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Television Geography
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Scenes set in a city, including the Establishing Shot, can be enormously fun for people who actually live there if they can nitpick details. If the shot was actually filmed somewhere else entirely, it may quickly stop being fun and become headache-inducing, especially if it involves something like The Mountains of Illinois. Compare Artistic License – Geography. Not to be confused with Hollywood Atlas. |
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"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver starts out with the lyric "Almost heaven/West Virginia/Blue Ridge Mountains/Shenandoah River". The Shenandoah River barely nicks West Virginia, and the same is true of the Blue Ridge Mountains. | |
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Exception: Gunsmith Cats took great pains to get Chicago just right, down to minute details. Of course, it's an animated series for which the cost of location shoots is a non-issue. (They did, however, take the unprecedented step of sending the entire animation team there before even beginning production, to get a sense of the city and take reference photos themselves.) They even visited a real gun shop and fired actual guns, which must have been near orgasmic for Japanese gun otaku unaccustomed to the real thing. |
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Parodied and lampshaded in Sam & Max: Freelance Police, with locations (and time periods) looking only vaguely correct and with Max sarcastically pointing out the level of research taken in the drawings. | |
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Other exceptions: Eden of the East has very accurate landscapes even in New York and Washington, D.C., and Durarara!! is very accurate in its portrayal of Ikebukuro, down to the vending machines. Darker than Black is another good one. | |
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Averted by Scott Pilgrim, in which most of the locale is recognizably Toronto. | |
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Teen Titans Vol. 3 #21 involves a fight at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. Apparently, the museum's interior consists entirely of its big statue of Benjamin Franklin. And the statue doesn't even look right. | |
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The Transformers: It's a plot point that the majority of the Autobots can't fly (Early-Installment Weirdness aside); they only gain a flying team member capable of transporting the others partway through the first season in the form of Skyfire, who rarely appears in the following seasons. Despite this, oftentimes the only indication of how the Autobots travel to far-off locations (sometimes on other continents entirely) is that they're shown driving out of their base before a scene transition and have arrived at their destination afterwards, implying that they drove all the way there regardless of how impractical and/or time-consuming it would be. The cartoon never establishes where in North America the Autobots' volcano base surrounded by desert is supposed to be. The contemporary comic book names the mountain Mt. St. Hillary and treats it as a stand-in for Mt. St. Helens in Washington state; the surrounding territory is appropriately green instead of a desert. |
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Bakuten Shoot Beyblade had a tournament in Sydney, Australia. Some characters decide that they want to have private conversation in S3E21, so they meet five minutes later on top of Uluru. To those outside Australia, to get from Sydney to Uluru they would have to go over 2000 km (or over 1200 miles). | |
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Rio averts with its depiction of Rio de Janeiro. The sequel, however, meshes many distant parts of The Amazon Rainforest at walking distance (which the director admits was intentional). | |
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"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey tells a tale of a "city boy, born and raised in South Detroit." Depending on where you are in Detroit, "South Detroit" is either in Canada or in the area on the U.S. side of the Detroit River known locally as "Downriver". Either way, it's probably not what the San Francisco-based band was going for. | |
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Likewise, the origin New Orleans by Night book for Vampire: The Masquerade is somewhat infamous for referring to "the subways of New Orleans". Not only is it blatantly wrong—New Orleans' trolleys are all above ground—it's not even plausible. Most houses in southern Louisiana don't have basements and the dead can't be buried six feet under due to the groundwater, and we're supposed to believe the city could sustain a subway? | |
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In [PROTOTYPE], Manhattan is located in the middle of what appears to be a large bay instead of between 3 rivers, so that all other landmasses are too far to reach despite the Player Character's quite significant aerial movement capabilities. | |
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Danville on Phineas and Ferb is within driving distance of Mt. Rushmore for a day trip, yet is also on the ocean. | |
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Not exactly geography, but in one episode of Gargoyles, King Arthur enters Westminster Abbey... by a door that does not exist. The Chapel of Henry the VII is recognisable enough, but the rather significant King Edward's Chair is on the wrong side, against a wall that also does not exist (the chair, at least, did still contain the Stone of Scone at the time the episode would've been written, however). | |
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In the Mister T episode "Fortune Cookie Caper", Mr. T and the gang visit New York City's Chinatown district—which is wall-to-wall old-China style architecture, very wide streets, rickshaws, few people, and no cars, parked or otherwise. (The gang is able to parallel park a full-length bus.) The real New York City Chinatown is, if anything, the exact opposite of all these things. That's just the beginning of an episode full of laughable New York geography (riffed here). | |
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The Werewolf: The Apocalypse module "Rite of Passage" appears to be set in some scrunched-up alternate version of Canada that is barely the size of Mexico and bears little resemblance to the real one. Among other things, it describes a village in northern Saskatchewan as being "nestled in the fog-shrouded mountains"note there are no mountains in Saskatchewan and "mere 150 miles from Toronto."note 1,500 miles would have been more believable Likewise, the origin New Orleans by Night book for Vampire: The Masquerade is somewhat infamous for referring to "the subways of New Orleans". Not only is it blatantly wrong—New Orleans' trolleys are all above ground—it's not even plausible. Most houses in southern Louisiana don't have basements and the dead can't be buried six feet under due to the groundwater, and we're supposed to believe the city could sustain a subway? |
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There's a bit in the second arc of Death Note where the characters allegedly go to Los Angeles but the scenery actually looks more like the Arizona desert. | |
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Lawndale in Daria is somewhere where snowy mountains, a coastline and a desert are all within a day's driving distance. Somewhere on the West Coast of the United States seemed reasonable... then they drove up to Boston on a day trip in Is It College Yet?. Word of God puts it in Maryland. Or maybe Pennsylvania. |
