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January 8

Ohio humor

Of what I've come across, here are a few examples I recall the best:

• In a clip of the Simpsons where Homer tries to vote for Obama, the machine counts his votes for McCain and sucks him in. Homer exclaims that this sort of thing doesn't happen in America. Maybe in Ohio, but not America.
• In the VeggieTales parody The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's, Pa Grape's portrayal of the lion is mistakenly referred to as an Ohian.
• In a Mr. Incredible becoming uncanny mapping video for Ohio, each county is given a picture corresponding to an extended uncanny phase. There are similar videos that have done the same thing with Afghanistan and Nazi Germany.

How did the state develop an image that would inspire jokes like the ones I've mentioned above? – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 15:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

It's perhaps hypotheitical, but if uncanny is the word, I see an "heritage" of Nancy Rexroth (the subconscious pull of memory). --Askedonty (talk) 16:34, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

However, both Treehouse of Horror XIX and The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's predate the Mr. Incredible becoming uncanny meme by over a decade, and I believe jokes poking fun at Ohio may have been around for a while longer than any of those. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 17:33, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

I my mind, uncanny applies to the others samples too, like things that happen in dreams, rather than in reality. My idea of it starts with the Simpson story, the word 'uncanny' appearing coincidental only after. If looking for a political meaning like for the superposition with Afghanistan and Nazi Germany, Rexroth does not sound excessively Latin. But like you rightly pointed out, "Treehouse" predates Mr. Incredible quite a lot, and what's in it other than improbable machines whereas Omer Simpson clearly knows himself as just a material guy? --Askedonty (talk) 19:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

In the past five or six months, there has also been a huge surge in popularity of Ohio-related memes across social media at least according to Google Trends. StellarHalo (talk) 02:11, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

P.S. I just remembered a fourth example which predates all the ones I've mentioned above. In the Animaniacs episode where the Warner siblings find themselves in limbo and meet the Grim Reaper, they ask a series of rhetorical questions in a monotonous voice, one of them being "...or is this Ohio?". – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 11:49, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Here in South Carolina, there are many retailers that sell "Go back to Ohio" bumper stickers. It is based on the apparent high number of people who move from Ohio to South Carolina. I believe it could be confirmation bias. I've met just as many people from New York as Ohio. We call them "halfbacks" because they usually moved to Florida, found it too hot, and moved halfway back. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 13:41, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

I haven't created a page before

I'm not new to Wikipedia, but I rarely edit on my account. So I guess this will be my first page. So I need help with the Morgann Book page I guess with source locating and suggestions, possibly a biography demo? Trakaplex (talk) 23:20, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

The clue is to find the sources before you start writing, otherwise you will not have enough to write about. Probably best to move this to Draft:Morgann Book until you work out valid references. YouTube is notmally not a reliable source. See Help:Your first article for people in your situation. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:36, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Several editors have now added more than sufficient references to sources. The main concern now should be to add more content (based on these sources). I'd say she is not famous for cake baking, but primarily for the short TikTok videos she has made about about it while musing aloud, starting in January 2020. The YouTube videos came later, in March 2021. There is a bio here, but I doubt this counts as a reliable source. At this stage, I wouldn't go for a capsule bio, but the article could mention that she was a teen and a high-school student when she rose to fame in 2020. More recent info here: she started studying social science at McMaster University in 2021. I don't have a TikTok account, but extrapolating from various mentions the channel must now have close to three million followers.  --Lambiam 12:13, 9 January 2023 (UTC)