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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'', Asterix travels to Great Britain, where they are suddenly (as in, in between saying "the fog falls" and "fast") caught up in fog and can't see anybody or anything. Anticlimax says it is a natural phenomenon in his country.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'', Asterix travels to Great Britain, where they are suddenly (as in, in between saying "the fog falls" and "fast") caught up in a natural fog (since the story takes places in 50 BC, centuries before industrial times) and can't see anybody or anything. Anticlimax says it is a natural phenomenon in his country.country, and that there's this "only when it doesn't rain".
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Because modern London doesn't see this level of smog anymore, the trope is usually used to set the stage of VictorianLondon or TheEdwardianEra, especially stories about crime (no UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper story is complete without a foggy crime scene [[note]] although [[https://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/weather.html the evidence]] shows that there was no fog on the days (or rather, nights) of any of the murders [[/note]]). You can also expect works that date from around that time to describe a foggy London as well, such as the Literature/SherlockHolmes books.

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Because modern London doesn't see this level of smog anymore, the trope is usually used to set the stage of VictorianLondon or TheEdwardianEra, especially stories about crime (no UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper story is complete without a foggy crime scene [[note]] although [[https://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/weather.html the evidence]] shows that there was no fog on the days (or rather, nights) of any of the murders [[/note]]). You can also expect works that date from around that time to describe a foggy London as well, such as the Literature/SherlockHolmes books.
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That fog was TruthInTelevision for many decades, especially in London, situated as it is in a river valley near where it turns into an estuary. That plus the typical wet UsefulNotes/BritishWeather makes for ideal fog conditions. But the traditional impenetrable London fog is not just fog, but actually smog -- fog combined with smoke, which was especially common in London around that time from all of the coal fires. Unlike ordinary fog, which can shift in and out quickly and isn't ''too'' bad for visibility[[note]]By the technical definition, fog can allow visibility up to

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That fog was TruthInTelevision for many decades, especially in London, situated as it is in a river valley near where it turns into an estuary. That plus the typical wet UsefulNotes/BritishWeather makes for ideal fog conditions. But the traditional impenetrable London fog is not just fog, but actually smog -- fog combined with smoke, which was especially common in London around that time from all of the coal fires.fires since the dawn of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]]. Unlike ordinary fog, which can shift in and out quickly and isn't ''too'' bad for visibility[[note]]By the technical definition, fog can allow visibility up to
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It was TruthInTelevision for many decades, especially in London, situated as it is in a river valley near where it turns into an estuary. That plus the typical wet UsefulNotes/BritishWeather makes for ideal fog conditions. But the traditional impenetrable London fog is not just fog, but actually smog -- fog combined with smoke, which was especially common in London around that time from all of the coal fires. Unlike ordinary fog, which can shift in and out quickly and isn't ''too'' bad for visibility[[note]]By the technical definition, fog can allow visibility up to

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It That fog was TruthInTelevision for many decades, especially in London, situated as it is in a river valley near where it turns into an estuary. That plus the typical wet UsefulNotes/BritishWeather makes for ideal fog conditions. But the traditional impenetrable London fog is not just fog, but actually smog -- fog combined with smoke, which was especially common in London around that time from all of the coal fires. Unlike ordinary fog, which can shift in and out quickly and isn't ''too'' bad for visibility[[note]]By the technical definition, fog can allow visibility up to
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From the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain second half of the 19th century]] until well around The50s, UsefulNotes/{{England}} and especially UsefulNotes/{{London}} were associated with foggy, damp environments where nobody could see anything in the mist other than shadowy figures. This OminousFog and MysteriousMist made it an ideal setting for detectives solving murder mysteries in near darkness.

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From the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain second half of the 19th century]] until well around The50s, UsefulNotes/{{England}} and especially UsefulNotes/{{London}} were associated with foggy, damp environments where nobody could see anything in the mist other than shadowy figures. This OminousFog and MysteriousMist made it an ideal setting for detectives solving murder mysteries in near darkness.
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From the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain second half of the 19th century]] until well around The50s, England and especially UsefulNotes/{{London}} were associated with foggy, damp environments where nobody could see anything in the mist other than shadowy figures. This OminousFog and MysteriousMist made it an ideal setting for detectives solving murder mysteries in near darkness.

