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** Yet another example was an episode where Elaine's company was critically depenedent on a deal with a Japanese conglomerate. Her boss had a terrible cold, and forgot his handkerkchief on her desk, and thus sneezed all over his hands. The Japanese businessman mistakes his refusal to shake hands because of germs to be an insult rather than a courtesy.
*** ... Which doesn't make a ton of sense considering that the Japanese tend to prefer bowing over shaking hands anyway.
** An inversion occurs in an episode where George and Jerry can't get a cab at the airport and pretend to be the people a limo driver is waiting for. Turns out the person George is impersonating is a notorious neo-Nazi. Jerry and George don't actually say anything racist but are still
* Every other episode of ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' (Hmm, [[Larry David]] must love this trope.)
* The ''[[Father Ted]]'' episode where Ted manages to offend Craggy Island's surprisingly large Chinese community. Somewhat subverted in that the presentation intended to prove that he's not racist is actually pretty racist in its own right.
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* An episode of ''[[Becker]]'' revolves around the title character making comments that a journalist construes as racist, leading him to write an article attacking him. Becker confronts him during a radio interview and seemingly manages to clear himself, although it gets worse before it gets better.
* Knowledge of this trope was used in at least two plots of [[The West Wing]], and not played for laughs either time.
** In "The Midterms" Sam persuades a college friend and Florida DA to run for Congress. Unfortunately, it comes out later that as a DA he often dismissed black jurors from cases he was trying to win. Since this is not an uncommon tactic for DAs, this was still seen as a winnable campaign. Then it was revealed that he belonged to an all-white fraternity in college, which again is neither uncommon or embarrasing, as many frats and sorrorities have few-to-none black members (especially if the college has a black fraternity that attracts most black pledges). These two circumstances together were enough to staunch the promised support from the White House, as Sam, Josh and Leo knew the DA was going to be
** In "In Bartlett's Third State of The Union" a (white) Detroit police officer is cited for heroism by the President. It comes out later that the officer was once accused of excessive force, breaking the leg of a (black) suspect. It's evident from the officer's story that the suspect lied (the suspect broke his leg jumping from the building he was robbing) in order to get a several million dollar settlement out of the city. Nevertheless, CJ and Sam have to do damage-control, lest the White House be
* Absolutely every <s>[[Acceptable Targets|white]]</s> non-black person the [[Malcolm Xerox|Militant Black Guy]] talks to in ''[[Balls of Steel]]'' due to the usage of words spoken causing ''very'' [[Unfortunate Implications]] from both sides.
* [[Monk]] has that habit of cleaning/disinfecting his hands after he shakes anyone's hand. When he does this after shaking the hands of two white women, then a black guy's hand in "Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man", people who aren't familiar with this habit assume it's because he's racist. For some reason, he does not explain.
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