Line #46 Main/NotInKansasAnymore


1	%% Image selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1539117153012505100
2	%% Please do not replace or remove without starting a new thread.
3	%%
4	[[quoteright:250:[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superman_kansas.jpg]]]]
5	[[caption-width-right:250: [[CaptainObvious Even the caption is telling Superboy off...]]]]
6
7	->'''Dorothy:''' Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
8	->'''Bill:''' May I and literally everyone else for the rest of time quote you on that?
9	-->-- '''Podcast/RiffTrax''' riffing [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the Trope Namer]]
10
11	A StockPhrase referencing ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', used to express the realization that the character is in a [[FishOutOfWater completely unfamiliar]] ([[DownTheRabbitHole or indeed otherworldly]]) place.
12
13	The original quote was "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," but it is sometimes [[BeamMeUpScotty misquoted]] as "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."
14
15	Saying this to a person from Kansas is a [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore good way to get a boot in the ass]].
16
17	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 not know of it, it's also a case of OrphanedEtymology.
18
19	Note: this line never appears, in any form, in Baum's [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz original 1900 novel]].
20	----
21	!!Examples:
22	[[foldercontrol]]
23
24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': In the English dub, when the main characters travel from Japan to the Digital World, Terriermon says, "You're not in [[UsefulNotes/TheFortySevenPrefectures Kansai]] anymore, y'know."
26	* ''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.
27	* ''Anime/SmilePrecure'' (''Glitter Force''): In the English dub, Miyuki/Emily says she's not in Kansas anymore before she teleports into the magic library.
28	[[/folder]]
29
30	[[folder:Comic Books]]
31	* ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur\|MarvelComics}}'': In one story, [[ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja Colonel Novikova]] says something along those lines when [[RealityWarper Alfie]] dimensionally swaps her and Nth Man with Rachel and Nightcrawler.
32	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Lampshaded by Thunderstrike in ''Thor Corps'' #1 when he gets transported to the past:
33	-->'''Thunderstrike:''' "There's an old cliche about not being in Kansas anymore that's too corny for even me to use!"
34	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Parodied in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}: Adventures of Superman'' #1. When Superman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} enter the PhantomZone, the latter quips: "Are we even in the same universe as Kansas?"
35	[[/folder]]
36
37	[[folder:Comic Strips ]]
38	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has one with two fleas walking through what is implied to be human hair with monstrous lice are around them. One says, "Frances, I've got a feeling we're not on Toto anymore." Dorothy's hair, perhaps?
39	[[/folder]]
40
41	[[folder:Fan Works]]
42	* In crossover fanfiction ''Fanfic/DisplacedTheMountainJew'', Spider-Man paraphrases the line when he gets abruptly teletransported from Marvel's New York to DC's Gotham.
43	-->"I am not in NYC anymore", Peter said flatly. In the past two years he's become very familiar with New York's skyline, he knew it by heart, both day and night. What he was looking at was certainly not his home city.
44	* Subverted in ''Fanfic/MaybeTheLastArchieStory'', where Archie's gang are flung through time and arrive at an unfamiliar place. Veronica starts quoting the "Not in Kansas anymore" line, but Betty cuts her off angrily.
45	[[/folder]]
46
47	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
48	* Variant: ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', when Ralph and Vanellope make the jump from the arcade's Wi-Fi router to an Internet portal:
49	-->'''Ralph:''' Kid, I don't think we're in Litwak's anymore.\
50	'''Vanellope:''' We most certainly are not, friendo.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueXRWBYSuperHeroesAndHuntsmen'':
52	** Superman says this line when he wakes up in the world of Remnant in Part 1.
53	** When the cast of ''RWBY'' end up in the Justice League's world in Part 2, Superman informs Ruby that "you're not in Kansas, anymore."
54	[[/folder]]
55
56	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
57	* ''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!"
58	* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': Colonel Quaritch warns the newly arrived soldiers "You are not in Kansas anymore!"
59	* ''Film/TheCloverfieldParadox''. The test of the Shepard device has GoneHorriblyWrong, producing energy but the Earth has vanished, making the crew wonder if they've somehow been transported across the galaxy.
60	-->'''Volkov:''' We're definitely not in Kentucky anymore.\
61	'''Mundy:''' Kansas.\
62	'''Volkov:''' Kansas? Who gives a shit.\
63	'''Mundy:''' People from Kansas?
64	* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'':
65	-->'''Amy:''' I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.\
66	'''Nick:''' I don't think we're in the food chain anymore, Dorothy.
