I grew up in a tiny suburban town called Podunk. And that's not a dumb figure of speech or anything, the town I lived in was literally named Podunk. I don't think it was the town all podunks are named after, it wasn't that old, but it might as well have been.
I guess growing up there wasn't really bad, per say, it was just monotonous and lifeless. Every morning I would get up, either to the smell of Mom cooking bacon or the sound of my kid sisters arguing over who's turn it was to walk the dog. I'd dress myself the same way I always did, with the same striped T-shirt and the same red neckerchief. I'd walk to school, try to stay awake for the next eight hours, more often than not struggling under an armload of homework. Mimmie always insisted that I help her with hers anyway, though, so that didn't really matter. And the rest of each day was spent doing what every other kid did when there was nothing better to do: reading comics, watching TV, or playing video games. Every Saturday I rode my bike around town a bit, every Sunday Mom took us all to church, and every so often, if we were lucky, Dad would come home for a few days. I was an okay kid, I suppose, who got okay grades, had an okay family, and if having a few people in your class who didn't annoy the living daylights out of you counted as friends, then yeah, I had okay friends.
Then, one day, my lamp attacked me.
This village. Is so. Dull!
Link: Gee, it sure is boring around here.
King Harkinian: Mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!
Link: I just wonder what Ganon's up to.
King Harkinian: Mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!
Link: I just wonder what Ganon's up to.
We live on the most boring street in the United States of America, where nothing even remotely dangerous will ever happen -- period.
— Buzz, Home Alone
It's just been really boring around here.
— Noah Maxwell, Tribe Twelve, a few videos before something happened that made things a bit more interesting.
Tower: Hey man, you smell that?
Jackson: Smell what?
Tower: Smells like... it's like... another babysittin' job to me, man!
Jackson: Heh heh, no shit man!
Red Shirt: Babysitting job, my ass! This has training mission written all over it! Why else would they withhold our orders for so long, huh?
This is just a small, quiet mountain community where nothing out of the ordinary ever really happens, except for the occasional complete destruction of the entire town.
— News Reporter, South Park
"We sent our own April Kline to Hawkins to speak to residents, residents who told us they thought they lived in a safe town. The kind of town where, they say, nothing ever happens."
— News reporter, Stranger Things
Welles: So what do people do for fun around this shitpile?
Rolly: They leave.
— Alien 40th Anniversary Shorts, "Night Shift"
The one good thing about this town was that it had nothing of note, and now we get all the buzz... what's going on?
— Ryotaro Dojima, Persona 4
Leonard: Just closing up. Nothing much happens around here after dark.
Jon: Now that is exactly what someone would say if something much does happen around here after dark.
Jon: Now that is exactly what someone would say if something much does happen around here after dark.
"I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York'll kill you. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings... kids can't leave the house - you gotta walk them to school. But in Amity one man can make a difference. In twenty-five years, there's never been a shooting or a murder in this town."
—Martin Brody, Jaws
"Once it was finally finished, the Death Star was the Emperor's favorite toy. It was also the most boring assignment in the galaxy for a stormtrooper. Tedious inspection drills, endless hours of guarding impregnable force field generators...things got so bad that when a prison riot erupted in a cell block we were almost happy to have someone shooting at us again. If only we knew what an embarassing snipe storm we'd wade into...we probably would have jettisoned the whole detention block into space."
—501st Journal, Star Wars: Battlefront II
"It wasn’t a large village, and wouldn’t have shown up on a map of the mountains. It barely showed up on a map of the village. It was, in fact, one of those places that exist merely so that people can have come from them. The universe is littered with them: hidden villages, windswept little towns under wide skies, isolated cabins on chilly mountains, whose only mark on history is to be the incredibly ordinary place where something extraordinary started to happen."
