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"London, England" Syndrome
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London, England. In case you confused it with London, Ontario. There are a great many American cities and towns named after places from Europe: mostly British places, but French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch names crop up across the USA, not to mention numerous variations and simplifications of Native American spellings. This reflects the USA's origins as being colonized by people from across Europe. Interestingly enough, lots of major American cities are far bigger than their European counterparts ever were. (Cleveland, Boston, Rochester, and Portlandnote Strictly speaking, Portland, Oregon, was named after Portland, Maine, not the one in England. are among the most obvious examples — though two major exceptions do exist in the cities of Birmingham and Manchester.) But let's look at a number of American places in comparison to show how common this is. Odessa, Ukraine, and Odessa, Texas; Vienna, Austria, and Vienna, Virginia; then there are duplicate cities, e.g. the much older and smaller city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is almost completely ignored compared to Las Vegas, Nevada, while Wilmington, North Carolina, is about the same size as Wilmington, Delaware. There are so many examples that some non-examples are often confused for examples, such as the independent (ex-Soviet) republic of Georgia, known in its native language as Sakartvelo, and the U.S. state of Georgia, which was actually named for King George II. Unfortunately, this results in some confusion and frustration for many Americans. Since the USA is big and — though somewhat sparsely-populated for much of its land area — home to quite a few cities, and many of these cities have similar if not identical names (for instance, there are thirty-two states that have a city named "Springfield" and twenty-seven settlements named "Canton"), Americans often describe an American location as "City Name, State",note Postal authorities in some countries, not just the US, require such usage. and describe a foreign location as "City Name, Country" to parallel that.note Come on, did you really expect Americans to know about other countries' first-level subdivisions and what cities they have? This works well in the USA, but becomes rather jarring and annoying for foreigners, who find it annoying that after being shown Tower Bridge (itself not to be confused with the same named, but golden bridge in Sacramento, California), the Houses of Parliament, and St. Paul's Cathedral all in one shot, they still need to say "London, England". In France, the tendency is to ram the identifier into the town name itself, so one gets places like Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer and Sainte-Marie-de-Ré and Sainte-Marie-des-Champs, etc. However, there are also over a dozen places called just plain Sainte-Marie in France alone; here you would have to specify in which département the one you mean is situated. The English equivalent would be, say, "Springfield-in-Massachusetts" and "Springfield-on-Black-River". Some British towns, such as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Kingston-by-Ferring, follow this scheme as well, as do German-speaking towns and cities Neustadt an der Aisch, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Neustadt in Holstein, and Neustadt an der Weinstraße (four places called "new town" named respectively after a river, a hill, a province, and a scenic route). Canada follows the British model in a few places, notably Niagara-on-the-Lakenote that is, Lake Ontario, so-called to distinguish it from Niagara Falls down the road. The US is home to Washington-on-the-Brazos in Texas and Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio (the lake in this case being Erie), which distinguishes it from plain old Geneva, Ohio, a few miles south.note By extension, the original Geneva (both the canton and the city) in Switzerland, which, of course, is helpfully on a lake (Lac Léman). The Japanese equivalent is to rename a town or city that shares its name with a more famous counterpart so that it also includes the name of the ancient province. Nagano City in Osaka had the same name as that other Nagano (the one with all the skiing, in the prefecture of the same name), so they changed it to Kawachi-Nagano. Happens a lot with similarly-named train stations, too. A slightly different form is sometimes used: Americans from small towns will usually specify their state simply to give a general idea of what region they're from. If someone says he is from Miamisburg, Ohio, it isn't because there's another Miamisburg out there (there isn't, as far as we know), but because people from other states have no idea where in the world Miamisburg is. (Hell, a lot of people in Ohio have no idea where it is. Small towns aren't particularly recognizable to begin with.) The foreign equivalent might be for someone from a small town to give the name of the nearest major city. Gets used in the Title In a lot. An example of Creator Provincialism. Often mocked, although it's still a popular trope. Named by Bill Bryson. The Other Wiki has a list of the most-commonly-used city names. In case you were wondering, aside from London, England, there are at least 26 cities, towns, or villages whose full name is "London". note One each in Belize, Canada (Ontario), Equatorial Guinea, Finland, Kiribati and Nigeria; three in South Africa; seventeen in the United States (in various states). There are many more such communities with "London" as part of their name and at least 2 London Islands (both in Chile; one is also known as Cook Island to alleviate confusion). |
