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* Reference in Website/TheOnion: "Obama's Hillbilly Half-Cousin Threatens To Derail Campaign."

* The ''Literature/AdrianMole'' books have the Sugdens, Adrian's mother's family, who are devoutly religious potato farmers from Norfolk. Adrian writes despairingly in his diary, "They are all inbred and can't speak properly!"

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* In an unusual twist, the protagonist of ''ComicStrip/TheAdventuresOfPrudencePrim'' is the country mouse -- and she ''loves'' the big city. Prudence convinces her mother to let her move in with spinster aunts Jane and Abigail in the city, immediately taking to the fashion and fun of the town with exuberance (nevermind her country girl manners and naiveté).
* In the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, Donald's grandma and his cousin Gus Goose live on a farm.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Jon's family lives on a farm. He and Garfield have occasionally gone to visit them for an arc.
* ComicStrip/{{Rudi}} (from the German comic with the same name) has Alfi from deepest Bavaria.

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* ''Website/TheOnion'': "Obama's Hillbilly Half-Brother Threatens To Derail Campaign."
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' had an episode in which Fred's country cousins (who just so happen to be over-the-top StoneAge hilbillies) come to visit for a weekend...and then continue to stay for months afterwards, thinking that Fred really means it when he says that he wishes they could stay longer.

** Another take on the same premise was "WesternAnimation/LittleRuralRidingHood", where the country cousin visits his city-cousin wolf to get away from his countrified AbhorrentAdmirer, Red, only to fall for the ''city'' version of Red. Once the City Wolf takes him back, he then has the same reaction to ''Country'' Red.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': Jon got a visit from a literal country cousin. It was a case of NamesTheSame as the cousin's name is [[Creator/FattyArbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle]].

* The Brazilian Portuguese dub of ''Series/PerfectStrangers'', by means of localization, ends up retooling the sitcom into this trope, changing Balki's name and making him a Brazilian equivalent of a hillbilly, rather than a foreigner.

* In the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, Donald's grandma and his cousin Gus Goose live on a farm.
* ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' have their Cousin Country Cowfreak. Two guesses what he grows on his farm.

* In an unusual twist, the protagonist of ''ComicStrip/TheAdventuresOfPrudencePrim'' is the country mouse -- and she ''loves'' the big city. Prudence convinces her mother to let her move in with spinster aunts Jane and Abigail in the city, immediately taking to the fashion and fun of the town with exuberance (nevermind her country girl manners and naiveté).

* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' has an episode (aptly named "Country Cousins") in which Raven visits her cousins in the country. [[SeriousBusiness Gravy is their lifeblood]].

* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', the Season 9 episode "Mac Day" has the character Country Mac who, as you might have guessed, is Mac's cousin from the country, who comes for a visit. In a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of the usual trappings of this trope, he turns out to be the polar opposite of his cousin in a ''superior'' way--Country Mac is a genuinely cool, funny badass, whereas Mac thinks he's all of those things but is actually an obnoxious jerk. To complete the parallels, Country Mac is spiritual without being condescending and openly and proudly gay, whereas Mac is a holier-than-thou hypocrite in a TransparentCloset.
* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': Marina Thompson to the Featheringtons. They are members of high society while she is a poor relative who grew up on a farm. Lady Featherington sees her as a charity case, and is unhappy when she gets more attention from potential suitors than her own daughters.

* ''The Country Mouse and City Mouse Adventures'' is about two mice: The more urban mouse Alexander and his rural cousin Emily. They travel around the world together.'

* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Plankton call his relatives to help him get the Krabby Patty formula in "Plankton's Army". He expects them to be {{Evil Genius}}es [[PlanetOfCopyhats like him]], so he's shocked to find that they're all unsophisticated hillbillies. One of them even admits to being illiterate.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': Jon got a visit from a literal country cousin. It was a case of NamesTheSame as the cousin's name is [[Creator/FattyArbuckle Roscoe Arbuckle]].
* [[MuckMonster Mudman]], one of Joey and AP's foes in ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'', has one in Dirtbag, an anthropomorphic sack of soil and another member of the duo's RoguesGallery.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Applejack was a Country ''Niece'' to her Aunt and Uncle Orange in [[BigApplesauce Manehatten]], whom she lived with for a brief period as a filly, but quickly found that she missed her more immediate family, and the farm.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Babs Seed, who visits her cousins Applejack and Apple Bloom in the rural Ponyville from Manehatten.
* In ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', there's Elvis, the cockroaches' older cousin. He's a farmer with a disgusting food palate and, much to the disdain of his cousins, manages to get on the good side of Oggy.
* ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks'': In “Country Cousin”, Pixie and Dixie receive a visit from their cousin Tex, from Texas. Impressed with Tex’s size, Jinks decides to eat him, just to be defeated and ridden by the cowboy mouse. Jinks retaliates by calling his own cousin Pecos, but the latter was afflicted by a series of diseases that not only weakened him but made him shrink.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': In the episode "A Friend In Your Face", Ren finds the country cousin of [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the little man living in Stimpy's head]] has moved into ''his'' head.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRomanHolidays'': In “Double Date”, Gus decides to invite his country nephew Claudius because he needs to find a date for Snobia, the unlovely daughter of his landlord Evictus or else the Holidays will be evicted. Claudius not only is very ugly, but seems a HalfWittedHillbilly, so awkward that he doesn’t even know how to wear sandals properly. In despair, Gus disguises himself as a teenager to take Snobia to a party, but his atempts to look “cool” end up in disaster. Claudius saves the day by fixing the sound system that Gus accidentaly broke and, surprisingly, is awesome with a guitar, making Snobia fall for him.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has a cousin Joss that lives on a ranch with her father and is a HeroWorshipper of her older cousin. Both she and her father are far from the dumb bumpkin stereotype, though, as their [[MechanicalHorse horses]] are robots and they have a satellite surveilance system that covers their entire ranch; they are Possibles, after all, [[BadassFamily genius (and heroism) runs in the family.]]