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Rewatched Episode 5 Just got it.

posted 9 years ago by ephraimcassion
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I never noticed all points brought up about the Iraq War. I knew Ed Wuncler iii was supposed to be a parody of George Bush but I never realized his friend was also a parody of Dick Cheney/Rumsfeld (he was the more violent one and instigator of the gun fight also he told Riley he went to Iraq to find weapons but has to admit even though he didn't find them it could still be there) he also wears glasses. Wuncler admits he only went there for the "bitches". Riley and Huey figure out who committed the crime and even gets a description but Wuncler and Gin Rummy head off too the that gas station. The owner looks like Saddam Hussein he mentions during the robbery that Wuncler's dad helped him build his business like Saddam and George Sr. Rummy convinces a cop who represents us/military that there is a gun. The gas store owner even says that the one they are really looking for is that Korean store down north. Pointing out how North Korea had WMDs, threaten us and was worse than Saddam in his treatment of his people but we didn't care.

The world is quiet here.

[–] nitz_04 9 years ago

Just because the evidence is absent, doesn't mean there is a absence of evidence; )

[–] StevieWunda 9 years ago

OK Rummy.

[–] the_dirty_bandage 9 years ago

I know that McGruder's pretty astute, but I wouldn't figure such subtlety from a man who wrote a joke about getting Condoleezza Rice laid so that the US wouldn't go to war, or a joke where Huey tells the FBI's terrorism hotline that Reagan helped finance Bin Laden.

Truthfully, I think it's great that you could piece that together, because I pretty much just saw a part of a larger recurring theme: that if you're born into wealth and can bribe/manipulate a situation in your favour, you can pretty much do whatever you want. Add that sense of entitlement into post-9/11/Iraq War paranoia, and you could get a situation similar to this one. I figured that a lot of what you mentioned was sort of explainable on a more basic level: that you have a character that's stereotypical central Asian, that Wuncler II has his hands in nearly every business in Woodcrest (the episode where he takes advantage of Jasmine shows the extreme), and back in the late 80s/early 90s Korean convenience stores were usually robbed (in a lot of hip-hop there was a sort of racism against Koreans, and Menace II Society shows this as well).

I'm going to go and draw cocks on the other applications.