History Main / CutesyNameTown

* [[MyLittlePony Ponyville]]. In fact, in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Magic]]'' it's the only town in Equestria that ''doesn't'' have some sort of PunnyName. This was due to Hasbro [[ExecutiveMeddling insisting]] on using it as the town name.

* FibberMcGeeAndMolly hail from Wistful Vista.

* ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'' Babylon, a town of all male ghosts with murderous intent.

QuirkyTown, with EccentricTownsfolk, only there's an adorable name attached to the town as well. Usually some kind of joke/pun is attached to the name. A town with crazy people has some kind of crazy-themed name, a place dedicated to romance will have some romantic name, etc. Frequently seen in a RomanceNovel.

* Among the districts in ''Anime/Acca13TerritoryInspectionDept'' are "Suitsu" (Sweets), "Rokkusu" (Rocks), "Furawau" (Flowers) and others like that. The residents of these districts have relevant names - eg. Lilium of Furawau.

* During the ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse event, the comic ''Generation Hebunnyx'' (a combination of ComicBook/GenerationX and ComicBook/JonahHex) was set in a town called Humanity. The story was an homage to the film ''PaleRider''.

* Possibly the most literal example: ''{{Girly}}'' is set in the town of Cutetown.

* ''LifeSketch'' is set in a town named [[Series/HannahMontana Hannah]], in the state of [[PunnyName Montana]]. A place where vampires are socially accepted as members of society. [[note]]and apparently so are dragons, since nobody freaks out when Monguilla shows up in a restaurant.[[/note]]

** All of the town names in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' are named after holidays. Including a town named Mother's Day.

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* At the end of the second season of ''Anime/HellGirl'', there is a town called Lovely Hills. It's ''not.''

* ''LifeSketch'' is set in a town named [[HannahMontana Hannah]], in the state of [[PunnyName Montana]]. A place where vampires are socially accepted as members of society. [[note]]and apparently so are dragons, since nobody freaks out when Monguilla shows up in a restaurant.[[/note]]

* ''{{Film/Purgatory}}'''s town is called Refuge.

* ''Film/MysteryAlaska''

* Wishful, California in the novel ''Instant Attraction'' by Jill Shavis, to which the Smart Bitches are referring in the page quote.
* "Ether, OR" (1995) by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin, about a town that moves from place to place.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' ' Stars Hollow

* ''Series/{{Banshee}}'', Pennsylvania. It's more of a MeaningfulName than you'd think, given that the banshee is an [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies omen of death.]]
* ''Series/{{Ed}}'''s Stuckeyville
* ''Series/PushingDaisies'' has two of its leads hail from a town called Coeur des Coeurs (Heart of Hearts). Aw.

* ''[[Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr Brisco County, Jr.]]'' finds himself in a town called "No Man's Land," which turns out to be [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin populated entirely by women]].
* Hawkeye Pierce of ''{{Series/MASH}}'' hails from one Crabapple Cove, Maine. While we never actually see the place, some of the items he shares from the local newspaper in one of the "Mail Call" episodes hint at its possible quirkiness.
* On ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Eleventh Doctor met his end in a town called Christmas.
** Earlier, he found himself as sheriff of "A Town Called Mercy".

** There's also a North Pole, New York, home of [[SouvenirLand Santa's Workshop]] but long regionally famous as town of license for the Lake Champlain region's {{NBC}} station.

* There is a charming bucolic town called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnythorpe Bunnythorpe]] on the North Island of UsefulNotes/NewZealand, about 8 kilometers northwest of Palmerston North (itself about 130 kilometers northeast of Wellington). The town is famous for being the original home of a company that got started as a factory turning milk from local dairies into baby formula (using the ludicrously cute tagline that the formula "builds bonnie babies"). The name of this company, intended to recall the Greek word for milk, was called Glaxo. Yes, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlaxoSmithKline that]]'' Glaxo.

* There is a charming bucolic town called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnythorpe Bunnythorpe]] on the North Island of UsefulNotes/NewZealand, about 8 kilometers northwest of Palmerston North (itself about 130 kilometers northeast of Wellington). The town is famous for being the original home of a company that got started as a factory turning milk from local dairies into baby formula (using the ludicrously cute tagline that the formula "makes bonnie babies"). The name of this company, intended to recall the Greek word for milk, was called Glaxo. Yes, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlaxoSmithKline that]]'' Glaxo.

* During the ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse event, the comic ''Generation Hex'' (a combination of ComicBook/GenerationX and ComicBook/JonahHex) was set in a town called Humanity. The story was an homage to the film ''PaleRider''.

* GravityFalls: Gravity Falls has a cutesy name, but is also a TownWithADarkSecret.

** That province also carries the ''antidote'' to such cutsey names: the infamous ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador Dildo]]''

* [[SubvertedTrope What could possibly be threatening]] about a place called "''SilentHill''?"

* {{Western Animation/GravityFalls: Gravity Falls has a cutesy name, but is also a TownWithADarkSecret.

* In ''FanFic/SonOfTheDesert'' the town of ''Eshkolit'' which is Hebrew for grapefruit.

* Another inversion: there is a town in Norway called Hell; there is also one in Michigan. Oddly enough, both Michigan and Norway also play host to cities named Paradis(e), and one of the ones in Norway isn't terribly far from/is on the same train line as Hell.

** Don't forget Surprise.

* A little village up the coast, [[{{LookingForGroup}} Pretty Pretty Unicorn]]. Currently on the way to Kethenecia. The mayor is an undead warlock named Richard. They missionaries didn't know that. Neither did they know the whole village wasn't exactly alive.

-->''"While the twee small town naming trope is way tired..."''