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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I dwell 'neath the shade of Harvard''
''In the State of the Sacred Cod,''
''Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots,''
''And the Cabots speak only to God."''
|'''Richard Clarke Cabot'''}}
Ah, New England: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Cradle of [[The American Revolution]], home of Plymouth Rock, Ben and Jerry's, Walden Pond and the Red Sox, and chock full of fish.
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The standard protocol is for the lowly, regardless of region, to be given a generic [[American Accents|Down East accent]]. The grand get the Boston-specific version, as heavily popularized by JFK and family. The irony here is that no other person in New England actually speaks like the Kennedys. Their infamous accent actually has a touch of the Queen's English mixed in, because the founding generation spent a fair amount of time in the UK while growing up (family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., was Ambassador to the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 and had other business there as well).
Their ubiquitousness on the cultural scene, meanwhile, has resulted in 95% of Hollywood having no idea how to use a Boston accent, thus bolstering the careers of [[Matt Damon]], [[Ben Affleck]], and brothers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg. For that matter, non-New Englanders generally don't realize that there are in fact four versions of the "Boston" accent, only one of which is the stereotypical
This trope mostly covers Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts ([[
Rural Hollywood New England is where you usually find [http://weather.thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/new-england-fall-colors-photo-by-chrisbastian44.jpg brilliant autumn foliage displays], and [[Dreaming of a White Christmas|picturesque snowy winter landscapes]]. This is largely [[Truth in Television]]; they look like scenes from a Norman Rockwell painting [http://www.stockbridgechamber.org/christmas.html because they are]. Keep in mind, of course, that this is also [[Lovecraft Country]].
The phrase "Pahk my cah in Hahvad Yahd, 'cuz that's a good ideer" is a well-known [
Contrast California [[Valley Girl]] speak, which, like, migrated over to the northeast, found it wicked awesome, and stayed.
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== Advertising ==
* The old-money life is spoofed with abandon and made gangsta in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgPHPxQWI_Y this ad for Smirnoff Tea]. "High tea in the pawlah makes the ladies hawlah!"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OvOEFFLpYU "Pepperidge Fahm remembahs!"]
* There was a fast-food commercial where a recent{{when}} trade to the Boston Red Sox was eating his burger as he listened to a tape teaching him how to speak New Englander. "Hahd. I like to play wicked hahd. Hahd."
** It was an ad for Dunkin Donuts featuring Curt Schilling, the Sox' star pitcher at the time. The ad played on the fact that there are two things that make Boston great: the Red Sox, and Dunkin Donuts.
** There's a similar commercial for McDonald's coffee. Two flannel-dressed guys on a pier correct each other's New Englandisms (like how to pronounce Worcester). "Best Broadway show ever?" "''[[Wicked (
*** There's another one in the same vein where a guy
* Southie accents get a workout in an ad for the Hopper
* Tourism advertising for the states themselves often falls into this. If you listen to Massachusetts' tourism board, the entire state is Cape Cod and the Freedom Trail. Similarly, Vermont is happy to tell you at length about its trees and skiing. And apparently, all Connecticut consists of is two enormous casinos.
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== Comic Books ==
* When made man Nicky Cavella first appears in ''[[The Punisher]]'', he and his partners arrive in New York from Boston. The first thing his liaison to the local mob families asks him is, "So you guys are from Boston too, huh? [[Funetik Aksent|Did ya leave ya cahh inna pahkin' laht?]]"
* Mort Walker and Dik Browne were both from Connecticut, so their comic strip ''[[Hi and Lois]]'' took place there, but depicted the usual small towns positively instead of mocking them. There would occasionally appear [[Scenery Porn|beautiful landscape drawings]] in the panels!
* While the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' originated in New York they spent a while after getting chased out by the Shredder in and around Springfield Massachusetts, which is where their creators hail from.
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* ''[[The Departed]]'' being set in Boston uses this.
* ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'' is set in Vermont, focusing, of course, on the highbrow intellectual side. Given that it was a high-end boarding school, it's unlikely that all of the students were actually from Vermont, and it was filmed in Delaware.
* ''[[Jaws (
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'''Martin''': "They're out in the ''yahd'', not too ''fah'' from the ''cah''. How was that?"
'''Ellen''': "Like you're from New York." }}
** Roy Scheider makes a rookie mistake in saying "yadd" instead of "yahd." Which actually makes sense, since Martin isn't actually from the Cape.
