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{{quote|L.A. is home to some of the kindest and most outgoing people in the world until they realize you're not an agent.|''[[The Onion]]: Our Dumb World''}}
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Averted with [https://web.archive.org/web/20130808025738/http://www.hollisterco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HomePage?storeId=10251&langId=-1&catalogId=10201 the Hollister Co. brand of clothing]. While Hollister is a city in California, it betrays the brand image by being nowhere near the coast and is in fact in Northern California. Also the brand is named after fictional founder John M. Hollister.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[Chuck]]'' takes place in Burbank, a city of Los Angeles County on the north border of the city of Los Angeles.
* Every season of ''[[24]]'' revolves around an attack against, or originating in, Los Angeles. Other places have been visited or referenced. One season focused on Palmdale, an isolated but large desert community about 20 miles outside the Greater Los Angeles Area, so that the show could {{spoiler|nuke it. If you're not a part of the Big Three, you're expendable. To be fair to the terrorists, they didn't originally plan on targeting Palmdale.}}
* Averted in ''[[The Mentalist]]''. The crimesolving team is part of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090222000427/http://ag.ca.gov/cbi/ California Bureau of Investigation], and so its cases tend to focus on smaller cities in California where the local law enforcement are less prepared to deal with exceptional crimes.
* In ''[[Star Trek]]'' Starfleet Headquarters/Academy is based in San Francisco. ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'', in fact, was set mostly in 1986 San Francisco.
* ''[[Baywatch]]'' was shot in Venice (Los Angeles).
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