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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 25, 2022 7:18:55 GMT -5
I’m from Medford, MA so I’ve been to Boston a ton. Anyway, I was just watching Family Guy and Peter mentioned he parked in the bad part of town when going to Fenway Park because he wanted to save $3.
Yeah right!
Parking in Boston is ridiculous. Parking by Fenway is some of the most ridiculous in the city. On the MLB website they list nearby parking options and it ranges from $35-$55.
If you care to be frugal and know the city enough though you can find cheaper parking further away for around $10 or nothing at all.
TLDR: Family Guy grossly underestimated how much money can be wasted parking by Fenway Park.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on May 25, 2022 7:37:27 GMT -5
London Calling doesn't play whenever you go to London.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on May 25, 2022 7:48:22 GMT -5
London Calling doesn't play whenever you go to London. Exactly. Everyone knows that God Save The Queen by Sex Pistols automatically plays when you arrive on UK soil.
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Post by Dan Royal on May 25, 2022 8:00:26 GMT -5
I literally just watched a Steven Segal movie that takes place in Vancouver. At one point the bad guys are speeding away in a car and a cop says something like "They just left downtown, they're heading for the highway". The highway in Vancouver is miles away from Downtown. If someone was just leaving downtown, you'd have no way of knowing where they're heading.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 25, 2022 8:28:31 GMT -5
Strangely they always get Sudbury right as the inbred hick capital of Ontario
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Post by Push R Truth on May 25, 2022 8:54:48 GMT -5
There's a LOT of movies that involve Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa that get all the accents wrong and look like they filmed the parts in Montana. But nobody gives a shit about us so that's par for the course.
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Post by HMARK Center on May 25, 2022 8:56:56 GMT -5
I'd start telling you what's normally screwed up about depictions of New Jersey, but we'd be here all day.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on May 25, 2022 9:02:00 GMT -5
I'd start telling you what's normally screwed up about depictions of New Jersey, but we'd be here all day. LOL you read my mind. /We're not like that. //We're WORSE. LOL.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 25, 2022 9:06:23 GMT -5
I remember Pacific Rim when Sydney is attacked by a Kaiju just after the scene where coastal cities around world put up giant walls to stop the monsters.
In the movie the they put the wall in what what looks to be just north of the Opera House and thw Sydney Harbour Bridge.. which is stupid if are aware of the geography of the Sydney area… north of those landmarks is another large part of the city .. the Bridge does not lead out to open ocean where the Kaiju come from.
If they were gonna put up a Kaiju wall it would be east of the city, but then they would not be near a recognisable landmark.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 9:28:19 GMT -5
Agents of Shield showed way too many palm trees in Indianapolis.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on May 25, 2022 9:38:15 GMT -5
Kansas City is only in Kansas.
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Post by Zombie Mod on May 25, 2022 9:48:20 GMT -5
lets see,
Lancashire in American films: doesn't exist, it's London only or Liverpool/Manchester.
Lancashire in British films: exists but is stuck in like the 1930's trouble 't mill backwards idiots usually.
that said part of the town I live in doubled for an area of 1970's Belfast in the film '71 so make of that what you will.
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Post by agent817 on May 25, 2022 10:02:08 GMT -5
The only thing I could think of is that CB4 supposedly had scenes set in Sacramento, but those scenes were clearly not shot there. Hell, the venue was called the Sacramento Arena, when at the time it was the Arco Arena.
I remember that Even Stevens was set in that city, but none of those areas I recognized. It didn't feel like Sacramento.
However, when watching Lady Bird, that was more accurate as it was actually shot there.
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Post by Feyrhausen on May 25, 2022 11:09:35 GMT -5
The movie Jeff Who Lives At Home was filmed in and around Baton Rouge, LA and takes place there. The title character lives in his mothers basement. Except we do not have basements in south LA. Too much water. Especially that close to New Orleans.
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Post by Hit Girl on May 25, 2022 11:12:04 GMT -5
Red buses and black taxis exist everywhere in Britain
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 25, 2022 11:25:26 GMT -5
Texas has desert, but the vast majority of the state is plains with assorted plants and shrubbery.
Dallas-Fort Worth is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, we do have people who walk around in boots and cowboy hats 24-7 but that's by no means the majority of people here. Many of us don't listen to country or mosey on down to the local Honky Tonk every Friday either.
Dallas the show was highly accurate in portraying the average denizen as being a materialistic WASP tho.
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Post by karl100589 on May 25, 2022 12:11:21 GMT -5
As someone from North East England, we do not:
* A - Wear flatcaps and look after ferrets in our terraced houses
* B - Go to Newcastle and get "f***in' mortal"
Our tolerance for the cold is true though.
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Post by rainandlava on May 25, 2022 14:30:51 GMT -5
I remember in Inhumans, there was once a claim that the last ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a male.
Without getting into a long and possibly rule-breaking explanation...that was not true at all.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 25, 2022 14:32:33 GMT -5
I'd start telling you what's normally screwed up about depictions of New Jersey, but we'd be here all day. But the Toxic Avenger is accurate right? >_>
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Post by Square on May 25, 2022 14:36:40 GMT -5
That it's in China.
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