So... why did it take 9 years to show 4 seasons

none of your business.

^Ignore Pajamama above. She just a mindless Boondocks fangirl who thinks she is hot sh!t around here cause she has some insider info about the show or something. She'll act like a brat if you don't treat the Boondocks like it is God's gift to the universe.

Anyway, good question. It took nine years just to push out four seasons and the last one was complete crap. I wouldn't be surprised if executive meddling had something to do with the long waits between the first three seasons. The wait for the fourth probably had something to do with McGruder planning on canning the show after the third season.

I can only assume some possibilities:

1.) I know that McGruder was hospitalised due to exhaustion some time during one of the series, which could affect how the next will be written and/or aired.

2.) I know that he worked on a film called Red Tails, but that was in 2012.

3.) I have a hunch that there was a hold-up with the fourth because, besides the movie, there was probably something going on between McGruder and Adult Swim.

4.) Boondocks-related material throughout the years.

The gap between the second and third is mystifying to me. The gap between the first and second was somewhat expected, yes... due to whether or not to invest in a new series and when it would fit in AS's schedule.

Look, two things flaming at the same time.

From what I heard Aaron had to be convinced into doing the third, and part of the forth season. So I think his resistance probably greatly impeded the shows airing schedule.

Boondocks was one of the most popular animated series of the last 10 years, so I wouldn't think that it was Adult Swim that was being temperamental and imagine that they would have been happy to air as many episodes as McGruder's team were willing to produce. I've seen much less acclaimed animated series continue on more consistently. I suspect that AM tended to be fickle with his devotion to the show. As if at several points he had to be convinced to keep going, was never willing to commit the way Matt Stone/Trey Parker or Seth MacFarlane were to their shows, or perhaps was difficult to negotiate with.

Honestly, I think it's rude of all involved to play with fans the way they did. I know cartoons take longer to produce, but going 2, 3 and 4 years in between seasons (with it halfway seeming like the show might've been cancelled) is unreasonable. For a show that often lambasted stereotypical traits of black folks, the CPT production pace of Boondocks seems almost hypocritical.


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IMO, he seems to be someone with OCD who reworks his material over and over till it's perfect. That slows you down, extremely.

Hospitalized for 'exhaustion' is usually another way of saying a person had a major depressive episode. If he battles chronic depression that also would slow his work down.

I'm just hypothesizing and have no idea why it took him longer than typical to put out 3 seasons of 13 episodes as he had stopped working on the strip in 2006 and I don't know of any other major time demands other than the show and public speaking.

I'm glad he's got a new project. Just getting to Black Jesus today.

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Because the creator, for better or worse, is not the type of artist who enjoys creating stuff cyclically. Lots of writers struggle with deadlines and also with rehashing their past work.

He clearly wanted to move on to other things. Honestly I think he'd have been set with just one season. But it was a big hit and he was under contract.

It's hard for certain people to imagine creating your own TV show as hard, unfulfilling work, but that's how it feels to some people

Just look back and see television series decades ago: There were many more episodes, even if it was the production was high end.

Gatchaman's first 105 episodes were 1972-1974 which averages about 52 episodes each year or season, one per week. and while the animation wasn't fluid, it wasn't choppy either. The backgrounds look like matte paintings. So they had no problem making it with "special animation".

The Centurions was co-produced in Japan and it had 5 part mini series and then a 60 episode single season.

Bravestarr was only a single season of 65 episodes.

Fat Albert (which I want to compare this show to) was made on and off for 13 years. In the final season, they made 50 episodes. (The previous seasons, however, were very limited, both in amount and quality.)

The animation for The Boondocks is very beautiful, but nothing at all in the animation is what slowed it down.

What slowed it down, was the creator wanting to supervise EVERYTHING, and co-write every episode, and he only had enough to do about 15 per year. This practice is very similar to U.K. programmes. But now that Aaron is gone, then that will make production even slower. The people tried to make a 20 episode season (or is that a rumor?) but failed. They only released 10 episodes.

The end result is a series that was constantly in and out of hiatus similar to Fat Albert.

Nothing to do with animation. It has to do with production problems, similar to Development Hell.

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