It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Difference between revisions

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== Literature ==
* It even works for [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]s: in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', Granny, Nanny and Magrat have a stopover in a vaguely Spanish small town, and end up caught in the middle of a "running of the bulls" knock-off known only as The Thing with the Bulls. When they get to Genua, it's in time for the local equivalent of Mardi Gras, also known as Samedi Nuit Mort ("[[Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Dead]]" [[Bilingual Bonus|in French]]).
* On the edge of this trope is a party in ''[[HitchThe HikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'', where the conditions are just right to keep the party going endlessly.
* Talon gets run over by a Mardi Gras float actually driven by the god Bacchus in Sherrilyn Kenyon's [[The Dark Hunters|Dark Hunter]] series.
* When Tracy Whitney returns to her hometown of New Orleans after her mother's suicide in ''[[If Tomorrow Comes]]'', it's during Mardi Gras.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==