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The neighbours. Sometimes, they're annoying, sometimes they're helpful, sometimes they just [[Drop in Character|drop by way too often]]. Whether good or bad, however, one thing is fairly certain: If you're living in TV-land, you've only got one set of 'em. Almost as if the rules of space-time somehow didn't apply to this neighbourhood, resulting in a house that's actually only got one side... [[Mundane Solution|or a block with only two lots on it]], so only two houses border each other. However, in that case there would still be other nearby houses across the streets, so if it seems like there is only one other named family in the entire neighborhood then this trope is in full force.

The neighbours. Sometimes, they're annoying, sometimes they're helpful, sometimes they just [[Drop-In Character|drop by way too often]]. Whether good or bad, however, one thing is fairly certain: If you're living in TV-land, you've only got one set of 'em. Almost as if the rules of space-time somehow didn't apply to this neighbourhood, resulting in a house that's actually only got one side... [[Mundane Solution|or a block with only two lots on it]], so only two houses border each other. However, in that case there would still be other nearby houses across the streets, so if it seems like there is only one other named family in the entire neighborhood then this trope is in full force.

The reasoning behind this trope is fairly simple: [[Economy Cast|Keeping down the number of characters that the audience has to remember, and thus the number of actors you have to hire, and even the number of sets you have to maintain, in the case of a live-action TV-series.]]

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** There's also an old guy that Tim competes with in Christmas lighting competitions every year.

* ''[[iCarly]]'': Well, Moebius apartment building.

* In ''[[That 70s Show]]'', this trope is followed, and it's even strongly implied that the Foremans and the Pinciottis each have only each other for next door neighbors (where a lecherous character says he drives by Donna's house a lot because [[Blatant Lies|his mother lives next door]] and Eric protests that ''he'' lives next door).

* In ''[[That '70s Show]]'', this trope is followed, and it's even strongly implied that the Foremans and the Pinciottis each have only each other for next door neighbors (where a lecherous character says he drives by Donna's house a lot because [[Blatant Lies|his mother lives next door]] and Eric protests that ''he'' lives next door).

* The title character of ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' lives across the street from his annoying parents, but neither house seems to have one '''beside''' it.

* [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshaded]] on ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' when one of Drew's wacky neighbors from the early episodes drops by. Drew, not being too happy about them always showing up, asks her, "Don't you have neighbours on the other side?"