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Micah
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10:54:03 PM Mar 6th 2010
Stuck here for better sourcing:
  • This troper cannot remember the name of the show, because it was a while ago (90s I think), only that an African-American comedian starred in it. Anyway, the episode had a threefer token minority and is lampshaded as such: "You're a woman, a minority, and you're gay? Girl, you get a leg brace and no one could ever fire you."
MatthewTheRaven
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02:31:09 PM Aug 15th 2010
edited by MatthewTheRaven
So is this just a collection of nonwhite males heterosexuals now? Wasn't it originally for someone who was both a twofer and the only such person in the cast, such as in a situation where it's an all straight, white cast with one paraplegic Black Hispanic Jewish Lesbian with Tourette's to check all the demographic boxes and make the story artificially diverse? In many cases, such as the House entry, the story gets listed despite having several twofers and a half-minority cast.

One that really sticks out is the first entry under Real Life:

  • The members of freak folk duo Cocorosie definitely qualify as French Jewish lesbians, making them threefers.
o Fourfers. They're Metis.

If both members of Coco Rosie are French-Metis Jewish lesbians, they're 100% of the "cast." They don't really stand out against an all Straight/White/Male "crowd."
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