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What is the most unrealistic depiction of the USA you've ever seen in movies or TV shows? Can be your town, state or the country as a whole (feddit.org)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Judge Dread. Oh wait, you said UN-realistic didn't you!?:-) Then Idiocracy, where they actually put a smart person in charge.

Real answer: Hallmark shows, which are basically porn for conservative women. City dweller comes back home for a visit for the holidays, learns the meaning of Christmas or sth and then changes their life around to be identical to everyone else in the small town.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a lifetime movie called Snowed Inn Christmas where the whole premise is two big city journalists get stuck in Santa Claus, Indiana during the holidays. In the movie the town is a picture perfect Christmas village, but the real Santa Claus is basically fields in the middle of nowhere, plus the Holiday World theme park (which is a legitimate banger if anyone gets the chance to visit). It was filmed in Winnipeg. There are funny details like how their flight gets diverted to the "airport" in Santa Claus even though there isn't an airport that is not a grass strip for like 50 miles at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, you're saying some kind of lunatic actually named a town "Santa Claus"? And nobody slapped him?