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Nosy Neighbor
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A neighbor (usually female) who just cannot keep to herself. Usually a grotesquely stereotyped shrewish gossip — always on the lookout for delicious secrets and rumors about the characters, which is emphasized by showing her peering suspiciously around her curtains at least Once per Episode. They usually come in two types. The female type (though not always female) is the epitome of niceness, which serves as an excuse for her chronic curiosity — she will show up on the characters' doorstep with a fresh-baked pie while peering inside over their shoulder. Sometimes the only problem with her is that she always shows up at the wrong time — Nosy Neighbors have a tendency to appear and initiate a long chat when there is something in the other room needing the character's attention that they would rather not let others know about. The second type is closer to the Cranky Neighbor, and generally just wants to be left alone — until the main characters start acting suspiciously and he feels that he needs to protect his interests and verify that they are not doing anything that may disturb their peace. This usually ends with them going further and getting more involved than intended. Occasionally a horror trope, when this starts to border on serious stalking. See also Secret Chaser for when there is some huge secret to be kept hidden from this neighbor. If it's not an impromptu pie delivery she's using as her tactic, she may pop over to ask "May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?". |
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Desperate Housewives: Nearly every character is a nosy neighbor in one way or another, but Martha Huber of Season 1 fits the description best. | |
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The Simpsons Helen Lovejoy is rather nosy about the lives of other Springfield families, proudly describing herself as the local gossip-monger. Ned Flanders had his moments of this, believing that he had to correct apparent moral flaws of other people. To give an example, most of the plot of the episode "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" happens because he barges, completely uninvited, into the Simpsons' home while Homer is trying to compose his own holiday song and tries to help (which leads to Homer writing a song about how much he hates Flanders, which leads to it becoming an Ear Worm, which leads to the Simpsons getting fed up with hearing it all day, which leads to the titular plot of going to live to a ranch for a while to get away from it). |
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Kacey Musgraves' "The Trailer Song" is dedicated to telling a nosy neighbor to mind her own business. | |
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Minnie and Roman in Rosemary's Baby inserted themselves into the lives of their much younger neighbors, Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse, much to Rosemary's annoyance. As it turns out there's much more to it than that. | |
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My Favorite Martian: Tim's landlady, Mrs. Lorelei Brown. | |
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WandaVision: Wanda's neighbor Agnes fits the first type, as she's always poking around in Wanda's life and showing up at her house at suspiciously convenient times. It's because she's actually a witch named Agatha Harkness who wants to know how Wanda created the sitcom Hex in the first place and then steal that power for herself. After Wanda drains Agatha of her power, she traps Agatha inside her own mind and overrides her personality with her sitcom persona of "Agnes the Nosy Neighbor". Keep in mind that this is the same fate that a Westview resident just told Wanda she'd rather die than experience again. | |
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Hi in Canyon Passage is a relatively sympathetic example. He regards himself as "an observer of his fellow humans" rather than a snoop, and there is really not much else for an intellectual to do in Jacksonville except people watch. He is peeking through George's shutters when he sees George stealing Mac's gold dust. | |
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That Darn Cat!: Mrs. MacDougall. She uses a hearing aid to eavesdrop on her neighbours, watches them through her window, gossips about what she sees, and goes out late at night to spy on them when something unusual is happening. | |
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Hard Candy: Judy Tokuda is the only character other than Jeff and Hayley to have any impact - she pops in at one point to ask about Jeff, nearly driving Hayley's carefully calculated plan off the rails. | |
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Harry Potter: Petunia Dursley is noted several times to be far too interested in her neighbours' doings. | |
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The Lookout role from Town of Salem is a Properly Paranoid version of this. The Lookout can camp a house each night and see whom visits said player, which, given that there are actual killers running amok in the town, is one of the ways to get information on said killers. | |
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Meta Runner: In Season 2, Masa has one in the form of a man in an Expressive Mask who keeps barging into his low-tier apartment asking for money. However, the very end of Season 2 reveals this neighbor to be Dr. Sheridan in disguise. | |
