In Popular Culture
The behavior was shown in the The Simpsons episode "Coming to Homerica". Marshall Eriksen's family in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother display niceness exceeding even natural Minnesota nice, to the amusement or occasional frustration of Marshall's friends.
How to Talk Minnesotan is a book lampooning stereotypical Minnesotan speech and mannerisms; it was written by Howard Mohr, a former writer for A Prairie Home Companion.
Minnesota Nice is also the title of a 2003, 28 min documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz about the Coen brothers' movie Fargo, a movie that displays some of the stereotypical behavior. Minnesota hip-hop band Atmosphere (music group) also produced a recording called "Minnesota Nice" for Welcome to Minnesota Tour 2011; the recording featured Prof, Mr. Gene Poole, and Felipe Cuauhtli, who are all Minnesotan.
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