Wonderfalls
Overview
Wonderfalls is a comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 television network in 2004.

The show centres on Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas
Caroline Dhavernas
Caroline Dhavernas is a Canadian actress. Dhavernas is best known in the United States as "Jaye" from the short-lived television series Wonderfalls on Fox. She starred as Dr. Lily Brenner in the ABC medical drama Off the Map.-Life and career:...

), a recent Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

 graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
The Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has...

 gift shop. Jaye is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines — a wax lion, brass monkey, stuffed bear, and mounted fish, among others — which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.
The series was a United States
United States
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/Canada
Canada
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 co-production, filmed in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls is a Canadian city on the Niagara River in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario. The municipality was incorporated on June 12, 1903...

 and Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario
Ontario
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 (standing in for Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 50,193, down from the 55,593 recorded in the 2000 census. It is across the Niagara River from Niagara Falls, Ontario , both named after the famed Niagara Falls which they...

 and environs), and with several Canadian actors cast in lead roles (including the show’s star).
Quotations

We're bobbing along in our barrel. Some of us tip right over the edge. But there's one thing really mystifying It's got me laughing, now it's got me crying All my life I'll be death defying Till I know... I wonder wonder why the wonderfalls I wonder why the wonder falls on me I wonder wonder why the wonderfalls With everything I touch and hear and see.

We teeter along on our tightrope Some of us trip and damage our heads Poppin' pills is really stupefying Get you crawling when you could be flying All my life I guess I'll be dying Just to know... I wonder wonder why the wonderfalls I wonder why the wonder falls on me I wonder wonder why the wonderfalls With everything I touch and hear and see.

Don't you ever think about this life And how strange it all can seem? Only way to find the answers out Is to wake up from its golden dream.

 
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