"New York Museum of Modern Art"

LooneyToons: Do you perhaps mean the Guggenheim museum? MOMA is a big white box; the Guggenheim is the wacky cylinder thingie.

{{RedBeardSean}}: It's the box; they used it as a theme for a cake just last night on Food Network Challenge. I'm actually going to move this to the examples, I think.

LooneyToons: Can we talk ''dull''? That's an awfully bland choice for a cake design. But that's irrelevant to the topic.

{{Ununnilium}}: A page quote for after the episode shows here:

[[spoiler:''"New York City. If aliens had to come to Earth... oh, no wonder they came here."'']]
->--''DoctorWho'', [[spoiler:"Daleks in Manhattan"]]

TheDefenestrator: Don't aliens usually go to London in the Whoverse?

{{Scifantasy}}: Yeah, but every time they come to the US, wham! New York City.

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{{Seth}}: Episode titles in quotes, series titles italicised (Or some times for quotes bolded).

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{{Sockatume}}: I removed the following because, although there are subtle nods to the writer-directors' home city, they've stated that it's not explicitly set in any real-world location.

"* Film exception: The main action of ''TheMatrix'' is set in Chicago."

{{LordSeth}}: It says that more than half of the television writers live in New York. Is that really true? I was under the impression the majority of television writers, actors, and production itself is in Los Angeles and/or its surrounding area.

{{Agent Price}}: TV writers are most definitely ''not'' centered in New York. They were fifty years ago, but no longer.

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I'm not sure where to enter this, but it's definitely related. The focus city definitely depends on the country making it. For America, it's almost always New York. Britain, London. For Japan, TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse. Australia tends to juggle between Melbourne and Sydney. Otherwise, the only appearances of this city, aside from special occasions like the Doctor Who episode "Daleks in Manhattan", the city is only ever shown in a montage of notable cities in the world; for this montage Paris is also often included.

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{{Scifantasy}}: I am ''very'' reluctant to bring this up, but it has to be said: the 9/11 attacks. There's a reason that the World Trade Center was targeted. The attacks on the Pentagon and whatever United Flight 93's target was (the Capitol or the White House, it's believed) were equal parts functional and terror, designed to scare as well as cripple the government's ability to fight back; the attacks on the Towers were pure scare factor. ''Everybody'' knew what the New York skyline looked like; seeing parts of it going up in smoke hit America where we could feel it.

(Not trying to be insensitive. I'm a New Yorker, and I was in the Bronx in high school when the Towers fell. I remember it very well. But it really is part of this same trope.)


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{{Wheezy}}: What do you think about the new image? Is it too small?