History Main / EverythingIsBigInTexas

** Subverted when she goes after the Alaskan Bull Worm. [=SpongeBob=]'s idea of big is MUCH bigger than Sandy's.

* There is a pornstar named Alexis Texas (who is, in fact, a Texas native) who is known for her large bum.

* Major Corrigan, one of the crew members of the titular ''Film/RocketshipXM'' is so proud of being Texan than when Harry (the ship's professor) mentions that the state of Texas would look as small as "a mere speck" when seeing it from the Moon, he reproaches him for using that term.

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and his father UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush are not from Texas, but have lived most of their lives there. Junior was born in Connecticut, but grew up in and became two-term governor of Texas, with the accent to boot.

** And the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jacinto_Monument San Jacinto Monument]] is taller than the Washington Monument. In fact, it's the tallest monumental column in the world.
* Molly Ivins complains about her state in [[http://www.thenation.com/article/texas-america?page=full "Is Texas America?"]], an article for ''The Nation'' magazine.
** [[SelfDeprecation Ivins practically built her career on talking smack about Texas]], [[CulturalRebel and made no secret of her belief that she was one of the only intelligent people from there]].

** Mario Andretti's qualifying run of 214 MPH in 1973 for an [=IndyCar=] race earned Texas World Speedway "The World's Fastest Speedway" moniker.

* Ironically, the ''Texas''-class of ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' is one of the ''smallest'' ships in the fleet, almost the size of the ''Nova''-class from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.

* Creator/RoosterTeeth, the creators of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', primarily consist of Texans. In fact, the main, if not top badass is also from Texas. And her Freelancer ''nickname'' is Agent Tex/as. [[spoiler:Her real name is Allison.]] RT's webcomics lampshade this frequently, with one instance of them blindfolding themselves and drinking different beers, to see if they could tell the difference between Budweiser and Lonestar. Two of the three couldn't.

* During the heyday of [[WackyWaterbed water beds]] in the seventies, a joke about a Texas oil man had it that the owned a water bed large enough to rise and fall with the tides.

** Similar to the Rich Texan, Doug Dimmadome, Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome, is a part time CorruptCorporateExecutive that owns a good deal of Dimmsdale, has an "odd southern drawl", and wears cowboy gear with a [[NiceHat cowboy hat]] that occasionally is so big that it goes past the top of the screen, no matter how far a shot he's in.

* Barry Windham, a native of Sweetwater, Texas; also had a cowboy gimmick that was largely inspired by that of his father, Blackjack Mulligan. Obviously this also applies to Mulligan's tag team partner, Blackjack Lanza.
* Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield played this completely straight at the beginning of his career when he was known as Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw, and was often accused of being a Barry Windham clone. Then he began teaming with Windham as the New Blackjacks. He toned down his Texas roots as a member of the Acolytes with Ron Simmons, but began playing them back up as they evolved into the APA. Once he officially became "JBL," he was billed as being from New York City (where he actually lives), but was essentially a wrestling version of JR Ewing; riding in a limousene with giant Texas-sized longhorns on the front and wearing 10-gallon hats.
* Terry Funk was this, more so than even the other wrestlers in his own family (who also trained Stan Hansen). He was billed from the Double Cross Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, wore western-style ponchos to the ring, and often carried his branding iron with him [[AxCrazy which he'd frequently use to attack his opponents]].
* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig Zagged]] by Wrestling/DustyRhodes of all people, despite otherwise being one of the biggest examples of this trope in wrestling. He played it completely straight when teaming with Dick Murdoch as one half of the (what else?) Texas Outlaws. But he averted it when working cities and towns in the Northeast, in favor of a [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy funkier, George Clinton inspired persona]]. He began playing up his Texas roots again when he returned to the south, but would still frequently tap into his "funky" side to get over with black fans.
* Dustin Rhodes was this at the beginning of his career as "The Natural," when his gimmick was essentially a clone of his father. But he completely subverted this when jumping to the WWF as Goldust. Now in AEW he's "The Natural" once again, but has a look that's largely inspired by Goldust, even painting half of his face to represent his dual personality.
* Played with by Eddie Guerrero, who was from El Paso and would often be seen in cowboy boots when not wrestling, but his gimmick was more of a sneaky cholo than anything you'd specifically associate with Texas.
* The Von Erich boys were a much more casual version of this. They were presented to fans in the Dallas-based World Class Championship Wrestling as clean-cut hometown heroes with family values and had their athletic backgrounds (especially football) played up on television.
** David Von Erich, however, played this much straighter than his brothers, as he favored 10-gallon hats and was billed as "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
** Interestingly enough, they acquired the Von Erich name because their father Fritz was initially an aversion, working a [[AllGermansAreNazis villanous Nazi gimmick and being billed from Germany]]. However, as Fritz got older and turned babyface, he started playing up his real-life Texas roots.

