History Sandbox / HollywoodCaliforniaWickCheck

# Characters.AlexRiderProtagonists: {{Fauxreigner}}: In Skeleton Key, he poses as the child of an American family from [[HollywoodCalifornia Hollywood]]. Unfortunately, the Big Bad already knows who they really are.

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# Characters.BigBrother10: Brian is originally from California.
# Film.KissKissBangBang: Harry is a Fish out of Water in the Hollywood scene.
# VideoGame.NeedForSpeedII: AmusementPark: The game's secret track, Monolithic Studios, is a mix of this and HollywoodCalifornia seemingly inspired by Universal Studios Hollywood, with the race starting at the entrance gate and then going through film sets based on The Wild West, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Jurassic Park (complete with a life-sized T. rex prop in the middle of the track) while the trams from the Studio Tour serve as the traffic.

# Characters.BigBrother18TheJury: Da'Vonne is originally from Inglewood, California. Inglewood is a city that is located within the southwestern part of Los Angeles County. It is also located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles Area.
# Film.FamilyPlot: Unlike most Hitchcock films which feature an iconic city or landmark, the location is kept vague except it's obviously in California. San Francisco and Los Angeles were both used for exterior shots, with San Francisco's famous black-on-white street name signs visible at several points.
# Characters.BigBrother19Evicted: Currently residing in California, but she's originally from Rhode Island.

# SpiritualSuccessor.LiveActionFilms0ToF: Beverly Hills Cop to Coogans Bluff. Whereas Clint Eastwood was a country cop who had gone to the big city in Coogan's Bluff, Eddie Murphy was a streetwise Detroit policeman who undergoes a culture shock while in Beverly Hills.
# Series.VeronicaMars: Neptune, California is represented by San Diego. More properly, Oceanside, a middle-sized city just north of San Diego, just without copious numbers of US Marines, since the real life Oceanside is just south of Camp Pendleton, one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the world. Oddly enough, the show was filmed in the suburb Chula Vista at Hilltop High School. However, Oceanside High School was used for exterior shots, so there's definitely plenty of evidence for faux-Oceanside.
# JustForFun.TropeTitleShows: Wilson from Orange County, CA is riding the waves when a thunderstorm moves up. He is hit by lightning while still surfing, but he survives and discovers he got super powers which he uses to fight crime, and at the same time, he's working on winning the heart of the girl he loves who until then prefers to hang out with her friends and the jocks from school. Either animated or a sitcom.
# PlayingWith.LongDistanceRelationship: Alice and Bob are a couple, but Alice lives in California and Bob lives in the UK.
# IThoughtItMeant.GToI: Hollywood California is not about the actual location - but is in the same league as Hollywood Atheist, Hollywood Voodoo, and the myriad other related tropes.
# WesternAnimation.DragonTales: It's never stated specifically where the kids live, but what we see of their house sure gives off this vibe.
# Film.CelesteAndJesseForever: Most of the movie is set there, and it shows. Almost every scene includes yoga, vegan cooking, pot-smoking, or some combination of those.
# Film.BoyzNTheHood: To be specific, Crenshaw.

# VideoGame.MarioKartTour: Los Angeles Laps
# Radio.APrairieHomeCompanion: Averted — Lake Wobegon is in the middle of nowhere, and not that much that's really exciting ever does happen there; it's always "a quiet week in Lake Wobegon." Most of the humor relies on small, strange day-to-day events. There's a big stir when one of the townswomen goes to Hollywood and comes back.
# YMMV.ToLiveAndDieInLA: To modern audiences, it can seem like a litany of every '80s and '90s cop movie trope/cliche eventually parodied in Last Action Hero and the McBain movies-within-the-show on The Simpsons - from the cop days from retirement who gets killed on the job to the totally tubular LA setting to the exact line (not uttered in Lethal Weapon), "I'm getting too old for this shit." Except when you look closer, it turns out this movie predates Trope Codifier Lethal Weapon (1987) by two years and would have been well into production around the same time Miami Vice debuted. To make it even weirder, pretty much all the things it "check-lists" are in fact Unbuilt Tropes, as the film is a deconstruction of various ideas that later became genre staples played straight.
# It.ElencoProvvisorioH: Hollywood California [California Hollywoodiana]
# JustForFun.ThingsWeHaveLearntFromMedia: When driving through any city with famous landmarks like London or Paris, you will pass them all and not necessarily in a logical order. Also, if walking through a city, you won't necessarily go from one road to another connected to it, or even one anywhere near it. The exception is Washington, D.C., whose landmarks are only visible from helicopter altitude. Otherwise, the city is made up entirely of skyscrapers. All large American cities that aren't instantly associated with a few iconic landmarks (and which aren't Los Angeles) are also made up entirely of skyscrapers. All their streets are laid out neatly on a compass-aligned grid, and are all two-way and never under construction. Cars have short-range warp drives so they can be in Salford one second and Ashton-under-Lyne the next or negotiate L.A. traffic in a matter of minutes.
# Film.BigFatLiar: The setting of most of the movie.
# Eagleland.AnimeAndManga: The Yoroiden Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors OAV "Gaiden" takes place mostly in New York City, although they manage to feature some action in Los Angeles towards the end for good measure. Apparently, the OAV's Big Bad carries out his attacks in Manhattan even though his base of operations is located in L.A. The 3000-mile distance between the two cities doesn't mean anything to him...or to the writers.
# Film.SlumsOfBeverlyHills: The film features a poor family who lives in cheap apartments in the rich Beverly Hills area so the children can attend the well-funded local schools.
# Film.Cake2014: The Orange County variety - with the film hitting the 'boring middle-class suburbia' points. There's also a runaway teen who's trying to get to Los Angeles to become an actress.

