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== Film ==
* Sid Caesar and Edie Adams accidentally broke through a hardware store wall into a Chinese laundry in ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
* A Chinese launderer in ''[[Broken Trail]]'' becomes the interpreter between the two cowboy heroes and the five Chinese girls they have rescued from indentured prostitution.
* Referenced by [[Jack Nicholson]] in his most racist scene in ''[[The Departed]]''.
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* ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'': Richard Sherman's dress shirt was torn once when he sent it to a Chinese laundry service.
* At one point in ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'', {{spoiler|Mrs. Meers}} disguises herself as a Chinese laundress.
* ''[[The
== Literature ==
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* On one episode of ''[[The Practice]]'', Eugene Young argues with his Chinese dry cleaner over a shirt that he thinks has been shrunken. As the exchange heats up, he starts mimicking the man's Pidgin English. As Eugene is black and [[Scary Black Man|frequently seen as scary]], there's an unsettling "shoe on the other foot" sensation around his perceived racism.
* There was an episode of ''[[The Lone Ranger]]'' where a Chinese launderer not only had to deal with prejudice from the locals, but some bandits kidnapped his wife.
* The pilot episode of ''[[
** Amusingly subverted in that while Hannibal plays Mr. Lee as a stereotypical [[Chinese Launderer]], the episode reveals that the real Mr. Lee is not in fact Chinese.
* ''[[
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* The ''[[
* Farnum from ''[[Deadwood]]'' tries to disguise delivery of a corpse in a wheelbarrow full of laundry to chinese pig-farmer Wu.
* The entrance to [[Special Unit 2]] underground headquarters is located in a dry cleaners run by an Asian man. Then a punk with a revolver runs in demanding all the money in the cash register. Every employee (including the Asian guy) then reveal themselves to be undercover cops by pointing their [[Hand Cannon|Hand Cannons]] at him.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The ''[[Deadlands]]'' CCG ''Doomtown'' includes "Fu Leng's Laundry and Tailoring" (the name is a [[Shout
== Theater ==
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== Video Games ==
* ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'' features a Chinese laundryman named [[Punny Name|Lo Fat]] in the game's first act, from whom you get a few clues and a dress. thewatersupply hasn't played the game since middle school; it might have been hilariously offensive.
* The ''[[
* Mr. Wong's Laundrette ("If It Ain't [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Wong]], It Ain't [[Incredibly Lame Pun|White!]]") of [[Grand Theft Auto III]]. The laundromat plays a minor role in the plot, as its transition from the established [[The Mafia|Mafia]] protection racket to a [[The Triads and
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== Western Animation ==
* Very borderline: In ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* Dr. Wang runs his [[Minoriteam]] from a laundromat.
* According to his backstory from Disney's ''[[Atlantis:
* Mr. Washy Washy from [[Family Guy]].
* A Chinese laundry gets attacked by a robotic "monster" in the fourth ''[[An American Tail]]'' movie.
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