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[[File:Niagara Falls USA Canada from Skylon Tower on 2002-05-28.png|thumb|600px|The Niagara Falls in the USA and Canada from Skylon Tower on May 28, 2002. Panorama by Robert F. Tobler.]]
'''Niagara Falls''' is a large and spectacular series of waterfalls located along the border of [[New York State]]
In popular culture, the falls are best known for four things:
* Being a destination for honeymooning couples, who dress up in full rain-gear, go out in tour boats and get drenched by the spray.
* Being a destination for older couples to get away from people they know (hence the cities' nickname "Viagara Falls").
* Idiots/Thrill-seekers going over them in some sort of reinforced barrel - and very, very occasionally surviving the trip.
* [[Monumental Damage]], where the falls are under (usually joking) threat of being destroyed/frozen/diverted.
In a case of [[Truth in Television]], they have a [[Cave Behind the Falls]].
If the falls appear in any sort of comedy or adventure context, someone's [[Inevitable Waterfall|going over them]], with or without a barrel.▼
▲If the
Often suffers from [[Television Geography]].
And if you're wondering about going there [https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls_(Ontario) as a tourist destination], [[You Have Been Warned|please make sure]] you're on the ''Canadian'' side of the border, even if it is a city-sized [[Tourist Trap]]. The American side is a [[Thriving Ghost Town]], due to Canada having
# a ''much'' better view of the falls (as shown here), and
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# [[Rated "M" for Money|high-rise casinos]].
=== Appearances in popular culture: ===▼
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== [[Anime]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Featured in one episode of ''[[Dinosaur King]]''.
* The falls - and the [[Cave Behind the Falls]] - feature in one episode of ''[[Speed Racer]]''.
== [[
* The falls is often the [[MacGuffin]] in a classic comedy routine done by many performers, including [[Abbott and Costello]] and [[The Three Stooges]]: a deranged man retells how he finally tracked down the one who wronged him at.. "[[Berserk Button|NIAGARA FALLS!!]] Slowly I turned.. step by step..."▼
** Which is made doubly hilarious (at least in the Stooges version) in that he ''meets'' the one who wronged him at the end of the bit... only to greet him as an old pal and say that they'd buried the hatchet a long time ago. Cue [[Tempting Fate|Niagara Falls]], and ''both'' of them start up for the beating.▼
* In one EC Comic story, "Ulric the Undying" jumps over the Falls.
* One of hero [[Tom Strong]]'s enemies dies by falling off the Falls.
* In some versions of the [[Buck Rogers]] franchise, Earth's capital city is located at Niagara and/or Buck has his headquarters behind the actual falls.
* One ''[[Shazam|Captain Marvel]]'' story has Dr. Sivana plot to destroy the Falls with a barrel full of explosives. He leaves the scene for a moment, when Ibac the Terrible rushes onto it, on the run from an [[Abhorrent Admirer]]. Ibac sees the barrel, dumps the explosives, and stuffs himself inside, at which point Sivana comes back and, unaware of the switch, dumps the barrel (
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Mark Twain]]'s ''Excerpts From Adam's Diary'' has Eve naming the Falls "Niagara Falls" because they [[Shaped Like Itself|''looked like Niagara Falls'']].▼
▲* [[Mark Twain]]'s ''Excerpts From Adam's Diary'' has Eve naming the Falls "Niagara Falls" because they ''looked like Niagara Falls''.
* Charles Dickens goes there in his "American Notes".
* Lake Erie and the Niagara Falls are the setting of a chase scene in [[Jules Verne]]'s novel ''Master Of The World''.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The short-lived fantasy series ''[[Wonderfalls]]'' is set at the falls. And yes, there is a barrel episode.
* ''[[The Office]]'' has had a wedding staged there.
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== [[Music]] ==
* ''[[The Marx Brothers|Lydia The Tattooed Lady]]'' has "a view" of them somewhere on her body.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* The falls is often the [[MacGuffin]] in [https://famousclowns.org/skits/niagara-falls-aka-slowly-turned/ a classic comedy routine done by many performers], including [[Abbott and Costello]] and [[The Three Stooges]]: a deranged man retells how he finally tracked down the one who wronged him at.. "[[Berserk Button|NIAGARA FALLS!!]] [[w:Slowly I Turned|Slowly I turned]].. step by step..."
▲** Which is made doubly hilarious (at least in the Stooges version) in that he ''meets'' the one who wronged him at the end of the bit... only to greet him as an old pal and say that they'd buried the hatchet a long time ago. Cue [[Tempting Fate|Niagara Falls]] from the third Stooge on stage, and ''both'' of them start up for the beating.
== [[Theater]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Marge and Homer go over the Falls.
* On ''[[The Fairly
* A setting in ''[[Sons of Butcher]]''.
* Ditto for one episode of ''[[Total Drama Island]]''.
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* In ''[[Around the World with Willy Fog]]'', Willy Fog and the gang must cross the cold river with their wind sail while fighting the downriver currents to prevent from going down the Falls in order to catch the next train.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Overclockwise", Fry goes over the Falls in a barrel. {{spoiler|In a subversion, it is an unsuccessful attempt at deliberately killing himself}}.
* One of the pranks that [[Bugs Bunny]] pulls in ''[[Looney Tunes|Rebel Rabbit]]'' is to [[Monumental Damage|turn off the falls]].
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