Minneapolis and Minnesota References
This page was set up to act as a repository for Minneapolis references in literature, movies, news etc. I started noticing long ago that whenever a character in a book or movie is from the midwest they are almost invariably from Minneapolis.
- Two X-Files episodes were set in the Twin Cities: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and (I can't remember the name of the other one.)
In one episode Sculley was driving from the airport to downtown Minneapolis down a wooded country lane. She must have traveled back in time to when Cedar Ave ran through farmland. Yeah that's it.
- In "The Postman" book by David Brin the title character says that the Twin Cities are now the capitol of America and the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome is now the capitol building. No wonder the twins want a new stadium - they're afraid of losing the Metrodome to congress.
- In "The Great Gatsby" book by Fitzgerald Gatsby says he went to school at St. Olaf college in Northfield Minnesota. Actually he just worked there for awhile if I remember right.
- Mary Tyler Moore lived in a house near the Lake of the Isles close to Uptown Minneapolis.
- "Little House on the Prairie" was based in Walnut Grove Minnesota.
- From Jack Kerouac's letters - in one of his letters to John Clellon Holmes he refers to Minneapolis as "you dullpoke old Minneapolis St. Paul, you lakey crakey flakey Mineeapolakey..."
- Two Tom Waits songs are about Minneapolis - "Postcard from a Hooker in Minneapolis" & the great "9th & Hennepin".
- Quote from a humor article in Salon "It goes without saying that some of the following performances were scheduled simply because we're halfway between the ocean and Minneapolis." Presumable referring to the fact that there isn't really any culture between Minneapolis and the coast (uh...the west coast that is.)
- In the TV show "Action" the main character, the producer, Peter Dragon, is waiting for a table at a restaurant. He's mad because he doesn't normally have to wait for a table but his last movie isn't doing well. So he gives a disgusted look at the other people waiting with him and he asks them who they are...the man says "Well I'm [so and so] and we own some shoe stores in Minnesota."
- On the Simpsons in one episode a procedure called "The University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol" is used to cure a child Ned Flanders of his aggresive tendencies. The "Protocol" involves spanking the child for approximately 8 straight months.
- Many scenes from the movie Fargo are set in Minneapolis. Including the scene where Steve Buscemi is complaining about his partner's conversational skills while driving down the freeway.
- Angus MacGyver better known as just MacGyver (as played by the always bouncy haired Richard Dean Anderson) was from Mission City, Minnesota. I can't find it so I'm pretty sure they made that town up. (Thanks to "Froggie")
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