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Lupin III: Part II has an episode set in San Francisco, that implies the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge are within walking distance. | |
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There is The Winter's Tale with its infamous scene set on "The seacoast of Bohemia" This is easily explained as a simple reversal of setting from the book it was based on ("Pandosto or the Triumph of Time" by Robert Greene) which has the action move from Bohemia to Sicily, rather than Sicily to Bohemia. A seacoast of Sicily makes perfect sense...Bohemia not so much. |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution has the CN Tower visible from the Picus building in downtown Montreal. The problem is, the CN Tower is in Toronto, over 400 miles away. | |
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Left Behind describes Turkey as being in Western Europe. Slacktivist's page includes a handy map to demonstrate that is not, in fact, the case. After the Rapture, Buck goes through an ordeal of chartering random planes and making several stops to get from Chicago to New York. The journey winds up taking him many, many hours more than if he had just rented a car and driven it, even assuming he detoured around wrecks. Then when he gets to Manhattan, he walks what is described like ten miles, but in reality is less than two. |
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During the original Secret Wars (1984), one of the chunks that made up the Beyonder's artificial world was a “suburb of Denver.” Not only did the writer not even bother to name that suburb, but the artist gave it brownstones and standard Eastern seaboard apartment buildings, generic city streets, etc.—and even Denver doesn't look like that, let alone any of the suburbs. Needless to say, Colorado readers rolled their eyes. | |
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Pretty much any anime where the cast visits San Francisco will place it in the middle of a desert. Yu-Gi-Oh! at least makes it a cab ride away. | |
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Book 5 of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King has a character in Detroit looking out on Lake Michigan. While Detroit is in Michigan, it's on the Detroit River. The nearest large body of water is Lake St. Clair, 6 miles north of the downtown. Lake Michigan is on the opposite side of the state. | |
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The Twilight Saga: Forks, Washington is described as being a gloomy town. The real Forks is just as sunny as any other town. Oddly the Pacific Northwest climate in the movies was a rare jewel of accuracy for both Twilight and movies in general set up here. It's better than the "usual buckets of rain" that are actually uncommon in Real Life. The island that Bella and Edward have their honeymoon on is said to be off the "west coast of Brazil", which is the only cardinal direction of that country to be landlocked. In the first movie, which was filmed in Oregon, the scene at the river is clearly on the wrong side of the state borders. Edward drives from Forks to Alaska in only sixteen hours. Said drive is over two thousand miles long at minimum — Edward would have to consistently drive at well over a hundred miles an hour in order to make it there in that timeframe. Additionally, the Alaska (or Al-Can) Highway is so long and so remote that they have (or used to have) checkpoints; when you leave one, they radio ahead to the next to tell them you're coming. If you don't show up in a certain amount of time, they go looking for you to make sure you're not dead. All told, such a journey would realistically take two days at minimum. |
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In The Ultimates 2, one panel showing a nice city landscape with an attractive domed building by a large river had a caption claiming its location to be part of EU headquarters in Brussels. Not only is the architecture of the city distinctly out of place (looking significantly more Mediterranean than the city itself) but more glaringly there is no visible river in Brussels! While a river does run through the city, it was built over in the 19th and early 20th century and runs underground for the length of the city. | |
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Parasite Eve takes place in all sorts of New York landmarks, such as Central Park and the Museum of National History. While the general feel of the places are surprisingly accurate, they play merry hell with the layout, obviously in an attempt to RPG-ize it. Chinatown doesn't look anything at all like Manhattan's Chinatown, or any other in NYC. Then there's the three East River crossings all looking like copypasted Brooklyn Bridges. For added hilarity, there's subway trains running across them, when in reality the Brooklyn Bridge is the only one of the three which doesn't have subway tracks, due to the bridge's age. |
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Resistance 2 has a secret military bunker on Angel Island. When you exit the bunker, the Bay Bridge has suspiciously been painted red. | |
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In one Family Guy episode, Brian and Stewie visit Munich, and drive in a tour-bus past Munich's Old Town Hall, the Sendlinger Tor◊ and the Mariensäule,◊ which are all presented next to each other on a medieval intersection. This couldn't be further from the truth - not only are there hardly any truly medieval buildings left in Munich, but the Mariensäule is in front of the new Town Hall building a hundred meters away from the old one◊ (and all three buildings are on the central Marienplatz square, not on some intersection), while the Sendlinger Tor is almost an entire kilometer away from the Marienplatz. | |
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Though Bolt does play part of it correctly, a specific moment in the New York part makes it obvious the creators haven't been there. The location is established via a shot of the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street at Times Square, a nondescript intersection with a generic deli in the background and a sign letting you know it's Times Square. In real life, this sign doesn't exist, because it's difficult to miss the riot of huge lighted billboards and neon advertisements, and currently in the background at the time of this writing and when the film was made is the distinctive swooping facade of a clothing store. | |
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Sherlock Holmes is a regular offender. Conan Doyle was a Scot with little knowledge of London, and it shows; it's quite impossible to establish the location of 221b Baker Street because Conan Doyle had no accurate knowledge of the area and simply made it up, and many of Holmes' journeys around London are no better. The "opium den" in Limehouse is clearly taken from generic period fiction. Holmes also visits Cambridgeshire in "The Missing Three-Quarter" and walks in an afternoon between three villages which would represent a round trip of about forty miles; this is a rare example as most of his country locations are fictional places with generic or character-based names like "Musgrave Hall", or like Hound of the Baskervilles based in locations whose names were well-known but with little actual details. The only accurate part of Holmes' journeys are his train trips, because Conan Doyle could presumably read Bradshaw (a very popular railway guide of the time) just as well as anyone else. |
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