67	* ''Film/Joey1997'': As their train arrives in Sydney, Billy remarks, "Well Joey, I guess we're not in Harrisville anymore."
68	* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', when Audrey meets [[ManEatingPlant Audrey II]]:
69	-->'''Audrey:''' "Am I dreaming?"\
70	'''Audrey II:''' "No, and you ain't in Kansas, neither."
71	* ''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!"
72	* In ''Film/TheRookie2002'' Jim Morris (Creator/DennisQuaid) 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.
73	* ''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's been transported to a starship orbiting the Earth. She doesn't believe him until he opens a viewport.
74	-->'''Picard:''' This may be difficult for you to accept, but you are not in Montana anymore....
75	* ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'': As ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' was a major influence during the making of the movie, it was only natural that they’d reference this:
76	-->'''Luigi:''' Mario, I got a feeling… I got a feeling we’re not in Brooklyn no more.
77	* ''Film/SwampThing'':
78	-->'''Alice:''' "I don't know where we are Toto, but it sure isn't Kansas. "
79	[[/folder]]
80
81	[[folder:Literature]]
82	* 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."
83	* In the second ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', [[DaChief Root]] tells Artemis this after he asks whether Root is [[GoodCopBadCop good cop or bad cop]].
84	-->''The commander loved quoting "The Wizard of Oz". [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Three of his cousins were in the movie.]]''
85	* ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree'': After Odetta is brought into Roland's world, Eddie basically says this to her, making her cry.
86	* ''Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America'' is a book by Christine Wicker.
87	* From the ''Literature/ShiversMDSpenser'' book, "A Ghastly Shade of Green". The protagonist Jason and his entire family are from Kansas, stuck in the middle of the Florida rainforests (thanks to Jason's biologist mother bringing the family along when scouting for locations to install a fertilizer research facility), and Jason repeatedly drops the Kansas quote. The book even ends with this comment, "As Dorothy would say, ''there's no place like home''!"
88	* ''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'': Grace believes Area X is another planet, but the previous expeditions never stayed long enough to notice. Grace becomes trapped for three years there and mentions the stars are arranged differently on some nights and time moves much faster. The biologist makes the same observation about the night sky.
89	* ''We're not in Kansas Anymore: Strategies for Retiring Rich in a Totally Changed World'' is a book by Walter Updegrave.
90	* Nanny Ogg says "I don't think we're in Lancre anymore, Greebo" in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad''. After a farmhouse drops on her head.
91	[[/folder]]
92
93	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
94	* The first episode of ''90210'' is titled ''We're not in Kansas anymore''.
95	* 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
96	* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': One of the standout episodes of the entire series, Season 7's "Cool Hands, Bo and Luke," has that episode's villian, Col. Claubourne (a man who was seeking to destroy avowed enemy Boss Hogg) give the Duke boys a dressing down before telling them, "You're not in Hazzard anymore!" ... implying that, unlike Hazzard County's lax law enforcement, the Osage County Sheriff's Department is effective in upholding the law and will work quickly to deter lawbreaking, and that things will be much different from now on. (Of course, that's Claybourne being a hypocrite ... he's the top lawbreaker in the county.)
97	* 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
98	* Inverted in ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. The episode where the protagonist John Crichton finally gets back to Earth is called "Kansas" even though it takes place in Florida, due to the symbolic and InUniverse references to ''The Wizard of Oz'' in the series.
99	* ''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".
100	* From the TV movie ''Film/{{Lifepod}}''.
101	-->'''Clara:''' Where were you born?\
102	'''Rena:''' Venus.\
103	'''Clara:''' Is that where your parents were born?\
104	'''Rena:''' My parents were born in Kansas.\
105	'''Clara:''' Well, we're not in Kansas anymore.
106	* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Aisha goes to find her piece of the Zeo Crystal and ends up in Africa. She sees a lion, and says "I don't think I'm in Angel Grove anymore."
107	* In an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', they were testing hurricane myths, and built a scale house to put in front of a giant hurricane wind machine. Adam Savage quipped, "Oh, we are ''so'' not in Kansas anymore."
108	* ''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.
109	-->'''Annabeth:''' Hey, focus. [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure We left Kansas four days ago]].
110	* 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.
111	* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Apocalypse", Clark Kent time travels back to Krypton, but loses his powers due to the red sun. Brainiac beats him up and mocks him by saying, "You're not in Kansas anymore."
112	* ''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."
113	** 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."
114	* 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.
