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A place to [[Have a Gay Old Time]]. |
A place to [[Have a Gay Old Time]]. |
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== Anime & Manga == |
== Anime & Manga == |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' features a stereotypical French party in one episode. |
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' features a stereotypical French party in one episode. |
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* Partly subverted in the ''[[Monk]]'' tie-in novel "Mr. Monk is Miserable", where Natalie expects to eat croissants and whatnot while enjoying the rustic splendor of the city. As soon as she sees the lights on the Eiffel Tower, and the [[Ferris Wheel of Doom|Roue de Paris]], and the Arc de Triomphe merely because L'Arche de le Defense is visible from the top of it, she launches into a long character filibuster (with which [[Author Filibuster|the author]] [[ |
* Partly subverted in the ''[[Monk]]'' tie-in novel "Mr. Monk is Miserable", where Natalie expects to eat croissants and whatnot while enjoying the rustic splendor of the city. As soon as she sees the lights on the Eiffel Tower, and the [[Ferris Wheel of Doom|Roue de Paris]], and the Arc de Triomphe merely because L'Arche de le Defense is visible from the top of it, she launches into a long character filibuster (with which [[Author Filibuster|the author]] [[Poe's Law|may or may not have agreed]]) about how commercialism and "doing things bigger" has ruined her beautiful city [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|from being the way it was twenty years ago on her honeymoon]]. [[Double Subverted|Then]] she finds an enormous parisian flat with a personal cafe and a waterfall being run by a sewer <s> mutant</s> vagrant ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and repeatedly waxes poetically throughout the book about how Paris even has better garbage than San Francisco <ref> despite only ever seeing garbage from the 7th arrondissiment</ref>. [[Zig Zagging Trope|Triple-subverted]] ([[Drama|or was it?]]) with a [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] by yhe [[Cloudcuckoolander]] when the police are completely blase about a criminal plummeting to his death directly in front of them. |
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* The two-part finale of ''[[Sex and The City]]'' has Carrie moving to Paris with her Russian boyfriend Aleksandr Petrovsky...and being completely miserable there {{spoiler|until Big finally arrives to pop the question}}. |
* The two-part finale of ''[[Sex and The City]]'' has Carrie moving to Paris with her Russian boyfriend Aleksandr Petrovsky...and being completely miserable there {{spoiler|until Big finally arrives to pop the question}}. |
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* ''[[The Saboteur]]'' is a [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game taking place in a Paris that [[Those Wacky Nazis]] have [[Deliberately Monochrome|robbed of its color]]. |
* ''[[The Saboteur]]'' is a [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game taking place in a Paris that [[Those Wacky Nazis]] have [[Deliberately Monochrome|robbed of its color]]. |
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* The Paris stages from ''[[Gran Turismo]] 4'' sort of count: Opéra passes through Place de la Concorde, Rue de la Paix, Place Vendôme and the Opéra, whereas Georges V visits the Arc du Triomphe and Champs-Élysées. |
* The Paris stages from ''[[Gran Turismo]] 4'' sort of count: Opéra passes through Place de la Concorde, Rue de la Paix, Place Vendôme and the Opéra, whereas Georges V visits the Arc du Triomphe and Champs-Élysées. |
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* In ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3'', the player can witness the collapse of Eiffel Tower into Seine (after [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|calling in an airstrike to take out the invading Russian forces]], no less). |
* In ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3'', the player can witness the collapse of Eiffel Tower into Seine (after [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|calling in an airstrike to take out the invading Russian forces]], no less). |
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== Video Games == |
== Video Games == |
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* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' Paris is under martial law [[Crapsack World|like much of the world]], so its depiction is influenced by [[ |
* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' Paris is under martial law [[Crapsack World|like much of the world]], so its depiction is influenced by [[Worldwar (Literature)|wartime Paris of the past century]]. The Eifel tower and other famous landmarks are [[City Noir|displayed rather gloomily]]. [[Smoking Is Cool|Everyone smokes]] and engages in deep discussions of culture, [[La Résistance|politics]] and [[The Philosopher|the human condition]], even in bars and discotheques. |
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