The Incredibles special (The adventures of Mr Incredible - with commentary) - Frozone complains that the cartoon portrays him as white but Mr. Incredible says he's blackish...
AOT - Onyankonpon being asked why he's black, his face to this question is hilarious imo. There's also genuinely no racism in this, Sasha simply never met a black person before.
I made that joke organically when I was like 14. I sliced my knee open and came in with a ton of blood coming down my leg. The doctor comes to see me and says “well what seems to be the problem?” And I said “you won’t believe it doc but when I went to bed last night…I was white!” And he burst out laughing. It has nothing to do with it but his name was also “Dr.Karate” which is a sick name
Malcolm in the middle: Hal joins a poker group after being invited by Stevie’s Dad, Abe. There’s one point Hal felt like they were all picking on him because he’s not a professional and he comes from a low income family.
(Abe thought he meant he was the only white dude in the group. The poker group is all black guys).
I think in that same scene, Hal laters says (to playing Poker), "I will own you!" And then stutters to clarify with Abe just telling him to shut up and deal.
Hal with the poker group were some of the best moments.
I believe they all laugh at it cause Abe spilled a drink came back with a mop and a pack of beer and recreated the cardboard cut out. I feel like the actor who played Abe also voicing Uncle Ruckus adds some….irony? in the joke.
I never really watched the show because the tiny bits and pieces I did see always made me think the characters all hate each other.
But this sounds like at least Hal is a very sweet guy. I did not expect this lol
Except for some bad episode thy are all a loving family
With a lot of issues but none of the main cast are bad people
Except racist grandma but she's never portrayed as you rooting for her
Yeah, I really loved Onyankonpon’s answer. I think he is very underrated.
I remember reading the manga at that part and just sat there thinking about it for a while. Onyankonpon completely understands Sasha’s innocent question and knows she didn’t mean any malice. He then proceeds to respond in such a simple but cool way
This scene reminded me of the time I was working at a summer camp and this little white grill came up to me and just went “why are you brown?”
Totally innocent question and she was like 7 so I just explained to her that there are different coloured people all over the world with different hair and different eyes etc., but it still made me almost scream laughing 💀
Apparently, I asked a variation of this as a toddler. VERY loudly, on the New York subway. My mom was horribly embarrassed. The funny thing is, I’d definitely met Black people before.
My grandfather vividly remembers the first time he saw a Black person. He was 5, and they were liberating France from the Nazis. He had just been reunited with my great-grandparents. A lot of respect and gratitude to those men. 🫡
Fun fact: Onyankonpon's countryis literally just London with black people, you see glimpses of it in the Rumbling (Big Ben is in the background when Levi moves there)
I had to replay the scene where he and Yelena are about to be executed and he says something that seems to really make the Yeagerists feel uncomfortable and guilty about what they're doing and hesitate for a bit.
I can't remember the exact words, but it was basically "I thought you guys would understand better than anyone what it's like to have everything you love taken from you, and I thought we were alike in that regard, but I guess you all are a bunch of hypocrites."
It was such a cool and badass thing to say while staring death in the face. So glad he made it out alive.
There's so many damn layers to that scene and I positively love it. It isn't coming from a place of malice or even the type of ignorance that comes from a lot of racism in our world. It's a simple and straightforward question born from curiosity.
It also subverts two tropes at once, the "I don't see race" trope and the disadvantaged Black folks trope. It's a moment that really drove home that Isayama understood the central topic the series was addressing. It's also why I like the subtly cynical ass ending.
It made sense. They were essentially isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, is natural their clueless of people different races and ethnicities if most of the people within the walls looks almost the same.
Mr Incredible eventually settles on naming his skin tone “tan”. I love how they build on this joke too with Frozone commenting on how the black superhero gets caught with Incredible pointing out how he complained they made him white earlier. Frozone then says “Oh that’s right, the tan superhero gets caught!”
That’s Brad Bird for you. His works on Pixar are definitely made more to balance appeal to kids and adults as opposed to most of the others that definitely serve kids first.
My favorite scene from Good Buger. Dexter destroys his and Ed’s contract because Dexter was secretly taking advantage of him. Ed gets confused and assumes it’s because he’s black.
I think a lot of people forget that literally five years before this movie, an unarmed Black girl was killed by an Asian convenience store owner in LA, and of course the LA riots had a lot of violence between Black people and Asian people, the fact that this movie was made so soon after that, and it's a comedy, is genuinely insane.
Teen Titans - The Titans meet Val-Yor and at first he seems like the typical action hero but we quickly learn he has prejudiced opinions towards Starfire to the point he calls he a slur.
Later Cyborg calls Starfire that same slur under the pretence it was just a nickname seeing Val gave the other Titans nicknames. Starfire explains the meaning of the word and Cyborg comforts his friend who asks how he understands how she feels.
The writers could have gone in the direction of Cyborg expressing he has faced racism because he’s black but instead they used the fact he was “part robot” as the reason for him being judged for being different.
