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[Carlos del Vaca]

I would like to go to Reno.  I'm told it's what Vegas was like before Vegas went completely apeshit.

[chuanoplast]

I would like to go to Reno.  I'm told it's what Vegas was like before Vegas went completely apeshit.

It's a lot less crazy than Vegas, and if you like outdoor activities, Lake Tahoe is close by. Reno also has a river that is good for kayaking and a fake pond full of assorted waterfowl. If you eat one teaspoonfull of Reno every day, your liver and kidneys will be healthy and your hair will grow full and luxurious.

This message brought to you by the "Visit Reno Instead of Vegas Tourism Board of Washoe County."

Also: their cops are HILARIOUS.

I watched Reno 911 once and it was very confusing because there were lots of shots of Reno, but none of the actual show took place in Reno.

[littlefallsmets]

Reno 911 is actually mostly filmed up in my neck of the woods...

The grungy burnt-out northern suburbs of Los Angeles. Like Sun Valley and shit.

So are The Office and My Name Is Earl. Basically these are the cheapest places to film at where you are still within a reasonable drive of Rich People's Houses in the Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica and The 'Bu.

It was hilarious when The Office was trying to pass off Van Nuys and North Hills as Utica, this week.

[wombat]

It was hilarious when The Office was trying to pass off Van Nuys and North Hills as Utica, this week.

Utica, New York? That must be a challenge. I guess they figure no one knows what Utica looks like and hey, maybe it's a little bit of SoCal in the frozen wastelands?

[littlefallsmets]

Actually, they just shot everything REALLY REALLY tightly.

Basically, every shitty business park looks the same and every shitty highway looks the same.

So unless you know BOTH the place they're filming AND the place they're supposed to be, suspension of disbelief covers everything quite nicely.

Problem is, I know both those places. I live in one and grew up a half hour from the other.

I am the perfect storm of rejected suspension.

[jaydub]

It was hilarious when The Office was trying to pass off Van Nuys and North Hills as Utica, this week.

I have often wondered what Korea really looks like.  Because my current impression is the LA foothills.  My wife is from 'round there, and when her parents were living there and we'd go visiting - the drive in seemed like the opening sequence from M*A*S*H (without the helicopters of course).

[Limmo]

A surprising number of inhabitable planets across the galaxy look just like those foothills, at least if you watch Star Trek: The Next Generation.

"Captain's Log, Stardate 32034.7: we are in orbit above Santa Clarita."

[CortJstr]

I thought all inhabitable planets across time and space were just british quarries with a police box in the middle.

[Golfhaus]

I realize it's one of the most run-into-the-ground jokes ever, but it astounds me how we could evolve on a totally different planet than everybody else, and yet the only difference we have with most of them is that they have funny ears, ripples on the nose, a hossshoe crab on their head, or a skintone that is still feasible on our planet.

Maybe the Scientologists were right about where we came from after all.

[littlefallsmets]

Sadly, I am a big enough nerd to tell you that there was an explanation attempted in a Next Generation episode, an explanation to that very question.

Apparently, all of our planets were seeded by the same space-douches billions of years ago.

Lonely space-douches sick of living in an empty universe.

[CortJstr]

Sadly, I am a big enough nerd to tell you that there was an explanation attempted in a Next Generation episode, an explanation to that very question.

Apparently, all of our planets were seeded by the same space-douches billions of years ago.

Lonely space-douches sick of living in an empty universe.

Lonely space-douches who then attempt to conquer the now-populated universe. I don't remember how they were fended off but I think non-linear wormhole ghosts had something to do with it.

[theinevitable]

picard or someone: "hmm, look at this picture of a klingon from back when Kirk was captain of the enterprise. Wait... why didn't you have the head-ridges back then!"
worf: "we don't like to talk about it."

[littlefallsmets]

"Enterprise" had an explanation for that one, too, Nev.

There was genetic tampering and a plague and... oh man... it was so convoluted and so bad.

Don't these people get that some parts of stories work BETTER kept mysterious?

Everything has to be explained away in minute detail as continuity porn for the sticklers, doesn't it.

Man, I don't need to know the story of Wolverine as a foppish sickly rich child in the late 1800s, man. Fucks up the whole thing. I had a better story in my own head, you sons of bitches, and so did most interesting people.

Running out of ideas? Explain away magical holes in the story that we've filled with our imaginations, explain them full of marginal ideas just to kind of take up space, like baking soda in cocaine. Assholes and fiends, all of them.

Much as I'm a dork, you can't let the dorks run the show.

Everything falls apart soon after that. PETER DAVID I'M LOOKING AT YOU.

[AugustWest]

Not that I disagree with you in any way shape or form LFM, but you have to consider the media involved.  Comic books and episodic TV.  They've gotta come up with several plots, sub-plots and character quirks each and every month/week.  That's a lot of airtime/page space to fill.  When you spend decades exploring the same "world", you can't be surprised if some barrel scraping, nit-picking, panty-sniffing gets thrown in there.

[pmcd9]

There was panty sniffing on star trek.  Damn I don't remember that at all.

All I remember is that big girl with the black hair.  She was a psychologist or some shit.  Yeah, she was hot.