Canada Does Not Exist: Difference between revisions

[['''Canada Does Not Exist]]''' is a strange, location-based trope distantly related to [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]. Though this trope might arguably apply to a tiny handful of shows shot in other countries, it's the relative closeness of American and Canadian culture, contrasted with their distinct differences, that really define it. CDNE shows are virtually always shot in a Canadian location, while the fictional setting is deliberately left vague, a "nowhereland" that is neither fully America nor completely Canada.

Superficially similar to [[California Doubling]] and other location tropes, CDNE is distinguished by the way the shoot location actually affects the story. With [[California Doubling]], the audience needs to accept the desert-scrub of a Burbank backlot as the Amazon rainforest, but the location of the shoot has no effect on the story itself. With [['''Canada Does Not Exist]]''', the location affects the script considerably, forcing the writers into crazy contortions to avoid mentioning or even giving hints about the show's fictional setting.