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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Mai laments, "This place [Omashu] is unbearably bleak. Nothing ever happens." Cue [[La Résistance]] trying to assassinate her and her mother.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Mai laments, "This place [Omashu] is unbearably bleak. Nothing ever happens." Cue [[La Résistance]] trying to assassinate her and her mother.
** Amusingly, after surviving the assassination attempt and chasing the Gaang for a while, she ''immediately'' goes back to being bored.
** Amusingly, after surviving the assassination attempt and chasing the Gaang for a while, she ''immediately'' goes back to being bored.
** Not to mention that Aang is first found ''at the South Pole'' by a couple of <s>[[Eskimo Land|Inuits]]</s> [[Eskimo Land|Water Tribe kids]].
** Not to mention that Aang is first found ''at the South Pole'' by a couple of [[The Great White North|<s>Inuit</s> Water Tribe kids]].
* The first post-opening-credits scene of ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' (at least, the first that isn't set to music) features Ringo Starr moping around Liverpool, complaining that nothing ever happens to him—until he realizes that he's somehow being tailed through the streets by a yellow submarine.
* The first post-opening-credits scene of ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' (at least, the first that isn't set to music) features Ringo Starr moping around Liverpool, complaining that nothing ever happens to him—until he realizes that he's somehow being tailed through the streets by a yellow submarine.
* In the ''[[Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats]]'' episode "Cat Balloon", Cleo says this exact phrase about Westfinster. Twist #1: At the moment Cleo says this, exciting things are happening all around her, but she's too busy complaining to notice them. Twist #2: When Cleo and the Catillac Cats use a balloon to go to a neighboring town, it's hijacked by a similar gang of cats who want to leave their hometown because—you guessed it—Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here.
* In the ''[[Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats]]'' episode "Cat Balloon", Cleo says this exact phrase about Westfinster. Twist #1: At the moment Cleo says this, exciting things are happening all around her, but she's too busy complaining to notice them. Twist #2: When Cleo and the Catillac Cats use a balloon to go to a neighboring town, it's hijacked by a similar gang of cats who want to leave their hometown because—you guessed it—Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here.
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* The whole point in ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. No one says it, but crap happens ANYWAY.
* The whole point in ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. No one says it, but crap happens ANYWAY.


== Others ==
== Other Media ==
* There's a sketch of a Polish cabaret, where everyone is shocked by the fact, that nothing is happening there. Can be watched (with english subtitles ) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8LFvNe7DpE here]
* There's a sketch of a Polish cabaret, where everyone is shocked by the fact, that nothing is happening there. Can be watched (with english subtitles ) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8LFvNe7DpE here]


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