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Deliberately averted in the title of the movie The Cars That Ate Paris, which is set in Paris, Australia. | |
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Averted in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which regularly used scene-setting "Somewhere In (Insert Place Here)" captions. | |
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Get Fuzzy: After Satchel realizes that one of his friends, an Afghan hound, is actually from Texas (and not Afghanistan like he'd assumed), another friend of Satchel's decides to take the moment to clarify that he's actually from Lebanon, Tennessee. | |
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In Hair Claude has a song about "Manchester England England." | |
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In the Good Luck Charlie episode "Weekend in Vegas", Teddy secretly joins Ivy and her family on a trip to Las Vegas, believing they're going to the famous Las Vegas, Nevada. It turns out they're really going to Las Vegas, New Mexico. | |
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The "gives the name of their State as well as their small town name for context" is poked fun at in Harry and Paul with the eccentric American tourist couple Ronald and Pam who always introduce themselves as being from Badiddlyboing, Odawidaho. | |
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The Avengers Facility from Age of Ultron onward is somewhere in Upstate New York. | |
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Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear opens on a pan of Washington, D.C., then focuses onto the White House when a helpful "The White House" pops up on screen, followed several seconds later by "Washington, D.C.". | |
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The Simpsons revels in not doing this when mentioning Springfield. Assuming it were a real American town, it could be any of 28 Springfields in 24 states (Wisconsin has five). Otherwise, it parodies the phenomenon: In “The Falcon and the D'ohman�, we're shown an image of Kiev with the captions: |
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In the Parks and Recreation epsisode "Ms. Knope Goes To Washington", Leslie is annoyed to discover that when she mentions her beloved hometown of Pawnee, she has to specify that it's the one in Indiana as there are "Pawnees" in several other states. (Truth in Television. The Other Wiki recognizes four "Pawnees" in the U.S. and one "Pawnee City".) | |
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Oakland, California and Auckland, New Zealand. While distinguishable in writing, a Californian pronounces "Oakland" the same way a New Zealander pronounces "Auckland". Several Americans have ended up on the wrong side of the Pacific from this confusion, including Stephanie and Michelle Tanner. | |
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The special guest stars on Hee Haw got a segment where the show saluted his or her hometown, announced with full name and population, followed by the cast standing up out of the cornfield and waving their hats while calling out, "Sa-lute!". Often this featured obscure towns with tiny populations, making the state name necessary, but for Rule of Funny purposes the formula always employed the state name even for locales like Nashville, Los Angeles, and New York City. | |
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Heroes is rather bad at this. Not to mention a teleported character being described as "Somewhere in Africa" (which, to be charitable, might have been intended to reflect his own confusion), and another Title In informing us that Peter is in Cork, Ireland, there is a whole subplot set in Odessa, Ukraine - apparently just for the sake of a joke, since Noah is from Odessa, Texas. | |
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Totally Spies! averts this: wherever the girls go, only the name of the city pops up at the bottom of the screen, without a state or country (i.e. you never, ever, see "Beverly Hills, California" in these captions). They still use the Eiffel Tower Effect whenever applicable, though. | |
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Star Trek: Picard: In "Remembrance", we get an estate and country variant with "Château Picard, France." It's interesting to note that there is a real place called Château Picard in Saint-Estèphe, France that has a vineyard and produces wine, although the one featured in this franchise is fictional because it's located in La Barre. In The Teaser of "The End Is the Beginning", there's an odd city with planet variation with "San Francisco, Earth" as the caption. Someone in the production firmly believes that Viewers Are Morons. |
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Spoofed in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, where the opening scene (set in Egypt) is subtitled: "Egypt, Millions of Years Ago, 3 p.m., 1492, New York." | |
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Played with in Road Trip, where "Austin, Texas" morphs into "Boston, Massachusetts" and several variations on those. The trailing state doesn't seem to do much to help locate the town in question. | |
