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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!.

{{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.

** 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 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.

** 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 [[wikipedia:Paris, Texas|Paris, Texas]] the city is in East Texas, which is mostly grass plains and forest.