History PlayingWith / GlobalIgnorance

* '''Straight''': Bob thinks Toronto is the capital of Canada. When Alice corrects him it's actually Ottawa, he argues with her and is convinced it's Toronto.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice is an American woman who longs to go to Paris for holiday, and is surprised to find out the flight will take several hours. She doesn't know it's a city in Europe.
** Bob is an American guy who can't find the USA on the globe.

** Dave is a Michigander who is convinced that Detroit is the state capital and refuses to believe that it's actually Lansing.

** When asked what is the capital of Georgia, Bob (an American) says "[[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Atlanta]]" and Nikolai (a Russian) says "[[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaCaucasus Tbilisi]]". They're both right, but they both think the other one is wrong since neither one is aware that there are two places called Georgia.

* '''Subverted''': In a group of foreign exchange students, Bob the American guy can't find New York on the map and other students laugh at him. It turns out he was just pulling their leg. Of course he knows where New York is on the map, and all the other major cities. Bob can quickly find each student's home country.

** Bob is unable to find the Earth on a globe.
** Bob looks at a globe of the Earth and thinks it's Jupiter.

** No geography knowledge is mentioned
* '''Enforced''': Producers want to have a wacky American character on the show, and they ask the writers to include a RunningGag. In each episode, the American exposes the lack of global knowledge, like not knowing where a certain city is, swapping countries, taking continents for countries, calling countries by their obsolete names or doubting certain countries even exist.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Where is the Pacific Ocean, anyway?" -- "You Americans really suck at geography, don't you?"
* '''Invoked''': Bob's wacky guardian home-schools Bob, and thinks it'll be hilarious if Bob embarrasses himself about his geography knowledge, so he never teaches him geography, and occasionally he feeds him wrong information.

* '''Discussed''': "Remember Charlie at school? When asked to find London on the map, he was staring at Germany."
* '''Conversed''': "What's so funny about him not knowing where this obscure little country is? In real life, you can google it in an instance, and I bet most people wouldn't know that either. I wish movie characters could use internet like we do."

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* '''Justified''': Bob slept through all his geography classes in school.

** When asked what is the capital of Georgia, Bob (an American) says "Atlanta" and Nikolai (a Russian) says "Tbilisi". They're both right, but they both think the other one is wrong since neither one is aware that there are two places called Georgia.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice is a small girl who can't find her own town on the map. Her parents think she's old enough to know and they feel ashamed of her ignorance.

* '''Parodied''': Bob is unable to find the Earth on a globe.

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** Charlie thinks Africa is a single country.

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* '''Straight''': Bob thinks Totonto is the capital of Canada. When Alice corrects him it's actually Ottawa, he argues with her and is convinced it's Toronto.

* '''Invoked''': Bob's wacky guardian home-schools Bob, and thinks it'll be hilarious if Bob embarrasses himself about his geography knowledge, so he never teaches him geography, and occassionally he feeds him wrong information.

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* '''Enforced''': Producers want to have a wacky American character on the show, and they ask the writers to include a RunningGag. In each episode, the American exposes the lack of global knowledge, like know knowing where a certain city is, swapping countries, taking continents for countires, calling countries by their obsolete names or doubting certain countries exist.

* '''Invoked''': Bob's father thinks his son doesn't need to know about the world, so he teaches him only about their town.

'''Basic Trope''': A character is ignorant about basic geography knowlegde; they are therefore stupid and should be shamed over it.

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