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** The aliens invade a DyingTown somewhere forsaken by man and God and by the time the credits finally roll the town is most definitely dead, both because of everybody who was not killed leaving and because [[TrashTheSet the struggle burned the whole place to the ground]].
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This kind of resolution is more often seen in comedic work than dramatic. In dramatic often the town is definitely gone from dying to dead from all the carnage.

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** The aliens invade some DyingTown deep in FlyoverCountry or otherwise so out of the way that the cast, after they save the world, successfully turn the fact aliens actually landed here to turn it into a very successful tourist trap and revive it.
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** [[ParkingProblems Cusco provides a better parking spot for their space ship than their actual destination]].

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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The series spends so much time using the "monsters on the backroads of America" gimmick that when the cast mentions with incredible seriousness that they need to get to Allentown ASAP, we expect it to be some kind of WhamEpisode... only that it turns out to be a comedy episode where no monsters appear and the reason they were so determined to get to the town was because they wanted to [[ProductPlacement get a Super-Duper Big Mackkk Breakfast before the restaurant stopped serving for the day]] or something similar.

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The series spends so much time using the "monsters on the backroads of America" gimmick that when the cast mentions with incredible seriousness that they need to get to Allentown ASAP, we expect it to be some kind of WhamEpisode... only that it turns out to be a comedy episode where no monsters appear and the reason they were so determined to get to the town was because they wanted to [[ProductPlacement get a Super-Duper Big Mackkk Breakfast before the restaurant stopped serving for the day]] or something similar.similar.
** The story is ultimately an epic GenerationalSaga about how Cusco would rise to global prominence, with the Witch Coven as the inciting event that led to such.



* '''Plot Foundation''': The story is ultimately an epic GenerationalSaga about how Cusco would rise to global prominence, with the Witch Coven as the inciting event that led to such.
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** The production just doesn't has the budget to film in a major metropolis.

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** The production just doesn't has have the budget to film in a major metropolis.
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** If the aliens were invading Washington, D.C., it would be an ''Film/IndependenceDay''-style extravaganza with the best and brightest and most courageous leading the charge. [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope But they are invading Cusco]], and you can just feel [[ClosestThingWrGot the desperation]].

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** If the aliens were invading Washington, D.C., it would be an ''Film/IndependenceDay''-style extravaganza with the best and brightest and most courageous leading the charge. [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope But they are invading Cusco]], and you can just feel [[ClosestThingWrGot [[ClosestThingWeGot the desperation]].

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* '''Played For Drama''': After the fifth or sixth MonsterOfTheWeek rampage by the EldritchAbomination InscrutableAliens, there is nothing nice about living in Allentown anymore: people evacuate (or are forcefully evacuated), property values plummmet at a meteoric rate (and it's also explained that if it was a mayor metropolitan area like New York it would have a chance to recover, but being the boondocks...), martial law is declared, TheMenInBlack implement their own version of the DayOfTheJackboot (and will continue to do so until they finally understand why the aliens chose '''''Allentown''''' of all the places in the world), and overall it's made very clear that Cusco is well on its way to become a DyingTown... or even a full-blown GhostTown.

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After the fifth or sixth MonsterOfTheWeek rampage by the EldritchAbomination InscrutableAliens, there is nothing nice about living in Allentown anymore: people evacuate (or are forcefully evacuated), property values plummmet at a meteoric rate (and it's also explained that if it was a mayor metropolitan area like New York it would have a chance to recover, but being the boondocks...), martial law is declared, TheMenInBlack implement their own version of the DayOfTheJackboot (and will continue to do so until they finally understand why the aliens chose '''''Allentown''''' of all the places in the world), and overall it's made very clear that Cusco is well on its way to become a DyingTown... or even a full-blown GhostTown.GhostTown.
** If the aliens were invading Washington, D.C., it would be an ''Film/IndependenceDay''-style extravaganza with the best and brightest and most courageous leading the charge. [[WellThatIsNotThatTrope But they are invading Cusco]], and you can just feel [[ClosestThingWrGot the desperation]].
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** The aliens invaded [[DeepSouth Scumbum]], [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]] and the result is that they are forced to run away by the LowerClassLouts that embody "HumansAreTheRealMonsters" in all the ways that normally reach the news in that "wait a second, we are going to air this? It has to be a slow day" kind of way.

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** The aliens invaded [[DeepSouth Scumbum]], [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]] and the result is that they are forced to run away by the LowerClassLouts {{Lower Class Lout}}s that embody "HumansAreTheRealMonsters" in all the ways that normally reach the news in that "wait a second, we are going to air this? It has to be a slow day" kind of way.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': The main theme of the series is that Cardiff/Cusco/wherever is a QuirkyTown, with all of the "HilarityEnsues" that comes with it.

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The main theme of the series is that Cardiff/Cusco/wherever is a QuirkyTown, with all of the "HilarityEnsues" that comes with it.it.
** The aliens invaded [[DeepSouth Scumbum]], [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]] and the result is that they are forced to run away by the LowerClassLouts that embody "HumansAreTheRealMonsters" in all the ways that normally reach the news in that "wait a second, we are going to air this? It has to be a slow day" kind of way.
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* Plot Foundation: The story is ultimately an epic GenerationalSaga about how Cusco would rise to global prominence, with the Witch Coven as the inciting event that led to such.

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* Plot Foundation: '''Plot Foundation''': The story is ultimately an epic GenerationalSaga about how Cusco would rise to global prominence, with the Witch Coven as the inciting event that led to such.

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