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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Sam and Max]]''
** Averted in the
== [[Literature]] ==
* This happens in the Mary Minor, Mrs. Murphy and Tee Tucker mystery series written by Rita Mae Brown. The series is set in a small town in Virginia and there are always at least a few new characters introduced with each novel.
* R.L. Stine's ''Ghosts of Fear Street'' series. It must be one long street...
** Some characters don't live on Fear Street, but if they don't, they do something that ''involves'' Fear Street or the also-cursed forest and lake beside it.
== [[Live
* Early seasons of ''[[Smallville]]'' had a new meteor rock freak every week.
* ''Everwood'', including the flavor of the week patients.
* British police show ''[[Heartbeat]]'' takes place in a small town of Ashfordly, which seems to have a ready supply of people committing various crimes, and in later seasons [[Writer on Board|suffering from alcoholism and needing]] [[An Aesop]].
* ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'', complete with one of the new characters dying in the episode they are introduced. Seems like Cabot Cove is the murder capital of the east coast.
* Cardale in ''Peak Practice'', another medical show example. Possibly lampshaded in one episode:
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* The characters of Kate and her family in ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' have apparently lived in Locksley all their lives, even though it's a reasonably small village and they've never been seen or referenced before Season Three.
* The "small town" of ''[[Eureka]]'' keeps adding new characters to the point where Carter, who's been there approximately five years by now, still doesn't know everyone (or even, apparently, most people).
* ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' takes an entire county of small towns as its setting, but it's been running so long that this is a problem anyway.
** Justified, as nearly every episode has 3 or more deaths and without new neighbours, there would be hardly anyone left.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and related media. Handwaved in that the Hellmouth the town is on attracts the monsters and scaries.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|
** Also, neighbors of the Simpsons (aside from the Flanders) occasionally appear at random, then disappear, never to be mentioned again.
*** Although this too has settled down a little. Flanders lives on one side, Laura Powers lived on the other side (until that house was bought by {{spoiler|Sideshow Bob wearing someone else's face}}, with a brief mention of Powers leaving). More distant neighbors are seldom specified, although Mrs Glick seems to live on the same street somewhere and the house across the road was once owned by George Bush Senior and then by Gerald Ford.
* ''[[Fillmore!]]'' reuses the faces of previous episodes' characters, but they never speak or do anything of importance. Outside the safety patrol itself, no character features in more than one episode, [[Remember the New Guy?|even those who have a history with the regulars]].
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