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In the South Park episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" a sign for Kenosha Pass can be seen as the boys walk from South Park to Conifer to the video store. In the episode "Prehistoric Ice Man," a man who has been frozen since 1996 goes back to his wife, who says he was lost on Kenosha Pass.
A line from Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow: you never danced the kenosha kid is repeated throughout, with varying punctuation and capitalization, changing the meaning of the sentence each time.
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