History Main / MiddleOfNowhereStreet

The fifth season went on to shift from summer vacation to fall, and the school ''was'' seen. However, only the kids from the cul-de-sac were ever seen; never any other students or any of the teachers. (The sixth season goes forward again into winter, but that's irrelevant.)
** In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'' the settings move from the cul-de-sac and the suburb of Peach Creek to farms, a forest, and an unnamed oceanside city where the Eds and the kids [[spoiler:really learn about Eddy's brother]].
* Stormalong Harbor in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. It doesn't even seem to be anywhere near land. The harbor doesn't even grow "out" it grows "up", with the richer you are the higher you live. The riches family in Stormalong have a massive manor with a ''lawn'' and Stromalong Harbor is supposed to be a rickety island made of wood planks and piles.

* ''UruseiYatsura'': Tomobiki.

* Stormalong Harbor in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. It doesn't even seem to be anywhere near land.

* The farm in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is in the middle of Nowhere, a town in Kansas. This jump-starts some of the plots. The villain theorizes that nobody would easily notice [[AliensInCardiff if they kidnap some yokels in the middle of nowhere]]. However it is such a CrapsackWorld that whenever they travel it turns out that there are plenty of villains and monsters everywhere so it ends up being questionable how safer the yokels would be if the lived ''somewhere''.

In most such locations, anyone not taking part in the plot itself is subject to the WeirdnessCensor.

* The farm in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is in the middle of Nowhere, a town in Kansas. This jump-starts some of the plots. The villain theorizes that nobody would easily notice if they kidnap some yokels in the middle of nowhere.
** However it is such a CrapsackWorld that whenever they travel it turns out that there are plenty of villains and monsters everywhere so it ends up being questionable how safer the yokels would be if the lived ''somewhere''.

* Stormalong Harbor in ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. It doesn't even seem to be anywhere near land.

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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Moperville. The strange goings-on in Moperville are being actively covered up by Mr. Verres, who works for [[TheMenInBlack a secret government agency]] and is a master of the PaperThinDisguise. Although more recently it seems the WeirdnessCensor may be breaking down and breaking the {{Masquerade}} but Moperville may just end up like Roswell.

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* ''TenchiMuyo'': Tenchi's house. (Although, to be fair, the first weirdness to hit it transplanted the house from the city to a rural area near the shrine maintained by Tenchi's grandfather.)

* Music/TheProtomen: "The City", which gradually becomes Dr. Wily's totalitarian robocracy seems to be completely isolated from anything going on in the world outside it.

* ''WesternAnimation/PowerpuffGirls'': Townsville where the protagonists hang out, has all the giant monsters, supervillains, and other major troubles. The town of Citysville, right next door, is monster-free. There are occasional exceptions: the town of Farmsville [[note]]not, unfortunately, FarmVille[[/note]] was the site of an Alien Invasion.

* ''NinjaHighSchool'': Subversion: in US-made print comic, the odd events in and around Quagmire are well known nationally, but are so frequent that they are no longer considered news.

* ''PowerpuffGirls'': Townsville where the protagonists hang out, has all the giant monsters, supervillains, and other major troubles. The town of Citysville, right next door, is monster-free. There are occasional exceptions: the town of Farmsville [[note]]not, unfortunately, FarmVille[[/note]] was the site of an Alien Invasion.
* The farm in ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is literally in the middle of Nowhere, a town in Kansas. This jump-starts some of the plots. The villain theorizes that nobody would easily notice if they kidnap some yokels in the middle of nowhere.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The cul-de-sac, despite being in the middle of a city, seems to be both cut off from the rest of the city and fully adult-free. This can be explained (along with many other things) by how the fourth season finale "Take This Ed and Shove It" [[FramingDevice revealed the entire show was the main characters as old men telling stories of their childhood.]]\\

* The entire premise of ''Film/{{Interstate 60.}}''

* The entire premise of ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/?ref_=sr_1 Interstate 60.]]''

* Subverted in ''{{Eureka}}'', where the town is the home of a government sanctioned top-secret research facility, and so the town is kept low-key to avoid unwanted scrutiny.
* ''ThePrisoner'': The Village. Be ''seeing'' you.

* Fabletown in ''{{Fables}}'', through use of a magical WeirdnessCensor and other spells to keep people out and hidden, is a ''neighborhood in the middle of New York City''. In one issue they had to remove the WeirdnessCensor to cast a powerful spell to make it rain, relying temporarily on the ''rain itself'' to keep people out of their business. They recently had to leave because all of their spells failed at once: both causing their magically-enhanced buildings to fall down, and causing the citizens and officials of New York City to ''notice'' that said buildings fell down.

* Recycled '''InSpace!''' on ''{{Firefly}}'' when Mal tells Simon they're all alone in the black. Corner of ''No'' and ''Where''.

