The 50 Most Racist TV Shows of All Time

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Creators: Michael Patrick King, Whitney Cummings
Networks (Years): CBS (2011-Present)

Perhaps one of the laziest sitcoms on television right now, 2 Broke Girls fuels itself on stereotypes. The most blatantly racist move? The short, asexual Asian workaholic who manages the restaurant the titular characters work at. In one episode, Kat Dennings' character even utters the line, "You can't tell an Asian he made a mistake. He'll go in back and throw himself on a sword." And don't even get us started on the rape jokes. 

Creators: Paul Fusco
Networks (Years): NBC (1986-1990)

Clearly a relative of the hook-nosed shyster merchant Watto from the deep space of racism that is George Lucas's Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace, Alf is a gluttonous alien who has a hideously large schnoz, sounds like Jackie Mason, eats cats, and raises hell when he crash lands in the suburbs of Earth. Wow, if Patchett and Fusco were uncomfortable with Jewish people moving into their development, they should've just said so!

Creators: Bernie Orenstein, Saul Turteltaub
Networks (Years): ABC (1989)

ABC gave Chicken Soup a prime post-Roseanne slot for the one season that it ran, and expected it to be a huge hit, but "controversy" (read: racism!) derailed their plans. The show already dealt with the touchy subject of an interfaith relationship between a Jew and a Catholic, with Jackie Mason as an "Oy vey!" uttering pajama salesman, but Jackie Mason's off-set comments were the real kicker. In support of Rudy Giuliani's 1989 New York mayoral bid, Mason called David Dinkins a "fancy shvartze with a mustache" and "a black model without a job." And then Mason was the one out of a job when CS got cancelled 12 episodes into its first season.

Creators: Gary Tarpinian, Tim Prokop
Networks (Years): Spike (2009-2011)

CGI technology and 21st-century quack science are used to stage re-enactments and determine who would win if warriors from various civilizations like the Mongols, Native Americans, Vikings, Samurais, and Celts were to do battle today. And who plays these ancient warriors on the show? If you said "actors of the appropriate ethnic lineage," you lose! Not hard to see how this could become really weird in a hurry.

Creators: Glen A. Larson
Networks (Years): NBC (1983)

The intro says it all: White-ass Dr. Jonathan Chase has the "brightest of futures" but the "darkest of pasts" because he went to the savage lands of Africa and Tibet, where the line between man and beast is non-existent, and now he helps police fight crime by turning into a black panther. Not Huey P. Newton-approved.

Creators: John Langley, Malcolm Barbour
Networks (Years): FOX (1989-2013), Spike (2013-Present)

Some say COPS isn't racist, it's classist. They say the world's most famous reality show unfairly focuses on lower-class criminals committing risky, usually ridiculously stupid crimes-not black or Hispanic people. Then why, oh brown Jesus, are most of the criminals on the show black or Hispanic? Seriously, do you know why? Because the way police are steady profiing and pulling over white folks in our neighborhood, you'd figure there'd be more whites on the show, too. Oh, also, that was SARCASM.

Creators: CNN, Lou Dobbs
Networks (Years): 1980-2009 (CNN) 2011 – present (FBN)

For years, Lou Dobbs broke financial news on Moneyline, then CNN had the bright idea of letting the host give political commentary and America got the real money shot. After repeatedly questioning Barack Obama's citizenship and the legitimacy of his Presidency, stirring up Hispanophobia by describing illegal Mexican immigration as an "invasion" and incorrectly citing stats to claim that laborers were causing a spread of leprosy in the States, and working with white supremacist immigration reformists, Dobbs was reportedly forced off the network. Still, as he loves to point out, he's married to a Mexican-American woman, so, you know, all's forgiven.

