History WhereTheHellIsSpringfield / WesternAnimation

** It's most likely somewhere near Dallas, in the UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex. Creator/MikeJudge once lived in the Dallas suburb of Garland, which is considered the closest analogue to Arlen. Arlen is also said to be within driving distance of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

* ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' is set in a town which is universally referred to as "Town" -- complete with extensive pauses and shifty eye movements from the GenreSavvy characters. One episode puts them near UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, but this is based only on how long it took them to drive to Las Vegas. The most likely location is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, home of both the production company and Creator/AdultSwim; the freeway map seems to correspond, and the Haggar Pants Arena is a carbon copy of the Georgia Dome (albeit with a giant pair of dress pants attached to the roof).

* The ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' cartoon used a town named Springfield, in the episode "There's No Place Like Springfield", where Shipwreck was subjected to a TrumanShowPlot to try to get him to spill classified information.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'' takes place in a small town called Peach Creek and gives no hints as to where the town actually is.

* The city in which the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' animated series takes place is never explicitly named in the show, though it's shown to be on the west coast of the United States. In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' comic based on the animated series, it's given the (rather unfortunate) moniker of Jump City. The Titans East, however, get to live in and protect "Steel City." In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comic that inspired the series, the team was based first in a secret location near Gotham City. Later incarnations were based in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco.

* Parodied in ''[[WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog]], whose title pooch lives with his owners in the middle of a wasteland region literally called Nowhere.

** Doofenshmirtz comes from the fictional nation of Druelselstein, a tiny European {{Ruritania}}. It might be a fictional region of Germany, as Doof's dad spoke German, Doof himself has "some sort of a German accent", and he's been known to use German words on occasion (like ''dummkopf'', meaning "idiot"). We later see that it has its own princess (whom Ferb describes as speaking with "an upper-class Druelselsteinian vocal pattern"). It might be based on a European micronation like Liechtenstein, a tiny monarchy in the Alps that uses Germany as an official language, but Druelselstein seems to be much a much poorer country.

* Also averted in ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'', where "Made In Japan: Part 2", via an email between Squishington and Little Robot, reveals that the show takes place in San Fransisco, California.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''' is set in the fictional town of Beach City in the east coast U.S. state of Delmarva: a blend of Delaware, Maryland, and the two-letter postal code for Virginia. It’s never specifically mentioned where this is in relation to the other states, which may all have different names and borders as well because of the series’ extensive alternate history.

* The ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' cartoon used a town named Springfield, in the episode “There's No Place Like Springfield”, where Shipwreck was subjected to a TrumanShowPlot to try to get him to spill classified information.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' is set in the city of Lawndale; although WordOfGod says that it’s in Maryland, this contradicts several episodes which show that it’s driving distance from desert and mountains. The city itself is always green, though, and it’s also only a few hours’ drive from Boston.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', in which the city is literally named “The City”. This leads to landmarks being named things like “City City Hall”.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has both the City of Townsville and the Town of Citysville. The Townsville mayor puts the city at latitude 32 degrees north by longitude 212 degrees west (which doesn’t exist, as longitude only goes up to 180). There is a city called Townsville in Australia, which would explain [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife all the monsters]] that [[EverythingTryingToKillYou plague the city]] if the only certain thing about it wasn't that it was set in the USA.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' doesn’t even give a name to the town where the home is, much less a general location. It is hinted, however, to take place in or near Townsville.
* ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' is set in a town which is universally referred to as “Town” – complete with extensive pauses and shifty eye movements from the GenreSavvy characters. One episode puts them near UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, but this is based only on how long it took them to drive to Las Vegas. The most likely location is UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, home of both the production company and Creator/AdultSwim; the freeway map seems to correspond, and the Haggar Pants Arena is a carbon copy of the Georgia Dome (albeit with a giant pair of dress pants attached to the roof).
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' takes its sweet time getting around to telling you that the Tennysons are originally from the town of Bellwood. But neither it nor its sequel ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'' (which actually stays close to home instead of [[WalkingTheEarth driving all over the US]]) ever bothers to mention [[http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Bellwood which of the ten possible Bellwoods it is]]. We’ve never seen it snowing there, and there is a desert within fifty miles; WildMassGuessing usually puts it somewhere in California or Nevada.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is set in Arlen, Texas. Where in Texas Arlen is, however, is never made clear. It’s in Heimlich County (which is also made up), and geographical details change from one episode to the next.
** It’s most likely somewhere near Dallas, in the UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex. Creator/MikeJudge once lived in the Dallas suburb of Garland, which is considered the closest analogue to Arlen. Arlen is also said to be within driving distance of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
** It may be a suburb of Austin. Strickland Propane’s RealLife counterpart is based in Leander, only a short drive from Austin. Austin and Arlen even apparently share a zip code. And about 60 miles from Austin is another candidate region, Bell County, with references to the cities of Belton and Killeen.
** It may be in the far south of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico. The waterpark in “Four Wave Intersection” is eerily similar to the Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark in South Padre Island, Texas; the same episode mentions that Boomhauer was a highly-renowned surfer in Corpus Christi. “Escape from Party Island” also features a short journey to Port Aransas.
** Its location relative to the Mexican border is uncertain. In “Three Days of the Kahn-Do”, Hank says it’s an eight-hour drive to the border, but later episodes (such as “The Perils of Polling”) have characters traveling to Mexico and back in the same day.
** And it did {{cross over}} with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', but they only mentioned that Arlen is 2000 miles from Springfield, which doesn’t clear anything up one way or the other.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' is set in an undefined location in France. Satellite shots show the action clearly taking place in the southern suburbs of Paris, but which one is not clear. The characters never name the town, nor do they refer to the river as the Seine. “The Factory” is inspired by a real Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt, a southern Paris suburb (it was demolished in 2004). Kadic Academy, on the other hand, was inspired by the Lycée Lakanal, based in Sceaux, further to the South. And the English dub [[CulturalTranslation didn’t even acknowledge that it was in France]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' is set on the island of Sodor, which is large enough to contain mountains, lost cities, and every sort of geographical feature, sometimes contradicting itself from season to season. It seems to be broadly British in terms of scenery and architecture, with some exceptions. There is mention of an unnamed “mainland”; locomotives from there have British and American designs, although later episodes show that the “mainland” refers to mainland Britain. A few locations, including some that resemble North America or even Japan, are close enough to be reached by tunnel. ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' books, though, have a rigid FantasyWorldMap, which places Sodor between the Isle of Man and the Walney Channel, off of Barrow-in-Furness.
* Bigg City in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tugs}}'' is never clearly given a location. One episode is called “4th of July” and features a very red-white-and-blue themed regatta, suggesting an American location. The architecture, vehicles, and generally the sheer size of the place suggests America. However, almost all the characters have British accents, and not a single one has an American accent. Wherever it is, it’s at the mouth of a river near extensive logging camps, and it sometimes freezes over in winter. WordOfGod suggests that inspiration was taken from New York, Chicago and Baltimore.

