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Trade, travel, war, and other interactions between nations and regions is an integral part of human history, from the Silk Road to the Triangle Trade to containerization. In fact, in today's globalized world there is only a small handful of countries that are self-sufficient, i.e. can support their own population with everything they need without needing to trade for it, so geography has always been something that people would (or should) be aware of, simply by virtue of the fact it's A) very difficult not to, and B) just seems a bit rude not getting to know your neighbors. Thus, when TV wants to show that a person is an idiot, they almost inevitably show them making a geographic mistake, such as mistaking a continent for a country, or the inability to find a given location on a map. This can be done with a character, to demonstrate their status as The Ditz, or with real people as part of a Selective Stupidity feature. Alternatively, it can be used to depict a character as being a short-sighted nationalist, usually a resident of The United States, particularly by Europeans who frequently use this trope as shorthand for stupid Americans who know nothing of the world beyond the continental forty-eight states. It's not without its merits, though: a variety of studies have found that American students are among the least geographically literate in the world. (And yes: for the record, America is one of those self-sufficient countries, probably not by coincidence.) In a variation, a character insists on using the old names for countries that have reformed or gained independence, such as Rhodesia (a former British territory in Southern Africa now known as Zimbabwe), Formosa (Taiwan), or Ceylon (Sri Lanka). In this case, the character is oblivious to the changing political climes, and has no interest in staying current. If he knows the modern names, but refuses to acknowledge them, he's probably a Quintessential British Gentleman who wants to hearken back to the glory days of the empire. A third possible use is to show a character as being out of touch rather than stupid by using the old names for countries that no longer exist but did exist in their lifetime, like Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union. Unlike the above example, these characters are unlikely to be making a statement and are simply old, or otherwise haven't had any reason to check a map in the past decade. A common side effect for anyone from the Soviet Bloc who Slept Through the Apocalypse of its disintegration. Of course there are greater and lesser degrees of this trope, and it can be used in subtly different ways. Not knowing the name of the capital of the country a character is currently in almost certainly is showing how the character is genuinely stupid (and not knowing the capital of one's home country/state/province would definitely be considered stupid), while being unable to name all of the former Yugoslavian republicsnote Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia; Kosovo is an interesting addition, though, as only 97 of the 193 United Nations members recognise its independence is unlikely to be saying a character is dumb unless it's being asked by The Smart Guy to demean a character. However this can backfire as the 'genius' character demands another name — the capital of Belarusnote Minsk — and ends up stumping themselves. Often a character who isn't characterized as being either The Smart Guy or The Ditz will make understandable but amusing slips along these lines to cement their position in the intellectual hierarchy particularly if they have been being a bit too smart recently. A good example would be thinking Thai people are from Taiwan which is wrong, but not completely stupid either. Usually a case of In-Universe Factoid Failure when it happens in fiction. Can overlap with Eskimos Aren't Real, if the character refuses to believe that a country actually exists. See also Artistic License – Geography. |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Alice, the zookeeper, thinks koalas and kangaroos will get along well, because they're both from Austria. King Julian, while living in the Central Park Zoo, believes he is in France. The penguins also mistake Shanghai, China for Dublin, Ireland. |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Touma Kamijou is very ignorant about topics like geography and history, which the other characters find really annoying. He tries to use the excuse that he's a Japanese student and shouldn't be expected to be knowledgeable about countries like Denmark, but none of the other Japanese characters have this problem. | |
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In The Thing (1982), MacReady has to be reminded on more than one occasion that the men who showed up at Outpost 31 are Norwegians, not Swedish. | |
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In Bleak Expectations the protagonist tries to catch the antagonist in this trope but just ends up proving he too fits it. | |
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CNNNN has a journalist checking out general knowledge about Americans. During that skit, one section has random people point out Iraq and North Korea on the map. While they do find those countries, the map is mislabeled, and thus they put the pin in the middle of Australia. One person also comments that North Korea has a large land mass compared to South Korea (mislabeled from Tasmania). And finally, if the USA needed to attack the country in the bottom-right corner of the map, they would have to attack from the West (cause the East just has the edge of the map). | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: When Frank, Dee, and Mac tried to play "50 States", Mac and Dee continually name states like "West Dakota", much to Frank's amusement. In season 15, Mac and Dennis are amazed at how Charlie is honestly shocked to realize Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania as he assumes it's impossible a state can have more than one big city. |
