References in Popular Culture
- In The Simpsons 17th season episode The Italian Bob, Homer waves the American flag while yelling "Don't mess with Texas" at the luggage arrival in the Italian airport, contrasting Lisa's choice of hiding her citizenship.
- After the Texas Rangers lost the 2010 World Series to the San Francisco Giants, Gary Thomas, President and Executive Director of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) lost his bet and had to fly to the San Francisco Bay Area and serenade public transit patrons. Thomas was quoted as saying, "You know there's a saying that goes, 'Don't mess with Texas. Well DART, don't mess with BART."
- In the first trailer for Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, "Don't mess with Texas" is used as a one-liner by Crockett, one of the characters, after killing a Wehrmacht soldier and applying a branding iron in the shape of Texas to his forehead.
- In Stephen King's 11/22/63, p,. 299, the book's narrator anachronistically mentions seeing "...Lone Star State flags embossed with the words DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS" when he travels back in time to the early 1960's in an attempt to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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