![]() In other words, the temporary successes of capitalism in the face of contradictions and crises must eventually end, and we, like Huey, must be prepared. “And when it does, you better have your coat.” “Sanity eventually returns,” remarks Huey. As the fighting climaxes, it begins to snow: it has been February the whole time. After being chided by Wuncler, he leaves, and violence ensues between the protesters and the people waiting in the lemonade stand line. ![]() After breaking down the contract Jazmine signed, it is revealed that she not only did not get a pony, she ended up $300 in debt. The white protesters mumble affirmations of the product: “it’s cruelty-free, he says so and it says on the label!” The protest is quickly abandoned. Wuncler responds by releasing a new product: Wuncler’s cruelty-free lemonade. “We will shut it down, just very slowly and peacefully” a protester informs him. Huey calls for shutting the lemonade stand down, but is shocked when he turns around to see a comical ‘peaceful protest’ with guitar music, flowers, and dancing. Huey suggests that Jazmine shouldn’t accept cruel treatment: “Jazmine, this is stupud, you’re being exploited! is never going to give you that pony!” Jazmine replies with capitalist tropes: “you’ll never get anywhere in this world without doing a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay.”Īs Jazmine’s exploitation becomes recognized, Huey and some local white objectors start a protest. After Jazmine signs, things quickly turn sour. When Huey brings up the sweatshop labor Wuncler employs in Indonesia, Wuncler replies proudly that he “wakes up in the morning, puts one foot on the ground, and the other up an Indonesian girl’s ass.” He then rants about the evils of American unions and child labor laws. Meanwhile, Huey is protesting on his soapbox in a heavy winter coat, which several characters point out is a crazy thing to wear on such a hot day. offers to buy her stand in exchange for a pony, after extolling the virtues of young entrepreneurship. Political commentary makes a return to the series in S1E14 “The Block Is Hot.” In the grips of an unusual heat wave, Huey’s neighbor Jazmine opens a lemonade stand in hopes of saving up money for a pony. It is no coincidence that Huey is the voice of reason, trying to tell the police officer that there’s no threat and the two are robbing the store: “need I remind you, this has nothing to do with our original plan.” Rummy attempts his earlier epistemological obfuscation, but Ed III ultimately ends the stalemate by threatening the police officer and asserting a racist trope: “ is obviously of terrorist descent.”Ĭapitalist exploitation, consumer false consciousness The convenience store owner, Rummy and Ed’s “close friend and ally,” claims that Ed’s dad “helped him build the store,” a reference to the US supplying Saddam with funds, technical knowledge, and weapons in the Iran-Iraq War. Jackson’s character in Pulp Fiction and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: ![]() Gin Rummy asserts that no cost is too high to bring the killer to justice, saying that he’ll gladly kill everyone in the neighborhood “if that’s what it takes, because I truly do not give a fuck.” Later in the car, Rummy gives the following performance, reminiscent of both Samuel L. When asked for help locating a murderer in S1E05 “A Date With The Health Inspector,” Ed III recruits his old friend Gin Rummy (voiced by Samuel L. Ed III has just returned from combat in Iraq, which he describes superficially: “there was bitches, but it was war!” Ed III sports a golden letter ‘W’ on his chain, and his grandfather remarks to Robert “That kid is going to be President of the United States someday, and he’ll still be a fucking idiot.” The combined references to Ed III’s stupidity, family connections, penchant for violence, and disregard for political rationality frame him as a sharp criticism of former president George W. Later, when the Freemans are invited to a garden party at local capitalist Edward Wuncler’s estate, we are introduced to his grandson, Ed III. S1E01:”The Garden Party” begins with Huey asserting that the government is lying about 9/11. This page will discuss some subtle (others not-so-subtle) commentaries that emerge from the show. Unlike other satirical animated series ( South Park, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy,) political references are often not directly pointed out or named in recognizable ways. One thing to stress about the show is the incredible range of contemporary issues it covers.
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