Creators: Robert Jay-Lloyd Lewis
Networks (Years): FOX (2004)

Rappers are often accused of reinforcing negative black stereotypes, but rarely has it come into focus as clearly as it did on this short-lived "suburban invasion" sitcom starring Def Jam's lovable tag-team. The show's white writers loved coming up with wacky ways that Red and Meth could freak out their white neighbors, like playing loud music, driving cars with ostentatious rims, wearing long underwear all the time, and hosting white floozies in their hot tubs. Turns out you can't spell "ethered themselves" without "Meth" and "Red." Oh, and "the sleeves," either, but that's neither here nor there.

Creators: David Guarascio, Moses Port
Networks (Years): The CW (2007-2008)

A Midwest suburban family gets their anything-but-a-kufi in a bunch when a Pakistani exchange student shows up at their house instead of the strapping blonde Aryan warrior they were hoping for. But all's well that ends well, as Roger (or "Raj" as the fam likes to call him) calms the savage existential ennui in these Wisconsin (ice) beasts with his lilting South Asian accent, devotion to God, and mind-blowing cunnilingus technique. Oh what, that last part not fit into your typical Muslim stereotype? Well, didn't fit into AIA's run either (probably would've run in Season 3 though!).

Creators: Marta Kauffman, David Crane
Networks (Years): NBC (1994-2004)

Little known line from the first draft of the Friends theme song: "Your job's a joke, you're broke, but you're white so it's okaaaaay!" Hmmmm... Six friends living in NYC, and not one of them is black? Sure, it's possible, but they could've easily thrown a black person in the mix and kept it from being all-white-everything. Holly Robinson Peete felt so strongly about the lack of color that she called for a boycott of the show at one point in 2003.

Creators: Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk
Networks (Years): FOX (2009-Present)

On the surface, a show with a cast as diverse as Glee's couldn't be racist. Until you realize that the black and Asian dudes are practically mute and the black girl is fat and sassy and the Asian kids go to geek-filled Asian camp and make jokes about dating each other 'cause they're Asian. If shows have characters of color who rarely speak and make wink-wink race jokes when they do, that's a fail. Go sing about that shit, fuckers.

Creators: Darren Star
Networks (Years): HBO (1999-2004)

Sure, Sex and The City didn't have a minority in any major role in its six-year run, but we know tons of cranky old white hoes in Manhattan that don't have any friends of color. No, SATC makes the cut for the 2000 episode entitled "No Ifs, Ands, or Butts" where the easy-in-easy-out Samantha character started dating a black guy. You're right, Sam, saying things like "I'd like to get me some of that!" isn't "black talk", but it's not "sex talk", either, it's just wack talk.

Creators: Martin Lawrence
Networks (Years): FOX (1994-1997)
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We don't think whiteface is racist, either—but, in the interest of fairness, here you go...cracker.

Creators: Aaron Spelling, Darren Star
Networks (Years): FOX (1990-2000)

We know the famous zip code's population is predominately Caucasian, but this show leads you to believe minorities are nonexistent in the wealthier areas of Southern California. Adding insult to injury, one of the few episodes to directly tackle race has the black guy rocking a three-loop dangle earring! 1991 or not, that's just flagrant. Kind of how the only reason there's a black character on the show's modern remake is because he's adopted by a rich white family. What, he couldn't be a basketball player's son or something?!

Creators: Hal Roach
Networks (Years): MGM (1922-1944)

Originally a series of cinematic shorts produced in the 1920s and '30s, The Little Rascals (first called Our Gang) started in syndication in the '50s and "enjoyed" a run on television throughout much of the rest of the 20th Century. Its supporters liked to laud it for having an integrated cast (score!) and plot lines that stereotyped er'body ("There's fat jokes, too!"), but it doesn't take a degree in ethnic studies to know that a show with characters named "Buckwheat" and "Sunshine Sammy" who liked to bug their eyes way the fuck out and speak gibberish wasn't exactly furthering the cause of positive black imagery. The times are an excuse, but they don't excuse shit like this.

