Shows that exist on the periphery of the mainstream television offer insight to the production of cultural and sub-cultural ideologies in ways inaccessible to television that participates in mainstream culture. For this reason, shows like Xena: Warrior Princess ( XWP), Hercules, Firefly, and even Burn Notice deserve fair critical notice. This is particularly true of XWP, a show which, in its six year run, never became a mainstream show but became part of American culture: most people have heard of Xena and her war cry, and learned it from mainstream televisions series such as CSI. In the show Xena: Warrior Princess, Xena with her trusty sidekick Gabrielle travels the globe from India to Britannia. Through the main character's travel, the show creates a new culture from the panoply of societies around the globe by interrogating cultural production and transmission. To accomplish such a task requires that the show critique its own culture and others; Xena: Warrior Princess ( XWP) explores cultural production and transmission through camp, intertextuality, and estrangement.