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* Volume 1 of ''[[Vinland Saga]]'' shows us the majestic mountains on the coast of the Jutland Peninsula. In reality, the Danish coast is as flat as the Netherlands.
* [http://digipedia.db-destiny.net/fanatics_guide/fanatics_movie.htm The Fanatic's Guide to Digimon: The Movie] has this tidbit:
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* Much snark has been made about [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[Pocahontas]]'' filling the flat area around Jamestown, Virginia with mountains and cliffs. While there are some tall mountains in Virginia, there are none anywhere near Jamestown.
** Or Norfolk, despite the fact that in ''[[Down Periscope]]'' peaks are visible from the naval base.
* The [[Jackie Chan]] film ''[[Rumble in The Bronx]]'' is supposed to take place in [[Big Applesauce|the Bronx, New York City]]. Of course it was filmed nowhere ''near'' the Bronx, but rather in [[California Doubling|Vancouver, British Columbia]]. The only remotely mountain-like higher land within view of New York City are [[wikipedia:The Palisades
* ''[[The Rundown]]'' has some hills in [[The Amazon]]... considering the [[wikipedia:File:Brazil topo.jpg|highest places in the forest]] are nowhere near the Amazon river...
* The 1950s Hollywood Mountie movie ''Saskatchewan'' had the Mounties riding through the majestic snowcapped mountains of said province. A province which, in reality, is so stereotypically flat that Canadians make jokes about roof repair guys being treated in Saskatchewan like astronauts. (The pre-1905 District of Saskatchewan had considerably different boundaries, but encompassed no mountain ranges.)
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* ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]'' has mountains on the Arctic ice cap... which is in the middle of the frozen ocean, with no land in sight for miles.
* Parodied in a deleted scene from ''[[Airplane!]]'':
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'''Ted:''' What mountains? We're over IOWA!
'''Elaine:''' The... THE CORNFIELDS, TED! THE CORNFIELDS! }}
* In Kenneth Branagh's version of ''[[Hamlet]]'', the eponymous protagonist delivers his famous "my thoughts be bloody, or nothing worth" speech on top of the great, snowy peaks that don't actually exist in Denmark.
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* ''[[Point Pleasant]]'', which was set on [[Joisey|the Jersey Shore]], featured establishing shots of Plymouth, New Hampshire, a town hundreds of miles to the northeast in the mountains that looks nothing like anywhere in New Jersey.
* Averted and lampshaded in ''[[Corner Gas]]'', filmed on location in Saskatchewan. When a traveler comments about the flatness, [[Deadpan Snarker]] Brent points out the lack of mountains in the distance, ''not'' blocking your scenic view.
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* Inverted in the US version of ''[[Queer as Folk]]''. It takes place in [[Pittsburgh]], which is located entirely within the Appalachian Mountains. You wouldn't know this from watching the show, however, since it was filmed in the rather flat [[Toronto]].
** To elaborate, a standard joke told to out-of-towners is that if a marble were placed on top of Mt. Washington in the city, it would not stop rolling until it reached Ohio.
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