Boondocks r kelly episode song Continue Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner Brian CowanDenys CowanCarl Jones Aaron McGruderRodney Barnes Trial R. Kelly is the second episode of The Boondocks. It premiered on April 13. R. Kelly is going to trial. The content of the [show] Synopsis When the trial of R&B singer R. Kelly comes to town, Huey and Riley are on opposite sides of the hot button. The Action Episode opens with Huey, Santa and Riley watching TV. Grandpa is switching the channel to The O'Reilly Factor, where Bill O'Reilly talks about R. Kelly's latest legal trouble swirling around a tape he made of urinating on a 14-year-old girl. Riley asks grandpa if I can go into town and see the trial. Grandpa refuses, commenting that Riley's new Nikes cost enough to carry him 40 miles to the courthouse just fine. On the way to the courthouse, Riley and Huey meet Tom Dubois (his first appearance on the show). Tom says he hopes the boys aren't angry that he has to sue R. Kelly (Tom is assistant district attorney). Riley, the sports character of Free R. Kelly, is getting into a heated feud with Tom, raising possible reasons why finding R. Kelly guilty would cause more trouble. She also lays out the personal responsibility of the alleged victim, arguing that her free will (i.e. her decision to urinate on Her) should not mean that the world will miss R. Kelly's next album. Riley concludes by threatening to urinate on Tom's cat. Tom was speechless, to which Huey comments: 'You just got beat by an 8-year-old... There are two groups of protesters in the courtroom. The first one has three people in suits like Cornel West, Tony Brown and Dick Gregory with well-worded signs protesting the exploitation of minors. Another audience has people grilling at barbecues, listening to R&B and holding crude signs with frequent misspelled words demanding that R. Kelly be freed (e.g. A reporter asks one of Kelly's supporters (voiced by Crystal Scales) why he believes he is innocent. A big woman licks the barbecue sauce off her fingers and says, Because he's good! The reporter turns to Riley and asks him why he supports R. Kelly. As Riley speaks, Huey takes his brother off camera, sparking a riot between protesters and Supporters of R. Kelly, which is finally over when R. Kelly shows up in his Hummer limousine. Meanwhile, Grandpa spends the day in the park with Uncle Ruckus playing chess player. They discuss the trial and its possible implications for black culture and society as a whole. Ruckus took this opportunity to expand his theory of white supremacy. He mentions kobe bryant's trial and how irresistible white women are. He talks about it so intensely that he starts sweating. He later reveals his complete love for white people, complete disdain for black people and He believes he has a skin condition called re-vitiligo, the opposite of what Michael Jackson has that continues to darken his skin. The grandfather leaves in anger after hearing Ruckus's attitude towards black people, although he later returns to air it as he picks up the boys from the trial. In the courtroom, Tom Dubois lays out his case - a well-documented case supported by video footage of the work, the victim's testimony and DNA evidence for good measure. R. Kelly's lawyer (played by Adam West) puts out a different view: All this evidence is actually racism. This argument, though preposterous, seems to appeal to the crowd and the jury. R. Kelly's lawyer still plays the race card when given the opportunity. He points out that while R. Kelly may have urinated on minors, the victim was black, suggesting that R. Kelly was sexually attracted to black women. Tom opposes this argument. Kelly's lawyer replies: Your Honor, I'm trying to establish to the court that my client is a proud black man who loves his black. Unlike District Attorney Dubois... Who's married... for HWITE WOMAN! Tom tries to appeal to the jury's common sense over and over again, but it doesn't work. Recognizing the inseparable situation (he lost the affection of the audience, the jury and the judge), he begrudgingly resting his case, defeated. R. Kelly's lawyer gets up and says he's got nothing more to say, so he's starting to play some R&B music. R. Kelly jumps on the table and starts singing and the whole audience dances... except huey and the Dubois family. Huey turns off the boom box and angrily addresses the audience. Despite Huey's plea for common sense, Riley quickly breaks the mood by booing and decree huey's arguments. The