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A strange, location-based trope distantly related to Where the Hell Is Springfield?. It's where a cross-border production between Canada and the United States refuses to acknowledge that it's set in either country, and therefore appears to exist in some bizarre generic North American location. The trope arises from the peculiarities of producing television in Canada. Let's face it — Canada is not a big place compared to its massive, culturally influential southern neighbour (well, a big place yes, just not a populous place), and it would be very easy and convenient for Canada to just import all of its shows from the U.S. As a result, Canadian government provides a great deal of federal tax incentives and production grants to encourage TV and movie producers to make their productions in Canada, but these often depend on there being a certain amount of "Canadian content". Ordinarily, this can be easily satisfied with a fully Canadian production — even something as mundane as a news broadcast — but it's not so easy to put together an entirely Canadian production, so producers seek help from across the border. And they're allowed to do that — as long as the show is still "Canadian". This trope is therefore quite narrow, and falls into a bizarre situation where the American and Canadian partners each want to broadcast the show in their respective countries — Americans aren't going to tune in to watch something that's obviously Canadian without risking their audience, and Canadians won't show something that's obviously American without risking their funding. Therefore, the show has to avoid showing or mentioning anything that could place it in either country. The first show of this type was Night Heat, a cop series produced in Toronto by Sonny Grosso Productions. CTV first aired it in Canada in 1985, and CBS put it on its Late Night lineup in 1987, making it the first Canadian-produced drama ever to air on a U.S. network. It was quite tempting for CBS, as the Canadian dollar was damn cheap in the 1980s, so production costs were lower in Canada, and cities like Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal were building all kinds of production facilities. CBS wanted the show to be a gritty American cop drama like everything else, but CTV couldn't allow it to be too "American" without risking losing its tax incentives. Night Heat therefore became notable for its enthusiastic practice of this trope, as all sorts of innocuous words and objects suddenly became more taboo than the famous Seven Dirty Words — no flags, no currency, no license plates, nothing. The police badge became a bizarre hybrid between an eagle and a beaver that was never shown in closeup. Courtroom scenes were laughably torturous to produce because the legal terminology was so different; even mentioning a "district attorney" or "crown prosecutor" was forbidden, and characters just referenced a generic "prosecutor". The producers even went out of their way to keep the words "out" and "about" out of the scripts, given the distinct Canadian way of pronouncing them. As more U.S. networks started picking up Canadian productions, they got more adept at doing this, so it's not nearly as jarring, but you can still pick up on it if you know where to look. Given the trope's relative narrowness, it's distinct from California Doubling — the audience may be forced to accept the desert scrub of a Burbank backlot as the Amazon rainforest, but it's still explicitly set in the Amazon rainforest. It's also distinct from "Hollywood North" productions, where an American production outsources a lot of work to Canada; these are still considered American imports and made for American TV. This is how, say, The X-Files can reference distinctly American institutions like the FBI despite being shot in Canada. Compare City with No Name and No Communities Were Harmed. Contrast Hollywood Provincialism, Eagleland Osmosis, and Big Applesauce (Toronto's been known to pretend to be New York). If you thought this trope meant a character who actually believes that Canada doesn't exist, you're looking for Eskimos Aren't Real. Examples |
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The Listener: Originally broadcast both on CTV and NBC, causing its Canada-ness to be muted in the first season—though this was at least partially subverted with prominent views of the Toronto skyline (which an American viewer might or might not recognize); also, when the main character gives a homeless man a dollar, it's a coin. Nonetheless, references to Canada were deliberately changed in the closed captions for the American market. Averted with a vengeance from the second season onward (after NBC canceled the series), with direct references to Canadian cities and politics, the RCMP, a massive Canadian flag, and shout-outs to Canadian bands and TV shows. | |
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Prom Wars: The film is a Canadian production but the characters act like they're in the average American teen movie and mention potentially attending American colleges like Harvard and M.I.T. The only thing to explicitly imply the movie is set in Canada and not the U.S. is that the schools have prefects and head girls, student government positions that exist in the Commonwealth of Nations but not the U.S. | |
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Into the Forest: Unless you notice the initials of the news network briefly visible in an early scene, you'd be forgiven for assuming that the film takes place in America. No one mentions the name of the country, and Nell is studying for the SAT, something a bit more ubiquitous in the US than in Canada. The original novel is set in California. It's made even more confusing when they speak of going East... to Boston, instead of Montreal or some other city on the Canadian east coast. | |
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Highlander took place in a fictional Pacific Northwest city dubbed Seacouver by fans. | |
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Despite not even airing in the United States, Producing Parker was sometimes implied to take place in the United States. For example, one episode was concerned with how Dee's show was rated in the Bible Belt. | |
