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Line 81: * Michael Myers' hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois in the ''[[Halloween (film)\|Halloween]]'' series was named after producer Debra Hill's hometown of Haddonfield, New Jersey... which [https://web.archive.org/web/20140420215554/http://www.aaroads.com/northeast/new_jersey200/i-295_nb_exit_032_01.jpg shares a freeway exit] with the nearby town of [[Friday the 13th (film)\|Voorhees]]. * ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' is largely set in New Jersey. * In ''[[Eddie and the Cruisers]]'' and its sequel, ''Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!'', Joisey-accented Eddie Wilson is proud of his home state, warts and all. In fact it seems like the warts are what he likes about it. From a conversation about his inexplicable homesickness while on tour in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140312220456/http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Eddie_and_the_Cruisers_II__Eddie_Lives__1989.aspx?Page=9 the sequel]: {{quote\|'''Eddie:''' Baby, there's nowhere else in the world like the Garden State! You got miles of swamps and mountains of dumps... different colored rivers... automobile graveyards, breweries, factories, ballparks, all mixed up together. It's the best place to live. '''Diane:''' Uh huh. Then why does the Statue of Liberty face the other way? }} Line 134: * This was pretty much the only joke of the early Joe Piscopo ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' character Paulie Herman, that he was from New Jersey. {{quote\|I'm from Joisey! You from Joisey? Hahahahaha what exit?}} : Problems arose from one Paulie sketch, which portrayed Piscataway -- a near-rural suburb that does happen to host several office parks -- as heavily covered by chemical plants and toxic dust. Ted Light, Piscataway's then-mayor, was not at all amused. * Despite being set in Boston, ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'' managed to get in the occasional dig at New Jersey: {{quote\|'''Dr. Wayne Fiscus:''' Today, sleep is regarded as a complex and inconstant state, a state not unlike New Jersey.}} Line 187: '''Stephen Hopkins:''' The whoring and the drinking. ''[Franklin leaps to his feet and marches out behind Adams.] }} : The reference is to a camp of the Continental Army located at New Brunswick, New Jersey at the time, where whoring and drinking were rampant and discipline was nearly dead. One poor innocent delegate gets a truckload of jokes poured on him and his family when he says, confused, "That can't be, I have an aunt who lives in New Brunswick!" Of course, by the time ''1776'' came out in 1969, Rutgers University in New Brunswick had a strong reputation as a "party school", meaning that the joke still worked for modern audiences. : And of course, the running joke about the delegation from New Jersey not being present. {{quote\|'''John Hancock:''' New Jersey. Where the hell is New Jersey? '''John Dickinson:''' [[Deadpan Snarker\|Somewhere between New York and Pennsylvania.]]}} : Which leads to the most love New Jersey has even been shown on screen: When the New Jersey delegates enter just in time to tie the vote for independence, prompting John Adams and co. to run to embrace them. * In ''[[One Touch of Venus]]'', the characters, being New Yorkers, sing a number called "Way Out West In New Jersey," whose premise is that the territory beyond the Hudson River might as well be [[The Wild West]]. * The obscure, but hilarious ''[[Once Upon a Time In New Jersey]]''. It's exactly what it sounds like. Line 230: * ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130621163637/http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=234191 The End of the World: The Jersey War]''. On December 21, 2012, Snooki turns into an [[Eldritch Abomination]] and gives birth to a tide of hair-gelled, tanned, A-shirt-wearing insectoid gremlins onto New Jersey, while a poisonous black gas that smells like hairspray swells over the landscape. * Among the [[Urban Legends]] circulating in ''[[Fenspace]]'' is the (false) tale of [http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Myths_of_Fenspace#The_New_Jersey_Tripod the New Jersey Tripod]. * [[Let's Play]]er [[GrayStillPlays]] is a former New Jersey resident (now living in Florida) who has no compunctions about affectionately mocking his home state during his videos. == [[Western Animation]] == Line 240 ⟶ 241: '''Landlord''': Oh, no catch... but we are technically in New Jersey. '''Fry''' ''(back home)'': Man, not one place even remotely livable. }} : Or this tidbit: {{quote\|'''Leela''': Who would've thought that Hell actually existed? And that it would be in New Jersey? '''Fry''': Well, actually... ''([[Trap Door]] opens)'' }} : Seems to be a frequent target of ''Futurama''. In "A Big Piece of Garbage" the Planet Express crew watch a documentary about what New York did with its gigantic piles of garbage. {{quote\|'''Narrator''': The landfills were full. New Jersey was full. }} : And they continue to mock it since it was [[Uncanceled]]. {{quote\|[After Fry has taken a swim in [[It Makes Sense in Context\|goat vomit]]) '''Leela''': (hugs Fry and smells him in the process) What have you been doing, rolling around in New Jersey? '''Fry''': Well, actually... }} : In "All The President's Heads", it is revealed that back in 1776 the Continental Congress voted to make New Jersey the official joke state. * An episode of ''[[South Park]]'' has [[Bumbling Dad\|Randy]] and the boys going up against the Jersey people. ''Every'' person from New Jersey is incredibly loud and arrogant and "all they do is have sex and fight each other". [[Running Gag\|It's a Jersey thing]]. It gets so bad they have to get help from {{spoiler\|Al Qaeda}}. ** That whole episode was more of a [[Take That\|jab]] at ''[[Jersey Shore]]''. Line 257 ⟶ 258: {{quote\|'''Leonardo''': Way to be stealthy, Raph! '''Michelangelo''': Yeah, I don't think they heard you over in Joisey. }} : The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)\|1987 series]] had characters making references and similes to New Jersey. * [[Bugs Bunny]]: [[w:8 Ball Bunny\|"Ho''bo''ken?]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmDj6Cvcag Ooooooooh, I'm ''dyin{{'}}'' again!"] * According to ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', Care-A-Lot is turned into New Jersey as a result of the [[Care Bears]] provoking the [[Crystal Dragon Jesus\|Great Cloudkeeper's]] wrath when they begin an [[Sugar Apocalypse\|ethnic cleansing]] of the Care Bear Cousins.