The Boo Crew

The Boo Crew (originally known as Thugaboo) is a series of children's animated television specials created by the Wayans Brothers. It first aired on Nicktoons, on August 11, 2006. To date there have been two The Boo Crew specials. On 2017, both specials have been uploaded on YouTube by Shawn Wayans in the channel entitled "The Boo Crew TV" with the opening theme omitted as the series was simply re-titled "The Boo Crew".[1][2]

Plot

The show focuses on the adventures of a gang of neighborhood kids of different ethnic cultures known as "The Boo Crew" with D-Roc as the leader, often helping each other out and going to serious situations and learning a lesson in morals. The show features an abstract voice cast starring most of the Wayans family with the animation having some similarity to other black-centered shows such as The Proud Family. The show has a structure combination of African American cultural endurance and adoration with ending music videos similar to Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and the children-centered oriented program synopsis on young love and romance commonly found in the classic Peanuts cartoon specials.

Characters

The Boo Crew
  • D-Roc: The leader of the Boo Crew who wishes to be a successful rapper. Without his hat or bandana, he has a huge bald head that bounces and is often made fun of for that ("HAHA! LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT WRECKING BALL"). He always plots the get rich quick schemes. A running gag is that when he raps, he sometimes forgets a word to rhyme with one of his dialogue and an angry offscreen listener throws a tomato or pie at his face shouting "It's (rhyming word), STUPID!" and driving off, as comedic humor.
  • Dee-Dee: D-Roc's loudmouth sister who wants to be the first female president. She has a crush on DJ.
  • Darren "DJ" Jobeley III: A Caucasian boy who acts gangster with his friends but acts like a British mannered boy to his sophisticated parents (Yo, whasup, B? How ya feelin'? What's going on, yo? Let's bounce, son). As his name implies, he is a mixmaster and carries his own turntable and boom box. He also claims to be mixed and believes that he is part-black often getting offended and aggravated of how the African American people are treated in the past.
  • Lissette: A Hispanic girl who wishes to be a singer. She has a crush on D-Roc. She carries her baby brother Luiz around in the stroller. She is a skilled master at jumprope. Slim likes her but she does not return the feelings.
  • Slim: An overweight boy, despite his name, loves eating and speaks in a slurred voice. He has a crush on Lissette.
  • Dirty: A filthy boy who speaks in a gibberish language often translated by the other gang and says "You heard me?" at the end of each sentence. He wears a sneaker necklace and the only thing that's clean is the sneakers that he wears. He is the master at beatboxing often doing it for the kids' raps.
  • Money: D-Roc's pet dog who can talk. He is seen wearing a baseball cap and red sneakers. When D-Roc gives him dog food, he ships it to Africa where they use it to build more houses similar to cement or mud. He also eats D-Roc's homework. His voice is modeled after rapper DMX.
  • Gwenny: An Eco-friendly valley girl who loves the environment by protesting against anything made by manufacturing that harms animals; even though she litters by throwing spray cans on the floor, though she does not notice and wears a fur coat, but uses the weather as an excuse.
  • Chad: A skate-punk and Gwenny's younger brother who loves skateboarding and is the misfit of the gang because he always has the most misfortunes such as getting a broken arm or falling in a trash can. He is almost never seen without his helmet and skateboard.
  • Soo Young: An Asian girl whose father owns many businesses and can create anything with her ideas. She sometimes helps D-Roc for his get rich quick schemes and acts harsh so people can work faster.
  • Baby Luiz: Lissette's baby brother who she carries in the stroller and is mostly seen with his blue pacifier and hanging on to his crotch. Despite his age, he starts first grade, wears a toupee, shaves and can already talk and rap; but in Spanish unlike his bilingual sister.

