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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Back when the world was a ball of ferns, when a good front lawn was a half-acre of bubbling slime, a giant amoeba split in two. The front half, the end with the brains, called itself [[Los Angeles]]. The butt end became [[Trope Namer|Toon Town]].''
|'''Eddie Valiant'''|''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?]]''}}
[[Captain Obvious|Cartoons are not real]]. They're made with art supplies and brought to life by animators and [[Voice Actors]]. [[I Wish It
▲{{quote|''Back when the world was a ball of ferns, when a good front lawn was a half-acre of bubbling slime, a giant amoeba split in two. The front half, the end with the brains, called itself [[Los Angeles]]. The butt end became [[Trope Namer|Toon Town]].''|'''Eddie Valiant''', ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit]]''}}
Hey, wait a minute! We seem to have made a [[Bugs Bunny|wrong turn at Albu-coiky]]! Now we're in '''Toon Town''', that very special district of [[Fantasy]] Land where cartoon characters are people, just like you and me. Sometimes, they [[They Walk Among Us|exist as a separate and independent species]], and sometimes, the place itself transforms humans into [[Toon
▲[[Captain Obvious|Cartoons are not real]]. They're made with art supplies and brought to life by animators and [[Voice Actors]]. [[I Wish It Were Real|It's sad but it's true.]]
Not to be confused with the [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]], ''[[Toontown Online]]''. Sometimes used as a nickname for [[Canada, Eh?|Saskatoon, Saskatchewan]] by its natives, but that has nothing to do with the trope either.
▲Hey, wait a minute! We seem to have made a [[Bugs Bunny|wrong turn at Albu-coiky]]! Now we're in Toon Town, that very special district of [[Fantasy]] Land where cartoon characters are people, just like you and me. Sometimes, they [[They Walk Among Us|exist as a separate and independent species]], and sometimes, the place itself transforms humans into [[Toon|Toons.]] But all details aside, Toon Town is a [[The Wonderland|loony sort of place]] where [[Cartoon Physics]] and the [[Rule of Funny]] reign supreme. Expect the [[Roger Rabbit Effect]] almost every time.
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== Anime ==▼
* The Toon World, a deck of cards from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' created by Pegasus and featuring caricatured [[Mons|duel monsters.]]▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* The Toon World, a deck of cards from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' created by Pegasus and featuring caricatured [[Mons|duel monsters.]]{{context}}<!-- How is this an example of the trope as described? -->
== Comic Books ==
* The [[DC Comics|DC Universe]] Earth-C, inhabited by [[
== Film ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', a suburban [[Los Angeles]] district where the [[Toon]] community lives. Quite [[Crap Saccharine World|crapsaccharine.]]
* The world inside the painting in ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', wherein the famous "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" musical number is set.
* ''[[Cool World]]'' - The eponymous [[Alternate Universe]] inhabited by animated Doodles.
* According to ''[[
* In ''[[Twilight Zone the Movie]]'', during "The Good Life" segment, Anthony uses his powers to send his "sister" Ethel into the cartoon world, where she's chased around for a moment before being eaten. In this case, though, Toontown exists because of [[Reality Warper|Anthony's dark powers]].
== Literature ==
* Toon Town is casually mentioned, but not visited, in ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?]]?'' by [[Gary Wolf]].
** ''Who Plugged Roger Rabbit?'' (a sequel to the film), on the other hand, spends quite a bit of time there.
* The ''[[
== Live Action TV ==▼
* The [[Halloween Special]] of ''[[Out of Jimmys Head]]'' briefly sends Jimmy and Golly into a cartoon world made of Milt Appleday's childhood drawings.▼
▲* The [[Halloween Special]] of ''[[Out of
== [[Theme Parks]] ==
* The official mythos of the [[Disney Theme Parks]] states that the costumed characters ''are'' the real characters. Then there's Mickey's Toon Town and Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin.
* Toon Lagoon in Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure can be seen as an example of this.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
* [[Zebra Girl]] takes this to it's natural extreme, with an entire alternate universe with cartoon characters whose lives and personalities run parallel with those of the people of the main universe.▼
* Cartoon Land from ''[[The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat (Webcomic)|The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat]]''.▼
* [[Love Me Nice]] takes place in a [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]] setting with the [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]]. Mention is made of "Inkblot Grove" and the "Toon Quarter", but they haven't been visited in-comic yet; although they're implied to be more like toon ''ghettos''.▼
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Toontown Online]]'', a [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] inspired by the [[Trope Namer]].
* The Toon World from the very [[Meta Fiction|meta]] [[Game Cube]] title, ''Go! Go! Hypergrind!''
* The Cartoon Wasteland from ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', home to neglected and forgotten [[Disney]] characters.
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*** Close inspection of the town sign reveals that the name originally was Toontown before Oswald took over and [[Egopolis|changed it]].
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* [[Zebra Girl]] takes this to it's natural extreme, with an entire alternate universe with cartoon characters whose lives and personalities run parallel with those of the people of the main universe.
▲* Cartoon Land from ''[[
▲* [[Love Me Nice]] takes place in a [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]] setting with the [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]]. Mention is made of "Inkblot Grove" and the "Toon Quarter", but they haven't been visited in-comic yet; although they're implied to be more like toon ''ghettos''.
== Western Animation ==
* Timmy of ''[[The Fairly
* An episode of ''[[The
* Cartoon Land, from the very early [[Walt Disney]] shorts, ''[[Alice Comedies|Alice in Cartoon Land]]''.
* Toontown was a rather important setting in ''[[
* [[Cartoon Network]] has some advertisement about the channel being a big city, in fact.
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