History Main / EccentricTownsfolk

* And of course ''SouthPark'', a town where one of the most normal residents has a talking piece of crap as a best friend.

* Ponyville in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The locals include a socially-awkward bookworm from the big city who's trying to learn how to make friends, a manic-depressive baker who loves to throw parties and [[ToonPhysics occasionally defies known physics]], a melodramatic fashion designer who loves to make GemEncrusted {{Pimped Out Dress}}es, a painfully-shy animal lover who can [[DeathGlare stare down dragons]] when [[BewareTheNiceOnes provoked]], a hot-headed apple farmer with a NiceHat and [[TheClan a huge extended family]], and a boisterous stunt flier with rainbow-colored hair, and that's just the main characters.

The inhabitants of the town in the movie ''TheKingOfHearts'' are escaped patients from the local mental institution and qualify as this trope.

* In Nora Roberts' ''Nothern Lights'' the town Lunacy, high up in Alaska is inhabited with independent eccentric characters.

* Karl Pilkington of the Ricky Gervais Show et al told a series of stories about the people who lived around where he grew up that consistently amazed or bewildered Ricky and Steve. They included:

* Several towns in the ''Pokémon'' franchise, but the quirkiest are probably the denizens of Vientown in ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger: Shadows of Almia''.

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* The population of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, in ''APrairieHomeCompanion''.

* Increasingly, and delightfully, kook-filled [[ParksAndRecreation Pawnee, Indiana]].

* The entire supporting cast of ''{{Psychonauts}}'' qualifies. The campers were crazily developed considering how much screen time they got.

* Several towns in the ''{{Pokemon}}'' franchise, but the quirkiest are probably the denizens of Vientown in ''PokemonRanger: Shadows of Almia''.

* The residents of Hooterville, in ''PetticoatJunction'' and (especially) ''GreenAcres''.

* The animal townspeople in ''AnimalCrossing''.

* Found all over the place in ''{{Earthbound}}''. In ''{{Mother 3}}'', you get to know them all by name.

* Ponyville in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The locals include a socially-awkward bookworm from the big city who's trying to learn how to make friends, a manic-depressive baker who loves to throw parties and [[ToonPhysics occasionally defies known physics]], a melodramatic fashion designer who loves to make GemEncrusted {{Pimped Out Dress}}es, a painfully-shy animal lover who can [[DeathGlare stare down dragons]] when [[BewareTheNiceOnes provoked]], a hot-headed apple farmer with a NiceHat and [[TheClan a huge extended family]], and a boisterous stunt flier with rainbow-colored hair, and that's just the main characters.

* The residents of the [[TownWithADarkSecret village Sandford]] in ''HotFuzz''. Arguably subverted however; many of the townsfolk do have their stereotypes, or at least roles, but it turns out that [[spoiler:they're actually murdering anyone who threatens the town's rural image, including other EccentricTownsfolk]].

* ''CornerGas'' has the Canadian version.

* Ponyville in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The locals include a socially-awkward bookworm from the big city who's trying to learn how to make friends, a manic-depressive baker who loves to throw parties and [[ToonPhysics occasionally defies known physics]], a melodramatic fashion designer who loves to make GemEnscrusted {{Pimped Out Dress}}es, a painfully-shy animal lover who can [[DeathGlare stare down dragons]] when [[BewareTheNiceOnes provoked]], a hot-headed apple farmer with a NiceHat and [[TheClan a huge extended family]], and a boisterous stunt flier with rainbow-colored hair, and that's just the main characters.

* Increasingly, and delightfully, kook-filled [[ParksAndRecreation Pawnee, Indiana]].

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* The residents of Kinkan/Gold Crown Town in ''PrincessTutu'', who are all [[spoiler:unaware characters in a fairytale]] and are comprised of quirky people ''and'' anthropomorphic animals.

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* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Bob's girlfriend Jean has commented in frustration (and more or less accurately) that she appears to be the only sane person in tow--casually lumping Bob himself in with the EccentricTownsfolk.

* Found all over the place in ''{{Earthbound}}''.

* And of course ''SouthPark'', a town where the most normal resident has a talking piece of crap as a best friend.

* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Bob's girlfriend Jean has commented in frustration (and more or less accurately) that she appears to be the only sane person in town?casually lumping Bob himself in with the EccentricTownsfolk.