JLG Season 5, Episode 5 entitled " Innovations and Breakthroughs" features a segment where Jay buys a car from a vending machine. The segment opens with the on-screen location: Houston. Then proceeds to show Jay at the Carvana vending machine in Frisco, complete with Toyota and NTT Data in the background. He buys an electric drift car, and proceeds to cruise parking lots in/around the Frisco area with the dude who built it. You can spot 121 SRT, Ikea, and other “landmarks” in the background of the entire segment How the hell did Frisco let them get away with calling that “Houston”? I mean, Dallas, I could see. But Houston? C’mon…
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I’m reminded of RoboCop which was clearly filmed in Dallas yet set in Detroit…
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Maybe it’s like that live Shania Twain concert during her heyday that was telecast from Reunion Arena, but she had no clue what city she was in.
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Back when I lived in Carlsbad, NM, there was a rodeo film called “The Honkers” filmed in our area. When we all went to the theater to see it, there was a collective gasp when they clearly drove up to the water tower in Artesia (30 miles north), and made a right turn onto Main Street, Carlsbad…
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Honestly, this is more what I expected. I thought “oh, they wanted the vending machine gag, but for some reason couldn’t use the Carvana in Houston, so they filmed that in Frisco, but kept the “Houston” tag because that’s where the rest of the segment was filmed.” But no. The rest of the segment was NOT Houston, either. So why bother with that ruse at all It’s not like the rest of the segments in the episode were allegedly in Houston, or as if the theme of the episode was “Major Southern Cities” or “No Sleep til Anywhere but Dallas”… 
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Some variant of that purported Tennessee Williams quote?
America has only three great cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Once upon a time the company I worked for was headquartered in Cleveland. I had a manager who absolutely hated to go there in the winter. My favorite line from him was “It’s the only city in the world where you can walk around the block and the arctic wind is always in your face!”
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The movie “Manos: The Hands of Fate” was filmed in El Paso. I cant remember where they said the location was supposed to be in the movie, but both still suck to this day.
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I met some life-long inhabitants during my tenure in Cleveland (“The Mistake on the Lake”, they called it) who said they actually kinda missed the river fires “keeping the place warm”… I always assumed they were joking…kinda…
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Man, its been forever since I’ve seen Drew Carey standup. His delivery was not smooth back then. It almost had a feel like he was doing a Rodney Dangerfield impersonation.
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Drew gets “no respect I tell ‘ya… no respect”
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he even did the tie adjustment several times.
Where you could buy a house for the price of a VCR.
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John Waters would insist on including Baltimore as the 4th.