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Subverted in For Better or for Worse when Michael was a student in London, Ontario; since the Patterson family lives in that province, Lynn Johnston deliberately didn't specify it, knowing a lot of readers would think he was studying in England. | |
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In Japan there are several prefectures that share their names with their capital cities. Osaka, Kyoto, and Fukuoka (the last of which is a clue to the location of the Excel♡Saga anime) to name some. Tokyo used to be like this as well before they merged the Tokyo (city) government with the Tokyo (prefecture) government to form the modern Tokyo Metropolis. Although in Japanese, it's easy to distinguish because the names are given endings to denote location. Cities are [Name]-shi and prefectures are [Name]-ken. Important locations such as Tokyo and Kyoto actually get their own unique suffixes, making it even harder to confuse the areas. |
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When Torchwood (previously set almost exclusively in Cardiff) became a joint production involving the American Starz network as well as BBC Wales, the setting of the fourth series Torchwood: Miracle Day was expanded to span both the UK and US, and the trope was applied to both American and British locations. | |
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The Benny Hill Show: In "Murder on the Oregon Express", Benny as Hercule Poirot mentions "Paris, France, Europe" on a couple of occasions. | |
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Averted in Jericho (2006); going on the title alone you'd have no idea it took place in the United States, let alone Kansas. That was kind of the point, since the show took place after a catastrophic bombing that left the residents isolated and unsure if the United States still truly existed. |
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X-Men: First Class: "Geneva, Switzerland," "Villa Gesell, Argentina" and "Moscow, Russia." (In 1962, it could have been called "Moscow, USSR," as Russia—then the RSFSR, capital: Moscow—was a Republic within the Soviet Union, which in contemporary American media was often called "Russia" or "Soviet Russia.") A variation which features a specific location and country is "Oxford University, England" (the correct term is the formal "University of Oxford"). |
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A lot of characters in The Rocky Horror Picture Show sing about being from Transylvania, but this turns out to be the name of the galaxy they come from rather than the Romanian region. | |
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In Irregular Webcomic!, the Mythbusters decide to bust the Loch Ness Monster, so they head for Scotland. Unfortunately, they book a flight to the wrong Glasgow International Airport. | |
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In a 3rd Rock from the Sun episode, the Big Giant Head threatened to send Dick to Mars if he failed at something: | |
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Parodied in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, where a subtitle identifies "Missouri, Earth." | |
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On a 1964 nighttime telecast of The Price Is Right, a contestant won a trip to Rome as a bonus prize. On the next bidding game, Bill Cullen quips that the contestant won a trip to Rome, Georgia. | |
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Captain America: Civil War refers to the Queens Borugh of New York City, just as "QUEENS" instead of something more specific within Queens (e.g. "Forest Hills, Queens"), or formal (e.g. "Queens, NY"). | |
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One Ziggy strip has Ziggy learning that his "trip to Paris" is actually Paris, Texas. | |
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In one episode of The Lucy Show, Lucy takes the trope even further by specifying that she's taking a trip to "London, England, In Europe." | |
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The xkcd strip "No, The Other One" shows a map of the US with various towns and cities that share the name of well-known locations marked, from Houston, Alaska to Houston, Florida. | |
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Mars Attacks!: Tom Jones greets Byron Williams by saying he saw Byron in a boxing match in "Cardiff, Wales". As a native Welshman, Jones obviously knows exactly where Cardiff is, so the explanation is for Byron's benefit since he's American and presumably less familiar with UK geography. | |
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In the Bunnicula book Return to Howliday Inn, one dog is happy to hear that his owner is in London, probably sipping tea with the Queen and everything. He is then informed that London is a town just over the border of the next state. | |
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CinemaSins counts this as a sin. Basically, read the first line of the trope's description, then make a small *ding* sound afterward. | |
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The Bourne Ultimatum: Conklin has to point out he wants Vienna, Virginia instead of Vienna, Austria. | |