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From the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain second half of the 19th century]] until well around The50s, England UsefulNotes/{{England}} and especially UsefulNotes/{{London}} were associated with foggy, damp environments where nobody could see anything in the mist other than shadowy figures. This OminousFog and MysteriousMist made it an ideal setting for detectives solving murder mysteries in near darkness.
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From the second half of the 19th century until well around the 1950s, England and especially UsefulNotes/{{London}} were associated with foggy, damp environments where nobody could see anything in the mist other than shadowy figures. This OminousFog and MysteriousMist made it an ideal setting for detectives solving murder mysteries in near darkness.

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From the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain second half of the 19th century century]] until well around the 1950s, The50s, England and especially UsefulNotes/{{London}} were associated with foggy, damp environments where nobody could see anything in the mist other than shadowy figures. This OminousFog and MysteriousMist made it an ideal setting for detectives solving murder mysteries in near darkness.

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Because modern London doesn't see this level of smog anymore, the trope is usually used to set the stage of VictorianLondon or TheEdwardianEra, especially stories about crime (no UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper story is complete without a foggy crime scene). You can also expect works that date from around that time to describe a foggy London as well, such as the Literature/SherlockHolmes books.

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Because modern London doesn't see this level of smog anymore, the trope is usually used to set the stage of VictorianLondon or TheEdwardianEra, especially stories about crime (no UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper story is complete without a foggy crime scene).scene [[note]] although [[https://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/weather.html the evidence]] shows that there was no fog on the days (or rather, nights) of any of the murders [[/note]]). You can also expect works that date from around that time to describe a foggy London as well, such as the Literature/SherlockHolmes books.
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* The London Fog was a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood back in TheSixties, famous as a regular venue for Music/TheDoors & other PsychedelicRock bands.

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* The London Fog was a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood back in TheSixties, The60s, famous as a regular venue for Music/TheDoors & other PsychedelicRock bands.



* In the short-lived UK crime series ''Series/Jericho2005'', set in London during TheFifties, a PSA at the cinema is warning the public to "breathe through your nose" because of the smog. Later while searching for the murderer of that particular episode, Jericho's car has to be navigated through the smog by a detective standing on the fender, wearing a gas mask and waving a torch.

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* In the short-lived UK crime series ''Series/Jericho2005'', set in London during TheFifties, The50s, a PSA at the cinema is warning the public to "breathe through your nose" because of the smog. Later while searching for the murderer of that particular episode, Jericho's car has to be navigated through the smog by a detective standing on the fender, wearing a gas mask and waving a torch.



* The trope is namechecked by the [[http://members.aon.at/~ehesch1/fl/fl.htm "Foggy London"]] utility, which displays the internal state of the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum game ''Sherlock'' while a game is played.

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* The trope is namechecked by the [[http://members.aon.at/~ehesch1/fl/fl.htm "Foggy London"]] utility, which displays the internal state of the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum Platform/ZXSpectrum game ''Sherlock'' while a game is played.

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* ''{{ComicBook/Blacksad}}'': Blacksad is attacked by a knife-wielding man on a foggy evening, and dryly notes he had the Jack the Ripper impersonation down pat, down to the disappearing in the fog.



* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Knight and Fogg were two British super-powered contract killers who appeared in ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #165-167 back in 1990. The latter saw himself as the personification of the London fog and [[SuperSmoke could transform his body into a gaseous form]] that obscured his opponents' sight; his favorite method of attack was to strangle his targets from afar with his partially solidified hands.

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Knight and Fogg were two British super-powered contract killers who appeared in ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' #165-167 back in 1990. The latter saw himself as the personification of the London fog and [[SuperSmoke could transform his body into a gaseous form]] that obscured his opponents' sight; his favorite method of attack was to strangle his targets from afar with his partially solidified hands.



