Black Best Friend: Difference between revisions

* Wes and Gunn on ''[[Angel]]'' for a while.

* This was actually the ''plot'', or at least part of it, of the Lifetime original series ''Any Day Now''. Despite their racial differences, Mary Elizabeth (Annie Potts) and Renee (Lorraise Toussaint) became best friends while growing up in 1960's Alabama, and the show jumped between their present-day lives and flashbacks to their childhoods.

** Tigh to Adama

** Boomer to Apollo and Starbuck

* On ''[[Las Vegas]]'', we have Mike Cannon, who is pretty much cool personified, and frequently chases tail. [[Hollywood Nerd|He's also an MIT graduate, idolizes Stephen Hawking, and is one of the smartest guys on the show]]. (James Lesure and Josh Duhamel are actually real-life friends.) There's also Detta, who was Delinda's British BBF, and Sam Marquez, a sassy Hispanic woman(And I use the word "sassy" generously).

* Ramona Platt in ''[[Less Than Perfect]]''.

* Malcolm's best friend in ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' is Stevie, who is also [[Black and Nerdy]].

* For the first eight or so seasons of ''[[Married... with Children]]'', Al worked alone in the shoe store. Starting in season 9, his friend and fellow NO-MAAMer Griff became his co-worker. In many respects, Griff was a black version of Al, with a bad car and an even worse job, their major difference being that Griff was divorced. Al would probably consider him better off, but as Griff told Bud in one episode, ''she got the car, the dog and the money. I got the right to remain silent.''

* The ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode that features the movie ''Werewolf'' mocks this when the only black person in the film, seen for a few seconds, is introduced at a party as "my good friend Elgin."

{{quote|Mike: Elgin is my ''black'' friend.}}

* Barb, from ''[[The New Adventures of Old Christine]]'' is this, and it's constantly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Christine.

* One of Michael Scott's quirks from the US version of ''[[The Office]]'' is his bizarre belief, [[Selective Obliviousness|in the face of all evidence]], that sales rep Stanley Hudson is a stereotypical "sassy black mentor" and that Stanley is therefore one of his best friends from work (since Michael is, of course, the protagonist of his little pop-culture fantasy world). Michael has a magical ability to completely ignore all of Stanley's real personality traits while imagining him as a Black Best Friend, imagining him as a wisecracking happy-go-lucky athletic "urban" man with working-class roots , when Stanley is in fact sedentary and out of shape, laconic to the point of catatonia, frequently depressed, raised in a small town and just as if not more solidly upper-middle-class as anyone else in the office.

** They've also served as the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Couple]], superseding even Daria Heroine herself. In one episode, Daria [[What the Hell, Hero?|is somewhat taken aback]] when Jodie uses her Dad's reputation to complete an economics assignment. {{spoiler|Daria is later forced to admit that [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|business people use the same tactics in real life]], and lets Jodie of the hook.}}

* Abby in ''[[The Replacements]]''.

** His relatives are even worse. His dad is even more of a nerd then he, but fails to realize it. His Grandma is a Sassy Black Woman who can out funk anyone. One of his Grandpas is...well, a senile old Blacula. His other Grandpa is a Jewish Mummy which doesn't quite work out. His mom is a hideous corpse mummy, about which nobody needs to ask any questions.

* Terry McGinnis' friend Max in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', one of the few besides him and Old Man Wayne who know his secret identity.

* There has also been a Dutch comedian (can't recall which) who went by things a little bit differently

{{quote|''No,no,no,no, you misunderstand. Some of my best blacks are friends!''}}

 

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