Nope! Guess again! It's just another example of Hollywood's predictably insular view of Kansas. The movers and shakers in Hollywood think all of Kansas is generic, nothing but one giant burg of hick-town Mayberry hi-jinx. Now, granted, the drive across Kansas is hellish, nothing but flat, boring land for the most part, but still...there are big cities here and there.
Recently, my wife and I watched an episode of Supernatural. One of the heroes asked where the villain was. Someone responded, "Kansas."
That's all the cast needed to pinpoint the villain's location. Because everyone knows the state of Kansas is tiny. Just one giant backward town. In the offending episode, a single utility company under the moniker of "The Kansas Power Corporation" covered the entire state's needs.
Stop it! Bad Hollywood! No cocaine!
Research, writers!
I swear, popular entertainment abuses Kansas more than any other American state.
Kansas is depicted in one of three ways:
1) Hicks sitting around the ol' fishing hole. No teeth, no smarts, no shirts. Que the Deliverance theme. (Okay, granted there are pockets of Kansas that do indeed cater to this rather specific stereotype, but we also have big cities with indoor plumbing and everything!)
2) "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto" jokes. (It's time to retire this right now! It wasn't funny the first kazillion times either.)
3) The wild, wild west with shoot-em-ups in the dirt streets. (These days, the only shoot-em-ups in our streets are gangsta drive-bys.)
I say enough! I want to take Kansas back from the incompetent Hollywood writers! Set them straight! Educate them!
(And then move out of this Godforsaken state.)
Click here to read true tales of Kansas (um, except for the ghosts, multiple murderers, witches, and things that go bump in the night).
Congrats on your latest release! Good to convert ignorance with a bold story! :)
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