Hollywood Teaches Geography

This one is fun.  Here is 114 countries mentioned in 100 movies supercut by Joe Sabia (at least I think it's that Joe Sabia.  The Ted Talk is interesting even if it's not).  Click on the CC button in YouTube to see the movie titles:

Restraining map of the stars

We haven't done a "Map of the Stars" gag in a while.  Here's one from Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller.  Are there "Apps of the Stars"? Yes, of course there are (not to be confused with apps for stargazing).  Have "Apps of the Stars" put the "Maps of the Stars" vendors out of business?  I dunno.  Economics thesis anyone?

The world according to Hollywood

This is a map of locations used by Paramount Studios for various settings when they needed to shoot movies that took place in other parts of the world but couldn't or wouldn't actually go there for shooting.  Click on the image to see a more legible version.  I've heard of biologists who chuckle when they hear pacific tree frogs chirping in movies that are supposed to be set in places thousands of miles away from where they live.  Then there was the innumerable shots in M*A*S*H that were supposed to be Korea, but were unmistakable to me as SoCal chaparral. What was worse was the Dukes of Hazzard chase scenes supposedly in Texas, but almost always in that same SoCal scrubland.  Texas doesn't have those kinds of mountains. Then there was a scene in the very fun movie "How I Got Into College" where the main characters are zipping along as fast as they can go to get their college applications in on time and, as they're driving along what is very clearly Southern California highways, there's a sign that says "Welcome to Michigan". But that movie was filmed at my alma mater Pomona College so I'll forgive them. And it's a very funny movie.

Map to the crime scenes of the stars

 Tom Cheney had this published in The New Yorker in February of 1998.  The "Map to the stars" gag is relatively common among map-related comics.