Not in Kansas Anymore

"Above is the fruit of a few months of work: various instances of people saying something close to, "We're not in Kansas anymore." Despite the fact that no one gets the original line from the The Wizard of Oz completey right ("Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"), it nonetheless evokes that film every time it's said. What's interesting to me about that is that it's at cliche status at this point, yet unlike, say, "catch-22" or the also frequently mangled "You're going to need a bigger boat," the saying hasn't superseded its source, no matter how many times it's been said (as evident in the amount of times Toto and Dorothy are brought up alongside it). It's pretty amazing how tenacious a hold Oz still has on pop culture (I find myself referencing it constantly, and not just in the "Kansas" way).

A full list of the movies and TV shows included in this clip are below. Supercut spoiler alert!

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Sex and the City 2
3. Spring Break
4. South Beach Academy
5. Entourage
6. Talons of the Eagle
7. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
8. Population 436
9. Inkheart
10. Highway to Hell
11. Crocodile
12. Passport to Paris
13. New York Minute
14. The Ben Stiller Show
15. Married...with Children
16. Stargate SG-1
17. Criminal Minds
18. Captain Planet and the Planeteers
19. Sliders
20. Grey's Anatomy
21. Ghosts of the Abyss
22. Brothers at War
23. Mysterious Skin
24. Swingers
25. Fat Actress
26. Spiders
27. The Man with the Screaming Brain
28. Blonde Ambition
29. Lifepod
30. Supernatural
31. Lois and Clark
32. Pretender
33. Supergator
34. Trancers 4
35. Camp Slaughter
36. Vamp
37. Alien Species
38. Sailor Moon
39. Swamp Thing
40. Iron Eagle II
41. Little Shop of Horrors
42. The Matrix
43. Fanscape
44. Smallville
45. Jack of All Trades
46. Avatar
47. Volcano
48. CSI: Miami
49. Real Time with Bill Maher
50. Happy Town
51. Gilmore Girls
52. Bones
53. Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness Monster
54. Anamaniacs
55. America's Next Top Model
56. Ugly Betty
57. Shutter Island
58. Stargate SG-1"

From http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2010/12/not-in-kansas-anymore-a-supercut.html and http://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/16/not-in-kansas-anymore-2/ ...

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