music was re-arranged and R. Kelly was released. Seeing Tom in full defeat, his wife Sara lovingly teases him for losing his case to messing with white women. Huey's doing one thing he realizes he can do in this situation on the way home... Blame the white people. The appearance of This Episode was erased by a scene in which Rosa Parks protested against R. Kelly outside the courthouse. A woman who supported R. Kelly accused Parks and co. that they denied her the right to eat chicken and ribs and get high blood pressure. A big woman throws what's left of her chicken leg in Parks, hitting her and knocking her down. The scene was removed just before the episode aired out of respect for Rosa Parks and her family (Parks died just weeks ago, but can be seen on the first season of the DVD's The Boondocks). Parks is seen at the end of the episode as the camera moves across the revelers at the end of the trial when he is hugged by a big R. Kelly fan who threw a chicken at her. He wears a pink coat with a matching hat and walking stick. Cultural references To the mafia revolt between R. Kelly The man can be heard shouting Shoryuken twice, the name of a special technique used by video game characters Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter. R. Kelly's lawyer (voiced by Adam West) is a parody of William Kunstler, a civil rights lawyer known for taking unpopular cases. Grandpa jokes about O.J. Simpson talking to Kobe Bryant, saying Don't let all this trial work distract you from white women, a reference to one of the comics, which can be found here from September 16, 2003. A comic book with the same O.J. joke. In a scene with grandpa and uncle Ruckus in the park playing, Uncle Ruckus mentions that Jerry Lee Lewis can't compare to a monkey like R. Kelly. Jerry Lee Lewis, who is approaching the 23-year-old, was in a relationship with his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, and had been married to her for 13 years. It ruined his career, though he later built fame as a country artist. R. Kelly's quote, Injustice anywhere is injustice anywhere is not a quote from Sister Souljah, as he argues, but a corruption quote: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, Martin Luther King, Jr. Notes Since Surviving R. Kelly came out, this episode has been used in multiple memes about R. Kelly, specifically Huey's speech. This caused the episode to barely air on adult reruns since then. Gallery Add a photo to this gallery January 8, 1967Chicago, Illinois, USA Singer/actorBasketball player (formerly) His lawyerHis fans (including an underage girl) Robert Sylvester Kelly is an American singer of R&B and hip-hop music, and also a former basketball player. After he was infamously tried and acquitted of charges of urinating on an underage girl, the incident was satirized by The Boondocks, both in the comic book and on an episode of the TV series The Trial of R. Kelly. The content of [the show's] History A few years before the episode began, Robert Kelly was accused of unlawful sexual intercourse with the then 14-year-old girl, urinating on her. R. Kelly was tried in a Woodcrest courtroom and was sued by Assistant District Attorney Tom DuBois. Despite video evidence clearly showing R. Kelly not only urinating on the girl, but also giving away his face, name and Social Security number, Richard Kelly's attorney put a crazy defense strategy on his client. He argued that sex with teenage girls was somehow still acceptable in modern times, and that R. Kelly stuck to his race unlike ADA DuBois and his white wife. That angered the racist black jury, which was also a fan of R. Kelly. Despite the obvious guilt, Kelly was acquitted. He then partied with his fans to celebrate. Trivia Appearances Season 1 The Trial of R. Kelly (only appearance) Season 4 Pretty Boy Flizzy (only mentioned) Gallery Since airing earlier this month, Surviving R. Kelly has many people re-examining his on one R&B superstar. This month's six-day documentary on Lifetime details the allegations against the 52-year-old by the alleged victims. These include allegations of sex with underage girls and graphic accounts of abuse and predatory tactics used against women. The documentary also considers Kelly's trial, where he was found not guilty of crimes including child pornography. The series has also compiled interviews with many music journalists and colleagues, who reflect on why Kelly not only avoided conviction in court, but remained a force in music and popular culture.