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The Simpsons: In "The PTA Disbands", when Marge became the substitute teacher for Bart during the teacher's strike, at dinner, she describes her day as "Exhausting. It took the kids 40 minutes to find Canada on the map." To which Homer responds by also invoking this trope, commenting about how small and tucked away Canada is. Down there. Springfield itself is a Running Gag of this trope, being anywhere and everywhere the writers need it to be. Best exemplified in The Movie.note For the non-Americans out there: Ohio and Kentucky DO share a border, but Maine is 1200km NE of them, and Nevada is 2600km West of them. Homer and Bart get whacked by this trope again in "Bart vs. Australia". Bart mistakes a "Rand McNally" logo on his globe for a country, causing Lisa to mock him: "In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!" Later, Homer looks at the globe, spots Uruguay, and laughs and says "Look at this country! 'UR Gay'! (Laughs)". Both Homer and Mr. Burns (in different episodes) are astounded at the discovery of a New Mexico, though Mr. Burns at least has the excuse of old age. In The Movie, Homer says, "We have a great life here in Alaska, and we are never going back to America again!" Homer as a high school student skipping English class in 1974 in "The Way We Was": "English? Who needs it? I'm never going to England! C'mon, let's go smoke!" Exaggerated in "G.I. D'oh" when Homer asks "We're China, right?" In "Mother Simpson", Mr. Burns is seen in the post office trying to send a letter to "the Prussian consulate in Siam", exasperated as the clerk cannot find any mention of Prussia or Siam in his geographical index. This isn't a joke about ignorance so much as part of the Running Gag about how outdated Burns is — Siam became Thailand in 1939note though it changed back to Siam in 1945, but only for four years, and had always been known as "Muang Thai" domestically, and Prussia broke up into several different countries between the World Warsnote It was nominally dissolved in 1932, but officially dissolved in 1947 and was effectively just part of Germany for decades before that, and had not been a sovereign state since joining the German Empire in 1871. The clerk, on the other hand, is just plain ignorant, since he thinks his inability to locate Prussia, Siam or an "autogyro" means his own manual must be out of date. Two linked moments from Bart: In "Girly Edition", as Bart is making a human interest story: In "The Bart Wants What It Wants": The episode "Little Big Girl" featured a girl who thought Norwegian people were from a place called "Norwegia". Similarly, in "Much Apu About Nothing", Ãœter was teased by other students and told to "Go back to Germania!" In "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", Mr. Burns has the Nuclear Power Plant outsourced into India, and Homer is picked to train the new employees. After the long flight, Homer says: |
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Parks and Recreation: Andy Dwyer: And in another episode: Andy choosing a country for a model U.N. A Freeze-Frame Bonus in the episode, "Win, Lose, or Draw". On Andy's list of all the places he and April could live, "U.S.S.R." is listed, but crossed out with "Russia" written in next to it. Presumably, Andy ignorantly wrote down "U.S.S.R." and April corrected him. After driving for many hours to visit the Grand Canyon with April, he asked, "So where are the faces of the presidents?" In a deleted scene from that same episode, April takes advantage of her husband's global ignorance by taking him to a random patch of land and claiming that it is Four Corners (where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet), presumably to avoid having to drive out of their way to the actual place. Andy happily jumps back and forth across the imaginary state boundaries, excitedly shouting that he's in states like Arizona and Nebraska, that don't even border each other in real life. In one episode, Tom's girlfriend from Doctors Without Borders was going to Rwanda. He complains that, "if I know anything about Rwanda — and I don't — I bet it's full of rich guys who will buy her whatever she wants." |
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Happened frequently with Ali G on Da Ali G Show. In one episode he visited the United Nations building, was surprised to find that Africa wasn't represented as a country, and refused to believe the guide's explanation that many African countries were represented. In a mock appeal, he shows a map of the world with pretty much everything mislabeled - such as Africa being labeled Jamaica and South America as South Central. |
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In one episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Drew Carey called Africa a great country. Greg Proops responds "It's also a continent if you're a geographer!" The contestants turned it into a Running Gag for the rest of the episode. | |
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In season 1 of Totally Spies!, Alex is not only childish but also a little dumb dumb in the head. Episode "Shrinking" shows that she's very much geographically illiterate, thinking the Taj Mahal is in Mexico and the Great Wall is in Peru. Luckily, Sam the smart girl is right there to correct her. | |
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Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall is infamous for making several errors in location for his reviews. For example, the "Kamandi: At Earth's End #2" review had him wrongly criticize the writer for stating Hackensack, New Jersey was west of New York City, only for Doctor Linksano to pop up and correct him on that mistake. Unlike most examples of the trope, Linkara's well-aware of his poor geographical skills and has made said ignorance a Self-Deprecating Running Gag. | |
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Gil Scott-Heron on "Let Me See Your I.D." on the Artists United Against Apartheid LP | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories has a radio ad for a cheesy International Showdown by Proxy sports movie featuring a "worldwide Push Up contest" held in "Tokyo, China". | |
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In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective, Dangeresque, in the Stylistic Suck Show Within a Show, discovers that is father has been hanging around Venice. In a small badly-edited-out scripting mistake, he declares that it's time he heads to Franc-(jump cut) Italy! | |
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Mr. Show: In the first episode, Bob Odenkirk tries, and fails pathetically, in an attempt to name all the US states in 15 seconds. Thereafter, David Cross explains that Bob missed the first day of school, believes there are only five states, and thinks one of them is called "Chim-Cham". In one skit, a group of college students on an MTV show claim to have traveled all over the world, showing a crayon map of the places they went in Europe. "Europe" is drawn in the shape of the continental United States, divided up into countries such as "Germany" and "Europe." |
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In a Shrek film, Donkey is served a platter of food by a chef who says "Bon appétit" (which is a French expression) and Donkey exclaims, "Oh, boy! Mexican food!" | |
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There was a somewhat infamous episode of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? where American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler showed up. "I thought Europe was a country..." | |
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Idiocracy: A government official mentions that a nuclear reactor is leaking in Georgia. When his coworker states it's in Florida, he responds by saying "Florida is in Georgia, dumbass". | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Miss Naddy, real name Nadeshiko Yamato, is an inverse Occidental Otaku: a Japanese woman who idolizes the United States of America to the point she presents herself as an American. However it doesn't take long to realize that, between her mangled English, sexy cowgirl getup, and sincere belief that the national anthem is "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", she knows nothing about the U.S. Matsuri Dei is introduced working a festival dressed as an Elegant Gothic Lolita. She received her outfits from her parents, who work overseas as fashion designers. Matsuri does not realize that she's dressed in any special fashion style, however. Because her mother is British and Matsuri herself loves festivals, she sincerely believes her gothic lolita outfits are British festival-wear, the equivalent of happi coats seen in Japanese festivals. |
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In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the protagonist is described as "someone someone who thought Iran was David Bowie's wife, and who didn't know where Germany was". At least the latter allegation is corroborated. | |
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Scrubs had geography as one of J.D.'s weaknesses. He claimed New Zealand was close to "Old Zealand" and pointed out China on the Janitor's globe when he was looking for Iraq. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: In one story arc, Calvin decides to secede from his family and move to Yukon, which he believes is possible to walk to in one afternoon. Regardless of where he lives in the continental United States (generally it's believed Calvin lives outside of Cleveland, Ohio), this is a patently ridiculous notion. Another arc has him try to walk to the North Pole to meet Santa, and in both cases Calvin's mom doesn't try to stop him, for the obvious reason that she knows he'll never get there. In one story arc where Calvin accidentally pushes the family's car into a ditch, he and Hobbes decide to run away from home rather than face his parents' wrath. After fleeing for what is an hour or two at most, Calvin thinks they've definitely entered another state by now. The fact his mom manages to quickly find him indicates he barely even made it out of his backyard. While waiting for the school bus one day, Calvin tells Hobbes that, instead of going to school, he could hitchhike a ride to the Serengeti and spend his life migrating with the wildebeest. Hobbes has to tell Calvin that's impossible because the Serengeti is in Africa, much to Calvin's disappointment. |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: One episode establishes that Bloo and Terrence both think Singapore is in Wisconsin. | |
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In the first episode of The Last of Us (2023), Joel apparently thinks that Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, is located in the Middle East while Tommy confuses it for a country. They have to be corrected by an exasperated Sarah. | |
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Two WWE wrestlers, Matt and Jeff Hardy, were arguing which of them was the smarter. The first challenged the second to name the capital of Brussels. | |
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Tabby in Nextwave. She thinks Europe is a country and is shocked to learn that the French are in Canada. | |
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Total Drama All-Stars extra clips show Lightning being washed away to Paris after his elimination and assuming he's in Germany. | |
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Walky from It's Walky! suffers from the same misconceptions about Canada as Dave from Knights of the Dinner Table. | |
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In an episode of Fat, French and Fabulous, Janel mistakes Denmark for the country Dutch comes from. | |
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Gabe from Penny Arcade, all the time. In one comic he thinks that the language spoken in Holland is Hollish, which is actually a double mistake as "Holland" is a province, not a country. | |
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Pauline Hatful on How Green Was My Cactus: | |
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The "general" character, when talking about Arstotzka, implies the military had to do extensive research in order to determine that this country is, in fact, a country. | |
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There are countless stories on Not Always Right about people who never seem to have heard of New Mexico, Canada, or Delaware. There's also a woman who thought they celebrated Thanksgiving in Switzerland. | |
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In Persona 5, Ryuji wonders how Yusuke is going to take a plane from Tokyo to Los Angeles, thinking that Los Angeles is both smack-dab in the middle of the United States and the capital city of the country. The other characters all immediately mock him via text messages. | |
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One Batman and Sons strip has Barry Allen remarking that Wally doesn't want to go to England and have to learn a new language. Bruce points out "They speak English there", and Barry (with the perfect expression of frustration on his face) responds "I know." Of course, some US expats living in the UK and vice versa would probably argue that Wally actually has a point... | |
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Subverted in xkcd with the strip titled "The World According to a Group of Americans... who turned out to be unexpectedly good at geography, derailing our attempt to demonstrate their country's attitude toward the rest of the world." | |
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In the Marvel Universe, a renegade operator of the Red Ronin mecha attempted to travel to the Soviet Union to start a series of incidents to begin World War III. Fortunately, the idiot decided to do that by flying East instead of North, the shortest aerial route, to reach that nation. This allowed the The Avengers to intercept and stop it in New York City. | |
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Azumanga Daioh: In the third episode, Miss Yukari is staying at Nyamo's house and angrily asks her where the pillow on her bed was made. Nyamo tells her it's from Denmark. Moments later, Yukari refers to the pillow as "Dutch boy". | |
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In Jon Lajoie's "Very Super Famous": | |
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In Die Hard, a psychiatrist interviewed on the news brings up his book on "Helsinki Syndrome", as he calls it (presumably Stockholm has copyrighted itself and wouldn't give the rights). The newsreader cuts into clarify that Helsinki is in Sweden, and is quickly corrected — "Finland." | |
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In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Chimera", Carter remarks to her boyfriend Pete Shanahan that there's no zoo in Colorado Springs, apparently completely unaware of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Writer Joseph Mallozi said that this was done on purpose to indicate that she spends so much time working she's completely unfamiliar with the city she lives in. | |
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The Inbetweeners: Simon doesn't know where Swansea is. Jay thinks it's Oop North. Neil thinks it's an animal. | |
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An episode of Ned's Newt has Ned trying to lecture a dimwitted schoolmate, and one of the tasks is to place a cutout of Africa on the globe. He puts it on the Moon. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: When Brain founded a fictional country, he was relying on the trope to keep people from finding out it wasn't a real one. Even the generals in The War Room fell for it. | |
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Seinfeld: Season 8 Episode 1 ("The Foundation") includes both "prefers the old name" and "ignorance" about the location, both with Burma/Myanmar. A little later in the same episode... There is this exchange in the opening of Season 9 Episode 1 ("The Butter Shave").note In reality, Holland is just a region of Netherlands. |
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Earth Girls Are Easy: An alien asks Valerie if they're in Finland (just having seen a sexy travel commercial) — she cheerfully replies "No, you're in the Valley — Finland is the capital of Norway!" | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Lawrence Fletcher thought Hawaii wasn't part of the United States. Stacy believed the pyramids were in France. She corrects herself a moment later, saying they're in Belgium. |
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The Goodies: “Australia? That’s in America, isn’t it?� | |
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Drake & Josh: When Mrs. Hayfer is out of town and the boys are looking after her house. Drake finds a videotape of her as "Miss New Jersey". An Animal Control officer mentions having fought in Vietnam. Drake asks, "Where's that, New Jersey?" Josh proves to not be much better than Drake when the latter asks why they call it "New Jersey" and he has no idea. Someone of his intelligence should know there actually is a regular "Jersey", as in the Isle of Jersey off the coast of Great Britain that's the source of the U.S. state's name. |
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In Knives Out, the racist, classist Thrombeys do not know what country Marta, their patriarch's nurse, is from (despite their frequent declarations that she is "part of the family), and simply guess a random South American country whenever the subject comes up, to make it seem like they're more knowledgeable and empathetic to her than they really are. Richard even provides two completely different countries (first Paraguay, then Uruguay) on separate occasions, while his son Ransom assumes she's from Brazil despite Marta clearly speaking Spanish and not Portuguese, which is the chief language of Brazil. | |
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Dave from Knights of the Dinner Table is convinced that Canada is a Communist country and behind the Iron Curtain. He also thinks the language of Israel is Orkish. And Weird Pete doesn't realize that Papua New Guinea is a real country. | |
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Servant of the People: Played for Laughs in Mukhin's plots. In his second episode, Foreign Minister Mukhin couldn't point out where Uganda is. | |
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In Snow Dogs, the character played by Nichelle Nichols apologizes to an Alaskan cab driver because she only has "American money" with which to pay him. | |
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In the pilot episode of Sports Night, Dan points out they've got sources from Helsinki's bid for the Olympics from Swiss Olympic officials when, in fact, Helsinki is in Finland. Later, when Nathalie brings up one of the candidates for the new associate producer job, Isaac responds, "Could you make sure they could find Helsinki on a map?" | |
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The Onion News Network once did an interview with a U.S. State Department bureaucrat who erroneously sent billions of dollars in foreign aid money to the wealthy European microstate of Andorra after confusing it for a poor, war-torn African country.note He likely confused it with Angola. When the bureaucrat tries to defend his mistake, they unveil the State Department's "official" Map of Africa, which is split into four huge supercountries, one of which is called "Mumbambu", and a region around Central Africa simply labeled "???" (which is where the bureaucrat assumed Andorra might be located). | |
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Flodder in Amerika!: First, a group of street muggers that try to rob the Flodder Family think "Holland" is one of the little towns named Holland somewhere in the US. Second, the president himself thinks Copenhagen is a Dutch city. | |
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Money Monster: Lee Gates thinks Swahili is South Africa's official language. He's called out for this. | |
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David in The Magic Map certainly suffers from this- for example, he thought that the Amazon River was “somewhere in Africa or Asia�- although it gradually lessens as he explores the Living Map and learns from its inhabitants. | |
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In the modern re-adaptation Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix by Ibi Zoboi (where the Bennett family is a working-class Afro-Latinix family in the fast gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick) the well-read Zuri is caught trying not to reveal her ignorance of certain locations in the world and even how to eat lobster (due to being too expensive), this is less a comment on her intellect and more on how her family's poverty limits how far they can travel (they have seen Times Square three times) and the locations Zuri isn't familiar with are popular vacation spots for the wealthy. About the wealthy Darcy family: | |
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In one episode of Boy Meets World Shawn thinks that you can get to Europe on a bus. He even buys a bus ticket to Paris, Texas thinking it will take him to Paris, France. | |
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Kim Possible: Ron is evidently not very good at identifying countries. "Tokyo... I love the French!" | |
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In The Wizard of Oz, Glinda's song in the beginning says, "She fell from the sky/ She fell very far/ And Kansas she says/ Is the name of the star" implying that Oz is on another world that now thinks Earth is Only Kansas. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, on his journey to Alaska Francis was conned into changing his US currency for 'Alaskan dollars'. | |
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Invoked in Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993); Porthos claims to have been given gifts from various royals who don't exist, including the Queen of America and the Czarina of Tokyo. He smirks whenever he says one, waiting to see if anyone catches onto his bullshit. | |
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Big City Greens: In "Gabriella's Fella", Cricket learns that Gabriella is moving to Montreal, which he thinks is in Europe. In "Trivia Night", Cricket picks Geography as his subject for trivia night at the cafe, thinking it's some sort of math. When asked "What is the capital of Mexico", he answers "M", thinking Gloria meant the capital letter, and loses, while Remy correctly answers "Mexico City". |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Alfred/America asks where Japan is on a map... of the United States of America. In the English dub of the anime, the narrator begins a discussion of a part of Polish history, stops herself - "Right, anime fans." - and backs up to begin a dumbed-down version of the same information. Then she stops herself again: "Right, American fans. Poland is a country. In Europe!" Ow. |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "Love at First Height", after Timmy (who spent most of the episode with the body of a 16-year-old and was mistaken for a Norwegian supermodel named Gah) is reverted back to being 10-years-old and Vicky (who fell in love with him) demands to know where Gah is, Timmy says that Gah had to go back to "Norwegia". | |
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In Kaamelott, this is true for a lot of characters besides King Arthur. Hervé de Rinel, after a grand tour of Britannia, concludes that the island is round (and produces a map as proof). Worse than that is when he adds, to be more convincing, "I went around it twice to be sure!" Séli has basically no idea of geography: she doesn't know where Aquitaine, the Pyrénées, or Burdigalanote Roman name for the city of Bordeaux are. And then there's Robyn (a Robin Hood parody): Perceval somehow manages to go around introducing himself as "Provençal le Gaulois" (Provençal the Gaul) instead of "Perceval le Gallois" (Percival of Wales). |
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: A Running Gag when starting an item about a country that's not in North America is to first show the wrong country highlighted on a map of the continent it's in and then showing the right country: | |
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A Saturday Night Live sketch featured guest host Jerry Seinfeld playing a high-school history teacher. After all his students fail a test, he decides to adopt an interactive approach and opens a discussion about the Battle of Britain. However, the students turn out to be too ignorant for the approach to work, as they don't even know who Britain was fighting. | |
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From the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie: | |
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In an Arthur, King of Time and Space strip, Arthur tells Gawaine that while he had the advantage of being taught by Merlin, there are a lot of factors holding back education in this hemisphere. Gawaine responds "Hemisphere?" | |
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In a FoxTrot arc, Paige's friend Nicole was once asked to locate Iraq on a world map without country names. However, it comes to light that Nicole not only can't locate Iraq on the map, she can't even locate the U.S. Eventually Paige locates Iraq on her first try... but only because it was the only place Nicole didn't point. | |
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A massacre at a "Moldavian royal wedding" was a major plotline of the soap series Dynasty (1981). Apparently, the show's producers and writers were unaware that Moldavia was a real region and a historical country (not to mention that the real Moldavia isn't a monarchy). | |
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During the Hulk Hogan vs. Kim Jong-Il Epic Rap Battles of History, Hogan threatens to kick the North Korean Kim's ass "back to Beijing". Kim's first line in his rebuttal verse: "Beijing is in China, you blonde asshole!" | |
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Like any true red-blooded American, the Soldier of Team Fortress 2 demonstrates little awareness of other cultures. Some of his domination lines to Sniper confuse Australia and New Zealand, and one of the comics suggests that despite his patriotic loathing of anything Russian or German, he has yet to realize he's been working with a Russian and a German for years. | |
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Julie apparently told both Billy and Dan that she thought Germany was next to Australia. | |
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In The Great Gatsby, Nick asks Gatsby what part of the Midwest he is from. Gatsby responds, "San Francisco." This is the first sign that Gatsby isn't who he claims to be. | |
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Johnny Bravo: In "Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood", Johnny mistakes India for Indiana and, under the belief the place is full of Indians (i.e. Native Americans), wears a cowboy outfit when he goes there. | |
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The Chaser's War On Everything has a skit that involved promoting Australia's tourism. Random Americans were shown pictures of famous landmarks, which the Chasers then claimed were actually in Australia. Notable examples include the Leaning Tower of Perth, Big Ben in Adelaide, The Eiffel Tower in Melbourne and the Taj Mahal in the Simpson Desert. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: In "Eligible Bachelors", Lola somehow mistakes the Eiffel Tower for Stonehenge. While she and Bugs are in Paris and standing in front of the Tower. She also mistook the Palace of Versailles for the White House and was surprised the Louvre was an art museum and not a shopping mall, despite claiming to be a Louvre lover. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: When Greg has to do a school project about Malta, he admits he doesn't know almost anything about that country and the only thing he's sure about is that Malta is "somewhere near Russia" (it's in the Mediterranean Sea). | |
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The Amazing Race being a travel show and all, and not all of the contestants have exactly been geniuses. Occasionally the producers make a task based on it. Despite being constantly reminded that they were going to Chile, Season 16's Jordan (the female one) proceeded to request tickets to Santiago, China. Season 12: Season 17: Also in Season 17: The teams were visiting a school in Ghana and tasked with identifying Ghana on a map. It went about as well as you would expect. |
