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A stock [[Settings]] for any work set in [[Suburbia]], '''The Mall''' can be seen as the modernized version of the Main Streets that populate [[Everytown, America]]. Stores lined up along clean hallways populated by teenagers, parents with kids, and elderly people who have little better to do than walk around the mall all day. Will usually have a movie theater, a central meeting place (often with a fountain), and a food court. A job at a mall store is usually treated as second only to [[Burger Fool|working in fast food]] in the hierarchy of Most Humiliating Jobs for Teenagers (bonus points if they work at a fast-food restaurant located ''inside'' a mall). The security guards will often be depicted as guys who washed out of (or were rejected from) basic training or the police academy, have an inflated sense of entitlement, and have nothing better to do than harass our heroes over trivial matters.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The original ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' used its mall setting to compare American consumers to zombies.

* ''[[Valley Girl (film)|Valley Girl]]''.

* ''[[Bad Santa (film)|Bad Santa]]'' is about a crooked [[Mall Santa]] and his [[Christmas Elves|elf assistant]] who rob malls every Christmas.

* In ''[[Night of the Comet]]'', what is one of the first things that [[Valley Girl|Reggie and Sam]] decide to do now that civilization has come to an end? Go on the ultimate mall shopping spree!

* ''[[Mallrats]]''.

* ''[[Clueless]]''.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The ''[[Daria]]'' episode "Malled".

* A recurring location in ''[[The Simpsons]]''. One episode, it's shown to be deserted.

* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Something You Can Do With Your Finger''.

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