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[[File:Everytown_America_7585.jpg|framethumb|300px| Ain't that America?]]
 
 
Where most [[Steven Spielberg]] films take place.
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To be fair, there ''are'' a lot of towns like this in the U.S.A., but it also taps into a very powerful vein of nostalgia about what kind of town many Americans ''wish'' they lived in.
 
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Riverdale of ''[[Archie Comics]]''.
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* 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 [[wikipedia:Harlem Globetrotters|Harlem Globetrotters]].
* 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 (Exceptexcept 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).
* Carvel, in the ''[[Andy Hardy]]'' films of the 1930s and '40s.
* Edge City in ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]''.