* ''On Golden Pond'' - set in rural New Hampshire and actually filmed there on beautiful Squam Lake.
* [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]]'s ''[[The Trouble
* ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''
* ''[[Gone Baby Gone]]'' is set in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester.
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*** [[Eddie Izzard|Because there's a]] [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] [[Eddie Izzard|'H' in it]].
*** People from Dorchester (pronounced "Dah-chestah") actually tend to just call it "Dot" as in "Dot Ave" (Dorchester Avenue).
** And ''The Town'' takes place in Charlestown, another Boston neighborhood. Maybe we should just rename this trope
*** There is a line in one trailer for ''The Town'' that the Boston-based [https://web.archive.org/web/20101026025745/http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/09/20/filmcast-ep-116-the-town/ SlashFilmcast] couldn't let pass without comment. Apparently, there are "over 300 bank robberies in Charlestown" every year. Which means that we should be hearing about at least ''[[Crapsack World|one bank robbery per day]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Perfect Storm]]'', though Gloucester, Mass. doesn't actually figure much in the story.
* The [[Cold War]] comedy ''The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming'' takes place on a fictional island off Gloucester.
* ''[[Summer of '42]]'' is set on Packett Island, a fictionalized version of Nantucket.
* ''In the Bedroom'' is set in coastal Maine.
* [[Tom Hanks]] in ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'' has one of these accents, making his [[Precision F-Strike|memorable]] "knawk-knawk" joke all the better. Especially cute in an outtake where he tries to speak with a mouthful of food, flubs the line and says "But you could hear the accent, right?"
* ''[[The Social Network]]'' - set at Harvard
* ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]'' was basically about a road trip from Rhode Island to Vermont. Unlike most movies filmed about the area, the filming locations were actually ''in'' Rhode Island and Vermont (not Massachusetts, which was odd, since there is no easy way to drive from Rhode Island to Vermont without passing through it).
* ''Outside Providence'' takes place, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[The Fighter]]'' takes place in Lowell, Mass.
* In Ronald Colman's one Academy Award-winning film, ''A Double Life'', he has an affair with a coffee shop waitress (Shelley Winters' film debut) who tells him that he sounds like Baaston.
* ''[[A Summer Place]]'' is set primarily at the titular locale, an upscale Maine island resort.
* ''[[Scooby
* ''[[
* ''[[
== Literature ==
* ''[[Little Women]]'' and the rest of Louisa M. Alcott's stories are set in and around her native Concord, Mass. Alcott's father Bronson was a prominent Transcendentalist, a philosophic movement whose
* Nearly all of [[Stephen King]]'s books are set in Maine, which is perfectly reasonable considering [[Write What You Know|he lives there]]. In fact, the isolation of its island communities provided the entire plot of ''Storm of the Century''. "According to Stephen King, there's something nasty buried under every small town in Maine."
* Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' books in her Nyeusigrube series take place around Massachusetts. ''In the Forests of the Night'' takes place specifically in Concord and the main character, Risika's, house is based on a real house where a friend of the author lived. In ''Persistence of Memory'', Erin is given a phone number with <s>Boston</s> Suffolk County's 617 area code.
* Almost all of [[Jodi Picoult]]'s novels take place in New England, usually either Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
* Most of [[John Irving]]'s novels (''[[The World According to Garp]]'', ''[[The Cider House Rules]]'', ''[[A Prayer for Owen Meany]]'') take place in New England. [[Write What You Know]] applies again.
** The same holds true for the other well-known "Johns" of mid-to-late 20th century American literature, Cheever and Updike. When their stories weren't set in Manhattan they were generally set here.
** Updike's ''[[The Witches of Eastwick]]'' cross-pollinated
* ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'' makes much of its New Hampshire setting.
* As [[
* William Dean Howells' classic ''[[The Rise Of Silas Lapham]]'' is set in Boston.
* ''[[Lemonade Mouth]]'' is set in Rhode Island, although [[Disney]] moved the setting of [[The Movie]] to New Mexico.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
** Trapper John McIntyre was also from (a presumably less fashionable part of) Boston. Given [[The Irish Diaspora|his name]] (in full, John Francis Xavier McIntyre), it's likely he's a Southie, although neither the film nor TV version used that specific accent.