Creators: Arnold Shapiro
Networks (Years): ABC (2009-Present)

Like to watch foreigners, especially those from Latin America and the Middle East, get fucked with at the borders of this great nation? Apparently you don't, because this patriotic rip-off of COPS didn't do so well, but we're sure that more than a couple gringo border patrollers rubbed one out when drugs were intercepted on their way in from Mexico. Gross, yes, but these are the freedoms we're protecting here

Creators: Matt Groening
Networks (Years): FOX (1989-Present)

Since The Simpsons has hundreds of characters, some of them are gonna be racist. Including, but not limited to: Groundskeeper Willie (angry Scotsman), Bumblebee Man (clumsy Hispanic), Dr. Hibert (all black doctors gotta sound like Cliff Huxtable?), Krusty (self-loathing Jewish comedian), Cooki Kwan (are all Asians this competitive?), Luigi (is his brother's name Mario?), Fat Tony (all Italians are mobsters, huh?), and Cletus (white people have feelings too!). But none of them top Apu Nahasapeemathisisfuckingracistpetilon. Like come on, the guy works 72-hour shifts at the Kwik-E-Mart. Dude, we know plenty of lazy-ass Indians.

Creators: Charles Correll, Freeman Fisher Gosden
Networks (Years): CBS (1951)

ANA started as a vilely racist (and-surprise!-exceedingly popular) radio show in the 1920s starring two white guys voicing buffoonish black characters. So when CBS decided to make it a TV show in 1951, they cast two black dudes and made a vilely racist TV show. Despite the attempted cover of using black actors, the show's original run got shut down two years later by a formal NAACP protest. Of course, episodes ran in syndication for 13 more years...

Creators: Simon Fuller
Networks (Years): FOX (2002-Present)

Yeah, black people have won three out of nine American Idol seasons, but the obnoxious karaoke-fest isn't exempt from covert 'cism. For one, William Hung is the show's most famous Asian participant. When your viewers are the type of people who damn near riot when Ruben Studdard beat out Clay Aiken, such a limited scope of other cultures is a little dangerous. Not cool, dawg. Word to Randy Jackson.

Creators: Margaret Cho
Networks (Years): ABC (1994-1995)

Once upon a time Margaret Cho was a big deal. And to celebrate her status as the jaundiced beacon of hope for the Korean community she hired an ensemble cast of every non-Korean ever to catch checks (likely cashed in Korean-owned check cashing facilities-just kidding, all Asians use banks, they're not Italian for chrissakes) playing her family on TV.

The esteemed Dr. George Huang from Law & Order SVU—as in the incredible (and also totally not Korean) B.D. Wong—was cast as her Asian nerd brother (which isn't racist at all since Asian guys are all 100% dweebs) and in one episode Cho's IRL pal Quentin Tarantino swanned in as if gliding on Hokusai's "Great Wave" woodblock print to act in a role as Cho's boyfriend. You know, QT, the guy who does not at all have a weird, fetishistic, fucked-up relationship with Asian culture or anything. And by "Asian culture" we mean, "Japanese culture" but OH WHO CARES CLOSE ENOUGH IT'S NOT LIKE JAPANESE PEOPLE IMPRISONED KOREAN PEOPLE FOR YEARS AND YEARS OR ANYTHING ANYWAY.

Creators: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Networks (Years): CBS (1970-1972)

Respect due to Harlem Globetrotters for having the cartoon world's first black male protagonists, and only a few years after the Civil Rights Movement. Still, why they gotta be some jive-talking, wisecracking, basketball-playing, limited-ass brothers who travel around-literally, those dudes had no respect for the rules of the game!-resolving conflicts with a game of hoops instead of, say, high-minded debates? The white man's intentional foul? We think so.

Creators: Hanna-Barbera
Networks (Years): NBC (1979)

You know what's more racist than a traveling team of black basketball players whose only problem-solving method is to dunk on fools? A traveling team of black basketball players who are actually undercover superheroes and who turn on their powers, i.e. cheat, to win games. Peep Freddie "Curly" Neal/Super Sphere's basketball head and Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar/Gizmo's gadget-filled afro. They should've just called them the Orlando Magical Negroes.

