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[[File:whenmiceweremen.jpg|link=Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|frame|[[Spexico|This idyllic Spanish town]] [[Visual Pun|brought to you]] [[Product Placement|by]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Red Bull]]! By the way, this "town" ''is [[You Fail Geography Forever|supposed to be]] [[Critical Research Failure|Madrid]]'' ]]
 
The [[Hollywood Atlas]] version of Iberian countries (mostly Spain with possible addition of elements from Portugal, Andorra, etc.).
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== Literature ==
* P. Merimee's ''[[Carmen (Theatre)|Carmen]]'', especially the opera by Georges Bizet, is one of the oldest examples of this trope.
* [[Tom Clancy]] and [[Dan Brown]] have also portrayed Spain as a third-world country in ''Balance of Power'' and ''Digital Fortress'', respectively. Brown's case is even stranger because he supposedly spent some time living in Seville.
** That's [[Dan Browned]] [[Up to Eleven]]...
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* ''[[Caroline in The City]]'' has an episode (called ''Caroline and the Bullfighter'', so you know where this is going) where the main characters travel to Pamplona and, well, let's just say that every thing that follows is wrong.
* The episode ''Barcelona, May 1917'' of ''The Young [[Indiana Jones]] Chronicles''. Curious case as it was written, directed and starred mostly by British people, and in turn features a lot of ''British'' stereotypes about Spain instead of American ones: paella, Cordobese hats, a ''[[Anachronism Stew|duel]]'' at a bullring, a small jealous husband with moustache and an omnipresent bullfight tune every 5 minutes. Oh, and once the cheating is revealed to be a forgery, the small jealous husband decides to share a drink with the guy that he was going to kill a second before. ''¡Fiesta!''
* An episode of ''[[Relic Hunter (TV)|Relic Hunter]]'' has Sydney and Nigel in a rush to meet a professor in a Spanish university because according to them, siesta time will begin in 20 minutes and then everything will stop working.
* The Running of the Bulls is parodied in the ''[[Brass Eye]]'' episode "Animals" with the "Running of the Wasp", complete with footage of a crowd of people ostensibly running away from a wasp.
 
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** To be fair, however, all of the fighters are ridiculous stereotypes. This was [[Rule of Funny|probably intentional]].
* ''[[Harry Potter]]: Quidditch World Cup'': The Spanish team members are dressed as bullfighters, their stadium is a bullring and [[No Indoor Voice|they SCREAM!!!, not talk]].
* Then there's ''Running Against the Bull'' in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'' which, in typical [[Tim Schafer]] absurdist style, combines this with tacky black velvet paintings, neon &... ''highschool gym class?'' Capped off with a [[Bullfight Boss]] battle, of course. The level is, however, not an actual place, but rather a representation of the mind of a Latin American former wrestler with a combination of OCD, chronic depression and deep-seated insecurity issues relating to an incident in high-school.
* The Spanish team in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Soccer]]'' is called Los Toritos.
 
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Walt Disney]]'s ''Ferdinand the Bull'' short. ([[Adaptation Displacement|And the book it was based on.]])
* In the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' episode "When Mice Were Men", the Rangers travel to Spain, to a place named "Tramplonia" to be precise, to visit an old friend of Monty named Don Quijole. He tells them about an evil bull who stole all the other bulls to ruin the Running of the Bulls festival. The Rescue Rangers construct a mecha-toreador to defeat the evil bull. By the way, that's where the picture in this article is from.
* In an episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', the bad guys tail Jackie to Pamplona, and end up getting caught up in the Running of the Bulls.
* An episode of the classic ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon featured the Running of the Bulls... ''in Lisbon.''
** Which of course, looked like your stereotypical Spanish town, apart from the mentions of them being in Portugal.
* One episode of ''[[Totally Spies]]'' had the spies going to Spain. Not only was Madrid placed MUCH higher on the map, the city seemed to have come out of the 19th century... oh yeah, and there were bulls, of course.
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