* Late Cretaceous Texas was home to the long-necked ''Alamosaurus'', the largest dinosaur in North America and one of the largest dinosaurs of its time. Add in Deinosuchus, a thirty-five-foot-long monstrous crocodilian, one of the largest ever to exist. Then there's ''Quetzalcoatlus'', a GiantFlyer pterosaur the size of a ''[[http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/017/809/original/Quetz-giraffe-110706.JPG?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=*:1000 frickin giraffe]]''!

** Texas is known among road-geeks for having ''many'' "four-level stack" interchanges (interchanges with direct high-speed ramps forming four levels of roadways), typically a ''very'' large type of interchange. Texas also has its own design, the five-level "Texas-style stack", which incorporates frontage roads meeting at-grade for its fifth level. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Five_Interchange Dallas High-Five]] is a good example.

** And the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jacinto_Monument San Jacinto Monument]] is taller than the Washington Monument. In fact, it's the tallest monumental column in the world.

* [[https://www.buc-ees.com/index.php Buc-ee's]], a chain of ''freakishly'' large gas stations with convenience stores at least as big as a standard supermarket, equally as impressive souvenir and outdoor supply sections, and an array of freshly cooked food that puts most shopping mall food courts to shame. Most if not all of them do not allow 18-wheelers on the premises. The largest one (in New Braunfels) is the largest convenience store in the world, ringing in at ''68,000'' square feet, with 83 toilets and ''120 fuel pumps''. They advertise aggressively along the interstate highways with signature black billboards that can show up over 100 miles away from the nearest location; they have even started popping up in other states (one such billboard along I-10 in Florida advertising the Baytown location states "737 miles - [[{{BladderOfSteel}} you can hold it!]]")[[labelnote:Postscript]]The location of said sign is now a LOT less than 737 miles from the nearest Buc-ee's. The company opened its first store outside Texas in January 2019 in Robertsdale, Alabama... along I-10.[[/labelnote]]

** Mario Andretti's qualifying run of 214 MPH in 1973 for an Indycar race earned Texas World Speedway "The World's Fastest Speedway" moniker.

* Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield played this completely straight at the beginning of his career when he was known as Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw, and was often accused of being a Barry Windham clone. This got turned UpToEleven when he began teaming with Windham as the New Blackjacks. He toned down his Texas roots as a member of the Acolytes with Ron Simmons, but began playing them back up as they evolved into the APA. Once he officially became "JBL," he was billed as being from New York City (where he actually lives), but was essentially a wrestling version of JR Ewing; riding in a limousene with giant Texas-sized longhorns on the front and wearing 10-gallon hats.

Because much of West Texas is an arid, barren stretch of rocky cliffs and deserts (with a few scattered small towns here and there), that has become the classic depiction of Texas, though more realistic works tend to be set in the [[{{Suburbia}} suburbs]] of one of Texas' many cities and towns. Characters from the Lone Star State are often portrayed as a mashup between the DeepSouth and TheWildWest. The typical Texan man is a GoodOlBoy, while his DistaffCounterpart is a Texas Rose (SouthernBelle). Positive portrayals will be [[InnocentlyInsensitive well-meaning but ignorant]], while negative portrayals focus on jingoism and [[TheFundamentalist religious fanaticism]].

