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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take your point OP. But I don’t think footloose is the best example — a film about an insular backwards conservative town afraid of change and modernity—integrating that group would have been difficult for the narrative.

But talk about any of the John Hughes movies, or Fast Times’s, or Bill and Teds, or clerks (I guess that’s 90s).  [/quote]
IMO, the worst offender is actually Friends.

I thought the show was good, but, c'mon.. young people in NYC, and no gay people or minorities? That is until Ross dated two different nonwhite women. I think I read that he thought it was also ridiculous that a show about young people in NYC had zero non white people.

I also read a long time ago that when there were a couple of Asian guest cast, they had to deal with racism.

Friends started in the 90s.  Seinfeld was just as bad, actually. 
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Cheers seems to be a big offender as well.  I was watching a bunch of highlights on youtube because of the Frasier remake, and the only people of color were the cigar-store Indian and a few extras who pass out of frame.  There is so much diversity of personality/social class/education in the show, but scarce minorities.

I think that this was done consciously/strategically, under the theory that any diversity that exceeds the levels actually existing in friend groups would ring false and diminish the comedy and hurt ratings.  Also I think it played to white people’s (maybe all people’s?) subconscious desire to surround themselves only with people they’re totally comfortable with.[/quote]

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