Adults
  • Momma: D-Roc's cheapskate mother who loves talking on the incredibly long-corded telephone.
  • Principal Eyeverson: Also known as Principal Wanderingeye, he is the nearsighted principal at the Boo School who has a lazy eye and has trouble seeing or telling people apart but is very kind and generous.
  • Miss Attitude: A lady often speaking in the megaphone (with her lips visible) in charge of the summer program, a mall and as the public speaker announcer in the school often complaining about her job talking care of the Boo Crew for the summer.
  • DJ's Dad: DJ's sophisticated father speaking in British mannerism and has Bridge nights.
  • Jared: A dim-witted basketball player who never passed the third grade but is a talented athlete. He is a parody of Michael Jordan.
  • Lee Young: Soo Young's rich father who owns a taxi service, dry cleaning business, sushi restaurant and a grocery store called Foo's Fruits. Despite being tired, him with only one job would make him a lazy bum. He is nice enough to offer the children snacks of fish.
  • Joyce: A rival with Mama who lost to the Bargain fight sale. She may also fight with Mama in the upcoming Thanksgiving sale.
  • Mr. Johnson: Diane's father and the owner of the supermarket who sells Air Johnsons.

Other characters
  • Diane Johnson: A multiracial (mixed) girl and classmate of D-Roc whom They are in a relationship.Her father is the greatest rapper in the world and he’s helping D-roc trying to rap so he can be like him . She is based on [(the black girl from brazs the movie.)]
  • O. Jenkins: An African man who is friends with Diane Johnson dad and they rap together D-Roc tried sell his money and d-roc and Diane Johnson broke up and got back together.
  • Big Kid: A humongous boy with a name tag "HELLO! MY NAME IS BIG KID!" on his overalls whose face is hidden and was accused by Dee Dee of cutting in line and threatened to rip D-Roc's face off. D-Roc was terrified of his size and corrects him by saying that she didn't say "cut in line", she said "we cut the price in half, read the sign" accompanied by creating a sign to prove its case, promoting him to get angrier by ripping D-Roc's face off because he can't see the sign due to his height. He does not like to be accused of anything nor does he like to be lied to, which influences him to fight. A running gag is that the situation involving him reminds him of a similar scenario with his mother such as his mom accusing him of being born ugly, and he discovered that his mom lied about the existence of the tooth fairy right when he knocked all his teeth out. Whenever he finishes hurting D-Roc, he runs home crying to his mom. On the Christmas special, he knocks D-Roc's skeleton out of his body before running.
  • Gavin: A poverted-kid whose parents are unemployed but wished for a G-bot to Mall Santa. The Boo Crew donated several of their gifts to him, including D-Roc's G-bot.
  • snoop dog : An older kid with huge chains on his neck and gold teeth who, alongside his friends The Boo Crew tend to be the biggest popular kids and everybody wants to be like them. He and The Boo Crew often play a game of knock on the door and run, figurative and literal means the people come outside and get off my porch.

Voice cast [3][4]

Synopsis
  1. The Boo Crew: "Sneaker Madness" - When D-Roc sees a pair of expensive sneakers called Air Jareds (a parody of Air Jordans), he wants his mother to buy them to wear at school in order to look cool. His mother purchases a cheaper priced pair of Air Johnsons instead. Afraid of looking bad to his crew, D-Roc asks Soo-Young to make Air Jarretts out of Air Johnsons and when they work out well, they realize they can make money by converting the shoes. Their plan to make money eventually goes awry and D-Roc is taught a lesson about being himself.
  2. The Boo Crew: "A Boo Crew Christmas: A Miracle on D-Roc Street" - D-Roc, Dee-Dee, DJ, Money, Lissette, Slim, Chad, Gwenny, Soo Young also known as The Boo Crew are working together to find a way to bring the true meaning of Christmas home to less fortunate young Gavin and his family.[5]

Music

The Boo Crew has premiered two music videos using characters from the specials, "Just Be U" and "Gimmie Gimmie." Similar to Fat Albert, it teaches kids about moral lessons and virtues.

References
  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhezu5X-dzQ
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkaVeR9GpE
  3. https://youtube.com/watch?v=bzkaVeR9GpE?t=43m58s
  4. https://youtube.com/watch?v=dhezu5X-dzQ?t=25m40s
  5. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 33. ISBN 9781476672939.
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