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* In ''[[Easy A]]'', Olive's narration commenting on a character's punishment for contracting a veneral disease:

{{quote|"Due to his 'condition,' Micah was sent on an extended visit to his grandparents in Palatka, Florida. And if there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida."}}

* In [[Labyrinth]], Hoggle is terrified of being banished to the Bog of Eternal Stench. Unlike many of the other places on this list, the audience actually does get to see it. Perhaps fortunately, however, [[Take Our Word for It|we don't get to smell it.]]

* In ''[[Labyrinth]]'', Hoggle is terrified of being banished to the Bog of Eternal Stench. Unlike many of the other places on this list, the audience actually does get to see it. Perhaps fortunately, however, [[Take Our Word for It|we don't get to smell it.]]

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=== [[~~Jokes~~]] ===

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* Nantucket, Rhode Island; likely holds the record for being mentioned in more dirty limericks than any other city.

=== [[Literature]] ===

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{{quote|'''The Brain:''': This is the axis shift-a-Tron, a device that will alter the Earth's axis by one millionth of a percent. Causing a shift in weather patterns resulting in one less day of rain a year ''everywhere'' in the world! Except Los Angeles.}}

* ''[[Helluva Boss]]''; in a third season episode "Seeing Stars", Octavia runs away from home, steals her father's Grimoire (from Blitzo, who is using it) and travels to the human world; at first, Stolas and Blitzo have no idea where she is, until Loona sniffs the air and says, "Since it smells like urine and desperation, I'd say... Los Angeles." To drive this home, when they arrive there, Blitzo's first impression is that it's worse than Hell. Plus, while only Stolas and Loona are able to disguise themselves, none of the civilians bat an eye at them - it's a [[City of Weirdos]] where the I.M.P.s aren't weird enough to draw attention.

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=== [[Other Media]] ===

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* Nantucket, Rhode Island; likely holds the record for being mentioned in more dirty limericks than any other city.

=== [[Real Life]] ===

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* Particular scorn was heaped upon it by H.L. Mencken: "All other mammals would succumb quickly to what man endures without damage. Consider, for example, the life of a soldier in the front line--or the life of anyone in Mississippi."

** The phrase "sold down the river" refers to slaves in northern slave states being sold to Mississippi farms, a terrible fate due to the much harsher conditions down there. Today the phrase is still used to mean "betrayed."

* Twain said about Cincinnati, "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."

* [[Mark Twain]] said about Cincinnati, "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."

* In Argentina, during the first half of the XX century, capital punishment was imprisonment in the infamous Ushuaia prison, in Tierra del Fuego, a frozen hell in the middle of nowhere in the most southern point of America. There were even not many guards, as it was understood that anyone so crazy as to escape would survive a couple of days, at best. A lot of them tried, anyway, with unsurprising results. Considering the kind of inmates [[Fate Worse Than Death|you would share your cell with]], I'd have ventured into the frozen woods without second thoughts too.

* In Argentina, during the first half of the twentieth century, capital punishment was imprisonment in the infamous Ushuaia prison, in Tierra del Fuego, a frozen hell in the middle of nowhere in the most southern point of America. There were even not many guards, as it was understood that anyone so crazy as to escape would survive a couple of days, at best. A lot of them tried, anyway, with unsurprising results. Considering the kind of inmates [[Fate Worse Than Death|you would share your cell with]], I'd have ventured into the frozen woods without second thoughts too.

* In ~~[[SoCalization|~~California]] the cities of Salinas, Bakersfield and Fresno have this reputation, mostly spread by residents themselves.

* In California the cities of Salinas, Bakersfield and Fresno have this reputation, mostly spread by residents themselves.

** In the northern half of the Golden State, Yuba City, though less well known, also has image problems - partly because of its place as the hometown of the 1970s serial ax murderer Juan Corona, and also because the "Rand McNally Places Rated" quality-of-life ranking in 1985 placed the city 330th and last among U.S. cities.

* In Mesa County in Colorado, Clifton is this, and it is routinely mocked. And sometimes Fruita.