Line #26 Main/CloseKnitCommunity


1	->''"Okay, we may not have anti-aircraft missiles or underground lairs, but what we do have is community. We look after each other."''
2	-->-- '''Lena''', ''Webcomic/BlueYonder''
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4	A Close-Knit Community -- whether a village, a scattering of country farms, a city neighborhood -- is a place where people know their neighbors and look after them.
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6	It is not an ensemble or team -- not even one like a traveling circus -- because the characters do not have a common purpose except on occasion, and incidentally. Most of the time, they go about their own purposes. Their {{Leader}}s act as leaders only in crisis, and merely as {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s in ordinary time. It also tends to be larger than most TrueCompanions and other groups -- large enough that many residents are only {{Bit Character}}s. While it can range from poor to prosperous, it is seldom if ever rich, and the characters are mostly settled in it, with few moving in or out. The widowed may remain there instead of returning to their families because they know they can get help there, and their families would be colder.
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8	They lack the privacy of less close-knit communities, the GossipyHens often get word around, but then, if they don't know what is happening to you, how can they help you? And sometimes their help can feel somewhat restricting. CantGetAwayWithNuthin has its unpleasant side.
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10	Conflict within the community is either swiftly resolvable (perhaps through intervention) or a long-standing rivalry without serious consequences. TheCynic is generally treated with affection but not much attention.
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12	QuirkyTown is always one; even ones that aren't quirky often have a high tolerance for eccentrics, town drunks, and other unusual and/or dysfunctional -- but mostly harmless -- characters. {{Arcadia}} is also always a Close-Knit Community, if the matter comes up; it is more likely to come up when Arcadia is contrasted to a ViceCity rather than a DecadentCourt. The WrongSideOfTheTracks can also be close-knit, in which case it is not the WretchedHive, and even holds down the crime rate by their quick action against it. This can even be true in a ViceCity, though it is not common, and the community tends to be poorer and have more crime than other close knit communities, because they can only contain the city to a certain extent; on other hand, they will often need each other's support after crimes. CrystalSpiresAndTogas and other ideal cities are more likely to contain neighborhoods of them, than be them, since the characters have to know each other. Common in the towns of TheWestern.
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14	A HiddenElfVillage can also be one. Characters in this community do not have to be welcoming.
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16	Another type of community is SmallTownBigHell, when this happens in a {{Small Town\|s}} but it's all PlayedForDrama.
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18	However, a TownWithADarkSecret does not qualify, since all the townsfolk are united in the purpose of keeping their secret, and probably with the activities involved in it -- and similiarly with an UncannyVillage. A WrongGenreSavvy protagonist may take one of those for this trope, or this trope for one of those, or the story may have such a fake out.
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20	Because of their mutual support, plots involving the Close Knit Community either
21	# Imperil the community, so they have to defend themselves, or have TheHero defend them. (He may be an outsider, often brought in because one member acted as a GoodSamaritan.)
22	# Have a youngster not appreciate it. SmallTownBoredom or resentment of how the GossipyHens see to it that everyone knows everything, and you CantGetAwayWithNuthin can lead to an escape. Often followed by AnAesop as the youngster learns that ApatheticCitizens are worse, and the value of HomeSweetHome.
23	# Have an outsider -- often one burned out on InHarmsWay -- learn the [[HomeSweetHome value of community]] and settle down from his WalkingTheEarth. Often a subplot of the first, but it is not required.
24	# Provide a safe setting for children to have child-sized adventures.
25	# Function as a waystation for TheQuest, in which case it will only be an interlude.
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27	!!Examples
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30	[[folder:Advertising]]
31	* One Budweiser extolls the neighborhood.
32	-->''This is for the people in my neighborhood\
33	Who help me through the day and make me feel good\
34	This Bud's for you\
35	And you and you and you.''
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38	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
39	* In ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'', the title location is a tiny, aging apartment complex whose rather disfunctional residents manage to fit the description of "a place where people know their neighbors and look after them", though "looking after their neighbors" often amounts to "bring them inside when they pass out drunk".
40	* In ''Manga/ABridesStory'', the entire town rallies around, quickly, when Amir's family threatens to take her back by force.
41	* The setting of ''Anime/TamakoMarket'' is not unlike an American small town's main street, with a close-knit group of family business owners.
42	* ''Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu'': An entire apartment complex provides a creepy example in "The Friendly Apartment Complex." Residents all take care of and know each other, the adults tutor all the children, they have a vegetable garden where they get all their food... No one is allowed to leave the building for literally ''anything'', contact the outside world, or even speak to people who don't live in the building. As they say "We have everything we need ''right here''."
