The Fund-Raiser

The Fund-Raiser – S03/E07

• Welcome
  • Episode synopsis
    • HBOMax Synopsis: Riley takes over the school candy bar hustle and floods the block with sugar. But when the competition comes looking for payback, it’s all out war for control of the chocolate covered streets. Will the sweet life take Riley under?

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Show:

• Selling candy for schools
• Gangster movies
• Granddad’s bad influence
• Huey tried

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Trivia:

• This is the fourth time Riley has taken narrating duties in the series.
• Ed Wuncler III was shot once again, but this time, his W-Chain protected him, although the impact of the bullet against the chain against his chest had knocked him out.
• If Huey had never predicted Riley’s fate and given him a bullet-proof vest, Riley would have been killed as it was shown that he was shot in the chest region of the vest.
• This is Cindy McPhearson’s fourth and final appearance on The Boondocks.
• The opening music is a slowed Scarface theme song.
• The music for the montage after Riley confronts the principal is similar to Debbie Harry’s “Rush Rush” from Scarface.
• Cindy references rapper Beanie Siegel from the film State Property when she says – “Either Get Down Or Lay Down”
• The premise of the episode is similar to that of Scarface.
• The speech that Granddad gives Riley about allowance is a reference to the speech that Julius from the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris gives Chris when he asks for an allowance, for example when he says “I allow you to live in this house!”
• The student being dunked and frozen in chocolate is a reference to the scene in The Empire Strikes Back in which Han Solo is frozen in carbonite.
• The Scene in which Cindy and her friends bully a girl for selling on her territory is taken from a skit, “Can It Be All So Simple” remix on Raekwon‘s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… album.
• When Riley tells the business owner off, he says “My President is Black and my Lambo is Blue,” which are lines from the Young Jeezy song “My President”.
• There is a Goodfellas reference when Riley confronts Jazmine about t