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* Apparently TruthInTelevision: An episode of Maury Povich's talk show included a white woman who cheated on her (also white) husband with a black man, and was "worried" that the baby "might" not be her husband's. Despite the kid's caramel skin and woolly black hair, her husband was fully convinced that the boy was his son and was devastated by the obvious DNA test results. [[TheUnfairSex As usual]] on that show, the wife is never jeered for her promiscuity.

* The SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" has a widow who remarries and then keeps sneaking off to a cottage and won't tell her husband why. He naturally suspects her of having an affair, but it turns out that what she never told him was that her first husband was black (American); the resident of the cottage is their daughter, whom she's told him was also dead. Leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming [[FairForItsDay by the standards of the times]] when the second husband accepts the child immediately, and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in that Holmes didn't come ''close'' to guessing that one.

* Subverted in the second series final of ''KathAndKim''. When Kim's baby, who neither she, her husband not and her family have seen yet, is brought in, she's Indian. Cue flashback to seven episode earlier when Kim tried to seduce an Indian waiter the night she got back together with Brett. Then a nurse comes in and apologises for the mix-up.

* [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Chestnut Mary Chestnut]], a Southern woman, kept a diary during the AmericanCivilWar. One of the things it's most remembered for is a comment on the situation of slave owners raping their female slaves and fathering children with them (who of course would become slaves themselves):

-->-- "Well, Did You Evah?" (Cole Porter)

-->-- The Duke of Fried, '''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'''

* In the series 2 finale of ''SeaChange'', Trudi gives birth to a Vietnamese baby, after everyone had spent half a year thinking that the father was Jack, who is white. This winds being ''better'', because Jack is the ex-husband of Trudi's sister, and it sidesteps the [[{{Squick}} squickiness]] of Jack's children having a half-sibling who is also their cousin.

* [[DanAndMabsFurryAdventures Abel]] is revaled to be an extreme complicated version of this in his side comic. Specifically, Abel is born with wings, something that is not at all unheard of in the setting but is unsual and indicates that his parents couldn't really have had them. Him and his mom recive large amounts of flack over this from just about everyone but the father who steadfastly belives that she was faithful. As part of TheReveal Abel finds out that [[spoiler: his dad is a shapeshifter who killed his mom's real husband and has been impersonating him since before Abel was born. Abel's wings and other oddites are part of his race's ShapeshifterDefaultForm]]

* On ''Sophie'', the titular character is devestated when her boyfriend Rick leaves her for her best friend Melissa, especially since Sophie is pregnant with what they all thought was Rick's baby. When the baby is born and he's black, it's revealed that he's the product of a one night stand Sophie had with a black man named Andre.

* Joseph Gribble on ''KingOfTheHill''. Dale, usually a conspiracy nut, is completely oblivious to the fact that Native American John Redcorn is the father.

* In an episode of ''{{The Dick Van Dyke Show}}'', Laura becomes convinced that their baby, Richie, somehow became switched with someone else's baby at the hospital. She contacts the other people and invites them to their house to discuss the issue. When they come in, they're a black couple with a black kid ... and they think it's pretty funny.

* In one of the ''SomethingPositive'' 1930s strips, where black midwife Hetty is delivering a white girl's illegitimate baby, and the girl's parents freak out when it's a black child, ''blaming her'' for "getting the black all over that baby" when she delivered it. As she replied: "Woman, I pull 'em out. I don't put 'em in."

* On ''MyNameIsEarl'', Joy's second child, Earl Jr., was black, despite Joy and Earl both being white. The first clue that neither of Earl's "sons" are actually his. [[WhatAnIdiot As I recall her explanation that it was 'reverse albinism' explained it away.]]
** There actually is a condition loosely fitting that description: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanism melanism]]--but on the other hand, it apparently doesn't occur in humans, at least not often enough to warrant mentioning.
** The trope was then sent up in the cliffhanger of the final episode, when after four seasons of everyone thinking Earl Jr. was Darnell's child, a DNA test reveals he's not the father either.
** Actually, the explanation Joy tried was that Earl had a "repressed Black genie (sic)" in his lineage from his great-grandmother. Earl doesn't really believe it, and asks the doctor to confirm his suspicions (which the doctor does, in no uncertain terms.)

* Done implicitly due to actor selection in PowerRangersMysticForce. Udonna, who looks Irish, has a son with Leanbow, who looks Spanish. The kid, Bowen, looks Arabian, with skin about eight shades darker than either of theirs. No comment is made on this matter.

* In ''BatmanBeyond'' Mary and Warren [=McGinnis=], both redheads, have two black-haired sons. A popular fan theory is that this is the reason for their divorce. An odd example, because while he ''is'' the father, [[spoiler:"[[FullyAbsorbedFinale Epilogue]]," an episode of ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', reveals that Warren [=McGinnis'=] reproductive DNA was overwritten with Bruce Wayne's without anybody's knowledge in an attempt to produce another Batman, making Terry and Matt Bruce's ''genetic'' son despite being conceived by Warren]].

* In ''BatmanBeyond'' Mary and Warren [=McGinnis=], both redheads, have two black-haired sons. [[spoiler: It is revealed in "[[FullyAbsorbedFinale Epilogue]]," an episode of ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', that this is because Warren [=McGinnis'=] reproductive DNA was overwritten with Bruce Wayne's without anybody's knowledge in an attempt to produce another Batman.]] A popular fan theory is that this is the reason for their divorce.