** The show itself takes place in Danville, which is somewhere in the Tri-State Area. It’s never stated ''which'' Tri-State area, and later episodes suggest it was actually named after a guy called “John P. Tristate”. There are also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danville eighteen Danvilles]] strewn across the U.S. and Canada, so it could be any one of them. We do know that the family can drive to Mount Rushmore and back in a day, and ThePilot shows it on a map somewhere around Denver. But “Hail Doofania” has [[MadScientist Doofenshmirtz]] putting his micronation in the San Francisco Bay Area (which does have a Danville), and its radio station starts with a “W” (implying that it’s east of the Mississippi).
** Doofenshmirtz comes from the fictional nation of Druelselstein, a tiny European {{Ruritania}}. It might be a fictional region of Germany, as Doof’s dad spoke German, Doof himself has “some sort of a German accent”, and he’s been known to use German words on occasion (like ''dummkopf'', meaning “idiot”). We later see that it has its own princess (whom Ferb describes as speaking with “an upper-class Druelselsteinian vocal pattern”). It might be based on a European micronation like Liechtenstein, a tiny monarchy in the Alps that uses Germany as an official language, but Druelselstein seems to be much a much poorer country.

* Middleton in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is apparently close enough to the heartland to be able to access Tennessee in less than thirty minutes, but it has California weather. It’s been shown on maps several times -- in a different location each time.
* Amity Park from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has been hinted at to be anywhere from states like Louisiana to the northwest states like Oregon and Washington. General consensus is that it's located in the central U.S., but that doesn't explain why Casper High has “Northwestern Standardized Testing”.
* The city where ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' takes place doesn’t have a clearly defined location; in fact, it appears to be named “City”. It’s most likely in Texas, though; radio callsigns start with “K”, it seems to be close to the Mexican border, and it gets hit by a tornado at one point. Then again, “Skips v. Technology” states that the park was once a battleground during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, putting it further east.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': The location of Mordhaus, Dethklok’s home, and the surrounding land is up for grabs. People have tried to get clues based on how Dethklok got to various gigs, but then it starts getting inconsistent. The only thing fans can conclude is that it ''isn’t'' Los Angeles. Or the Marianas Trench. And season three reveals that Mordhaus can ''[[GlobalAirship fly]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl''’s Fair City never has its location fully explained; all we know is that it’s near a body of water.
* {{Parodied|trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''; Brain creates his own country named [[{{Egopolis}} Brainania]], and Pinky accidentally declares war on the U.S. The U.S. immediately capitulates because they don’t know where Brainania is, and they can’t go to war with a country they can’t find.