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The next-door neighbors in Small Wonder were highly obnoxious versions of this trope, their casual antics often more memorable than any of the main plots, even ones where they were involved. The Dad/Inventor finally up and decided to use the android girl VICI as part of a plot to force these neighbors to move away, once and for all. It didn't work, but it made so much sense to try. | |
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Amusingly, Tim Drake was actually Bruce's neighbor and figured out Bruce was Batman without Bruce having a clue until Tim got worried for Bruce's safety. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: Mitchell, being a Kid Detective, likes to spy on the Propulsions, Jet especially, so he can gather proof that they are aliens. Sometimes, he even infiltrates Jet's house, like in "Solar System Bake-Off", "Kid-Kart Derby", and "Jet Shrinks the Kids". However, unlike most examples of the trope, he's not a busybody gossip. | |
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In Detectorists, Kate (Lance's daughter) comments that the lights of several neighbouring houses went on when she dropped her keys while trying to open the door. The following day, one of the neighbours remarks to Lance that Kate dropped her keys the previous evening. | |
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Safer at Home: Antonio, Jen and Evan's neighbor, hears them screaming at each other and comes over to investigate. Evan tries to hide that he's home by turning off the lights but it doesn't work. A former police officer, Antonio even asks Jen if she is OK and suspecting domestic violence, calls the police. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series: In "Warrior Queen", a 50-year-old wife is watching Superman and Maxima fight at a construction site. Her husband, newspaper blocking his view, tells her to stop spying on the neighbors. | |
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Justified in The Barrier. Emilia's neighbor Begoña is part of the government's surveillance network, so being far too curious and "just checking on people" when things best kept hidden are going on is her job. | |
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Everything Must Go: Nick Halsey has one, Samantha, who ends up reporting him to the police because he's living on his lawn. | |
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What Lies Beneath: Claire becomes this due to her genuine concern that the husband across the street has murdered his wife — she heard the woman crying and her vague explanations alluded to an abusive relationship, including outright saying, "I'm afraid that one day I'll just disappear", not seeing the wife for several days, as well as the husband's own vagueness about her absence. It turns out to be a Red Herring. | |
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Aquí no hay quien viva: Pretty much the entire building would fit, but the most prominent ones are Marisa, Concha and Vicenta, the three elderly women from apartment 1-A.note Sisters Marisa and Vicenta live together for the show's entire run, Concha joins them from season 2 after her son Armando sells apartment 2-B. They are the anchors of "Radio Patio", where they tell the neighbors about what's going on in the building, have three spyholes on their door, and Marisa at least is known for having quite the sharp ear: | |
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Edward Scissorhands: All of the neighbours, who are very curious about Edward. | |
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Gangsta Granny has the granny's neighbor who's always looking through her window. | |
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Attack of the Killer Donuts: Mr. Richards notices John, Michelle, and Howard snooping around Mrs. Scolari's house and starts monitoring them with binoculars. He assumes they're breaking into her house to rob it, and calls the police. | |
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The Nearys in Close Encounters of the Third Kind have a nosy neighbor living next door to their house, always watching them from her window. | |
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Three's Company had Mr. Roeper and, later, Mr. Furley. The former fit the Cranky Neighbor trope much more, however, than the latter, who was actually more laid back. | |
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In Earth Girls Are Easy, Geena Davis's elderly neighbor uses a parabolic microphone to listen in. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: A variation on the trope appears in the episode "The Party Line". Here, Miss Brooks (and landlady Mrs. Davis) are plagued by "Grace". Grace is a woman on their party line who ties up the line constantly talking to her best friend Bertha. However, she doesn't stop there. Grace and her husband consistently listen in on Miss Brooks' conversation. At the end of the episode, Miss Brooks succeeds in having the party line changed, only to end up sharing a phone with Bertha, who is always talking to Grace. The episode ends with Bertha interrupting Miss Brooks' conversation with Mr. Boynton, and trying to get his phone number! Of interest, Bertha was played by Sandra Gould, who later would go on to be the second Mrs. Kravitz on Series/Bewitched. | |
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The Sims 4: The City Living DLC gives Sims the opportunity to live in an apartment complex. Other tenants come over all the time: Sometimes they are bored, sometimes they come over solely because they don't have food at home and ask you if you have some. | |
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This is a character type in We Happy Few. They're designed to make life more difficult for any Downers who like to employ stealth. | |
