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** Excluding the coach, the rest of the team is portrayed as friendly, loyal, and boisterous, despite appearing very intimidating.
*** Ironically, the only character in Eyeshield 21 that completely fits the Texas stereotype is Japanese, the coach for the Seibu Wild Gunmen. He's essentially a reverse weaboo, owning a variety of guns and a giant ranch in Texas.
* New Texas in [[Saber Marionette J (Anime)|Saber Marionette J]].
* Osaka in the dub of ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|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 (Anime)|Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai]]/Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi'', which is set in Osaka.
 
 
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{{quote| '''Pa''': Well, I figured we'd get up early and eat, then dig for oil and eat, then go to a roundup, rustle us up some doggies, and then grab a bite to eat.}}
* ''[[Office Space]]''
* ''[[Pee WeesWee's Big Adventure]]'': THE STARS AT NIGHT, ARE BIG AND BRIGHT...
** [[Schmuck Bait|* clap clap clap* DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS ]]....oh '''[[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|DAMMIT]]'''.
* ''[[Real Steel]]'' features a [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] version of Texas where the oil derricks have been replaced with wind turbines<ref>[[Truth in Television]] -- Texas produces more than 10 gigawatts of wind power, more than double the next largest wind-power state, Iowa, in output. Wind farms have practically become the new oil industry.</ref> and county fairs feature fights between bulls and giant robots.
* ''[[Reality Bites]]''
* In ''[[Robo CopRoboCop]]'', the story says it takes place in Detroit, but the buildings give the filming location away as [[Greater Houston|Houston]].
* "Tex" Conway in ''[[Robot Jox]]''. Despite being a futuristic gladiator, he's a stereotypical Texan, complete with gut, comical accent, down-homey colloquialisms, and ten-gallon hat. However, he somewhat averts the trope by {{spoiler|being a nefarious double agent for the Commies}}.
* ''[[Secondhand Lions]]'' manages to show rural Texas without being stereotypical, and does it beautifully.
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** OK Ranger: "Definitely from Texas..."
* An episode of ''[[MASH]]'' has Col. Potter quickly and accurately deduce that a patient is from Texas because said patient, though unable to speak, offered his hand up for a handshake.
* ''[[The Good Guys (TV)|The Good Guys]]'' was set in Dallas, and they portray it as pretty diverse culture- and accent-wise (both the good and bad guys).
* [[Friday Night Lights]] is set in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas. While the show focuses on high school football (and its all-important status in the small town), it also covers issues prevalent in Texas and the nation at large; race relations, extreme poverty, pregnancy, religion, alcoholism, parental abuse and other issues surface with regularity.
* General Hammond, of [[Stargate SG -1]], is a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] who fits many of the Texan stereotypes. One of the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] characters even refers to him as "Hammond of Texas" on several occasions.
** Of course, that particular PWRG (the Jaffa [[Old Master]] Bra'tac) referred to ''everyone'' as "X of Place of Origin": he called Colonel O'Neill "O'Neill of Minnesota" on at least one occasion.
* Both averted and played straight in Dr. Sheldon Cooper of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''. Sheldon himself is from the Gulf coast of Texas and is about as non-sterotypical a Texan as you can imagine. However, he seems to hold most Texans in disdain for being examples of the trope.
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{{quote| ''After disarming a trap set by Sheldon and rearming it against him:''<br />
Leonard (to Sheldon): You might be from Texas, but I'm from [[New Jersey]]. }}
* ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' roundhouse kicks this trope into next week.
* ''[[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.
 
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* ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' has a stage where "Colonel" Bob, a goofy Texas oil tycoon, has to look for a new source of "Texas tea" before his gold-digging wife will let him come home.
* ''[[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 (Video Game)|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 ==
* The comic ''Torio'' had [http://torio.comicgenesis.com/d/20070205.html Jimmy Benson], a perpetually-grinning, belt-buckle-flaunting Texan who even spoke in bigger letters than the rest of the cast (compared to [[Shrinking Violet|Crispin]], who had trouble maintaining capital letters). He was based on a couple of Texan roommates the author had, neither of whom would ever shut up about how awesome Texas was.
* Subverted in ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'' in the figure of Tex, the Texan. [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00600.htm Though he speaks of their big stuff, he himself is... shall we say, height-challenged, a full head shorter than Sam's] [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff700/fv00603.htm artificial skeleton presents him as.]
* Although [[Something Positive|Davan, Peejee and Aubrey]] live in Boston they all hail from Texas and the strip makes frequent sidetrips there.
 