* ''{{ComicBook/Blacksad}}'': Blacksad is attacked by a knife-wielding man on a foggy evening, and dryly notes he had the Jack the Ripper impersonation down pat, down to the disappearing in the fog.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''. In ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'', Asterix travels to Great Britain, where they are suddenly (as in, in between saying "the fog falls" and "fast") caught up in fog and can't see anybody or anything. Anticlimax says it is a natural phenomenon in his country.
* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer''. Prevalent in ''Recap/TheYellowM'', where Blake and Mortimer walk in the London streets at night and are trying to catch a mysterious criminal.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}''. In ''Het Vredesoffensief van Nero'' (1951) (''The Peace Initiative of Nero'') Nero, Petoetje and Madam Pheip walk around in London where the fog makes it impossible to see where they are going or to whom they are talking.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. Knight and Fogg were two British super-powered contract killers who appeared in ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #165-167 back in 1990. The latter saw himself as the personification of the London fog and [[SuperSmoke could transform his body into a gaseous form]] that obscured his opponents' sight; his favorite method of attack was to strangle his targets from afar with his partially solidified hands.
* Fog is present throughout ''ComicBook/ZombiesChristmasCarol'', representing both the plague and encroaching death.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''. ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'', Asterix travels to Great Britain, where they are suddenly (as in, in between saying "the fog falls" and "fast") caught up in fog and can't see anybody or anything. Anticlimax says it is a natural phenomenon in his country.
* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer''. ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': Prevalent in ''Recap/TheYellowM'', where Blake and Mortimer walk in the London streets at night and are trying to catch a mysterious criminal.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}''. ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': In ''Het Vredesoffensief van Nero'' (1951) (''The Peace Initiative of Nero'') Nero, Petoetje and Madam Pheip walk around in London where the fog makes it impossible to see where they are going or to whom they are talking.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Knight and Fogg were two British super-powered contract killers who appeared in ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #165-167 back in 1990. The latter saw himself as the personification of the London fog and [[SuperSmoke could transform his body into a gaseous form]] that obscured his opponents' sight; his favorite method of attack was to strangle his targets from afar with his partially solidified hands.
* ''ComicBook/ZombiesChristmasCarol'': Fog is present throughout ''ComicBook/ZombiesChristmasCarol'', London, representing both the plague and encroaching death.
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* ''Literature/TerrorIsMyTrade'': In this 1958 crime novel, protagonist Chester Trask gets out of a car in London and complains of the fog, "some fog" which he can feel stinging his eyes and taste in the back of his throat. This also serves as OminousFog as Trask is headed to a confrontation with gangsters that turns violent.
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The smog was a staple of VictorianLondon, when the city industrialized and both homes and businesses started burning coal for heat, but it got dramatically worse after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when Britain exported all of its high-quality coal to pay for its war debt, leaving the locals with poor quality sulphurous coal that made the problem worse. It culminated in the 1952 "Great Smog" of London, a smog so bad that 4,000 people died as a result, some because of accidents thanks to near-zero visibility, but many just from inhaling the toxic air and getting sick. Only then did the British government act to actually reduce the pollutants, starting with the Clean Air Act 1956. The last bad "pea soup" fog came in 1957, making this a DeadHorseTrope.

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The smog was a staple of VictorianLondon, when the city industrialized and both homes and businesses started burning coal for heat, but it got dramatically worse after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when Britain exported all of began exporting its high-quality coal in far greater quantities to pay for its war debt, leaving the locals with poor quality sulphurous coal that made the problem worse. It culminated in the 1952 "Great Smog" of London, a smog so bad that 4,000 people died as a result, some because of accidents thanks to near-zero visibility, but many just from inhaling the toxic air and getting sick. Only then did the British government act to actually reduce the pollutants, starting with the Clean Air Act 1956. The last bad "pea soup" fog came in 1957, making this a DeadHorseTrope.
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* ''Film/EscapeMeNever'': All the scenes set in London are shown to be foggy and damp. This is plot-relevant as, when her little son Piccolo gets sick, Gemma blames it on the crappy London weather.

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* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' depicts London as a wooded forestland where the locals ride around on ''horseback''. Just to make this even worse, the series is meant to take place in ''2011''.
* ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' has a commercial airline flight coming in to land at a London airport, with the pilots commenting about how thick the fog gets.



* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' depicts London as a wooded forestland where the locals ride around on ''horseback''. Just to make this even worse, the series is meant to take place in ''2011''.
* ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' has a commercial airline flight coming in to land at a London airport, with the pilots commenting about how thick the fog gets.



* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer''. Prevalent in ''Recap/TheYellowM'', where Blake and Mortimer walk in the London streets at night and are trying to catch a mysterious criminal.



* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer''. Prevalent in ''Recap/TheYellowM'', where Blake and Mortimer walk in the London streets at night and are trying to catch a mysterious criminal.



