# Have all 50 states housed a sitcom? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225 "2005-05-31T15:35:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/61 "2005-06-01T23:37:04Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Never heard of \*Married To The Kellys \* A better one for Kansas would be \*The Phil Silvers Show \* (aka Sgt Bilko) Or _Smallville_. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/62 "2005-06-02T02:15:49Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Hooterville was in Illinois. Chicago was mentioned alot as being the nearest big city on Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. Springfield was also mentioned as the name of the state capital. I don’t recall that they ever came right out and mentioned either Springfield or Chicago on _Green Acres_, but I have to agree – I’ve always had the impression that they were in Illinois somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/63 "2005-06-02T04:35:41Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I don’t recall that they ever came right out and mentioned either Springfield or Chicago on _Green Acres_, but I have to agree – I’ve always had the impression that they were in Illinois somewhere. That’s funny (odd, not humorous). I didn’t recall the first-episode itinerary, so I always thought it was somewhere in New York. I suppose there are places in southern Illinois that are pretty hick, but Illinois, in general, is not really bucolic enough (in my mind, at least) to serve as the location. Indiana, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/64 "2005-06-02T13:31:11Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Or _Smallville_. Gotta be a sitcom, though. ---
**Author:** ![Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olive_The_Other_Reindeer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/65 "2005-06-02T14:54:48Z")
“Murder, She Wrote” was in Maine ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/66 "2005-06-02T15:34:13Z")
> [@Olive](#): > > “Murder, She Wrote” was in Maine Sitcom? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/67 "2005-06-02T17:40:46Z")
> [@Papermache Prince](#): > > No one remembered _Eerie, Indiana_? I did! I was hoping no one named it! Not sure if “Dukes of Hazzard” is technically a sitcom, but could it have been in Kentucky? I had to double check to make sure the OP list included Carter Country (with the best Jerry Falwell-impressionist as the Mayor). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/68 "2005-06-02T17:42:41Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Not sure if “Dukes of Hazzard” is technically a sitcom, but could it have been in Kentucky? Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/69 "2005-06-02T17:51:43Z")
Dunno if it’s been mentioned yet, but _The Ghost and Mrs. Muir_ was a sitcom set (IIRC) in Maine. > [@bordelond](#): > > Sitcom? ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@shadowfax33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shadowfax33)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/70 "2005-06-02T19:01:54Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Hey, **shadowfax** , not to burst your bubble, but I’m looking _specifically_ for sitcoms. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/71 "2005-06-02T19:46:13Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Never heard of \*Married To The Kellys \* A better one for Kansas would be \*The Phil Silvers Show \* (aka Sgt Bilko) Even better, _F-Troop_. (Kansas Territory) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/72 "2005-06-03T20:19:49Z")
Wasn’t the Cosby Show in Baltimore? That’d be a lot better pick for Maryland than whatever it is on the list now. And if you want to really, really stretch, you could probably say that Yogi Bear was set in Wyoming. If you wanted to stretch even further, you could say that it was Montana or Idaho. Where was Twin Peaks set, and does it count as a sitcom? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/73 "2005-06-03T20:32:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wasn’t the Cosby Show in Baltimore? Manhattan. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/74 "2005-06-03T20:40:58Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Manhattan. Nope–Brooklyn Heights. Twin Peaks was in Washington (according to the directions in the first episode, it would be about where Metaline Falls is). The New Dick Van Dyke show–they lived in Carefree because that’s where DVD was living at the time. His character hosted a TV show in Phoenix (it was moved to LA for the second season). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/75 "2005-06-03T20:59:22Z")
_Twin Peaks_ was a sitcom? Man, the things you can learn from DVD commentaries! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/76 "2005-06-03T22:18:05Z")
Twin Peaks was set in Washington State although we do have a mountain town called Twin Peaks (that had some similarities with the town in the show which now I can’t remember) only a scant 20 miles from my house as the raven (crow) flies. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/77 "2005-06-03T23:12:49Z")
Alabama: if you can count select episodes, the Francis plotline on _Malcolm in the Middle_ attended a military school in Alabama for a season. (It had one of the show’s funniest moments [_“Pray-the-gay-AWAY!”_.) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/78 "2005-06-06T14:08:15Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > Twin Peaks was in Washington (according to the directions in the first episode, it would be about where Metaline Falls is). And it was actually filmed in Snoqualmie, Wash. As an aside, _Northern Exposure_, set in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, was filmed in Rosslyn, Wash. (The “Rosslyn Cafe” mural was repainted to read “Rosslyn’s Cafe” for the show.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225.md?page=3)