History UsefulNotes / SanFrancisco

* ''{{Milk}}''

->''"Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word 'Frisco', which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars."''
-->--[[CrazyAwesome His Imperial Majesty]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton Emperor Norton I]], [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico]]

** Speaking of X-Men, that whole Alcatraz attack thing in [[Film/XMen the third movie]].

* Another Disney Channel original series, ''ANTFarm'' takes place in San Francisco.

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* The '70s police series The Streets Of San Francisco was set and filmed in the city.

* In the final episode of ''{{Frasier}}'', Frasier is offered a tv gig in San Francisco, but is at first hesitant. His agent tries to persuade him by implying the advantage of being a straight man in a city where, supposedly, so many men are... not interested in women.

* Phyllis, a SpinOff of ''TheMaryTylerMooreShow''.

* ''Mrs.Doubtfire'' was set and mostly filmed here.

* The LooneyTunes cartoon ''Barbary Coast Bunny'', with BugsBunny, is set in a very early SF, with old west motifs.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQbuRLC_wOo Donald's Diary]] is set in a '50s-modern style SF.

If there's an ideal place for a ChaseScene involving cars, it's definitely SanFrancisco, {{California}}.

* Hitchcock's ''{{Vertigo}}'' is set in San Francisco, while ''TheBirds'' has its opening scenes there.

** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' - Mainly the "City Escape" and "[[TotallyRadical Radical Highway]]" levels. The developers were SonicTeam USA (later Sega Studio USA), who were based in San Francisco at that time.

* So does BuffyTheVampireSlayer, as it turns out. Her actions have put an end to magic, vampires are a known threat but if she or anyone else kills one that doesn't actively harm humans it will trigger a war, and she currently works for Kennedy as a bodyguard.

* {{Sneakers}}

** The city is quite small in real-life as well it's only about seven miles on each side... and many parts of that are generally considered to be "the middle of nowhere".

* The first two Herbie movies (''TheLoveBug'' and ''Herbie Rides Again'') take place in San Francisco.

* San Francisco is the primary setting for the first and third books of WilliamGibson's Bridge Trilogy, ''Virtual Light'' and ''All Tomorrow's Parties'' (the second book, ''{{Idoru}}'', takes place mostly in Tokyo). The city is depicted as struggling to recover from a massive earthquake (a lot like it was in real life in the early 90s, when the first book was being written), and much of the action takes place in a shantytown constructed on the ruins of the Bay Bridge (from which the trilogy gets its name).

** Also on ''The Simpsons'': when they're [[spoiler: escaping from Alcatraz by swimming,]] Bart says "Let's swim to San Francisco!" Homer responds with the classic line: "I'm not made of money! We'll swim to Oakland." A ''Simpsons'' writer must have lived in the Bay Area.

* Decades before the disaster films of the 70s, a 1936 [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin eponymously named]] film tells the story of rival saloon owners, a singer and the 1906 earthquake. The earthquake scenes are still terrifying to watch today.

In addition to car chases, San Francisco is known for its countercultural roots (the {{Beatnik}} movement and [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippiedom]] were both born here) and [[{{Gayborhood}} its large gay community]]. Thanks to both of these, there's a popular (and not entirely unfounded) stereotype that San Franciscans are ''very'' far to the left of the American mainstream, especially on social issues, to the point where some conservative pundits use the term "[[StrawmanPolitical San Francisco values]]" (as contrasted with "[[DownOnTheFarm American]] [[EverytownAmerica values]]") to describe this. There is ''some'' truth to this belief, as San Francisco does have the highest percentage of gay residents of any city in the U.S., coming in at a whopping fifteen and change percent of the entire city's population -- and those are just the ones that are [[GirlfriendInCanada open about it]]. Its closest rivals are {{Seattle}}, {{Atlanta}}, [[TwinCities Minneapolis]], and UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, not one of whom tops thirteen percent.

San Francisco is, of course just one city on the Bay. Oakland as well as the cities of the peninsula have been growing for some time. San Jose has the rest of Silicon Valley between it and San Francisco. Although most deny it, San Jose is now larger than San Fransisco, in part due to San Fransisco being on a peninsula and not having room to expand. However you only call it the Peninsula for the parts south of the city.

Wearing flowers in your hair is not advised these days. Especially if you're a guy. Unless you're [[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat into that sort of thing]]. If so, for aforementioned reasons you've chosen a wonderful place to be.

Stereotypical portrayals set in the 19th century will generally either center on the Gold Rush or with San Francisco portrayed as the "New York of the West". Those in the early 20th century tend to show it as a blue-collar port town, perhaps with a major [[YanksWithTanks US Navy]] presence, and still the largest city on the West Coast. The '50s characterization trends towards {{beatnik}} stereotypes and will be set in North Beach, while the '60s shifts that to [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies in Haight-Ashbury]]. If set in the '70s or '80s, tropes will tend to either focus on the homosexual population, inner-city crime, or, at the latter end of the spectrum, the AIDS crisis. The mid-to-late '90s is likely to be dominated by the dot-com boom.

Of course, this is a DiscreditedTrope to many familiar with the area. San Francisco's streets are very narrow, often crowded, and stop and go in nature, and the charming little cable cars (that climb halfway to the stars) run in city streets, sometimes necessitating urgent lane-changes on the part of automobiles in their vicinity. [[note]]Seriously. Cable cars have priority over ''everything''; the iconic "ding ding!" is your cue to pull over to the right ''immediately'', because the cable car is '''not''' stopping for you.[[/note]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street_(San_Francisco) Lombard Street]] is particularly a bad street to take when fleeing, as there is a large back up of the cars of tourists that wish to drive down the famed road, in addition to the eight switchbacks between Hyde and Leavenworth streets from which said fame derives. Despite being a horrible idea, ''{{Bullitt}}'' (and lately, ''DriverSanFrancisco'' as well) inspired too many teens who now [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPFFESLk4Y&feature=related try to do it.]]

Of course, this is a DiscreditedTrope to many familiar with the area. San Francisco's streets are very narrow, often crowded, and stop and go in nature, and the charming little cable cars (that climb halfway to the stars) run in city streets, sometimes necessitating urgent lane-changes on the part of automobiles in their vicinity. [[hottip:*:Seriously. Cable cars have priority over ''everything''; the iconic "ding ding!" is your cue to pull over to the right ''immediately'', because the cable car is '''not''' stopping for you.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street_(San_Francisco) Lombard Street]] is particularly a bad street to take when fleeing, as there is a large back up of the cars of tourists that wish to drive down the famed road, in addition to the eight switchbacks between Hyde and Leavenworth streets from which said fame derives. Despite being a horrible idea, ''{{Bullitt}}'' (and lately, ''DriverSanFrancisco'' as well) inspired too many teens who now [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPFFESLk4Y&feature=related try to do it.]]

* {{Monk}} lives here. But when he goes outside [[TelevisionGeography it's usually in]] LosAngeles.

* ''TheMalteseFalcon''.