Tom You Doing the Usher Thing Again

"Tom, Sarah and Usher" is the 2d episode of the second season and the seventeenth episode overall of The Boondocks. Information technology originally aired on October 15, 2007.

Sarah and Tom split later an unexpected appearance past Usher causes an infatuated Sarah to put on a girlish brandish at their anniversary dinner. Tom, chagrined, is kicked out of the house and attempts to acquire assertiveness from A Pimp Named Slickback.

Plot

Tom Dubois and his wife Sarah are celebrating their anniversary at a restaurant. Tom, enjoying himself, seems oblivious to his married woman's relative disinterest. Sarah perks up quickly when Conductor enters the eating house. Tom, thinking her enthusiasm is for him, sings "Sara Smile" to Sarah, embarrassing her. Afterwards, Usher (voiced past Affion Crockett) comes over and sings to her the same song, and he and Sarah hit it off, taking many pictures together and having a practiced time, leaving Tom to mull over his dinner alone.

On the bulldoze home, Tom confronts Sarah well-nigh her flirty behavior, likening her girlish beliefs to that of their daughter Jazmine (who is also an Usher fan). Sarah, enraged, demands that he stop the car. She walks home.

The next day, Tom is visiting the Freemans, explaining to Granddad, Riley, and Huey near all that had happened the night prior. Riley and Granddad encourage him to go lay down the law and assert his part equally man of the business firm, which he attempts to practise. Naturally, this goes horribly incorrect and he returns to the Freeman house sobbing with bags in both hands. He is reluctantly taken in by the Freemans. While lone in the spare bedroom, Tom gain to sing "Burn down," by Usher, daydreaming that he is making a music video while doing so (to the chagrin of Riley and Granddad, who both tell him to "close the fuck up").

When Robert decides that Tom needs to become, Riley offers a proposition: hire A Pimp Named Slickback (from "Guess Hoe'due south Coming to Dinner") to give Tom a crash course on assertiveness towards women, explaining that Tom was suffering from "chronic bowwow dependency". Robert uses Tom's credit carte to pay the pimp a $2,500 honorarium for this form.

Although Tom tells A Pimp Named Slickback "nosotros've had a great life together", a visual montage suggests Sarah is not equally satisfied with the relationship equally Tom. Indeed, a scene even shows him rolling from her in bed, plain spent from sex, while she is reading a book equally if she didn't even realize he was at that place. A Pimp Named Slickback's assertiveness training has Tom Dubois going confronting Sweetest Taboo, one of A Pimp Named Slickback'southward prostitutes.

A Pimp Named Slickback takes Tom to his palatial home and tries to teach Tom that he can extort respect from women past hitting them and tells Tom to refer to his wife equally a "bitch". He pits Tom against "Sweetest Taboo" (voiced by Miss Kittie) one of his prostitutes, who begins to treat Tom very disrespectfully. When Tom refuses to hit her, she promptly begins to savagely beat him up. The lesson is interrupted when "Placidity Storm," a prostitute who works A Pimp Named Slickback's extensive surveillance network, reveals that Usher and Sarah take agreed via her MySpace, which Tom did non know she had, to see that very afternoon. Finally showing a fiddling spine, Tom angrily demands that A Pimp Named Slickback take him at that place immediately. The pimp decides to, impressed that the "n***a" can become some bass in his phonation after all.

Arriving at the scene (The Woodcrest Chateau Hotel), Tom sees Sarah, Usher, and ii of Usher's burly bodyguards. Boldly walking up to them, he grabs Sarah by the arm and demands that she leave with him, stating: "Sarah.. I mean.. biiitch, get your ass in the car!" When she refuses, he draws back his hand, clenches his fist every bit though about to strike her, but instead he smacks Usher and tells him that he cannot steal his married woman from him. Usher looks at him, flabbergasted. Jazmine, who Tom did not realize was there, begins bawling that her father has brutally attacked her idol without provocation. Sarah then explains that the reason she was coming together Usher was so that their daughter could run across her favorite vocaliser. She was never having an affair with him; Tom simply overreacted. Usher and his two bodyguards then fix on him and brainstorm to beat him viciously while Sarah tells them to end, but they ignore her.

Jazmine, notwithstanding in tears, cries apologies to Usher (apparently not caring that her male parent is being pummeled), while A Pimp Named Slickback prudently exits the premises quietly. While getting pummeled, Tom cries that he has "never felt and then much pain!" and Usher says to Tom while assaulting him to "shut the fuck up, Tom".

Cultural references

• When Quiet Storm complains about having slow cyberspace (ironically, a dial-upwardly connection, despite the enormous appearance of the reckoner), A Pimp Named Slick back berates her for "starting this 'nosotros need a new computer' shit every time a new iMac comes out," probably referring to Apple's abiding releases of updated versions of existing products, such as the many new iPods and the iPhone 3G.
• This episode prominently features many pop songs:
• While Tom reminisces almost his life with Sarah, "Bluish Eyes" past Elton John is playing.
• While Huey tries to console and cheer up Tom, the music heard playing in the background is similar to the instrumental version of "Hollywood Divorce" by OutKast.
• The vocal that Tom sings to Sarah in the eating place and is later sung by Conductor is "Sara Grin" by Hall & Oates.
• When Tom is at the Freemans' home, he starts trying to practise what he is going to say to Sarah and Usher'due south "Burn" begins to play matching his conversation and he begins to trip the light fantastic toe and is joined by multiple other people.
• When Tom goes to confront Sarah & Usher, the instrumental of "I Got Love" by Nate Dogg is played in the background. Both Sweetest Taboo and Serenity Storm are named after "tedious-jam" style R&B songs (The Sweetest Taboo by Sade and Quiet Storm past Smokey Robinson).
• When Sarah tells Tom to finish the automobile and he responds, "Now, now, we won't have whatever of that", it's probably referencing a joke in Eddie Murphy's stand-up special Delirious about white men leaving their significant others on the side of the road.
• When Tom confronts Sarah with his newfound pimp resolve, Sarah jokingly calls Tom Dolemite and Superfly.
• A similar thing happened earlier in the comic strip, although the reasons for Tom getting kicked out are different in the TV series than in the strip.

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