re: Anyone else noticed Baton Rouge mentioned in movies /tv?

Cliff goes to Baton Rouge during one of the later seasons of Dallas. The establishing shot is of downtown New Orleans with a half built CCC.

'They're yelling in Baton Rouge!'

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Should start this thread on the music board, way more examples.

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Or start this thread with NYC, way more examples

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and Penguins movie

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I was watching some movie with my kids the other night that penguins as the main characters (I'm assuming this is the same movie) and one threw up snow globes from fairly well know cities throughout the world. The last globe out was "Baton Rouge". I had to stop and rewind the video after saying "did I just hear what I thought I heard"? Completely random

Then again, BR is one of the more memorable state capitals for those who had to learn such things in school.

Nobody mentioned Sex, Lies, and Videotape? There’s plenty of BR sights in there.

Andie Macdowel’s house is on S Eugene and there are scenes in The Bayou (current day City Slice).

The Justice League Unlimited episode "Wake the Dead" takes place in Baton Rouge at "Louisiana University".

The FX series The Riches was set in the rich neighborhood in Baton Rouge. They shot it in New Orleans and Marrero.



By the way, it featured a trans kid, but it was in 2007, back when nobody really got upset about that stuff.

There was an episode of The Simpsons where a character gets punished and has to recite the state capitals. And when he started, I thought to myself, they are going to cut it off well before. It’s like the seventh or eighth or ninth state capital alphabetically. But it ended up being the one that he ended on

Soderbergh did a lot of filming in and around BR.

Besides Sex Lies, he also filmed all or part of Schizopolis and Out Of Sight here.

At the least, Out Of Sight filmed at LTI, which is currently the women’s prison. Schizopolis filmed in the Garden District, Cortana, the DEQ offices over by Swaggart, in the shopping center across from where Whole Foods now is on Jefferson, etc.


The highlight of Schizopolis had to be WBRZ co-anchor Margaret Lawhon presenting a story in which the president sold Rhode Island to private investors to be turned into the world’s largest indoor mall. The punch line was that the president said “At least we didn’t sell it to the fricking Japanese.”