Creators: Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan
Networks (Years): UPN (1998)

In some twisted reality, possibly one where Glenn Beck holds high office, this show, starring Chi McBride as a black Englishman brought to America as President Abraham Lincoln's driver-cum-life coach, isn't racist at all. With Desmond Pfeiffer being the only voice of reason in an all-white household, it could be seen as racially uplifting. And if you believe that, you've been snorting more coke than Vinnie Chase and Soulja Boy. We file this under, "It's funny because it's soooo not possible." Wait, wait, the black guy is the smart one?! But, but, he's black! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! *wipes tear from eye* Oh, UPN.

Creators: Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove
Networks (Years): Disney Channel (1989-1990)

Siamese cats that run a laundromat with an illegal gambling operation in the basement that speak in garbled "Engrish"? But they're Siamese! It's just realism! Geez, you're touchy. Now, just find us Siam on a map, 'kay?

Creators: Dick Clair, Norman Lear, Jenna McMahon
Networks (Years): NBC (1979-1988)

Just because this all-girl show was a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes doesn't mean it was JUST racist against black people. Sure, the one time Tootie landed herself an African-American jock boyfriend it turned out dude couldn't read (because illiteracy and defness was SO IN back then) but it's gems like a little ditty called "The Americanization of Miko" that make this sitcom equal opportunity ignorant.

Basically, Jo befriends a Japanese girl (also, very trendy at the time) and turns her out on craven American things like "T-shirts" and "rock concerts" and "fun" and then has the gall to get up into Miko's father-san's face and tell him how to raise his kid. She explains that she is uniquely equipped to meddle in such international matters because she's "from the Bronx." Mr. Cuban Link, your ambassadorship awaits!

Creators: Liz Gateley
Networks (Years): MTV (2006-2010)

If the Amazon jungle should be preserved for its fecund mystery and millions of types of potentially live-saving flora and fauna, The Hills, a widely celebrated cultural phenomenon with insights into the turbulent, heady, be-sequined world of full-retard, rich white chicks (plus their douchehole male cohorts) is basically the opposite of that. In every way possible. Birthing such cultural shitstains as "Spencer Pratt" and Heidi's augmented "horror tits," The Hills, and all its glittery arguments against white people having sex with other white people, is just fucking racist. Against humans.

Creators: Garry Marshall
Networks (Years): ABC (1974-1984)

Aww, the classic throwback that made it seem like blacks were non-existent in the 1950s. Of course, until Fonzie meets "Sticks" and single-handedly ends segregation. Because who needs riots, sit-ins, and marches when you have all that Fonzie swag?

Creators: Ann Donahue, Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Jerry Bruckheimer
Networks (Years): CBS (2002-2012)

It's really not their fault. Any time you have a show about crime set in Miami, inevitably you're going to run into a few Scarface-esque stereotypes that involve people of Latin descent with greasy hair, shiny shirts, and shady cars. It doesn't make it OK, but we kind of understand.

Creators: Millard Kaufman, John Hubley
Networks (Years): NBC (1964-1965)

So, once a show is animated it's practically harmless right? FOH, this shit was just as potently (and patently) racist as any other TV show on the air in the 1960s. Magoo's buck-toothed houseboy Chinaman Charley looked like he hopped right off of a WWII propaganda poster and was forced to ride with MM no matter how much fuckery his old ass got into. And Clint Eastwood elderly white folks wonder why the Asian youth hate them now?

Creators: Ehrich Van Lowe
Networks (Years): UPN (1996-1997)

Even in the far reaches of the universe, in the cotdamn 23rd Century, black people can't escape earthly stereotypes. How is it that the ship's computer doesn't have some overly technical name that gets boiled down to a cool acronym, but is instead called Loquatia? Really? The computer powering the spaceship is a Sheneneh doppelganger? They should have just completed the racist cipher and thrown some 13-inch gold Daytons on the ship.

