History Main / QuirkyTown

* Half the fun of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' is letting the player live in a QuirkyTown. The villagers that move in have idiosyncratic personalities (For unexplained reasons, they like to wander around town and ask you what their catchphrases should be). Many of the in-game {{Non Player Character}}s have odd quirks to them as well. For example, the museum is run by an owl that talks a lot but is also terrified of the bugs you bring in as specimens.

* The town of ''Series/Saramandaia'' (formerly known as Bole-Bole), is the TropeCodifier in Brazilian television, featuring the likes of werewolves, winged beings, a man with roots on his feet, a woman who sees imaginary chicken and much, much more.

No relation to Crazy Town, the RapRock band who did "Butterfly."

* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': This applies to the entire world sans the corner controlled by [=HitTheTarget=], especially since a good chunk of the population are [[BunnyEarsLawyer quite odd]] as well. For one, the [[FurryConfusion animal population]] far outnumbers the human population, the town is filled with {{bizarrchitecture}}, and if we're counting ''WebVideo/WonderQuest'' (which the Lovely World is semi-canon to) as well, there's a portal to another dimension in the basement of the BigFancyHouse at the heart of town.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Wartwood fits this quite well. A marshland village populated by a large number of EccentricTownsfolk, its generally characterized as a rural backwater where outsiders often have difficulty being accepted (and even more difficulty gaining their respect). However, they prove to be quite endearing nonetheless, and are fiercely loyal allies once their trust has been acquired.

* Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is definitely a quirky place. Victorian aesthetics, highly popular with artists, Pagans, and LGBT individuals. Its aerial map is a spider trail that loops wildly, but in spite of this, has almost no traffic lights. [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative It also boasts the World's Largest Tuned Musical Windchime.]]

%%* ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'': Dibley itself has no shortage of odd characters, with the eponymous vicar being one of the few who has any modicum of sense.

* College towns in the United States generally have a reputation for two things: drunkenness and quirkiness. Both of these have to do with their status as college towns, because young people getting their first taste of (relative) independence tend to express that in terms of both strange ideas and extraordinarily excessive alcohol consumption. Moreover, graduates with strange views and creative temperaments often end up staying in town, helped by the culture the university creates and sometimes even directly taking help from the college (which often fund arts programs and discussion forums and other things that encourage unconventional thinking). Other countries tend not to have these, as their universities were built in major cities.

* Vermont is often seen by those on the East Coast as ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' stretched over a whole state. It is noted for substantial numbers of hippies, ex-hippies, and generally weird-thinking people (weird for the US anyway), combined with their traditional individualistic Mountain New England culture. UsefulNotes/BernieSanders is from Vermont (well, he's originally from Brooklyn, but he moved to Burlington long enough ago for it not to matter); so is Ben & Jerry's ice cream. It was the first state to have civil unions for same-sex couples and almost adopted a single-payer healthcare system before everyone got cold feet.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Townsville can be this and [[CrapsaccharineWorld another type of world]] at times.

* ''Series/PushingDaisies'' basically runs on quirkiness. The town of Coeur d'Coeurs is home to a pie baker who can bring anything BackFromTheDead with just his touch, two agoraphobic sisters who used to be [[spoiler: synchronized swimming champions]], and a waitress who is prone to [[MusicalWorldHypothesis bursting into song]] as just a few examples. The fact that many townspeople have an AlliterativeName (i.e. Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, Dwight Dixon) adds to the quirky aesthetic.

* The eponymous ''Series/TwinPeaks'', which is arguably the TropeCodifier. Pretty much every townsperson is a little weird in their own way, even the StraightMan sheriff (named UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman), and some of the town's residents, such as [[ConsultingMrPuppet the Log Lady]], cross the line from "quirky"" to straight up surreal. Arguably deconstructed, as the town also has a dark underbelly of drug running, prostitution, corporate corruption, and [[spoiler: DemonicPossession]].

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'':
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''