As a service, I'd like to offer some tips to help them in case they try to do this again:
- Minneapolis and St Paul are collectively referred to as 'the Cities' by anyone from the state. Calling them 'the Twin Cities' sounds as odd as obsessivly referring to New York as 'the Big Apple'. It's a small error and perfectly understandable but it tips you off as outsiders.
- You were very close with this one but the game that haunts Viking fans is the 1998 NFC Championship game. The game happened in January of '99 but it was part of the '98 season. The '99 one had St Louis hosting Tampa Bay. Check with your football guys, they'll set you straight.
- Your bar has people ripping on Canadians. Any bar filled with people from 'the Cities' and featuring border animosity would show hatred towards Wisconsin. (Is there Canada bashing up north? Seems kind of pointless. Anyone help out here? Carrie?)
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All good points. Frankly, it's kind of fun watching Hollywood try to write about the Midwest, because they generally get the details wrong (although, as you said, it's nice of them to include us). I think my favorite was watching an episode of That '70s Show, where not only was it an amazingly snow-free winter in "Wisconsin", but the Packer-fan main character managed to mispronounce "Green Bay".
My Cheddarhead friends had great fun with that.
Dang, I wish I would have seen that so I could have picked up on the interesting misses on the part of Hollywood.
Having not watched any television (other than MN sporting events) did they also give him the wonderful MN accent? And does he say pop instead of soda?? :)
Oh no, no Canadian animosity up here. But you're dead on with the WI rivalry. Yeah, the soda/pop thing would be a really nice character bit. People in LA would seriously LOOK at me when I said 'pop.' (ie: at the grocery store - "i don't need the pop in a bag." they were like...wha??? Weird)
Well, they definitely like to make fun of Iowans.
reminds me of when Coach was headed to the Shakespeare Festival in "Shake" o pee, MN.
Or when Brenda and Dylan said they were from WAY - zata.
If you live up north and are close enough to walk to Canada, you definitely make fun of the Canadians. Especially the girls from Canada (if you are a girl...I know catty) You don't ever see people from Wisconsin. That is so far away!
I think they did get one thing done very well- the Character from MN in the show is named Marshal and he was wearing a jim Marshal jersey- I thought that was neat
Don't you have some actor friend from High School in Hollywood in a Soap Opera? Get a hold of him - ask him why he let this one get through.
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