McJeff
Tropers/{{McJeff}}
Since: Jan, 2001
Tropers/{{McJeff}}
Feb 17th 2019 at 7:14:58 PM
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What, precisely, does the page quote have to do with the trope? The quote is from a Primus song, "My Name is Mud" - the character in the music video is a janitor, not a redneck. Even if you assume, though, that the titular Mud is a hick, what about him makes him a corrupt hick?
Russell... likes to hurt people... for PEACE.
Dudeacus97
Since: May, 2012
Jul 10th 2012 at 12:43:36 PM
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I write scripts for a TV show I made up in my spare time. Is there any way I could parody this trope?
fuckshitpiss
Since: Dec, 1969
May 22nd 2011 at 3:14:36 PM
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That picture of Boss Hogg looks like a non-Jewish version of my dad.
Camacan
MOD
Since: Jan, 2001
May 16th 2011 at 8:10:39 PM
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This appears to be stretching the definition into Square Peg Round Trope — being backward and malevolent isn't quite it. It's more a big fish in a small pond: an authority figure in a backwater who is corrupt and out of control.
- The entire town of Hackdirt in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, although they aren't corrupt hicks as much as they are Ax-Crazy hicks (by way of Lovecraft).
They do this with the mayor in Nut Job 2. Overlapped with, whatever the trope for corrupt politicians is called.