I think a lot of us knows how it feels to have a friend where their friendship means much more to you than yours does to them... If you've never felt that, you're either really likable and have good taste in people, or you're likely that friend.
Story of my life up until the past few months. Now I work hard to find this sort of internal dance, never holding back from helping others within reason, but always doing so with the understanding that they may not appreciate me as much as I appreciate them.
@@calmexit6483 Yeah, it can be rough sometimes. But I've learned if you look hard enough, and are patient enough, you'll eventually find those willing to be the same for you. But they are few and far between. However, I've also found that you may find it in unlikely places; sometimes, those willing to go deeper with their friendships are hiding just under your nose. Good tidings, man.
Honestly I loved that aspect of Huey's character. It reminded me that even though he is wise beyond his years he's just a kid that's still learning to grow. He can be an ass, but it's a flaw that really brings out the humanity in his character imo.
@@truenewtype2239 God DAMN, you're brainless. She did think she had a best friend, and it was him, but since he made it brutally clear that he isn't her friend at all, that's why she said she doesn't think she has a best friend, because he never was despite her thinking he was the whole time up until that point.
I think Huey cutting her heart out with a pocketknife and stabbing it to the tree would be LESS painful than what he just did. He may be a brilliant strategist and martial artist, but when it comes to that girl Jazmine, NOTHING is getting through that thick skull of his.
arian johnson I can understand what your saying but you need to watch more Anime. People ship them since childhood friends love sprout when their older. People don't mean to make it sound like kidxkid action
he only screams in season 1. He does come close to yelling in season 2 but in the next seasons they made him a complete background character which I hated
@@drestathagangsta8880 now I wonder why this thing about "people you used to know don't know you no more" be true asf because sadly they'll only fw you if you happened to have something good or bad going on that caught their attention
I think that may happen one day. Huey and Jasmine both in college. Riley a hustler. Cindy becomes another Ann Coutler but she messes with Riley on the sly..
This is one of the few times that I'm glad Huey got his comeuppance at the end of the episode. It was well deserved especially since he treated Jazmine so coldly.
He acted coldly to Jazmine because she was the harbinger of a truth that he didn't want to hear, that Cairo wasn't his best friend anymore. Either that or he just has Aspergers.
@inchworm1023 Huey loves solitude, so to him the hill is a way to escape all of the chaos that takes place in his household. Jazmine basically tags along with him, probably because she has nothing more interesting to do and would rather hang out with her friend. In the comic strip, Huey used the hill sort of as his soapbox to bemoan the political failures of his country, and to discuss the regression of Black culture with his friend Caesar.
It hurts when you relate a little. You see someone as your friend when they don't think much about you or consider you one of your best friends despite hanging out a lot.
@@buttercupdabaddieutonium9257 It depends on the friendship. I can go months without speaking to my childhood best friends since we live in different cities now. But when we link up, it's like we never separated. Alot of friendships are like that.
Jasmine represented conformity...he did not want to conform to the status quo. He wasn't ignoring her as much as fighting the reality of his life circumstance. Super pro-Black revolutionary but life has played out to deliver a "high yella" girl, who was half-white making it even more against his ideals, who believed in everything he hated to be his life partner(and not necessarily romantic partner tho).
JC Not Agreed, the original series never got as good as season 1. The following seasons after the first season was pretty much nothing but comedic satire and had little to no emotional depth that the first season had.
Johnell Diaz yea, the show essentially became a parody of itself and while it became something I was willing to watch, it definitely did not live to the potential we were shown in the first season.
People aren’t fond of jazmine because she’s literally the opposite of everyones expectations like literally ever character in the series says nigga even the whites but she never swears throughout the series making herself the odd one out
The _Ibekway Well, that’s the whole point of the character. She’s meant to be one of the few “real” kids on the show in that she’s one few kids who actually acts her age. Overall, Jazmine has always meant to be a representation/exploration of the innocence and naivety of a small child. I find it frustrating sometimes that it seems as though most of the Boondocks online fandom don’t seem to realize that; as though they expect her to suddenly become a high intelligent domestic terrorist or a wannabe gangster. Personally, I had wished she played a more prominent role following season 1 instead of her role being reduced for whatever reason in the later seasons as she had a lot of promise both as a character in her own right, as well as in regards to her relationship with Huey.
People gotta realize that the reason Huey wanted to connect with his homie bc he was one of his only connections to his past (Something he didn't want to forget/lose). I'm sure he liked shawty but at that point she had a long way to go to earn trust in his mind.
You know, the emotion of this scene went over my head when I was younger, but now the look on her face and tone in her voice when she says "I don't think I have a best friend" just screams painful betrayal because I now realize she's saying it to the person she wants to consider her best friend but is just realizing isn't 😢
My heart goes out tonight to this cartoon drawing of a little girl and the words of her voice actor who breathes life through a microphone for her. Peace be with your animators and their screenwriters.
I've just started. I'm trying to like her, but it can be hard. I don't think I will. I totally know people like Huey, though. When they say things like this they are actually not even trying to be cold. Just have their own way of things
I think I know what he meant by "Sucks for you." He sarcastically feels bad for her for not already thinking of him as her best friend. Her lack of one is a result of her own thinking, while in reality, Huey already knows she thinks of him as such.
Jacob Beristain The Boondocks had the potential to be so much more than what it was had the show maintained the overall tone of the first season. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the show started to focus more on the satire than on the characters in the later seasons to the point that the show might as well have changed its name to the Grandad and Uncle Ruckus Show featuring Riley. This is considering how both Huey and Jazmine had their roles reduced in the later seasons and characters like Ceasar and Hiro from the comic strip didn’t even appear on the show. Heck, even Cindy only appear in four episodes of the entire show. It would be nice if someday there could be a reboot of the show but done in the style of the original diamondback and syndicated comic strips where the focus of both of the strips was on the kid characters and their problems, issues, and interactions.
When she said "how can he be your best friend if you never talk to him?" Huey went silent because he feared what she said was true and he wasn't friends with Cairo anymore
I love how everyone's talking about how this is savage, even for Huey, when in the comics, this is actually what passes for nice with the way he treats her. How he treats her in the show is pretty much lifted directly from the comics version of Cindy, who's Jazmine's best friend there. In fact, I think Jazmine and Cindy had a scene like this in the comics, and the context was that Cindy was shutting her out over something.
She's commenting on how Huey should be her friend. Huey is too much of an idiot to see what she means. He's not "being savage", he's literally oblivious.
You want to come over to my house tomorrow after school and watch TV? No. Do you want to come over and play video games? No. Do you want to come over and have a jump rope contest?
I admit I don't really like this episode that much but I did realize something about this particular scene and ep thinking back on it because seeing this I was like "huh Huey seems a lot more hostile to Jasmine then he usually is" but then I remembered this actually came out before stuff like "The Block is Hot" and "The Passion of Reverend Ruckus." Since thinking about it in most of season one Huey either sort of ignored Jasmine or didn't really bother wanting to talk with her. However after being betrayed and punched out by Cairo I think Huey actually decided to try being nicer to Jasmine actually seeing her much more as a friend and doesn't ever try and be really cruel to her again which yeah does show even in weaker episodes you can find good moments in them.
