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** Of course, the same film had Great Britain as the fifty-somethingth state of the United States, and Israel united with its Islamic-state neighbors as the "Hebrab" coalition. Who knows if the Mt. Rushmore reference was this trope, or just another political-merger joke?

* ''[[The Mighty Ducks (film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' movies are set in the [[Twin Cities|Minneapolis/St. Paul]] area of Minnesota & frequently feature local geography. Which would be great if it didn't feature 13 year olds rollerblading to locations that are up to 60 miles away from each other in [[Real Life]] (and don't allow rollerblading in the first place).

** Worse yet the description on the DVD cover (or at least the one on the Redbox vendor screen) states the movie takes place in ''Wisconsin''.

* ''[[Highlander]]'' has Connor and Duncan MacLeod being born in Glen Finnan, but Glen Finnan is not really in MacLeod lands.

* The obscure American 1940 movie, Ski Patrol, follows a group of Finnish soldiers in the 1939 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. The movie depicts the countries' border as a [http://www.elitisti.net/web/public/captures/reviews/001750/001993-b.jpg Middle European mountain range] - for reference, [[Did Not Do the Research|even the highest points of the countries' border doesn't rise above half a kilometre in height.]] Reportedly, the first panorama of this sight made the Finnish audience [[So Bad It's Good|burst in laughter]].

* The [[Tommy Lee Jones]] vehicle ''[[Blown Away]]'' culminates with a car careening, in a straight line, through the Back Bay of Boston while our hero tries to defuse a bomb attached to the dashboard. If you traveled through the Back Bay, for that long, that fast, in a straight line, you wouldn't need to worry about the bomb, because you'd be ''underwater.''

 

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