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* The B Plot of ''Series/{{Degrassi}} [[TheMovie Takes Manhattan]]'' had [[GraduateFromTheStory Spinner and Emma]] [[PairTheSpares get married]] there.

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* The B Plot of ''Series/{{Degrassi}} ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}} [[TheMovie Takes Manhattan]]'' had [[GraduateFromTheStory Spinner and Emma]] [[PairTheSpares get married]] there.
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Niagara Falls is a large and spectacular series of waterfalls located along the border of America's UsefulNotes/NewYorkState and the Canadian province of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]]. If you want all the fiddly technical details, go check out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls the relevant article]] on Website/TheOtherWiki. In popular culture, the falls are best known for three things:

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Niagara Falls is a large and spectacular series of waterfalls located along the border of America's UsefulNotes/NewYorkState the American state of UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}} and the Canadian province [[UsefulNotes/CanadianProvincesAndTerritories province]] of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]]. If you want all the fiddly technical details, go check out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls the relevant article]] on Website/TheOtherWiki. In popular culture, the falls are best known for three things:
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* ''Blog/WhatIf'': Randall answers what would happen if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw.

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* ''Blog/WhatIf'': Randall answers what would happen if [[https://what-if.xkcd.com/147/ you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw.straw]].
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* ''Blog/WhatIf'': Randall answers what would happen if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw.
-->''One would get in trouble with the International Niagara Committee, the International Niagara Board of Control, the International Joint Commission, the International Niagara Board Working Committee, and probably the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Also, the Earth would be destroyed]].''


[[caption-width-right:350:''[[BerserkButton/{{Film}} SLOOOOOOOWLY I TURNED!]]'']]

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Niagara Falls is a large and spectacular series of waterfalls located along the border of America's UsefulNotes/NewYorkState and the Canadian province of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]]. If you want all the fiddly technical details, go check out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls the relevant article]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki. In popular culture, the falls are best known for three things:

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Niagara Falls is a large and spectacular series of waterfalls located along the border of America's UsefulNotes/NewYorkState and the Canadian province of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]]. If you want all the fiddly technical details, go check out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls the relevant article]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki.Website/TheOtherWiki. In popular culture, the falls are best known for three things:
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* Creator/MarkTwain's ''Excerpts From Adam's Diary'' has Eve naming the Falls "Niagara Falls" because they ''looked like Niagara Falls''.
* Charles Dickens goes there in his "American Notes".

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* Creator/MarkTwain's ''Excerpts From Adam's Diary'' ''Literature/ExcerptsFromAdamsDiary'' has Eve naming the Falls "Niagara Falls" because they ''looked like Niagara Falls''.
* Charles Dickens goes there in his "American Notes".''Literature/AmericanNotes''.



* The short lived CanadianSeries ''TakingTheFalls'' was set on the Canadian side of the falls.

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* The short lived CanadianSeries ''TakingTheFalls'' ''Series/TakingTheFalls'' was set on the Canadian side of the falls.
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* The short-lived fantasy series ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'' is set at the falls. And yes, there is a barrel episode.

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* The short-lived fantasy series ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'' is set at the falls. And yes, there is a barrel episode. The show was set on the American side but [[CaliforniaDoubling filmed on the Canadian side]] because, as noted in the page intro, the view is more photogenic that way.
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* Featured in one episode of ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', where the Japanese protagonist Domon Kasshu fought the Canadian Andrew Graham in the falls.
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* When ''Literature/TheBFG'' is being tossed about by the other giants, Sophie who is in his pocket feels as if she is in a barrel going over Niagra Falls.
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* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAnd Ferb'' episode "Sidetracked", the cast recreates the Bellagio sequence from ''Film/Oceans11'', complete with the same music ("Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy). To make it kid friendly, Major Monogram eats a candy stick instead of smoking a cigar.

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* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAnd Ferb'' ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Sidetracked", the cast recreates the Bellagio sequence from ''Film/Oceans11'', complete with the same music ("Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy). To make it kid friendly, Major Monogram eats a candy stick instead of smoking a cigar.
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* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAnd Ferb'' episode "Sidetracked", the cast recreates the Bellagio sequence from ''Film/Oceans11'', complete with the same music ("Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy). To make it kid friendly, Major Monogram eats a candy stick instead of smoking a cigar.
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* In Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'' the shot of Boromir's boat going over the Falls of Rauros is not CGI - it's actually a stock aerial shot of Niagara with a CGI boat added (over footage of a barrel, if the audio commentary is to be believed).

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* In Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'' ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' the shot of Boromir's boat going over the Falls of Rauros is not CGI - it's actually a stock aerial shot of Niagara with a CGI boat added (over footage of a barrel, if the audio commentary is to be believed).