** Hawkeye Pierce was supposedly the son of a lobsterman from Crabapple Cove, Maine, though (perhaps wisely) neither Donald Sutherland in the film nor Alan Alda in the series ever attempted a proper downeast accent, though it is mentioned in the original novels.
* Thurston Howell III, from ''[[
* ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', set in small-town Maine. Featuring William Windom, Tom Bosley and a slew of random extras using phony Down East accents thick enough that they may qualify as the network-TV version of Dick van Dyke doing Cockney in ''[[Mary Poppins]]''. Bosley's attempts were particularly egregious.
* ''[[Cheers]]'' (or should we say ''Cheeahs''?) was set in <s>Boston</s> Bawstin, though the only character with the accent was Cliff. There was still a fair bit of local color on the show, such as Sam's history with the Red Sox, Carla's fanatical defense of Massachusetts sports teams, and a guest appearances by Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and a few Kennedys.
** Making it particularly jarring when the most [[Ivy League]] milquetoast character on the cast was [[
** Most of the local color can be seen in the background - the producers [[Shown Their Work|showed off]] serious knowledge of Boston minutiae, for instance having extra characters wear shirts from local high schools in the appropriate colors. (There's more than one Somerville High School in this country, after all.)
*** Not surprising, given that they took a local Boston TV production (WCVB's ''Park Street Under'') and filed the serial number off it without giving any credit to the original creators.
* ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' was also set in Massachusetts, but on the tourist island of Nantucket.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]''; the name is a give away (even if little else is). Most of the cast being rich lawyers doesn't help. Also see such other David E. Kelley shows as ''[[The Practice]]'', ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', and ''[[Boston Public]]''.
* ''[[Newhart]]'' is set in a (highly eccentric) small Vermont town.
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** And still fell prey to this trope occasionally. Chase scenes were notorious for starting in one town, turning a corner, and finding the characters miraculously transported to a town on the other side of Boston in a split second.
* [[Jay Leno]] can't open his mouth without reminding people he's from Andover, MA.
* In ''[[
** The exaggerated accent was spoofed in the next season when [[Author Avatar|Liz]] is [[Show Within a Show|writing a TV movie about Jack and Avery]], with Nancy played by [[Sex and
* The whole crew from ''[[This Old House]]'' but especially Norm Abrams and Tommy Silva.
* The '60s sitcom version of ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]'' was set in a Maine fishing village. Other than a few supporting background characters, no one in the cast had anything sounding like a Maine accent. While Carolyn Muir and her children were from out of state and obviously wouldn't sound like natives, one would expect that Captain Gregg and his descendant Claymore would.
* In ''[[News Radio]]'', a botched speech therapy session has Lisa speaking in her native Boston accent, which she had dropped for being too embarrassing. It's also implied that it might have been intentional to ruin her radio voice.
** Also in the series finale, Jimmy James retires and moves to New Hampshire, and wants to take the rest of the staff with him. In the second to last episode he actually takes a chair and sits down in NH in the middle of a field of cattle.
* In a Season 4 episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Sarah Michelle Gellar takes on the role of Faith. She adopts a Boston accent in several scenes, since it was part of the character and due to Eliza Dushku being from Boston.
* Several ''[[X-Files]]'' episodes are set in New England, both falling victim and averting this trope. It is noted that Mulder grew up on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, which averts this trope, but the rest of the episodes set in New England get things wrong. Though they are in completely different parts of New England, none of the characters have distinctive accents, vocabulary, or mannerisms.
** One particularly egregious example was the portrayal of Vermont; the season seven episode "Chimera" was set there. The timestamp places the story in early April, and it opens up to an Easter picnic scene. The grass is green, the children are running around in little suits, and it's apparently warm enough that no one needs a jacket. Never mind the fact that in early April in Vermont, the average temperature hovers somewhere around 40 and there is usually a good deal of snow on the ground. And if there isn't snow, it sure as heck isn't ''green''. It's called "mud season" for a reason. This seems rather humorous, since other details like area code and zip code were absolutely
* On the recurring ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch "Boston Teens", starring [[Jimmy Fallon]] and Rachel Dratch as Sully and Zazu, a teen couple who fight and makeup constantly and are obsessed with Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra.
