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{{quote|''Lost Housewife 1'': Ehwajehno! Wigodda perra skoytsfum sumuddaboyg! (Translation: Hey whaddaya know! We gotta pair of skirts from some otha' burg!)}}

* An issue of ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'' featured a tall tale by Hercules of a fight he got into with Thor. At the end, he changed course and claimed that Thor [[I Am Not Left-Handed|had actually been holding back]] ... and when the Thunder God '''stopped''' holding back, "He flung me into a land the gods forgot! New Jersey!"

* For a while, the Vision and the Scarlet Witch made their home in suburban Leonia, and commuted into Manhattan for their Avengers duties.

== Film ==

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{{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.}}

== Music ==

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* Michael Jones, [[Rooster Teeth]] employee and star of ''Rage Quit'', was a New Jersey resident before he moved to Austin, TX to work at RT full time.

* ''[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].

== Western Animation ==

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'''Michelangelo''': Yeah, I don't think they heard you over in Joisey. }}

** The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|1987]] series had characters making references and similes to New Jersey.

* [[Bugs Bunny]]: "Ho''bo''ken? ~~Ooooooh~~, I'm dyin' again!"

* [[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.

{{quote|'''John Corzine:''' Hello. I'm New Jersey governor John Corzine. I hope you've enjoyed this reenactment of our state's proud history. [eats some rainbow] The Garden State: Come get in on some of this rainbow!}}

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** In another episode, Marge and Homer are supposed to go to Dayton, Ohio for an elderly relative's birthday, but decide to take a last-minute romantic getaway to Miami...then wind up in Atlantic City when they find they're being tailed by Bart and Lisa. Homer and Marge are making out in a glass elevator, and Marge expresses (mock) concern about other people seeing them.

{{quote|'''Homer''': "What, they've never seen a fat guy making out? It's on the freakin' state flag!" (Cue a shot of a flag featuring a fat man kissing an attractive woman.)}}

* [[w:8 Ball Bunny|"HoBOken?]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmDj6Cvcag Oooh, I'm ''dyin''' again!"]

== Other ==

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** It does not help that immediately across the river from Philidelphia is Camden, a [[Wretched Hive]] of Scum and Villainy.

*** Nor does it help that on the other side of that very same river is Philadelphia.

* The vast majority of bridges leading out of New Jersey (either east across the Hudson to New York or west across the Delaware to Pennsylvania) are tolled (those that aren't are small ones that trucks wouldn't be able to use). Moreover (in order to avoid perpetual traffic congestion in New York or Philadelphia), all tolls are one-way leaving New Jersey—it's free to enter New Jersey, but you have to pay to leave it (and it ain't cheap—the Holland Tunnel to Lower Manhattan, for instance, costs $12).

* The vast majority of bridges leading out of New Jersey (either east across the Hudson to New York or west across the Delaware to Pennsylvania) are tolled (those that aren't are small ones that trucks wouldn't be able to use). Moreover (in order to avoid perpetual traffic congestion in New York or Philadelphia), all tolls are one-way leaving New Jersey—it's free to enter New Jersey, but you have to pay to leave it (and it ain't cheap—the Holland Tunnel to Lower Manhattan, for instance, costs $15 in cash as of 2018).

** Unlike, say, the Brooklyn Bridge with its raised promenade, the Manhattan-NJ tunnels are not pedestrian-friendly. [[Lord of the Rings|One does not simply walk into Jersey]].

*** On the contrary, friend. The Ben Franklin Bridge has not one, but ''two'' walkways on each side of the bridge that you can walk from Philly into Jersey. Though it takes you into Camden, which is pretty much the worst city in the country.

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* Why do so many people move from New Jersey to [[Hollywood New England|Vermont]]? They were in the northbound lane, had to go that far out of their way to make a U-turn and figured they might as well stay...

* In late 2011 a New Jersey resident created a demographic map of the state (which is the current picture for the Trivia:Joisey page). Thanks to Facebook and Twitter it immediately went viral and made the local papers. A couple of politicians were unhappy with the portrayal, but the vast majority of residents found it to be hilarious and pretty much dead-on, as seen [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/nj_man_puts_rednecks_hippies_a.html/ here]

* [[Light Bulb Joke|'''Q:''' How many people from New Jersey does it take to change a light bulb?]] '''A:''' Three: One to change the bulb, one to witness, and the third to shoot the witness.