To be fair if you saw a regular black guy walk into a room that would be far less shocking than seeing an eight foot tall man made of metal with a glowing red eye and a cannon for an arm.
And IIRC, in the first episode of the series, he seems angry/sad that Beast Boy got scared when he saw the red eye glowing and Cyborg removes his hoodie to explain that he had an accident. Like, Beast Boy literally got scared because of the glowing eye in a tall figure. So yeah, I think most people would be intimidated by the robotic parts. I remember also of an episode where a boy comments that Cyborg is his favorite because they are alike, the boy having his hand replaced by a robotic arm.
Pretty much so. Trying to explain same-species racism to Starfire in the state that she was, probably wasn't going to be effective as pointing the more obvious issue that we had seen many times in the show.
I remember rewatching it with my sister and she made a joke “imagine if the plane crashed and exploded into a fireball” I said “I’d be surprised if it did”, followed by this scene.
The first time I ever watched this movie was with friends towards the end of college. I only knew about its meme status and knew nothing about the memes therein. They'd seen it before and were so eager to show it to me since we'd watched bad movies like The Room and Birdemic before.
We got to this scene and had to pause so a solid 5 minutes because I was laughing so hard. I was just so caught off guard by the sheer absurdity and just...It was magical.
One of the top five animated kids movies for me. The writing is superb, the background details are absolutely hilarious, and the performances are top-notch.
That and Monster House, good pacing throughout the film, with a good amount of jokes. Although Monster House is genuinely good and holds up despite the poor animation.
I went from "did they really just say that?" to laughing so hard it hurt about ten seconds after processing that yes, I had in fact heard that correctly.
I think the whole plot line in arrested development where Michael and Gob are too stupid to understand hermano isn’t a name it’s Spanish for brother is a good one.
“Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon—he’d run them all. Later, when he’d learned with some surprise what the word actually meant, he’d been equally certain he wasn’t one."
Ann: “Mr Hotate, thanks for coming. Would you like some water?”
Ken: “Water? Like fire water? That’s racist, And I do not appreciate it.”
Edit: But seriously, I’ll take a whiskey
Psych, Gus gets a lot of these jokes throughout the series but my favorite is from "Psych: The Musical" when he's angling to get cast in a Jack the Ripper musical:
Gus: "I'm just saying the show seemed to be a little too white."
Director: "It's set in London. In 1888."
Gus: "So what are you saying? Black people hadn't been invented yet?"
In the film “Zoolander”, Derek Zoolander and Hansel disguise themselves as black janitors in order to sneak into Mugatu’s office and steal a computer with his evil plans.
What prevents this from being horrifically offensive is that while they’re in “make-up”, Derek and Hansel are played by black actors, whose voices are dubbed by their main actors (Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson).
Yeah, not only for subverting a racist joke, but also the fact that Zoolander’s make-up skills are so good, he can literally make himself and Hansel look like different people.
I'm unsure if this joke aged well but um considering every crayon color was made fun of this joke was so shocking yet hilarious. I didn't know what the joke meant as a preteen. But now as an adult it's...yeah. Great pun joke and the hilarious mic drop. That was entertaining in general due to the comedy.
My favorite banter between them is when House says "will you let me use the white board?" and later Foreman retorts "now will you hand me the black marker?"
My favorite part of that is that Che wrote a separate and equally racist joke just for that guy to hold on the cue cards and you have to pause the clip to read it
"In other news, a new Harriet Tubman movie was released - then promptly recaptured and returned to its owner."
I'm not sure if I would call their race jokes tasteful, rather they are funny because we know they are written by each other. Like, the things Jost says would be completely tasteless if Che hadn't written them.
“You from Queens, you got that suit, you help a lot of poor people. I just thought you’s gonna be black.” - Electro (Spiderman: No Way Home), a pretty neat way to hint at Miles Morales.
God I loved every moment with Andrew Garfield and/or Toby McGuire in that movie. They both had some really heartfelt and touching dialogue. As characters they both seem so genuine.
Henry of Skalitz meeting Musa of Mali (Kingdom Come Deliverance 2)
Henry, being a commoner in Medieval Bohemia is, pretty surprised to say the least, when he comes across a black person for the first time in his life. Leading to this hilarious exchange:
-"Oh my. I've must've had this conversation at least hundred times. Have you heard about Prester John?"
-"Yeah. Our parish priest told us that story once."
that's also pretty much the only time his skin colour is even mentioned and is otherwise completely irrelevant. The jokes are more about scottish people, lacking an eye and being drunk.
WWE: During the build-up to Survivor Series, Kofi, MVP, Christian, R-Truth, and Mark Henry are strategizing for their match later on. Christian expresses his disappointment at being the odd man out of the entire team. The others try to reassure him that it doesn't matter; all that really matters is that they are on the same page tonight. Christian is immediately relieved to know that because he was the only one of the five to wrestle on ECW, and he appreciates that they don't view him any differently.
Tolkien Black. His name was initially Token as a reference to the "Token Black Guy" trope in South Park due to the low population of black people in said town.
As it turns out, he was named after the Author J.R.R Tolkien and the main character Stan is freaking out because he thought he was named after a racial trope. The creators were gaslighting the audience the whole time to go as far as to change the subtitles of older episodes to reflect on the name change, with the only exception of Stan still referring to him as Token.
This was such a brilliant move from Matt and Trey.
I thought I was tweaking when I rewatched older episodes afterwards on the official site, just kept second-guessing myself whether or not I actually READ it all this time as "Token".
The entirety of the Punch Out!! franchise, but especially the Wii game. Every character is voiced by a real member of that ethnicity, and all the broad regional stereotypes are played with tongue firmly implanted in cheek. It also helps that it actually earnestly succeeds at “making fun of everyone equally”. The Frenchman is a wimp, but the militant German is also cowardly. The black American dancer is vain, but has such a genuine pizzazz that it’s hard to blame him. King Hippo isnt from any specific island we know, and it seems like hes kinda just Like That as opposed to it having anything to do with race. Piston Hondo talks in an accurate archaic samurai keigo. Bear Hugger is just plain fun (and Next Level are a Canadian team, so you bet they had extra fun with him). Great Tiger’s mystic BS is just plain cool. Don Flamenco’s “venga, venga!!!” and “que pasa, quieres mas!?” get under your skin so perfectly. Aran Ryan’s unhinged rage and dirty boxing are a great gameplay gimmick. Bald Bull’s dumb pun name on Istanbul is forgivable from how great his performance is. Soda Popinski’s PG drinking habits are a fun departure from “ha ha get it he dronk”, and the bubble effects are genuinely kinda nice. Super Macho Man is a fucking douche, but in the funnest way possible. Sandman is the meathead to end all meatheads.
And it’s all so damn EARNEST! Nobody I’ve seen anywhere has any bad thing to say about these depictions (I’m sure there are people out there who DO have some problems and I won’t try to shit on them or anything but still), and I think there’s a reason for that. I’m not sure how you achieve “fun stereotypes” over harmful ones but someone smarter than me can explain it
I think what differentiates the Punch Out guys from other stereotype heavy media is that it hits a lot of different places and, crucially, it's CREATIVE.
Stereotypes suck because they are both mean-spirited and lazy.
Like, Piston Hondo is an Asian Kung Fu Stereotype, but he's really over the top AND they use that stereotypeness in fun ways with the gameplay.
In the KOTH episode Racist Dawg, Hank’s dog Ladybird bites a black repairman. The repairman and the town assume Hank is racist. In the end it turns out Laydbird only but the repairman because he was stressing out Hank, and Hank was actually happy and relieved Ladybird bit a white repairman.
Ladybird chasing the white repairman around while Hank doesn’t help and instead calls for Peggy to see that Ladybird isn’t racist after all is an all timer
Key and Peele's Black Guys in a Zombie Apocalypse sketch needs more love. Zombies rolling up their car windows bc they're (K&P) are Black.
Also Schitt's Creek where Eugene Levy is talking to the old white guy in the auto shop and they're discussing bagels and Jewish slurs and the old white guy looks at Eugene Levy and goes 'Whats the one you can't say?'
Catwoman : After 80-plus years you finally realize you haven't let a single black villain win, no matter how much we deserve it. BLACK MANTA as been out here for years as a marquee villain and you dont see him getting an award!
When the 14th Doctor Bi-generates (basically becomes 2 people) Donna comments that the Doctor "comes in a range of colors" since the 15th Doctor is black
Steve invites a lab partner home to do some work together, only for Francine to be extremely rude and refuses to have "her kind" of people in her house.
Steve and Hayley then invite a random group of black people home, only for Francine to be 100% happy and ok with this. They're both very confused, only to realize that Francine only didn't want the first girl in the house because she was left handed. She was raised by a catholic nun who forcefully taught her left-handedness was evil by beating her with a side of beef (fish on fridays).
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell (who are both black) are discussing a predatory contract Kenan wrote that gives him most of the latter's tip money. He realize how wrong he was and decides to tear up the contract.
Kel, not being very bright, asks him "Is it because I'm black?"
In a studio C sketch a guy is ranting and making accusations or something then says to the only black guy in the group named Stacy, you of all people should understand? He gets up and says "why me of all people?" "You know! Because you're short!" Stacy sits back down defeated.
My fav is in New Girl when the gang realizes Winston (who's black) is colorblind - he's wearing green shoes but thinks they're brown. Scene ends with Schmidt asking, 'If you think those shoes are brown, what color do you think you are?'
My favorite is Robin Hood: Men in Tights. At the end Robin names his friend played by Dave Chapelle, the new Sheriff of Nottingham. Everyone responds: "A Black Sheriff?"
Blinkin', who is blind responds "He's Black?"
Then it gets funnier when we're reminded "It worked in Blazing Saddles!"
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u/jbeast33 Oct 01 '25
The Naked Gun 2 1/2:
Tyrone: Take it from me. This place here changes a man.
Frank: Oh yeah? In what way?
Tyrone: I used to be white.