History Main / NotInKansasAnyMore

* ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': In a rare case of someone using the line without trying to make a joke, Picard tries to explain to a phaser-wielding Lily that she'd be transported to a starship:

* ''WesternAnimation/JLAAdventuresTrappedInTime'': Lampshaded and subverted when ComicBook/TheFlash, {{ComicBook/Aquaman}}, and {{ComicBook/Cyborg}} travel back in time to Smallville at the moment when [[{{ComicBook/Superman}} the Kents found the infant Kal-El]]:

* In The Nationals' song ''Not In Kansas''.
* In the beginning of the music video for the Music/ParachuteExpress song "Dr. Looney's Remedy" (which originated as a segment in the 1995 music special ''Parachute Express: Come Sing with Us''), Stephen comments, "I kinda get the feeling we're not in Kansas anymore!"

--> '''Dazzle:''' We're not in Kansas anymore. *beat* This ain't your daddy's Kansas. Anymore. *beat* Kansas, we have a problem.
--> '''Chrysalis:''' Can you stop?
--> '''Dazzle:''' Of course I can...sas.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': In episode ''Solitudes'': "What's the bad news, 'cause unless they've redecorated the Gate room, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
** In the episode ''2001'', the team ends up on [[SingleBiomePlanet an agrarian planet]]. Jack's reply is "Just when you think you're not in Kansas anymore, it turns out you are."

* The first episode of ''90210'' is titled ''We're not in Kansas anymore''.
* In ''Series/ThePretender'' episode "Road Trip", Jarod sets Miss Parker and her posse following a chain of clues that begins with a yellow brick with GPS co-ordinates written on it. As they approach the location of the co-ordinates (which turns out to be a scarecrow with the next location clue), Broots looks up from the GPS to announce that they've just crossed a state line and aren't in Kansas any more.

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20)]], Dean can't resist saying this when he finds the warehouse that is in Joliet, Illinois, while still in the djinn induced simulation of Lawrence, Kansas.

* In the ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' episode "Lost" (Season 5 Episode 1), Zane Donovan declares "Well, we're definitely not in Kansas anymore" when putting the foot on Titan
* In the ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Witch in the Wardrobe" (Season 5 Episode 20), Jack Hodgins says "We aren't in Kansas anymore" after discovering what it appears to be the corpse of a witch with red shoes
* ''Literature/TheFutureIsWild'' concludes one episode on desert steppelands in North America with the narrator saying "Freezing winds, blinding duststorms. In five million years' time, this certainly doesn't look like Kansas anymore." The kicker is the episode ''[[DontExplainTheJoke actually is in Kansas itself]]'' (if not central North America), right down to the episode in question being called "Cold Kansas Desert".
* From the TV movie ''Film/{{Lifepod}}''.
-->'''Clara:''' Where were you born?
-->'''Rena:''' Venus.
-->'''Clara:''' Is that where your parents were born?
-->'''Rena:''' My parents were born in Kansas.
-->'''Clara:''' Well, we're not in Kansas anymore.
* ''Series/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians2023'': The penultimate episode of the first season is structured with a FlashbackBPlot. In the flashback scene, Percy's mother Sally quotes the line to her seven-year-old, who doesn't get it. She notes to herself to show the movie to him later. Then in the present, as Percy and his friends enter the Underworld, he quotes it himself.
-->'''Annabeth:''' Hey, focus. [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure We left Kansas four days ago]].

* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' does this [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/949.html here,]] complete with a hilarious TakeThat at the Kansas Board of Education
* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/10/17/not-for-internal-use Nin Wah has her own take on the classic quote.]]

* Nanny Ogg says "I don't think we're in Lancre any more, Greebo" in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad''. After a farmhouse drops on her head.

--> ''The commander loved quoting "The Wizard of Oz". [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Three of his cousins were in the movie.]]''
* Parodied in one of Creator/SPSomtow's ''Aquiliad'' stories about a world where the Roman Empire survives to the 20th century and interacts with [[strike:Red Indians]] Native Americans. At some point one of the Romans says something like "All things considered ''in toto'', I don't think we're in ---- anymore."

* ''We're not in Kansas Anymore: Strategies for Retiring Rich in a Totally Changed World'' is a book by Walter Updegrave.

* ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree'': After Odetta is brought into Roland's world, Eddie basically says this to her, making her cry.

-->'''Volkov:''' We're definitely not in Kentucky any more.
-->'''Mundy:''' Kansas.
-->'''Volkov:''' Kansas? Who gives a shit.
-->'''Mundy:''' People from Kansas?
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': The TropeNamer. As Dorothy, who is originally from Kansas, sets foot for the first time into the colorful and MagicalLand of Oz with her dog Toto, the quote given above (the original) is something of an {{understatement}}. When Glinda shows up in her magic bubble, this only confirms things for her: "Now I ''know'' we're not in Kansas!"
* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Just before the red pill taken by Neo kicks in, Cypher warns him "Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye!"
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': Colonel Quaritch warns the newly arrived soldiers "You are not in Kansas anymore!"

