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== Examples ==
* Kill Moves from ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]''.
* [[Bum Reviews
* The "Crazy Cat Lady" from [[The Simpsons]].
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== Examples ==
== [[Literature]] ==
* The treatment of albinism in fiction is startlingly harsh. The condition seems to have been declared officially creepy with ''[[Moby
* Played with in ''[[The Princess Bride (
* In [[The Da Vinci Code]], it seems like Silas is this. Turns out, {{spoiler|that's ''exactly'' what he is.}}
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'''People with [[Speech Impediment|speech impediments]]'''
Common speech problems such as the lisp, stutter, pronunciation of "r" as "w", or even funny accents, are still regularly used for comic effect. This can even extend all the way up to damaged vocal cords requiring the use of an external electronic voicebox, or complete loss of speech, which usually results in jokes about people having to [[Talking
== Examples ==
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* Spoiler alert! In the movie ''[[Chinatown]]'' directed by Roman Polanski. Used and then subverted. A Japanese gardener refers to the "grasses" but the detective (along with the audience) only identifies the gardener's bad grammar and so dismisses him as a humourous red herring with nothing valuable to offer. Later, the detective returns and comes to realizes an essential clue from the gardener who wasn't saying "grasses" but "glasses". The error wasn't in grammar but in pronunciation: the 'r' and 'l' being commonly mispronounced by those Japanese who attempt to speak English. Shame on the detective for being so quick to dismiss an unsophisticated foreigner, eh?
* Another Michael Palin example, in ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'', in which his character stutters like crazy, but only the villain makes fun of him for it. Palin based this aspect of the character partially on his father, who had a stammer. There now exists, in London, the Michael Palin Institute for Stammering Children.
* The Roman emperor Claudius stuttered due to cerebral palsy, and in ''[[I, Claudius]],'' his family is presented as very cruel because of the way they shun him for this. He is able to overcome this impediment through a lot of training, although he continues to pretend to stutter prior to becoming emperor to preserve his public image as [[Obfuscating Stupidity|"poor Claudius"]].
* Worth noting that the actor who played the stuttering public attorney in ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'' actually had a speech impediment in real life for years and only recently beat it before signing up for the role. He thought of his character having a speech impediment as a "sick joke."
* Subverted in ''[[
* Played with in M*A*S*H, when a wounded soldier with a bad stutter treated as an idiot by his commanding officer. However, the normally snobbish and rude Charles was very sympathetic and mentions that many very intelligent people also had stutters, at the end of the episode it was revealed that Charles's sister also has a stutter.
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Going off on that, '''people with funny accents''', like ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* An episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' at one point featured Stewie having a recollection about a man with a cleft lip, who he referred to as a harelip - an offensive term for the condition.
** Not to mention Jake Tucker and his upside down face.
* Zuko from ''[[
** Zuko is an interesting example, as his scar doesn't prevent him from being [[Mr. Fanservice]].
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== Examples ==
== [[Film]] ==
* Uhura calls Kirk one in ''[[Star Trek (
== [[Literature]] ==
* Mentioned in ''[[Discworld
** Who is, [[Subverted Trope|in fact,]] a sympathetic [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|- and surprisingly well-treated]] - character.
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== Examples ==
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Kelso on ''[[That
== [[Real Life]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The protagonist and the main [[Love Interest]] in ''[[
** Likewise the Brain from ''[[Arthur (
== [[Anime]] ==
* [[Cool Big Sis|Millay Ashford]] in ''[[
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Played with in the episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', with Richard Speight Jr guest-starring as an intelligent guy who didn't get into a great college because his classmate stole the test, got a really high score and offset everything. The classmate then lorded it over him at a reunion.
* Played for laughs on the TV sitcom ''[[
** The show lampshaded this in one episode where the main characters try to find a way to get Highschool Students attending the campus for college credits to stop making fun of them for being in a community college.
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Sheldon looks down on Penny for attending (and dropping out of) a community college. Though in this case, it's less that the show itself attacks community colleges and more that Sheldon is an [[Insufferable Genius]] who looks down on everyone -Including his other friends and colleagues, many of whom have earned Masters and Doctorates from "proper" universities. None of the other characters seem to have a problem with it.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Unless, of course, the character comes from a poor background, like Luanne Platter from ''[[King of the Hill]]'', where her going to Community College is celebrated by her family.
* Hayley on ''[[
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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