Pictured: Fictional Wisconsites.

1. HAPPY DAYS
The all-American city of Milwaukee was the setting for this all-American tribute to 1950s nostalgia. If there’s ever any question that Wisconsinites are cool, look no further than The Fonz (Aaay!), even if he – and the show – eventually jumped the shark. And don’t forget, Laverne & Shirley, a Happy Days spin-off, also took place in Brew City.

2. PICKET FENCES
This CBS drama series was never a huge hit, but it did pick up two Emmys, which isn’t too shabby. Sheriff Brock (Tom Skerritt) and the rest of the characters inhabited the quirky burg of Rome, Wis. While the show’s Rome was fictional, there really are two Romes in Wisconsin: in Adams and Jefferson counties.

3. THAT ’70s SHOW
“Hello Wisconsin!” Twenty years after Happy Days idealized the 1950s, the Badger State was again the setting for a two-decade nostalgic time shift. The gang from That ’70s Show hung out (and toked up) in fictional Point Place, Wis. (We’re still not sure where Fez was from, though.)

4. LIFE WITH LOUIE
Stand-up comic Louie Anderson grew up the Twin Cities, but his semi-autobiographical mid-’90s cartoon series took place in fictional Cedar Knoll, Wis. Apparently when it came to adapting his childhood for the screen, life was better for Louie across the state line.

5. THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
While Hollywood may often stereotype Wisconsinites as Midwestern rubes, it did turn to our state when it needed a setting for a show about good-looking people who were both young and restless. The dramatic twists and turns of this soap opera take place in the fictional metropolis of Genoa City, which takes its name – but nothing else – from the Wisconsin village the show’s creators would pass on their way to vacation in Lake Geneva.