Llanview (One Life To Live) and Pine Valley (All My Children) were fictional suburbs of Philadelphia although I don’t even think they referred to Philly by name. Agnes Nixon (who created both shows) lived in a suburb of Philadelphia and there were often references on AMC to “center city” and “Locust Street” where the character who was prostituting herself would go (and at the time was a red light district in Philly at the time). One of OLTL’s opening featured photo montages including center city Philly’s skyline and a newsstand prominently featuring the Philadelphia Inquirer
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Only the pilot for Twin Peaks was actually shot in North Bend WA. The rest was on a CA soundstage with occasional as needed "scenic" exterior shots edited in over the years. Most of the exterior shots with actors were shot in CA.
Probably if produced today this show would be shot in and around Vancouver BC.
Probably if produced today this show would be shot in and around Vancouver BC.
San Pueblo has gotta be a parody name of San Pedro the Los Angeles area District where the Port of Los Angeles is located. But there's another city with San and P as the first Letter. The closest one is San Pablo in Northern California. One can imply it's a mix of both if one isn't aware of the specific references of San Pueblo.
San Pedro, Los Angeles - Wikipedia
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San Pablo, California - Wikipedia
San Pedro, which is also mispronounced as "San Peedro". I remember that Alex Trebek pronounced it "correctly" on Jeopardy, and the contestant let him know how the locals actually pronounced it.
It can make things awkward for Spanish-Speaking Latinos in LA, just like Los Feliz does.
ROFLMAO
I can't help noticing that "Llanview" appears pseudo-Welsh, which isn't surprising for Philadelphia, think Bryn Mawr and Bala Cynwyd.
From animated series: there's Bluffington from "Doug," and Quahog, RI from "Family Guy."
"The Golden Girls" takes place in Miami, but Rose mentions a fictional town, Tyler's Landing, MN, in some of her St. Olaf Stories. (There really is a St. Olaf, though it's a township, not a town. It's in Otter Tail County in western MN, a ways southeast of Fargo, ND.)
"The Golden Girls" takes place in Miami, but Rose mentions a fictional town, Tyler's Landing, MN, in some of her St. Olaf Stories. (There really is a St. Olaf, though it's a township, not a town. It's in Otter Tail County in western MN, a ways southeast of Fargo, ND.)
It's always made me chuckle a bit that Quahog has its own newscast. I know it's mostly for the jokes, but as a suburb of Providence, you'd think the locals would watch Providence stations.
I don't think Rhode Island is large enough to support two media markets!
Poetic license. As far as I am aware, Family Guy never refers to Providence at all.
Maybe not in the script, but you can clearly see the Providence skyline in the animation.
I know. I meant by name. I thought of the skyline, but I'm assuming that in the show, they either just pass it off as Quahog, or don't make reference to any nearby city.
Kind of an Easter egg to give a shout-out to Providence.
Here's a recent video from Jacob the Carpetbagger on Metropolis, IL:
I've been there several times.
I suppose it could be a cable access channel... XD