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The state of Rhode Island is often depicted in popular culture, partly due to its natives the Farrelly brothers and former residence of the creator of the television show Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane. The following is a list of popular culture in Rhode Island.

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Television

  • The Showtime series Brotherhood is set in Providence.
  • The Fox animated sitcom Family Guy (1999 – 2002; 2005 – present) is set in the fictional town of Quahog.
  • The NBC series Providence is set and named for Providence.
  • Doctor Doctor was set in Providence.
  • On FOX's popular X-Files (1993 – 2001) TV series, Fox Mulder's family lives in Chepachet, a small village in the northern town of Glocester, Rhode Island. His mother retires to Quonochontaug, an even smaller community in South County.
  • Ghost Hunters is set in Warwick.
  • Canterbury's Law is set in Providence and the surrounding areas.
  • In the Star Trek universe, there exists a ship called the USS Rhode Island NCC-72701
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force Season 1 Episode 2, one of the leprechauns says he is from Rhode Island.
  • 30 Rock Season 5 Episode 3 introduces Queen Latifah as a State representative from Rhode Island, specifically mentioning Smithfield, Providence, and Brown University.
  • In an episode of Phineas and Ferb, Ferb's name happens to be "Rhode Island Flecther".

Film

Many films by the Farrelly brothers are filmed and/or set in Rhode Island.

Other

  • John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, also made into a Jack Nicholson movie, is set in Rhode Island and its early pages include a brief, acerbic description of that State.
  • Jincy Willett's acclaimed novel, Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, takes place during a Rhode Island hurricane.
  • The Justice League of America's first headquarters was depicted in the comic books as being in a cave in the fictional district of Happy Harbor, in Rhode Island.
  • The massively multiplayer online game City of Heroes is set in the fictional city of Paragon City, Rhode Island, on the state's coast overlooking the Atlantic.[2] An expansion to the game also features another fictional Rhode Island town, Salamanca.
  • The popular videogame Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is focused around the happenings in a mansion in Rhode Island.
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan's dark-fantasy novel Daughter of Hounds is set primarily in Providence, but also features such other Rhode Island locales as Woonsocket and Kingston.
  • Guitar virtuoso Guthrie Govan has a song on his solo album named "Rhode Island Shred"
  • The Eagles' song "The Last Resort", from their album Hotel California opens with the line "She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island."
  • Several books by young-adult author Edward Irving Wortis, better known by his pen name Avi, are set at least partially in Rhode Island. Something Upstairs, The Man Who Was Poe, and Newbery Honor book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle are among these. Wortis himself lived in Providence until the mid-1990s.
  • Keith Smith's autobiographical book Men in My Town is set in Rhode Island.
  • Jodi Picoult's novel My Sister's Keeper was set in Rhode Island

See also

References

  1. ^ Arditi, Lynn (2009-05-24). "Film Chronicles RI's Asian Brothels". Providence Journal. http://www.projo.com/art/content/HAPPY_ENDINGS_FILM_05-24-09_Q9EFHNF_v25.1ecfa95.html. Retrieved 2009-07-03. 
  2. ^ "The Paragon Times: Capes Return to Paragon City!". 2004-07-19. Archived from the original on 2007-01-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20070108163159/http://www.cityofheroes.com/paper/newspaper.html. Retrieved 2007-01-25. "An in-game newspaper article, that mentions Paragon City, Rhode Island." 

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