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== Web Original ==
* [[Rooster Teeth]], the creators of [[Red vs. Blue]], primarily consist of Texans. In fact, the main, if not top badass is also from Texas. And her Freelancer ''nickname'' is Agent Tex/as. {{spoiler|Her real name is Allison.}} RT's webcomics lampshade this frequently, with one instance of them blindfolding themselves and drinking different beers, to see if they could tell the difference between Budweiser and Lonestar. Two of the three couldn't.
* ''[[SkippysSkippy's List (Literature)|Skippys List]]'', Rule #47: I am not a citizen of Texas, and those other, forty-nine, lesser states.
* [[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]] has lots of stereotypes of Texans, but considering the author is a Texan, they seem to be badges of pride.
{{quote| 504. If the party is to frequently meet with Queen Victoria, I cannot play a Texan.<br />
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The [[Affably Evil]] oil tycoon in ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' acts as a stereotypical 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 (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 (Animation)|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.
* On ''[[Garfield and Friends (Animation)|Garfield and Friends]]'', Garfield and his friends would often visit "Polecat Flats", a dude ranch set in Texas which was portrayed as a barren desert complete with cacti, coyotes and cattle. This is because it's set in west Texas.
* ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' paid a visit to this version of Texas in a season five episode. Everyone dresses like a cowboy and rides horses, Brian is given a free gun with his purchase of alcohol, the Griffins' neighbor is a professional "queer-chaser-and-beater", and the TV news reports on the discovery of "Superdevil" by church scientists.
** The gun/alcohol thing is especially funny to people in Texas, since the alcohol laws there are draconian to the point that the TABC is known in the bar industry as the Beverage Nazis.
*** The main complaint about Texans in that episode was that they are racist and homophobic. [[Sarcasm Mode|Because every single person in Texas shares the exact same sentiments, and those sentiments in no way exist in any of the other forty-nine states or other nations of the world.]]
**** Keep in mind, the ''primary'' purpose of the episode was really for the writers to deliver a very scathing, personal (and hyperbolical) attack on President [[George W. Bush]], so this episode was really one of ''Family Guy'''s most flagrant examples of [[Writer Onon Board]].
* Sandy Cheeks from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]''.
{{quote| "Back in Texas, we call ice cream 'Frozen Cowjuice.'"}}
** Subverted when she goes after the Alaskan Bull Worm. [[SpongeBob]]'s idea of big is MUCH bigger than Sandy's.
*** Because, you know, [[Don't Explain the Joke|Alaska is even bigger than Texas]].
* ''[[The Busy World of Richard Scarry]]'', featured a parody of ''Hans Brinker'' (the story by an American writer about a Dutch boy who plugged a hole in the dike with his finger). There was a fat tourist from Texas waltzing about, taking pictures of windmills and tulips, while making comments about how everything was bigger in Texas. When the hole in the dike turned out to be too big to be filled with just Hans' finger, he and his friends save the day by stuffing said tourist into the hole.
* In ''[[Exo Squad (Animation)|Exo Squad]]'', the [[General Ripper|blustering, impetuous, and ultimately incompetent]] Captain Matthew Marcus has a Texas drawl. Oddly, he is one of only two characters to not have a generic American accent.
* In ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle (Animation)|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 (Animation)|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 the Rich Texan, ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents (Animation)|The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' has Doug Dimmadome, a part time [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] that owns a good deal of Dimmsdale, has an "odd southern drawl", and wears cowboy gear with a [[Nice Hat|coyboy hat]] that occasionaly is so big that it goes past the top of the screen, no matter how far a shot he's in.
** In another episode, the fairies decide to settle a matter with "a butt kicking, rip snorting, Texas cage match!"
* Clay from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|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.
** Also subverted on several occasions with the same character. Clay uses Tai Chi as his fighting style, is of at least average intelligence(and on a number of occasions is hinted at being a [[Genius Bruiser]] knowledgeable in a number of esoteric fields), and is insulted by the idea that because he [[Just a Stupid Accent|speaks with a Texas accent]] it automatically marks him as dumb.
* An episode of ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck TalesDuckTales]]'' had Scrooge going to Texas because of his city's depleted oil supply. You expect everything in Texas, oil businessmen, cowboys etc.
* 80's cartoon ''[[Bravestarr (Animation)|Bravestarr]]'' was this trope [[Recycled in Space]]!
** Just to emphasize: the setting is the ''planet'' of New Texas. Doesn't get much bigger than that.
 
 
== Real Life ==
* Late Cretaceous Texas was home to ''Alamosaurus'', the largest dinosaur in North America and one of the largest dinosaurs of its time. Add in Deinosuchus, a [[Attack of the Fifty50 Foot Whatever|fifty foot]] monstrous crocodilian, one of the largest ever to exist. Them there's ''[[wikipedia:Quetzalcoatlus|Quetzalcoatlus]]'', a [[Giant Flyer]] pterosaur the size of a ''[http://www.flickr.com/photos/markwitton/1386125619/in/set-72057594082038974/ frickin giraffe]''! For a long time, it was thought to be the largest flying animal ever to live. [[Science Marches On|But then came]] [[wikipedia:Hatzegopteryx|Hatzegopteryx]]...
* If you ever go to Cave of the Winds in Colorado and are from Texas, you will get confronted with this stereotype. At one point in the tour, they'll stop at a particular formation and ask the group if anyone's from Texas. If you raise your hand, they say "This shows you that not everything's bigger in Texas!", leaving you with some form of confusion or annoyance.
** Isn't that the one where they make Texans throw their business cards in a pit?
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* Inverted in Texas Hill Country deer, which are tiny.
* [http://health.msn.com/weight-loss/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100257787>1=31036 Five of the top ten fattest cities in America are in Texas.]
* Most of the popular anime you all know...was dubbed right here in this state. That's right, [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], [[DragonballDragon Ball]], [[Ouran High School Host Club]], [[Yu Yu Hakusho]], slews of a bunch of others, the recent [[FUNimation|FuniDub]] of [[One Piece]]...all dubbed by Funimation. Their headquarters is right here in Dallas, Texas.
** Most of the ''other'' popular anime you all know was also dubbed in Texas, by [[ADV Films]]. (Although after ADV's financial troubles, many of their titles were transferred to FUNimation.)
* Four words: [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]].
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