Editing Scranton, Pennsylvania (section)

==In popular culture==
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[[File:Dunder mifflin banner scranton.jpg|thumb|upright=1|A banner promoting [[Dunder Mifflin]], the fictional paper company on [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Office (US TV Series)|The Office]]'', hangs in downtown Scranton.]]
* The [[Harry Chapin]] song "[[30,000 Pounds of Bananas]]" is about an actual fatal 1965 accident in Scranton, where a driver hauling bananas lost control of his truck as it barreled down [[Pennsylvania Route 307|Moosic Street]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Buynovsky|first1=Sarah|title=The 'Banana Truck' Crash: 50 Years Later|url=http://wnep.com/2015/03/18/the-banana-truck-crash-50-years-later/|website=WNEP|access-date=April 11, 2015|date=March 18, 2015|archive-date=April 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407040003/http://wnep.com/2015/03/18/the-banana-truck-crash-50-years-later/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Blue Valentine (film)|''Blue Valentine'']]  was partially filmed in Scranton.
* The film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award winning play ''[[That Championship Season]]'' is set in and was filmed in Scranton.
* The city is home to the [[Pennsylvania Paper and Supply Company]], which was the inspiration for a branch of the fictional paper company [[Dunder Mifflin]] on [[NBC]]'s series ''[[The Office (American TV series)|The Office]]''. The Scranton branch is the setting for the majority of the show's episodes.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Thing That Made The Office Great Is the Same Thing That Killed It|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/the-thing-that-made-i-the-office-i-great-is-the-same-thing-that-killed-it/275883/|last=Craft|first=Kevin|date=May 16, 2013|website=The Atlantic|access-date=May 25, 2020|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923074637/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/the-thing-that-made-i-the-office-i-great-is-the-same-thing-that-killed-it/275883/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The city was the setting of the home of Roy Munson (portrayed by [[Woody Harrelson]]) in the 1996 American sports comedy [[Kingpin (1996 film)|''Kingpin'']]. The scenes were shot in [[Pittsburgh]] as a stand in for Scranton.
* The city is imagined as a member of the class of interstellar [[Okies]] in [[James Blish]]'s 1962 novel ''[[A Life for the Stars]]'', in which 2273 AD Scranton, equipped with a space drive, flies away and leaves an impoverished Earth behind.
* In 2017, Scranton got national recognition from late night television host [[John Oliver]] when he made jokes about how infatuated Scranton community members were with the little train that runs during the weather reports on Scranton's [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-affiliated TV station [[WNEP-TV]]. The train had been featured in multiple of their "Talkback 16" segments. After a follow-up segment, Oliver donated a train set to WNEP. It was too big for their backyard, so they donated it to the [[Electric City Trolley Museum]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://wnep.com/2017/09/24/thousands-flock-to-electric-city-trolley-museum-to-see-the-new-backyard-train/ |title=John Oliver Reacts to Thousands Flocking to See the New Backyard Train |last=Whitehead |first=Anja |publisher=[[WNEP]] |date=September 25, 2017 |access-date=December 18, 2019 |archive-date=December 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218155830/https://wnep.com/2017/09/24/thousands-flock-to-electric-city-trolley-museum-to-see-the-new-backyard-train/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Musician [[John Legend]] was the head of the music department and choir director of Scranton's Bethel AME Church from 1995 to 2004.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://ralphieaversa.com/2016/12/interview-john-legend-on-his-gospel-roots-pa-ties-and-new-album/ |title=John Legend on His Gospel Roots, PA Ties and New Album |last=Aversa |first=Ralphie |website=RalphieAversa.com |date=December 7, 2016 }}</ref>
* Lyricist [[Richard Bernhard Smith]] wrote the song, "[[Winter Wonderland]]", while being treated at the West Mountain Sanitarium in Scranton for tuberculosis.
* American singer, actress and television personality [[Cher]] lived in Scranton as a baby and spent time at a Catholic orphanage in the city run by the [[Sisters of Mercy]]. Cher wrote about the experience in the song, "Sisters of Mercy".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Library |first=Reference Department, Albright Memorial |date=August 24, 2005 |title=Scranton & Wilkes-Barre in Entertainment: "Sisters of Mercy" by Cher (2000) |url=https://wb-scranton-movies.blogspot.com/2005/08/sisters-of-mercy-by-cher-2000.html |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=Scranton & Wilkes-Barre in Entertainment}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cher Song Upsets Catholics, Calling Nuns 'Daughters Of Hell' |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/h7d88l/cher-song-upsets-catholics-calling-nuns-daughters-of-hell |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203112947/https://www.mtv.com/news/h7d88l/cher-song-upsets-catholics-calling-nuns-daughters-of-hell |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=MTV |language=en}}</ref>
* American author and film & television producer [[Dick Wolf]] was married to Susan Scranton, daughter of former Governor [[William Scranton]], from 1970 to 1983.
* American radio talk show host, television broadcaster, and politician [[Dan Patrick (politician)|Dan Patrick]] began his broadcast career at [[WNEP-TV]] in Scranton.
* American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] commentator, journalist, author, and television host [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]]'s early television career began at [[WNEP-TV]] in Scranton, where he served as a news and weather reporter, and as a news anchor later on.