43	* In the small village of Sotoba from ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' is a small rural village in the mountains where basically everyone knows everyone and all who live there try to help those around them as much as they can. Though, as with everything else about this series, it puts an incredibly dark spin on it [[spoiler:as people start to mysteriously die after a new family moved in and the once united village devolves into a massacring horde]].
44	-->'''Tomio Ookawa:''' ''There are certain unstated rules for living in a village, rules that go back far too many generations to count. Outsiders are welcome as long as they adapt to village ways. We're a community here, we work together, we protect each-other. In a village, the young don't die before the old. These simple rules keep places like Sotoba alive through the years.''
45	* ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'': Being a small village next to the mountains and so far away from Tokyo, the inhabitants of Asahigaoka are very close with one another, and the girls look out and care for each other as though they are sisters. Moments include comforting a grieving Renge when the tadpole shrimps died away, immediately warming up to Hotaru, who has no friends and zero experience living in the country, and Kaede escorting Renge back home when the day started to get too dark for a little girl to be out and about alone.
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48	[[folder:Comic Books]]
49	* Invoked in the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Pastoral", where a CityMouse leaves the city to spend the summer in one of these. While the residents normally tend to themselves, they come together for certain occasions, and serve as the SecretKeeper for the local super hero's civilian identity.
50	** Kiefer Square in "The Tarnished Angel" is a ViceCity version of this trope. The locals are all working-class folks, many of whom get by as B-grade villains or {{Mooks}}, but they still have the local GossipyHens and [[TheArtfulDodger street roughs]], and don't hesitate to come together when the neighborhood is imperiled.
51	* In ''ComicBook/CastleWaiting'', the castle. Serving as a refuge for Jain.
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54	[[folder:Fan Works]]
55	* The surviving Ishvalan community in Central and in the East are very close in ''FanFic/SonOfTheDesert''. To the point that Edward has to invite all of them to his 16th birthday.
56	* In Fanfic/{{Nosflutteratu}} we learn that Fluttershy is a vampire and has been for years. So how does a vampire survive, even thrive, for years without killing anypony? Ponyville's blood drives are ''very'' successful.
57	* ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'': The Lower Alleys are the poor quarter of magical London, and have essentially banded together to look after each other and form a government of sorts because the Ministry doesn't care or bother about them. It's a rough place, but people know each other and ensure that no one slips through the cracks. When Harry semi-accidentally becomes part of the community, they protect her, keeping her safe in the Alleys and supporting her cover story even though they know it's false.
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60	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
61	* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The villagers of Belle's town present themselves as this, but are quick to ostracize or even attempt to kill anyone who doesn't stick to their assigned role or is perceived as a threat in some other way.
62	* San Angel, the protagonists' hometown in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''. It's one of those towns where everyone knows everyone, and is why the Sanchez family is so well remembered in the land of the dead.
63	* In ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', the unnamed community the Kusakabes are moving to at the opening of the film proves to be this. Hardly surprising, since it's located not far from the border of {{Arcadia}} and the GhibliHills.
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66	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
67	* ''Film/OneBR'': PlayedForHorror. At first, the tenants of the apartment building [[TheProtagonist Sarah]] moves into are a very friendly and sociable bunch. That said, it's soon revealed that they value their community to the point of SeriousBusiness, practically brainwashing and psychologically torturing all new tenants into wanting to become permanent members of the community.
68	* The QuirkyTown in ''Film/DesertHeat'' shows you just how close knit when [[spoiler: ''everyone'' shoots the final bad guy, then argues about who shot first.]]
69	%%* Bedford Falls in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.
70	%%* The Greek community in ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding''
71	%%* Haven, from ''Film/{{Serenity}}''.
72	* The titular town in ''Film/SilverLode'' starts out like this; the townspeople immediately side with Ballard when [=McCarty=] and his men ride into town with accusations of murder and theft, and quite a few of them grab their guns to defend him from the outsiders. Unfortunately, it doesn't take much for them to turn on him, which is facilitated by Ballard being a relative outsider who has only lived there for two years.
73	%%* The Hassidic diamond sellers district in the Literature/CrimeAndPunishment film ''A Stranger Among Us''.
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76	[[folder:Literature]]
77	* ''Literature/AbsolutelyTruly'': The small town of Pumpkin Falls is a place where everyone has history with each other.
78	* Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' and all its sequels. Anne comments on how all the little old well-meaning ladies visited her before she went to college and their comments, delivered with the sweetness of intentions, made her dread the possibilities.
79	* The town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut in ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub''. For example, three of the four original members grew up together as neighbors, SixthRanger Mallory used to be their babysitting charge, and Mary Anne's father and Dawn's mother were HighSchoolSweethearts.