** When [[Glenn Close]] hosted in 1992 they did a game show sketch called [https://web.archive.org/web/20131009012733/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92ibestway.phtml "Whats The Best Way?"]. In it the host and all three contestants were New Englanders and the questions were all about the best way to get from one place in New England to another:
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(Katie buzzes in)
'''Katie (Glenn Close):''' Ok, now that's straight on route 84, but you're gonna want to avoid the tourist traps up there, now, if you go up Manhill Road,you'll see a pretty Bed and Breakfast in Bradford - but that's a little out of your way, but it's very reasonable. And there's a farm (fahm) down the hill where you can get fresh Maine blueberries, of course, but that's only in the summer -
(wrong answer buzz)
'''Host:''' Sorry Katie, I didn't finish the question. From Hartford to Sturbridge, how many Dunkin Donuts along the way? }}
* ''[[
** Then there's the episode that had them skinny-dipping in November. In Massachusetts.
* The '90s drama series ''[[Providence]]'' was set in that Rhode Island city, and most of outside filming was shot there during its first season. Naturally, the local [[NBC]] television station ''would not shut up'' about the show for months. By the time of the second season, only establishing exterior shots were shot in Providence and the rest in [[California Doubling|California]].
* The North American remake of ''[[Being Human
* Season 6 of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' had the Ricardos and Mertzes moving from New York City to Westport, Connecticut.
** Samantha and Darrin Stephens, of ''[[
* ''[[Soap]]'' was set in the (fictional) town of Dunn's River, Connecticut, and plays this trope straight - Dunn's River might as well be on Long Island for how much time the characters spend in Manhattan.
* The clam-centric episode of ''[[Good Eats]]'' culminated in production of New England style clam chowder. And had a New Yorker with tomatoes (representing fans of Manhattan-style) and a New Englander with a bottle of cream glare at each other while Alton explained the history of the two variations...before getting into a brawl.
* The real world portion of ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' takes place in Storybrooke, Maine.
* The short-lived '90s [[Molly Ringwald]] sitcom ''Townies'' was set in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
* Due to the fact that WGBH, Boston's PBS affiliate, produces a fair chunk of their programming, many of PBS's syndicated shows are shot in Boston or the surrounding areas.
== Music ==
* [[New Kids
* You can't talk about music and Boston without mentioning "the bad boys from Boston", [[
▲* [[New Kids On the Block]]. And, you know, we probably ought to mention their infamous [[Band Toon]] here but... the [[The Poor Mans Substitute|voice actors]] and the writers [[They Just Didn't Care|Just Didn't Care.]]
▲* You can't talk about music and Boston without mentioning "the bad boys from Boston", [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]]!
* Boston, obviously.
* [[The Dropkick Murphys]]
* J. Geils band.
* The Fools, best known for their classic: "Life Sucks, Then You Die."
* "Wicked Little Critta" by [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] plays with the accent, as does "A Self Called Nowhere."
* [[Galaxie 500]], formed by three Harvard students.
* While the '60s garage-rock classic "Dirty Water" has become an iconic Boston anthem, the band that recorded it (the Standells) were actually based out of L.A.
* Johnathan Richman is from Natick, part of Greater Boston, and his best known song, "Roadrunner" is about driving around the city listening to your car radio. He seems to use the accent too, to judge by his reference to "the Southern sho-ah".
* [[
* Mighty Mighty Bosstones
* [[The Shaggs]], who pronounce every word with 'ome' in it as 'om'. Naturally this means they "have no time to rom" and "have to go hom" regularly.
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== Radio ==
* In a modern twist on the intellectual side, both halves of the radio comedy team [[Bob and Ray|Bob & Ray]] were born and raised in
* The Magliozzi brothers of [[NPR]]'s ''[[Car Talk]]''. East Cambridge natives, auto mechanics...and both graduates of MIT.
* One of the recurring characters in the "Allen's Alley" segments on ''The Fred Allen Show'' in the '40s was Titus Moody, a curmudgeonly New Englander with a thick "Down East" type accent.
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* ''[[Our Town]]'' by Thornton Wilder is set in southern New Hampshire, but does not use the exaggerated traits discussed above for this trope. It's just a small town at the turn of the last century.
* The setting of ''[[Carousel]]'' is a Maine fishing village.
* ''[[
* ''[[
== Video Games ==
* The town of ''[[Silent Hill]]'' is located in New England, according to the manual for the first game. An obscure tidbit found on one of the soundtrack covers places it in Maine.
