History Main / TheMountainsOfIllinois

* The Minnesota farmland in ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' was peppered with suspiciously Californian mountains and hills. (It rarely ever snowed there, except [[DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas during Christmas episodes]].) Though the state of Minnesota does have both prairies and mountains (not particularly tall ones, though), they are nowhere near each other.

* Volume 1 of ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' shows us the majestic mountains on the coast of the Jutland Peninsula. In reality, the Danish coast is as flat as the Netherlands.

* In ''Series/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', the portion of New Jersey where the main trio encounters Medusa is a pine forest unlike any found in that climate. {{Lampshaded}} by Percy:

* In the third episode of ''Series/TheLastOfUs'', a shot of a creek in a mountainous pine forest in the Alberta Rockies is labelled "10 miles outside of Boston."

* In ''Series/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', * the portion of New Jersey where the main trio encounters Medusa is a pine forest unlike any found in that climate. {{Lampshaded}} by Percy:

* The Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie ''Film/PrincessProtectionProgram'' takes place on the Louisiana bayou. Since the movie was filmed in UsefulNotes/PuertoRico, it's a good deal more mountainous than Louisiana, where any hills in proximity to a bayou typically rise no higher than about 10 feet (3 meters). Even the one major exception to this—Avery Island, a massive salt dome surrounded by bayous that's best known as the source of Tabasco sauce—tops out at 163 feet (50 m).

* The Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie ''Film/PrincessProtectionProgram'' takes place on the Louisiana bayou. Since the movie was filmed in UsefulNotes/PuertoRico, it's a good deal more mountainous than Louisiana, where any hills in proximity to a bayou rise no higher than about 10 feet (3 meters).

* Inverted in-universe in ''Film/ToWongFooThanksForEverythingJulieNewmar''. When the {{drag queen}}s' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Noxeema assumes they're in West Virginia, even though the flat landscape looks nothing like a state that's within the Appalachian Mountains (or at least the Appalachian Plateau). We never find out the location of Snydersville, but UsefulNotes/{{Oklahoma|USA}} or the Texas Panhandle are most likely.

* The novella ''Literature/{{Argo}}'' has a scene in which the protagonist's car is forced off the road and falls down a cliff, which works because it's not specified where the story is set. The remake and expansion of the story in ''Ani-Droids'' establishes the setting as Illinois. The same scene plays out - but when the protagonist recovers from the wreck, she admits it's not really a cliff or even a high hill, since she's in Illinois, but it's still a long rocky slope.

* The miniseries of ''Series/TheStand'' had a case of The Mountains of Indiana, during the scene where Trash Can Man blows up the refinery that's supposedly in north central Indiana, yet there are tall mountains clearly visible in the background.