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Oh No You Di'Int!

No love for Lady Chablis in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?

Two tears in a bucket... motherfuck it.

Skids and Mudflap
Ooh sorry, I thought you said racial stereotype.

How many are we talking here?
Just a few that spring to mind..

Pam on Martin.
I admit, I liked that show.

Taraji P. Henson's character in Something New. Mouthy as hell. I wanted to slap her.

Dep. Williams in Reno 911. And she's got the ass to boot.

I remember the mom from Family Matters played Will's lawyer on Will & Grace, and I swear, her only lines were "Mmm-hmm."

Now that's sassy!

Watching the scene with the razorblades in the afro girlfight in Coffy might be the best thing that happened to me this summer.

No love for Willona Woods on Good Times? Or Dee on What's Happening?

@Ralphie: Americans just love the sass. We can't get enough! I suspect it's because we're a masochistic society at heart. Thanks a lot, puritans. We love our sass best from minorities we've oppressed so that we can turn around and say "Look! We're so cool now we're going to let these people make fun of us! Because we're cool now, see!?"

How is it that RuPaul does not appear on this list? Is the list only to include "natural born sistas"?

The black bus driver woman from Enchanted. Come on! That was the sassiest thing in the world!

No Willona from Good Times?

No Florence from The Jeffersons!?

No Shirley from What's Happening!!!?

Bunch of jive'ass mo'fuckas.

No Laverne from Scrubs!? Blasphemy!!

Ugh, Queen Latifah! Way to almost ruin Stranger Than Fiction, you recently open homosexual sassy black failure, you!

You know who is really sassy , Zooey Deschanel in 5oo days of summer thats who. She is so amazing in that movie it crosses color barriers of random post.

Boy, Crusty, you really are ignorant, aren't you? You just won't let up.

molly, you in danger girl.

Uh, Lisa from Saved by the Bell?

Posted by: Judith Priest at August 3, 2009 6:34 PM
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Love your handle. Unless it's your real name, in which case it's the greatest real name ever.

Breakin' the law, breakin' the law ...

samma, you just made my effing day.

Whoopi won an Oscar for sass!

Where the fuck is Laverne?!?!?!

I declare shenanigans!

Take one part 'mmm-hmm', combine with two parts 'meddlesome church frau'.

Add one litre of 'baby mama'. Let stand for opening credits, exit out through back credits.

Level 3 Ebonics required for entry-level position.

In absence of adequate air conditioning, Pentecostal Jamborees must be facilitated by one paper fan for every 2.5 occupants. Back-flips preferred, splits tolerated. 'Glory' optional.

'Who Dat Negro?' DNA caucuses to be held in the Maury Povich Sperm Depository every fortnight.

Join your Caucasian brethren in the Adult Swim. You can interpret that any way you like, it all works.

If weave tracks are not maintained, the Other Woman retains the right to snatch that raggedy-ass mop off of your head. In front of PEOPLE!

'Aww, sookie-sookie, now' into Downward Dog.

Christian name must be of seventeen syllables or more. Exceptions can be made in the case of superfluous apostrophes or unique spellings, but only through the petitioning process. Must be submitted before start of Black History Month.

New Holiday: Earf Day.

Negotiations must have at least one grandmother present. If grandmother cannot be found in reasonable time, power of attorney is handed over to the switch. Said switch must be collected by the undersigned.

Commence 'whupping'.

'The jazz'.

Soul food must come with angioplasty per diem: catfish or better.

Liberally sprinkle with 'angry black woman' to taste. Spice with grape drink.

For best results, store in 'honey chile' until dissolved.

If 'honey chile' is unavailable, substitute with obese mammy surrogate, or higher.

All license plates to sport chain frame. Trunks must be fitted with Soul-Glo activator before the cutoff date of December 31, Forty Acres and a Forced Comment.

Makes seven servings of 'incredulous glower over the glasses'.

I'm willing to bet my imaginary left nut that had this been a list of the top five ditziest blonde characters on tv or film; not a single one of you would have gotten your panties in a bunch.

"Taraji P. Henson's character in Something New. Mouthy as hell. I wanted to slap her."

