The third season of the animated television series, ''

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'' originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block,

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. Season three started on May 2, 2010, with "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" and ended with "It's Goin Down" on August 15, 2010, with a total of fifteen episodes. The season debuted at 2.55 million viewers. All fifteen episodes from season three were released completely uncensored on a three-disc

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set in the United States on November 9, 2010. In addition all episodes from season three are available on the

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Production

Sung Dae Kang and Young Chan Kim served as directors for season three, and series creator

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and Rodney Barnes served as writers for season three. All episodes were rated

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for graphic violence, dangerous activity (mostly involving children), explicit language (mostly heavy use of racist, sexist, and homophobic slurs and bleeped-out profanity), and infrequent instances of strong sexual content. Season three was originally announced to be the show's last; it would ultimately be the last season produced with McGruder's involvement. The episode "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" was banned after their first showing on Adult Swim for excessive depictions of racism and perceived racial insensitivities over the episode's portrayal of a racist

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singer named Jimmy Rebel (a parody of real-life

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). The episodes were released as part of the complete series DVD set and

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has also streamed the missing episode in Canada. Season three features guest appearances from

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, DJ Vlad, Charlie Murphy, Edward Asner, Michael Jai White,

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, Clifton Powell,

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, Gina Torres,

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, Marion Ross, Kadeem Hardison,

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, Don 'D.C.' Curry,

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, and

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Episodes

Home release

All fifteen episodes from season three were released completely uncensored on a three-disc

set in the United States on November 9, 2010. In addition all episodes from season three are available on

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References

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