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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Played with in an early [[Cable]] story where Cable goes on a date with [[Action Girl|Domino]]:

{{quote| '''Cable:''' Well, it was either this or big macs in Paris.~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Cable:''' Well, it was either this or big macs in Paris.

'''Domino:''' I like Paris.~~ ~~

'''Domino:''' I like Paris.

'''Cable:''' Paris, '''Oklahoma'''? }}

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* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' has an important sequence set in Venice, Italy.

* 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!.

{{quote| '''Joe''': Cairo... [[Captain Obvious|that's in Egypt]]."}}

{{quote|'''Joe''': Cairo... [[Captain Obvious|that's in Egypt]]."}}

** A similar, but more extreme, parody occurs in the Canadian radio series [[As It Happens]] - something of a mixture of [[Sixty 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 the name of the location, and its exact distance from Reading.

* 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.

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* ''[[Scotland, PA]]'' takes place in modern-day Scotland, PA instead of [[Macbeth]]'s Scotland.

* The gays-and-Italians comedy ''Mambo Italiano'' plays with this trope as part of its Old World in the New World theme.

{{quote| '''Angelo''' ''[on the phone to a customer of the travel agency he works for]'' Yes, I apologize, but... I know your client is in the U.K. But you didn't say Glasgow, you insisted on New Glasgow. That's north of Montreal. So I chartered a bus. I say New Glasgow. You misunderstood. I don't mean to be confrontational, but there is no New Glasgow in Scotland. Well, no, they don't need a new one, they have the old one. It's actually quite simple. You see, many years ago people from Glasgow, Glasconians, left the old Glasgow and they came here. And they built a new Glasgow. And they called it New Glasgow because it was new. According to theoretical physics, eventually we'll be able to fold space so that the new Glasgow will overlap the old Glasgow. But until then, let me assure you that they are quite different places. Did I mention that New Glasgow just got waterslides? Those are fun.}}

{{quote|'''Angelo''' ''[on the phone to a customer of the travel agency he works for]'' Yes, I apologize, but... I know your client is in the U.K. But you didn't say Glasgow, you insisted on New Glasgow. That's north of Montreal. So I chartered a bus. I say New Glasgow. You misunderstood. I don't mean to be confrontational, but there is no New Glasgow in Scotland. Well, no, they don't need a new one, they have the old one. It's actually quite simple. You see, many years ago people from Glasgow, Glasconians, left the old Glasgow and they came here. And they built a new Glasgow. And they called it New Glasgow because it was new. According to theoretical physics, eventually we'll be able to fold space so that the new Glasgow will overlap the old Glasgow. But until then, let me assure you that they are quite different places. Did I mention that New Glasgow just got waterslides? Those are fun.}}

** His dad explains the naming misconceptions involved in a simple immigration:

{{quote| '''Gino:''' Nobody told us there was two America: the real one, United State, and the fake one, Canada. Then, to make matter even worse, there's two Canada: the real one, Ontario, and the fake one, Quebec. }}

{{quote|'''Gino:''' Nobody told us there was two America: the real one, United State, and the fake one, Canada. Then, to make matter even worse, there's two Canada: the real one, Ontario, and the fake one, Quebec. }}

* ''[[The Naked Gun|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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* In an ''[[All in The Family]]''' episode, Archie loses his Christmas bonus after he messes up a shipment meant for London, Ontario.

* In ''[[In the Heat of the Night]]'', Sidney Poitier's character Virgil Tibbs is questioned as to where he resides:

{{quote| '''Tibbs:''' ''Philadelphia.''~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Tibbs:''' ''Philadelphia.''

'''Police Chief Gillespie:''' ''Philadelphia, Mississippi?''~~ ~~

'''Police Chief Gillespie:''' ''Philadelphia, Mississippi?''

'''Tibbs:''' ''Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.'' }}

* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] on ''[[One Life to Live]]'', blue-blooded matriarch Vicki (then Davidson) decides she needs to go on a trip to find herself and get her head together. When she calls her family, she tells them she's in Paris. Instead of clarifying, she deliberately lets them think she's in the famous Paris, rather than working as a diner waitress in Paris, Texas.

* In a ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' episode, the Big Giant Head threatened to send Dick to Mars if he failed at something:

{{quote| '''Dick''': Oh, well, Mars isn't too bad.~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Dick''': Oh, well, Mars isn't too bad.

'''Big Giant Head''': Not ''that'' Mars!~~ ~~

'''Big Giant Head''': Not ''that'' Mars!

'''Dick''': [[Big No|Nooo!]] }}

* The mystery show ''[[Eerie Indiana]]''.

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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.

* Played with in an episode of ''[[MASH|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.

{{quote| '''Maj. Winchester:''' Yes, Massachusetts, you geographic whiz.~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Maj. Winchester:''' Yes, Massachusetts, you geographic whiz.

'''Maj. Winchester:''' ''(through gritted teeth)'' ''No!'' It's spending the weekend in ''Florida!'' }}

** 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:

{{quote| '''Maj. Winchester:''' ... to Honoria Winchester, Beacon Hill, Boston. ''[beat, then with a defeated air]'' Ye-es, Massachusetts.}}

{{quote|'''Maj. Winchester:''' ... to Honoria Winchester, Beacon Hill, Boston. ''[beat, then with a defeated air]'' Ye-es, Massachusetts.}}

* Averted in ''[[Jericho]]''; going on the title alone you'd have no idea it took place in the United States, let alone Kansas.

* Mentioned in an episode of ''[[Full House]]'' when Jesse's grandfather suddenly passes away during a visit. His body is being flown back home for the funeral, and Jesse tells the others that he needs to make sure the airline sends him to Athens, Greece, instead of Athens, Georgia.