Talk:Point Place

message: Removed duplicate post. Please post new comments at the bottom of the page.70.59.121.182 (talk) 05:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
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message: I don't see how Price-Mart is a reference to Wal-Wart. Just cause it has "Mart" in it's name? It seems to me it's just a normal store. As for the name, I don't think it's a reference to Wal-Mart. It's just kind of a pun, a portmanteau of "price" and "smart", to be understood as "Price Mart" or "Price Smart".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.236.135.38 (talk) 21:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a broader theme of local factories and business falling by the wayside as global firms and chains take over. Given that context, I think many viewers, including myself but OK, not you, will assume that Price-Mart is a satirical reference to Wall Mart. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:EC:FCBE:5CB7:4EC2 (talk) 08:56, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
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message: "Point Place is a fictional suburb of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This is why many Wisconsinites may recognize names of nearby towns such as Kenosha."
There is no way that Point Place can be a burb of Green Bay.  Kenosha is commonly referenced in the series and is located on the opposite end of the state.  Also, Green Bay did not have an auto plant.  Kenosha did.  It was an AMC factory in the 70's and in the early 80's changed hands to Chrysler.  The factory was torn down in 89-90.  Racine is also commonly referenced.  Racine is locate about 20 miles north of Kenosha.  The issue with the location happens to go back to a producer that Google cities in Wisconsin and saw that Green Bay and Kenosha were on the list and mentioned those in interview.  Once again, Wikipedia is not looking for fact but for only validity.DEWY CHEATEM AND HOWE (talk) 03:19, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The issue with PP being near Kenosha is that Kenosha didn't have slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants, but Green Bay does.  Having grown up in this area of eastern Wisconsin, and having watched the show religiously, I always assumed that PP was roughly placed in the vicinity of Sheboygan, which is about half way between Green Bay and Milwaukee.  Of course, the reality is that PP is slightly like Springfield in The Simpsons, in that it's geography was always somewhat malleable to the needs of a particular episode. -- Entrybreak (talk) 00:43, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
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message: Mrs. Foreman references to Kenosha as "quite a drive", and Eric bargains his curfew to be pushed to 1am on Saturday night, implicating quite some distance. [That Disco Episode (season 1 episode 7 minute 2)] Avkrules (talk) 17:27, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Shall we defer to to Wisconsinite elsewhere on the page who feels that the show's spiritual heart must be somewhere near Sheboygan? In that case we only have to argue over whether he meant Sheboygan town or Sheboygan city! 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:EC:FCBE:5CB7:4EC2 (talk) 09:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kenosha 

message: Mrs. Foreman reminisces dancing to the song Volare by Dean Martin at The Avalon, a venue on Mackinaw Island that she and Red used to frequent. Eric implicates that this is an even further than Kenosha. [That Disco Episode (season 1 episode 7 minute 3)] Avkrules (talk) 17:27, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
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message: Eric Forman jokes that receiving only one mouthful of wine at a party (which is the amount his mum deems quite sufficient for a teenager on a festive occasion) is like having communion, but at home. He is certainly familiar with Catholic rites, but we cannot be sure that they attend mass when they go to church. I think they consistently use the latter phrase, mass is never mentioned as far as I can remember.
Another location niggle: Donna takes her SATs, wearing the Catholic school girl uniform, but in the same venue as Eric (who is so distracted by her attire he ploughs his test). Humorous purpose trumps consistency, that is just how it is. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:EC:FCBE:5CB7:4EC2 (talk) 08:52, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
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