Basic Trope: Something is beneficial to everyone, but no one wants to live near it.
- Straight: The citizens of Neon City want cell service, but nobody wants the cell phone tower built near their houses because of how obstructive and ugly it is.
- Exaggerated: The citizens of Neon City don't want anything but houses and roads built near their neighborhood.
- Downplayed: The citizens are divided on having the cell phone tower near their neighborhood.
- Justified: While it's nice to have the benefits, you probably wouldn't want to live right next to it.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: It turns out that they're actually okay with it being built, acknowledging that the upsides go against the downsides.
- Double Subverted: But Logan, who lives next to the tower, ends up going back on his word and hating it so much that he moves away.
- Parodied: The material being built is the Space Blocker 2000 — a hideously ugly, tie-dye cube that serves no practical purpose besides giving birds a place to stand when they get tired of flying. Its planned location is directly on top of Logan's house.
- The cell phone tower resembles a beautiful work of classical art, but people still don't want it near their houses.
- Zig-Zagged:
- The neighborhood flip-flops on whether or not they want the cell phone tower built nearby.
- A new train line and station is to be built. Some people don't want it near them because of the noise, other people do want it because of the convenience for mass transit to the big city without needing a car.
- Averted: A cell phone tower is built in the middle of nowhere, far away from any citizens' houses.
- Enforced: "Let's make a Very Special Episode about how sometimes we need to live near things that are harmful."
- Lampshaded: "A cell phone tower, here? Not in My Backyard!"
- Invoked: The people in the neighborhood start a protest so the cell phone tower will have to be moved away.
- Exploited: The protest succeeds, and it's now someone else's problem.
- Defied:
- The cell phone company collaborates with the neighborhood to come up with a solution that satisfies everyone — they can have cell service without anything taking up space near their houses.
- Eminent domain is invoked and the land is seized for the purposes of building the tower, local opposition be damned.
- Discussed: "Geez, I know we need it, but I sure wouldn't want to live next to that."
- Conversed: "I know it's a cartoon, but I doubt any district planners would want to build that smack in the middle of Logan's and Alice's houses."
- Implied: There's a map of potential places in Neon City where a cell phone tower could be built. Logan's neighborhood is crossed out.
- Deconstructed: Every neighborhood refuses to host the cell tower, so no cell tower is built, leaving everyone with bad cellular coverage.
- Reconstructed: One neighborhood allows the ugly cell tower to be built there in exchange for monetary compensation from the larger city or state government sufficient to offset the hit to their property values and quality of life. The telecom company also spends some time and money disguising the tower as best they can, such as making it look like a tall tree, to make it stand out less visually.
You can have a longer version, but just Not in My Backyard!
