Murfreesboro City Fair

The Murfreesboro City Fair is a popular autumn event in the city of Murfreesboro, with events like owl boxing. However, it has also been the site of precipitating events like the McKinley-Sullivan Feud.

As revealed in Episode 150, due to the inability of the general public to access the city fairgrounds on account of the large caravan of vehicles dragged by Mercky Shellback around the square, the town fathers decided to incorporate the 2015 city fair into Shellback's operation, and so many local businesses sponsored floats or booths that were dragged along behind the three vehicles that were part of the Double Decker Bus 'Round the Square. Famous Chinese restaurant Golden Monster had a booth where patrons could dine. Horse Gravy sponsored a gravy dunking booth, while the Christian Vegetables, evangelists who dressed in vegetable outfits and encourage children to read scripture and eat healthy, also had a dunking booth (though one of their number had been replaced by a green bean from Bag, Cup, or Handful. Heatherglen Springs Woods repurposed an old parade float into a traveling exhibition featuring some of its confused, elderly residents behind glass walls. David and Lydia Rinseguard were selling copies of their new book, Three 4 Him, a guide to Christian threesomes, while Little Cissy, who had special handlers there to revive her should she die yet again, prophesied in a walled-off area next to them. Dunlap's friend Inky, an artist who regularly produces cartoons for the local newspaper (and with whom Dunlap once proposed to open a coverless comic book store), was drawing caricatures of people. The compound featuring Slick Sheets, Take 2, and Soured Towels featured a caravan-length slide which went over all the vehicles, terminating in a big container of used dryer sheets and soured towels. The 2015 city fair featured the return of Doctor Birdman and his henchman, Jimmy. It was revealed that Doctor Birdman had undergone gender reassignment surgery and was now going by the name of Doctor Birdlady, while Jimmy had been enrolled in nursing school. They were offering health screenings that included a free finch. Another attendee was Honey Slott, the alleged twin sister of former mayor Tee Tee Slott. However, in 2016, the "Fair Around the Square" was canceled and the whole thing shut down as a result of the Jackie impersonators terrorizing Murfreesboro.