* ''Film/SwampThing'':
-->'''Alice:''' "I don't know where we are Toto, but it sure isn't Kansas. "

* ''Film/Joey1997'': As their train arrives in Sydney, Billy remarks, "Well Joey, I guess we're not in Harrisville anymore."
* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'': As ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' was a major influence during the making of the movie, it was only natural that they’d reference this:
-->'''Luigi:''' Mario, I got a feeling… I got a feeling we’re not in Brooklyn no more.

* Variant: ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', when Ralph and Vanellope make the jump from the arcade's Wi-Fi router to an Internet portal:
-->'''Ralph:''' Kid, I don't think we're in Litwak's anymore.\\
'''Vanellope:''' We most certainly are not, friendo.

* ''Anime/InuYasha'': In the English dub, Kagome says something to this effect (actually mentioning Kansas) after she climbs out of the Bone Eater's Well.

If the characters have actually found themselves in a parody or plot reference to ''The Wizard of Oz'', then they're OffToSeeTheWizard. If this phrase is used in a setting where Kansas doesn't exist, or at least where characters would have no knowledge of it, it's also a case of OrphanedEtymology.

* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' (or the English dub at least), when the main characters travel from Japan to the Digital World, Terriermon says, "You're not in [[UsefulNotes/TheFortySevenPrefectures Kansai]] anymore, y'know."
* In the English dub of ''Anime/SmilePrecure'' (''Glitter Force''), Miyuki/Emily says she's not in Kansas anymore before she teleports into the magic library.

%%* ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'': Zoe says this after entering an alternate world.
* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/PuyoPop2001'''s English script, Arle references the quote in the prologue, rephrasing it as "I don't think we're in Kansai anymore".

* In his (non-blind) LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'', [[https://youtu.be/duftKUvJieE?t=623 Dilandau3000]] says the phrase as he exits the initial area after the title screen, followed by "I take that back: ''Kansas'' is not in Kansas anymore!" as the half-Earth, half-alien landscape fades into view.

* Mocked in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', where most of the main happenings ''are'' in Kansas.

* Lampshaded and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/JLAAdventuresTrappedInTime'', when ComicBook/TheFlash, {{ComicBook/Aquaman}}, and {{ComicBook/Cyborg}} travel back in time to Smallville at the moment when [[{{ComicBook/Superman}} the Kents found the infant Kal-El]]:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', Raphael says the line when the Kraangs have the turtles surrounded at TCRI. Mikey's response:
--> I thought we were in New York? ''(Raph smacks him upside the head)''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Hollywoodchuck," as the bus Charlton Woodchucks is riding to Hollywood leaves his home state of Kansas, the bus passes a sign, "You're Not in Kansas Anymore."
* Said once by Don Wei in ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers.''
* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' reboot special, Rocko and his friends return to earth after 20 years in space and find modern life [[FishOutOfTemporalWater completely changed]], with Rocko saying "I don't think we're in UsefulNotes/TheNineties anymore."
* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Gum Crazy" had Squishington say "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" after finding himself and Mr. Bumpy inside Bumpy's body during Mr. Bumpy's quest to retrieve the gum stored in his stomach.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueXRWBYSuperHeroesAndHuntsmen'': Superman says this line when he wakes up in the world of Remnant.

* ''Anime/InuYasha'': In the English dub, Kagome says something to this effect (actually mentioning Kansas) after she climbs out of the Bone Eater's Well. She's talking to herself, however.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has one with two fleas walking through what is implied to be human hair with monstrous lice are around them. One says "I don't think we're on Toto anymore." Dorothy's hair, perhaps?

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-->'''Alice''': "I don't know where we are Toto, but it sure isn't Kansas. "

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-->'''Father''': We're sure not in Kansas anymore! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Maybe we're in Iowa.]]

* ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'' have a level set in the Smurglien planet, where the protagonists Nick and Ashley (two Pittsburgh natives) found out they're in another world after sneaking aboard an alien ship. Ashley name-drops the trope, only for Nick to ask, "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint You mean Pittsburgh?]]"

%%* ''VideoGame/CrashNitroKart'': Quoted almost to the letter by Cortex.

* ''VideoGame/GexEnterTheGecko'': One of Gex’s lines in the game is “ I am most certainly not in the vicinity of Kansas anymore.”

* In one ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'' story, [[ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja Colonel Novikova]] says something along those lines when [[RealityWarper Alfie]] dimensionally swaps her and Nth Man with Rachel and Nightcrawler.

* Parodied in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}: Adventures of Superman'' #1. When Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} enter the PhantomZone, the latter quips: "Are we even in the same universe as Kansas?"

* In ''Film/TheRookie'' Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) gets called up from a minor-league baseball team playing in Kansas to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and says this on seeing the wonders of the major league changing room.

* Lampshaded and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/JLAAdventuresTrappedInTime'', when Franchise/TheFlash, {{Comicbook/Aquaman}}, and {{Comicbook/Cyborg}} travel back in time to Smallville at the moment when [[{{Franchise/Superman}} the Kents found the infant Kal-El]]: