Hillbilly

Hillbilly is a pejorative nickname for people who dwell in remote, rural, mountainous areas. In particular the term refers to residents of the Ozarks and Appalachia in the United States.

Hillbillies in fiction

Hillbillies have often been characterized as ignorant hicks.

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• The hillbilly lifestyle was gently parodied in the comic strip Li'l Abner, which inspired a Broadway musical and movie by the same name.
• In the 1960s American sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, the Clampett family were supposed to have come from near the Ozarks.
• An episode of The Dukes of Hazzard saw Bo and Luke rescuing Daisy from being forced to marry into a family of sociopathic hillbillies.
• A recurring character on The Simpsons, Cletus Spuckler and his family are stereotypical hillbillies.
• The 1960s American sitcom The Andy Griffith Show has two contrasting stereotypes of recurring hillbilly characters: The ignorant but kindly, impoverished but generous Darling family, portrayed by bluegrass band The Dillards; and the belligerent, paranoid, frankly violent buffoon, Ernest T. Bass, portrayed by Howard Morris.
• In 1970 the author James Dickey published the novel Deliverance. This plot of the novel is four men going for a canoe-trip on a river in the mountains of Georgia. They run into several sociopathic hillbillies who cause them a world of trouble.
• On Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, starring Amanda Bynes, a recurring skit titled "Hillbilly Moment" would be featured. Amanda Bynes and Drake Bell would star as stereotypical hillbillies and behave accordingly.