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, started by StarformDCX on Oct 1st 2017 at 3:41:29 PM
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- Played with in the Canadian-produced Clone High. It is explicitly set in the fictional town of "Exclamation, USA", but one character spends her spring break on "the sunny beaches of Canada, where the sun is always shining." An American viewer unaware of the show's Canadian origins would be quite puzzled about the point of the joke.
- Arthur was probably meant to take place in Pennsylvania, given that creator Marc Brown based Elwood City off of his hometown (Erie, which sits directly across Lake Erie from Canada). One of the earliest episodes has the family go to D.C. to see the White House and meet Bill Clinton (sure, he's an aardvark, but still...), which seems to imply they are at least American. Later episodes occasionally reference Canadian cities and culture (likely since co-producer Cinar/Cookie Jar was based in Canada).
- More recent episodes seem to go back to the American setting, as new character Ladonna references being from New Orleans, and is never outright treated as being from a different country.
- Postcards from Buster also seemed to support the American setting. One of the characters mentioned growing up in Washington. Another episode, while visiting Canada, had Buster be surprised by the concept of "poutine." Makes sense for an American (let's not get into New Jersey having disco fries)...not so much from a Canadian.
These don't seem to be examples. Either it's clear or heavily implied that the show takes place in America rather than it taking place in Canada but not drawing attention to that fact.
I thought it might be worthwhile to add a subtrope called "It doesn't snow in Canada". I have no idea how many episodes of different television shows shot in Canada that I have seen but I have never seen a a day of snow in any of them. I know that shooting in the snow is a pain and that most of Canada gets 8 months out of the year without snow on the ground but no snow? Ever? Really? I'm from Texas and I have seen more snow shots (which is still very few) in shows shot in Texas than in shows shot in Canada. Maybe this is to counteract what we see in films where if a particular scene is set in Canada then it makes it look like all of Canada is buried under snow for 2/3 of the year.
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Feel free to propose that in YKTTW.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I don't know if this is related at all, but how is it that in every disaster movie that affects the USA, Canada is never mentioned? Okay, we're only a tenth of the population and the country, while big, is mostly empty... But in the Day After Tomorrow movie, the northern British isles get a bigger mention than the neighbor. And at the end of the movie, everyone in Canada is most likely dead. I don't recall if there was a shot of the CN tower at any point in Independence day, but there are plenty other movies where Canada is essentially forgotten.
The only notable exceptions seems to appear in verses in which the USA has turned into a crapsack country and Canada is mentionned as an oasis of peace and stability, but not much beyond that.
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, started by SantosLHalper on Jan 12th 2014 at 5:02:19 AM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman