SONY "FEARS" OPRAH, case in point: "Sony executives asked that McGruder "heavily edit an episode featuring an animated Oprah Winfrey being kidnapped by two thugs." Sounds like the show had a little too much bite. "They were scared of Oprah, which is O.K.," he said. "Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance," Mr. McGruder said.

CARTOON CONTROVERSY COST MONEY: Cartoon Network told the NY Times it will be an expensive bid to piss people off. "Sony Pictures Television, producer of the series, gets a license fee of $400,000 per episode. Add to that the millions the network has spent on marketing trumpeting the show's premiere on Nov. 6 in the late-night "Adult Swim" block, and "The Boondocks" becomes the most expensive show the network has made." All for the love of the people.

"We don't have a lot of money, so we decided that for this year, we're going to put every dime we have into 'Boondocks,' " said Mike Lazzo, senior vice president of programming and production at Cartoon Network.

I going to say if this tanks "Lazzo" will be going for a long "adult swim."

By Henry Cruz