Creators: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Networks (Years): Comedy Central (1997-Present)

We say this at the risk of getting trashed by South Park fanboys, but, in addition to being sidesplittingly funny at times, SP is also defintely racist. For starters, two of the black characters are walking sterotypes. Chef is obviously the smooth black dude who fucks all the white girls and Token's name is Token. The clip above is from an episode where the n-word is used 42 times and while some call it bringing light to the negative connotation of the word, we think it's more like two white guys trying to get away with some sly shit.

Creators: Herman Miller
Networks (Years): ABC (1972-1975)

There's nothing really racist about the story of a half-Chinese, half-American Shaolin monk roaming the countryside in search of his half-brother. OK, there's the fact that the very Caucasian-looking David Carradine is presented as a paragon of martial arts. There's that, plus his character's penchant for spouting weird fortune-cookie-style aphorisms like "Become who you are." All that, and, lest we forget: The whole idea for the show was straight jacked from Bruce Lee. So, what were we saying? Yeah. RACIST.

Creators: Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Mike Henry
Networks (Years): FOX (2009-Present)

This Family Guy spin-off plays into every well-known black stereotype you've heard before: black people love to dance, black people love R&B and rap, and there's always at least one (or a few) obese relatives in a black family. But, what took this TV show to the next level and made it eligible for this list is that the stereotypical yet lovable lead character, Cleveland Orenthal Brown, is voiced by a guy who looks like this. Yeah, we'd be grinning too if we made guap off a show as terrible as this.

Creators: Mark Burnett
Networks (Years): CBS (2000-Present)

Survivor earned its spot on this list solely for its 13th season, Survivor: Cook Islands. Why? Umm, maybe because instead of randomly choosing tribes or having contestants pick their tribe members, they created four tribes separated by race (African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and White American). In the end, Yul Kwon won by becoming the sole survivor and proving once and for all that Asians, who are only good at math, are the best race of all.

Creators: Bonnie Turner, Mark Brazill, Terry Turner
Networks (Years): FOX (1998-2006)

Fez is a foreign exchange student with a very effeminate way of speaking who lives in Wisconsin and is the butt of his white friends' jokes. And he never pulls any chicks! Of course, when the two main characters (Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher) leave, the show's producers finally decided to let Fez get it poppin'. As if that makes up for the prolonged subjugation. Fez's portrayor, though, the Venezuelan-Colombian Wilmer Valderrama, has the best revenge, gettin' it in with a who's who (and white's white) of Hollywood starlets like Mandy Moore, Lindsay Lohan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Ashlee Simpson. Way to shirk the stereotypes and be a smooth Latin Lothario! Oh. Nevermind.

Creators: Carlos Mencia, Robert Morton
Networks (Years): Comedy Central (2005-2008)

Besides being the most unfunny show to ever hit Comedy Central, Mind of Mencia is just about the most post-racial (ha!) racist thing around: a Honduran comic making a career off telling (stolen) self-deprecating jokes about Mexicans. "You see it's funny 'cause we all look alike anyway..." 'Cept it ain't funny.

Creators: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Networks (Years): MGM (1940)

We could give early Tom & Jerry cartoons a pass for being a product of their racist-ass era (the '40s, '50s, and '60s), and even tip our fitteds because many of the scenes with dark-skinned cannibals, characters in blackface, or Mammy Two Shoes, the poor and abusive black matron with a rodent problem, were edited out or altered for the 1965 transition to TV. We could, but we won't, because muting offensive-looking cannibals, reducing but not entirely eliminating blackface, and replacing a fat, abrasive, poverty stricken black woman with a fat, abrasive, poverty stricken Irish one isn't exactly like singing "Kumbaya."

