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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 (Film)|Its 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 WarriorsWarrior's Way (Film)|The Warriors Way]]'': Yang takes over the laundry when he arrives in Lode, mainly because that's what everyone assumes he'll be good at. He actually has to learn how to do it from Lynne.
 
== 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 ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'' had a scene in which Hannibal disguises himself as a "Mr. Lee" and meets with a prospective client at a laundry. Clients in later episodes [[Continuity Nod|would mention also having met]] Mr. Lee.
** 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.
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'': Curiously, despite being a corporation-owned mining vessel, the ''Dwarf'' still has a Chinese laundry.
* ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' seems to have a weird obsession with [[Chinese Launderer|Chinese Launderers]] and fits them in wherever possible, even if it is just in the background.
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' features a Chinese Laundry, justified by being set in [[Victorian London]].
* 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 -Out]] to ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'').
 
== 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 ''[[Mount and Blade (Video Game)|Mount and Blade]]'' mod [[The Wild West|1866]] includes Frankie Luong, a Chinese former laundryman, as a possible party member. In keeping with the common stereotypical portrayal of Chinese laundrymen in Western films, he can't end a sentence without an exclamation point.
* 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 Thethe Tongs|Triad]] one sparks a mob war between the two sides.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* Very borderline: In ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', Fat Cat goes to a laundromat to see a pair of Siamese cats about a fighting fish.
* Dr. Wang runs his [[Minoriteam]] from a laundromat.
* According to his backstory from Disney's ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', [[Mad Bomber|Vinny]] actually became obsessed with explosives after witnessing the Chinese laundromat next door to his family's flower shop catch fire and explode due to an faulty gas leak.
* 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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