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* 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.}}
* ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' has Simon [[Only Known by Their Nickname|'Cookie']] Cook, who is Ned's '''nerdy''' black best friend. Should be noted that a lot of kids' shows tend to have this geeky [[Family Matters|Urkel]] type of black friend. Other examples include Tucker from [[Danny Phantom]] or AJ from [[Fairly Oddparents]].
* 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.
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