During the 2015 ALCS, when the Royals were playing the Blue Jays in Toronto (and had won both earlier games in Kansas City), there were a few signs being held by fans in the crowd that read “You’re not in Kansas anymore!”
Some notable (to me, at least) Wizard of Oz parodies:
Leela’s segment in “Anthology of Interest II” from Futurama
Episode “Y2K” oft he Dilbert animated series
Ooh, I get to be the first to mention Dark Side of the Moon, which has nothing… and everything… to do with The Wizard of Oz.
Blues Traveler did a video with a loose interpretation of the main cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousaiByU1ko
Dorothy’s dress is much better in the video.
The TV series “Oz” is so named because it’s set at the Oswald State Correctional Facility. The super tight security within the prison is Em City.
The tagline used for the series was “It’s no place like home”.
The great failed superhero series Once of Hero had a magician character called “the Great and Powerful.” When he spoke thunderously of his powers, Gumshoe told him to “Save it for the Munchkins.”
Beat me to it.
Bender: I need a heart, I got a lot of blood I need to pump out of my basement
In the ST:TNG episode True Q a young Starfleet intern, Amanda Rogers, is revealed to be the daughter of two members of the Q, who had taken on human form and were killed when a tornado destroyed their Kansas home.
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) contains an Enter the Dragon parody which concludes with an homage to The Wizard of Oz. Quite funny as I recall.
The Royals never were. The team is based in Kansas City, Missouri.
Anyway, since we’re talking Missouri baseball teams, Cardinal Ozzie Smith was nicknamed “The Wizard” because of (1) his first name, and (2) his spectacular defensive play at shortstop.
The first U.S. game show that Alex Trebek hosted (in 1973) was titled The Wizard of Odds; the premise of the show was that contestants answered questions based on statistics, such as averages.
Couldn’t they have stopped it? :dubious: 
Dunkin Donuts (now just Dunkin’) calls their donut holes Munchkins®.
IIRC, the tornado was deliberately caused by the Q Continuum in order to wipe out Amanda’s parents since the other Q considered them rogues. As they have weather control in the 24th century, it was thought (by the humans) to be a freak storm. And I believe they didn’t merely appear to be human, they actually chose to become mortal.
NDP:
Sheesh, do you think I don’t know that? I’m very possibly the biggest Royals fan you’ll ever meet.
It was just another listed instance of how pervasive Wizard of Oz references are in our culture. The fact that some Blue Jays fan(s) either didn’t know or didn’t care that the Royals don’t actually play their home games in the state of Kansas doesn’t negate that.
In a later episode of Castle, the Nathan Fillon character was injured and had an extended dream sequence, starring the rest of the cast. Upon awakening, he saw his friends and loved ones gathered around his bed.
He started telling them about his dream, “and you were there, and you were there, and you were ther…”
It doesn’t come across in print, but the delivery was pure Dorothy. A subtle, but quite evident, reference.
A “friend of Dorothy” is a euphemism for a gay man.
And “Oz” is Australia.
Nanny Ogg had a house dropped on her in”Witches Abroad”.
That ended up going full circle. The original Munchkin game had a fantasy dungeon-crawling them. When it became a big success, new games followed in other genres: superheroes, science fiction, horror, spy thriller, western, etc. Then they began making games with various IP’s: Marvel, H.P. Lovecraft, Conan, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty. And, of course, the Wizard of Oz.
You’d think people who actually live in Kansas would be sick to death of “Oz” references, right? Well that didn’t stop the state tourism bureau from coming up with this gem a number of years ago. “Kansas: The Land Of Ahhs” :rolleyes:
Still, I’m surprised that The Matrix hasn’t been mentioned yet: