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Informed Location
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So Alice and Bob are running a bakery in...where are they? Let's just say Boston. If your story takes place in a specific, extant location, some local color is to be expected: the natives of the place should act like people who live there do; the ones who are visiting should react to the unfamiliarity. Food, dialect, and weather all shape a town. But all that is complicated, particularly if it's a place with which you're not familiar. Just start off with "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night in New York" and just like that, your tale is set in New York. However, for the most part, the location is added in later. TV series will usually go to some effort to shoot footage in the actual location (which may or may not feature the actors) for the Title Sequence. This will usually be the only time it is ever featured in the show. Note: this isn't necessarily when a work fails to depict a location properly, merely when it isn't relevant. Often it appears to be done to avoid either Everytown, America or Where the Hell Is Springfield?. Contrast the Eiffel Tower Effect and Hollywood Atlas. See also California Doubling. |
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Parks and Recreation is set in south central Indiana, but all of its exterior shots are filmed in California. This means that the weather is peculiarly sunny and dry, with about two days of snow per year - you know, like Indiana has. | |
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Full House is set in San Francisco. You can tell from the opening theme, and nothing else. Ditto Fuller House. | |
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Fringe is set in Boston, but doesn't make much use of that fact. Oddly, when they go somewhere else, it doesn't really make a difference. | |
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77p: Eggwife is allegedly set in Sheffield, England, but you sure as hell can't tell from the surreal graphics, abstract humor, and over-the-top design nature. | |
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One Day at a Time (1975) showed Indianapolis locations in the opening credits only (sometimes extensively, as in the first round of season 5 titles, which consisted mostly of helicopter shots over city landmarks). Some attempts at averting this trope were made periodically, but in a way that would only come across to Indianapolitans: for example, in one episode one of the daughters mentioned going shopping at Block's, a big local department store that no one out of the area would have recognized. | |
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Community is set in Denver. For legal reasons. | |
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The Autobot base in The Transformers was officially supposed to be in Oregon, but it was mostly a generic rocky desert/badlands environment that looked more like some part of Utah or New Mexico. | |
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W.I.T.C.H. takes place in the USA but seems more European if anything. The animated adaptation fixed a lot of the issues. | |
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All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, is set (at least half of it) in the French seaside city of St. Malo, during the Second World War. Doerr certainly did his geographic research of the city (or what the city was like before it was bombed to rubble), but culturally the city is lacking compared to its real life counterpart. St. Malo has a distinct Breton culture - a culture with Celtic roots - complete with its own folklore, language, cuisine, crafts, and holidays. But the way that Doerr wrote about it, it could be just about any French town that happens to be on the sea. | |
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Quick, where's Three's Company set? Santa Monica. | |
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Being Human (US) is set in Boston, despite being filmed in Toronto. | |
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Madness Combat is said to take place in Nevada, but early episodes showed it through a nondescript desert town and its Sheriff's office. The bulk of the series is set inside buildings with Alien Geometries and demonic hellscapes. | |
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Captain Underpants is set in Piqua, Ohio, which at the time the series began had an annual Underwear Festival. Dav Pilkey is from Ohio, but it functions as Everytown, America. | |
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