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{{quote|''"[[Blatant Lies|Nothing amazing happens here]]. [[Weirdness Censor|Everything is ordinary]]."''|'''Naota Nandaba''', ''[[FLCL]]''}}

 

 

New serial killer on the loose? Bodies are piling up in a small town where nothing like this has ever happened before. Portal to a [[Magical Land]] opening? It's in the big house in the country where you were preparing to spend the most boring summer of your life. Aliens landing? Their UFOs are parked in the middle of a deserted cornfield in a rural town where cattle outnumber people. [[Emo Teen]] moving with their divorced mother out of the [[Big Applesauce]] into the sleepy suburbs? They'll be hiding [[Batman in My Basement|Batman in their basement]] or starting a mission to [[Save Both Worlds]] by the end of the first episode.

 

 

Compare [[Aliens in Cardiff]] and [[Everytown, America]]. Contrast [[Quirky Town]]. See [[Ordinary High School Student]] for when this happens to a person.

* At the very end of ''Can't Hardly Wait'', the two "X-Philes" complain that nothing ever happens in their town. A suspicious shadow falls over them with an unworldly sound, and they look up and grin as a blue light shines on them.

* Lampshaded in ''Suddenly'', where a policeman and a traveler discuss the idea that the town's name should be changed to ''Gradually''. The plot of the movie: A man takes hostages in the town when it is realised that a family's window is just the right place for a sniper rifle pointed at the president.

* In ''[[Home Alone]]'', Buzz claims that the family lives on the most boring street in the country "where nothing remotely dangerous will ever happen"...while Kevin is preparing to fight off burglars Harry and Marv.

* Dinah has this lament at the beginning of ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]''.

* In [[Sherlock]], John Watson says the following before meeting Sherlock:

{{quote| '''John Watson''': Nothing ever happens to me.}}

 

 

== Music ==

* Pretty much the entire point of Del Amitri's song "''Nothing Ever Happens''"

{{quote| ''The Martians could land in the car park and no one would care''}}

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' takes place in a remote, small town. That should give you an indication of how horrible things go. It's also a great game.

** Lampshaded in ''[[Crisis Core]]'', during the very first meeting between Zack and Cloud as they talk about their respective hometowns Gongaga and Nibelheim.

{{quote| '''Zack:''' A Mako reactor outside Midgar usually means...<br />

'''Cloud and Zack (in unison):''' ... nothing else out there. }}

* The town featured in ''[[Persona 4]]'' is portrayed as a lazy country burg whose most exciting conflict is the new Wal-Mart-stand-in Junes putting the mom & pop stores out of business. Of course, the first thing that happens once the main character gets into town is a serial murder, and, by the end, {{spoiler|teenagers are fighting a god (or two, who's counting?) with the fate of the soul of humanity at stake}}.

* [[Fur Fighters]]:

 

== Western Animation ==

* A [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' was displaying various billboards and signs all over the [[City of Adventure]] that read things like, "Amity Park: A Safe Place To Live" or "Amity Park: It's Quiet Here." Wishful thinking by the [[Genre Blind]].

** Amusingly, after surviving the assassination attempt and chasing the Gaang for a while, she ''immediately'' goes back to being bored.

** Not to mention that Aang is first found ''at the South Pole'' by a couple of <s>[[Eskimo Land|Inuits]]</s> [[Eskimo Land|Water Tribe kids]].

* The first post-opening-credits scene of ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' (at least, the first that isn't set to music) features Ringo Starr moping around Liverpool, complaining that nothing ever happens to him -- until he realizes that he's somehow being tailed through the streets by a yellow submarine.

* An ep of ''[[Pepper Ann]]'' sees Hazelnut (her hometown) making a big deal of an apparent earthquake because of this trope (to the point where TV news coverage precedes CCTV footage of a single jar of food falling off a supermarket shelf with disclaimers suited for more intense things)... and ends with using this trope for a gag.

* The whole point in ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. No one says it, but crap happens ANYWAY.