For a humorous and enlightening take on how people of color have been portrayed on television, check out VH1’s TV’s Illest Minority Moments Presented by Ego Trip.

Based on the Big Book of Racism from the creators of the hip-hop zine Ego Trip, the show pokes fun at and lambastes the racial and ethnic stereotypes that have made their way into America’s living rooms.

Some highlights include:

•Danny Partridge becoming an honorary member of an “Afro-American club”

•Marlo Thomas playing a Chinese girl on an episode of Bonanza

•Pondering who Uncle Ben would rather do the nasty with, Aunt Jemima or Mrs. Butterworth?

•Figuring out Big Bird’s race

And who would have thought that Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) and Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach) aren’t quite the all-American white girls they were made out to be?

Big Boi and Andre 3000 of Outkast, Kelis, Talib Kweli, actor Anthony Anderson, cartoonist Aaron McGruder (The Boondocks), writers Angela Nissel (Broke Diaries, Scrubs), Judy McCreary, Eric Nakamura (Giant Robot magazine), Jeff Yang (Once Upon a Time in China), director John Singleton (Boyz N The Hood, Baby Boy) and comic Joey Medina (Latin Kings of Comedy) are among the talking heads in the show.

TV’s Illest Minority Moments airs tonight at 7 p.m., Thursday at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Saturday at 12 a.m. (all times EST) this week.

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