I just started to watch the movie Going Berserk with John Candy. In the beginning of the movie, John Candy's character said he was from the Mellenville Bourgignons. Mellenville? It looks like there's only one Mellenville in the country, a tiny hamlet at the bottom of the hill from the village where I grew up in upstate New York. I never heard of anyone with the name Bourgignon there, either. (Yes, I know it's actually a dish.) It's really funny to start watching a movie to hear some little obscure place you know mentioned in it. I wonder why.
This is almost as funny as an episode of the original McHale's Navy. For some reason Tim Conway's character is in sick bay and his morale is low. Unfortunately I can't remember it correctly, so it loses its humor in the telling. Ensign Parker received a bunch of letters, a character mentioned a woman in Troy and he replied, "but I'm from Schenectady!" I don't know if there was ever a reason given for the reference. Currently there is a television writer from the Capital Region who occasionally puts in an area reference.
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