The Block Is Hot

"The Block Is Hot" is the fourteenth episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, The Boondocks. It originally aired on March 12, 2006. Huey, wearing a heavy coat and scarf on a painfully hot day, is handing out fliers to passers-by. He sits on the sidewalk next to a lemonade stand that Jazmine has set up. Huey is unable to get anyone to listen to him, but Jazmine is doing excellent business. Ed Wuncler offers to buy the stand for the pr... more

"The Block Is Hot" is the fourteenth episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, The Boondocks. It originally aired on March 12, 2006. Huey, wearing a heavy coat and scarf on a painfully hot day, is handing out fliers to passers-by. He sits on the sidewalk next to a lemonade stand that Jazmine has set up. Huey is unable to get anyone to listen to him, but Jazmine is doing excellent business. Ed Wuncler offers to buy the stand for the price of one pony. Jazmine agrees, signing the contract without reading it. Wuncler soon makes unreasonable demands of Jazmine and institutes sweat-shop labor conditions. As the days heat up, the line of customers stretches around the block and Jazmine is kept busy. Wuncler says that money from the stand will pay for the pony's food and upkeep, so that if Jazmine leaves, the pony will "starve to death in a puddle of its own feces". Jazmine stays at the stand. Huey, meanwhile, has used the Internet to find human rights activists who can help shut... less