Everything Is Big in Texas: Difference between revisions

* Osaka in the dub of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' is given a Texas accent, Houston in particular, because both Texans and Osakans share the stereotype of being loud, obnoxious country hicks. (Osaka herself, of course, is the complete opposite.)<ref>Worth noting, the English-dub voice actress, Kira Vincent-Davis, is a native of Houston, where the anime was dubbed, so at least you know the accent is legit.</ref>

** A similar approach was taken with ''[[Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai]]/Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi'', which is set in Osaka.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Whip It]]'' takes place in [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Bodeen, Texas]] and Austin. Amusingly it was mostly filmed in Michigan.

 

* One of the many pilots who passed through the Stalag 13 underground was a large and enthusiastic Texan. He wore a cowboy hat (yes, while flying his plane), used many Texan colloquialisms and was very amused by meeting actual foreigners such as the British Newkirk and French LeBeau.

* Gordon Bullit in the fourth season of ''[[The OC]]'' is a walking, talking Texan stereotype.

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has the evil front for Primatech Paper here in Volume 1, though it becomes less significant when the Bennetts move to California in Volume 2.

* ''GCB'' is set in Texas, and is about as stereotypical as it can get.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''For Texas and Zed''

* ''[[The Ayes]] of Texas'' and it's sequels in which Texas becomes an independent nation.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* [[The Austin Lounge Lizards]]' ''Stupid Texas Song'' is one long indulgence of this trope.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

* In ''[[The Most Happy Fella]]'', the [[Beta Couple]] sing a number about how everything is big in Dallas, where they're from, "but the rest of Texas looks a mess."

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Battle Fantasia]]'' Takes place in a fantasy world with your typical western European fantasy kingdom, a steampunk Dwarf kingdom, Magic talkin rabbits... and a masked gunslinger from Texas... Right.

* [[Team Fortress 2|The Engineer]] Comes from Bee Cave, Texas. While he has the typical southern drawl and has a lot of wild west themed unlocks, he's also probably the smartest member of the team.

 

== Web Comics ==

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* About one half of [[Survival of the Fittest|SOTF-TV]]'s characters (the other half being from a [[Sucky School]] in [[Motor City|Detroit]]) are from a wealthy private school in Bryan, Texas. While the stereotype hasn't come up as much as you'd expect, it has received [[Lampshade Hanging]] both in and out of character.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[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.