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The term "[[Rock and Roll]]" was coined in Cleveland, and the city has a proud musical heritage and is home to both the [[Rock and Roll]] Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Orchestra, one of America's "Big Five" symphonies. Also, Playhouse Square in downtown is the second-largest theatre complex in the United States, behind [[New York City]]'s Lincoln Center. The city is also sometimes used as a stand-in for NYC or Chicago in film, due to lower filming costs, since it has similar architecture<ref>Many a local has [[Squee|squeed]] upon seeing the Trust Company Rotunda in ''[[Spider-Man]] 3''</ref>. It possesses a surprising number of truly beautiful churches, more museums than a city thrice its size generally has, and two of the best library systems in the country. Cleveland's the home of Case Western Reserve University, one of the more bizarrely named colleges in the country<ref>The Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University used to be two separate institutions until 1967. "Western Reserve" itself refers to an old name for northeast Ohio, the Connecticut Western Reserve, claimed by the state of Connecticut for its veterans to settle in following the American Revolution until the state agreed to give it up to the newly-formed state of Ohio.</ref>, and Cleveland State University. An hour southeast is Kent State University, a [[Strawman U|Berzerkley]] known for an infamous shootout in 1970.
The [[wikipedia: American Greetings|American Greetings]] greeting card company has been based in the city for well over a century. During the 1960s, American Greetings employed a group of young artists, some of which became pioneers in the underground comic genre, most notably [[Robert Crumb]] ([[Fritz the Cat (comics)|Fritz the Cat]]) and [[wikipedia: Harvey Pekar|Harvey Pekar]] ([[American Splendor]]). In contrast, the company would develop greeting card characters [[Ziggy]], [[Strawberry Shortcake]] and the [[Care Bears]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s, all three of which would become licensing powerhouses.
Its baseball and basketball teams--the Indians and Cavaliers respectively--are fairly solid, although the Indians have currently gone more than 60 years without winning the World Series, longer than any other team in the American League and longer than any Major League Baseball team that hasn't been [[The Windy City|cursed by a goat-owning bartender]], and the Cavs lost its star player; ESPN had an hour-long special dedicated to his announcement. And supporting its football team, the Browns <ref>Before you ask what a "Brown" is, the team was named after its first owner Paul Brown, former Ohio State coach and a highly respected figure in Ohio athletics. It wasn't even his idea and he was against it at first, but later went along with it. For an animal mascot, dogs have long been popular due to the city's first pro football team, the Bulldogs.</ref>, tends to be [[Butt Monkey/Sports|a lesson in masochism]]. The city has had a sports rivalry with [[Pittsburgh]] for decades. [[Unknown Rival|Sort of]]. Also, never, ''ever'' say anything nice about the [[Berserk Button|Baltimore Ravens]].▼
▲Its baseball and basketball teams--the Indians and Cavaliers respectively--are fairly solid, although the Indians have currently gone more than 60 years without winning the World Series, longer than any other team in the American League and longer than any Major League Baseball team that hasn't been [[The Windy City|cursed by a goat-owning bartender]], and the Cavs lost its star player; ESPN had an hour-long special dedicated to his announcement. And supporting its football team, the Browns <ref>Before you ask what a "Brown" is, the team was named after its first owner Paul Brown, former Ohio State coach and a highly respected figure in Ohio athletics. It wasn't even his idea and he was against it at first, but later went along with it. Throughout his tenure as coach, the team embraced a [[wikipedia: Brownie|brownie elf]] as their mascot, which has been revisited from time to time by the team's ownership. For an animal mascot, dogs have long been popular due to the city's first pro football team, the Bulldogs.</ref>, tends to be [[Butt Monkey/Sports|a lesson in masochism]]. The city has had a sports rivalry with [[Pittsburgh]] for decades. [[Unknown Rival|Sort of]]. Also, never, ''ever'' say anything nice about the [[Berserk Button|Baltimore Ravens]].
The city was named for surveyor Moses Cleaveland (the first 'A' was reportedly dropped so the name would fit on a newspaper masthead) and has no connection to [[Oop North|the English county of Cleveland]], or the [[Grover Cleveland|22nd and 24th President of the United States]] (who was only distantly related to Moses Cleaveland).
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* ''[[Major League]]''
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' (whose one-time theme song is the [[Trope Namer]], used in full irony here)
* ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'', originally a gag-a-day newspaper comic about high school students that has since evolved into an episodic strip replete with recurring story lines about illness, death and other tragic events, takes place in the fictitious suburb of "Westview." Spin-off comic ''[[Crankshaft]]'' is also based in a similar suburb of "Centerville."
* Overton from ''[[Sereis/Living Single|Living Single]]''
* [[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] superheroine Dagger (of ''Cloak and Dagger'' fame) is from Shaker Heights, a wealthy suburb in the East Side.
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