Basic Trope: Nothing interesting happens outside of New York City.
- Straight: Bob only travels in the Five Boroughs of New York City.
- Exaggerated: Bob only walks around Fulton Street, Manhattan.
- Downplayed: Bob spends most of his time in NYC, but goes to rural Long Island on occasion.
- Justified: Bob is a detective in the NYPD, the main character in a Police Procedural, whose job is to solve crimes within the jurisdiction of the city (and quite probably specifically his precinct).
- Inverted: Bob travels everywhere in America EXCEPT New York.
- Subverted: The show starts out with a map of New York, then zooms in… to Poughkeepsie, where Bob lives.
- Double Subverted: He takes the Taconic Parkway to his job in The Bronx, where the real action happens.
- Parodied:
- The villains, who are not from Earth, do their research on the planet by watching movies and TV shows, and therefore believe that it's the most important city in the world, which is why they attack it.
- Alternately, their reason for focusing on New York is that they really like Mallomars.
- Zig Zagged: Bob tells the tale of his job has a FBI agent. When asked where he's from, he says New York. He's from Poughkeepsie. However, he says he drives to New York every time he has a shift. He is stationed in Yonkers. However, he only gets called to streets in the Bronx
- Averted: From the start, it is stated that Bob lives and works at his interesting job in Poughkeepsie, and the farthest he goes in the series is still within that city.
- Enforced:
- The network needs a new show that will connect with a large amount of people. A large amount of people live in New York.
- The writers are from New York.
- The production is filmed in the city as the state of New York offers a tax credit
for film and television productions to work in the five boroughs
- Lampshaded: On a freeway, Bob sees a sign for "To New York City". Alice says, "Okay, take the ramp to the only damn place in this state where things happen."
- Invoked: Bob avoids the airports and highways out of New York because he believes something will be interesting in New York.
- Exploited: Alice the Intrepid Reporter moves to New York because there's a good chance of something big happening there for her to make her big break.
- Defied: Bob, in an effort not to be trapped in New York, becomes a storm chaser and moves to Kansas.
- Discussed: "I'm so glad I moved to New York. It seems like every corner is another interesting landmark."
- Conversed: "Man, another show about New York? You're obsessed with shows about New York, huh?" "No, but the writers are."
- Deconstructed:
- With everything interesting happening in New York, people are swarming into the city, and overpopulation becomes a problem.
- Alternately: Everyone gets out of there because of the danger, causing the economy to collapse and New York to become a ghost town.
- Reconstructed: The overpopulation or weak economy is the conflict of the week.
- Played for Laughs: Bob just moved to New York, but he treats it as if he's lived there for a long time.
- Played for Drama: Aliens arrive on Earth for the first time, and they start with New York, since they know from TV that it's one of the most interesting places on Earth.
- Plotted A Good Waste: The focus on New York is foreshadowing that Bob does not live in the real United States, but a fake.
That was typed in the Big Applesauce!
