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Of course this can lead to [[Television Geography]], as well as [[It's Always Spring]]. In many cases the average viewer may not be familiar with the location in question, but can end up bugging those viewers who have been or actually ''live'' in those locations.
This can have a very odd effect the first time one ''visits'' southern California. Upon seeing for the first time those scrub-covered hills and twisty roads, one gets a truly unearthly sense of deja vu. Have I been here before, you ask yourself? Then you realize that you have... on TV! For those who live in southern California, it is amusing to point out places one recognizes from TV shows. The most used location is Griffith Park, whose scrabble mountains can be seen in nearly every
This can lead to [[The Mountains of Illinois]] when the setting is full of [[Critical Research Failure]]s.
Contrast with [[Canada Does Not Exist]], where the shooting location actually affects the storyline.
This trope may have begun dying as of the early 2020s, with the invention of digital cyclorama technology, first used on ''[[The Mandalorian]]''. This technology gives a production team the ability to produce completely realistic exterior backgrounds, responsive in real-time to camera position, on a sound stage. Once the cost of using a virtual exterior matches or becomes lower than location shooting, expect California Doubling (and its foreign equivalents) to become a [[Forgotten Trope]].
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* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' was set in [[Cleveland Rocks|Cleveland, Ohio]], but filmed in Burbank, California.
* A horrifying example of California Doubling in the United States was the short-lived Fox series, ''[[Drive (TV series)]]''. The series started in Florida, going through Georgia, and through the desert of southern California every step of the way. Florida has no mountains, period, end of discussion.
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' takes advantage of this phenomenon, as the show has a Western feel to it, so it is entirely appropriate for every outlying backwoods planet to look like Old West California.
** Despite the fact that it had a comparatively higher budget than the TV series, the movie sequel to it, ''[[Serenity]]'', nonetheless has a planet that, CGI aside, is represented by a local high school campus. The chase scene around the Companion Training House seems to have been similarly filmed in local woods, with the rest of the landscape around it having been filled in with CGI and basically all of the other settings being either soundstages, the Universal lot, or CGI.
* Assuming this is a good example of California Doubling, ''[[Fresno]],'' a miniseries that parodied ''[[Dallas]]'' and shows like it, was mostly filmed in Los Angeles, CA. The first 1 1/2 days, however, were spent filming in the actual city of Fresno. However, due to the extreme 100-degree heat, production moved 205 miles down south.
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* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III]]'', though the film takes place in New York and Ancient Japan, many scenes are actually filmed in China's Hong Kong and in Astoria, Oregon. Back in the previous two movies before the third one, many scenes were shot in both New York ''and'' North Carolina (a fact not missed in ''[[Mad]]'''s satire "Teenrage Moolah Nitwit Turtles," the first panel of which mentions "The North Carolina State Building" - guess which city ''MAD'' calls home!), though both films take place in much of New York, anyway.
* Romania stands in for Merrie Old England in ''[[Princess of Thieves]]''.
* The snowy scenes in ''[[Harry Potter and
** Hogwarts is meant to be located in Scotland, but the series was filmed almost entirely in England. Hogwarts environs were sometimes filmed on location in Scotland and sometimes not. The Forbidden Forest and the Black Lake are located within short distances of each other in-universe, but they were filmed in Buckinghamshire and Highland respectively.
* Whereas ''Boogeyman'' was set in the US but filmed in New Zealand, the sequels were set in the US and filmed in Bulgaria.
* Despite being set in New York and showing Toronto's skyline much of [[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]] is filmed in Hamilton.
* The two German-produced ''[[The Three Investigators]]'' movies, ''The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island'' and ''The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle'', had California be played by South Africa. This trope was partially averted in the first movie, however, most of which is indeed set in or off the coast of South Africa.
* Although the 1983 film ''The Lords
* ''Away We Go'' depicts a sort of road trip across the United States, but was almost wholly filmed in Connecticut—which doubled for Colorado; Madison, Wisconsin; and Montreal.
* ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'' had the Czech Republic double for France and London.
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