5 'Huh?' Moments In Otherwise Beloved Shows

The second season features an episode in which Kimmy's best friend Titus (a black man), writes a play where he dresses up as a geisha, pissing off the activist group Respectable Asian Portrayals in Entertainment. (Or R.A.P.E., because why not at this point?) But after seeing the show, the Asian critics come to love it. So the show's meta-commentary on the controversy was essentially: "Don't you see? These fictional people who we've made up actually LOVE having their culture appropriated." Perfect solution!

NBCUniversal Television"Uhh, anything you don't like about this is ironic."

In the Season 3 episode "Richard Youngsta," the triple-threat singer, dancer, and perpetual domestic abuser plays a famous rapper whom lead character Dre uses in an ad campaign. Dre's co-workers push the ad to be more stereotypical, including a shot where Brown pours Uvo on an annoying black woman and turns her into a smiling white woman. This causes a debate about the role of race in advertising, and the added burdens people of color have when it comes to creating art.

It's a unique and poignant discussion for a highly visible network TV comedy, but it got largely overshadowed by the decision to cast Brown as a "troubled" fictional rapper. Barris claimed that he was unaware of some of Brown's more recent domestic abuse issues (including a restraining order being placed against him only months before), and regretted that the controversy swallowed the point of the episode.

Barris has since abandoned ABC for Netflix, in part because of the network's refusal to air the aforementioned anti-Trump episode. Which means Disney executives didn't want to go too hard on Donald Trump, but had no issues cutting a paycheck to one of the country's most famous abusers. Who also dressed up as an Arab terrorist for Halloween, for good measure:

Chris Brown/InstagramBrown is the one ... actually, it doesn't really matter which one he is.

When the other Planeteers show up to save the day, the scientist who explained what happened to the mice is offered a way out. He doesn't take it, because he and his people are getting what they deserved.

Turner Program ServicesCartoons went to sort of a weird place before parents started paying attention.

Putting aside how world population rates have been generally declining, doomsday scenarios about Africa's population boom have proved misguided, and that resource mismanagement is the far more glaring problem than "having too many people," it's extremely messed up for a blue cartoon who looks like if Billy Ray Cyrus went to Carnival to warn children not to have too many kids when they grow up, or they'll wreck the world and deserve it. If the planet goes to shit, don't blame corporations; blame '90s kids who grew up and had sex a couple of times.

In the challenge, RuPaul showed the drag contestants photos of people's bodyparts (lips, cleavage, etc.), and they had to guess if they were cis women or drag queens. But the use of "she-male" -- a dated term for a trans woman who doesn't "pass" as a woman -- upset viewers, including former contestant Monica Beverly Hillz, a trans woman. She was disappointed that RuPaul would thoughtlessly include the term as part of a wacky game, saying it compromised how hard she and other trans people had fought for respect. RuPaul disagreed on his radio show, arguing that the art of drag was supposed to be "offensive," and that people blew the situation out of proportion.

However, after the blowback, producers cut RuPaul's catchphrase "Ooh girl, you've got she-mail!" from future episodes. Which made history as the only time a reality show actually chose avoiding continuing something stupidly tasteless.

"Angel One" has the crew visiting a planet where "gender roles have been reversed." Women are the soldiers, hunters, and leaders, while the men wear perfume and makeup, dress in skimpy clothing, and are told how great it is not having to work or worry about anything but home life. But in the end, dick finds a way. When the submissive men are at risk of being killed, the female leader who kissed Commander Riker changes her mind because of his masculine wisdom.

CBS Television DistributionThe women apparently also have to worry about the All-Valley Karate Tournament

The episode is as bad as it sounds, and anyone in production who wasn't high off the glue fumes from alien prosthetics knew it. Patrick Stewart tried to get the script changed, as did Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis. Producer Maurice Hurley called it "one of the ones you'd as soon erase." It turned out to be the only Star Trek episode Patrick Barry would write. It was also weirdly somehow conceived as an allegory about South African apartheid. Because The Next Generation was definitely batting 1.000 when it came to African politics.

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