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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kiff}}'': Barry plays the role to the hilt for the Chatterly's family trial in "Chatterly vs. Chatterly", right down to the suspenders and folksy accent.
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* Parodied in ''WebVideo/MakeSomeNoise'' when Ross Bryant is given the prompt [[https://youtube.com/shorts/EImIhPrucZk?si=wbzQLjQPDRsTXtbo "Just a Complicated Country Lawyer"]]. Ross proceeds to cite complex philosophical ideas to argue that his client isn't guilty, as the witnesses created the crime by perceiving it in the world.
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* Parodied in ''WebVideo/MakeSomeNoise'' ''[[WebVideo/GameChanger Make Some Noise]]'' when Ross Bryant is given the prompt [[https://youtube.com/shorts/EImIhPrucZk?si=wbzQLjQPDRsTXtbo "Just a Complicated Country Lawyer"]]. Ross proceeds to cite complex philosophical ideas to argue that his client isn't guilty, as the witnesses created the crime by perceiving it in the world.
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* Parodied in ''WebVideo/MakeSomeNoise'' when Ross Bryant is given the prompt [[https://youtube.com/shorts/EImIhPrucZk?si=wbzQLjQPDRsTXtbo "Just a Complicated Country Lawyer"]]. Ross proceeds to cite complex philosophical ideas to argue that his client isn't guilty, as the witnesses created the crime by perceiving it in the world.
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* In real life, megalawyer Gerry Spence made a career out of playing to this trope. His autobiography was even titled ''The Making of a Country Lawyer''. And he was damn good at it, too: at the time of his retirement in 2008, he had not lost a jury trial ''in 39 years'', and had never lost a criminal trial, period.
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* In real life, megalawyer Gerry Spence made a career out of playing to this trope. His autobiography was even titled ''The Making of a Country Lawyer''. And he was damn good at it, too: at the time of his retirement in 2008, he had not lost a jury trial ''in 39 years'', and had never lost a criminal trial, period. He did lose a 1986 [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0983902/ mock trial]] of [[WhoShotJFK Lee Harvey Oswald]] to Vincent Bugliosi, however.
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Something of a DeadHorseTrope nowadays, although it still gets PlayedStraight occasionally. {{Deconstruction}}s may have the lawyer display ObfuscatingStupidity or using a ChewbaccaDefense. Parodies will usually be a ShoutOut to Series/{{Matlock}}, but occasionally to Creator/JimmyStewart or [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
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Something of a DeadHorseTrope nowadays, although it still gets PlayedStraight played straight occasionally. {{Deconstruction}}s may have the lawyer display ObfuscatingStupidity or using a ChewbaccaDefense. Parodies will usually be a ShoutOut to Series/{{Matlock}}, but occasionally to Creator/JimmyStewart or [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''' has Tiny Attorney, a weird cross between Series/{{Matlock}} and Cuato from ''Film/TotalRecall1990''. He has lines like "I may just be a growth on the stomach of an inbred simpleton, but...", and actually says "I'm just a simple country lawyer" at one point.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''' ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros''' has Tiny Attorney, a weird cross between Series/{{Matlock}} and Cuato from ''Film/TotalRecall1990''. He has lines like "I may just be a growth on the stomach of an inbred simpleton, but...", and actually says "I'm just a simple country lawyer" at one point.
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** The Evolution vs. Creationism episode has a fat, southern Simple Country Lawyer.
** PlayedForLaughs in "Viva Ned Flanders," complete with Homer grabbing his suspenders like a countryman:
** PlayedForLaughs in "Viva Ned Flanders," complete with Homer grabbing his suspenders like a countryman:
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** The Evolution vs. Creationism episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E21TheMonkeySuit The Monkey Suit]]" has a fat, southern Simple Country Lawyer.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'''had has Tiny Attorney, a weird cross between Matlock Series/{{Matlock}} and [[Film/TotalRecall1990 Cuato from Total Recall]]. ''Film/TotalRecall1990''. He had has lines like "I may just be a growth on the stomach of an inbred simpleton, but...", and actually says "I'm just a simple country lawyer" at one point.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'''
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* ''Series/{{Ed}}'': Ed's first opponent in Stuckeyville tries this, white suit, comically broad accent and all. The judge laughs him out of the courtroom.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''' had Tiny Attorney, a weird cross between Matlock and [[Film/TotalRecall1990 Cuato from ''Total Recall'']].Total Recall]]. He had lines like "I may just be a growth on the stomach of an inbred simpleton, but...", and actually says "I'm just a simple country lawyer" at one point.
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The legal counsel who starts off his closing argument with "[[UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking now, I may not be a big-city lawyer...]]" and then tries to win the jury over with an appeal to emotion and his folksy charm. He's almost always a SouthernGentleman with a thick WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn drawl, dressed in a white suit with a WaistcoatOfStyle.
Something of a DeadHorseTrope nowadays, although it still gets PlayedStraight occasionally. {{Deconstruction}}s may have the lawyer display ObfuscatingStupidity or using a ChewbaccaDefense. Parodic examples will usually be a ShoutOut to Series/{{Matlock}}, but also occasionally Creator/JimmyStewart or [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
This can take a swerve in a number of directions when this persona hides a SouthernFriedGenius who proceeds to put the big city lawyer to shame with superior legal knowledge and skill. May be a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit.