115	[[/folder]]
116
117	[[folder:Music]]
118	* Referenced in Big Country's song "We're Not in Kansas", a song by a Scottish band lamenting the state of the USA.
119	* The entire premise of Music/JoDeeMessina's 1996 top 10 hit "You're Not in Kansas Anymore" – a California woman and her boyfriend, who had never been outside of Kansas.
120	* In The Nationals' song ''Not In Kansas''.
121	* 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!"
122	* From "Tijuana Jail" on Gilby Clarke's solo debut ''Music/PawnshopGuitars":
123	-->"He smiled and said 'Senor, you're not in Texas anymore'
124	[[/folder]]
125
126	[[folder:Toys]]
127	* Vultraz in Toys/{{BIONICLE}}:
128	--> "I have a feeling I'm not in [[HoldYourHippogriffs Karda]] [[SwampsAreEvil Nui]] any more... maybe if I tap my red feet together and wish real hard...
129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:Video Games]]
132	* ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'' has 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?]]"
133	* ''VideoGame/CrashNitroKart'': During Team Cortex's 100% ending, Cortex and Tiny fight over Emperor Velo's staff and accidentally break it, causing them to be warped to the planet Terra and Cortex to say this line in response.
134	-->'''Cortex:''' I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Tiny.
135	%%* ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'': Zoe says this after entering an alternate world.
136	* ''VideoGame/GexEnterTheGecko'': One of Gex's lines in the game is, "I am most certainly not in the vicinity of Kansas anymore."
137	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroANewBeginning'': Sparx says "Spyro, we're not in Kansas anymore" -- [[OrphanedEtymology despite living in a fictional world with no such thing as Kansas]] -- when the two step out onto the balcony of the Dragon Temple and the two see the ruins of the dragon settlement there, giving them their first personal glimpse into the wider scope of the world and the ongoing war.
138	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'': When Johnny Cage and the rest of Earthrealm's Kombatants arrive in Outworld, Johnny references ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' by quoting "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
139	* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'': The action begins in the country of Azad, and enters a magic area that leads to a magic well that increases his life-bar when the Prince drinks from it; upon entering, he says "I don't think I'm in Azad anymore."
140	* ''VideoGame/PuyoPop2001'': In the Japanese version's English script, Arle references the quote in the prologue, rephrasing it as "I don't think we're in Kansai anymore".
141	[[/folder]]
142
143	[[folder:Webcomics]]
144	* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/10/17/not-for-internal-use Nin Wah has her own take on the classic quote.]]
145	* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' does this [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/949.html here,]] complete with a hilarious TakeThat at the Kansas Board of Education
146	* Webcomic/KarateBears are [[http://www.karatebears.com/2012/01/are-there-cities-in-kansas.html not in Kansas any more.]]
147	[[/folder]]
148
149	[[folder:Web Original]]
150	* [[https://youtu.be/duftKUvJieE?t=623 Dilandau3000]]: In his (non-blind) LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'', he 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.
151	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE_OLPEN5vU "Not in Kansas Anymore: a supercut,"]] a montage of not-in-Kansas moments from 58 films and television series.
152	[[/folder]]
153
154	[[folder:Western Animation]]
155	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': When a human family in winds up in the Mushroom Kingdom.
156	-->'''Father:''' We're sure not in Kansas anymore! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Maybe we're in Iowa.]]
157	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': In "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."
158	* ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'': The 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.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Mocked considering that most of the main happenings ''are'' in Kansas.
160	* ''WesternAnimation/JLAAdventuresTrappedInTime'': Lampshaded and subverted when ComicBook/TheFlash, {{ComicBook/Aquaman}}, and {{ComicBook/Cyborg}} travel back in time to Smallville, Kansas, at the moment when [[{{ComicBook/Superman}} the Kents found the infant Kal-El]]:
161	-->'''Cyborg:''' I was just about to say "We're not in Kansas anymore", but this is the one time that ''doesn't'' work.
162	* ''WesternAnimation/MoonbeamCity'' has this exchange:
163	-->'''Dazzle:''' We're not in Kansas anymore. beat This ain't your daddy's Kansas. Anymore. beat Kansas, we have a problem.\
164	'''Chrysalis:''' Can you stop?\
165	'''Dazzle:''' Of course I can...sas.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'': Said once by Don Wei.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': At the beginning of the 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."
168	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Raphael says the line when the Kraangs have the turtles surrounded at TCRI. Mikey's response:
169	--> I thought we were in New York? ''(Raph smacks him upside the head)''
170	[[/folder]]

Context Main / NotInKansasAnymore