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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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Those that watched Cobra Kai might recognize this house as Daniel LaRusso's mansion. I've been driving by it every night for the last week and a half. I saw it on Google maps and got this picture tonight.

For decades California acted as a filming stand in for Georgia. Now Georgia is a stand in for California.

That explains the completely weird version of San Bernardino they showed in Cobra Kai. (No, it is not a rural forested town, but a big urban city in warm dry Southern California.)

 

[trappedslider]

I know someone who's wife is not a native English speaker, and she asked him: "Where is the any key?"

 

[gnarlygninja]

Sounds like some kind of Baggins to me. What’s it got in its pocketses?

Good ear, he is the system equivalent of a Hobbit.

 

[Aeson]

That explains the completely weird version of San Bernardino they showed in Cobra Kai. (No, it is not a rural forested town, but a big urban city in warm dry Southern California.)

I wouldn't call the area that house is in rural, but compared to San Bernardino it probably would be. It's an upscale suburban area. Lots of houses around it, but also a lot of pine trees. I'm not disagreeing with you, it doesn't look like the place it's portraying.

The show Will Trent is set in Georgia and supposedly filmed here, but I think it looks like California in a lot of it's outside scenes.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wouldn't call the area that house is in rural, but compared to San Bernardino it probably would be.

I'm thinking of the episode that ended with a car driving past a sign that pointed to San Bernardino and it was pointing into a wooded community.

In real life, the way to get to San Bernardino from the San Fernando Valley is either on Interstate 10 (one of the busiest highways in the United States, which mostly goes through urban areas in Southern California, and certainly no forests west of San Bernardino when the city is only an exit or two away) or Freeway 210, which has wooded areas, but not near San Bernardino and the car would be heading south, into the city, not north into the San Bernardino Mountains, as though Johnny (as I recall) was driving to Crestline or Big Bear.

But the Karate Kid franchise has always had an enthusiastically loose grasp on reality. The idea that the San Fernando Valley -- population 1.5 million -- would be obsessed with a junior karate tournament is super-silly. (People don't even care about club soccer that much, despite that being a much more plausible sport for people to be obsessed with in Southern California.)

But the Karate Kid's silliness is a feature, not a bug, so none of this is a complaint.

 

[billd91]

I wouldn't call the area that house is in rural, but compared to San Bernardino it probably would be. It's an upscale suburban area. Lots of houses around it, but also a lot of pine trees. I'm not disagreeing with you, it doesn't look like the place it's portraying.

The show Will Trent is set in Georgia and supposedly filmed here, but I think it looks like California in a lot of it's outside scenes.

There's an episode in an early season of Supernatural that takes place in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. And it's clear they just picked the name off a map because Sam and Dean are walking through a downtown area that clearly doesn't exist in Fitchburg - which is an extremely spread out suburb of Madison with several expanses of apartments/condos, several strip malls, and no real walkable downtown. Living in an adjacent suburb and knowing Fitchburg well, we got a laugh out of it.

 

[trappedslider]

There's an episode in an early season of Supernatural that takes place in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. And it's clear they just picked the name off a map because Sam and Dean are walking through a downtown area that clearly doesn't exist in Fitchburg - which is an extremely spread out suburb of Madison with several expanses of apartments/condos, several strip malls, and no real walkable downtown. Living in an adjacent suburb and knowing Fitchburg well, we got a laugh out of it.

There's an opening of an early season of CSI saying "Clines Corners, New Mexico" and it showed trees....There are no trees around Cline Corners....it is a truck stop/tourist trap.

 

[Aeson]

There's an episode in an early season of Supernatural that takes place in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. And it's clear they just picked the name off a map because Sam and Dean are walking through a downtown area that clearly doesn't exist in Fitchburg - which is an extremely spread out suburb of Madison with several expanses of apartments/condos, several strip malls, and no real walkable downtown. Living in an adjacent suburb and knowing Fitchburg well, we got a laugh out of it.

I think Supernatural was filmed in Vancouver. When I watched it, everywhere they went looked like the same place. Cold and wet. I started associating cold and wet with Vancouver and sunny and dry with Toronto.

Your description of the real Fitchburg sounds like the area that house is in. Except the house and many around it are valued in the millions of dollars.

 

[Aeson]

There's an opening of an early season of CSI saying "Clines Corners, New Mexico" and it showed trees....There are no trees around Cline Corners....it is a truck stop/tourist trap.

That show is set in Las Vegas, odd they went out of state where they have no jurisdiction. I think it was set in Las Vegas but was filmed in Los Angeles.

 

[CleverNickName]

(checks watch) Hm, he's late. I expected to see ol' eumetopias jubatus several pages ago.