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** Rural New Jersey, no less.

* New Jersey features in every film of [[Kevin Smith]]'s [[View Askewniverse]], often as the main setting. Smith himself is from Highlands.

* ''[[Harold ~~and~~ Kumar]] Go to White Castle''. Starts (and ends) in Hoboken, and goes through Newark, New Brunswick, Princeton, Cherry Hill, and miles of the New Jersey Turnpike.

* ''[[Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle]] Go to White Castle''. Starts (and ends) in Hoboken, and goes through Newark, New Brunswick, Princeton, Cherry Hill, and miles of the New Jersey Turnpike.

** Which makes their journey all the more interesting as there are fifteen different White Castles within ten minutes of driving.

* ''Artie Lange's Beer League''. Became a running joke on ''[[Howard Stern|The Howard Stern Show]]'' (which Lange is one of the hosts of) due to its poor production values.

* ''[[Garden State]]'', obviously.

* In ''[[Dude, Where's My Car?]]'' the good Aliens threaten to banish the bad Aliens to none other than Hoboken, NJ.

* The first half hour of [[The Remake]] of ''[[The War of the Worlds (film)|The War of the Worlds]]'' had New Jersey (specifically Bayonne) getting blown up. The film crew actually did blow up a small park in Bayonne as part of the movie (the crew rebuilt it afterwards).

* The first half hour of [[The Remake]] of ''[[The War of the Worlds (2005 film)||The War of the Worlds]]'' had New Jersey (specifically Bayonne) getting blown up. The film crew actually did blow up a small park in Bayonne as part of the movie (the crew rebuilt it afterwards).

** For that matter, the infamous 1938 radio show was also set largely in New Jersey.

* The New Jersey Turnpike makes notable appearances in ''[[Being John Malkovich]]'' and ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]''.

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{{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.

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