Black Dynamite
2011 · TV Series · TV-MA · 30 min · ★ 7.6 · 95% critics
This animated series spins off from the film in its own continuity, delivering a loving, comedic send-up of 1970s blaxploitation style. Expect big personalities, era-specific slang and fashion, and deliberately over-the-top genre riffs that play like a tribute as much as a parody.
Based on Black Dynamite
Also known as Black Dynamite: The Animated Series
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Streaming on HBO Max.
8 hours to watch · 19 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2011–2015
- Release date
- 2012-07-15
- Network
- Adult Swim
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 30 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (57 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an animated, affectionate spoof of 1970s blaxploitation that leans into big jokes and throwback attitude, like The Boondocks; Not for you if you dislike loud, intentionally cheesy satire.
Pros: loving genre tribute; consistently funny satire; strong throwback vibe | Cons: very broad humor; intentionally cheesy style; not for subtle comedy
Themes
- blaxploitation cinema
- blacksploitation
Cast & crew
Michael Jai White
as Black Dynamite
Byron Minns
as Bull Horn
Kym Whitley
as Honeybee
Tommy Davidson
as Cream Corn
Debra Wilson
as Various Characters (voice)
- JK
Jonathan Kite
as Various Characters (voice)
- SD
Snoop Dogg
as Leroy Van Nuys (voice)
Created by Michael Jai White, Byron Minns
Episodes2 seasons · 19 episodes
Season 110 episodes
- S1E1Just Beat It or Jackson Five Across Yo' Eyes25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E2Bullhorn Nights or Murder She Throats25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E3Taxes and Death or Get Him to The Sunset Strip25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E4A Crisis For Christmas or The Dark Side of The Dark Side of The Moon25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E5Panic on the Player's Ball Express or That's Influenza Sucka!25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E6The Sh*t That Killed the King! or Weekend at Presley's25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E7Apocalypse, This! or For the Pity of Fools (AKA Flashbacks Are Forever)25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E8Honky Kong or White Apes Can't Hump25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E9The Race War! or Big Black Cannon Balls Run!25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E10That Seed of Kurtis AKA Father is Just Another Word for Motherfucker!25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
Season 29 episodes
- S2E1'Roots: The White Album' or 'The Blacker the Community the Deeper the Roots!'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E2'Black Jaws!' or 'Finger Lickin' Chicken of the Sea'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E3'Warriors Come Out' or 'Mean Queens of Halloween'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E4'How Honeybee Got Her Groove Back' or 'Sexodus' or 'Night of the Living Dickheads'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E5'Sweet Bill's Badass Singalong Song' or 'Bill Cosby Ain't Himself'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E6'Mister Rogers' Revenge' or 'Please Don't You Be His Neighbor'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E7'American Band Standoff' or 'The Godfather of Soooul Train' or 'Get On Your Goodfellas'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E8'Diff'rent Folks, Same Strokes' or 'The Hunger Pang Games'25mAmazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E9'The Wizard of Watts' or 'Oz Ain't Got S&@# On The Wiz'45mAmazon Prime VideoHulu