History Main / QuirkyTown

* ''DesperateHousewives''

* Stuckeyville, Ohio in ''{{Ed}}''

* Portwenn in ''DocMartin''.

* * Generictown in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''

* The titular town in "WesternAnimation/GravityFalls" is as quirky as they come, and doubles as a TownWithADarkSecret.

On a smaller scale see QuirkyHousehold. Generally free of SmallTownBoredom, and anyone who says "NothingExcitingEverHappensHere" either has lived there long enough that the eccentricity of their neighbors seems normal to them, or [[BlatantLies is just plain lying]]. Might also be a CutesyNameTown

* TomLehrer has great fun parodying this in his song "My Home Town."

* Lawrence, Kansas. Not only is it a University town, but it also has a long history of oddball culture. It is not uncommon to see all walks of life represented on the street corners of Massachusetts Avenue, (Mass Street to locals). Mentions of its colorful history abound, whether it is the hotel that has been shot at with a cannon and burned down twice, or Quantrill's Raid, or the long standing fueds with many other towns (Columbia Mo, Osceola Mo which is so extreme that the citizens of Osceola have said that they refuse to capitalize the name of the town or state, anywhere in Nebraska, or Manhattan, Kansas), or the atmosphere that in general makes this kinda like a real life Twin Peaks.

* ''{{Portlandia}}''. Some of it is TruthInTelevision.

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The town is small and filled with [[EccentricTownsfolk quirky, lovable characters.]] There is [[CloseKnitCommunity a strong sense of community]]. The audience is a little torn between wanting to live there, and being glad they live someplace else where not everyone knows your business.

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* The UndefeatableLittleVillage in ''{{Asterix}}''.

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* Centerburg, the setting of Robert [=McCloskey=]'s ''Homer Price'' and ''Centerburg Tales''.

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* [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]] fits this trope to a T, just with a lot more death and existential horror.


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* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'': Friendly Falls, the show's setting. That said, friendly as they might be, the inhabitants also tend to be a tad kooky.

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* ''{{City of Reality}}'', full stop. For starters, their mayor is a bunny rabbit (actually, what looks like a living ''sock puppet'' of a bunny rabbit, and that's not just an art style!). Hawk even goes to great lengths in order to test how close it is to being a TownWithADarkSecret, thinking that secret is pent-up rage.

* ''{{City of Reality}}'', full stop. For starters, their mayor is a bunny rabbit. Hawk even goes to great lengths in order to test how close it is to being a TownWithADarkSecret, thinking that secret is pent-up rage.

* [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]]

The town is small and filled with [[EccentricTownsfolk quirky, lovable characters.]] There is [[CloseKnitCommunity a strong sense of community]]. The audience is a little torn between wanting to live there, and being glad they live someplace else where not everyone knows your business, and, more specifically, not everyone asks you for strange favors and acts in an even stranger way. Might also be a CutesyNameTown.

Generally free of SmallTownBoredom, and anyone who says "NothingExcitingEverHappensHere" either has lived there long enough that the eccentricity of their neighbors seems normal to them, or [[BlatantLies is just plain lying]].

On a smaller scale see QuirkyHousehold.

* ''{{Ed}}''

-> "This is Petalburg. The warm weather makes the locals laid-back and happy. Wow, and talk about unique personalities... Very... individualistic, to put it nicely. Or, not so nicely... ''Downright kooky...''"

* The street in ''EdwardScissorhands''.

* The town in ''MysteryTeam''.
* Virgil, Texas in ''TrueStories''

* Wellsville, um...somewhere... "TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete"

* Greenvale in ''DeadlyPremonition.'' Some of the townsfolk are downright ''goofy'', which just adds to the MoodWhiplash regarding the horrific murders you investigate.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''

* Cassadega, [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]]

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* Ponyville from ''Westernanimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The first impression asocial city-girl Twilight Sparkle gets is "All the ponies in this town are ''crazy!''"

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* [[WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]].
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* ''GilmoreGirls''

* Pontyberry, in ''{{Series/Stella}}''