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Freestate Amsterdam
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You've heard of Las Vegas's nickname and reputation as Sin City, right? That's nothing. Amsterdam is the modern Sodom and Gomorrah. You can do everything in Amsterdam. You can do drugs till you drop (or are struck by a cyclist), drink as much alcohol as you like until you're either rolling around paralytic in the street, knocked down by a wayward cyclist (again) - or both, explore the wildest boundaries of sexual debauchery, and have your thick-cut, twice-fried fries served with a side of mayonnaise rather than ketchup. And then somehow get hit by a cyclist again right afterward. The rest of The Netherlands is just one field of tulips after another with the odd windmill here and there; from the way people talk about it, you'd figure the Netherlands and Amsterdam were different countries. As Freestate Amsterdam is wall-to-wall nightlife, it's never day there. There is at least a grain of truth in this, since the Netherlands does have fairly lenient soft-drug laws and a thriving sex industry... and the Dutch do eat far more mayonnaise than most countries.note Though, they aren't the number one at it. That honor goes to the Russians However, Amsterdam is hardly more liberal than other major cities in Europe,note The most liberal drug laws in Europe are actually in Portugal and The Czech Republic, where most drugs are decriminalized in personal-use quantities and in many aspects more restricted. Holding an open can of beer on the street is officially illegal (and in tourist areas, will likely get you a fine these days), smoking a joint outside is frowned on by the locals. The red light district doesn't differ all that much from the ones in, say, Brussels or Hamburg, except it's a common sightseeing destination, and the prostitutes in Amsterdam at least look happier. Magic mushrooms have been banned (though the mayor flat-out refuses to order police raids to check and truffles are not banned), and marijuana is actually only decriminalized rather than flat-out legal, meaning you simply won't be fined. And the sex museums, dildo shops and weed shrines? That stuff's just for tourists. The city has no stoner subculture to speak of—you either smoke or you don't, but it doesn't make you part of a social group—and most of the true hippies are stranded Americans looking for some change. In fact, the Netherlands has a much lower rate of cannabis use than the United States. As for the wooden shoes: nobody really wears them anymore. There are some small rural villages (e.g. Spakenburg) where people still occasionally dress in traditional clothing, of which wooden shoes can be a part, but the only other places you'll see the things are kitschy souvenir shops, and in some rural garden sheds (as they are easy to clean, they at least make good shoes for working in mud). Any natives of the country you meet anywhere are guaranteed to have a last name that starts with Van, De, Van de, Van den, or Van der. In reality, a sizable minority of the Dutch have such last names, but don't expect to meet any of the others in any work of fiction. Note about the flag: Rated XXX, that sounds pretty cool, but actually it's much older: each of those Xs are St. Andrew's crosses, in honor of the city's patron saint (same as Scotland and the Russian Navy, which also have X-designs on their flags). The official explanation of the three crosses is that they represent the biggest threats that the city protects against (or tries to): fire, because medieval houses were made of timber and stand next to each other, increasing risks of huge fires; flood, because the River Amstel often flooded; and plague, because the canals were filthy and one could contract all kinds of diseases from the water therein. Examples |
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When The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are stranded in Europe, Fat Freddy ends up in Amsterdam. He rejoices at the legal dope and swear he'll stay there forever...but gets kicked out when they find out he has no money. They're a very tolerant people, but they draw the line at broke tourists. | |
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Markus Schulz's song "Dancing in the Red Light" is a trance-y leitmotif for the city of Amsterdam, which is justified by Amsterdam's thriving Electronic Music fandom/scene. | |
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One game of Greatest Hits in Whose Line Is It Anyway? started with Drew Carey taking suggestions for "a city where you would go to have a great time". Amsterdam is one of the suggestions called out, and judging from the players' and even the audience's eventual reactions, they all know what kind of time one would have there. Sadly they went with Paris. 2:30 here. | |
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Both played straight and averted in The Windmill Massacre. Jack's story starts in Amsterdam's notorious Red Light District where he kills a prostitute. However, Jennifer starts the film working as a nanny for a perfectly ordinary family in the suburbs of Amsterdam. | |
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Root into Europe: Mr. Root meets with a Dutch police chief in Amsterdam to discuss the dangers of drug abuse, only to discover that he'd inadvertently eaten a number of magic brownies from a dessert cart moments before. | |
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The Discworld version of Holland is explored in The Black Sheep. In true Pratchett tradition, Sto Kerrig is a heavily exaggerated version of Holland. Windmills, clogs, Edam cheese, canals and tulips are all involved. The state capital, DamHamster, boasts kaffeehuisen where strange mind-altering and appetite-enhancing tobaccos are smoked in abundance. There is also a SexMusee celebrating all aspects and variations of the human sexual experience. A Quirmian visitor is suitably moved by both. | |
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Found in Passing Strange - The Youth gets into implied threesomes at a marijuana cafe in beautiful AMMMSTEEERDAAAAM! | |