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Played with in some Marvel Cinematic Universe entries: Steve Rogers is always "From Brooklyn". Not New York City or State. Captain America: Civil War refers to the Queens Borugh of New York City, just as "QUEENS" instead of something more specific within Queens (e.g. "Forest Hills, Queens"), or formal (e.g. "Queens, NY"). The Avengers Facility from Age of Ultron onward is somewhere in Upstate New York. |
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This forms the main misunderstanding of an old Italian Disney Ducks story. Scrooge and Donald misinterpret a story from Classical Mythology and organize a treasure expedition in the vicinity of Thebes, Egypt. Their nephews eventually understand that the text was narrating the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, and that they should be searching for the treasure in Thebes, Greece. In another Disney Ducks story, the Ducks are supposed to meet several allies and rivals in the French archipelago of Guadeloupe (in the Caribbean). They are puzzled when they are the only ones to arrive at the meeting place. Then they realize that, due to a misunderstanding, everyone else headed for Guadalupe Island (in Baja California). |
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X-Men Film Series: X-Men: We have a vaguely-defined province, country example with "Northern Alberta, Canada." X-Men Origins: Wolverine: A variation with territory and country listed occurs in the case of "Northwest Territories, Canada." The American writers clearly didn't do their research because a portion of this region didn't enter the Canadian Confederation until 1870 (and the other sections were later divided up into separate provinces and territories over the next few decades), so in 1845, it should've been referred to as "North-Western Territory, British North America." James Howlett and Victor Creed were therefore born as British citizens (although presumably it would've been easy for them to obtain Canadian citizenship after the Dominion of Canada was founded in 1867). "Lagos, Nigeria." X-Men: First Class: "Geneva, Switzerland," "Villa Gesell, Argentina" and "Moscow, Russia." (In 1962, it could have been called "Moscow, USSR," as Russia—then the RSFSR, capital: Moscow—was a Republic within the Soviet Union, which in contemporary American media was often called "Russia" or "Soviet Russia.") A variation which features a specific location and country is "Oxford University, England" (the correct term is the formal "University of Oxford"). X-Men: Apocalypse: "Pruszków, Poland"; "Cairo, Egypt." Averted with "East Berlin." |
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In Rugrats in Paris, Kira and Chas introduce themselves to one another, and Kira asks Chas if he's ever visited Paris before; Chas says he hasn't been to Paris, France, but has been to Paris, Texas. | |
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The Beverly Hillbillies: In the film, Jethro is first mentioned when Elly May says he's coming from Oxford to visit them. The next scene shows him leaving Oxford, Arkansas. | |
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Parodied in Team America: World Police: Every time the location changed, there would be a subtitle that stated the place's name and its distance in miles from AMERICA! A similar, but more extreme, parody occurs in the Canadian radio series As It Happens—something of a mixture of 60 Minutes and The Daily Show, with a small bit of A Prairie Home Companion thrown in—which, regardless of the context, when discussing locations in the British Isles, will always give both the name of the location and its exact distance from Readingnote presumably the one near London, England and not the one in Pennsylvania as a Running Gag. |
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Migration: When asked for a route to Jaimaca, Chump briefly confuses it with the one in Queens before being corrected. | |
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"Cities" by Talking Heads humorously refers to Memphis as being "home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks" — Elvis Presley lived in Memphis, Tenessee while "the ancient Greeks" would have been in either Mampsis, Levant (known as Memphis in Ancient Greek) or Memphis, Egypt, both of which were part of the "Greek world". | |
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Played with in an episode of M*A*S*H where Maj. Winchester is attempting to get a call through to Boston. The Running Gag throughout that episode is that the person he's talking to attempts to clarify his references to Boston with "Boston, Massachusetts?", causing him to become progressively more annoyed in his response. Crowned during the episode's denoument, during which he is finally able to send a sober and confessional telegram to his sister, as dictated over the phone to the telegraph operator: |
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In one episode of Boy Meets World, Shawn decides to run away to Europe and buys a train ticket to Paris. It has to be pointed out to him that he can't take a train from America to France and he's actually bought a ticket to Paris, TX. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Lion and the Unicorn", Alfred travels to England to help an old friend of his. When he calls Bruce to tell him, Bruce asks "London, England?", and Alfred answers, "There is only one." It is not clear whether he meant "only one London" (which would display odd ignorance on Alfred's part), or "only one London, England", or whether his patriotism for Britain makes him think only one London is worthy of the name. | |
