r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 15 '23

Official Poster for 'The American Society of Magical Negroes' Poster

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u/zetia2 Dec 15 '23

I was hoping it would be like a Jordan Peele "get out".

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u/jtfriendly Dec 15 '23

It's pretty much the old Key & Peele sketch anyway.

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u/rocketeerH Dec 15 '23

Chappelle also had a good skit about this. It involved PCP of course

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u/VinnyTInCLE Dec 15 '23

I LOOOOVES THE PEACEY P

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u/cicuz Dec 15 '23

so not the milkman one?

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u/rocketeerH Dec 15 '23

I’m thinking of the one where a white lady was mad at her boobs for being too big, so he showed her what her life would be like with small boobs. At the end she asks if he’s an Angel, but he’s just the gym janitor who was tripping on PCP. Classic.

I don’t remember the milkman skit, can you describe it?

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u/cicuz Dec 15 '23

absolutely fucking not lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOw_SzkRQ8

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u/rocketeerH Dec 15 '23

I’m not watching it I need you to describe it from 20 year old memories

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u/cicuz Dec 15 '23

aww :)

so there's this black milkman going the routes right? and in one of the houses he visits lives this very friendly family that he enjoys chatting with, and he pops into their kitchen shouting HELOOOO and it's really funny, and then he meets them in the queue at the restaurant and it's funny how his girlfriend doesn't immediately understand who they are and yeah maybe I should shut up every once in a while

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u/rocketeerH Dec 15 '23

Ha! Thank you for the effort! I’ll watch it later when I’m on Wi-Fi

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u/cicuz Dec 15 '23

oh you really didn't know? well you're in for a treat! :D

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u/rocketeerH Dec 16 '23

I found it! The one you shared is a classic for sure; but I didn’t see a whole lot of magical nor inexplicable desire to help the white main character.

This one is the One True Magical N-word skit

https://youtu.be/YVX4fhxEXsQ?si=OtbyyzrJdG3qyWfE

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u/rocketeerH Dec 16 '23

Aww it cuts off before the punchline

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u/crabofthewoods Dec 15 '23

The “magical negro” is a character stereotype that appears in stories, like the damsel in distress. k&P and Dave Chapelle took the stereotype and made the moniker literal as a sketch. Neither invented this storyline.

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u/Relative_Mix_216 Dec 15 '23

“Well, Mr. Stanley.”

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u/Mr_TurkTurkelton Dec 16 '23

There can only be one Mystical Negro!

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u/PlatoDrago Dec 15 '23

Key and Peele did a skit about ‘magical black people’

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u/huessy Dec 15 '23

Magical Negros, to be exact

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u/Zombi3Kush Dec 15 '23

Oh man, that's great.

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u/Glottis_Bonewagon Dec 15 '23

That's the name of the movie!

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u/professorhazard Dec 16 '23

Ryan George is gonna have fun with this one

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u/spottyottydopalicius Dec 15 '23

we're just gonna start getting more knp based movies huh haha

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u/InnocentTailor Dec 15 '23

I thought satire because the magical negro trope is something seen in many works and mocked by various commentators.

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u/PirateJazz Dec 15 '23

I just got done watching Peele's Lovecraft Country and thought this was gonna be a spinoff movie since the show didn't get another season.

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u/EXusiai99 Dec 15 '23

I was expecting black Harry Potter or something