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During his college years, Truman, though originally written to fall in love with and marry fellow student Meryl, develops feelings for Sylvia, an extra. Although Sylvia is fired from the show before she can disclose the truth to Truman, he secretly continues to dream of a life with her outside of his marriage to Meryl and hopes to travel to Fiji, where he is led to believe Sylvia moved. In the real world, Sylvia joins "Free Truman", an activist group that aims to cancel the show and have Truman released.

Boblo Island Amusement Park is an abandoned amusement park which operated from 1898 until its closure on September 30, 1993. Its amusement rides were sold in 1994. The park was located on Bois Blanc Island, Ontario, just above the mouth of the Detroit River. The people of Detroit, Michigan, characterized it as the city's Coney Island.

Harryhausen's is a restaurant in Monstropolis featured in Monsters, Inc. The restaurant serves sushi. The restaurant is named after the deceased stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen.

Dante's Inferno Room is an otherworldly strip club in the Neitherworld hosted by demon strippers. It is featured in the 1988 horror-comedy film Beetlejuice as the titular ghost's favorite hangout.

Air O is a Japanese airline company featured in Kill Bill and seen in Death Proof. Beatrix Kiddo uses this airline company to fly to Japan. Unlike most real life airlines who don't allow passengers to carry weapons onboard, Air O lets katana owners bring their swords with them in the cabin. First-class seats even have built-in sword holders for this purpose.

Virtucon is a multinational telecommunications corporation which is in actuality a front company for the criminal empire of the megalomaniacal genius, Dr. Evil who seeks to use his company's assets to take over the world, while his second-in-command, the aptly named Number 2 serves as the company's official CEO in the public eye. It is featured prominently in the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery as the main antagonistic force.

Flagler Beer is a brand of beer featured in The Incredible Hulk TV series, Magnum, P.I., All in the Family, The Rockford Files, and National Lampoon's Vacation. The fictional brand is made by The Earl Hays Press.

Mushnik's Florist (aka Mushnik's Flower Shop) is a small flower shop in Skid Row which notoriously served as the nest of the deadly carnivorous plant-like being known as Audrey Jr.. It is featured in the 1960 horror-comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors and its many subsequent adaptations.

NOVA Laboratories Incorporated was a tech research company focused on robotics. It originates from the 1986 film Short Circuit.

Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Enterprises Ltd. (aka Wallace & Gromit's or just WAG'S for short) is an enterprise made up of multiple business ventures founded by eccentric inventor Wallace and his trusted canine sidekick Gromit. It originates from the Wallace and Gromit series of animated stop-motion shorts which began in 1989.

The Union Aerospace Corporation is an fictional multi-planetary conglomerate (possibly a megacorporation) that operates facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, where Doom takes place, as well as Earth and its Moon, and many offworld moon and planetary research stations including Tei Tenga, Jupiter (and Europa), Venus, Neptune, Amun, and Saturn.

The Union Aerospace Corporation is an fictional multi-planetary conglomerate (possibly a megacorporation) that operates facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, where Doom takes place, as well as Earth and its Moon, and many offworld moon and planetary research stations including Tei Tenga, Jupiter (and Europa), Venus, Neptune, Amun, and Saturn.

The Wheel Well Motel was and still a popular tourist attraction in Tailfin Pass. While it used to be a motel, it was eventually turned into a restaurant. It is in a rural area near Radiator Springs.

East Highland High School is featured in Euphoria. Most of the main characters attend or formerly attended this school. The school has an athletic team called East Highland Blackhawks.

East Highland High School is featured in Euphoria. Most of the main characters attend or formerly attended this school. The school has an athletic team called East Highland Blackhawks.

East Highland High School is featured in Euphoria. Most of the main characters attend or formerly attended this school. The school has an athletic team called East Highland Blackhawks.

The White Lotus is an American dark comedy-drama anthology television series created by Mike White for HBO. It follows the guests and employees of the fictional White Lotus resort chain, whose interactions are affected by their various psychosocial dysfunctions. The press release notes that "each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel's cheerful employees, and the idyllic locale itself". The first and second season are set in Maui and Sicily, respectively.

Milk is a convenience store and local drug dealing spot located in East Highland, California. It is owned by Fezco.

"Sunset Grill" is a song by American rock musician Don Henley from his second solo studio album Building the Perfect Beast (1984). The song peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart in January 1985.[1] Released as the fourth single from the album in August 1985, it peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1985.

Want to go cut a rug down at a place called The Jug? Well, Linda Lou and her gun-happy boyfriend probably won't be there, but an altercation between Ronnie Van Zant and another patron at The Jug Saloon in Jacksonville, Florida, inspired one of Lynyrd Skynyrd's most memorable songs. You can still go grab a beer there, though it's worth noting that it was called the West Tavern when Van Zant had his run-in. The band changed the name of the bar to make it sound cooler and the bar returned the favor a few years ago in a nod to the hit song.

"Nothing is real," croon the Beatles in their 1967 classic, but this charmingly psychedelic track has its roots in a decidedly real place. Strawberry Field was a children's home run by the Salvation Army in suburban Liverpool, England, and nearby resident John Lennon used to attend a garden party there every summer. Visitors can see a replica of the red gates, and starting in 2019, a visitor's center with interactive exhibits. Lennon and Paul McCartney's former homes are also close by.

