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Topic	RySenkari Ranks His Top 100 Television Episodes Of All Time
RySenkari 12/05/22 9:15:42 AM #39:	#74: The Passion Of Reverend Ruckus https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/9/AAAG8cAAD9Fp.jpg Show: The Boondocks Original airdate: March 19, 2006 "I've never prayed before. I don't even know who I'm praying to. Maybe I'm too young to know what the world is supposed to be... but it's not supposed to be this. It can't be this. So, please..." The Boondocks came out of the gate strong in 2005 with an excellent and bitingly funny first season, touching on the topics of race relations, poverty, criminal justice, and celebrity culture. It was never as crude as South Park but at times it could be just as controversial, and in the first season finale, Uncle Ruckus, an elderly self-hating racist black man, is stricken with cancer and given a vision of "White Heaven", in which Ronald Reagan comes to him in a dream and tells him to start a church devoted to hating his own race). At the same time, Huey is attempting to free a friend of his from prison who's set to be executed, and he comes up with a plan to violently raid the prison and bust his friend out. Uncle Ruckus is often a ludicrous character, spewing some of the most vile, racist things imaginable, but this episode turns him up to 11 to darkly humorous effect, eventually starting a race riot at his new church just as Huey learns he won't be able to reach his friend in time. The final sequence of the episode is set to the beautiful "Say I Believe In It", performed by Isabelle Antena, and is perhaps the most emotional moment in the show, as Huey, normally a stoic and serious character who's never had a religious belief in his life up to this point, falls to his knees in tears and starts praying for a miracle. I won't spoil the miracle itself, but suffice it to say that Reverend Ruckus' new church ends in fitting fashion, while Huey finds at least a spark of faith. The Boondocks often found refuge in audacity, but it was perhaps at its best when it briefly revealed its deeply emotional soul, and The Passion Of Reverend Ruckus laid that soul completely bare for all to see. A brilliant way to end the show's first season, though, unfortunately, it was rarely this good afterwards. --- This signature won't change until Chrono Trigger gets a re-release on a modern Nintendo console. <cite>RySenkari posted [p:969928976] in RySenkari ... [t:80259213]...</cite> <quote>#74: The Passion Of Reverend Ruckushttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/9/AAAG8cAAD9Fp.jpg Show: The BoondocksOriginal airdate: March 19, 2006"I've never prayed before. I don't even know who I'm praying to. Maybe I'm too young to know what the world is supposed to be... but it's not supposed to be this. It can't be this. So, please..."The Boondocks came out of the gate strong in 2005 with an excellent and bitingly funny first season, touching on the topics of race relations, poverty, criminal justice, and celebrity culture. It was never as crude as South Park but at times it could be just as controversial, and in the first season finale, Uncle Ruckus, an elderly self-hating racist black man, is stricken with cancer and given a vision of "White Heaven", in which Ronald Reagan comes to him in a dream and tells him to start a church devoted to hating his own race). At the same time, Huey is attempting to free a friend of his from prison who's set to be executed, and he comes up with a plan to violently raid the prison and bust his friend out. Uncle Ruckus is often a ludicrous character, spewing some of the most vile, racist things imaginable, but this episode turns him up to 11 to darkly humorous effect, eventually starting a race riot at his new church just as Huey learns he won't be able to reach his friend in time. The final sequence of the episode is set to the beautiful "Say I Believe In It", performed by Isabelle Antena, and is perhaps the most emotional moment in the show, as Huey, normally a stoic and serious character who's never had a religious belief in his life up to this point, falls to his knees in tears and starts praying for a miracle. I won't spoil the miracle itself, but suffice it to say that Reverend Ruckus' new church ends in fitting fashion, while Huey finds at least a spark of faith. The Boondocks often found refuge in audacity, but it was perhaps at its best when it briefly revealed its deeply emotional soul, and The Passion Of Reverend Ruckus laid that soul completely bare for all to see. A brilliant way to end the show's first season, though, unfortunately, it was rarely this good afterwards. --- This signature won't change until Chrono Trigger gets a re-release on a modern Nintendo console.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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