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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* [[wikipedia:Gomer Pyle|Gomer Pyle]], arguably a light-hearted take on the trope. Gomer was too nice to picture him as an "insular xenophobe" though he is certainly "insular".

* Sgt. Luther Rizzo from ''[[~~MASH the~~ ~~Series~~|M* A* S* H]]'' fits in here, although he doesn't do a lot of shooting or bombing. He's fond of cigars and folksy sayings, and when kids from the orphanage are reluctant to try his Cajun cooking at a Christmas feast, he blames it on them being from North Korea, and the way he says 'North' suggests he's not thinking of Communists.

* Sgt. Luther Rizzo from ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' fits in here, although he doesn't do a lot of shooting or bombing. He's fond of cigars and folksy sayings, and when kids from the orphanage are reluctant to try his Cajun cooking at a Christmas feast, he blames it on them being from North Korea, and the way he says 'North' suggests he's not thinking of Communists.

** Another example in the fifth-season episode "[[Meaningful Name|38 Across]]", where Hawkeye spends the entire half hour seeking the Yiddish word for "bedbug" in order to finish a crossword puzzle. Father Mulcahy suggests he "ask Shapiro", but Private Shapiro tells him in a classic cornpone accent that his family's lived in the [[Deep South]] for seven generations and he hasn't a clue.

* Denver 'Bull' Randleman from ''[[Band of Brothers]]'', to a certain degree.

** [[Truth in Television]]

* ''[[The Pacific]]'': Sid Phillips and Eugene Sledge are from Mobile, Alabama; Merriel "Snafu" Shelton is from Louisiana.

== [[Machinima]] ==