She did pretty much the same thing in 'Boston Legal'. Though some redeeming qualities gradually emerged

Speaking of 'Boston Legal' - Gary Anthony Williams as Clarice Bell. Clarence was meek, but Clarice kicked ass!

S. Epatha Merkerson never had a sassy day in her life on "Law & Order." She had "I'm too old for this shit" moments, to be sure, but so did everybody else.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Anna Deavere Smith didn't have a 'sassy' bone in her body, especially as the National Security Advisor for Pres. Bartlett...

If panties are bunching--and I didn't really get that sense, it just looks like people are just having fun--it's likely because the overwhelming majority of the time, 'sassy' and 'black' are one and the same.

I'm pretty tired of the character type myself. But I'm also tired of many other types like 'The Nerd Who is Secretly in Love With the Beautiful, Popular Girl in the School', the 'Magical Negro' and the Nathan Rabin-named 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl', to name the first few that came to me. I actually loathe the last one. If you're going to let some mentally unstable and barely pubescent quirk factory run roughshod over your life, you deserve it.

So even if I hate the MPDG FAR more than the sassy black woman, at least there are many more character types (annoying and insulting though they may be) that feature white women. At least, that's the impression I get on the thread. The MPGD, or the 'Serious Business Lady Who is Confident and Forceful in Every Area of Her Life Except Her Love Life, AND SHE'S ALMOST 30!!!!!!!!!!!!' just haven't been around for as long. At the very least, the audience isn't expected to fall into raptures over the sassy woman. Likely to do with the fact that she's 'hard', 'no nonsense', and completely de-sexualized, but there you go.

I don't want to sound humourless or militant. Crap is crap, and I wouldn't be any more interested in seeing a Heigl or Hudson film if it starred Zoe Saldana, instead. I'm not taking a stand, I just don't enjoy romantic comedies very much. Marsha Warfield, on the other hand...

There isn't a lot of difference between GONE WITH THE WIND and NORBIT (from what I have read about it), and little difference in between. And though it's not anyone's job per se to make us look good, I defy you find a black woman in a Woody Allen movie who isn't a maid or prostitute, for example.

Of course, we're just having light-hearted fun on this site, but this is a world where Shirley Q. Liquor exists--with wild popularity. So to equate that with Hollywood blondes who have to put up with all of that adoration (outside of the films themselves) whiffs a little of the shenanigans to me. I'll concede that they're met with as much antagonism, often more, by their non-fans. It's vicious, vulgar stuff and I know that if I were to ever read those things and they were directed at me, I'd cry like the sad panda that I am. Is there a cold comfort in knowing that at least they're on the radar? I'm not the person to ask.

But everybody wants to have hurt feelings, so I guess we can all have at each other on these threads until someone starts crying or gets pregnant. We all know that these threads often become FAR, FAR, FAR more mean-spirited and offensive than the original and controversial subject broached.

But I read on. The bile amuses me. Take that, beliefs!

!!!!!!!!!!!! @ #5...
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereh.

I'd titty fuck 3 out of the five; Jackee, Wanda Sykes even though she's a lesbo, and Pam Grier. me loves the huge titted negros!!!!

Aw, shucks. Thanks.

A bunch of pilgrims commenting on things they know nothing of. Sassy black characters...how do you all look at yourselves in the mirror. I bet some of you 2 percents are thinking this very moment, "what's that one black chicks name? Its on the tip of my tongue. She's so gosh darn funny." Well its not her, it's Phylicia Rashād as Clare Huxtable on the Cosby Show. That's right, her educated and kind demeanor was an act to trick you mothballs into making the show so damn popular. BET shows the uncut episodes after 12am, "Cliff, donchu make me break this puddin pop off up in yo ass!"

My bad. I clicked on a link that said "some of my best friends are black." I'll leave you closet racists to your hypocrisy.

Yo Icecreammang,

It's a joke homes, breath.

My bad. I clicked on a link that said "some of my best friends are black." I'll leave you closet racists to your hypocrisy.

@basterd: you took the words right out of my mouth. nothing like telling faux-liberal white yuppies it's ok to be racist! because it's funny! to get their true colors (no pun intended) to come out.