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Played with to great effect in The Harvey Girls, which features a minor character explaining that she's from Paris: | |
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An episode of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi had Ami excited to meet her pen pal from Paris, who she thinks is handsome. But it turns out he's a short nerd from Paris, Idaho. | |
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Subverted in the movie Paris, Texas. A man is going around with a photograph telling people it is of Paris, even though it is clear that the photo shows a desert landscape. Incidentally, the real Paris, Texas looks nothing like what is shown in the photo. Paris, Texas the movie is shot in the deserts of West Texas, which is all rugged desert, while Paris, Texas the city is in East Texas, which is mostly grass plains and forest. Combined perhaps with Creators Are Morons, since the same movie also gives us the caption "The Pentagon, Washington D.C."note Although the Postal Service assigns it a Washington mailing address and zip code, the Pentagon is actually located in Arlington County, Virginia—over the Potomac river from D.C. |
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In one episode of Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, the detectives figure out they need to head to a river that's between Cairo and Memphis. When they arrive at the Nile, they find out they should have gone to the Mississippi (one of them is Memphis, Tennessee, while the other is most likely Cairo, Missouri - while the Mississippi runs by Cairo, Illinois, it's on the same side as Memphis). | |
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MST3K mocked this once when a caption said "Illinois, USA". As opposed to Illinois, Mongolia. | |
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Scotland, PA takes place in modern-day Scotland, PA instead of Macbeth's Scotland. | |
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Partners in Crime: A plot point in story "The Case of the Missing Lady" is that there are two towns in England called Maldon; one in Surrey and one in Sussex. The characters know of Maldon, Surrey, so don't bother reading the "Maldon, Su..." address on a telegram properly. Only later does Tuppence realize that the telegraph office only give the county if they need to specify between two places with the same name. (The real town of Maldon is in Essex, however.) | |
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Spinnerette features a minor character called the Werewolf of London, Ontario. | |
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During a period in X-Men when Storm had been de-aged and memory-wiped back to being the street kid Professor X first met in Egypt, she headed to Cairo, Illinois, because she found something familiar about the name. | |
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Paint Your Wagon: | |
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In James Blish's classic Cities in Flight series, Earth's cities, fitted with antigravity generators and spacedrives, roam the Galaxy looking for work. Nevertheless, they still use names like "Chicago, Illinois" or "Scranton, Pennsylvania". This even becomes a plot point when one character spots the error in a city's name and realizes it's actually an alien battlestation. | |
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In an All in the Family episode, Archie loses his Christmas bonus after he messes up a shipment meant for London, Ontario. | |
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Most of those "solve-the-mystery" books (including Encyclopedia Brown, of course) have at least one where the key to solving the mystery is knowing that there are apparently cities named London, Paris, Odessa, Athens, Jerusalem, or Palestine in Texas.note There is not a Jerusalem in Texas, though the other towns exist. It's always one of those six, and more importantly, it's always in Texas. To be more general, the discovery that There Is Another place where something happens is a staple of No Man of Woman Born stories. |
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In In the Heat of the Night, Sidney Poitier's character Virgil Tibbs is questioned as to where he resides: | |
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X-Men: We have a vaguely-defined province, country example with "Northern Alberta, Canada." | |
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In the 1965 BBC radio adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Three Garridebs", when the American Nathan Garrideb announces he's found the third Garrideb in Birmingham, Holmes somewhat sarcastically asks "Warwickshire or Alabama?" | |
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Parodied in Orgazmo, which unnecessarily pairs it with the Eiffel Tower Effect: The opening shot is the Hollywood sign followed by the caption "Hollywood, California". | |
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In The Great Gatsby, Tom is dismissive of Gatsby's claim to have gone to Oxford, scoffing that he's probably been to "Oxford, New Mexico, or something like that." (Ironically, Gatsby actually did attend Oxford, though plenty of the other details about his past are made up.) | |
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Played with in Monty Python's Flying Circus in the Cycling Tour episode when any time a city is mentioned it cuts away to Eric Idle in a military uniform standing in front of a map and pointing out the city's distance from 3 unrelated cities around Europe. By the third or fourth time he's eventually told to shut up by the characters in the sketch. | |
