Tallahassee in popular culture

• The Seminole Manor neighborhood in southern Tallahassee is the setting for the Neighborhood series of young adult novels by Adrian Foeglin.
• In Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, main character Rachel Chu is said to have lived in Tallahassee with her mother, when describing her upbringing.

• 1934: Bluesman Tallahassee Tight records his song, Tallahassee Women.
• 1947: Bing Crosby releases the single titled, Tallahassee, with the Andrews Sisters. Within the song are the lyrics: "When you see land all green and grassy ... sit down and rest your chassis, you're in Tallahassee."
• 1959: Freddy Cannon releases a single titled, "Tallahassee Lassie". Dick Clark subsequently used it on American Bandstand for a dance contest.
• 1963: Jan & Dean covered Freddy Cannon's single "Tallahassee Lassie" on their album, Surf City And Other Swingin' Cities.
• 1969: Johnny Cash releases the album titled: At San Quentin, the song Wanted Man with the lyrics, "Wanted man in Tallahassee."
• 1970 Bill Monroe recorded a fiddle tune, "Tallahassee"
• 1976: Aerosmith releases the album Rocks. In the song Last Child with the lyrics, "Take me back to a south Tallahassee."
• 1978: The Rolling Stones release the album Some Girls. Contains a remake of the Freddy Cannon song "Tallahassee Lassie".
• 1982: The soundtrack for the film Spring Break has a song called Hooray For The City by Jack Mack & The Heart Attack which lists Tallahassee among several cities mentioned in the lyrics.[1][2]
• 1994: The Notorious B.I.G. releases a song "Ready to Die" from the album Ready to Die, he states "I'm rippin MC's from Tallahassee, to Compton"
• 2002: The Mountain Goats release the album, Tallahassee. It is composed entirely of songs from the perspective of the Alpha couple, a fictional dysfunctional married couple who have appeared in other Mountain Goats songs.
• 2002: Rap duo dead prez mention Tallahassee in their song Sellin' D.O.P.E. from Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1.
• 2003: Martin Zellar records the Ballad of Tallahassee Don on his album "They Even Use the Hooves".
• 2003: In their 2003 album Phantom Power, Welsh psychedelic band Super Furry Animals mentions Tallahassee in the song "Liberty Belle".
• 2006: Jake Owen filmed his music video for his debut song "Yee Haw" at Potbelly's, a bar next to the Florida State campus that he used to play in when he was a student there.
• 2007: T-Pain releases the CD Epiphany. The song titled Tallahassee Love.
• 2007: Akon & Friends released the song We Taking Over and the lyrics have Tallahassee in the list of the other cities: "Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Memphis TN. Holla at me then".
• 2007: Mayday Parade EP Tales Told by Dead Friends In their song Your Song - "And all that Tallahassee skylines, they keep singing out a song".
• 2007: Evergreen Terrace Titles their song "xHey Tallahassee"
• 2008: Castanets namedrop Tallahassee in the lyrics to Refuge 2 on their album City of Refuge.
• 2008: The Hip-Hop artist, Rick Ross, mentions the universities Florida A&M and Florida State in his song Here I Am.
• 2008: Across Five Aprils record their song "Tallahassee is for hookers"
• 2009: Molina & Johnson mention Tallahassee in the lyrics to Twenty Cycles to the Ground on their album Molina & Johnson.
• 2009: Action Item writes their song "I woke up in Tallahassee"
• 2009: T-Pain films his music video for "Take Your Shirt Off" in Frat Row in Tallahassee
• 2009: Dinosaur Jr. films part of their music video "Over It" in front of The Moon and the Benjamin Banneker Building at Florida A&M.
• 2010: DC Music released "Gold & Garnet" a spoof of Black & Yellow, which mentions Tallahassee, and Florida State University.
• 2010: Hey Marseilles - To Travel & Trunks songs starts off, "Lucy and I came from Tallahassee"
• 2010: Easton Corbin mentions Tallahassee in the lyrics to This Far From Memphis on his self-titled album.
• 2011: Go Radio LP "Lucky Street" in their song "Any Other Heart" - "Well, Tallahassee will stay gray outside instead".
• 2016: Saba raps the line "Preach, church, tabernacle, Tallahassee sunshine" on the Noname song "Shadowman".

• August Wilson's Century Cycle plays include references to Tallahassee in Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Fences.
• The comic opera A Wedding features two characters planning to run away and have a tryst in "Heaven, heaven, heaven, Tallahassee."

• 1957: The film Funny Face is released. The film features the performance of "Clap Yo' Hands" in which Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson refer to each other as Mr. Tallahassee and Ms. Tallahassee, respectively. Dialogue is also included in the scene in which Thompson's character says "and I have been to every corner of Tallahassee."
• 1974: The film The Longest Yard is released. Flirting with convict Burt Reynolds, office secretary Bernadette Peters says, "I'm just as far from Tallahassee as you are..."
• 1986: The film Something Wild is released; parts of the motion picture were filmed in Tallahassee and Quincy.
• 1986:The Deliberate Stranger is televised in May of that year. The film depicts the life of serial killer Ted Bundy, who terrorized the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee.
• 1991: Fried Green Tomatoes is released in theaters. In the film, the fictional town of Whistle Stop, Alabama is served by the Tallahassee & Albany Railroad running through it. This railroad never existed, a nod to Tallahassee.
• 1993: True Romance is released in theaters. Written by Quentin Tarantino, Tallahassee is mentioned as the home of Alabama Whitman played by Patricia Arquette.

HBO reenacts the December 7, 2000, Florida Supreme Court argument during filming of Recount on November 4, 2007.

• 1998: The Players Club film, Tallahassee is mentioned as the home of the character Ebony Monica Calhoun
• 1999: The Green Mile is released in theaters. Written by Stephen King and produced by Frank Darabont. The character Eduard Delacroix, a Cajun prisoner played by Michael Jeter, who is about to be executed is told that Mr. Jingles, his pet mouse, will live in Mouseville.
  • Dialogue: Brutus "Brutal" Howell played by David Morse says, "How about Mouseville?" Eduard Delacroix played by Michael Jeter says, "Mouseville?" Brutal replies, "Tourist attraction down in Florida. Tallahassee, I think. Is that right, Paul? Tallahassee?" Paul Edgecomb played by Tom Hanks says, "Yeah, that's right. Tallahassee. Just down the road apiece from the dog university." (transcribed from DVD)
• 2002: The Victor Nuñez film Coastlines features scenes shot in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
• 2003: The movie Manfast was fully filmed in Tallahassee, Florida. The movie was fully based around the city, and showed much of downtown. The movie box cover has the Florida Capitol Building on it as well.
• 2006: Hacking Democracy, a documentary, is released on DVD after premiering on HBO. Tallahassee became the site of the Hursti Hack proving Diebold voting machines can be hacked and altered to steal an election. Tallahassee comprises a large amount of the running time.
• 2008: Recount, an HBO made-for-TV movie, was filmed for five days in Tallahassee during November 2007, with two days of filming inside and directly in front of the Florida Supreme Court building in the Capitol Complex. It chronicles the Florida vote recounts in the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, and the December Supreme Court ruling that gave Bush the White House. Starring Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Ed Begley, Jr., Denis Leary, and John Hurt, the movie had its broadcast premiere on HBO on May 25, 2008.
• 2009: The music video for "Over It" by Dinosaur Jr. was partially shot in Tallahassee, and features shots of the band skateboarding at Florida A&M University and the local venue The Moon.
• 2009: Woody Harrelson starred in the movie Zombieland. The characters names in the movie are based on which city the characters are attempting to reach in the post-apocalypse United States, and Harrelson's character is named Tallahassee. The movie was also filmed at a local theme park in nearby Valdosta.
• 2009: T-Pain had a music video filmed for Take your shirt off, which was filmed in Tallahassee.