Brooklyn's urbanely hip vibe and numerous bridge-dwelling trolls make it a natural film site for both contemporary dramas and epic fantasies. Soak up some cinemagic with today's Groupon: for $22, you get a seat on the Brooklyn TV and Movie Sites Tour from On Location Tours (up to a $44 value; normally $44/ticket for adults and $26/ticket for children ages 6–9, fees included). Tours begin at 11 a.m. on Saturdays at a location determined at reservation, and last approximately four hours. As this tour is constantly updated, not all locations listed will be visited during each outing. Guides will attempt to accommodate clients' particular interests.
On Location Tours' trivia-touting, theme-song-trumpeting tour guides usher silver-screen and small-screen enthusiasts through prominent Brooklyn neighborhoods on a luxury coach bus, highlighting familiar Tinsel Town transplants along the way. The Brooklyn TV and Movie Sites Tour may hit cinematic standbys such as Brooklyn Heights—both the site of Cher's lycanthropic confession in Moonstruck and the former residential stomping grounds of such luminaries as Truman Capote and Mary Tyler Moore. Bus-borne film buffs dismount to stroll through trendy DUMBO, where ears turn to the guide's expert commentary on the filming sites of scenes from Gossip Girl and Scent of a Woman, among others. As the tour winds down, the bus cruises Fort Greene to spot settings from the film Sex and the City and brave the travails of Kitchen Nightmares.
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The Groupon Guide to: Detecting Fishiness
When detectives say that something "smells fishy," they aren't referring to the effects of trimethylaminuria, a rare metabolic disorder that causes a person to give off a fish-like odor. Instead, they're noting that their suspicion has been aroused by dubious behavior. Complete this short test to see if you've got a policeman’s sixth sense for suspicion:
1. Three bodies, including a husband and wife, lie dead in a messy bedroom. Was it:
A. A crime of passion?
B. A blackmail gone deadly?
C. Or, did the coroner's report fail to mention one important detail? All the bodies were bears! And the bedroom was a forest! It was a simple case of nature's unforgiving cruelty all along.
2. The last person to see out-of-town stranger Lydia alive was the shady mechanic with a history of shouting at town meetings. Did he:
A. Kidnap her and hide the body?
B. Knock her unconscious and sell her liver?
C. Or, did he deliver her to unscrupulous ornithologists? Because Lydia was a rare tropical bird the entire time! Curse you, nature, for your cruel beauty drives normal men insane!
3. The local locksmith's tax returns don't add up. Was it:
A. A simple case of tax fraud?
B. Extortion?
C. Or, were the "tax returns" actually a roving den of cobras, sneaking into an office building's air-conditioning vents waiting to drop on unsuspecting travel agents simply because their cruel instincts left them no other choice? Why, nature, why? Why must you test the bounds of morality in so deadly a fashion? Curse you!
Your Score:
- If you answered A, then you are entirely wrong. You don't know anything about crime.
- If you answered B, then have you even heard of crime? If you haven't, it's like when you follow the law, but backward.
- If you answered C, then congratulations. You are now a deputized police officer in all 50 states.
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