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6	The HollywoodAtlas version of Switzerland, as well as Bavaria, Austria, Northern Italy, and other regions in or near the Alps -- in fact, ''any'' place in Germany is also frequently part of Yodel Land in the HollywoodAtlas.
7
8	A quick guide:
9
10	Scenery:
11	* The Alps:
12	** The Matterhorn
13	** High and unreachable sharp mountain peaks with dangerously narrow and unstable pathways
14	** Expensive ski resorts
15	** Edelweiss (makes up some 80-90% of all non-generic flowers in Yodel Land)
16	** Avalanches
17	** Weather: either sunny and freezing cold or severe blizzard
18	* The valleys:
19	** [[GhibliHills Peaceful evergreen pastures with goats and/or cows]]
20	** Large, half-timbered houses
21	** Avalanches
22	** Weather: either sunny and warm or romantic snowfall
23	* The Black Forest (which isn't part of any of the aforementioned regions)
24
25	Appearance:
26	* Men:
27	** Lederhosen (often inaccurately depicted in places where they have never been traditional, e.g. most of Germany and ''all'' of Switzerland)
28	** Tyrolean hats (little green felt hats with a tuft of fur in the band) or {{Oktoberfest}} hats
29	** Huge, twirly, bushy funny-looking handlebar mustaches
30	** Monocles or glasses
31	** Gray beards (if they're past 55)
32	* Women:
33	** Long blonde hair (usually in braids)
34	** Dirndl dresses (cf. Lederhosen for inaccurate geographical/cultural application)
35	** Aprons
36	** Curvaceous with an ample bosom (older women will often be overweight)
37	* General:
38	** Tall and slender (if they're young) or short and stocky (if they're old)
39
40	Professions:
41	* Bankers (Male) for wealthy people's SwissBankAccount
42	** Rich
43	** GOLD
44	** They're sometimes gnomes
45	* Cheesemakers (Male)
46	* Chocolatiers (Male)
47	* Clock/watchmakers (Male)
48	* Woodcarvers (Male)
49	* Cow/goat/shepherds (Usually children; more often male than female, but females do appear occasionally.)
50	* Alpinists (or guides) (Male)
51	* Ski resort owners (Male)
52	* Innkeepers (Male)
53	* Beautiful blonde-braided [[MsFanservice girls in cleavaged]] Bavarian tavern wench dresses (like in {{Oktoberfest}}) (Female)
54	* Waitresses (See above)
55	* Spies (badass if male, [[FemmeFatale beautiful and seductive]] if female)
56	* Hunters (or more commonly, poachers).
57	* Hikers
58
59	Cuisine:
60	* Cheese
61	* Chocolate
62	* Fondue (may be either chocolate or cheese)
63	* Brandy
64	* Beer (especially around {{Oktoberfest}})
65	* Schnitzel, usually wienerschnitzel
66	* Sausages
67	* Dark rye bread
68	* Strudel and desserts with hazelnuts, chestnuts, apples, and Kirsch (cherry liqueur)
69
70	Wildlife:
71	* Goats
72	* Cows with big clanking bells
73	* Sheep
74	* Saint Bernard dogs (usually [[SaintBernardRescue with brandy casks around their necks]])
75	* Gulls
76	* Ibexes (always aggressive against whomever)
77	* Groundhogs (note that groundhogs are native to ''North America''. There ''are'' marmots in the Alps, but they're a separate species.)
78	* Mountain wildflowers, especially edelweiss.
79
80	Misc. culture:
81	* Yodeling
82	* [[SwissArmyWeapon Swiss army knives]] with 293,487,569,234,756 blades, including absurd/funny ones
83	* Extremely precise and expensive Swiss watches
84	* [[CuckooClockGag Cuckoo clocks]], though they weren't in fact invented in Switzerland or anywhere else in the Alps.
85	** Invented in the Black Forest, which is usually lumped together with Yodel Land, so it's not that bad a mistake.
86	* Alphorns and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranz_des_Vaches Ranz des Vaches]]
87	* Rustic carved wooden bears
88	* Myth/WilliamTell
89	* Dancing the laendler
90
91	Cultural values:
92	* [[TrueNeutral Neutrality]]
93	* Hospitality
94	* Prosperity
95	* Punctuality
96	* Pedantism
97
98	----
99	Never shown :
100	* Geneva
101	** Headquarters of the [=WHO=], the [=WTO=] and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
102	** The CERN research institute and its Large Hadron Collider
103	** Speaks ''French''.