* Played for laughs in ComicStrip/NickKnatterton's London adventure ''Ein Kopf fällt in die Themse'' ("A head falls into the Thames"), where Nick's investigations are intermittently hampered by the fog. In one scene, he visits a suspect at her home, and when the conversation is finished he leaves. Opening the front door he asks in puzzlement: "Why is there a curtain in front of the door?" -- "That's not a curtain, that's the fog."

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* Played for laughs in ComicStrip/NickKnatterton's ''ComicStrip/NickKnatterton'''s London adventure ''Ein "Ein Kopf fällt in die Themse'' Themse" ("A head falls into the Thames"), where Nick's investigations are intermittently hampered by the fog. In one scene, he visits a suspect at her home, and when the conversation is finished he leaves. Opening the front door he asks in puzzlement: "Why is there a curtain in front of the door?" -- "That's not a curtain, that's the fog."



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* Generally, animated films from Creator/{{Disney}} taking place in London avert this, but ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' plays this straight, what with taking place in the Victorian era and featuring rodent versions of Literature/SherlockHolmes esque detectives.

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* Generally, animated films from Creator/{{Disney}} taking place in London avert this, but ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' plays this straight, what with taking place in the Victorian era and featuring rodent versions of Literature/SherlockHolmes esque Literature/SherlockHolmes-esque detectives.



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* Most movie adaptations of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' have used foggy London as their setting.
* ''Film/PandorasBox'' ends with Lulu meeting UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper on the OminousFog-bound streets of London.
* ''Film/TheLodger'', Creator/AlfredHitchcock's first film, is subtitled ''A Story of the London Fog''. A SerialKiller is stalking the foggy streets of London, and the new lodger at Mrs. Bounting's rooming house might be him.
* ''Film/{{Gaslight}}'' uses this as OminousFog to establish mood, like when Paula is being led away from the house after her aunt has been murdered, or later, when her evil husband Gregory is skulking through the streets and alleyways.

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* Most movie adaptations of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' have used foggy London as their setting.
* ''Film/PandorasBox'' ends with Lulu meeting UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper on
Creator/LonChaney vehicle ''Film/TheBlackbird'' has perpetually fog-bound streets, which help set the OminousFog-bound streets atmosphere for London's notoriously sleazy RedLightDistrict of London.
* ''Film/TheLodger'', Creator/AlfredHitchcock's first film, is subtitled ''A Story of the London Fog''. A SerialKiller is stalking the foggy streets of London, and the new lodger at Mrs. Bounting's rooming house might be him.
* ''Film/{{Gaslight}}'' uses this as OminousFog to establish mood, like when Paula is being led away from the house after her aunt has been murdered, or later, when her evil husband Gregory is skulking through the streets and alleyways.
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* Creator/LonChaney vehicle ''Film/TheBlackbird'' has perpetually fog-bound streets, which help set the atmosphere for London's notoriously sleazy RedLightDistrict of Limehouse.

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* Creator/LonChaney vehicle ''Film/TheBlackbird'' ''Film/{{Gaslight}}'' uses this as OminousFog to establish mood, like when Paula is being led away from the house after her aunt has perpetually fog-bound streets, which help set been murdered, or later, when her evil husband Gregory is skulking through the atmosphere for London's notoriously sleazy RedLightDistrict of Limehouse.streets and alleyways.



* ''Film/TheLodger'', Creator/AlfredHitchcock's first film, is subtitled ''A Story of the London Fog''. A SerialKiller is stalking the foggy streets of London, and the new lodger at Mrs. Bounting's rooming house might be him.



* ''Film/PandorasBox'' ends with Lulu meeting UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper on the OminousFog-bound streets of London.
* Most movie adaptations of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' have used foggy London as their setting.



* When Nellie Bly arrived in London on the round-the-world trip that she wrote about in ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInSeventyTwoDays'', "a gray, misty fog hung like a ghostly pall over the city."



* The Great Stink in ''Literature/TheDifferenceEngine'' due to the profusion of SteamPunk industry. Thanks to the politics of the time it gets blamed on Luddite sabotage instead.
* Ankh-Morpork, ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s FantasyCounterpartCulture to London, is known for its "gumbo fog", which is like a pea-souper only thicker, fishier, and with things in it that you'd probably rather not know about.
* Lampshaded by one of the detectives in ''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' by Creator/DavidSimon, when they're sent to investigate a murder during a foggy Baltimore morning, "just like Sherlock Holmes".
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'': "..the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted"
* In ''MrWarrensProfession'', Aubrey Warren almost crashes headfirst into an oncoming omnibus due to a combination of high emotion and thick fog.



* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'': "..the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted"
* In ''Literature/TureSventonILondon'' the london fog is so thick that the detective Ture Sventon have to attach a thread with a safety pin to one of the crooks to tail him.
* Lampshaded by one of the detectives in ''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' by Creator/DavidSimon, when they're sent to investigate a murder during a foggy Baltimore morning, "just like Sherlock Holmes".
* The Great Stink in ''Literature/TheDifferenceEngine'' due to the profusion of SteamPunk industry. Thanks to the politics of the time it gets blamed on Luddite sabotage instead.
* When Nellie Bly arrived in London on the round-the-world trip that she wrote about in ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInSeventyTwoDays'', "a gray, misty fog hung like a ghostly pall over the city."
* Ankh-Morpork, Literature/{{Discworld}}'s FantasyCounterpartCulture to London, is known for its "gumbo fog", which is like a pea-souper only thicker, fishier, and with things in it that you'd probably rather not know about.
* In ''MrWarrensProfession'', Aubrey Warren almost crashes headfirst into an oncoming omnibus due to a combination of high emotion and thick fog.



* In ''Literature/TureSventonILondon'' the London fog is so thick that the detective Ture Sventon have to attach a thread with a safety pin to one of the crooks to tail him.



* In the ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' episode "The Bliss Girl," the fog has entered the building, and into the elevator.



* In one ''Series/SesameStreet'' News Flash, Kermit has gone to London to report on the London Fog. He is interrupted by the London Frog, a [[BritishRoyalGuards Guardsman]] carrying the London Log, and the London Hog. Then the fog clears up, so they all dance the London Clog.

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* In one ''Series/SesameStreet'' News Flash, Kermit has gone series of episodes of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' ("The Londinium Larcenies"/"The Foggiest Notion"/"The Bloody Tower"), Batman and Robin travel to London Londinium (the Bat-universe's analog to report on London; actually the London Fog. He Roman name for London) to battle Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup. Not only is interrupted by Londinium depicted as very foggy much of the London Frog, time, but Ffogg's weapons are also all fog-based.
* The smog is
a [[BritishRoyalGuards Guardsman]] carrying plot point in a few episodes of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', particularly the London Log, pilot; set during the smog of 1957 (one of the last, and the London Hog. Then worst one since the fog clears up, so they all dance 1952 Great Smog), Nurse Jenny Lee's first patient trips over one of her children's toy fire engines while trying to hang the London Clog.washing in the garden amidst the pea soup. A concussion and premature delivery result.
* ''Series/TheCrown2016'': The Series 1 episode "Act of God" depicts the Great Smog of 1952, which happened only a few months into Elizabeth's reign. UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill (Prime Minister at the time) initially dismissed it as "just fog" and presented a very limited policy response, to the consternation of the Palace and most everyone else. Churchill was later moved by the sight of one of the Downing Street secretarial pool [[spoiler:killed by a lorry that couldn't see her in the pea soup]].



* In the ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' episode "The Bliss Girl," the fog has entered the building, and into the elevator.
* In one series of episodes of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' ("The Londinium Larcenies"/"The Foggiest Notion"/"The Bloody Tower"), Batman and Robin travel to Londinium (the Bat-universe's analog to London; actually the Roman name for London) to battle Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup. Not only is Londinium depicted as very foggy much of the time, but Ffogg's weapons are also all fog-based.
* The smog is a plot point in a few episodes of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', particularly the pilot; set during the smog of 1957 (one of the last, and the worst one since the 1952 Great Smog), Nurse Jenny Lee's first patient trips over one of her children's toy fire engines while trying to hang the washing in the garden amidst the pea soup. A concussion and premature delivery result.
* In the short-lived UK crime series ''Jericho'', set in London during TheFifties, a PSA at the cinema is warning the public to "breathe through your nose" because of the smog. Later while searching for the murderer of that particular episode, Jericho's car has to be navigated through the smog by a detective standing on the fender, wearing a gas mask and waving a torch.
* ''Series/TheCrown2016'': The Series 1 episode "Act of God" depicts the Great Smog of 1952, which happened only a few months into Elizabeth's reign. UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill (Prime Minister at the time) initially dismissed it as "just fog" and presented a very limited policy response, to the consternation of the Palace and most everyone else. Churchill was later moved by the sight of one of the Downing Street secretarial pool [[spoiler:killed by a lorry that couldn't see her in the pea soup]].