* The animated ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'' takes place in “Junctionville, U.S.A.” Literally -- this is what's written on all of the mail that gets delivered to the place.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' is set in [[EverytownAmerica Dimmsdale]]. The Christmas Special puts it in Southern California, and it’s near the desert, beach, and forested mountains, but a TimeTravel escapade reveals that it was a British colony at the time of its founding (complete with YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe). The only real-life “Dimsdale” is in Canada.
* WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}’s hometown of Bluffington is only shown to be near Bloatsburg. However, it’s likely set in Virginia, where creator Jim Jenkins grew up. In a FreezeFrameBonus, Skeeter has a “Visit Virginia” sign in his room, and the geography looks similar to Virginia.
* Gardenia, the home town of Bloom, protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', appears to be in some English-speaking nation given the number of English signs, such as the big “Welcome to Gardenia” sign in the first episode. It certainly isn’t Italy like some fans thought, since in Season 4 they had to travel to Italy in order to find a certain fairy.

** “Central City”, from the two-part episode “Megatron’s Master Plan”, It apparently isn't that far from Autobot Headquarters, but it otherwise has no defined location.
** The Autobots’ crashed ship is also not given a specific location in the cartoon (although it did in [[ComicBook/TheTransformers the Marvel Comics]], which put it near Portland, Oregon on the side of “Mount St. Hilary”). In “Cosmic Rust”, though, Perceptor is left in Fox Creek Canyon, just three miles from Autobot Headquarters.
* ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder'': The Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder, a Batman and Robin parody, come from “Big City” in an undefined state. They have a port on the ocean and are near a huge lake - an apparent joke on one of the great lakes.
* ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'' is set in “Metrotown”. Its location is hinted at when explosions and such are seen from space, suggesting it is near UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}, Canada, where the show is made. And greater Vancouver also has a small neighborhood called Metrotown as well. Like Springfield, Metrotown has a statue of its founder, the aptly named “Jeremiah Metrotown”.
* It’s hard to tell where ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' is set. The spinoff series, ''WesternAnimation/GoDiegoGo'', seems to be somewhere set in Latin America. And the spinoff ''WesternAnimation/DorasExplorerGirls'' is equally vague; the city is unspecified, all of Dora's friends speak fluent [[GratuitousSpanish spanglish]], and it seems to be set in the same area as the original.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' can’t decide whether Porkbelly is in an unspecified American state or in Ontario.
* The animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' never really describes Heatherfield’s location either, though the English version seems to be set in a North American city that has moderate snowfall in winter and is located by the ocean. (Some have speculated that, given the coastal location and topology, Heatherfield is located in Connecticut, possibly as an alternate counterpart to the real city of New Haven.)

* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' is a minor example. The fictional town of Ocean Shores is confirmed to be on the beaches of Southern California; it’s just not confirmed exactly where it is along that coastal area (''i.e.'' if it’s closer to Los Angeles or San Diego).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' is set in the town of Retroville. It is never actually stated where in the country Retroville is, but several hints imply it is located in Texas, including the warm climate and presence of ranches nearby. In fact, in the movie, when Goddard is converted to fly cycle mode, you can even see the “Bad Dog” vanity license plate being from Texas. However, in “Attack of the Pants”, Carl at one point exclaims that his uncle is from Texas, though this might just be a throwaway line or an indication that Carl [[TheDitz doesn’t know what state he lives in]]. Even if Retroville is in Texas, it's still unknown what part of the state it is in, which makes a difference since Texas is the second-largest state in the union behind Alaska.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' is set in the town of Exclamation, U.S.A. The references to towns such as Santa Barbara and La Puenta indicate that the town is located in California. However, the existence of “St Paul’s Mattress Discounters” indicate it is possibly set in or near St. Paul, Minnesota.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'': Although X Middle School is easily large enough to qualify as a small city by itself, there's really no solid information on where it is beyond “somewhere that snows in the winter”, “north of Tennessee”, and “not Cleveland”. Character accents don't help much, since you can find virtually any accent if you look hard enough -- everything from Southern to Scottish has been used at least once. Wiki/TheOtherWiki puts it in or around Minneapolis.
* ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' kept the location of Kokonino Kounty ambiguous for decades, until [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAdn_dscOZY this short]] established it’s in Idaho.

* The Hallmark animated special ''WesternAnimation/JingleAllTheWay'' ([[NamesTheSame no relation to the]] Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger [[Film/JingleAllTheWay comedy of the same name]]) takes place in Pineville. Wiki/TheOtherWiki states that there are at least seven Pinevilles in the United States. The sequel, ''Jingle and Bell’s Christmas Star'', mentions “Palm City” – there’s one near San Diego, and the other is in Florida.

