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* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' – the main character of the show, Ted Mosby, is from Cleveland, namely Shaker Heights. Series creator Carter Bays (he based Ted’s character off of himself) also hails from Shaker.
** Ted’s best friend from school, Punchy, still lives in Cleveland with his fiancée. In season 6, he asks Ted to be the best man at his wedding, {{spoiler|which may or may not lead to a major turning point in the series}}.
* ''[[30 Rock]]'' – the episode "Cleveland" [https://web.archive.org/web/20100405215107/http://www.hulu.com/watch/856/30-rock-cleveland-get-away portrayed Cleveland as an idyllic paradise], albeit through the eyes of harried New Yorkers.<ref>In actuality, Public Square should have a lot more homeless people and pigeons hanging out, [http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2013/04/latest_plans_for_revamped_publ.html though not for long...]</ref>
* ''The Escapists''
* The opening scene of ''[[Air Force One]]'' was filmed from the roof of Severance Hall.
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* In ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' Numbuh 1's history report describes the founding of an adult paradise, and "they named it Cleveland."
* In Deadpool's ending in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]] 3'', {{spoiler|he accidentally destroys Cleveland during a drunken party aboard Galactus' ship.}}
* [[Carl Sandburg]]'s poem "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131028175926/http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15265 Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio]" seems to paint the Cleveland of the first half of the 20th century as a happening jazz and blues scene, albeit with a darker undertone of hedonism and disappointment for the common worker (in keeping with Sandburg's [[Political Ideologies|socialism]]).<ref>Ironic because Cleveland, in real life, was an immigrant-infused industrial city favorable to organized trade labor unions and progressive politics. Among the municipal departments established that survive to this day include [[wikipedia: Cleveland Public Power|a publicly-run electric utility]] designed mainly to keep [[wikipedia: Cleveland Electric Illuminating|the privately-run electric utility]]'s prices in line.</ref>
* Les Roberts's series of detective novels featuring Milan Jacovich (fifteen books as of 2011).
* In ''[[Skin Horse]]'', the transgenic convention takes place in Cleveland.
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