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* In the ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' episode "The Bliss Girl," the fog has entered the building, and into the elevator.
* In one series of episodes of ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' ("The Londinium Larcenies"/"The Foggiest Notion"/"The Bloody Tower"), Batman and Robin travel to Londinium (the Bat-universe's analog to London; actually the Roman name for London) to battle Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup. Not only is Londinium depicted as very foggy much of the time, but Ffogg's weapons are also all fog-based.
* The smog is a plot point in a few episodes of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', particularly the pilot; set during the smog of 1957 (one of the last, and the worst one since the 1952 Great Smog), Nurse Jenny Lee's first patient trips over one of her children's toy fire engines while trying to hang the washing in the garden amidst the pea soup. A concussion and premature delivery result.
* In the short-lived UK crime series ''Jericho'', ''Series/Jericho2005'', set in London during TheFifties, a PSA at the cinema is warning the public to "breathe through your nose" because of the smog. Later while searching for the murderer of that particular episode, Jericho's car has to be navigated through the smog by a detective standing on the fender, wearing a gas mask and waving a torch.
* ''Series/TheCrown2016'': The Series 1 episode "Act of God" depicts the Great Smog of 1952, which happened only a few months into Elizabeth's reign. UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill (Prime Minister at the time) initially dismissed it as "just fog" and presented a very limited policy response, to the consternation of the Palace and most everyone else. Churchill was later moved by the sight of one of the Downing Street secretarial pool [[spoiler:killed by a lorry that couldn't see her in the pea soup]].
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* In one ''Series/SesameStreet'' News Flash, Kermit has gone to London to report on the London Fog. He is interrupted by the London Frog, a [[BritishRoyalGuards Guardsman]] carrying the London Log, and the London Hog. Then the fog clears up, so they all dance the London Clog.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Treehouse of Horror XV" the third segment is a parody of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper time period, with Bart and Lisa acting as a Literature/SherlockHolmes and Watson ripoff investigating crimes in VictorianLondon where the fog is looming everywhere.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Treehouse of Horror XV" ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': When Duckula goes to London to become a detective, there's so much fog the third segment is characters can't see anything more than a parody of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper time period, meter away.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' strikes a deal
with Bart and Lisa acting as a Literature/SherlockHolmes and Watson ripoff investigating crimes in VictorianLondon where the fog is looming everywhere.Fog Monster of Old London Town in a bid to rescue Penfold from Baron Greenback (episode "The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse").



* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'' named "The Night Ghoul of Wonderworld" had the gang go to a robotic amusement park designed after Victorian London. As a result this trope is there in all its characters-disappearing foggy glory.



* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'': When Duckula goes to London to become a detective, there's so much fog the characters can't see anything more than a meter away.



* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} lampshades this in 1942's "Spinach Fer Britain" as he approaches London.

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* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' lampshades this in 1942's "Spinach Fer Britain" as he approaches London.



* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse strikes a deal with the Fog Monster of Old London Town in a bid to rescue Penfold from Baron Greenback (episode "The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse").

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* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse strikes a deal with the Fog Monster An episode of Old London Town in a bid to rescue Penfold from Baron Greenback (episode ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'' named "The Four Tasks Night Ghoul of Danger Mouse").Wonderworld" had the gang go to a robotic amusement park designed after Victorian London. As a result this trope is there in all its characters-disappearing foggy glory.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Treehouse of Horror XV" the third segment is a parody of the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper time period, with Bart and Lisa acting as a Literature/SherlockHolmes and Watson ripoff investigating crimes in VictorianLondon where the fog is looming everywhere.
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* "A Foggy Day (in London Town)" is a 1937 composition by Music/GeorgeGershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the film ''Film/ADamselInDistress'' and the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Music/FrankSinatra covered it on his album ''Music/SongsForYoungLovers''. Music/SarahVaughan on her album ''Music/LiveInJapan''.

