History Main / WelcomeToTheBigCity

* In {{Robots}}, almost as soon as Rodney steps off the train, {{Robin Williams}} tries to con him and a shifty robot [[{{Wanna buy a watch}} tries to sell him a watch]]

* In ''AcrossTheUniverse'', "Come Together" is used as a song about this when Jojo first arrives in New York. Nothing bad actually happens to him, but he's obviously traumatized.

-->'''GunsNRoses''', "Welcome to the Jungle"

And the sooner the better, [[HumiliationConga often right as he steps off the train/plane/coach/boat]] from whatever idylic rural paradise they came from.

Our main character is young, idealistic, innocent, naive, you name it - and it's their first time in the big city. How to show that? Why, by him or her being confronted with any combination of pickpocketing, prostitution and generally upsetting behaviour, of course.

* The [[SpokenWordInMusic spoken word portion]] of {{StevieWonder}}'s "Living in the City" is about a man who upon arriving to New York, is approached by a drug dealer, arrested for possession, and sent to jail for ten years.
* This is the whole theme of Music/GunsNRoses song and vid, "Welcome to the Jungle". Axl Rose literally gets off the bus with a hayseed piece of straw in his mouth, and walks right into the parking lot of corruption.

* This is the whole theme of {{ptitlewiz5pz1p}} song and vid, "Welcome to the Jungle". Axl Rose literally gets off the bus with a hayseed piece of straw in his mouth, and walks right into the parking lot of corruption.

* {{Durarara}} Mikado Ryugamine

* In AesopsFables, after the CityMouse scorned his home as simple, CountryMouse visits him in the city. The cat makes him realize that home is {{Arcadia}}.

* TheSimpsonsDidIt when Homer first came to New York. He's robbed several times (once by a ''police officer''), has a bird eat his hot dog, has garbage dumped on him by WoodyAllen and is chased around by an angry pimp.
-->'''Homer:''' And then the {{CHUD}}s came.

* This is the whole theme of GunsNRoses song and vid, "Welcome to the Jungle". Axl Rose literally gets off the bus with a hayseed piece of straw in his mouth, and walks right into the parking lot of corruption.

Our main character is young, idealistic, innocent, naive, you name it - and it's their first time in the big city. How to show that? Why, of course by him or her being confronted with any combination of pickpocketing, prostitution and generally upsetting behaviour and scenarios.

* [[FinalFantasyVIII Squall's]] first impression of [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas Esthar]] makes him mentally utter literally his only line in the game that is neither crushing indifference or a cynical snark.

* In [[JoesApartment Joe's Apartment]], our hero is fresh off the bus from Iowa...

* Alice's sister on ''TheCritic'' gets a similar treatment when she arrives in New York from [[DeepSouth Knoxville]].

* TheSimpsonsDidIt when Homer first came to New York. He's robbed several times (once by a ''police officer''), has a bird eat his hot dog, has garbage dumped on him and is chased around by an angry pimp.

* Alice's sister on ''TheCritic'' gets a similar treatment when she arrives in New York from Knoxville.

* In [[JoesApartment Joe's Apartment]], out hero is fresh off the bus from Iowa...

* Alice's sister on ''TheCritic'' gets a similar treatment when she arrives in New York from Knoxville

* TheSimpsonsDidIt when Homer first came to New York. He's robbed several times, down to a bird eating his hot dog.