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* The falls is often the BerserkButton in a classic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_I_Turned comedy routine]] done by many performers, including Creator/AbbottAndCostello and Film/TheThreeStooges: a deranged man retells how he finally tracked down the one who wronged him at.. "[[BerserkButton NIAGARA FALLS!!]] Slowly I turned.. step by step..."

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* The falls is often the BerserkButton in a classic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_I_Turned comedy routine]] done by many performers, including Creator/AbbottAndCostello and Film/TheThreeStooges: a deranged man retells how he finally tracked down the one who wronged him at..at... "[[BerserkButton NIAGARA FALLS!!]] Slowly I turned.. step by step..."



--> Boat captain: You still alive in there?
--> Disheveled, grinning Marge: More alive than you squares!

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--> Boat captain: -->'''Boat captain:''' You still alive in there?
--> Disheveled, -->'''Disheveled, grinning Marge: Marge:''' More alive than you squares!squares!
** In another episode, Lisa gets stranded in the Canadian side during a family visit to the Falls.



* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short "Rebel Rabbit", part of Bugs' RoaringRampageOfRevenge over rabbits getting a bounty of only two cents involves turning off the Falls. A picture of the empty Falls shows dozens of barrels at the bottom.

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* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short "Rebel Rabbit", "WesternAnimation/RebelRabbit", part of Bugs' RoaringRampageOfRevenge over rabbits getting a bounty of only two cents involves turning off the Falls. A picture of the empty Falls shows dozens of barrels at the bottom.
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* Ditto for one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour''.

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* Ditto for one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour''. It shows up again in a extra scene for ''All-Stars'' when Gwen and Scott wind up there and go over the falls.
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** Which is made doubly hilarious (at least in the Stooges version) in that he ''meets'' the one who wronged him at the end of the bit... only to greet him as an old pal and say that they'd buried the hatchet a long time ago. Cue [[TemptingFate Niagara Falls]], and ''both'' of them start up for the beating.

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** Which is made doubly hilarious (at least in the Stooges version) in that he ''meets'' the one who wronged him at the end of the bit... only to greet him as an old pal and say that they'd buried the hatchet a long time ago. Cue [[TemptingFate Niagara Falls]], and ''both'' of them start gear up for beating the beating.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Marge and Homer go over the Falls.

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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Marge and Homer accidentally go over the Falls.Falls in a bounce house. [[CoitusUninterruptus While getting busy]].
--> Boat captain: You still alive in there?
--> Disheveled, grinning Marge: More alive than you squares!
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And if you're wondering about going there as a tourist destination, please make sure you're on the ''Canadian'' side of the border. The American side is a ThrivingGhostTown, due to Canada having a ''much'' better view of the falls and [[RatedMForMoney high-rise casinos]].

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And if you're wondering about going there as a tourist destination, please make sure you're on the ''Canadian'' side of the border. The American side is a ThrivingGhostTown, due to Canada having a ''much'' better view of the falls and [[RatedMForMoney high-rise casinos]]. Don't wait too long to go, either, as Niagara Falls will disappear about fifty thousand years from now when the river erodes the land all the way back to Lake Erie.
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* Ditto for one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''.

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* Ditto for one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''.''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour''.
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* Idiots/Thrill-seekers going over them in some sort of reinforced barrel.

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* Idiots/Thrill-seekers going over them in some sort of reinforced barrel. (People have died trying this, so [[DontTryThisAtHome don't try it yourself.]])
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* A flashback on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' showed Bernard proposing to Rose in a restaurant overlooking the falls.
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Niagara Falls is a large and spectacular series of waterfalls located along the border of America's UsefulNotes/NewYorkState and the Canadian province of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]]. If you want all the fiddly technical details, go check out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls the relevant article]] on TheOtherWiki. In popular culture, the falls are best known for three things:

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Niagara Falls is a large and spectacular series of waterfalls located along the border of America's UsefulNotes/NewYorkState and the Canadian province of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]]. If you want all the fiddly technical details, go check out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls the relevant article]] on TheOtherWiki.Wiki/TheOtherWiki. In popular culture, the falls are best known for three things:
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* The short-lived fantasy series ''{{Wonderfalls}}'' is set at the falls. And yes, there is a barrel episode.

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* The short-lived fantasy series ''{{Wonderfalls}}'' ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'' is set at the falls. And yes, there is a barrel episode.
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* ''[[TheMarxBrothers Lydia The Tattooed Lady]]'' has "a view" of them somewhere on her body.

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* ''[[TheMarxBrothers ''[[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Lydia The Tattooed Lady]]'' has "a view" of them somewhere on her body.

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