History Main / LandOfTulipsAndWindmills

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* In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Peter Parker takes a brief, unplanned detour to the Netherlands that's largely played for laughs. Everyone he meets, including the police and local FootballHooligans, are models of kindness, he cannot pronounce ''anything'', people wearing traditional Dutch attire walk by, and in one scene, he's literally standing in a field of tulips while a windmill spins in the background.
* ''Film/TheWindmillMassacre'' is about a group of tourists on a sightseeing tour of windmills that goes horribly wrong. Dutch stereotypes are both played straight and horribly subverted.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': During Cartman's performance of [[TheVillainSucksSong "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch"]], there's a segment where he and the other South Park elementary boys are depicted as people from around the world. The Dutch ([[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign singing gibberish]] like the other nationalities depicted) are shown in traditional clothing with windmills in the background.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': The Netherland Stage in ''Tag Tournament 2'' takes place in a field of tulips with windmill and is appropriately named Tulip Festival.

See also {{Oktoberfest}} for the similar retroactive depiction of their neighbors the Germans. See also YodelLand.

See also {{Oktoberfest}} for the similar retroactive depiction of their neighbors the Germans.

This is the HollywoodAtlas version of UsefulNotes/{{the Netherlands}}, particularly Holland, when it is depicted in media. A green, flat country full of polders, dikes, pastures, and ditches. There are fields of tulips, grazing cows, and probably some windmills in the background (but hopefully no [[TheMountainsOfIllinois mountains]]; the Netherlands is one of the flattest countries of the world and notoriously largely below sea level; its hightst point is the Vaalserberg, but it's only 300 meters tall, so not a mountain by ''anyone else's'' standards).

* ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'': In addition to bringing back Daisy Hills, the game also has the racetrack "Amsterdam Drift", which has the players race in both the city of Amsterdam and its outskirts; and as you might expect, they are filled with windmills, grassy mountains and flowers. Rosalina even gets a Voldendam costume, which is traditional Dutch clothing from the town of Volendam.

This is the HollywoodAtlas version of UsefulNotes/{{the Netherlands}} when it is depicted in media. A green, flat country full of polders, dikes, pastures, and ditches. There are fields of tulips, grazing cows, and probably some windmills in the background (but hopefully no [[TheMountainsOfIllinois mountains]]; the Netherlands is one of the flattest countries of the world and notoriously largely below sea level; its hightst point is the Vaalserberg, but it's only 300 meters tall, so not a mountain by ''anyone else's'' standards).

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* The Kingdom of Firene in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'' is heavily inspired by Holland, with a''very strong'' emphasis on its beautiful flowers and vegetation. Oh, and there are windmills ''everywhere''. The Firenese also wear clothing very reminiscent of the traditional Voldendam costumes

* ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'': Daisy Hills gives off serious vibes of this trope, with windmills, flowers and an overly cheery, rural flair. It is mixed with some alpine, Austrian motifs as well.
* ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'' has the racetrack "Amsterdam Drift", which has the players race in both the city of Amsterdam and its outskirts, which, as you might expect, are filled with windmills, grassy mountains and flowers. Rosalina even gets a Voldendam costume, which is traditional dutch clothing from the town of Volendam.

This is the HollywoodAtlas version of UsefulNotes/{{the Netherlands}} when it is depicted in media. A green, flat country full of polders, dikes, pastures, and ditches. There are fields of tulips, grazing cows, and probably some windmills in the background (but hopefully no [[TheMountainsOfIllinois mountains]]; there is the Vaalserberg, but it's only 300 meters tall, so not a mountain by ''anyone else's'' standards).

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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'': Windmillville in ''Mario Party 7'' plays it about as straight as one can get in a ''Mario'' game.

* ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheep'' is a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic set mainly in the Discworld equivalent of Holland. As might be expected in an OriginalFlavour fic taking its cue from Creator/TerryPratchett's UpToEleven parodies of real world countries and (more importantly) states of mind, all the associations of Holland are dropped in the bag, shaken up, and tipped on the table to see what comes out. Windmills, clogs, tulips, canals, a national tendency to smoke strange tobaccos in smoky coffeehouses, a language described by the unkind as the product of an untreated throat infection, and that bland tasting cheese with the chewy red rind (which nobody ever tells you that you aren't supposed to try and eat). They're all there. Oh, and a semi-misunderstanding relationship with [[AmoralAfrikaner colonial cousins]] in, er, "Africa", who speak broadly the same language, and in that time and place [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra have somewhat illiberal social ideas]]. Next door to "Sto Kerrig" is [[UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} a strange border region]] where "sto helit sprouts" are cultivated and a related language called "Phlegmish" is spoken.

* ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'' has the racetrack "Amsterdam Drift", which has the players race in both the city of Amsterdam and its outskirts, which, as you might expect, are filled with windmills, grassy mountains and flowers.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'' has the racetrack "Amsterdam Drift", which has the players race in both the city of Amsterdam and its outskirts, which, as you might expect, are filled with windmills, grassy mountains and flowers.

* ''Film/TheWindmillMassacre'' is about a group of tourists on a sightseeing tour of windmills that goes horribly wrong. Dutch stereotypes and both played straight and horribly subverted.

This whimsical, chaste depiction of the country is curiously opposed to the ''other'' common depiction of the Netherlands as a giant FreestateAmsterdam, a haven of iniquity like drugs and prostitution.

See also {{Oktoberfest}} for the similar retroactive depiction of their neighbors the Germans. [[JustForFun Not to be confused with ]] {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}.

This is the HollywoodAtlas version of UsefulNotes/{{the Netherlands}} when it is depicted in media. A green, flat country full of polders, dikes, pastures, and ditches. There are fields of tulips, grazing cows, and probably some windmills in the background (but hopefully no [[TheMountainsOfIllinois mountains]]; there is the Vaalserberg, but it's only 300 meters tall, so not a mountain by ''anyone else's'' standards). The people wear traditional Dutch rural clothing: a long sleeved button up shirt, pleated pants, a neck scarf and a capped hat for men; and a long-sleeved ankle-length patterned dress, aprons and a triangular cloth hat for women. Both genders are required to wear clogs, a type of wooden shoe used to wade through wet soil. Temporally, the whole country seems to be stuck somewhere between the [[TheCavalierYears seventeenth]] to nineteenth centuries.