104	* Ticino
105	** The warmest region in Switzerland; it's also the sunniest, wettest, and least snowfall in the country
106	** Bellinzona's Three Castles and Lakes Maggiore and Lugano.
107	** The Locarno International Film Festival, world-famous and influential film festival also notable for its giant open-air screen
108	** Speaks ''Italian''.
109	* Switzerland's eventful military history
110	** The famous Swiss pikemen of TheLateMiddleAges and UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance
111	* Switzerland's major role in the Reformation
112	** Huldlrych Zwingli and John Calvin
113	* Any place in Lower Austria, including {{UsefulNotes/Vienna}}. Also Burgenland; home to a significant Hungarian and Croatian minority, this flat region was not even Austrian territory until the end of ''UsefulNotes/WorldWarI''.
114	* The rivers and the traffic on them
115	** Rhine (Rhein) -- originates in Switzerland long before it reaches the Loreley. In centuries past, it could flood up to a third of the whole country of Liechtenstein.
116	** Aare -- surrounding the old part of Bern on three sides.
117	** Danube (Donau) -- the one mentioned in the title of ''The Blue Danube''. (Originates in the Black Forest and flows through Austria, but neither through Switzerland nor through the Alps.)
118	** Several others providing good opportunity for heavy ship traffic, both tourism and freight. While references to Switzerland and Austria having navies may seem jocular (neither has a coastline), both countries maintain a number of patrol boats on the rivers and larger lakes, kept by the army and police force respectively. And Austria had both a coast and a quite sizeable navy until 1918.
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120	May overlap with {{Oktoberfest}}, given the German influence in the region (Switzerland officially was part of the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire until the Thirty Years War, Austria belonged to Germany before 1866 and from 1938 to 1945), or with NorseByNorsewest due to confusing Switzerland with Sweden. The Spanish-speaking people make the latter confusion because in the language both countries names ("Suiza" and "Suecia" respectively) are way more similar. Same goes for Russians ("Shveytsariya" and "Shvetsiya"). In video games, the GreenHillZone is similar to Yodel Land, only with far more flatland and more tropical elements compared to its Bavarian cousin.
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122	See UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} for a more nuanced depiction. Also see WilliamTelling.
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124	----
125	!!Examples:
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127	[[foldercontrol]]
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129	[[folder:Advertising]]
130	* Often depicted in Ricola commercials. Which more of a kindo of SelfDeprecation, since Ricola is a Swiss product.
131	* Invoked in [[http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/heidi-klum-got-milk this Heidi Klum photoshoot]].
132	* ''Any'' Milka commercial is situated there. Milka ''is'' Swiss, so that's reasonable.
133	** Interestingly it was invented by a swiss chocolatier in Austria and is produced all over the world but not in Switzerland who prefer Lindt and Suchard with Germans in particular that love Milka.
134	* St. Ives health-and-beauty products
135	* Swiss Miss hot cocoa mix
136	* Extremely frequent in milk or milk product commercials in the aforementioned countries.
137	* Toaster Strudel
138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
141	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' -- Japan was forced violently and hilariously out of his ''Literature/{{Heidi}}''-inspired conception of the country, as its AnthropomorphicPersonification subverts this trope ''hard'', being a [[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] [[RichBitch Rich Son of a Bitch]]. Which in some official pin-up art is depicted with soldier attire of yesteryear. You wanted to know how Switzerland managed to remain neutral in most of the most recent wars? Now you know.
142	** Said Rich Son of a Bitch's little sister, however, plays it more or less straight. She's gentle, polite, soft-spoken, and used to have long blonde hair in braids. And the two are nigh inseparable.
143	** Exaggerated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USL3qh6bv6I&feature=related in the anime.]] [[Funny/HetaliaAxisPowers It has to be seen to be believed.]]
144	** Alluded again in recent sketches, which have [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-1280.html Switzerland dressing up as Wilhem Tell]] and [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-1282.html#more Liechtenstein posing as Tell's son]]
145	* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky,'' [[spoiler: though weirdly enough, the setting's a post-apocalyptic Japan that takes its town, buildings and countryside from the [[https://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/cuenca-spain-home-of-sora-no-woto/ Spanish town of Cuenca]]]].
146	* ''Anime/HeidiGirlOfTheAlps'', and how, to the point it currently provides the page image. To be fair, it's based on a novel that ''thrives'' on Yodel Land (see below in the Literature section).
147	* ''Anime/AlpsStoriesMyAnnette'': Played with. It's the story of a girl who lives in the Swiss Alps, based on the novel ''Literature/TreasuresOfTheSnow'', so the mountain setting is very similar to ''Heidi'' and one of the main characters is even an aspiring woodcarver. However, it takes place in the French speaking part of Switzerland, not German.
148	* ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'', in which an amnesiac girl who once was the SoleSurvivor of an accident travels through pre-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Switzerland with her boyfriend, both searching for her past and running away both from a StalkerWithACrush and ThoseWackyNazis. ''Alpen Rose'' is actually [[spoiler: a lullaby that she has struck on her mind, apparently the only real proof of who she is.]]
149	* While probably one of the overall best depictions of Germany in any anime, Berlin in ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' has a few streets that invoke a Yodel Land style. Even considering that in the timeline Berlin was destroyed and rebuild, it looks very out of place to anyone who actually has been to Berlin or northern Germany.
150	* ''Anime/IzettaTheLastWitch'' depicts the Principality of Eylstadt as a combination of this and {{Ruritania}}, being a mainly agricultural society surrounded by mountain ranges, with the cities having mostly medieval-style architecture.
151	[[/folder]]
152
153	[[folder:Comic Books]]
154	* WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} as Literature/WilhelmTell. It was set in Yodel Land, and there were lederhosen, cheese, hats with feathers, an alpenhorn, and fondue. WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck has also been Tell once with the Beagle Boys as the enemy and Scrooge [=McDuck=] as a not-so-rich-anymore cheese sealer. The famous apple shoot is of course included, but is a bit unusual, since with three nephews there are also three apples to be shot at one time.
155	* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} in Switzerland'' anachronistically depicts "Helvetia" with many Swiss stereotypes: an obsession with cleanliness, fondue, holed cheese, [[SwissBankAccount secret banking]], a "United Tribes" building, yodeling over alphorns, the invention of the cuckoo clock, and a FlowerFromTheMountaintop. There is also a subverted attempt at WilliamTelling.
156	* Franchise/TheDCU's [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction United Nations-chartered organization]] ''ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}'' is based in the Swiss Alps, in a medieval castle known only as "The Castle."
157	[[/folder]]
158
159	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
160	* A fairy tale called [[http://duress.tripod.com/hansi.htm "Hansi and the Nix"]] is about a young cowherd named Hansi, who likes yodelling. He encounters [[ElementalEmbodiment a water spirit]] [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent or freshwater mermaid]] he calls Nixie. The two fall in love over the course of the summer, but then fall comes and Nixie doesn't want to come up to the surface anymore because it's too cold for her. So Hansi agrees to live with her...and starts to miss all the classic aspects of Yodel Land: his favorite dairy cow, the cheese he made from the cow's milk, mountain flowers, etc. To make him happy (and thus remove any motivation for leaving the lake), Nixie brings him one thing...and [[MovingTheGoalposts then he gets wistful for another]]. [[spoiler: So one night, to put an end to that, she brings down Hansi's entire village. And they lived HappilyEverAfter under the lake.]]
161	[[/folder]]
162
163	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
164	* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon
165	** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' takes place in a medieval version of this.
166	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', despite [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the original story]] taking place in Italy, wears lederhosen and a Tyrolean hat.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': "Hey look, Materhosen!"
168	* The "woodcutter" (he's actually an actor teaching himself to cut trees as practice for a role) in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' is portrayed as a Yodel Lander in an otherwise-ambiguous fairy-tale setting. He wears lederhosen, drives a schnitzel truck (this was before food trucks were a thing, mind, so it's meant as a spoof of ice cream vans), and aspires to become a professional yodeler--and does, in the end, as part of a singing group called The Sound of Munich. The kids who buy his schnitzel look the part too.
169	[[/folder]]
170
171	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
172	* ''Film/TheThirdMan'' references this trope. And the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' parody "The Third Mouse" does it, too.
173	* The Creator/ShirleyTemple movie ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'', and the distant sequel ''Courage Mountain'' with Noely Thornton and a very young Charlie Sheen.
174	* ''Film/MoonZeroTwo'' had a scene where the villain's Bikini Girls were too busy playing with the whole-wall TV set to pay attention to the game of Monopoly they were supposed to be playing with their boss. One of them was setting the screens to show typical Swiss scenery, an alpine meadow filled with typically Swiss cows. The boss ordered them to turn the wall off...
175	-->'''Girl''': But I've never been to Switzerland!\
176	'''Boss''': The only thing worth seeing there are the banks.
177	* Most of the action in the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' takes place in Switzerland at a ski resort. A [[SaintBernardRescue Saint-Bernard dog]] comes at him at the end, but [[SubvertedTrope without brandy]].
178	* Creator/LaurelAndHardy in ''Swiss Miss''.
179	* Most of the action in the original ''Film/ThePinkPanther1963'' takes place at a Swiss ski resort.
180	* The Creator/TimBurton version of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' practically declares all of Germany Yodel Land by placing the city of Düsseldorf there.
181	* Most of ''FeuerEisUndDosenbier'' (a German movie, mind you) takes place somewhere that's not quite clear whether it shall be Switzerland or Austria, although it's two hours of walking distance uphill from an infamous Austrian ski resort.
182	%%* ''Film/ThirdManOnTheMountain''
183	* Partially subverted in the 1978 film ''Film/SilverBears''. It's set in Lugano, in the Italian speaking part Switzerland (a fact noted by a character). But the plot revolves around banking and money laundering.
184	* Many German or Austrian ''heimatfilme'' take place here, and is no less stereotypical and clichéd than non-German productions.
185	* Invoked InUniverse by Ophelia's costume in ''Film/TradingPlaces'':
186	-->'''Coleman:''' Let me see, you would be from Austria. Am I right?\
187	'''Ophelia:''' No, [[NorseByNorsewest I am Inga from Sweden]].\
188	'''Coleman:''' Sweden? ...but [[{{Oktoberfest}} you're wearing Lederhosen]].
189	In Film/CharliesAngels2000, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmGjaqi74q during this scene]], the Angels do this, but they are singing in German gibberish and Natalie is wearing lederhosen.
190	[[/folder]]
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192	[[folder:Literature]]
193	* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' villain Professor Poopypants is from a country called "New [[UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} Swissland]]" where [[PlanetOfHats everyone has a silly name.]]
194	* In Creator/DavidDrake and Creator/SMStirling's ''Literature/TheGeneralSeries'', the Halvardi [[FantasyCounterpartCulture are Swiss barbarian analogues]].
195	** "The Ambassadors of the Free Canton of the Halvardi!"
196	** "the eastern mountain tribe"
197	** "[their] hair was mostly blond, and both sexes wore it in long braids that fell to their waists on either side"
198	** "A shaman capered before them, waving a ... ceremonial wooden house with a small jeweled bird within..."
199	** Note: Halvardi = "Helvetia", which is very Swiss.
200	** it's also a type of cheese.
201	* OlderThanRadio: The ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'' series, created by Swiss writer Creator/JohannaSpyri, is set in the Swiss Alps, and is more or less the TropeCodifier.
202	* Creator/IanFleming, creator of ''Literature/JamesBond'', harboured a genuine love for the Germanic parts of the Alps (and for winter sports, in a time when they were an elitist pastime reserved for the moneyed travelers, and when people still remembered that mountaineering and downhill skiing had been pioneered by British tourists). Not only did the literary Bond visit the region on several occasions, he was a Yodel Lander himself, being half-Swiss! ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' reveals that Bond's mother, Monique Delacroix, was Swiss, and that both parents died while mountain climbing in France.
203	* ''Literature/CharlieWilsonsWar''. Gust Avrakotos is aghast when they're being wined and dined by a Swiss ArmsDealer and his fellow CIA agent asks to go to a restaurant where they yodeled. "For the Swiss, that's as low class as you can get."
204	* ''Literature/TheBlackSpider'' is set in a remote Swiss valley. The village and the surrounding forests and prairies are picturesque but not even remotely peaceful, what with the local baron crushing the peasants, and the demonic giant spider terrorizing the valley.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
208	* The "Cliff Hangers" game on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' invokes this trope, with a little man in lederhosen and a hat with a feather climbing a mountain to the sounds of a yodel-filled Swiss folk song.
209	* In one episode of ''Series/CovertAffairs'', Annie is assigned as a courier to an agent in Switzerland only to have the mission go wrong and force her to go on the run from the police with [[BadassIsraeli Eyal Levin.]]