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Jaine Austen Mysteries: Lance starts the series as Jaine's annoying neighbor who doesn't like loud noises coming from her apartment. In the end of This Pen For Hire, his nosiness winds up saving her life when he calls the police on a murderer forcing his way into her apartment to try killing her. | |
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Norris the shopkeeper in Coronation Street appeared compelled to know everything about everybody and was the Street's resident nosy person and gossip. | |
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In Man in the Attic, Mrs Harley snoops into the comings and goings of her new lodger Slade, and pokes around his rooms, becoming convinced that he is Jack the Ripper. | |
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From Beyond the Grave: In "The Gatecrasher", Charlton's downstairs neighbour Mr, Jeffries knocks on his door to complain about the red liquid dripping down through his ceiling. He goes on to complain about the large number of young ladies Charlton has been bringing home, and the noise they have been making, and the hammering that has been going on at all hours of the night. Unfortunately for poor Mr. Jeffries the penny does not drop before Charlton uses a knife to rid himself of the problems a nosy neighbour can bring. | |
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In I Saw What You Did, Amy Nelson is constantly spying on neighbour Steve Marek and looking for any opportunity to worm her way into his affections. When she discovers that he has murdered his wife, she thinks she has found it. | |
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The Underland Chronicles: Mrs. Cormaci is a well-intentioned and not especially annoying version, but any questions are awkward when you don't have a good explanation. | |
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To Kill a Mockingbird: As far as Stephanie Crawford is concerned, she absolutely must know everything. She is a Gossipy Hen too. | |
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Sym-Bionic Titan: Barb always bursts into the house unannounced, and when she suspects that the Lunises have a new pet, she's desperate to find out what it is. | |
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Alfred Hitchcock parodied his own film Rear Window with the episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called "Mr. Blanchard's Secret", involving a Nosy Neighbor who is convinced her neighbor killed his never-seen wife. | |
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Family Matters: Steve Urkel just won't stay away from the Winslows no matter how much the latter wish him to - and with good reason, considering he is a Walking Disaster Area. | |
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A rare playable version in Hello Neighbor, in which you try to break into your neighbor's house to find out his secrets. | |
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Bewitched: Gladys Kravitz is an iconic example, to the point that nosy neighbors are often referred to as "Mrs. Kravitz" types. She was forever spying through her window at the Stephens house across the street, catching glimpses which suggested something very strange was going on over there, but she could never convince her aloof husband, Abner. | |
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The 'Burbs portrays these characters as the protagonists: Ray Peterson, Art Weingartner, and Mark Rumsfield spend the film snooping on the Klopeks, who just moved into the neighborhood, after a number of passing observations makes the three of them suspect that the Klopeks are actually a family of murderers. They end up being right at the end, and Ray eventually gets the Klopeks arrested for their crimes. | |
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Stepfather II: Madeline "Matty" Crimmins, a gossip and mail courier who digs through her neighbor's mail as a hobby. She winds up strangled to death by the killer. | |
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Keeping Up Appearances: Inverted with Nice Girl Elizabeth who's dragged away from her home by Hyacinth. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Gumball AND Darwin have a disturbing idol worship of the Robinsons to the point that they'd creep Dennis out. | |
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In Mystery Road, Mary's neighbour is a nosy old man who knows everything that goes on in the street. When Mary's house gets broken into, he refuses to tell Jay anything for fear of reprisals. However, he does nod almost imperceptibly when Jay asks him if the perpetrators were driving a gold Statesman. This is enough for Jay to go on. | |
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In Stag, one of the main threats of exposure the men face is Victor's neighbour Ben who keeps coming over to investigate the noises coming from Victor's house. Every time, one of the party-goers has to be sent out to divert him. Given the noises include gunshots and an imprisoned stripper kicking out the glass in an upstairs window in an attempt to escape, he is right to be suspicious. | |
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You Me Her: Lori and her daughter Ava. They spot Izzy going to Jack and Emma's across the street, which Ava teases him about (she's Jack's student, Lori becomes his boss). Realizing this, they decide to not have Izzy visit them there again in hopes of keeping their relationship with her secret. Before long they instead claim she's Jack's niece, though neither Lori and Ava fall for it. Their nosiness reveals this shortly after. Carmen and Dave prove themselves fairly nosy too, monitoring the goings on after Izzy moves in officially later with Jack and Emma. | |
