The Office: Basketball

The Office is an Emmy Award winning comedy-drama television series that portrays the everyday-office-life of a local paper company(Dunder Mifflin) located in Scranton, PA. The show very often makes racial, ethnic, and sexual stereotypical jokes in most of their episodes; exploiting almost every character on the set. One character I want to focus on is Stanley Hudson (played by Leslie David Baker), who is the only African-American working in the office as one of the branch's sales associates. Michael Scott (played as Steve Carell), ignorant and blunt, always assume things of Stanley just because he is black and then eventually makes stereotypical & racial comments to him, as well as to other characters on the set. (By the way, the show has more to offer than racial jokes. It's a great show!)
One of the earliest depictions of this was in the 5th episode of the 1st season called Basketball. The plot of the episode was that the office workers and the warehouse workers bet on a game of basketball on who would be working that saturday. So Michael automatically chose Stanley as one of his main players. Everyone was confused because people and their mothers can tell, just by looking, that Stanley was not quite the "sporty" type. But because of the stereotype that African-Americans are good at sports, Michael refused to think otherwise and made him play anyway. One scene of that episode that captured that situation was when Stanley arrived last to the game and was stumbling down the stairs (emphasizing that he was not athletic) with his knee-high socks; Michael yelled, "SECRET WEAPON! SECRET WEAAPPONN~!!" (It was hilarious!)
All throughout every season 1-5, Stanley did not falter and was totally comfortable with who he was. Also, Stanley doesn't like Michael too much and, frankly, doesn't really care for what he has to say. So I guess that plays a lot into helping Stanley ignore Michael's stupid comments and what not.