210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Music]]
213	* Music/GustavMahler composed many of his symphonies in various Alpine retreats in between long walks on mountain paths, and it shows. In one famous anecdote, Bruno Walter, visiting Mahler in Steinbach am Attersee while he was working on his third symphony, expressed his admiration of the mountain scenery, and Mahler's reply ran something along the lines of, "No need looking at that--I've already composed it all."
214	* The comic children's song "Once an Austrian Went Yodeling" is all about an Austrian man trying to yodel on a mountain, but getting interrupted by an avalanche, a skier, a Saint Bernard dog, a grizzly bear, a milkmaid and a pretty girl.
215	* Austrian house-techno group [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss_(band) Edelweiss]], active between the late 80s and the mid-90s. Their songs and imagery had "Planet Edelweiss" as a scenic paradise full of villagers, ski instructors, the titular flower and other stereotypes... combined with sci-fi a la ''Star Trek''.
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218	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
219	* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting of ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'', this is the hat of the Kogolor; the ancestor-race of the modern [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarf]] and [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnome]]. They are jovial, good-natured, open-minded and friendly inhabitants of forested slopes, dressing in the iconic lederhosen and having a unique racial proficiency in yodeling. Also, whilst their skills as smiths are no greater than humans', they are master brewers.
220	[[/folder]]
221
222	[[folder:Theater]]
223	* ''Wilhelm Tell'' by [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Friedrich Schiller]], one of the most quote-laden plays in German literature.
224	* The opera ''William Tell'' by Gioacchino Rossini, of the famous overture.
225	* ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' ventures into this area with the song "Edelweiss" and the yodeling-heavy song about the lonely goatherd (which is also danced as a Ländler).
226	* The city of Merano, South Tyrol (currently Italian, "used to be Austrian") sometimes is a setting in the musical ''Theatre/{{Chess}}''.[[note]]In RealLife, the World Chess Championship match between Karpov and Korchnoi, that was part of the inspiration for the musical, was held in Merano in 1981; a tournament held there in 1924 is responsible for the naming of the Meran Variation.[[/note]] Sometimes Merano isn't included, because the musical seems to be so completely rewritten for each production that there's very little that's canon.
227	-->"It's living your life in a show by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein!"
228	* ''Music in the Air'' incorporates some elements of this, particularly in the opening scenes set in the fictional Bavarian village of Edendorf, though there's hardly any mountain climbing and the middle of the show is set in the big city of Munich. (The failed 1951 revival relocated the show from Bavaria to Switzerland.)
229	* According to Music/RichardWagner's stage directions, the beginning of ''Rheingold'' must be set in the Swiss Alps, not far from where Wagner lived when he wrote and composed the opera.
230	[[/folder]]
231
232	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
233	* At the Ride/DisneyThemeParks:
234	** ''Ride/ItsASmallWorld'' has a scene for Switzerland that includes several giant clocks and dolls yodeling along to the tune of the infamous song.
235	** Disneyland literally built a replica of the Matterhorn as one of their attractions, the ''Matterhorn Bobsleds''. In addition to a thrilling ride to meet the [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Abominable Snowman]], [[ScalingTheSummit climbers frequently scale the mountain's sides]] and yodelers will entertain guests below.
236	** The Germany Pavilion at Epcot in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
237	* Ride/EuropaPark's Swiss district has chocolate shops in Alpine-looking houses, Yodel music playing, a ride themed after the Matterhorn mountain and a bobsleigh ride the main hub of which looks like a ski resort.
238	[[/folder]]
239
240	[[folder:Video Games]]
241	* ''VideoGame/GarfieldsFunFest'': The ninth level takes Gardield and Odie to an idyllic hill with blue-colored rocky terrain where they find a rural township where a friendly frog named Freddie lives. He tells them that they have to train a little before they can drink water from the magical pond, so they agree to find some items for him. Along the way they find ponds inhabited by crocodiles, an extensive cavern, climbable trees, and stems of cut trees that serve as platforms.
242	* "Switzerland" is a bonus in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee''. Don't attack, take no damage.
243	* The town of Spielburg in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI'' is very much this.
