Category: Movie and TV Locations

Where is Tulsey Town Ice Cream Located? Real Place or Not? Anyone of you watched I’m Thinking of Ending Things and wondered where you can buy a Tulsey Town ice cream?

Yeah, we did.

Now, is there a name for the phenomenon where we want to try the food stuff we see in movies? Like, you know, people buying Yakult because they saw Peter Kavinsky drink and buy a “Korean yogurt” for his girl. Or us wanting to eat Oreo Brr! which you can, apparently, get from a Tulsey Town Ice Cream parlor.

While watching the movie, we got the impression that Tulsey Town is an ice cream chain like Dairy Queen and that it must have a big clientele since it is open 24/7. Also, because it has a jingle and was advertising itself back when television was still black and white, we initially thought that it must be an established brand with a presence in small towns across the good old U.S. of A.

Turns out however that Tulsey Town Ice Cream is fictional. Or at least there’s no chain of stores which goes by that name, has a clown’s head for a logo, and a jingle that goes, “I’m your favorite clown from Tulsey Town where ice cream grows on trees”.

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Where is Williamsburg in Unorthodox Located? While watching the gripping TV series Unorthodox on Netflix, the question which kept popping up in our mind goes: Where the hell is this place? Is Williamsburg real in the geographical sense or is it fiction? Whaaat, wait, is it actually in goddamn New York City?

Now, we gotta say that most of our confusion — actually it’s more incredulity than confusion — really stems from the fact that we are used to seeing religious groups with non-mainstream practices thrive in more isolated areas. You know, think Amish in Pennsylvania, Mormons in Utah, and the Hutterite colony in Saskatchewan, Canada which we happened to visit ten years ago.

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