There's a bumper crop of magic realism shows coming to teevee this fall including "Run Faith, Run", "St. Joan of Jett" and "Touched by a Crazy Person" and already in progress, "Dead Like Me" (it already brings the snark to the party).

Well, actually, that's "Wonderfalls". The pilot is interesting, a young, underacheiving woman is working in a Niagara Falls souvenir shop when the animal tchotskes start talking to her, giving her advice.

There's a clear reference to Chuck Jones' "One Froggy Evening" where an animated lion keeps on singing "My Ragtime Gal".

But one thing really pisses me off about "Wonderfalls", the blatent "murrican propaganda, as though nothing exists on teevee outside the States.

The show intro tells us Niagara Falls is in upstate New York outside of Buffalo. However, the real Niagara Falls is in Ontario, Canada. The series is packed with Canadian teevee actors doing 'murrican accents, features 'murrican money, and is filmed on location in the Canadian city of Niagara Falls (all of the location shots are in Canada). So why isn't it set in Canada, other than USAians are taking the crazy train?

I suppose for USAians, it isn't a big deal, but it drops anvils when you see a location which you know is a lie on screen. Why the insecurity?

It's not like Hollywood has totally ignored the real Niagara Falls. And there's even been documentaries. Hell, if Dan Ackroyd can find love as a blind man at Niagara Falls, why can't they set a geezly teevee show in the real Niagara Falls?