seven years after the episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a publicity stunt]] in which they re-released their Szechuan sauce for one day only to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans.[[note]]The sauce was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998. It was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in the ''Rick and Morty'' episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption", and it became a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards.[[/note]] However, [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce, as it was only available in very low quantities, which made many ''Rick and Morty'' fans similarly angry and upset. Something similar happened again when Popeye's launched their chicken sandwich, with [[https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html multiple incidents where customers were fighting over the sandwich]].

* From "The Garden Party" and "A Huey Freeman Christmas", Huey's claim that "Jesus was black" is an example, due to Aaron [=McGruder=]'s new show ''Series/BlackJesus''.

* In "Return of the King", a UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr biopic film has the misfortune of premiering one week after the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. Later in 2014, the MLK biopic ''{{Film/Selma}}'' had the misfortune of being released after several racially- and politically-charged Black Lives Matter protests, which contributed to its poor box office performance. This seems to be a rather bitterly ironic case of LifeImitatesArt.

** He bears a strong resemblance to Anime/AfroSamurai, who would become an anime icon two years after Bushido Brown had debuted in the episode "Let's Nab Oprah".[[note]]Sure, Afro ''technically'' came first, since ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' [[OlderThanTheyThink started as an amateur manga comic in 1999]]. However, the series remained all but unknown in America until the 2007 anime adaptation came out.[[/note]]

* In "Wingmen", Granddad is revealed to have been a Tuskegee Airman, and his former best friend was a cocky and reckless pilot nicknamed Moe "Guns". Aaron [=McGruder=] would later go on to write the screenplay for the Tuskegee Airmen movie ''Film/RedTails'', which also featured a cocky and reckless pilot as one of the characters (another was nicknamed "Ray Gun").

** There's a scene in which angry costumers at a KFC restaurant throw temper-tantrums (and even riot) upon learning that the place had run out of fried chicken (a special type that was being promoted by a publicity stunt)[[note]](this was actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw&feature=youtu.be loosely based on a real-life incident at a Popeye's restaurant]])[[/note]]. 7 years after that ''Boondocks'' episode aired, UsefulNotes/McDonalds tried out [[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636 a (disastrous) publicity stunt]], in which they re-released (for one day only) their "Szechuan sauce"[[note]](which was originally released to promote ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in 1998)[[/note]] to attract curious ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fans[[note]](the Szechuan sauce was [[ShoutOut mentioned]] in one episode of that show, and apparently it became quite a [[Memes/RickAndMorty meme]] afterwards)[[/note]]. However [=McDonald's=] quickly ran out of the sauce (it was only available in very low quantities), which made the ''R&M'' fans similarly angry and upset.
*** What makes this even funnier is that in both the fictional KFC incident and the real-life [=McDonald's=] incident, is how seriously those customers had taken those shameless fast-food cash-grabs; people had driven on the highways ''for hours'' just to reach the restaurants, and very long lines of impatient people formed, and then they reacted with whiny disappointment at not getting the food. Talk about LifeImitatesArt!
*** Something similar happened again when Popeye's launched their chicken sandwich, with [[https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article237221196.html multiple incidents where customers were violently fighting over the sandwiches]].
** This whole episode[[note]](which was originally made as a satire of the then-recent swine flu pandemic of 2010)[[/note]] has become funny and relevant again due to everything about the {{UsefulNotes/coronavirus}} pandemic of 2020, which has caused quite a lot of worldwide social chaos comparable to the events of the episode's plot (up to and including entire countries enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, while people are making all sorts of morbid jokes to cope with the crisis).
* The episode "I Dream of Siri", which involves a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots sapient smartphone app]] [[{{Yandere}} falling in love with Granddad and then ruining his life to try and get him to love her back]], shares a very similar premise to the 2019 film ''{{Film/Jexi}}''.

*** Something similar happened again when Popeye's launched their chicken sandwich, with at least [[https://twitter.com/iamwilliewill/status/1164737288812863489 one incident where customers reacted with violence when one branch ran out of the sandwiches]].

** This whole episode[[note]](which was in fact a satire of the then-recent swine flu pandemic of 2010)[[/note]] has become funny and relevant again due to everything about the {{UsefulNotes/coronavirus}} pandemic of 2020, which has caused quite a lot of worldwide social chaos comparable to the events of the episode's plot (up to and including entire countries enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, while people are making all sorts of morbid jokes to cope with the crisis).

** This whole episode[[note]](which should be noted was a satire of the then-recent swine flu pandemic of 2010)[[/note]] has become funny and relevant again due to everything about the {{UsefulNotes/coronavirus}} pandemic of 2020, which has caused quite a lot of worldwide social chaos comparable to the events of the episode's plot (up to and including entire countries enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, while people are making all sorts of morbid jokes to cope with the crisis).

** This whole episode[[note]](which should be noted was a satire of the then-recent swine flu pandemic of 2010)[[/note]] has become funny and relevant again due to everything about the {{UsefulNotes/coronavirus}} pandemic of 2020, which has caused quite a lot of worldwide social chaos comparable to the events of the episode's plot (up to and including entire countries enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, and people are making all sorts of morbid jokes to cope with the crisis).