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* "A Foggy Day (in London Town)" is a 1937 composition by Music/GeorgeGershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the film ''Film/ADamselInDistress'' and the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Music/FrankSinatra covered it on his album ''Music/SongsForYoungLovers''. ''Music/SongsForYoungLovers'', and Music/SarahVaughan on her album ''Music/LiveInJapan''.
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-> ''"London is a city of a hundred thousand smokes. Tonight, those smokes tangle like tarry ropes around your neck, your feet, in malevolent yellow-green coils."''

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* "A Foggy Day (in London Town)" is a 1937 composition by Music/GeorgeGershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the film ''Film/ADamselInDistress'' and the TropeNamer. Music/FrankSinatra covered it on his album ''Music/SongsForYoungLovers''. Music/SarahVaughan on her album ''Music/LiveInJapan''.

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* "A Foggy Day (in London Town)" is a 1937 composition by Music/GeorgeGershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the film ''Film/ADamselInDistress'' and the TropeNamer.{{Trope Namer|s}}. Music/FrankSinatra covered it on his album ''Music/SongsForYoungLovers''. Music/SarahVaughan on her album ''Music/LiveInJapan''.
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1 km.[[/note]] (as [[Creator/EddieIzzard an Englishman]] in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco once commented), old London smog smelled awful and had a [[SicklyGreenGlow nasty green tinge]], hence the common nickname [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_soup_fog "pea soup" fog]]. And it was a lot thicker than regular fog, too; you were lucky if you could see 10 feet in front of you.

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1 km.[[/note]] (as [[Creator/EddieIzzard [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard an Englishman]] Englishwoman]] in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco once commented), old London smog smelled awful and had a [[SicklyGreenGlow nasty green tinge]], hence the common nickname [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_soup_fog "pea soup" fog]]. And it was a lot thicker than regular fog, too; you were lucky if you could see 10 feet in front of you.
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* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} lampshades this in 1942's "Spinach Fer Britain" as he approaches London.
-->'''Popeye''': [[ShapedLikeItself This pea soup is like fog!]]
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* In one episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Peabody's Improbable History]]'', Peabody and Sherman visit 1880 to assist UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard in the investigation of the disappearance of the Crown Jewels and the [[MonumentalTheft Tower of London]] with them. Fog is the predominant weather condition, and plot-relevant in that [[spoiler:it's the only reason nobody could find the Tower until dawn]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixInBritain'' (the AnimatedAdaptation of the comic book) has Asterix ask Anticlimax if it is always foggy in Britain, to which he responds "Oh my goodness no, owe only have fog when it isn't raining". Cue the rain.
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the episode "Haunted", Oliver Queen rings up [[Series/Constantine2014 John Constantine]] for help, and establishing his Englishness somehow requires Constantine to be standing on a foggy street with antique-looking street lamps. Perhaps he started [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow time travelling earlier than we thought?]].

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the episode "Haunted", Oliver Queen rings up [[Series/Constantine2014 John Constantine]] for help, and establishing his Englishness somehow requires Constantine to be standing on a foggy street with antique-looking street lamps. Perhaps he started [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow time travelling earlier than we thought?]].thought?]]
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the episode "Haunted", Oliver Queen calls Series/JohnConstantine for help, and establishing his Englishness somehow requires him to be standing on a foggy street with antique-looking street lamps. And he hadn't even [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow started time travelling then]].

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the episode "Haunted", Oliver Queen calls Series/JohnConstantine rings up [[Series/Constantine2014 John Constantine]] for help, and establishing his Englishness somehow requires him Constantine to be standing on a foggy street with antique-looking street lamps. And Perhaps he hadn't even started [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow started time travelling then]].earlier than we thought?]].
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the episode "Haunted", Oliver Queen calls Series/JohnConstantine for help, and establishing his Englishness somehow requires him to be standing on a foggy street with antique-looking street lamps. And he hadn't even [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow started time travelling then]].
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* Generally, animated films from Creator/{{Disney}} taking place in London avert this, but ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' plays this straight, what with taking place in the Victorian era and featuring rodent Literature/SherlockHolmes [[{{Expy}} expies]].

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* Generally, animated films from Creator/{{Disney}} taking place in London avert this, but ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' plays this straight, what with taking place in the Victorian era and featuring rodent versions of Literature/SherlockHolmes [[{{Expy}} expies]].esque detectives.

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