80	* The Prelapsarians in Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos''; they will not move against Olympus while Phaetheusa is hostage, because of their respect for her father, even though he holds no formal position.
81	* ''Literature/DandelionWine'': The fictional town of Green Town, IL is the embodiment of this trope. The book features a series of vignettes that show the Spaulding boys' interactions with the town residents.
82	* On Literature/{{Discworld}}, the Chalk. Tiffany Aching at one point describes how everyone did so because they knew her grandmother was watching them.
83	* It's mentioned several times throughout the ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' series that residents of any given Cave[[note]]Which doesn't always mean a literal cave, it could be a collection of huts. It's just called a Cave.[[/note]] look out for each other for their mutual benefit.
84	* The village of Highbury in ''Literature/{{Emma}}''. Although it's largely benevolent, news and gossip races around like wildfire. The need to keep up polite appearances can grate on Emma, because it forces her into company with people she dislikes to avoid generating gossip (such as Mrs. Elton). The smallness and lack of variety in society also results in the question "will Frank Churchill visit his father" being treated almost as seriously as a potential royal visit.
85	* In Creator/PatriciaCWrede's Literature/FrontierMagic novel ''Literature/ThirteenthChild'', two women are waiting to welcome the family to Mill City, because the mother might have difficulty getting them all fed, given how late their arrival is; the man telling them this assures them that they look out for each other in Mill City.
86	* District 12 from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' - before Katniss [[spoiler: volunteers to take her sister's place in the Games]], the community deliberately overlooks the fact that Katniss breaks a major rule (imposed by the government nobody likes) every day to poach from the forest because she brings them meat. Despite that Katniss is a little girl, she gets an even trade from the members where possible and nobody exploits her. Her mom, an Apothecary, cares for the sick and injured villagers for no pay. Generally every citizen of District 12 is pretty altruistic and selfless.
87	* In Creator/HarperLee's novel, ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', the town of Maycomb, Alabama is a small town where most notably, everyone knows everyone else’s business, which leads mostly to endless and generally harmless gossip—but more importantly, it makes the community extremely intimate and close-knit.
88	* In Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/JaneOfLanternHill'', Jane is struck by the friendliness of PEI. The narrator comments that she didn't realize that she had changed, no longer having her spirit crushed out of her by her grandmother.
89	* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium gives us hobbits, who only survived the Long Winter through helping each other out, and they only survive ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' thanks to sticking together. Frodo does exhibit some SmallTownBoredom and his uncle is tired of GossipyHens, but in the end, the halflings are a Close-Knit Community, period. They're based on rural Englishmen, so...
90	* ''Literature/MainStreetSeries'': The main setting of Camden Falls, Massachusetts is one, especially the people who live in the Row House neighborhood. The Row House residents even have [[spoiler: a communal Thanksgiving dinner together and all pitch in to throw a SurpriseParty for the Fongs when Mrs. Fong is pregnant]].
91	* Literature/MissMarple comes from one, St. Mary Meade, and is occasionally set to work in one of these.
92	* The Ramblings in ''Literature/SeptimusHeap''. Mrs. Beetle stayed there because of it after she was widowed, instead of returning to [[ThickerThanWater her family and her late husband's]] in the Port -- the families would not be as much help.
93	%%* In Creator/RobinMcKinley's ''Literature/{{Sunshine}}'', the coffee house.
94	* In Creator/WenSpencer's ''{{Literature/Tinker}}'', Pittsburgh sometimes shows shades of this. In ''Elfhome'', Tinker and Oilcan are deliberately trying to foster it.
95	* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': In ''[[Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall Lady Knight]]'', the refugee camp Haven eventually develops into one of these with Kel's encouragement.
96	* The ''Literature/VillageTales'' series is set in one. And sometimes overbearing "looking after one another" (people tend to hide coughs lest, for example, Lady Crispin should turn up with a hamper and a thermos of beef-tea, or, worse, the Duke descend on them with more assistance than they want).
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99	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
100	* Mayberry on ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' also came off as one.
101	** In one episode, a stranger came to town and acted all close knit, which creeped everybody out. Turns out he was planning to move to Maberry and subscribed to the local paper so he knew what everyone was up to.
102	* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': The close community of Ferrix is quickly established by showing how the workers keep their gloves on a wall outside of their workplace with no worries about them being stolen or sabotaged by members of the community. As the series progresses this is built up further, with outsiders very much being on the outside when they're there despite tensions between locals and locals all being interconnected and well informed.
