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The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
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The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer was a very short-lived and controversial sitcom on UPN that only aired four episodes, all of which were in October 1998. Starred Chi McBride as the titular character, a Servile Snarker Black English nobleman and butler who is kidnapped and sent to America on a slave ship, then becomes a valet in Abraham Lincoln's White House. He finds himself being the Only Sane Man in Lincoln's staff, which is full of morons. Think Benson set in the Civil War era.The series is extremely rare, never having been released on home video or in reruns, due to its extremely controversial nature. The NAACP led a protest against the show, citing its arguably light-hearted portrayal of the enslavement of African-Americans, and forced the pilot episode to be pulled. The now-defunct cable network Trio was set to rerun the show during the Turn of the Millennium as part of its "Flops" block (which also reran Cop Rock, Pink Lady and Jeff and My Mother the Car), but eventually backed out. Appropriately enough, for a show that was both critically panned and low rated (the reason it was cancelled), it was proudly advertised with the tagline "Critics hate it." | |
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Only Sane Man: Desmond is the only person in the White House who has any kind of common sense. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: As Desmond enters America, he seems to lose his English accent. | |
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Actor Allusion: In "Up, Up And Away", Sherman Hemsley plays Colonel Reginald Jefferson, who tells Lincoln "You better get movin' on up, sir". | |
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Secret History: The series' main idea is that the Lincoln administration was much more stupid than history wishes to remember it. | |
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Historical Downgrade: This show turns Honest Abe into a perverted buffoon, likely as a parody of Bill Clinton. | |
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