Something of a DeadHorseTrope nowadays, although it still gets PlayedStraight occasionally. {{Deconstruction}}s may have the lawyer display ObfuscatingStupidity or using a ChewbaccaDefense. Parodic examples will usually be a ShoutOut to Series/{{Matlock}}, but also occasionally Creator/JimmyStewart or [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
This can take a swerve in a number of directions when this persona hides a SouthernFriedGenius who proceeds to put the big city lawyer to shame with superior legal knowledge and skill. May be a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit.
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The legal counsel who starts off his closing argument with some variation of "[[UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking now, I may not be a big-city lawyer...]]" ]]", and then tries to win the jury over with an appeal to emotion and his folksy charm. He's almost always a SouthernGentleman with a thick WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn drawl, dressed in a white suit with a WaistcoatOfStyle.
WaistcoatOfStyle (may be a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit).
Something of a DeadHorseTrope nowadays, although it still gets PlayedStraight occasionally. {{Deconstruction}}s may have the lawyer display ObfuscatingStupidity or using a ChewbaccaDefense.Parodic examples Parodies will usually be a ShoutOut to Series/{{Matlock}}, but also occasionally to Creator/JimmyStewart or [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
This cantake a swerve in a number of directions when this the persona hides a SouthernFriedGenius who proceeds to put the big city lawyer to shame with superior legal knowledge and skill. May be a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit.
skill.
Something of a DeadHorseTrope nowadays, although it still gets PlayedStraight occasionally. {{Deconstruction}}s may have the lawyer display ObfuscatingStupidity or using a ChewbaccaDefense.
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The host segments of episode 815 (''Film/AgentForHARM'') have Mike being put on trial for [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds inadvertently destroying several planets]]. His defense attorney is Professor Bobo, who manages to evoke the trope down to the white suit and Southern drawl, despite being a gorilla. Bobo also directly references the "panties" spiel from ''Anatomy of a Murder''.
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The host segments of episode 815 (''Film/AgentForHARM'') have Mike being put on trial for [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds inadvertently destroying several planets]]. His defense attorney is Professor Bobo, who manages to evoke the trope perfectly, down to the white suit and Southern drawl, despite being a gorilla. Bobo also directly references the "panties" spiel from ''Anatomy of a Murder''.
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The host segments of episode 815 (''Film/AgentForHARM'') have Mike being put on trial for [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds inadvertently destroying several planets]]. His defense attorney is Professor Bobo, who evokes the trope down to the white suit and Southern drawl, despite being a gorilla. Bobo also directly references the "panties" spiel from ''Anatomy of a Murder''.
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The host segments of episode 815 (''Film/AgentForHARM'') have Mike being put on trial for [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds inadvertently destroying several planets]]. His defense attorney is Professor Bobo, who evokes manages to evoke the trope down to the white suit and Southern drawl, despite being a gorilla. Bobo also directly references the "panties" spiel from ''Anatomy of a Murder''.
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The host segments of episode 815 (''Film/AgentForHARM'') have Mike being put on trial for [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds inadvertently destroying several planets]]. His defense attorney is Professor Bobo, who evokes the trope down to the white suit and Southern drawl.drawl, despite being a gorilla. Bobo also directly references the "panties" spiel from ''Anatomy of a Murder''.
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* Clarence Darrow. Born in Farmdale, Ohio, he dropped out of law school after one year to read law as an apprentice lawyer, and later became a legendary defense attorney after fighting several high-profile cases. Humorously, this worked ''against'' him in his last great trial, the Massie case[[note]]after an accused rapist got off on what was seen as a NotProven verdict tainted by racial animus, the family responded by killing him[[/note]]. He got a verdict of manslaughter rather than murder, but the jury said that "he talked to us like a bunch of farmers. That stuff may go over big in the Middle West, but not here."
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "A Few 'Gurt Men", Gene adopts the persona of a country lawyer while serving as prosecutor in Wagstaff Middle School's mock trial club. The jury gets annoyed and confused by his bad accent and nonsensical "folksy" sayings and get him to stop.
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* A journalistic equivalent occurs in ''Film/PowerOfThePress''. Ulysses Bradford describes himself as a "simple country newspaper publisher" when introducing himself to the senior staff of ''The New York Gazette'', just before he lays down the law about what the new editorial policy of the paper is going to be.
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* The late Texas lawyer Joe Jamail (1925-2015) of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxmrvbMeKc Texas Style Deposition]] infamy could also give this impression due to his folksy manner, even though prior to his death he was the wealthiest practicing lawyer in the United States.
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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series'' Doctor [=McCoy=] would describe himself from time to time as a "country doctor." In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E12TheDeadlyYears The Deadly Years]]" it turns into an InsultBackfire when [=McCoy=] tried to describe himself as such to Spock.
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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series'' Series]]'' Doctor [=McCoy=] would describe himself from time to time as a "country doctor." In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E12TheDeadlyYears The Deadly Years]]" it turns into an InsultBackfire when [=McCoy=] tried to describe himself as such to Spock.
