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* On ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', the position of the Halliwell Manor's next-door neighbors could be filled by a new character, Muggle or magical, at any time.

Compare/contrast MobiusNeighbourhood, where the main characters only seem to have ''one'' set of next-door neighbours.

* Over the course of its decade-plus run, ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has fleshed out Generictown this way. Usually when a townsperson pops up who we've never seen before, Bob already knows them. Justified, since it's a small town Bob has lived in all his life. They generally continue to appear once introduced. Surprisingly, he didn't know ''Jean'' when she first appeared, despite the fact that she lives nearby. Granted that she didn't grow up there, but she has apparently lived there for several years.

* Over the course of its decade-plus run, ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has fleshed out Generictown this way. Usually when a townsperson pops up who we've never seen before, Bob already knows them. Justified, since it's a small town Bob has lived in all his life, and they generally continue to appear once introduced. Surprisingly, he didn't know ''Jean'' when she first appeared, despite the fact that she lives nearby. Granted that she didn't grow up there, but she has apparently lived there for several years.

* Over the course of its decade-plus run, ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has fleshed out Generictown this way. Usually when a townsperson pops up who we've never seen before, Bob already knows them. Justified, since it's a small town Bob has lived in all his life. Surprisingly, he didn't know ''Jean'' when she first appeared, despite the fact that she lives nearby. Granted that she didn't grow up there, but she has apparently lived there for several years.

* Over the course of its decade-plus run, ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has fleshed out Generictown this way. Usually when a townsperson pops up who we've never seen before, Bob already knows them. Justified, since it's a small town Bob where has lived all his life. Surprisingly, he didn't know ''Jean'' when she first appeared, despite the fact that she lives nearby. Granted that she didn't grow up there, but she has apparently lived there for several years.

* Over the course of its decade-plus run, ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has fleshed out Generictown this way. Usually when a new townsperson shows up who we've never seen before, Bob already knows them. Justified, since it's a small town Bob where has lived all his life. Surprisingly, he didn't know ''Jean'' when she first appeared, despite the fact that she lives nearby. Granted that she didn't grow up there, but she has apparently lived there for several years.

* Over the course of its decade+ run, ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has fleshed out Generictown this way. Usually when a new townsperson shows up who we've never seen before, Bob already knows them. Justified, since it's a small town Bob where has lived all his life. Surprisingly, he didn't know ''Jean'' when she first appeared, despite the fact that she lives nearby. Granted that she didn't grow up there, but she has apparently lived there for several years.

-->'''Barbie:''' My BFF is coming to stay with us for a couple of days!
-->'''Skipper:''' How many [=BFFs=] do you have?
-->--''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse'', "Endless Summer"

*** Moe's tavern changes locations and neighbours quite often depending on what a joke or plot demands.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' takes an entire county of small towns as its setting, but it's been running so long that this is a problem anyway.
** Justified, as nearly every episode has 3 or more deaths and without new neighbours, there would be hardly anyone left.

*** Moe's tavern changes locations and neighbours quite often dending on what a joke or plot demands.

* ''SamAndMax''
** Averted in the videogames though; Bosco, Stinky and Sal are neighbours of Sam and Max who are mentioned long before their on-screen introductions.

* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' did this a lot, most noticeable during the first season with students. An episode would center around a student who couldn't read or was disabled or whatever lesson of the week required. Every other child would know who they were and what their problem was, as if that student had always been there. Yet, we'd never seen them before and never saw them since.
** Averted in some early episodes when a few of the school children played by regular extras were slowly given the odd line, a name and once or twice worked into the plot directly for an episode.

* Arguably ''Franchise/TheSims'', in particularly ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheSims3 3]]'' if you're following the stories of the Maxis/EA premade families.
** Can also happen quite literally with Story Progression, which sometimes will randomly generate families to movie into houses.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Springfield]] started out this way, until all the side characters were cemented as a part of the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters cast.

* ''{{Fillmore}}'' reuses the faces of previous episodes' characters, but they never speak or do anything of importance. Outside the safety patrol itself, no character features in more than one episode, [[RememberTheNewGuy even those who have a history with the regulars]].

* On {{Charmed}}, the position of the Halliwell Manor's next-door neighbors could be filled by a new character, Muggle or magical, at any time.

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* {{R L Stine}}'s ''Ghosts of Fear Street'' series. It must be one long street...

* Early seasons of ''{{Smallville}}'' had a new meteor rock freak every week.

* ''MurderSheWrote'', complete with one of the new characters dying in the episode they are introduced. Seems like Cabot Cove is the murder capital of the east coast.

* ''MidsomerMurders'' takes an entire county of small towns as its setting, but it's been running so long that this is a problem anyway.

* In the first few days of playing ''AnimalCrossing'', a new neighbor moves in every day.

* British police show ''{{Heartbeat}}'' takes place in a small town of Ashfordly, which seems to have a ready supply of people committing various crimes, and in later seasons [[WriterOnBoard suffering from alcoholism and needing]] AnAesop.

* ''Series/FatherTed'' based in a tiny village on a tiny island off the coast of rural Ireland suddenly mentioned the village had a Chinatown section.

* Arguably TheSims, in particularly The Sims 2 and 3 if you're following the stories of the Maxis/EA premade families.

* The "small town" of ''{{Eureka}}'' keeps adding new characters to the point where Carter, who's been there approximately five years by now, still doesn't know everyone (or even, apparently, most people).

** Poochy from Itchy and Scratchy can count.