I live in Minnesota and the movie Fargo is pretty good! Also I adore Garrison Keillor of NPR "Lake Woebegon" fame and soon a movie. (filmed here over the summer....Meryl Streep, Lindsey Lohan...and our Garrison!)You betcha! These show the stoic, nerdy Scandinavian side of our state.

Alya, if a new road has just moved that last station on the T from the left side of the road to the right, then we're neighbors.

For the D.C. area, I guess it would have to be the Capitol Steps comedy troop, which lives to make fun of Washington politics. Everyone in D.C. takes themsleves way too seriously, and it provides fodder for the Steps. They are a D.C. institution.

...popped into my head immediatley...."Steel Magnolias" and "Mama's family"...sigh.

Oh, I love Steel Magnolia's. That one reminds me of visiting my grandmother near the Louisiana border.

Cali, no I don't live on Jamaica. I live farther south on a very tiny island, but the lifestyle is very much the same.

it just hit me! i haven't responded to this, because i couldn't figure out one, but on long land...definately "everybody loves raymond"...tons of families live just like that, it really is very realistic!

thats "long island", sorry!

The Office...does anyone really get anything done there? Does anyone care? A sense of relief in being retired!

ozarksbill

I think The Office is hysterical. I loved the British version but to me the American version is even better because I can relate to it more. And like in my office, no work gets done.

Oh gosh...didn't know there was a Brit version of The Office! Just like with Whose Line Is It Anyway. So anyway...next week on The Office is the Christmas party!

ozarksbill

Ever seen the movie Dogma?? Ben Affleck and Matt Damon play fallen angels that end up in a place worse than hell, Wisconsin!!

Or how about "That 70's Show".....
butt of the joke....Wisconsin!!

On "Titanic", when Leo DiCaprio is trying to describe how freezing cold the ocean water is, he says "Ever been to Wisconsin?"!!

With all the jokes about the weather, it is still a great place to grow up and live!!!

Oh yeah....can't forget the Simpsons episode when Springfield earns bragging rights for having the fattest people, and Homer looks into the "camera" and says..."In your face, Milwaukee!!"

Wisconsin?? LOL!! Gotta put the state on my personal list of "1,000 places to see before I die."
Otto--but it's pronounced lung island, no? Or is it lawwwng island? That's what unworldly fellow Californians tease me about when i "mispronounce" a placethat's not even part of their state!
Anyone else mentioning funny TV shows--please also, if you know it, mention the current TV station where it appears.
For Florida setting---one of the BEST shows ever, with its share of wonderful, touching humor--"The Golden Girls" The four ladies are an older, wiser, wittier version of "Sex and the City" which is also wonderful and clever. For a funny lady who loves sex, it's Blanche not Samantha that makes me laugh.

Here in Minnesota you might be a local if your favorite place to eat out has two signs. One says Cafe or Restaurant and the other says Bait.

Jorr, those signs sounds like one of the "you might be a redneck if..." jokes. So they're up north too??!! Just proves--we all have a little bit of "the glorious absence of sophistication" in and among us--thank God!

Also- The movie 'Office Space' was typical to a place I used to work in Atlanta...especially about having 8 bosses....classic.

The St. Pete area is a microcosmic Gilligans Island with lots of Mariannes and Gingers and many Thurston Howells the third lingering on the beaches.

Tampa is a little like Scarface meets the Apprentice.

And then there's the Desperate Housewives...

CaliNurse, It does sound like a Jeff Foxworthy redneck joke but its not. I have been driving by this place for years and also eating there and one day it just struck me how rural and redneck those signs on the same gas station/restaurant looked and how funny it must look to weekend vacationers from Minneapolis.

The King of Queens... my husband and I live in NYC.. but I swear the writers for that show must be eavesdropping on us!

Although Ricky Gervais is the one who most recently made the world aware of the foibles of life in Slough (about 15 minutes from where we live), the town can also claim someone we think is MUCH funnier...Tracy Ullman.
I think her humor and style relate both to a place--hapless suburbs of big, sophisticated cities--and to smart, observant, funny women over 30 everywhere.

Office Space. But wait -- it's NOT a documentary?

Fargo - you betcha. I used to live very, very near where the hooker from LeSueur was raised.

Field of Dreams - for my childhood home in Iowa. The only thing it's missing is what I call "Iowa rap" - old farmers trading lies in the cafe. Is it Heaven? Nope, but close.