Frustrated that his ideas for a mainstream sitcom have been rejected, a black writer at a major network devises an outlandish scheme: reviving the minstrel show. Surprisingly, instead of being a flop, the show becomes an instant smash. Taking its title from a speech by Malcolm X, Bamboozled is a kamikaze assault on racial stereotyping in America. Shooting on fuzzy-edged digital video, Spike Lee repackages one-hundred years of media stereotyping (including archival footage from Birth of a Nation, glimpses of a corked-up Judy Garland, and a black-faced Bugs Bunny) to drive home the point that little has changed.