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Oh, and:

 

''A: Neither wants you [[Double Entendre|pumping your]] [[A Date with Rosie Palms|own gas]].'' }}

 

* Buddy Bradley moves back to Jersey after giving up on Seattle in the pages of ''Hate''.

* While the state itself isn't featured, ''[[Tomorrow Stories]]'' had Cobweb and Clarice running into the Lost Housewives of New Jersey, a tribe of housewives who got lost on "a cheap package tour, never to return" in Gowandogandoland. Their "language" is a very exaggerated New Jersey dialect.

* 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!"

 

** Especially since the scene was actually filmed in an old mine (now a tourist trap) in the Highlands.

* This is the state Gracie represents while undercover in ''[[Miss Congeniality]]''. We never actually get to see the state outside of one deleted scene, but Gracie can't resist going for the easy target when her training starts to wear on her nerves.

'''Gracie:''' Because it's too hard to fit "Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State" on a license plate? }}

* ''[[The Wrestler]]''. There the state is depicted as a feckless purgatory of trailer parks, run-down local shops, monotonous public housing, and abandoned amusement parks (no, not [[Amusement Park of Doom|that kind]]).

* ''[[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 [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Eddie_and_the_Cruisers_II__Eddie_Lives__1989.aspx?Page=9 the sequel]:

'''Diane:''' Uh huh. Then why does the Statue of Liberty face the other way? }}

 

== Live Action TV ==

* On ''[[Big Bang Theory]]'' Leonard is from NJ, which comes up from time to time. For example in the 2011 Halloween episode Leonard manages to pull a trick on roommate Sheldon who says as a Texan native he is an expert at retribution. However when Sheldon tries to pull a trick on Leonard, Leonard manages to turn it against Sheldon.

* ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' is set primarily in [[The Roaring Twenties|Prohibition-era]] Atlantic City.

* The highly acclamed [[Dramedy]] ''[[Ed]]'' filmed exteriors of its fictional location Stuckeyville in Upper Middle Class Westfield, NJ. Many local residents were used as "Stuckyville Extras".

* [[Voltaire (band)|Voltaire]]'s song "Bomb New Jersey" (the other Voltaire). However, there are enough in-jokes that only people from New Jersey would get that it's hard to be offended.

** Voltaire grew up in New Jersey (and hated it), and mentions it in more then one of his songs. For example: "Hell in a Handbasket".

Than live and kicking in Jersey any day }}

* [[Bruce Springsteen]] is from New Jersey, and several of his songs are love letters to his home state. Several others are about how much the state sucks (see: "Born to Run"). He also contributed the [[Ending Theme]] for the above-mentioned ''[[The Wrestler]]''.

== Theatre ==

* This bit from ''[[1776]]'':

''[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.

'''John Dickinson:''' 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.

* The jukebox musical ''Jersey Boys'' about the singing group, The Four Seasons.

* The Toxic Avenger Musical is particularly gleeful in its bashing of New Jersey. The villain song is called "Jersey Girl", and it describes the mayor of Tromaville to be evil and slutty. Then there's the opening song that establishes the setting.

 

 

* ''[[Futurama]]'', taking place in (essentially) [[New York City]], takes jabs at New Jersey on a regular basis:

** Fry and the gang are touring a beautiful apartment, after looking at several dumps earlier in the episode.

'''Fry''' ''(back home)'': Man, not one place even remotely livable. }}

** Or this tidbit:

'''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.

** And they continue to mock it since it was [[Uncanceled]].

'''Leela''': (hugs Fry and smells him in the process) What have you been doing, rolling around in New Jersey?<br />

'''Fry''': Well, actually... }}

* An episode of ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' had the team going to New Jersey to fight the [[Jersey Devil]]. It's as awesome as it sounds.

* Referenced several times in [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|the 2003 TMNT series]] -- which makes sense, given that most of the protagonists are life-long New Yorkers. One particular jab involved Casey Jones' description of a world were global warming had caused humans to evolve into mole-people to survive the scorching heat. Jersey, apparently, was the first to go. Also, in the first episode the Turtles are stuck above ground and trying to find a manhole with which they can head back underground without anyone seeing them. The first one they come across gets parked on by an armored truck; leading Raphael to kick it in rage.

'''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!"

* 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.

* [[Batman: The Animated Series|Harley]] [[Batman|Quinn]] has a New Jersey accent, which mixes with the implications of Gotham City in relation to New Jersey.

* Squirt, the street smart chihuahua in [[The Hub|The Hub's]] ''[[Pound Puppies]]'' has a Jersey accent and, in an episode, even mentions he's from Hoboken.

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', they do a parody of ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' when Fat Tony invites them to his mansion after Selma snubbed Marge at their wedding.

** 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.