Basic Trope: The main characters only have one set of neighbors.
- Straight: In the sitcom Mary and Spencer, the titular characters only have one set of neighbors ever mentioned, who are Alan and Betty.
- Exaggerated: Alan and Betty are explicitly stated to be the only other people in Tropeville.
- Downplayed: Mary and Spencer have other neighbors, but they're only mentioned, or are only shown in the background; Alan and Betty are the only ones to ever get any plot relevance.
- Justified:
- Tropeville is a relatively small town.
- Most of Mary and Spencer takes place around the titular characters' household, and they don't usually talk to most of their neighbors.
- Inverted: Mary and Spencer have more neighbors than what would be logical for where they live.
- Subverted: Mary and Spencer start out with only a few neighbors, but more of them get introduced as the series goes on.
- Double Subverted: Only for the new neighbors to be Put on a Bus or undergo Chuck Cunningham Syndrome.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Mary and Spencer have a regular amount of neighbors that tend to get equal amounts of focus.
- Enforced: The creators don't want to put excessive focus on giving the main characters a lot of neighbors, so they limit it to only one other household.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Mary and Spencer encourage other people to move into their neighborhood.
- Mary and Spencer move to a place where they'll have more neighbors.
- Mary and Spencer decide to get to know their other neighbors better.
- Discussed: "Have you ever noticed how we only ever get to talk to Alan and Betty? Don't we have other neighbors?"
- Conversed: "I feel like in these kinds of shows, the main characters usually only ever have one set of neighbors that we know about."
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