For over a century, Texans have had a reputation for being [[TheFriendlyTexan cheerful, boastful, and loud]]. They talk about the oil industry (big fields), about herds of cow (they're huge), and UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball (''everybody'' watches football). Texas can seem [[ExaggeratedTrope "bigger"]] than even [[{{Eagleland}} the nation it belongs to]]. If AmericansAreCowboys, Texans ''definitely'' are.

For over a century, Texans have had a reputation for being [[BoisterousBruiser cheerful, boastful, and loud]]. They talk about the oil industry (big fields), about herds of cow (they're huge), and UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball (''everybody'' watches football). Texas can seem [[ExaggeratedTrope "bigger"]] than even [[{{Eagleland}} the nation it belongs to]]. If AmericansAreCowboys, Texans ''definitely'' are.

** Interstate 10. Period. The section of I-10 ''inside'' Texas, 878 miles long, is longer than the individual sections of I-10 either east or west of the state, and also the longest highway under a single authority (Texas [=DoT=]) on the continent. Additionally, west of Houston on I-10 is the Katy Freeway, one of the widest roads in the world with 26 lanes at its widest point (including frontage roads, exit lanes, the mainline general purpose lanes, and HOV lanes).

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' used this trope as the punchline to a ''Fractured Fairy Tales'' segment spoofing the story of Tom Thumb, where the narrator revealed that the problem wasn't that Tom Thumb was abnormally small, but that his parents were gigantic due to being Texans.

* [[https://www.buc-ees.com/index.php Buc-ee's]], a chain of ''freakishly'' large gas stations with convenience stores at least as big as a standard supermarket, equally as impressive souvenir and outdoor supply sections, and an array of freshly cooked food that puts most shopping mall food courts to shame. Most if not all of them do not allow 18-wheelers on the premises. The largest one (in New Braunfels) is the largest convenience store in the world, ringing in at ''68,000'' square feet, with 83 toilets and ''120 fuel pumps''. They advertise aggressively along the interstate highways with signature black billboards that can show up over 100 miles away from the nearest location; they have even popped up in other states (one such billboard along I-10 in Florida advertising the Baytown location states "737 miles - [[{{Determinator}} you can hold it!]]")[[labelnote:Postscript]]The location of said sign is now a LOT less than 737 miles from the nearest Buc-ee's. The company opened its first store outside Texas in January 2019 in Robertsdale, Alabama... along I-10.[[/labelnote]]

** Mario Andretti's qualifying run of 214 MPH in 1973 for an Indycar race earned Texas World Speedway "The World's Fastest Speedway" moniker

* During the heyday of water beds in the seventies, a joke about a Texas oil man had it that the owned a water bed large enough to rise and fall with the tides.

* On ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield and his friends would often visit "Polecat Flats", a dude ranch set in Texas which was portrayed as a barren desert complete with cacti, coyotes and cattle. This is because it's set in west Texas.

* Sandy Cheeks from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.

* ''Series/HogansHeroes'': One of the many pilots who passed through the Stalag 13 underground was a large and enthusiastic Texan. He wore a cowboy hat (yes, while flying his plane), used many Texan colloquialisms and was very amused by meeting actual foreigners such as the British Newkirk and French [=LeBeau=].
* One of ''Series/{{Longmire}}'''s love interests is a woman from Texas, who is a cheerful, polite SouthernBelle who also loves the wilderness and understands his cowboy personality.
* Gordon Bullit in the fourth season of ''Series/TheOC'' is a walking, talking Texan stereotype.

Compare SouthOfTheBorder, which Texas has a... ''complicated'' relationship with. Also check out our [[UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} Useful Notes page]] for real life info about the state; this trope is specifically about the ''stereotypes'' of the state and its people..

For over a century, Texans have had a reputation for being [[BoisterousBruiser cheerful, boastful, and loud]]. They talk about the oil industry (big fields), about herds of cow (huge herds), and UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball (''everybody'' watches football). Texas can seem [[ExaggeratedTrope "bigger"]] than [[{{Eagleland}} the nation it belongs to]]. If AmericansAreCowboys, Texans ''definitely'' are.

Compare SouthOfTheBorder, which Texas has a ...complicated relationship with. Also check out our [[UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} Useful Notes page]] for real life info about the state.