Apu off the Simpsons is racist, apparently.

[Luis Anaconda]

All right thinking people did, la. Also, if we're being honest, Frosties were nicer than Crunchy Nut Cornflakes because they didn't fvck about with honey and nuts, they just chucked half a kilo of sugar into every packet.

And I used to add sugar to them - helped me grow up to be as strong as a tiger

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Coco Pops are fvcking rank and I don't care if saying that makes me racist. Tell you what I liked - Ricicles. Basically rice crispies, but coated with lovely, lovely sugar.

Ricicles and Frosties as a kid

[Burney]

I always thought the Simpsons was a, you know, comedy show, which rather gently and charmingly mocked many apsects of mainstream US culture.

I was wrong, apparently.

To be honest, I'm simply amazed it's taken America this long to work out that the Apu stereotype is a touch problematic.

No British programme with a character like that would have been commissioned in the last 35 years. Look at poor old 'It ain't half hot, mum'. Apu got a pass on British telly purely because the people writing and voicing the character were American rather than British.

[Luis Anaconda]

To be honest, I'm simply amazed it's taken America this long to work out that the Apu stereotype is a touch problematic.

No British programme with a character like that would have been commissioned in the last 35 years. Look at poor old 'It ain't half hot, mum'. Apu got a pass on British telly purely because the people writing and voicing the character were American rather than British.

See also the brown fella in Big Bang Theory. On the plus side, it mean Mind Your Language is gently pushed under the carpet as it it never happened

[Pat Vegas]

See also the brown fella in Big Bang Theory. On the plus side, it mean Mind Your Language is gently pushed under the carpet as it it never happened

I only found out a few years ago this was the Indian fella from Short Circuit (turns out Awimb is at it too with the smilies.

[Burney]

I only found out a few years ago this was the Indian fella from Short Circuit (turns out Awimb is at it too with the smilies.

I'm pretty sure we used to have a problematic Chinaman smiley, didn't we? Slitty eyes and a coolie hat, sort of thing? Whatever happened to that?

[Luis Anaconda]

I only found out a few years ago this was the Indian fella from Short Circuit (turns out Awimb is at it too with the smilies.

Roger the therapist from Friends

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

I only found out a few years ago this was the Indian fella from Short Circuit (turns out Awimb is at it too with the smilies.

1 billion Indian people and Hollywood couldn't find one to play a character in a movie.

[Ash]

To be honest, I'm simply amazed it's taken America this long to work out that the Apu stereotype is a touch problematic.

No British programme with a character like that would have been commissioned in the last 35 years. Look at poor old 'It ain't half hot, mum'. Apu got a pass on British telly purely because the people writing and voicing the character were American rather than British.

Congratulation! You are the first poster on AWIMB I have seen using the word 'problematic' in this context.

Normally I expect to see it on a site I occasionally frequent with a predominantly left-liberal North American population.

[SWv2]

No British programme with a character like that would have been commissioned in the last 35 years. Look at poor old 'It ain't half hot, mum'. Apu got a pass on British telly purely because the people writing and voicing the character were American rather than British.

The "best" one was the classroom based comedy where the entire programme was based around laughing at Johnny Foreigner and his/her attempts to learn the language.