History Main / CanadaDoesnotExist

See also HollywoodNorth, CaliforniaDoubling, HollywoodAtlas, BigApplesauce, IstanbulNotConstantinople, CityWithNoName, WhereTheHellIsSpringfield, CityofAdventure and NegativeContinuity.

* ''[[Film/The Fly]]'' was filmed entirely in Toronto, but set in a U.S. nowhereland. See details above.

* ''[[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie]]'' was filmed entirely in Australia, though the series at the time was set in California.
* Averted in DarkCity. The only real giveaway that the filming took place primarily in a studio near Sydney is the somewhat out of place Australian accent of a young police officer who talks to Detective Bumstead in one scene. Also, the director happens to be from Australia.
* Set in the universal American city, Metropolis, all of ''Film/{{Superman}} Returns'' was filmed in Australia. The Kansas scenes were filmed near Tamworth, a country town. At one point Bryan Singer was worried that the original Kansas farm scenes from the first movie were actually filmed in Kansas; he learned that Richard Donner filmed them in Alberta.
* In ''{{Knowing}}'', Melbourne serves as a stand-in for both UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} and parts of NewYorkCity.
* The 1996 version of ''ThePhantom'' (with Billy Zane in the purple suit) had WarnerBros Movie World on Queensland's Gold Coast and the city of Brisbane doubling for various US locations.
* The 2005 remake of ''HouseOfWax'' was shot in Queensland, with areas around the Gold Coast doubling rather unconvincingly for Louisiana.
* The 1989 ''{{Punisher}}'' movie had the title character pulling up on his motorcycle outside a CES sign, which any Australian of the time would recognize as the Commonwealth Employment Service (the govt organization that handed out dole payments). Ironically the service was privatized some time ago, so anyone watching it on DVD now would likely not recognize it.
* ''{{Cybergirl}}'' was set in a fictitious city named "River City", which was a very thinly-veiled version of Brisbane (the location of River City was never given).
* ''{{The Marine}}'' was mostly shot in Queensland, Australia but set in South Carolina.

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[[caption-width-right:320:"Careful! This guy's the most wanted man in Amer... uhh... I mean... you know... ''that place''!"]]

[[caption-width-right:320:"Careful! This guy's the most wanted man in Amer... uhh... I mean... you know... 'somewhere'!"]]

[[caption-width-right:320:"Careful! This guy's the most wanted man in Amer... I mean... Cana... er... some damn place!"]]

[[caption-width-right:320:"Careful! This guy's the most wanted man in Amer... uh... Can... er... SOMEWHERE!"]]

See also HollywoodNorth, HollywoodAtlas, BigApplesauce, IstanbulNotConstantinople, CityWithNoName, WhereTheHellIsSpringfield, CityofAdventure and NegativeContinuity.

This trope was spawned in the 80's when a low Canadian dollar and government subsidies triggered a wave of drama TV production by local (though often transplanted American) producers. These companies started churning out a bunch of reasonably slick cop and action-adventure shows for a fraction of what they cost to produce in Hollywood.

Superficially similar to CaliforniaDoubling and other location tropes, CDNE is distinguished by the way the shoot location actually affects the way the way the scriptwriters write the story. With CaliforniaDoubling, the audience needs to accept the desert-scrub of a Burbank backlot as the Amazon rainforest, but the location of the shoot has no effect on the story itself. With CanadaDoesNotExist, the location affects the script considerably, forcing the writers to contort their stories to avoid mentioning or giving hints about the show's fictional setting.

Superficially similar to CaliforniaDoubling and other location tropes, CDNE is distinguished by the way the shoot location actually affects the way the way the scriptwriters write the story. With CaliforniaDoubling, the audience needs to accept the desert-scrub of a Burbank backlot as the Amazon rainforest, but the location of the shoot has no effect on the story itself. With CanadaDoesNotExist, the location affects the location, and forces the scriptwriters into a series of creative contortions to avoid naming the show's fictional setting.

CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, location-based trope distantly related to WhereTheHellIsSpringfield. Though it might arguably apply to a tiny handful of shows produced elsewhere, the overwhelming number produced north of the border justifies the name. CDNE shows are usually shot in a Canadian location, but the fictional setting is deliberately left vague, a "nowehereland" that is neither fully Canada nor the U.S.

CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, location-based trope distantly related to WhereTheHellIsSpringfield. Though it might arguably apply to a tiny handful of shows produced elsewhere, the overwhelming number produced north of the border justifies the name. CDNE shows are usually in a Canadian city like Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal, but the fictional setting is left in an intentional "nowehereland", never explicitly identified as either the USA or Canada.

CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, location-based trope distantly related to WhereTheHellIsSpringfield. Though it might arguably apply to a tiny handful of shows produced elsewhere, the overwhelming number produced north of the border justifies the name.

Superficially similar to CaliforniaDoubling and other location tropes, CDNE is distinguished by the way the shoot location actually affects the way the way the scriptwriters write the story. With CaliforniaDoubling, the audience may need to suspend disbelief to accept the desert-scrub of a Burbank backlot as the Amazon rainforest, but the location of the shoot would normally never affect the script. With CanadaDoesNotExist, it always affects the script, and forces the scriptwriters into a series of creative contortions to not simply disguise, but completely obfuscate the show's setting.

CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, location-based trope distantly related to WhereTheHellIsSpringfield? Though it might arguably apply to a tiny handful of shows produced elsewhere, the overwhelming number produced north of the border justifies the name.

CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, location-based trope distantly related to WhereTheHellIsSpringfield? Though a handful of shows produced outside of Canada might fall under it, the overwhelming number produced north of the border justifies the name. Moreover, the gymnastic contortions scriptwriters had to go through to obfuscate the show's setting (i.e.: it's set in an unnamed, "nowhereland" country) distinguishes it from more familiar location tropes like CaliforniaDoubling. The audience may need to suspend disbelief to accept that the desert-scrub of a California backlot is the Amazon rainforest, but the location of the shoot never affects the script. That's not the case with CanadaDoesNotExist.

It was spawned in the 80's when a low Canadian dollar and government subsidies triggered a wave of drama TV production by local (though often transplanted American) producers. These companies started churning out a bunch of reasonably slick cop and action-adventure shows for a fraction of what they cost to produce in Hollywood.

CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, self-contained trope distantly related to WhereTheHellIsSpringfield?

It was spawned in the 80's when a low Canadian dollar and government subsidies triggered a wave of drama TV production by local (though often transplanted American) producers. These companies started churning out a bunch of reasonably slick cop and action-adventure shows for a fraction of what they cost to produce in Hollywood. Though a handful of shows produced elsewhere might fall under this trope, the overwhelming number of them produced north of the border justifies the name. Moreover, the incredible, gymnastic contortions creators had to go through to went through to obfuscate the show's setting (i.e.: it's set in an unnamed, neither-here-nor-there country) distinguishes it from similar tropes, like the desert-scrub of a California backlot standing in the Arctic, a tropical rainforest, or rural Slovakia.

Not to be confused with its close cousin, BlueMailboxSyndrome (the simple disguising of Canadian locations to look like the U.S., often to laughable effect) CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, self-contained trope of its own, distantly related to WhereTheHellIsSpringfield?

Not to be confused with its close cousin, BlueMailboxSyndrome (the simple disguising of Canadian locations to look like the U.S., often to laughable effect) CanadaDoesNotExist is a strange, self-contained trope of its own, distantly related to WhereTheHellisSpringfield?

It was spawned in the 80's when a low Canadian dollar and government subsidies triggered a wave of drama TV production by local (though often transplanted American) producers. These companies started churning out a bunch of reasonably slick cop and action-adventure shows for a fraction of what they cost to produce in Hollywood. Though a handful of shows produced elsewhere might fall under this trope, the overwhelming number of shows produced North of 49 justifies the name. Moreover, the incredible, gymnastic contortions creators often went through to disguise the show's setting (i.e.: the location city and country are deliberately obfuscated in the script) distinguishes it from the much more familiar trope of the California backlot standing in for locations all over the world.

Not to be confused with its close cousin, Blue Mailbox Syndrome (the simple disguising of Canadian locations to look like the US, often to laughable effect) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Canada is a strange, self-contained trope of its own, distantly related to WhereTheHellisSpringfield?

It was spawned in the 80's when a low Canadian dollar and government subsidies triggered a wave of drama TV production by local (though often transplanted American) producers. These companies started churning out a bunch of reasonably slick cop and action-adventure shows for a fraction of what they cost to produce in Hollywood. Though a handful of shows produced elsewhere might fall under this trope (most notably Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, both produced in New Zealand) the overwhelming number of productions produced North of 49 justifies the name.