Got a craving for a chili dog and some soft serve? How about some music trivia? Get your fix at the Foster's Freeze in Hawthorne, California, an unassuming dairy bar and burger stand. It's here that Brian Wilson saw a girl in a Thunderbird — her daddy's, at least according to the song — cruise through the line "with the radio blasting," a scene he immortalized in one of The Beach Boys' biggest hits.

Johnny Cash wanted to stay "far from Folsom Prison," but his most dedicated fans may want to see the place where he performed the concert that changed the course of his career. Contrary to what some fans may think, Cash never did more than a night in jail, and definitely not at California's Folsom, but he identified with the inmates and "Folsom Prison Blues" cemented him as a kind of bad-boy icon. The prison itself is off limits to anyone who isn't visiting an inmate, but the nearby Folsom Prison Museum tells the prison's gruesome history and includes plenty of Johnny Cash memorabilia.

To find the "hottest spot north of Havana," you'll actually have to fly way north to New York City. Head to Times Square and you'll find Copacabana Night Club. Barry Manilow was a regular during the ‘60s when the club featured showgirls just like Lola, "with yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there." The hit song spurred the club to add a Latin night in 1978, a tradition that continues even today. Just head to Copacabana on a Tuesday night and salsa your heart out.

What might be the most famous roots rock song of all time is certainly a love song to Alabama, but music lovers will want to focus on this lyric: "Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers, and they've been known to pick a song or two." Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in northwestern Alabama was home base for the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as the Swampers. Throughout the ‘70s, they were featured on more than 200 albums and collaborated with the likes of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and of course, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Today, the studio is open for tours every day except Sunday.

You can definitely go stand on that famous corner in Winslow, Arizona; we just can't guarantee an attractive girl will slow down to make eyes at you. In 1999, Winslow built "Standin' on the Corner" Park alongside a stretch of Route 66 — an iconic bucket list road trip route — to cater to Eagles fans who can come snap a pic with a statue of a guy in a cowboy hat with a guitar at the toe of his boot. There's also a two-story mural and — of course — a shiny, red flatbed Ford. In September of 2016, a statue of Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, who passed away earlier that year, was added.

The Losers Club are major protagonists of the Stephen King multiverse. Serving as the main protagonists of the novel IT, and are cameo characters in 11/22/63, and Insomnia, while being mentioned in Dreamcatcher. They are group of seven preteen misfit children who all lived in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. The group is first formed in the summer of 1958 and is led by Bill Denbrough. They reunite in Derry 27 years later in 1985 on the strength of an old and nearly forgotten promise, except for Stan Uris. They are archenemies of Pennywise and the arch-rivals of Henry Bowers.

Set in Derry, Maine, the film tells the story of The Losers' Club (Lieberher, Ray Taylor, Lillis, Wolfhard, Oleff, Jacobs, and Dylan Grazer), a group of seven outcast children who are terrorized by the eponymous being which emerges from the sewer (Skarsgård), only to face their own personal demons in the process.

Lee Ho Fook was a Chinese restaurant located in Chinatown, London at 15–16 Gerrard Street. It was previously located at 4 Macclesfield Street. In 1974, it became the first Chinese restaurant in the United Kingdom to be awarded a Michelin Star. The restaurant was referenced in the lyrics of 1978 song "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon.

ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. It is usually first diagnosed in childhood and often lasts into adulthood. Children with ADHD may have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors (may act without thinking about what the result will be), or be overly active.

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The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their ancestral aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and specialized skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming desiccated for prolonged periods of time, but given the chance they would prefer resting in pooled water.

A euphemism or phrase that describes oral sex or 69 . When two people enjoy a 'burger' and a 'grape snow cone', the burger represents the vagina (also known as fur burger) and the grape snow cone represents the penis (something to hold and lick, the grape flavor representing the purple color of the head of the penis).

Sevastopol was a Russian submarine that sunk under the Bering ice cap. The incident caused a global race for two halves of a cruciform key, able to unlock the source code of The Entity. The sinking also killed the whole crew, their bodies found floating below the thick layer of ice, and made it extremely difficult to get to the source code, as it was located inside.

Spy vs. Spy is a wordless comic strip published in Mad magazine. It features two agents involved in stereotypical and comical espionage activities. One is dressed in white, and the other in black, but they are otherwise identical, and are particularly known for their long, beaklike heads and their white pupils and black sclera. The pair are always at war with each other, using a variety of booby traps to inflict harm on the other. The spies usually alternate between victory and defeat with each new strip. A parody of the political ideologies of the Cold War, the strip was created by Cuban expatriate cartoonist Antonio Prohías, and debuted in Mad #60, dated January 1961.

Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch and starring Brad Pitt as an assassin who must battle fellow killers while riding a bullet train. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle (titled Bullet Train in the UK and US editions), written by Kōtarō Isaka and translated by Sam Malissa, the second novel in Isaka's Hitman trilogy, of which the first novel was previously adapted as the 2015 Japanese film Grasshopper. The film also features an ensemble supporting cast including Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, and Sandra Bullock.