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New Neighbours as the Plot Demands
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A Sub-Trope of Geographic Flexibility, when writing a small town setting for long enough, you start introducing new characters everyone apparently knows, but has never mentioned before. In Police Procedural and medical shows, new neighbours are handy for Ripped from the Headlines and Subculture of the Week plots. Can be a feature of a Quirky Town. If the city was larger, it'd be a City of Adventure. See also 24-Hour Party People, Long-Lost Uncle Aesop, and Remember the New Guy?. Compare/contrast One-Neighbor Neighborhood, where the main characters only seem to have one set of next-door neighbours. |
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Fillmore! reuses the faces of previous episodes' characters, but they never speak or do anything of importance. Outside the safety patrol itself, no character features in more than one episode, even those who have a history with the regulars. | |
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The Simpsons: Springfield started out this way, until all the side characters were cemented as a part of the cast. While the Flanders family have been the next-door neighbors of the Simpsons for the entire series (save for a few brief moves), the house on their other side has changed tenants frequently. The Winfields, an elderly couple, were their original neighbors until they sold the house in season four, then Ruth and Laura Powers lived there for a few seasons. Since then, neighbors appear at random, then disappear, never to be mentioned again. Sideshow Bob wearing someone else's face also lives in the house for an episode. More distant neighbors are seldom specified, although Mrs. Glick seems to live on the same street somewhere and the house across the road was once owned by George Bush and then Gerald Ford. "Friends and Family" introduces Julia, the neighbor who lives behind the Simpsons' house. Although she's never spoken to the family before, she's apparently been observing the dynamics of the street for quite a while, witnessing events such as Homer hanging out naked on the roof and sharing his opinion of "stupid Flanders." That huge house opposite the Simpsons certainly seems to pop out of nowhere. Or is an empty lot big enough to drive an SUV through, as it is in the Canyonero episode. Several major buildings change locations and neighbours depending on what a joke or plot demands. Taken to its logical extreme in the Movie, in which Moe's Tavern is temporarily moved to be a standalone block for a joke about the churchgoers and barflies switching activity because of the dome's appearance. Later in the movie, we can see Moe's Tavern has returned to its usual location by watching the background. |
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The "small town" of Eureka keeps adding new characters to the point where Carter, who's been there approximately five years by now, still doesn't know everyone (or even, apparently, most people). | |
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WarioWare series. Not explicitly stated how big Diamond City is as a place, but each game adds new characters apparently just living a few houses away from each other that have never been seen before in the entire series. | |
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In the early 1980s, The Dukes of Hazzard had several coloring book adaptations. One of the books contained a story about the Duke family's new neighbors, who were never seen in the original series. note The Dukes tell a story to their new friends about how Bo and Luke once left a flustered Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane locked in an old barn, the aftermath of one of their cat-and-mouse chases. | |
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Sam & Max: Averted in the videogames though; Bosco, Stinky and Sal are neighbours of Sam and Max who are mentioned long before their on-screen introductions. | |
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Everwood, including the flavor of the week patients. | |
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Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: In “Calling All Jazzberries�, we’re introduced to Salinger, who despite being a big fan of the Jazzberries and living just across the street from them has somehow managed to never appear in the show before. | |
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Early seasons of Smallville had a new meteor rock freak every week. | |
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The Sims, in particularly The Sims 2 and 3 if you're following the stories of the Maxis/EA premade families. Can also happen quite literally with Story Progression, which sometimes will randomly generate families to movie into houses. | |
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Kaeloo parodied this in episode 54, which introduced new characters Pretty and Eugly. Stumpy looks at them in shock for a moment before turning to Kaeloo and asking who they are, and she tells him they're their neighbors, and is somewhat surprised he doesn't know. | |
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The character of Kate and her mother Rebecca in Robin Hood have apparently lived in Locksley all their lives, even though it's a reasonably small village and they've never been seen or referenced before Series 3. Making it all even stranger, Robin is on first-name terms with Rebecca, yet doesn't recognize or know who Kate is during their first on-screen interaction. | |
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British police show Heartbeat takes place in a small town of Ashfordly, which seems to have a ready supply of people committing various crimes, and in later seasons suffering from alcoholism and needing An Aesop. | |
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Murder, She Wrote, complete with one of the new characters dying in the episode they are introduced. Seems like Cabot Cove is the murder capital of the east coast. They poked at the edges of the trope; there were a number of recurring Cabet Covers beyond Jess, Doc Hazlett and the sheriff, and even two episodes where one of these recurrers was the murderer, which the Genre Savvy know isn't supposed to happen. |
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Father Ted based in a tiny village on a tiny island off the coast of rural Ireland suddenly mentioned the village had a Chinatown section. Naturally this happens the very moment Ted has put a conical lampshade on his head and squinted his eyes before spotting a Chinese family at the window. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: "Biddy Sitting" includes, bizarrely enough, a woman with a lot of kids who lives right across the street from SpongeBob and has never appeared before or since. | |
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In the first few days of playing Animal Crossing, a new neighbor moves in every day. | |
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Little House on the Prairie did this a lot, most noticeable during the first season with students. An episode would center around a student who couldn't read or was disabled or whatever lesson of the week required. Every other child would know who they were and what their problem was, as if that student had always been there. Yet, we'd never seen them before and never saw them since. Averted in some early episodes when a few of the school children played by regular extras were slowly given the odd line, a name and once or twice worked into the plot directly for an episode. | |
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Cardale in Peak Practice, another medical show example. Possibly lampshaded in one episode: | |
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Enemy at the Door is set on the island of Guernsey during World War II. New islander characters are often introduced as acquaintances of the main characters, and sometimes implied to be close friends they're regularly in social contact with (as for instance the Prideux family in "The Polish Affaire"), but will nevertheless, with very few exceptions, appear for only one episode and never appear or be mentioned before or since. | |
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Over the course of its decade-plus run, The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has fleshed out Generictown this way. Usually when a townsperson pops up who we've never seen before, Bob already knows them. Justified, since it's a small town Bob has lived in all his life. They generally continue to appear once introduced. Surprisingly, he didn't know Jean when she first appeared, despite the fact that she lives nearby. Granted that she didn't grow up there, but she's implied to have lived there for several years. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and related media. Handwaved in that the Hellmouth the town is on attracts the monsters and scaries. | |
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Midsomer Murders takes an entire county of small towns as its setting, but it's been running so long that this is a problem anyway. Justified, as nearly every episode has 3 or more deaths and without new neighbours, there would be hardly anyone left. | |
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On Charmed, the position of the Halliwell Manor's next-door neighbors could be filled by a new character, Muggle or magical, at any time. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation did this a few times, most notably in the episode "Lower Decks" which introduced a set of brand-new Starfleet officer characters ... only for them to never be seen nor referenced again. One of these one-off characters is shown to be Ten-Forward's secondary bartender (in lieu of Guinan) who is well-known enough to be a confidante, but had never been referenced before or since. Voyager did this too, with the twist that the "new" characters were in fact the three bottom-performing crewmen on the ship. |
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