Reno 911! was amazingly accurate in its portrayal of people in Reno. Look, locals will try to protest otherwise. But they are trees in the forest. The dopey scofflaws being chased down by Officer Dangle and the gang are not a million miles away from the individuals you’ll encounter in “The Biggest Little City in the World”.
If you ever scanned over the local police blotter, you’d realize the TV show was on to something. It’s nothing but dubious characters doing ridiculous things. People attacking cars with a meat tenderizer; shouting racial slurs when being asked to leave their bag before entering a store; and taking part in poorly planned and awfully executed burglaries are standard fare.
Sure, the comedy embellished the situation a little bit. But it wasn’t entirely off base. Reno 911! was a very accurate portrayal of people in Reno. All the show’s criminals wouldn’t have been out of place on the city’s streets.
By the way, Reno townies are freaking weirdos too. It’s not just the ones committing crimes. Most folks living there are off in one form or another. Anyone who spends a couple of days in the city will appreciate how on point Reno 911! was.
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Reno 911! is accurate in its portrayal of people in Reno but not the real city
Reno 911! is accurate in its portrayal of people in Reno but most of it was filmed in Southern California. For example, the show has tons of palm trees but there are like five of them in the actual city. A lot of residential backdrops aren’t nearly brown enough as well.
The previous statement will make sense to those that have been to Reno. If not, well, the city is very brown. There are trees and some green spaces. But for some reason, everything has a brownish hue to it.
That being said, the show did do a good job of mixing in local places, streets and freeways to ensure some semblance of location. It was clear this was a representation of Reno and not some fictional place.
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