So, I was watching the local news tonight, and seems that my hometown will be one of the settings for tonight’s episode of “Will and Grace.” How smashing is that? 
Keep your ears open for mentions of Schenectady, NY, guys. We don’t get much publicity! (Although, we have been mentioned a few times on “Law and Order.” My favorites were the references to the fictional Diocese of Schenectady and the Little Miss Schenectady beauty pageant.)
Oh hush, Serendipity, Schenectady is forever being mentioned in Kurt Vonnegut books! I’m sick of Schenectady! 
Oooh, do you think you can be an extra? I’d watch tv to see that.
Hey, one of the few places in the US I’ve been.
I was at the Amtrak station there for four hours. Tell them I’m sorry for filling the jelly bean dispenser with Canadian dimes.
Seeing as it wasn’t actually taped in Schenectady :(, I don’t think I’ll be seen as an extra. However, if there is a stunning, witty extra running around somewhere, that could very possibly be me.
pweetman – That was you?!? We still haven’t recovered from the infusion of Canadian dimes!
Oh, duh, you said it was being aired tonight. Sorry, I’ve had terrible insomnia for over a month now and I can’t read.
Maybe they’ll tape a very special episode of Friends there, that would be nice. 
<stands in corner, muttering>
Oh, so nobody wants to come to Pittsburgh, eh? We’re not good enough for em, just cause we don’t have a cool name like Schenectady…
Even in “Dogma”, they pretended that it was Wisconson.
I hear Glendale, California mentioned now and then. The one that amused me the most was “Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl”. They made some sly joke about Glendale, alluding that it is boring. It’s true, it is rather a dull town. But it’s my hometown, dammit!
Could it be that “Schenectady” is a funny word and that they really AREN’T “honoring” your town but are REALLY making fun of it?
Sally Field’s ER character comes from Tampa.
Other naughty-sounding U.S. cities:
Poughkeepsie, NY
Yonkers, NY
Hackensack, NJ
Albuquerque, NM
Rough And Ready, PA (I’m not kidding, I’ve seen it!)
Bucyrus, OH
Fond Du Lac, WI
Bemidji, MN
Orofino, ID
Natchitoches, LA
Protection, KS
I won’t be impressed until I hear a reference to Snellville, GA. (My painfully whitebred suburbian “paradise” :rolleyes: the mose obscure of the obscure US suburbs…)
Oh, dropzone, that was just plain mean. Really, way to make a girl feel crappy. I never thought they were honoring the city; it was just a good sounding upstate town for Grace to be from. Besides, Schenectady is a beautiful, lyrical word. Jester says it’s a cool name, and that’s good enough for me. ::sniff::
Here in Poughkeepsie (see above) the local paper has a “Poughkeepsie Mention” column every week or so; people write in with the references they’ve seen in books, movies, and TV shows. There are a surprising number given the small size and general unimportance of the place. Yes, most of the references are because of the silly-sounding name. Sad but true.
But not THAT sad. I must admit though that I drove a few miles out of my way last spring on a trip through Mississippi, just so I could say I’d been to Biloxi.
Idiotboy:
You haven’t lived till you’ve been to Dildo, Newfoundland.
Check an atlas, it’s for real, I am not trying to see if the town name comes up asterisks…