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* The resort-island of Amity, New York in ''[[Jaws (Film)|Jaws]]''.
* Hill Valley, California in the ''[[Back to The Future (Film)|Back to The Future]]'' films.
* The unnamed town featured in ''[[
* Cuesta Verde, California in ''[[Poltergeist (Film)|Poltergeist]]''.
* Parodied, Justified, Lampshaded, then [[Zig Zagging Trope|played with till it can't play no more]] in ''[[Pleasantville]]''. Basically, the trope was a basketball, and ''Pleasantville'' was the [
* Parodied in the ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' movie, where the protagonists pass three ''identical'' small towns during their cross-country trip. Naturally, the characters [[Lampshade]] this.
* The town in ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'' is pretty much like this trope (Except for the out-of-place Gothic mansion on a hill in the centre, and the fact that some people are not as nice as they seem in the beginning).
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Bill Bryson]]'s ''The Lost Continent'', he goes off across America in search of the quintessential small town (an idea he most likely got from the famous Universal Studios backlot). He starts out thinking the best examples will be in the Midwest, but discovers they're mostly in [[New England]] and the [[Deep South]].
** 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]] ==
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[[Category:Small Towns]]
[[Category:Everytown America]]
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