Review: The Boondocks “Stinkmeaner: Begun the Clone War Has”

 

 

Spoilers Below

I have waited all season for this moment. The day has finally arrived for the return of my favorite character in The Boondocks! Stinkmeaner is back, bitches!

Down in the bowels of some facility, we have a frozen Stinkmeaner, who ends up as a clone. He answered an ad on BlackPeopleMeet, then he died. He isn’t an original clone, because he has some enhancements. One of which is the Nigga Moment number Four, and that is “Cooking with Stink!” We get a reboot of the Moment,where the kitchen turned into a bloodbath.

Next, we get Stinkmeaner in the same mall as the first fight with Granddad, and he smashed in Robert’s car. Then he waited to tell him! This Stinkmeaner clone is a nasty motherfucker, that’s for sure. Then the fight begins, with cane on cane violence. Stinkmeaner is a black samurai with this cane, and he beat the shit out of Robert. The police came, and arrested Robert, but Stinkmeaner didn’t press charges.

He gets home, and the kids got a look at the video, with Riley ragging on him again for losing to Stinkmeaner. The door bell goes off, and Ruckus joins in on the fuck up Robert parade, calling it completely embarrassing. Robert says he needs to beat Stinkmeaner, again, and needs training. Huey tells Robert that he is letting his ego get in the way. Robert needs to turn the Nigga Moment into a Mr. Rogers moment. Huey walked away, and Robert gets a call from Stinkmeaner on Skype. Stinkmeaner wants him to show up to the lot for a rematch. Because, if he doesn’t, he’s a bitch-ass nigga!

Robert is talking to a really well animated Yoda  in a dream sequenced ripped from The Empire Strikes Back, and Robert goes into the cave that Luke found Vader, and he finds Vader-meaner. He kills it, and finds his own face under the mask. The next day, Robert is sitting in his car, and he calls the police to make sure that the police is there to arrest Stinkmeaner for attacking Robert.

Robert goes to Stinkmeaner, and tells him that he isn’t fighting. The crowd should be ashamed, and he already called the cops. The cops arrest Stinkmeaner, and everything seems to have been solved. So much so, that Robert is cooking dinner, when Ed Wuncler shows up at the door. He wants to see how Robert is, so he can have Stinkmeaner at his door. He tries to slam the door closed, but Wuncler reminds him that it’s his house. Wuncler really wants the two old men to fight, with everything legal. It could even be on pay-per-view. Wuncler is laying it on thick, and forces Robert to fight. Robert has two weeks to fight, and resorts to having Riley train him.

Robert is watching Stinkmeaner laugh on repeat, and it only motivates him. Stinkmeaner even has a new sketch comedy show on TBS. Huey finds something wrong with Granddad, and it just seems that Robert is just really focused. However, he is just turning into another Stinkmeaner, complete with being blind. From the looks of things now, he is just becoming blind with rage. He even smashes into a car parked like an asshole, with the guy and his family looking at him.

The next night, it’s the third fight between the two crotchety old men. Robert gets the fast start, taking Stinkmeaner to school. Stinkmeaner learns to dodge, but it doesn’t really work, because Robert’s rage is turning him into an old black man version of the Hulk. Robert gets one great knee to the jaw, and knocks Stinkmeaner right the hell out. Huey jumps in, and gets Robert to stop, and he finally comes to his senses. He gets Stinkmeaner to leave him alone if he lets Stinkmeaner live. Some time later, Stinkmeaner is outside the house, trying to get his friend, because he doesn’t really even know him.

Stinkmeaner Forever, Bitch-ass! To me, this episode was flawless. The humor was there, Stinkmeaner killed it, and we got the Freemans in full effect. This episode is what I have been waiting for since the beginning of season three. We got a pseudo-fight with the Haters in season three, but it wasn’t a Stinkmeaner fight. I love how they keep bringing him back in the ass backwards ways, like the spirit taking over Tom’s body, the Haters, and now clones.

I also enjoyed the Star Wars sequence, probably because I am a huge Star Wars nerd. There was a lot to like, from Yoda, to Stinkmeaner, and the general “shit on Robert” parade. Everywhere he turned, someone shit on him. Hell, even he shit on himself when he started to turn into a Stinkmeaner. Again, this was a new way to get Stinkmeaner out there. It was a lot of good throughout the episode.

Stinkmeaner always brings out the best in the show. This was the show at it’s greatest, and it showed. However, with only one episode left, we won’t be seeing a lot of him, if at all. That gives me a really big sad face.