Creators: Chester Gould
Networks (Years): UPA (1961-1962)

Good ol' fashioned prime time racism is one thing, but if you really wanna get the best bang for your fucked up buck, make a cartoon with hideous hackneyed stereotypes and use it as a lead-in for kids' shows. That's exactly what United Productions of America did in the early '60s, creating a series featuring a buck-toothed fu manchu-sporting Asian named "Joe Jitsu" (get it?!!!!!) and a sombrero-clad Speedy Gonzalez rip-off named "Go-Go." It was fucked up during its original run, but even more so when it was re-run during the Dick Tracy movie hype in 1990.

Creators: Larry David
Networks (Years): HBO (2000-Present)

Larry David grandfathered in the racism from Seinfeld and brought it to HBO. In the course of seven seasons Larry has bought a racist dog, mentioned how he "nods" to black people to prove he's one of the "good ones," and even adopted a family of African-American hurricane victims conveniently named "The Blacks." To top it off, Larry got his jungle fever on for a couple of episodes when he hooked up with Vivica A. Fox's character, only to drop her ass two episodes into Season Seven. And even after Fox's character bounces, her brother Leon Black (J.B. Smoove, who takes buffoonery to new levels) keeps mooching off Larry and living in his house-playing into the stereotype that black folk are lazy and don't ever want to leave your house. HBO = Hella Black Oppression!

Creators: Haim Saban, Shuki Levy
Networks (Years): FOX (1993-1996)

People blame rappers, video games, and movies for fuckin' up their kids, but the Expendables aren't messing your kid up, it's the Power Rangers. Let's just list all the offenses: The pink ranger was a ditsy white girl. The red ranger was Native American. The black ranger was, well, black. The yellow ranger was Asian. Their robot was short, screamed "Ay yi yi!" and his head looked like a sombrero (not to mention he killed a bad guy with flowers once). The white (power!) ranger was the strongest, and he looked like a KKK member in ninja mode. The yellow ranger used to have trouble with her sabertooth vehicle (Asian and female: that's two bad-driver stereotypes!). And finally, whenever the black ranger fights, the song changes from action to a smooth beat that he dances to before kicking ass. C'mon, son. Like you need more proof.

Creators: Hanna-Barbera
Networks (Years): ABC (1974-1976)

Years before Wu appropriated kung fu culture, Hanna-Barbera made its own blacks x martial arts collabo with this '70s cartoon. 'Cept, unlike RZA and 'em, the show was less about homage and more like a D.P. of racial tropes. First clue? The title. Second: The main character-a bumbling dog who works as a janitor at a police station-is voiced by Scatman Crothers, the jive-talkin' talent behind Jazz of The Transformers. And third, the dog's Hong Kong Phooey alter ego-with its goofy robe, silly faux-karate moves, and "hiyaaah!" exclamations-was basically an amalgam of the stereotypes that kids use to mock Asian people to this day. Hmmm, wonder why?!?!

Creators: George W. Trendle, Fran Striker
Networks (Years): (1949-1957)

Turns out the Lone Ranger's buddy Tonto's name means "stupid" in Spanish. Which pretty accurately sums up the general steez of this show. "Tonto, you go to town." "Kemo Sabe, you go fuck yourself with peace pipe!"

Creators: Robert Borden
Networks (Years): NBC (2010-2011)

An everyday white douche named Todd gets transferred to India to train the new call center reps for Mid-American Novelties. In India! Cue the cross-cultural hijinks and requisite Indian-food-gives-you-diarrhea jokes. Sadly, NBC's new sitcom falls back on tired cartoonish stereotypes and a steady stream of flippant racist remarks-the white boss spends his first day on the job making fun of a character named Manmeet (because it sounds like a penis!) and comparing a Sikh employee's turban to a Green Bay Packers Cheesehead. This is supposed to be a comedy? Even Michael Scott would want to punch this ignorant cockboy in the face.

