HipHopDx.com has an exclusive story about two new The Boondocks episodes that may never air on Adult Swim and may not even make it to the second season DVD release.  They are reporting that an anonymous source close to the situation issued a statement exclusively to HipHopDX.com explaining that not one, but two episodes have been banned from airing. Here’s his statement as to what has transpired in recent weeks.

“It now appears official that TWO episodes of The Boondocks second season — clips of which surfaced on and then were pulled from Youtube — will not air. At all. Ever.

Fans who were waiting for the show to reach the levels of controversy that last year’s Peabody Award-winning “The Return of Martin Luther King” episode achieved will have to cross their fingers and hope that Sony execs don’t also pull the episodes from the second season DVD, which is slated for late spring.

The two episodes were originally scheduled to air on November 16 and December 17, respectively. No official reasons were given for the banning of the episodes from either Sony or Adult Swim as of yet.

Rumor has it the higher ups at BET have been pressuring Sony behind the scenes for months to yank the episodes, including threatening legal action. Now I’m pretty biased as a BET hater, but it’s sad the people in charge over there are more worried about being teased by a cartoon than producing good television. Not surprising, but still sad.

I’m a fan of the show and I’ve seen the episodes and they are undoubtedly the most cutting, brilliant and funny episodes of the season. In the first one: “The Hunger Strike” – Huey teams up with an Al Sharpton-like character (played by Cee-Lo Green from Gnarls Barkley) and goes on a hunger strike to protest BET. In what has since become a bizarre example of life imitating art, BET execs ‘Deborah Leevil’ and ‘Weggie Rudlin’ (imagine Black female Dr. Evil and Reginald Hudlin as Number 2) go through extraordinary lengths to thwart young Huey’s crusade. In the second one, titled “The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show”, BET gives Uncle Ruckus his own show…”

This is a sad situaltion when a network can basically censor another network or television show for, well, telling the truth.  The Boondocks is one of the most innovative shows about black culture on TV.  I think once you understand that it is satire, and that they are pointing out the wrongs being done to and within the black community, you can laugh at and understand the message they are trying to get across.

It’ll be interesting to see what else comes of this story.  We’ll be sure to follow it here at fhh.  If you want to see a clip of the “The Hunger Strike” episode click here. **(clip contains explicit language).

-PS: I met Debra Lee and she is not that mean, at least from what I saw.