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Infamous for [[Drives Like Crazy|aggressive drivers]], but you can't blame us really as the streets are [[The Maze|currently a mess]]. You see, the "Big Dig" ''really'' seemed like a great idea at the time ("We'll swap all those ugly overpasses out for underground tunnels where we won't have to look at them! And where the overpasses were, we will plant trees and have big parks for the kids!")

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* ''[[The Departed]]''

* ''[[Fever Pitch]]''

* Most of the action in ''[[The Social Network]]'' takes place in and around Harvard University -- although many of the scenes in question were filmed at another school.

 

* The [[Evie Scelan]] novels are set in Boston, with enough name drops that you could probably map the city from the narrative in ''[[Spiral Hunt]]''

* Robert B. Parker's [[Spenser]] and [[Sunny Randall]] novels are largely set in Boston, with many real life locations featured.

* The second half of ''The Fortune of War'', sixth of the [[Aubrey-Maturin]] series, is set in Boston during the War of 1812.

 

* Most everything David E. Kelly had anything to do with, including:

** ''[[Ally McBeal]]''

** Many of the properties renovated on the home improvement show ''[[This Old House]]'' are in Boston, because of the show's former ties to WGBH.

 

* [[Aerosmith]]

* [[Anal Cunt]] (from Allston, which is a Boston neighborhood)

* [[New Edition]]

* [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] - Founding members John Flansburgh and John Linnell are both originally from nearby Lincoln, and they still occasionally lapse into the accent (for example, "A Self Called Nowhere" and "Wicked Little Critta").

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' uses Boston (and the rest of Massachusetts) as a sample city for gameplay, complete with a strong historical power base in Salem, some horrible things happening up in the abandoned Danvers asylum, and a small cabal that watches over Northampton and is keen to do their own thing.

 

* The 21st-century parts of ''[[The Dreamer]]'' are in Boston.

 

* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' is worth a mention here. Though the series itself is set in New Jersey and has nothing to do with Boston, it's notorious for being indirectly involved in a [[Real Life]] bomb scare in the city with a bizarre ad campaign. Said campaign involved planting Lite-Brites bearing the image of a Mooninite in odd places in major cities--one of these was spotted under a highway overpass in Boston and mistaken for a bomb.

 

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