103	* The titular town of ''Series/{{Broadchurch}}'' is established as this, being a small seaside town where everyone knows each other. However, it's ultimately subverted as the series progresses, where pretty much everyone is hiding something or keeping some kind of secret, and it becomes clear that no one knows each other quite as well as they think they do.
104	* ''Series/CoronationStreet'', despite the high divorce and disaster rate is this. The show's more idealistic tone means the street is still a community where "folk look out for each other and come together in crisis" even though disaster is a bit more common than some of the other examples.
105	* Portwenn in ''Series/DocMartin'' is like this, where everyone knows everyone else's business and will always go out of their way to do someone a favour. Whether you want them to or not in fact, something arch-misanthrope Martin absolutely hates.
106	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]], the New York Hooverville. ''De facto'' leader Solomon intentionally invokes it, breaking up a fight between two men over a loaf of bread and reminding everyone that they have to stick together if they want to survive.
107	* Stars Hollow from ''Series/GilmoreGirls''. Hilariously Lampshaded when Paris barges in, trying to write an article for Chilton's school newspaper about the [[TownWithADarkSecret "dark secret"]] of the town. One analys of the show points to the fact that it's a walkable community as the cornerstone of this.
108	-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jhfs8PHT3M Kendra Gaylord]]:''' So many of the things that make Gilmore Girls so dreamy is just ''a healthy community''. You've got intergenerational friends, all of whom attend town hall meetings together. A grocery store in walking distance... Multiple affordable places to get a meal. There's outdoor music, art, events. There's public transit that brings you ''directly to'' your prestigious high school. You can easily walk around, and jaywalking is practically encouraged.
109	* Overton, the farming village ''Series/{{Glue}}'' is set in, is very small, with all the inhabitants knowing each other.
110	* In ''Series/{{Justified}}'', the residents of Harlan County are an insular community. Everyone knows everyone and can tell you what you and your family have been up to all the way back to your great great grandpappy. For the most part, the residents are politely passive aggressive towards each other (The Bennetts vs. The Givenses, The Crowders vs The Bennetts, etc.), as each family represents a major (or aspiring) crime family, but they will always circle the wagons together against outsiders.
111	-->'''Trooper Tom Bergen''': Art, I've been in Harlan 18 years. People still look at me like I'm some kinda Yankee come down to burn their crops.
112	* The clan of Harfoots shown in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'', are a WanderingCulture, preferring to keep their existence hidden from other people. They lead a nomadic and bucolic lifestyle, which [[NothingExcitingEverHappens Here Nori Brandyfoot]] finds pretty boring and would rather explore the world. They look out after each other, that if you don't break the rules or can keep up with the rest of the group when they migrate.
113	%%* Series/MonarchOfTheGlen
114	%%* Although ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was primarily an ensemble show, the entire population of the space station may count as this.
115	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Voyager's crew is portrayed as this right down to the gossip and difficulty of keeping secrets. Given that they are a small crew of 150-odd people, stuck on a single spaceship stranded on the other side of the galaxy, with no option of leaving if they ever want to get home, this was inevitable.
116	* Little Tall Island from Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/StormOfTheCentury''. In fact, the villain says that the reason he chose to come to Little Tall was because he knew that they were a close-knit community who could pull together and "do what needs to be done." After the storm, Little Tall arguably moves from this into a TownWithADarkSecret.
117	%%* ''Series/TerraNova'', though larger than most such communities, probably counts.
118	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
119	** Maple Street was like this before the monsters were due.
120	** In "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Shadow Valley of the Shadow]]", a quirky town is close-knit. Turns out they have advanced science and don't want their secrets leaking out, pushing it toward TownWithADarkSecret.
121	* This is exploited in the ''Series/WithoutATrace'' episode "Maple Street", when a young girl is kidnapped after getting a ride from someone she apparently knew and trusted. A few days later, her friend is kidnapped in the same way, as despite the frightening situation, she herself still trusted the guy enough to feel safe with him.
122	%%* ''Series/TwinPeaks''
123	%%* ''Series/TheWaltons''
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126	[[folder:New Media]]
127	* "A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale." Unlike an UncannyVillage, the inhabitants of Night Vale aren't hiding the various conspiracies, mysteries, and dangers in the town.
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130	[[folder:Poetry]]
131	* Creator/TSEliot's "Choruses from The Rock"
132	-->''When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?\
133	Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"\
134	What will you answer? "We all dwell together\
135	To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"?''
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138	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
139	* Kithkin villages in the Lorwyn setting of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' are all like this. When the world is warped into its darker variant Shadowmoor, their communal spirit is turned into outright xenophobia.
140	* Fortitude in ''TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine''. It's a gentle, lakeside place where people are mostly good to each other and don't need to lock their doors.