* The city in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' is never named, but it closely resembles San Francisco with all its old-fashioned architecture and steeply-sloped roads. Other clues, including people’s accents and certain maps, would suggest it might be on the New Jersey coast. We don’t even know the town’s name, although the Belcher kids go to “Wagstaff school” and certain businesses are called “Oceanside”. (Behind the scenes, the cast and crew call it “Seymour’s Bay”, after the show’s editor and his editing bay that they spend a lot of time in.)

* The city in which the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' animated series takes place is never explicitly named in the show, though it's shown to be on the west coast of the United States. In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo!'' comic based on the animated series, it's given the (rather unfortunate) moniker of Jump City. The Titans East, however, get to live in and protect "Steel City." In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comic that inspired the series, the team was based first in a secret location near Gotham City. Later incarnations were based in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco.

* Also averted in ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'', where "Made In Japan: Part 2", via an email between Squshington and Little Robot, reveals that the show takes place in San Fransisco, California.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has both the City of Townsville and the Town of Citysville. The Townsville mayor puts the city at latitude 32 degrees north by longitude 212 degrees west (which doesn’t exist, as longitude only goes up to 180). There is a city called Townsville in Australia, which might explain [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife all the monsters]] that [[EverythingTryingToKillYou plague the city]].

* Averted by the central town in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', which is located in Park County, Colorado (nearby Middle Park and North Park are rarely mentioned) and is nearby Fairplay, Fort Collins, Greeley, and most notably, Denver. WordOfGod has both stated it is based on Fairplay as well as childhood rumors and gossip about the real-life town of South Park.
** Still in some effect, however, in relation to its internal geography. While the first few seasons had some consistency, the town's exact layout became increasingly inconsistent over the years, with new locations often appearing for single episodes, familiar ones being shifted around for episodic convenience, and even locations originally implied to be outside town (Hell's Pass Hospital, the larger Park County Police Station) gradually appearing within it. The release of ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'' lead to an official layout, but many recurring locations were not included, and the show continues to make changes.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has both the City of Townsville and the Town of Citysville. The Townsville mayor puts the city at latitude 32 degrees north by longitude 212 degrees west (which doesn’t exist, as longitude only goes up to 180). There is a city called Townsville in Australia, which might explain [[AustralianWildlife all the monsters]] that [[EverythingTryingToKillYou plague the city]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' is set in [[EverytownAmerica Dimmsdale]]. The Christmas Special puts it in Southern California, and it’s near the desert, beach, and forested mountains, but a TimeTravel escapade reveals that it was a British colony at the time of its founding (complete with YeOldeButcheredeEnglish). The only real-life “Dimsdale” is in Canada.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'': Although X Middle School is easily large enough to qualify as a small city by itself, there's really no solid information on where it is beyond “somewhere that snows in the winter”, “north of Tennessee”, and “not Cleveland”. Character accents don't help much, since you can find virtually any accent if you look hard enough -- everything from Southern to Scottish has been used at least once. TheOtherWiki puts it in or around Minneapolis.

* The Hallmark animated special ''WesternAnimation/JingleAllTheWay'' ([[NamesTheSame no relation to the]] Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger [[Film/JingleAllTheWay comedy of the same name]]) takes place in Pineville. TheOtherWiki states that there are at least seven Pinevilles in the United States. The sequel, ''Jingle and Bell’s Christmas Star'', mentions “Palm City” – there’s one near San Diego, and the other is in Florida.

* Coolsville, the hometown of the Mystery Inc. gang in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' and ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo''. Its' state is never mentioned, but it's hinted it may be in California, due to some costal settings depicted, and a [[ItsAlwaysSpring rather spring-like]] Valentine's Day seen in "A Scooby-Doo Valentine", and any time there is snow in both series, it's outside of Coolsville in some way.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' is set on the island of Sodor, which is large enough to contain mountains, lost cities, and every sort of geographical feature, sometimes contradicting itself from season to season. It seems to be broadly British in terms of scenery and architecture, with some exceptions. There is mention of an unnamed “mainland”; locomotives from there have British and American designs, although later episodes show that the “mainland” refers to mainland Britain. A few locations, including some that resemble North America or even Japan, are close enough to be reached by tunnel. ''TheRailwaySeries'' books, though, have a rigid FantasyWorldMap, which places Sodor between the Isle of Man and the Walney Channel, off of Barrow-in-Furness.

* The animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' never really describes Heatherfield’s location either, though the English version seems to be set in a North American city that has moderate snowfall in winter and is located by the ocean.

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* The city where ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' takes place is never even named, let alone given a location. Various zoom-ins from orbit, and some supplemental material of questionable canonicity, place it anywhere from Ohio to Ontario to Quebec -- the consensus is that it's somewhere in northern North America, but that's as far as it goes.