* [[Fragile Speedster|The Scout]] from ''[[
* The Commonwealth, mentioned in passing in ''Fallout3,'' is implied to be based in Massachusetts. Or at least the Boston area. It's also mentioned, however that aside from its Institute, it's not much better off than the Capital Wasteland.
* [[Trauma Center|Trauma Team]] doesn't outright state their exact location, but recognizing some towns and areas they name puts them in Portland, Maine.
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* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' is a rare exception to the "western Massachusetts doesn't exist" rule, taking place in Northampton. Of course, this is because the creator [[Write Who You Know|lives in that area]].
* ''[[Misfile]]'' is also set in western Massachusetts in the fictional town of Tempest which appears to be somewhere in the Berkshires, not that far from Springfield. However other than a few references to Boston and one trip to Cape Cod the comic could take place anywhere since the New England setting doesn't much figure into the story, and no one ever uses any New England
* The 21st century parts of ''[[The Dreamer]]'' are set in Boston, MA.
* ''[[American Elf]]'' is set in Burlington, VT.
** It is also published weekly in ''Seven Days'', the local Burlington alternative weekly newspaper.
* ''[[Something
== Web Original ==
* New England is its own country in the [[Alternate History]] ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'', where it also encompasses the Canadian Maritimes, New York, New Jersey and Michigan. It plays the socially liberal, democratic/socialist foil (apart from a brief period of <s>fascism</s> [[A Nazi
* [[College Humor]]'s video "Federal Maashals" features the College Humor office being raided by two Federal Marshals with incomprehensible Boston accents. The go around the office shouting "GO SAAHX" (Boston Red Sox), humming their theme song, asking confusing questions and beating people up. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* Pete White from ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Series co-creator Jackson Publick claims to have copied the character's voice entirely from his own father.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' also takes place in New England- specifically Rhode Island, or RhoDYlan as the natives call it. Peter and Lois have prominent Rhode Island accents. Indeed, the show's creator, [[Seth
** Though Peter pronounces Pawtucket wrong, the locals pronounce it "Puhtuckit"
** Special mention goes to Mr. Bottomtooth, who does to this accent what [[King of the Hill|Boomhauer]] does to the Texan accent.
** The show often throws in references [[In
*** The skyline that can very often be seen from the Griffins' front yard? It's the skyline of Providence. Peter, Joe and Quagmire standing in front a building Peter's about to jump off of because he's temporarily immortal? That's Kennedy Plaza, overlooking the Rhode Island School of Design ''and'' Brown University!
* Although set on the Great Barrier Reef, the stereotypical Bostonian accent appears in ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' courtesy of a lobster (a New England culinary staple) who relates part of the tale of the fishes' adventure ("...and so they go all the way down into the dahk, it's like wicked dahk down theah...") The director, Andrew Stanton, is native from Massachusetts.
** "Hayeh, hayeh, hayeh, hayeh, hayeh!"
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Elzar's accent is, contrary to popular belief, a ''New Bedford (Bedfid)'' or 'Fawl Rivah' accent. Elzar is, of course, ethnically Neptunian, but apparently hails from
* As mentioned below, ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has Mayor Quimby and his family, Kennedy parodies all. One episode has Quimby's nephew Freddy harassing a French waiter over his pronunciation of "chowder". "Shau-dere? Shau-dere? It's 'chowdah'! Say it right!"
** New England is very proud of its claym chowdah. Unlike that inferior Manhattan kind.
* The same accent is used to great effect by the JFK clone in ''[[Clone High]]'', which is strange, considering that his foster parents who raised him from birth
* In ''[[The Mighty B!]]'', one time character Sissy Sullivan has a stereotypical Boston accent.
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** But also subverted in the sense that Bessie's knowledge of Boston is based on hilarious [[Critical Research Failure]]: She's uncertain if Boston is even part of the United States and if they speak English there, and takes it for granted that they don't have Chinese restaurants.
* One episode of ''[[Ugly Americans]]'' had the amoeba in Mark's group accompanied by a thick-accented [[Green Monster|green]] amoeba with a Red Sox cap.
