History Main / QuirkyTown

* ''Franchise/TheSims'':

For Quirky towns in TV series, they will typically begin with the arrival of some outsider authority figure, such as a [[{{Series/Eureka}} sheriff]], [[Series/NorthernExposure doctor]] or [[Series/TwinPeaks FBI agent]], who will initially be baffled by the inhabitants, but soon will turn out to be every bit as quirky as they are.

%%* Virgil, Texas in ''Film/TrueStories''

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Sometimes it seems like the various monsters surrounding the town are more sane than the humans. [[spoiler: There's a reason why the town is so weird; The Society of the Blind Eye has been using LaserGuidedAmnesia so much that most of the people are brain-damaged.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:...because talking ponies are ''normal.'']]

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Sometimes it seems like the various monsters surrounding the town are more sane than the humans. [[spoiler: There's s a reason why the town is so weird; The Society of the Blind Eye has been using LaserGuidedAmnesia so much that most of the people are brain-damaged.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:And just wait 'til you see [[FunnyAnimal the townsfolk]].]]

** In the same sense, Manhattan, Kansas. It is another University town where everyone is especially enthusiastic about the Wildcats. It goes so far to the point that if you are caught wearing a Jayhawks shirt within the city limits, you will be immediately escorted out of town.

* The titular town in ''CrossingKevinsCrossing'' has an abundance of weirdness.

%%* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Pawnee, Indiana.

For Quirky towns in TV series, they will typically begin with the arrival of some outsider authority figure, such as a [[{{Main/Eureka}} sheriff]], [[Series/NorthernExposure doctor]] or [[Series/TwinPeaks FBI agent]], who will initially be baffled by the inhabitants, but soon will turn out to be every bit as quirky as they are.

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

* 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 NPCs 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.

%%* ''Series/TwinPeaks''

* ''LifeSketch'' takes place in [[PunnyName Hannah]], [[Series/HannahMontana Montana]], where vampires, zombies and dragons are commonplace and nobody seems to bat an eye when people go out in public in full cosplay regalia.

%%* Vermont is often seen by those on the East Coast as ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' stretched over a whole state.
%%* College towns in the United States. Other countries tend not to have these, as their universities were built in major cities.

* New Hope, Pennsylvania: Just far away enough from Philadelphia to have a real small-town atmosphere, New Hope is also genuinely strange. It's on the Old York Road, the main road from New York to Philly in the 19th century, and used to be a key ferry crossing on that route, where the road crossed the Delaware River to Lambertville, New Jersey. It was therefore considered the halfway point of the York Road, with a number of inns for people to stay the night after/before they crossed the river. The place soon became popular with wealthy Philadelphians and New Yorkers looking for a nearby getaway, and an artists' colony sprung up in town. This led to the large number of quaint and quirky crafts still in town. Later, the quirkiness attracted a lot of LGBT people, creating something of a gay colony, as well. And then (friendly) bikers showed up in the 1940s and 1950s. The end result is a town that, even after commercialization in the 80s, manages to give off a distinct vibe. (The town also spawned Music/{{Ween}}, but whether that has anything to do with its quirkiness is unclear.)

* New Hope, Pennsylvania: Just far away enough from Philadelphia to have a real small-town atmosphere, New Hope is also genuinely strange. It's on the Old York Road, the main road from New York to Philly in the 19th century, and used to be a key ferry crossing on that route, where the road crossed the Delaware River to Lambertville, New Jersey. It was therefore considered the halfway point of the York Road, with a number of inns for people to stay the night after/before they crossed the river. The place soon became popular with wealthy Philadelphians and New Yorkers looking for a nearby getaway, and an artists' colony sprung up in town. This led to the large number of quaint and quirky crafts still in town. Later, the quirkiness attracted a lot of LGBT people, creating something of a gay colony, as well. And then (friendly) bikers showed up in the 1940s and 1950s. The end result is a town that, even after commercialization in the 80s, manages to give off a distinct vibe.

* New Hope, Pennsylvania: Just far away enough from Philadelphia to have a real small-town atmosphere, New Hope is also genuinely strange. It's on the York Road, the main road from New York to Philly in the 19th century, and used to be a key ferry crossing (to Lambertville, N.J.) on that route. It was therefore popular with wealthy people looking for a nearby getaway, and an artists' colony sprung up in town. This led to the large number of quaint and quirky crafts still in town. Later, the quirkiness attracted a lot of LGBT people, creating something of a gay colony, as well. And then (friendly) bikers showed up in the 1940s and 1950s. The end result is a town that, even after commercialization in the 80s, manages to give off a distinct vibe.

* ''LifeSketch'' takes place in [[PunnyName Hannah]], [[HannahMontana Montana]], where vampires, zombies and dragons are commonplace and nobody seems to bat an eye when people go out in public in full cosplay regalia.

* UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} in ''Series/{{Portlandia}}''. Some of it is TruthInTelevision.

%%* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': Night Vale, albeit with a lot more [[MonsterTown death and existential horror]] than most examples.

%%* Lake Wobegon in ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion''

%%* Calling WesternAnimation/SouthPark
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold's'' Brooklyn-inspired neighborhood, which is (among other things) known for throwing tomatoes at the British during the Revolutionary War.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'',

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has Elwood City

%%* ''ThePowerPuffGirls'': Townsville can be this and [[CrapsaccharineWorld another type of world]] at times.
%%* Dillydale in ''TheMrMenShow''