The thing is, this episode had another plot involving Jacqueline and Titus that is hilarious and it saved the episode for me. That and a gag where Kimmy is encouraged by her college friends to ghost a guy she likes, only ending up for Kimmy to literally “ghost” him by doing a ghost voice in front of him. That is definitely one of my favorite jokes of the show. I’ll attach a clip of it later.

For reasons above, it’s why the episode is better than the last time the show handled political correctness, which was an episode back in Season 2 titled “Kimmy Goes to a Play!”, the third episode of the season.

A still from the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode “Kimmy Goes to a Play”. Credit: Netflix/Universal Television

In one of the plots of the episode, Titus develops a one-man show about his life as a geisha. An Asian-American watch group found it offensive to the point they protested outside of the venue of the play. In the end, they watched the show, only ending up liking the play, realizing that they should have kept their thoughts first before watching the play and they all disappeared.

Many people felt like this episode was made as a response to the criticism that Jacqueline was played by a white actress since the character is a white-passing Native American. My thoughts on this is while I do understand the criticism, considering how most people in the show thought Jacqueline was white and she takes advantage of this deception by helping anything to make her Native American family proud, this particular casting did not bother me that much and this is why full context matters when you do stories like this.