Creators: Doug Wildey
Networks (Years): ABC (1964-1965)

Let's not even talk about how Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were lovers Hadji, the Indian street kid with a jewel in his turban who was adopted by the Quest family thanks to his skills in crafts like snake charming. Just focus on the clip above, in which a Chinese man named Charlie serves rice and fortune cookies and spews lines like, "Thank you, honorable ancestors, I should have never left my homeland." It's no wonder soldiers in Iraq refer to the Iraqis as "Hadjis" and soldiers in Vietnam called enemy combatants "Charlie." They must be Jonny Quest fans!

Creators: Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow
Networks (Years): FOX (2001-2010)

Over the course of eight grueling seasons, badass anti-terrorist agent Jack Bauer tortured did battle with all sorts of foreign evildoers (and their U.S. government moles) to protect this great nation. Of all the Chinese, Russian, African, and Middle Eastern bad guys, none did more to stoke the fires of hatred than season four's Araz family, suburban Muslims who turned out to be, you guessed it, a terrorist cell. Right Wing America gave orgasmic approvals for profiling, wiretaps, and torture after that one.

Creators: Seth MacFarlane
Networks (Years): FOX (1999-Present)

Family Guy has never shied away from pushing the limits as to what's tasteful comedy and what's not. They've long been under fire for being racist, thanks to Stewie making jokes about black people, Peter throwing the term "Angry Black Guy" around, and the infamous "Black-U-Weather Forecast." Is Peter's testicle chin a way of ridiculing fat, ignorant white people too or just telling non-whites they can get deez? Hung jury.

Creators: Jeff Harris
Networks (Years): NBC (1978-1985), ABC (1985-1986)

Save us, Mr. White Man! Come rescue us from Harlem and let us come live with you in yo' giant Park Avenue mansion where our po' deceased mama onced worked her fingers to the bone cleaning up after yo' wrinkled white ass! We's cute, Mista Drummond, we ain't gwine start no trouble! Looky here, li'l Arnold got an autoimmune disease that lets him stay lawn-jockey-sized until you're too old to hear his hilarious impotent sass! Look, yeah, this show was great when we were kids. But Jeeeeeeeeesus.

Creators: Chuck Jones
Networks (Years): Warner Brothers (1930-1969)

Without cartoons featuring beloved anthropomorphic animations Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Speedy Gonzales, generations of kids might never have been taught that Africans and Native Americans are dim-witted, foot-dragging savages (and sometimes cannibals), Jews are hook-nosed shysters, Mexicans are lazy, Italians are Mafioso, Germans are all Nazis, etc. On the other hand, before they were heavily edited, those cartoons also taught kids how to smoke cigarettes, drop pills, get drunk, and commit suicide, so it's not all bad.

Creators: Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David
Networks (Years): NBC (1989-1998)

Oh, those crazy New Yorkers, with their close talkers and man hands and shrinkage and somehow no people of color anywhere.

Sure, the show had a "Jewish identity," if that's what you want to call being self-involved and petty, but other than Johnnie Cochran homage Jackie Chiles, some Native American woman that Jerry once wanted to smash, a guy who Elaine thought might be light-skinned but was really just weird, and that one black woman who refused to accept George's book donation because he'd taken it in the shitter with him, the whole thing was whiter than a cracker buffet table on set at a bukkake movie filming in Sweden after a blizzard.

Oh, no, wait-there WERE Puerto Ricans. On that one episode...that got protested...and was yanked from syndication...because it was so offensive. So hey, at least there's that.

Creators: Rupert Murdoch
Networks (Years): FOX (1996-Present)

"Fair and Balanced," indeed. Fair-skinned and perfectly balanced: They hate everybody. From Neil Cavuto's "minorities caused the financial crisis" to Glenn Beck's "Obama hates white people," this stillbirth of a media creation falls into the "anti-human racism" category. Screw y'all, and we mean that sincerely. Except possibly you, Shepard Smith. You seem OK sometimes.