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1	This is when a show disrupts its CaliforniaDoubling '''without changing its shooting location''', by temporarily moving the (fictional) action to the (real) place where the show is filmed.
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3	For example, let's say that ''Big Apple Detective Show'' is set in UsefulNotes/{{New York\|City}}, but filmed in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Two or three seasons roll by. Then, for a change of pace, the plot of one episode has Detectives Alice and Bob follow a lead to Los Angeles. Suddenly the show can pull off a few tricks that it couldn't before. Scenes take place outside more. There's SceneryPorn. The establishing shots actually have the characters in them. In short, it has all the novelty and excitement of an episode shot on-location in a different city...but it's ''not'' actually a different city, which makes it cheaper to film.
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5	By its nature, this technique is almost entirely exclusive to live-action TV, although film examples are theoretically possible.
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7	May be used for a VacationEpisode.
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9	To reiterate: this is the show being temporarily '''set where it is ''already'' filmed,''' not just filmed where it is set. There must be a clear pattern of CaliforniaDoubling that is then broken '''by the plot, without changing the filming location'''. If the cast and crew have to travel anywhere out of the ordinary to shoot the episode, it's not this.
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11	Compare HowsYourBritishAccent, where an actor uses their real accent for once because their character needs a "fake" accent.
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14	!!Examples:
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16	* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' (set in New York City, filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}) has an episode where the epilogue takes place in Toronto.
17	* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' (set in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, filmed in L.A.) has a few:
18	** "The Woman at the Airport": the characters travel to L.A. to investigate a murder.
19	** "The Suit on the Set": the characters return to L.A. to consult on a film, where they ''discover'' a murder.
20	** "The 200th in the 10th": an {{Elseworld}} episode with the characters living in 1950s L.A.
21	* ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'', usually set in New York but filmed in L.A., has "To Love and Die in L.A.", where Beckett follows the trail of the man who killed her mentor to Los Angeles.
22	* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' was filmed in Lithuania due to the existence of a working nuclear power plant that still resembled the titular one how it was in 1986. As a nod to that, the CompositeCharacter scientist Khomyuk is Lithuanian, and her first scene has her detecting suspicious levels of radiation in Lithuania.
23	* ''Series/TheDeadZone'' (set in Maine, filmed in Vancouver): one episode Johnny visits a man living in Vancouver.
24	* The revived series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' is filmed in Cardiff, which consequently has stood in for UsefulNotes/{{London}}, New York and other exotic locations. The first-season episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Boom Town]]" is set in Cardiff, and features the TARDIS parked in front of a recognizable Cardiff landmark with another in the background.
25	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is generally set in the United States, John Crichton's homeland, on the rare occasions it's not set in a distant part of outer space, but is filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}. One story does have scenes set in Australia, with the explanation that that's where the Farscape module is being tested. Ironically it turns out the protagonist is [[VirtualRealityInterrogation not in Australia or anywhere else on Earth]]. In another episode, Crichton has a BattleAtTheCentreOfTheMind against his NotSoImaginaryFriend that was clearly filmed in Luna Park Sydney. Since Crichton had already been established as spending time in the city the imagery is presumably drawn from those memories.
26	* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' is set in Gilead (the former northeastern United States) but filmed in Toronto. Starting from an episode where the Waterfords travel to Toronto on a diplomatic mission, the show has begun to focus on the "Little America" diaspora based in Toronto.
27	* ''Series/ILoveLucy'' (set in New York City, mostly in one apartment) has Ricky coming out to Los Angeles for a few weeks to star in a movie, he can bring Lucy, and the Mertzes tag along too. The change of scenery does nothing to change Lucy's scheming.
28	* ''Film/TheJackal'': A rare film example. The climactic Washington, D.C. metro scenes were (very visibly) shot in Montreal, but unlike most films where this happens, an earlier scene also shot in Montreal is set in Montreal too.
29	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' (set on a mysterious island, filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}): When the Oceanic Six are rescued, they land in Hawai'i.
30	* The later seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' are filmed in UsefulNotes/NewZealand, but are set in towns and cities in America. However, there was [[Recap/PowerRangersDinoChargeWorldFamousInNewZealand a story arc]] of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' where the rangers visit New Zealand to hunt for a new Zord.
31	* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' is filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}, but normally set in Santa Barbara. However, there are two episodes where the characters take a trip to Vancouver: the VacationEpisode "Extradition: British Columbia", and its sequel "Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part".
32	* The American ''Series/{{Queer as Folk\|US}}'' was filmed in Toronto but set in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}. When everybody went to Toronto for an episode, there were a lot of winking remarks about how much the gay district there looked just like the one back home.
33	* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' is set in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, but filmed in Los Angeles. In the season 6 episode "Fake It 'Til You Make It", the titular characters discover that their latest murder case might be tied to a similar one in Los Angeles, so they fly out to take a look.
34	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': a temporal version in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E8FuturesEnd Future's End]]" where the crew happen to be in Los Angeles ''and'' in 1996.
35	* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': similarly, "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E03TomorrowAndTomorrowAndTomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow]]" is set in TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 21st-century Toronto, where ''SNW'' and ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' are filmed. (They had originally wanted to set it in New York, then in Toronto disguised as New York, but finally decided to simply set it in Toronto itself.) It's the first time any ''Star Trek'' production has had scenes set in Canada.
36	* When we first meet Raffi in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', she has her residence at [[KirksRock Vasquez Rocks]], which has been a popular filming location at numerous times before in Trek, though until now always posing as various alien planets instead. (Most notably it was the place where [[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Captain Kirk fought the Gorn]].)
37	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': in [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E15TheFrenchMistake one episode]] they magically [[RecursiveReality become two TV actors named Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki]] [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs filming a show called]] ''[[ShowWithinAShow Supernatural]]'', and the bulk of the episode takes place in the TV studio where the show is actually shot.
38	* ''Series/TimeTrax'' being filmed in Australia has a few episodes set there, though largely set in U.S.
39	* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
40	** Mulder and Scully's work takes them to Vancouver in "The End", which was aptly enough the last episode filmed in that city.
41	** After they moved shooting to LA, the episode "Hollywood, A.D." where somebody writes a movie {{Very Loosely Based\|OnATrueStory}} on their work partially takes place in LA.
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44	* ''Series/DueSouth'' is set in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} but filmed in Toronto. In one episode Fraser and Ray go to Toronto - that single episode was filmed in Chicago.

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