'''Basic Trope''': Nothing interesting happens outside of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
* '''Straight''': Bob only travels in the Five Boroughs of New York City.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob only walks around {{Fulton Street| Folly}}, [[NewYorkIsOnlyManhattan Manhattan]].
* '''Downplayed''': Bob spends most of his time in NYC, but goes to rural Long Island on occasion.
* '''Justified''': Bob is a detective in the [=NYPD=], the main character in a PoliceProcedural, whose job is to solve crimes within the jurisdiction of the city (and quite probably specifically his precinct).
* '''Inverted''': Bob travels everywhere in America ''EXCEPT'' New York.
* '''Subverted''': The show starts out with a map of New York, then zooms in… to Poughkeepsie, where Bob lives.
* '''Double Subverted''': He takes the Taconic Parkway to his job in The Bronx, where the real action happens.
* '''Parodied''':
** The villains, who are not from Earth, [[AliensStealCable do their research on the planet by watching movies and TV shows]], and therefore believe that it's the most important city in the world, [[AlienInvasion which is why they attack it]].
** Alternately, their reason for focusing on New York is that they ''really'' like Mallomars.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob tells the tale of his job has a FBI agent. When asked where he's from, he says New York. He's from Poughkeepsie. However, he says he drives to New York every time he has a shift. He is stationed in Yonkers. However, he only gets called to streets in the Bronx
* '''Averted''': From the start, it is stated that Bob lives and works at his interesting job in Poughkeepsie, and the farthest he goes in the series is still within that city.
* '''Enforced''':
** The network needs a new show that will connect with a large amount of people. A large amount of people live in New York.
** [[CreatorProvincialism The writers are from New York.]]
** The production is filmed in the city as the [[https://www.nyc.gov/site/mome/industries/ny-state-tax-credit.page state of New York offers a tax credit]] for film and television productions to work in the five boroughs
* '''Lampshaded''': On a freeway, Bob sees a sign for "To New York City". Alice says, "Okay, take the ramp to the only damn place in this state where things happen."
* '''Invoked''': Bob avoids the airports and highways out of New York because he believes something will be interesting in New York.
* '''Exploited''': Alice the IntrepidReporter moves to New York because there's a good chance of something big happening there for her to make her big break.
* '''Defied''': Bob, in an effort not to be trapped in New York, becomes a storm chaser and moves to Kansas.
* '''Discussed''': "I'm so glad I moved to New York. It seems like every corner is another interesting landmark."
* '''Conversed''': "Man, another show about New York? You're obsessed with shows about New York, huh?" "No, but the writers are."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** With everything interesting happening in New York, people are swarming into the city, and overpopulation becomes a problem.
** Alternately: Everyone gets out of there because of the danger, causing the economy to collapse and New York to become a ghost town.
* '''Reconstructed''': The overpopulation or weak economy is the conflict of the week.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob just moved to New York, but he treats it as if he's lived there for a ''long'' time.
* '''Played for Drama''': Aliens arrive on Earth for the first time, and they start with New York, since they know [[AliensStealCable from TV]] that it's one of the most interesting places on Earth.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The focus on New York is foreshadowing that Bob does not live in the real United States, but a fake.
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