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* Blue Valley. Home of Wally West before and during his Kid Flash days before he became [[The Flash]] and relocated to Keystone City.
 
== [[Film]] (Live Action) ==
* Bedford Falls, New York in ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''.
* The resort-island of Amity, New York in ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''.
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** He eventually decides that he'll just have to start picking out his favorite bits of the towns he's passed through and create his own ideal Everytown, America, which he dubs Amalgam.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* Mayberry, North Carolina of ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' and ''Mayberry, R.F.D.'' (and referenced in ''[[Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.]]''); stated to be 60 miles from Raleigh, NC.
* Mayfield of ''[[Leave It to Beaver]].''
* Cicely, Alaska of ''[[Northern Exposure]].''
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* Stars Hollow, Connecticut of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' fame is definitely this, however, it's somewhat a subversion of the actual trope, in that IS perfectly normal.
* Haven, Maine is not to be found anywhere in Maine except in the series ''[[Haven]]'' (and a couple of [[Stephen King]] novels), but there is a North Haven in Maine.
** There's also Cabot Cove, Maine in ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''; and Crabapple Cove, Maine in ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''; and just when I was about to ask if everything is a cove in Maine, I remembered the very real and very pretty Christmas Cove, Maine.
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' is located in an Unincorporated Unnamed Settlement, in South Dakota, known as Univille.
* Pickford in ''[[Phil of the Future]]''.
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* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' is set in Dimmsdale, California. An average American town filled with weirdness, in part because of Timmy Turner and his fairies.
* Subverted in ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]''. Terlawk, New Jersey has a crappy strip mall and a couple of old guys sitting on a porch predicting rain with their kneecaps, but every week they sit and not only watch the alien invasion, but explain that one or the other of them may have caused it. Also, they live next door to a giant earthworm in an alien power suit.
* Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, even after ''[[Wesern Animation/Rocky And Bullwinkle|Rocky Andand Bullwinkle]]'' got famous.
* Peach Creek of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]''. The craziness that ensues there is usually from the Eds' antics.
* Hazelnut of ''[[Pepper Ann]]''.
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