* ''ScaryGoRound'' features the town of Tackleford, a place outsiders seem to be dimly aware of as 'very weird' while not believing any of the (entirely true) stories they hear about it. A couple of references to "Tackleford Madness" indicate this is definitely a local phenomenon.

* Fuka Academy in ''{{Mai-HiME}}'', despite being fairly close to a town, otherwise seems to be surrounded by nothing but GhibliHills. Apart from the need to come up with rational explanations for the collateral damage from [=HiME=] fights (which are themselves InvisibleToNormals), most of the events in and around the academy are [[BystanderSyndrome ignored by outsiders]] to the point that nobody cares when [[spoiler:it is taken over and the students are held hostage by an army brought in by a secret American organization]].

* ''RanmaOneHalf'': Furinkan. One fanfic suggests that the weirdness of Furinkan is, in fact, well known. However, the bizarre creatures and rampant property damage have long since become routine. The rest of the world is merely happy to not live there. This theory does well to explain most of the more severe cases of Nowhere Street.

* ''YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' takes place principally in a town so desolated and isolated its population consists of a mere handful of people and even traveling a limited distance towards or away from town is considered a major endeavor. Furthermore, most lines of communication are cut requiring either air drops or a personal courier for mail delivery, and for the latter option [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman humanoid robots]] are preferred as they're better able to cope with the conditions.

'''Miss Peters:''' Mary-Sue, you should know the answer to that! The end of Main Street is [[VideoGameGeography just the beginning again!]]\\
--''{{Pleasantville}}''

* ''{{Pleasantville}}'' features a literal version of this: the village's main street wraps right back to itself at each end.

* 12 Grimauld Place in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. It is a big estate belonging to a very old wizard family, and it is later used as headquarters by the Order of the Phenix. And it is just a random place in London. Justified because it is hidden by powerful magic, but still, all those wizards and witches (some of them far from discreet) going around...

See also the BuildingOfAdventure, which is often found in the MiddleOfNowhereStreet.

* ''PowerpuffGirls'': Townsville where the protagonists hang out, has all the giant monsters, supervillains, and other major troubles. The town of Citysville, right next door, is monster-free. There are occasional exceptions: the town of Farmsville [[hottip:*:not, unfortunately, FarmVille]] was the site of an Alien Invasion.

* The entire premise of ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/?ref_=sr_1 Interstate 60.]]''
* ''PowerpuffGirls'': Townsville where the protagonists hang out, has all the giant monsters, supervillains, and other major troubles. The town of Citysville, right next door, is monster-free. There are occasional exceptions: the town of Farmsville [[hottip:*:not, unfortunately, FarmVille]] was the site of an Alien Invasion.
* The farm in ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is literally in the middle of Nowhere, a town in Kansas. This jump-starts some of the plots. The villain theorizes that nobody would easily notice if they kidnap some yokels in the middle of nowhere.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The cul-de-sac, despite being in the middle of a city, seems to be both cut off from the rest of the city and fully adult-free. This can be explained (along with many other things) by how the fourth season finale "Take This Ed and Shove It" [[FramingDevice revealed the entire show was the main characters as old men telling stories of their childhood.]]\\
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The fifth season went on to shift from summer vacation to fall, and the school ''was'' seen. However, only the kids from the cul-de-sac were ever seen; never any other students or any of the teachers. (The sixth season goes forward again into winter, but that's irrelevant.)
* ''NinjaHighSchool'': Subversion: in US-made print comic, the odd events in and around Quagmire are well known nationally, but are so frequent that they are no longer considered news.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Moperville. The strange goings-on in Moperville are being actively covered up by Mr. Verres, who works for [[TheMenInBlack a secret government agency]] and is a master of the PaperThinDisguise. Although more recently it seems the WeirdnessCensor may be breaking down and breaking the {{Masquerade}} but Moperville may just end up like Roswell.
* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': Tandy Gardens. The weirdness in Tandy Gardens has actually made the national news; but a lot of the goings-on happen in out-of-the-way places or at the high school, and, well, kids just have the ''darndest'' imaginations...

* The sit com ''Series/CornerGas'' takes place entirely in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Canada.
* Stormalong Harbor in ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. It doesn't even seem to be anywhere near land.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has Sunnydale. It was specifically designed and run for monsters to hide out in and eat people. It all fell apart when the immortal mayor exploded, though.
* ''ScaryGoRound'' features the town of Tackleford, a place outsiders seem to be dimly aware of as 'very weird' while not believing any of the (entirely true) stories they hear about it. A couple of references to "Tackleford Madness" indicate this is definitely a local phenomenon.

* Music/TheProtomen: "The City", which gradually becomes Dr. Wily's totalitarian robocracy seems to be completely isolated from anything going on in the world outside it.
* ''{{Pleasantville}}'' features a literal version of this: the village's main street wraps right back to itself at each end.

* Paradigm City in ''Anime/TheBigO''. [[spoiler:Justified by the end... [[GainaxEnding probably.]]]]