History Main / InformedLocation

TV series will usually go to some effort to shoot footage in the actual location (which may or may not feature the actors) for the TitleSequence. This will usually be the only time it is ever featured in the show.

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The Autobot base in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' was officially supposed to be in Oregon, but it was mostly a generic rocky desert/badlands environment that looked more like some part of Utah or New Mexico.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
Jon Arbuckle and his pets ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' and Odie are stated on a few occasions to live in Muncie, Indiana (author Jim Davis' hometown), but their home could be Anytown USA and the theme would not change.

* Much of the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series by Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins are set in some of the world's largest cities, including Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Jerusalem. Many readers have written commentary on how inaccurately their respective cities are depicted, pointing out the jumbling of landmarks and the lack of any of the city's real life defining traits.

* Much of the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins are set in some of the world's largest cities, including Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Jerusalem. Many readers have written commentary on how inaccurately their respective cities are depicted, pointing out the jumbling of landmarks and the lack of any of the city's real life defining traits.

* Many scenes in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins are set in some of the world's largest cities, including Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Jerusalem. Many readers have written commentary on how inaccurately their respective cities are depicted, pointing out the jumbling of landmarks and the lack of any of the city's real life defining traits.

So AliceAndBob are running a bakery in...where are they? [[AssPull Let's just say]] UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}.

* Low-budget soap operas made in Singapore or Malaysia are a particularly notorious offender of this trope, where an episode allegedly set overseas will take place ''entirely'' indoors, with the dialogue being the sole indicator that the characters aren't in their home country anymore. For example, ''Portrait of Home'' (a cheesy love drama made in Singapore) have two characters going on a business trip to Paris... and having all the Paris scenes being filmed in a hotel room that appears to be in Le Méridien Singapore, with one of the characters saying how much she missed home despite clearly having never left the country at all. For some baffling reason, they couldn't even throw in a brief stock recording of the Eiffel Tower?