"Speedtrapped" geography nitpicking (spoilers)

Just watched Speedtrapped and noticed a few oddities:

The band goes to Fremont, gets a ticket, and Daria has to drive "100 miles" to bail them out because they're from "out of state". Which state is 100 miles from Fremont?

Fremont is depicted as a hick country-western town. The Fremont I know is just a short drive north from Silicon Valley. There's a Japanese-owned car factory nearby. Certainly no drive through the desert to get there. (I was stuck in traffic there last week.) Could the writer have meant Fresno?

Daria sits through 2 hours of listening to country music. How can it take 2 hours to drive a fraction of 100 miles on a deserted highway? Esp. when fearless Quinn has driven part of the distance?

(I loved the episode anyway.)

Kenneth Porter wrote:

Depends on which Fremont. I think the writers chose that name because it's pretty common. General J.C. Fremont got around quite a bit. He's most noted for his western exploration, but he was a politician, and got lots of places all over the U.S. named after him.

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Yeah, I noticed that. I regularly drive the roughly 100 miles from Pittsburgh, PA to Deep Creek Lake, MD in 2 hours, 10 minutes. I'm guessing that Daria was exagerating about the two hours. Maybe it just *seemed* like two hours to her. Which, if it was Conway Twitty music, would happen in about a minute and a half.

Peace Kevin

[email] (KTrick45) wrote in :

Doh! So what Fremonts are there besides the one between Oakland and San Jose?

Who was it that said he spent a month in Philadephia one night?

Kenneth Porter wrote:

A very very very stupid person. :-)

Kenneth Porter wrote:

Well, the one I know best is in Ohio. I don't have an atlas at hand right now, so I'll pass on the others 'til I can check it out for sure.

Peace Kevin

On the mountaintop, [email] (KTrick45) spake thusly:

I've seen one in Wisconsin, and I believe there's one in northern Illinois, though I'm not certain.

-Mindy

Mindy wrote:

According to Mapquest, there is a Fremont in North Carolina, Utah, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Montana, Alabama, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, Iowa, 3 in California, Tennessee, Washington, Minnesota, New York, and Virginia. . .20 Fremonts altogether. I think whoever suggested that the writers chose this city because of its multiple locations was right. . . .

--Jan

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:58:43 GMT, [email] (Kenneth Porter) wrote:

Well, lessee here... <pulls out motor carriers' atlas>...

Freemont, California Freemont, Indiana Freemont, Iowa Freemont, Michigan Freemont, Nebraska Freemont, New Hampshire Freemont, North Carolina Freemont, Ohio

Then I got ambitious and checked the list of Canadian cities (which, for the record, takes up a half-page to the US's 7), but there is no Freemont in Canada.

Yes, you're right. I have no life. ;)

I think we've decisively demonstrated that when the writers want to include a named town in the plot, they look at the gazeteer at the back of a US atlas and scan through, looking for the names with the most entries.

:-)

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:36:06 GMT, [email] (Kenneth Porter) wrote:

Keep in mind that there are probably more than one town named Fremont.

I sincerely doubt Lawndale is anywhere near California. As indicated before in other discussions, I sort of agree that it's somewhere on the East Coast.

But the best answer is of course: Lawndale is in your TV. Just your regular Generic American Town.

ps: I know I know. The "Where is Lawndale" question is a tired and dead horse. But it's *something* to talk about!

Cheers, Nicole Lee

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