Cartoons that mention/depict your locale?

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Thought this'd be fun:

What cartoons have depicted your city or state (or province/country if outside the US)?

And in addition: how well do you think they did depicting your locale?

Guess I'll start:

I'm in Wisconsin, which doesn't seem to have been depicted in cartoons much, besides the occasional character with a Wisconsinite accent (the mom on "Bobby's World", Fred's parents on that pirate "Scooby Doo" movie). I know there's a Kim Possible episode that takes place in Wisconsin, but I haven't seen it (keep missing it)...

-B.
 
Since New York is a very big place, and most animated shows tend to have episodes take place there like "Xiaolin Showdown" for example. It really hard to say what all of them are, trying to find one that takes place outside the 5 main part of New York City (Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island)

Though A Robot Chicken did mention an area near my hometown in one episode.
 
^But that was just for one episode.How about animated shows like Spiderman series(es) that take place entirely in New York?American Dragon almost always takes place there too.It's just a city people feel familiar with.
 
Garfield is supposed to take place in Muncie, Indiana according to one of the specials when Jon won a contest and the announcer said Jon Arbuckle of Muncie.
 
I excluded them for a reason, there is too many shows that take place in New York, and I thought that if the majority of the show takes place in the state, then it shouldn't count .

But while we're on Superheroes, "X-Men Evolution" I was told it took place in a New York Suburban area, somewhere close to where I live.
 
That would be Season 1's Bueno Nacho (Which would chronologically the 2nd episode in the series. The story behind that one is that Drakken has set up a secret Lair within the "World's Biggest Cheese Wheel" which is somewhere in Wisconsin.


Now moving on to Arizona, it seems that Arizona has at least 2 different cartoons, and 3 episodes that deal with Arizona Proper.

First up is in fact Kim Possible's season 1 episode Mind Games, where Drakken had a lair at the bottom of the Grand Canyon (in Northern Arizona), and in fact they do have mule trips down the side of the canyon in order to reach the bottom. So that's one.

Then there's in an Episode of Kim Possible yet again, This time in Season 3's Gorilla Fist, where Yori and Ron go to a "Zoo in the Southwestern US." (Now I've looked at one scene where Ron's holding a map, and interestingly enough it looks very familiar to the layout of The Reid Park Zoo right here in Tucson, Arizona. (Of course Kim jumps Ron at the Monkey house in the Zoo, then forces Ron to spill the beans about his trip to Japan.)

But then there's another show, The Real Ghostbusters, who in the Season 2 episode, Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral, go to Tombstone Arizona, to take on the Ghosts of perhaps the most notable figures in the Tombstone area, namely Wyatt Earp, and his brothers Morgan and Virgil, and of course Doc Holiday..Now I will say the layout of Tombstone in the episode wasn't done accurately, but they do mention Boot Hill and of course the OK Corral, but beyond that, the folks who worked on the Real Ghostbusters needed to do their research if they were going to get that one right.

So there are 3 good Arizona Examples.. If there are more I will see what else I can come up.. (As for California, there are numerous references.. Including Beverly Hills most notably, but none from my area of California (Unless there is an episode of some cartoon somewhere which deals with Palm Springs that is.)

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Bart Simpson and the rest of The Simpsons went to Hong Kong briefly, Cow and Chicken mentioned a toy made from Hong Kong, a villian from Xiaolin Showdown used piracy in Hong Kong, the last episode of American Dragon took place in Hong Kong...

Wow, I never knew my home town was really popular.
 
I've seen the Arch here and there in different places, usually just quick shots. And for some reason The Simpsons seems to mention St. Louis randomly every now and then.
 
Obviously, because Matt Groening hails from Portland, there are plenty of Portland/Oregon references in The Simpsons. However, I have always been baffled by the incessant representation of Oregon in Cow & Chicken. "Head-Hunting in Oregon" was without a doubt the weirdest. Oregonians were depicted as dim-witted savages that wore barrels and walked on ice for entertainment.
 
How about when Bender burned Eugene, OR?:D

I'm now in Seattle.

Seattle was liberally depicted in The Simpsons Movie. The Space Needle was also featured in an Itchy & Scratchy short.

TMNT (2K3): Season 4, "On a Wing and a Prayer". Introduced Raptarr and the Avians. The fallen angel Mephos quipped he might destroy Seattle.

Back to the Simpsons. "The Italian Bob". This ep debuted when I was living in Orlando, FL. In Bob's flashback, he spun a globe to determine where he'd run off to. One of the stops was Orlando, to which he bellowed "NOT IN THIS LIFETIME!!!":D I feel ya Bob, I lived there for 20+ yrs. Orlando sucks toes!
 
I remember that there was an episode of Secret Squirrle (2 Stupid Dogs version) where a villan had a gun or something that leveled cities and it showed him leveling Seattle.
Also one of the speculated place that Foster's takes place is Tacoma
 
Speaking of Wisconsin, I remember a couple jokes from two shows concerning Wisconsin:

Family Guy: "Everyone has their sanctuary. The Catholics have churches, fat people have Wisconsin, and I have the Pawtucket Brewery."

Aaahh! Real Monsters: "Where are you folks headed on vacation?"
"Milwaukee, Wisconsin!"
"Oh boy, sir, you are in for the THRILL of a lifetime!"
 
Unless the show takes place there, most cartoons usually take little potshots at middle America. Chalk that up to the writers that used to live there, or grew up on either coast without ever visiting. Though I will be the first to say that unless you live near Chicago or Indianapolis, Indiana is nothing but flatlands and corn.
 
I'm hard pressed to think of a cartoon that was ever set in South Carolina or anywhere in the South. "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" took place in Louisiana, "Class of 3000" was set in Atlanta. And of course, we have the occasional character with a (stereotyped) Southen accent. But for the cast of a show to have a "home base" that is, say, a suburban neighborhood specifically identified as being in a Southern state.... I can't say that's really happened yet....
 
I loved how they depicted Boston in an episode of Underdog (the one where either Simon or Riff Raff gets all the bad guys together to form a gang). I know it's a minimalistic show, but talk about no research whatsoever.
 
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