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Goosebumps (1995): Toronto, Canada was one of the series' primary filming locations, but most episodes were set in a vaguely North American town. The "Don't Go To Sleep" episode had a shouty hockey coach that Canadian audiences will immediately recognize as hockey commentator Don Cherry. To Americans outside of border regions in which a CBC station is present on cable, however, he's simply a weird red-faced man who keeps yelling. | |
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Psi Factor, sometimes. The producers could never seem to decide whether Canada existed or not. | |
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Forever Knight is explicitly set in Toronto, the CN Tower is shown in the Title Sequence, and the characters talk about Canada often enough, but other aspects are downplayed. Canadian flags and photographs of Queen Elizabeth can be seen, but are not emphasised. The police force is simply the "Metropolitan Police". Police uniforms and badges are made to look generically American, with the distinct features of the Metropolitan Toronto Police uniforms (such as the red trim on the hats and red stripes on pants) left out. This is probably a more "Canadian" version of the trope: there is enough Canadianness left in the to show that it is unmistakably taking place in Canada, but downplayed enough to not distinguish it too much from some generic place in "America." Perhaps it might be called "Canada is just like Anywhere, USA"? | |
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Below Her Mouth: Though it's set in Toronto, you'd find it hard to notice if you didn't know. | |
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Hobo with a Shotgun features many of the hallmarks of this trope, what with the oddly-generic police badges, fake currency that resembles neither American nor Canadian bills, and so on and so forth. It was shot in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and is filled with subtle Canadian references. | |
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Inverted in Turning Red. The movie is explicitly set in Toronto, Canada and never lets you forget it with the CN Tower in many shots, frequent mentions of Canadian things and so much other stuff distinctive to Canada that it fills most of a subpage. You'd be hard pressed to find a scene which doesn't contain something that relates to Canada. | |
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Rerez is a Canadian Lets Player out of Ontario, Canada, but makes a point of doing things that present his series as being distinctly American, such as holding up an American $10 bill during a skit on his It's Just Bad review of FlatOut 3: Chaos and Destruction (2011) or showing the American prices of things in screenshots of online stores. | |
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Likewise, Commitment Hour is set in "Tober Cove" (Tobermory, Ontario), and even name-checks the Real Life ferry that runs from Tobermory to Manitoulin Island. | |
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Schitt's Creek: The show keeps the location of Schitt's Creek ambiguous, never explicitly referencing its location either in Canada or the United States. The official reason is so the characters stand on their own and do not represent the real-world denizens of any specific region. Eagle-eyed viewers, however, will still spot "Canadian Content" such as Canadian-style railroad crossing signs, police wearing Canadian-style uniforms with red cap bands and trouser stripes, and Roland wearing a Commonwealth-style mayoral collar. In 2018, Eugene Levy stated that the town is technically in Canada due to the show's obligations to domestic content rules. | |
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Qwerpline is intentionally vague as to whether it takes place in America or LoadingReadyRun's native Canada. Even the characters in the show don't seem to know; there's a running gag in one episode that nobody knows whether the drinking age is 19 or 21 and they eventually just declare it a "grey area". | |
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? was filmed in Canada, but isn't stated to be there. In an episode involving a ghost train, however, locomotives and rolling stock with VIA Rail Canada and Canadian National lettering and paint schemes feature prominently; in addition, a soldier on board the ghost train wears an ambiguous khaki uniform that isn't quite American or Canadian. The writing is very distinctly American, if The Tale Of The Long-Ago Locket unambiguously portraying the British Redcoats as the villains is anything to go off of. | |
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It's perhaps not a well-known fact that Degrassi Junior High was really a joint Canadian-American production that intended to invoke this trope. Early press releases describe the show as being set in an "unnamed North American city". Likewise, scenes of money were re-shot for the US version. Although this trope was intended, hindsight shows it kind of backfired as various Canadian places are still mentioned and various actors have obvious Canadian accents, and to this day "classic" Degrassi is considered prime Moose and Maple Syrup and most written works that mention the show just say it took place in Toronto. Degrassi: The Next Generation is claimed to have averted this, which is ironic as it was the version that really blew up stateside. In TNG, generic North American terms are still used when discussing things like driver licensing and standardized tests. The early 2010s seasons after Next Generation show signs of Eagleland Osmosis, though as generic Canadian universities are replaced with very specific American universities (NYU and Yale, to be specific), and characters regularly reference studying for the SATs - which is not a requirement for Canadian students unless they want to attend an American university. | |
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SCTV: Melonville is never explicitly stated to be in Canada, and later episodes refer to it being in the Tri-State area. Most of the television/film they parodied was familiar to both American and Canadian audiences. The Great White North segment, created specifically on orders to add more Canadian flavor to the show, intentionally plays as a parody of Canadian stereotypes and could ironically be interpreted as a foreign lampooning of Canada. | |
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In the opening theme for Moral Orel, the globe shows a huge map of the United States and no Canada nor Latin America. This is also true with Homestar Runner. | |
