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* "Dr. Rabbit's Bright Smiles World Tour" (an animated short about oral hygiene sponsored by Colgate). One might suspect that the real reason Colgate-Palmolive tried to get [[YouTube Poop]]s featuring the cartoon off YouTube is not because of copyright infringement, but [[Old Shame|because of all the ridiculous foreign stereotypes in the cartoon]].
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'':
** It's [[Multinational Team]]: [[Word of God]] says Numbuh 5 is [[But Not Too Foreign|half-French]]. (Confirmed in Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E., where her mother's accent is clearly French) The good news is she doesn't follow any French stereotype. The bad news is since she's also black, she follows [[Jive Turkey|an entirely different stereotype]]. Uptight British Numbuh 1 and fat American Numbuh 2 come off the as the least stereotyped compared to the others: the dumb-and-tough Aussie (Numbuh 4), the excited and ditzy Japanese (Numbuh 3), and the already mentioned Numbuh 5.
** Somewhat compensated for in 5's case, as she's [[Positive Discrimination|usually the straight man to everyone else]].
** It is shown when Numbah 4 grows up he's still just as tough and even graduated Harvard Med, and {{spoiler|his wife}} Numbuh 3 is in charge of {{spoiler|The Rainbow Monkey Corporation}}, which has got to require some smarts. And Numbuh 2 won't always be fat, {{spoiler|his possible teenage self}} is quite skinny and considered attractive.
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