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[[Info Dump|Keeping all of the above in mind]], it is fair to say that Texas is no backwater. Unfortunately, Hollywood writers are about as concerned with reality as [[Family Guy|Glenn Quagmire]] is with getting to know a lady first.
As such, Texas will inevitably be represented as a backward state, a mashup of the [[Deep South]] and [[The Wild West]]. No Texan will be able to speak for five seconds without mentioning the oil industry, the beef industry or high school football. (See
And [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud|tornadoes]]. Don't forget the tornadoes.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The [[Affably Evil]] oil tycoon [[Meaningful Name|Rich Texan]] in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' acts as a stereotypical [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|rich Texan]], complete with the accent, white cowboy boots, and white ten-gallon hat. He's also very trigger-happy with his [[Guns Akimbo|double pistols]].
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' dips in and out of this stereotype with every other episode, sometimes portraying Texas and Texans more realistically and other times portraying them as naive, conservative throwbacks who only care about hunting, beer and football. The landscape of Texas in the show also seems to include nothing but suburbia, desert and empty fields. Given that [[Mike Judge]] is actually a Texan, and has portrayed a much less stereotypical Texas in ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' and ''[[Office Space]]'' (yes, both of those took place in Texas), this is more a case of [[Affectionate Parody]] than [[Did Not Do the Research]]. In addition, the Hills live in the suburbs of a somewhat small town, which generally are much closer to the stereotyped depictions seen in the show than the big cities like [[DFW Metroplex|Dallas]] and [[Houston]] are.
** One episode had Hank pandering to a visiting New England investor to use Strickland as its propane supplier. The investor expected this trope and kept pestering Hank about cowboy hats and boots and used words like "russlin'" and "twisters". The investor eventually went with Strickland's competitor Thatherton because he acted the stereotype.
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* In ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', One of the Fractured Fairy Tale Shorts once did a variation of the Tom Thumb story, where after living with his giant parents for so long the titular characters went off to find his fortune, only to find out that everyone else was his size; he wasn't very small, his parents were huge because they were from Texas.
* In ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Fred has several relatives (most notably his wealthy Uncle Tex) from its prehistoric counterpart of "Texarock" (though the name was interchangeably used with "Texas").
* Similar to
** In another episode, the fairies decide to settle a matter with "a butt kicking, rip snorting, Texas cage match!"
* Clay from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' comes from Texas. He always wears a cowboy hat, uses down home country sayings, [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]], and is the largest of the group. Whenever Texas is seen, it's all desert, with Clay's dad owning a beef ranch. Even the Shen Gong Wu found there, the Star Hinabi, is known as the Lone Star until it's discovered and is marked as Texan.
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