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== Real Life ==
* [[
** Same for the mayor of thaCittaBossun, Thomas "Mumbles" Menino.
*** Mumbles doesn't have an accent, he has a speech impediment. That or he is certifiably insane. Thank woo!
*** Knowing Menino it's probably a bit of both, since he is from Hyde Pahk.
* The Low family was settled in Salem as well as in NY and were noted among the shipping families. Helen Auger wrote a history of them titled, ''Tall Ships to Cathay.'' It is a hard book to get unless you run across it by chance or happen to be shopping online.
* [[Ben Affleck]] and [[Matt Damon]].
* [[Stephen King]]
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
* [[
* [[Uma Thurman]]
* The red-headed goddess known as [[Alicia Witt]].
* [[Denis Leary]]
* [[Conan O
* [[Jay Leno]]
* Marshal Dodge, the Maine comedian and brains behind the comedy ensemble ''Bert & I'' whose catchphrase "You can't get theyah from heyah" (You can't get there from here) gets referenced nearly as often as Hahvahd Yahd.
* Boston comedian Jimmy Tingle, who famously responded to "Can you say 'Pahk the Cah in Hahvahd Yahd'" with "What are you, retahded?" (Pron: "Whad' ah ya, retahded?")
* [[Eliza Dushku]], best known for playing a [[Southies|Southie]] who [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|kicks vampire ass]].
* [[James
* [[Eli Roth]](see [[
* [[Seth
* [[Madeline Zima]]
* [[James Woods]]
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* [[Lenny Clarke]], Cambridge-born comedian
* [[Ben Foster]], one of the Y-Generation's great up-and-coming [[Large Ham|hams]].
* [[Liv Tyler]], even before finding out [[Aerosmith
* [[I Love New York|Mr. Boston]]
* [[Amy Poehler]].
* Maine stand-up comic, Comedian Bob Marley
* [[Charlie Adler]]
* Chris Bojalian, author of books like ''Midwives'', lives in Vermont. Many of his books are set in fictional Vermont towns. He also has a column in the local Burlington newspaper, ''The Burlington Free Press''.
* Howard Frank Mosher, author, lives in and sets most of his books in the northeast corner of Vermont.
* [[Frank Miller]], the man behind graphic novels like ''300'' and ''Sin City'', was raised in Montpelier, Vermont.
* Jay Craven, film director and screenwriter, is from Vermont. One of his first films was the above Vermont native Howard Frank Mosher's book ''A Stranger in the Kingdom''.
* Grace Potter, singer (and her band, The Nocturnals), are from Vermont. She just did a duet with Kenny Chesney recently{{when}}.
* Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, was from Vermont.
* M. Emmett Walsh, actor, was raised in rural Vermont.
* The band Phish was formed at the University of Vermont.
* [[Mandy Moore]] is from Nashua, New Hampshire.
* John Irving, author of ''The Cider House Rules'', was born and raised in New Hampshire.
* A surprisingly large number of popular
* Samuel Clemens, ''aka'' 'Mark Twain', was born in Missouri and became famous in California, but actually spent most of his life living in Connecticut. The "If you don't like the NE weather, just wait five minutes" quip is one of his.
* The Dulles family, which has an airport named after them. One of them was a [[The Spymaster|spymaster]], one a diplomat, and one a priest. One wonders a bit about what their ancestors getting off the ''Mayflower'' would think about that last one.
* Samuel Eliot Morrison was a Boston man, a scholar and the go-to guy for the history of the World War Two US Navy.
* [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] from Portland, Maine was long one of America's favorite poets and his works have stood the test of time despite intellectual fashion. He was also an all-round nice guy who loved his wives (his first unfortunately died), counted many friends among fellow academics, and was a [[Friend to All Children]]. He was basically the "Grandfather" or maybe "Uncle" of New England. He wasn't the sort of stereotyped intellectual who liked womanizing and plotting revolutionary politics and ended up doing something weird. He liked his books and his [[Fire of Comfort]] and his [[Local Hangout]] and was very much a [[Gentleman and a Scholar]].
* The "Codfish aristocracy" literally was so. That was how many families bootstrapped their way to power and many kept a finger in that. They latter branched out into merchant shipping, whaling, and so on and some made a stab at more stereotypically inland investments like fur and cattle (fur actually had a connection because it could be gotten from Oregon and was one of the few things that would sell in China). They made Hawaii a rich port of call, and through a convoluted and long political process a US possession. The sea was as much New England's Frontier as the West, perhaps more so.
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