Stereotype Reaction Gag: Difference between revisions

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For instance, someone asks a gay character if he can design clothes, or a latino character if he has any relatives who work on cars, or a black character if he knows where to buy weed.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Akiba in ''[[Kannagi]]'' frequently says that just because he's an [[Otaku]], he's not likely to know much about anything Takako or the other members of the art club might ask him. Then he goes onto rattle off Wiki-length entries on that very subject. This gets even more embarrassing when Takako outgeeks him later.

 

== Comic Books ==

 

== Film ==

** But as it turns out, Zeus ''doesn't'' know [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't|how to use a gun]].

* Inverted in the film ''[[Soul Man]]''; The main character is a white student posing as black to scam a scolarship, and during a basketball game the white captain of the team enthusiastically chooses him for the team, assuming he must have skills. The viewer is then treated to a montage of dropped balls, fumbles, missed shots, awkward throws, and easy steals.

 

== Literature ==

 

* In one episode of ''[[The Sarah Silverman Program]]'', Sarah phones her gay neighbours to try and get them to come round and "do some gay stuff" to a girl she's entering into a beauty pageant, by which she means to give her a makeover. Her neighbours point out to her that they are not in the least fashionable, but she insists. This is not quite an example of this trope, however, as the two are arrested before they come round, so we never get to see whether or not they turned out to be any good.

* The sanitized A&E version of ''Lovejoy'', about an antiques dealer who not-so-incidentally solves crimes, once included a lovely subversion of this trope with its own [[Lampshade Hanging]]. Lovejoy and an ally, a Japanese businessman, are confronted outside a restaurant by a gang of thugs; the businessman makes karate-like motions at them and they become uneasy and retreat. When Lovejoy expresses admiration, the businessman tells him he was bluffing, banking on the Western assumption that [[All Asians Know Martial Arts]].

* Slightly inverted in an episode of ''[[Zeke and Luther]]'', Zeke speaks to his Asian postman for help. The postman says that Zeke came to him, because Zeke assumes that "all Asian men are wise karate masters". The postman is not angry, and says that he actually is a wise karate master.

* On the fifth season premiere of [[Psych]], Shawn and Gus call on their Asian-American secretary to translate for the head of the Triad. Doubly subverted in that a) the secretary knows only counting numbers in Chinese, and b) the head of the Triads speaks English.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

** Another strip plays it perfectly straight: A white passerby asks Lemont if he knows any restaurants that have good ribs. Lemont launches into a rant about how racist it is to assume that he would know that just because he's black, and then cheerfully recommends Roscoe's Rib Shack.

 

== Web Comics ==

{{quote|'''Justin:''' Y-you're just ''assuming'' that would interest me because I'm gay.

'''Elliot:''' No, I'm ''assuming'' it would interest you because you've played with hair at ''every opportunity I've seen''. }}

 

== Western Animation ==

** In "Christian Rock Hard", Cartman forms a band, and tells [[Punny Name|Token Black]] to get a bass from his house. Token says that he doesn't have a bass, but Cartman says, "Token, you're black. Trust me, there's a bass at your house." Token returns with a bass, and protests that he can't play it. Sure enough, as the song starts, Token's picking away like a pro, and mutters to himself "dammit."

** A double dose in yet another episode, Cartman keeps berating Kyle, demanding that he give him his "Jew Gold," a bag of gold every Jew apparently carries around his neck. Toward the end, Cartman is proved correct, and Kyle gives him the bag...at which point Cartman asks for the ''real'' one, since he knows every Jew has a fake bag of gold to give out as a decoy. Kyle gapes at Cartman in disbelief and anger...then pulls out a second bag and throws it into a fire.

** This is even funnier when one knows that Takei ''loves'' to talk about himself.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', during a basketball game:

 

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[[Category:Character Reaction Index]]

[[Category:Prejudice Tropes]]

[[Category:Gender and Sexuality Tropes]]

[[Category:Race Tropes]]