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South Park: Randy tries warning then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that California would be New Jersey's next victim after Colorado is taken over, only to be informed that Utah and Nevada lie between them. And he is a geologist. To be fair, they did manage to drive to China and Romania on two separate occasions... When the Director of Homeland Security rounds up all Peruvian Flute Bands in the world, he sets his sights on destroying their country next. He was baffled to learn that no one on his research crew knew where they come from despite it being in the name and has to point Peru on a map to them. |
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Trolling the Toad: In Chapter 5, Umbridge shows herself to not know where Hogwarts is located, despite the fact she's teaching there. That being said, other than showcasing her stupidity, it's equally likely that Harry is only making such a pedantic remark to humiliate and troll Umbridge further. | |
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French Baguette Intelligence: In Geography Makes No Sense..., Gringo claims that Mexico isn't in North America, one part of it is in Central America and the other part is in South America. | |
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Used as a plot point in Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. Bernie, posing as a Federation soldier, claims to be from Australia while making small talk and mentions how he used to love playing in the snow around Christmastime. Several minutes later, the man he was talking to realizes that the Southern Hemisphere has warm weather in December; this is the mistake that blows the team's cover and gets everyone but Bernie killed. Not to mention that Sydney was wiped out by The Colony Drop and no longer exists at that time, anyone from Sydney should not be talking like that about it. | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV: Playboy X says that Dubai is in Africa (instead of the Middle East) when discussing his business with an Arab businessman. Niko immediately tells him that this is so wrong and shows Playboy is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. | |
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, when Makie reveals how much she's learned much about the history and geography of Mundus Magicus in a few weeks, Yuna is surprised, given that normally she can't find Germany, France or Italy on a map, and thinks that Switzerland is near England and that Australia is around Europe. | |
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Seems to be a common trait among the "Beauties" in Beauty and the Geek. | |
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Referenced in an episode of How I Met Your Mother when Ted finds out that Robin doesn't plan her life and out of the blue says she might want to go to Argentina. Robin, who is Canadian, doesn't think too highly of American geography education. | |
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In Why We Took the Car, Maik at first refuses to believe that Wallachia existsnote which is kinda understandable in the sense that there is no entity named Wallachia today, just a historical region in what is today Romania. | |
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Daphne's mum Gertrude, in Frasier, doesn't realise that Hawaii is part of America - much to Daphne's frustration. Daphne herself got mixed up between Maine and Montana in an earlier episode, asking if Montana was "the one next to New Hampshire". | |
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Friends: Joey was fond of this one too. Notable exchange when Chandler is trying to compete with Joey for the attentions of a Dutch girl. Joey also spent an episode trying to find somewhere he could change US dollars into "Vermont money". And then there was the Thanksgiving Episode "name the states" game, in which he named 56 (including New England and South Oregon), and then chided Ross for making up a state (Utah) that was actually real. When Chandler is pretending to emigrate to Yemen to escape Janice: "That almost sounds like a real place!" In a second season episode, where Chandler and his new roommate are talking about ex-girlfriends, Chandler mentions how he broke up with a girl because she thought the capital of Cambodia was Sean Penn, when "everybody knows the capital of Cambodia is... not Sean Penn." (This isn't actually as foolish as it seems since Sean Penn sounds similar to Phnom Penh.) |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion, Hato Higashikata is revealed to have ruined a family vacation to Hawaii because she didn't realize Hawaii wasn't part of Japan (and, thus, never bothered to get a passport). | |
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Transylvania 6-5000: While in America, Gil asks where Transylvania is, and Mac Turner points vaguely off in a random direction and says "Somewhere over there", as Jack looks on in disbelief. | |
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In Cobra Kai, this is the first solid evidence that John Kreese's stories about enlisting in the US military after the events of the the first Karate Kid trilogy are made up. He talks about time spent around the world, including talking about what Mogadishu was like in the 90s, and then without missing a beat, appears to say that Mogadishu is part of Rwanda. Miguel notices and points out that Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia, an entirely different country. Later in the same episode there's a case that is partially this and partially a case of Latin Land; Kreese refers to Miguel as "the Mexican kid" and when Johnny (who is no paragon of political correctness or global knowledge himself) corrects him and notes that Miguel is from Ecuador, Kreese shrugs and replies by more or less saying that it's all the same anyway. | |
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