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Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews makes a running gag out of pointing out these kinds of discrepancies in Canadian-made movies, many of which will try very hard to pass as American-made. Brandon himself is from Saskatchewan. | |
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Orphan Black: The show is shot in Canada, starring Canadian actors, and is strongly implied to take place in Toronto. However, nearly all blatant references to Canada or Toronto are carefully avoided; one has to be on the lookout for the few instances when they slip up and give away the location (such as on a bank form in season 1). The CN Tower is carefully cropped out of shots of downtown Toronto. It can be partly seen in the opening shot of the pilot, but with the top of it cut off, only a native Torontonian would recognize it. Later episodes are better at hiding the city's most famous landmark. The very distinctive octagonal double-decker GO Transit commuter trains◊ were digitally repainted from green to blue in the pilot. The Toronto Police Service is instead called the "Metropolitan Police Service." This is based on the older name "Metropolitan Toronto Police Service," but still cuts out "Toronto" from the name. Alison is said to live in "Scarborough," a municipality of Toronto, rather than just "Toronto." There are a lot of communities in the world named Scarborough, making the location sound generic. The US Army is involved with the clone project, though in season 3 they're also shown to have a black site in Mexico, indicating that national borders are no object to them. Fleeting references kept in include Canadian money, Ontario license plates, and Toronto addresses and area codes. By contrast, all the cities they do mention explicitly are in the US. Cosima grew up in Berkeley and went to grad school in Minnesota, while Tony is from Cincinnati. |
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Clara: Except for the mere mention that it's set in Toronto, the film never displays any signs that this is Canada. | |
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How to Be Indie never explicitly states whereabouts the action is set. It could be anywhere in North America, although natives of the USA or Canada might spot something. | |
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Lost Girl: The show makes absolutely no effort to hide the fact that it is filmed in Toronto (the accents, all those shots of the very distinctive TTC streetcars, and a few incidental glimpses of the CN Tower being dead giveaways), but this, or even which country or province the city is in, is never made explicit. In one episode Bo makes multiple visits to a woman on death row. The first time she goes, it is implied that she crosses the border (there is no death penalty in Canada). Afterwards she is back home but then she visits the prisoner twice more on the same day, which would make for a lot of commuting since it is about a 2 hour drive to the nearest border crossing from Toronto. Check the currency and the flag in the trailer park in the second episode… When street intersections are mentioned, we get things like "University and Dunkirk." The one cop-shop we hear mentioned is not "39th Precinct," but rather "39th Division." One episode showed a realtor's sign on the lawn of a house; the phone number had a 416 (Toronto) area code. The Canadian Accents are a bit of a giveaway. In particular, they pronounce "Lich" to sound like "lick" instead of like "Rich," even going as far as having Kenzi mistake the word for "lick" when she first hears it. A sign in a restaurant window in the first episode reads "LLBO," which means the Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario (advertising that the restaurant sells alcohol). After a joke about a Fae black market, Kenzi complains that Cherry Coke is hard to find, which is true in Canada. When Kenzi joins Bo on a mission and reveals she's tipsy, Bo comments that it will ruin her candidacy for the Young Conservatives, meaning not young people with conservative values in general but the official Youth wing of the Conservative Party of Canada. |
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Flashpoint tried to be set in an ambiguous North American metropolis, but officers in the very first episode had Canadian flags on their uniforms. The setting slowly let more aspects leak through that reflected the already obvious setting of Toronto until they finally admitted they're in Toronto. | |
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When Calls the Heart: Notably averted in Season One, when the show makes it no secret that it takes place in northwest Canada. Strongly present in subsequent seasons, when, with the exception of a Mountie as a character and Hamilton as a city, laws, political systems, locations, famous historical artists and inventors, newspapers, and cities are all American. There is even mention of the Mountie running for President, instead of Prime Minister, which is an incredibly jarring experience for Canadian viewers. | |
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Sanctuary is set in "Old City" somewhere on the west coast, but which country it's in is never made clear. It's an invented city (like Metropolis). In one episode, however, Kate gives her brother what looks like Canadian money. |
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You Can't Do That on Television, once it became internationally syndicated and Nickelodeon became a production partner with the show's Canadian producers, its previously unapologetically Canadian flavor got downplayed if not completely blanched - the kids were making references to the Fourth of July and American cultural institutions and being told not to say "eh" or use Canadian terminology for things that were called something different in America. | |
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Braceface initially appeared to keep itself ambiguous about where the show took place. Characters would nonchalantly reference California and Florida, but would wear clothes with Canadian flags. Might have had something to do with American actress Alicia Silverstone being Sharon's original voice, since the Canadian setting was played up in the third season. | |
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