Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Often used to signal sudden disorientation or the realization that one has entered an unfamiliar situation, the line contrasts the ordinary (Kansas, home, the known world) with the strange and wondrous. In popular usage it has become a shorthand for culture shock, unexpected change, or stepping into a realm governed by different rules. However, despite frequent attribution to L. Frank Baum, the wording is best known from the 1939 MGM film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy voices it after arriving in Oz. The quote’s significance lies in how it encapsulates the story’s threshold moment: the passage from everyday reality into transformative adventure.