141	-->'''Properties of Fortitude:''' ''You have a home in Fortitude.''
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144	%%[[folder:Theatre]]
145	%%* ''Theatre/OurTown'' features Grover's Corner.
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148	[[folder:Video Games]]
149	* The towns in all ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games are this on top of being filled with [[QuirkyTown quirky]] townsfolk.
150	* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'':
151	** Harmonica Town in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade'' is this, probably because it's a very rural setting and the only town on the island.
152	** For that matter, all of the ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' games have tight knit, small rural towns. Eventually, the player becomes a full member in these towns.
153	** Really, quite a few ''Harvest Moon'' games could qualify. Mineral Town in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' is a shining example, where the townsfolks' relationships with each other are built upon fairly early on. Zephyr Town from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonGrandBazaar'' serves as another example, being extremely tiny, and practically the WHOLE ENTIRE VILLAGE shows up for EVERY festival, as well as pitching in for the town bazaar every week (and attending the results).
154	* Link's hometown could count as this in most of the games, notably ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''.
155	* ''VideoGame/Mother3'': Tazmily Village starts off as a tranquil and peaceful place, where everyone knows everybody and are aware that they are to co-exist for the greater good of each other, in peace, and they do. There is no need for deception or competition, as everything is shared; everybody has everything that they could ever need, so inequality is a very foreign term. That is, until Fassad comes along and the new version of Tazmily Village starts to break a solemn trust/bond everyone had with each other due to the changes.
156	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': The Underground, where the monsters reside. Everyone seems to know each other, and people generally have each other's backs, even if there are inevitably some people who personally don't get along. This may be thanks to the fact that the GreatOffscreenWar led to most of the monsters' population being wiped out. (The war was apparently so one-sided, one NPC is considered a legend just for having ''survived it''.) The few monsters who remained were then sealed in the Underground, trapped in a relatively small area together for what most think will be forever. If you play nice, the citizens of the Underground are rather fast to befriend you, accept you as being part of the community, and treat you as such.
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159	[[folder:Webcomics]]
160	* In ''Webcomic/BlueYonder'', [[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1201813/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-13/ Claremont Apartments]]. The washed-up superheroes there work together and protect each other and it.
161	** [[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1213691/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-15/ Yuri explains to Jared how his careless actions affect everyone.]]
162	* Mechanicsburg in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is a city with population mainly made up of minions and monsters [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070601 united by their loyality to the House Heterodyne]]. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070822 Fooling outsiders]] is a ''sport''.
163	* In ''Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan'', [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-5/ his cat eats because his neighbors feed it.]]
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166	[[folder:Western Animation]]
167	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Elwood City. The parents in Arthur's class have exchanged contact information.
168	* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', the Hill's neighborhood counts as one, and characters occasionally incorrectly assume the same of the town of Arlen, Texas as a whole. Beyond the obvious closeness between Hank's closest friends and their families, Hank is mentioned to have given speeches at the weddings of background characters, and many one-off characters are generally only one or two degrees of separation removed from the central cast.
169	* In ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' (the TV series) all of the characters know each other well enough that they can walk in to each others' houses (after they knock first) and stay over for the night without a second thought. Food is made or delivered, without payment of any kind, and people are frequently invited for meals. Everyone seems to have an interest in the performance or meeting of the day, as well.
170	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Ponyville seems to be one of these, judging by Pinkie Pie's claim to know every resident and the degree to which the population volunteers for events like Winter Wrapup.
171	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePJs'', Thurgood's building is another "dysfunctional yet functional" example, mainly because it's located inside an economically struggling ViceCity.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Boxwood Terrace, WA is a small, semi-mythical, science-based QuirkyTown where all the residents are close to each other, and they're made even closer when Jet arrives. You can find almost all of the characters at town events like kart races, cooking contests, pumpkin growing competitions, Christmas pageants, Earth Day shows, watching the solar eclipse, going to the Open House at the DSA, mini-golf tournaments, and more.
173	* Zigzagged with Springfield in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether, everyone seems to know everyone else, and most of Springfield attends church together weekly, but [[PowderKegCrowd people can still be turned against one another and riot frequently]].
174	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': While it’s downplayed, the town is fairly close and takes part in various events together from fishing to [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
175	* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': The Treeborhood has a grand total of 25 residents, so this means that each of them are naturally close with one another. The Treeborhood is probably the only neighborhood in all of fiction in which you are allowed to spill sand into someone's house.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': Qyah is a very small town with a population of about 94 people (not including missing moose). As such, everyone knows and cares for each other, and word travels fast.
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