244	* Hildegard von Krone from the VideoGame/SoulSeries hails from the fictional European Kingdom of Wolfkrone, which is German-speaking (hence her name), has an Alpine look (complete with giant cuckoo-clock/carousel monument) and appears to be located between Germany and Switzerland, according to the [[AllThereInTheManual artbook]] released for ''V''.
245	* Switzerland appears as one of the national rally championships in ''VideoGame/RallyTrophy''. The trope is played more realistically than usual, but there's still some minor stereotypes involved, given the game's love for AffectionateParody humour. Also, expect lots of SceneryPorn while rallying.
246	* ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire'' has an alpine base, [[spoiler:which holds the original world leaders, who are about to be [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced by clones]]]].
247	* In ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' the level Sheila's Alp is this; her allies in the level are German-accented goats in lederhosen and the scenery has a very alpine feel. Oddly, Sheila herself is a [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia kangaroo with an Australian accent]]. (This may be a StealthPun on the fact that Austria ''is'' often confused for Australia.)
248	* In ''VideoGame/PapaLouieArcade'', it focuses on [=BavariaFest=], which is a holiday in August.
249	* ''[[Franchise/{{Tekken}} Tekken 6]]'': The Hidden Retreat stage is located somewhere in Switzerland. It's on top of a hill in a meadow populated by sheep and features the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn Matterhorn mountain]] on the background and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSdb3DOEgLI catchy yodeling music]].
250	* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'':
251	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'': The game is set mostly in this kind of setting, with aspects of {{Uberwald}} in the more sinister regions, and some SteamPunk trappings around as well.
252	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'': This aesthetic returns in the series with Autumn Heights, an alpine ForestOfPerpetualAutumn. Features include a village of timber-framed houses, a volcanic LethalLavaLand, a BandLand full of giant alphorns, two {{Underground Level}}s with [[LevelAte gigantic blocks of Swiss cheese]], and a [[MonsterShapedMountain mountain shaped like]] a [[OminousOwl giant owl]]. There's some truly beautiful SceneryPorn going on, too.
253	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
254	** Daisy Hills in ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'' is a track that takes place in a Bavarian Village and mixes this with LandOfTulipsAndWindmills.
255	** Berlin Byways in ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'', with the afformentioned Daisy Hills returning as a track.
256	* ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'': The Multiplayer stage Azure Lake Zone takes place in a pristine lakeside surrounded by mountains.
257	[[/folder]]
258
259	[[folder:Western Animation]]
260	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'' episode "[[http://www.the-n.com/theclick/?titleId=22220 Toupee]]", Mr. Milk has a fantasy song sequence where he imagines being a Swiss Banker that mostly consists of this trope.
261	-->''I could...\
262	Count Swiss francs while I yodel\
263	Eat fondue with the locals\
264	Work with clients overseas\
265	Keep a safe filled up with cheese!''
266	* Uter from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a prime example of a Yodellander. In the original he's German, in the German dub he's Swiss.
267	* In the WesternAnimation/TotallySpies episode Passion Patties, it is averted: it is in fact, very snowy, however, to disguise themselves and blend in, Sam, Alex and Clover were wearing dirndls.
268	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' sketch (and song) "Schitznelbank" is an example of this (overlapping with {{Oktoberfest}}).
269	* Heinrich von Sugarbottom of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' fame is clearly a Yodel Lander. Up to and including chocolate in a fondue-style kettle.
270	* In ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'', the gang gets a visit from Yodellander twins Uta and Gunther in the episode "Ubergloom". German fans were quite upset, as they didn't expect this show to resort to such stereotypes.
271	* Sven Hoek from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. His name and accent, however, suggest Scandinavia.
272	* The sausage cult (yes, really) in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode [[Radar/RockosModernLife "Schnit Heads"]] wears lederhosen and views any foodstuffs other than schnitzel (even pizza ''with sausage on it'') as an abomination.
273	* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. German villain Heinrich von Marzipan only fits the blonde-haired, chocolate-loving stereotypes, but [[spoiler: when she's returned to her true self as a girl, she]] wears her hair in braids.
274	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendRabbit'' episode "Mouse's Mountain" Rabbit, Mouse, Thunder and Jasper make humpa wumpa yodels so that the oogie boogies can go away.
275	* The ''WesternAnimation/CartoonsThatNeverMadeIt'' short "Heidi and the Yodelers" consists of a spoof of ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'' where the band are a bunch of Swiss stereotypes clad in lederhosen who thwart criminals by torturing them with their yodeling.
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