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Picket Fences had an episode that dealt with The Pope going to Rome. Not Rome in Italy but Rome, Wisconsin (the setting for the show). | |
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Criminal Minds will often use this in their captions—even, at times, for big cities like New York and Los Angeles—just so viewers know where the team is that week. It's justified so that the show can spend more time explaining the cases and getting to the action, especially when a case involves multiple cities at once. In one episode, they make a plot point of Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS. Despite their proximity and sharing a name, they're across a state line from each other. This gives the FBI jurisdiction on a technicality when the local authorities don't want to investigate a case. |
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny: J.B. travels to Hollywoods all across America before he gets to Hollywood, California. | |
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A clip on World's Dumbest... features the "Redneck Olympics" which take place in Athens, Georgia. They draw a direct comparison to Athens, Greece, the site of the original Olympics. | |
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Silicon Valley: Gavin Belson announces that he is moving Hooli to Georgia to cut costs. His subordinates aren't thrilled to leave Silicon Valley but they console themselves with thoughts of Southern cooking and attending Freaknik, forcing Gavin to clarify that he means Georgia the country. | |
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In American Gods the main character spends some time in Cairo, Illinois (where it's pronounced "Kay-ro"), and meets some beings from the other Cairo. | |
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In The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, the narrator notes that the story starts not in Ithaca, Greece... but Ithaca, New York. | |
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Played with in an early Cable story where Cable goes on a date with Domino: | |
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A "Cairo, Egypt" label appears in The Mummy Returns. Yes, a series that takes place almost entirely in Egypt still feels the need to specify "Cairo, Egypt". Weirdly, no labels tell us that Hamunaptra, an important location in the film, is in Egypt. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has an important sequence set in Venice, Italy. | |
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Somehow played for both laughs and drama in an episode of Austin & Ally. The title characters, still in the awkward liminal area where they know they care about each other but aren't quite sure what to do with that information, are eager to reunite, only for one to wind up in Portland, Oregon, and the other in Portland, Maine. They try again, this time winding up in Washington State and Washington, D.C. Cue lots of teen angst and tender moments over the phone. | |
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Parodied in the "Anne Frank movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer" found in Monkey Dust which finds Hitler in Berlin, England; because of course Hitler is English. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: "Pruszków, Poland"; "Cairo, Egypt." Averted with "East Berlin." |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self", Lestat proposes a vacation to Rome. A shocked Louis asks, "Rome, Italy?" | |
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine: A variation with territory and country listed occurs in the case of "Northwest Territories, Canada." The American writers clearly didn't do their research because a portion of this region didn't enter the Canadian Confederation until 1870 (and the other sections were later divided up into separate provinces and territories over the next few decades), so in 1845, it should've been referred to as "North-Western Territory, British North America." James Howlett and Victor Creed were therefore born as British citizens (although presumably it would've been easy for them to obtain Canadian citizenship after the Dominion of Canada was founded in 1867). "Lagos, Nigeria." |
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An episode of I Dream of Jeannie involves Jeannie going to Reno filing for separation from her Master, Tony, who thinks she's gone to Reno, Nevada, when she really went to "Reno, Persia." | |
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Justified as according to That Other Wiki, G.W. himself surveyed the area, and the town was incorporated before his death. Also, it's the oldest town of Washington in the USA. Likewise there is the town of Washington, North Carolina. It is also referred to as Little Washington. And, of course, they're all named after George Washington, a descendant of William de Wessyngton of the town of Washington just outside Sunderland, England. (Not Washington, West Sussex.) |
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Night Court: Dan's grandfather named the tiny town of Paris, Louisiana where Dan grew up, after the city he was station in during World War I—Paris Illinois, that is. | |
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