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* ''[[Ninotchka]]''
* Ilsa and Rick of ''[[Casablanca]]'' "will always have Paris." There a long [["Falling in Love" Montage]] showing them there.
* ''[[Team America: World Police]]''. After opening on a striped-shirt accordion-playing garlic salesman (which turns out to be a [[Show Within a Show|puppet-show]] for tourists), the first scene end with a shoot-out around the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower... and Louvre.
* ''Paris je t'aime'', a 2006 film which consists of eighteen short films set in different districts of Paris.
** Though this could be considered a subversion, since the shorts show much more variety of the city and its different cultural, racial and economic diversity - if often cleaner than in reality
* ''[[Clean]]'' begins in Vancouver and ends in San Francisco, but most of the middle parts are set in Paris.
* ''[[Perfume]]'' takes place in 18th century Paris and protrays the poorer areas as [[The Dung Ages]], making particular mention of the awful smells.
* ''Is Paris Burning?''
* ''[[Gay Purr-ee]]''
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* Daphne in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' lives in Paris. And yes, it has the Eiffel Tower clearly visible through a window.
* The Ricardos and Mertzes visited Paris during their trip to Europe on ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. The [[Establishing Shot]] was of the Arc, Lucy encountered both a street artist and escargot in her first day there, and her hotel room had a head-on view of the Eiffel Tower.
* "The Monkees In Paris" is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: A 1968 episode of ''[[The Monkees]]'' featuring the guys romping around [[Gay Paree]], while being chased by a [[Groupie Brigade]] of faux [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] in the form of chic French models (it's true: they actually had no idea who the Monkees were. At the time, the TV show hadn't yet aired in France).
* On the first season of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', teams had to travel to Paris and climb to the top of (you guessed it!) the Eiffel Tower, and use a telescope to find a flag on top of another landmark, which turned out to be (you guessed it!) the Arc de Triomphe.
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' features a stereotypical French party in one episode.
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* ''[[Rayman]] Raving Rabbids'' and its sequel seem to have a lot of sections set in Paris--fitting since the developers are French.
* Decidedly less comical example than most: Paris is the capital of the European Federation in ''Tom Clancy's [[End War]]'' and thus is a major battlefield, featuring the Eiffel Tower at the Europeans' critical uplink. May be the first time in gaming that ''Americans'' get to destroy the Tower... though the Russians can do it if they get there first.
* Speaking of Russia wrecking the Eiffel Tower (somewhat), the Soviets do convert it into a gigantic Tesla Coil in one mission of their campaign in ''[[Command
* Similarly, ''[[Battle Tanx]]: Global Assault'' features a campaign level where the Tower is converted into a laser cannon; the player's objective is to get to the base of the tower and blow up the generator. Another mission shortly after has the player defending the Champs-Élysées from nearly a hundred enemy tanks (not all at once, thankfully).
* ''[[Twisted Metal]] 2'': The Paris level was a small chunk of narrow streets complete with alleys, bistros, boutiques and historical monuments set between the Eiffel Tower (which you could destroy, by the way) and the Notre-Dame de Paris.
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'''Didi''': When I came to France, I had dreams of bouillabaise, crepes Suzette, chicken cordon bleu...
'''Betty''': Yeah, well, I had dreams of eating with a fork. }}
* Played straight on a episode of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''
* Justifed by the ''[[Jem]]'' episode, "Kimber's Rebellion", as the French countess gives them the idea to film a video there.
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'': Paris is the only place outside the USA which appears twice in CDRR.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown'', and the subsequent TV special ''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?'' avoided Paris entirely on a trip to France. Granted, their vision of northern France was pretty generic, except for the accents, and the war memorial they visited in the TV special.
* Averted hard with the suburban Boulogne-Billancourt setting of ''[[Code Lyoko]]''.
** To be fair, Bologune-Billancourt is a suburb of Paris, but the city landmarks are never seen.
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