Seinfeld

‘The Puerto Rican Day’, the 20th episode of Season 9 of ‘Seinfeld’, shows the group of friends, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards), stuck in traffic due to the Puerto Rican Day parade in New York City.

At some point, Kramer accidentally sets fire to a Puerto Rican flag, and stamps on it to extinguish the flames.

At the time, NYC’s Bronx district President, Puerto Rican Fernando Ferrer, criticized the scene, insisting it was disrespectful to his community.

NBC defended the scene and joke though, in a statement that read: "We do not feel that the show lends itself to damaging ethnic stereotypes, because the audience for ‘Seinfeld’ knows the humor is derived from watching the core group of characters get themselves into difficult situations.”