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Sense and Sensibility: Sir John and Mrs Jennings are good-natured gossips who take an eager interest in the romantic prospects of any young person who enters their field of vision (Mrs Jennings, it's noted, has two married daughters and is now seeking to marry off the rest of the world). Marianne Dashwood finds this extremely annoying and would give offense if Sir John and Mrs Jennings were capable of being offended. Elinor finds it tiresome, too, but she thinks that the pair's meddling is offset by their genuine kindness and generosity. | |
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Anne of Green Gables: Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a noted busybody prone to blunt criticism. | |
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Ravensong: Nora was known to be nosy. | |
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One sketch Monty Python's Flying Circus has a pair of pepperpots manning a surveillance room that would make MI-5 jealous as they peer into living rooms by telescope and record the length of time their neighbors are at the doctor. And they are being monitored by a hidden camera placed by a different set of neighbors. | |
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ALF: Trevor and Raquel Ochmonek, Raquel more so than her husband, to the point where she spends most of her time spying on the neighbors with a looking glass and spreading rumors about them. | |
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Ornery Boy: The appropriately named Mr. McMeddle, who's less nosy and more friendly toward his neighbors, but happens to look over the fence at the worst moments. Ornery still hates him. | |
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In The Mad Magician, Gallico rents the upper floor of the Prentiss' house under guise of Ormond. Unfortunately for him, Alice Prentiss writes murder mysteries and fancies herself as a Mystery Writer Detective. Her snooping brings Ormond's wife Claire onto the scene, causing Gallico to murder her and abandon his refuge at the Prentiss house. | |
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In Sally the Witch, Sally's next-door neighbors qualify as a more innocent version of this. They're rather pleasant elders most of the time; it's just that their little neighbor happens to be a Magical Girl and at times they get caught in the middle of her magical mishaps by proxy, or at others they can't help being curious about it. | |
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In Fear, Inc., Joe's neighbour Bill is the captain of the local neighborhood watch and keeps a close eye on all the comings and goings. | |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Ralph Kane, Harry Boyle's Right-Wing Militia Fanatic neighbor, constantly barged into Harry's life to find some way to "help" Harry. Ralph was a bit more proactive in being nosy than the average example, mentioning at one point to Harry that he and his group of fellow-minded neighbors intercepted and read everybody's mail, looking for evidence of Communist infiltration (the series was made in The '70s). | |
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Heywood J. Lookathat in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! is the thick-headed head of the town council who periodically takes it upon himself to do something about all the insanity Bob inadvertently brings to Generictown. Thankfully, he's usually too inept to be a real danger, but he did organize a small angry mob once. Did it quickly, too.note Note that this was years before Charlottesville. Back in 2008, the prospect of an angry mob using silly tiki torches just seemed ridiculous. | |
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¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?: Marta, the Peña family's neighbor, likes to drop-in ("Good morning... good afternoon!") unannounced and make trouble, such as passing rumors and troll the more outspoken family members. She also flirts shamelessly with Pepe right in front of his wife Juana. | |
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Pretty much Mary Worth's whole schtick. The Comics Curmudgeon takes it to memetic levels; the whole world is her neighbor, and only her meddling can save it. | |
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The Haverlin Brothers of Clean Room are an understated and heroic example. After they interrupt Chloe's suicide attempt they take a personal interest in checking in on her and protecting her house when she's away, including challenging intruders in her own kitchen. | |
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Spongebob Squarepants: SpongeBob and Patrick are the first type. They're nice, generous, friendly fellows and all they want to do is include Squidward in their friendship and fun — but Sponge and Pat are obnoxious and foolish, lack tact, and don't adhere to boundaries. At best, SpongeBob and Patrick are nice guys and Squidward likes them — at worst, they're extremely annoying, and Squidward is frustrated by them. Squidward is Type II, though he would never admit it. The plots of several episodes (Bubblestand, Snowball Effect, Club Spongebob, The Camping Episode, Idiot Box, etc.) begin when Squidward is so overcome with frustrated curiosity that he cannot bring himself to keep his nose out of their antics. |
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Miss Thwaites in Gaslight is a very intrusive old lady from across the street. | |
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