# Characters.AlexRiderProtagonists: In Skeleton Key, he poses as the child of an American family from Hollywood. Unfortunately, the Big Bad already knows who they really are.
# Creator.JackieCollins: Most of the stories are set in and around Los Angeles.
# VideoGame.BattlefieldHardline: Almost every multiplayer location is in California: Los Angeles and South Central. Though the map "Dust Bowl" is in the California desert, "Backwoods" takes place somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and both "Riptide" and "Everglades" return the action to Florida.
# EnsembleDarkHorse.{{Music}}: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is a group example. As they emerged during an era of hip-hop where you had to be either from the west or the east to make it in that particular field. Not only did they not hail from either coast, but hailed from the Midwest (Cleveland to be precise), and managed to have 3 back to back multi-platinum records amidst the hype and controversy of the then bi-coastal feud between the east and west.
# Characters.BigBrother16Evicted: Brittany originally hails from California.
# Film.{{Marmaduke}}: The movie takes place mostly in "Orange County".
# Film.LaLaLand: The film wears its location on its sleeve, with several standard Hollywood house parties, several scenes on movie backlots and discussions on movie history, and a plethora of struggling artists trying to make it. The opening number even reflects on the large number of people coming to the city to make it in film. The rest of the movie is one big love letter to Los Angeles, and long-time residents can make a game out of identifying all of the locations in the film.

# Sandbox.WickCheckProject: May be literally misused for Hollywood the city.
# Series.TheMentalist: Averted. The crime-solving team is part of the California Bureau of Investigation, and so its cases tend to focus on smaller cities in California where the local law enforcement are less prepared to deal with exceptional crimes.However, one of those smaller cities, Citrus Heights, was shown as a rural mountain town. Citrus Heights is a flat, overdeveloped suburb in the middle of the Sacramento Valley.
# Series.PitBoss: Where the show is set.
# VideoGame.{{Juiced}}: The setting of Juiced takes place in Angel City, a fictional town based on Los Angeles.

# Series.NineOneOne: Specifically, the show spans across the rural and urban parts of Los Angeles.

# ComicBook.CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew: An In-Universe example in a Conan the Barbarian parody story; Ezra Hound's "Bow-Zar the Barkbarian" series has reached this point, and he's ready to finally end it. But he hires Pig-Iron as a bodyguard because of the nightmares he's been having of his anti-hero seeking vengeance. Meanwhile In The Past, a real Bow-Zar's visions of a magician (Hound) drive him to travel into future Follywood seeking vengeance.
# Characters.BigBrother13: Brendon is originally from Riverside, California.
# Film.TheWood: Notably averted. One of the few movies to take place in Inglewood, California.
# WhoseLine.TropesDToI: The taping site for the last UK season and the American run. The cast takes full advantage by mentioning the LAPD, the traffic in the area, and the then woefully bad Los Angeles Dodgers.
# NightmareFuel.{{Threads}}: For many Britons — especially those who live in or near Sheffield — this film hit close to home and it hit hard. Those Oop North are so used to seeing places like New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo or London blown up in the movies that it doesn't affect them, but when it's a much smaller city in Yorkshire...
# Characters.TheSecretWorldUnalignedHubNPCs: Amongst other things, Screed thinks that Pac-Man is a visual representation of how the Illuminati see the rest of humanity.The Cuckoolander Was Right: He might be wrong about quite a few things, but when it comes to fearing the Illuminati's power, he's absolutely right.Even David's claim Pac-Man is Illuminati propaganda may not be so far-fetched as it seems at first glance, as Kirsten Geary claims that, not only does the Illuminati run Hollywood, they've also had hands in much of America's pop culture to spread their message, such as Elvis Presley.
# PlayingWith.AliensInCardiff: Nothing out of the ordinary happens outside of London, Shanghai or HollywoodCalifornia Big Applesauce and Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe
# QuoteSource.LiveActionFilmsAToL: Last Action Hero Half-Hearted Henchman HollywoodCalifornia Just Between You and Me

# VideoGame.GrandTheftAuto: Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. And Anytown, USA.

# Characters.BigBrother18WinnerRunnerUp: Paul originally hails from Tarzana, which is a city in California.

# Series.TheNewNormal: In fairness, Bryan is a TV producer so they kind of belong in that geography.

# JustForFun.ThingsWeHaveLearntFromMedia: When driving through any city with famous landmarks like London or Paris, you will pass them all and not necessarily in a logical order. Also, if walking through a city, you won't necessarily go from one road to another connected to it, or even one anywhere near it. The exception is Washington, D.C., whose landmarks are only visible from helicopter altitude. Otherwise, the city is made up entirely of skyscrapers.
All large American cities that aren't instantly associated with a few iconic landmarks (and which aren't Los Angeles) are also made up entirely of skyscrapers. All their streets are laid out neatly on a compass-aligned grid, and are all two-way and never under construction.
Cars have short-range warp drives so they can be in Salford one second and Ashton-under-Lyne the next or negotiate L.A. traffic in a matter of minutes.

"# JustForFun.ThingsWeHaveLearntFromMedia: When driving through any city with famous landmarks like London or Paris, you will pass them all and not necessarily in a logical order. Also, if walking through a city, you won't necessarily go from one road to another connected to it, or even one anywhere near it. The exception is Washington, D.C., whose landmarks are only visible from helicopter altitude. Otherwise, the city is made up entirely of skyscrapers.

Cars have short-range warp drives so they can be in Salford one second and Ashton-under-Lyne the next or negotiate L.A. traffic in a matter of minutes."