Emily in my country of origin would be on a beach, full of blonde, tanned people drinking beer, cooking sausages on a barbecue, and saying 'g'day' a lot, and there would be kangaroos roaming the streets. And none of the actors would get our accent right and would instead sound like Americans trying to do a Cockney accent.
Emily in my current home town would cycle the wrong way up King's Parade, somehow end up behind the college for the iconic skyscape that gets featured in every show/film set here, and would somehow stumble into a bunch of academics and students wearing academic gowns. She would then pop up in a completely different part of town with no indication as to how she cycled there (a portal?).
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Emily in my current home town would cycle the wrong way up King's Parade, somehow end up behind the college for the iconic skyscape that gets featured in every show/film set here, and would somehow stumble into a bunch of academics and students wearing academic gowns. She would then pop up in a completely different part of town with no indication as to how she cycled there (a portal?).
(Basically it's a bit of a cliché in films and TV shows set in Cambridge that characters seem to wander through one part of town and then suddenly step into another, even though in real life the two places are not next to each other. Likewise, they're always filmed cycling the wrong way down a one-way street, which in reality would see them yelled at loudly by irate professors.)
I am so, so fed up with American media treating the rest of the world as a kind of cliché-ridden theme park for Americans.