A previously unseen pilot episode of The Boondocks has suddenly emerged online, showing early drafts of all the main characters.
A piece of lost media has just been found, as the unaired pilot episode of The Boondocks has emerged online.
As the story goes, when creator of The Boondocks Aaron McGruder approached Fox with the pilot episode of the new animation show he was working on, executives of the TV network outright rejected it in 2003. It was later picked up by Adult Swim and would become one of its most popular series, seeing four seasons before being wound down.
You can immediately see why the likes of Fox did not pick up the show, as while the main beats from the later series are included, such as the personalities of the main characters Huey and Riley Freeman, as well as Grandad and Uncle Ruckus are all present, the animation itself is still quite raw as well as the design of the characters.