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Netherlands in Scandinavia and the World is portrayed as a stoner who provides drugs and sex to Denmark. Partially to get a rise out of Sister Japan. | |
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Mostly averted by The Fault in Our Stars (John Green really likes Amsterdam and goes whenever chance he gets), although the 16-year-old protagonists are served champagne in a restaurant quite openly. | |
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Played with in The Way (2010). Joost The Stoner is Dutch and he claims that pot is "nothing by Dutch standards". He then offers Tom two "alternatives" to help him sleep at night... Ambien and ear plugs. | |
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In an episode of My Name Is Earl, Earl is in a coma, and his friends are waiting anxiously for him to come out of it. Darnell suggests that they try to stimulate his mind with both old memories and new experiences. He holds up a postcard from Amsterdam, saying (with a smirk) "I call it Amster-jam. You'll know why when you get there." The postcard does not rouse Earl from his coma, but does appear in his coma dream as a decoration that his wife is putting up. | |
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Surprisingly, considering the James Bond series' tendency to have 007 visit The Theme Park Version of any given country (see Octopussy), when he visits in Diamonds Are Forever all he really indulges in is a rather vicious fight in a lift. | |
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Star Trek Month by The Nostalgia Critic features a cameo by Sci-Fi-Guy who says he owns a copy of the Star Trek Holiday Special (a parody of The Star Wars Holiday Special) and it's so bad, it is only legal in Amsterdam. | |
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In an episode of The Office Jim asks his co-workers about possible vacation destinations. Toby recommends Amsterdam, stating that after his divorce, he went there for about a week... or maybe a month... he seemed a bit hazy on the details for obvious reasons. | |
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Hostel starts out here, but then the characters get bored with all the sex and drugs in Amsterdam and head east for even more exotic delights in Slovakia. This turns out to be a Very Bad Idea ... | |
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, even though the promotional poster shows him in Italy. He even wears a T-shirt with the page image above. Interestingly, the villain of the movie is a manwhore killer out to remove this image of his city. | |
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On NCIS, Director Vance has a flashback to his first mission to Amsterdam, where he met Eli David enjoying some hashish. He also visited the red light district, though he was less interested in the hookers than he was in the Russian hitman who wanted him dead. | |
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Parodied and lampshaded in Hetalia: Axis Powers by the character representing the Netherlands who's described as a depraved chain-smoker, apparently is somewhat of a lolicon and uses some kinds of 'shady drugs', whatever they are. Hilariously, a recently translated strip featuring him showed a profile shot of him with his nostrils missing, leading to comments that he may have done some damage to them with his habits... | |
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After the characters win the eponymous Beerfest, they stumble across Willie Nelson in an Amsterdam back-alley, who invites them to join Weedfest. | |
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The Magnus Archives: The episode "Do Not Open" starts with the narrator and his friends (all recent graduates) going on holiday to Amsterdam, for exactly the reasons you'd expect (though he also takes time to admire the architecture). | |
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Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling Volume 1: Izzy High is billed from there. However, he doesn't seem to be aware of this, since he gets on the mic and calls Detroit "the dope-burningest town in America. USA! USA! USA!", leading to his opponent The Iron Sheik hitting Izzy with his flag, which is pretty much justified in this case. | |
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Mentioned but not seen in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. The final Empire mission takes place in Amsterdam (which for some unexplained reason is the seat of FutureTech headquarters) and features everything you'd expect: tulips, canals, fancy brick buildings, Imperial soldiers mocking the red light district, etc. | |
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In The Wire season 3, the police designate vacant neighborhoods as "free zones" where drugs are tolerated. When explaining this to a drug crew, Herc refers to one of the free zones as "Amsterdam in Baltimore". The free zones then become known collectively as Hamsterdam. | |
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Subverted in Ocean's Twelve where the robber gang meets a local contact in an Amsterdam cafe and has a conversation so bizarre they seem to be on drugs. Turns out they're just messing with one character's head. | |
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The Belgian comic Urbanus has an issue called "De laatste Hollander" (the last Dutchman) which features this version of Amsterdam. | |
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The first level of Duke Nukem 3D's Alien World Tour episode, added in the 20th Anniversary World Tour edition, is set in Amsterdam, complete with strip clubs (which is admittedly on par for the course for Duke). In fact, one segment has Duke smoke on a hookah and go on quite the Mushroom Samba, complete with weird grinning faces on the walls. Oh, and the name of the level? "High Times". | |
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Final Fight 2 had some form of a post apocalyptic Holland with invented letters on signs, fighting trough windmills, bombs hidden in the ground, carrion birds, and ending up in some kind of a massive... sewer? Dock? | |
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