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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Naru ([[DubNameChange Molly]]) was localized with an overly heavy New Yorker/Jersey accent in the ''Creator/DICEntertainment'' dub. It was a case of CulturalTranslation, as she spoke with [[KansaiRegionalAccent a Kansai-Ben accent]] in the Japanese version.

* [[http://gma.yahoo.com/unilevers-dove-drops-n-j-billboard-refers-state-201531674--abc-news-topstories.html A billboard advertising Dove deodorant]] sparked controversy in the state due to it saying "Dear New Jersey, when people call you 'The Armpit of America,' [[ComplimentBackfire take it as a compliment]]." The intent was to say that armpits can be nice, even beautiful, instead of smelly (given that it's advertising deodorant and all), but it backfired badly, and the ad was pulled. (Fun fact: [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn Unilever, the company that owns Dove, has its North American HQ in New Jersey]] -- Englewood Cliffs, specifically.)

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': In one of the later issues, the Autobots and Decepticons are seen fighting from across the river by some New Yorkers. One wonders if the military will get called out over it, to which another responds with "Why? It's only Jersey."

* ''Film/TheProfessional'' (aka ''Leon'') [[ArtisticLicenseGeography fails Jersey geography spectacularly]] in its final moments: Mathilda is at the Spenser School, which is (according to an overheard conversation) supposed to be in Wildwood, New Jersey. However, the final moments of the film show that it overlooks the Hudson River and Manhattan. Wildwood is in fact an oceanfront community near the tip of Cape May, over 150 miles away from New York City. (The scene was actually filmed at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken.)

** A genuine Princeton-Plainsboro hospital (the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Medical_Center_of_Princeton_at_Plainsboro University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro]]) is on Route 1; the [[http://www.princetonhcs.org/default.aspx?p=6234 design of it]] has obviously been inspired by ''House''. (The actual building used for ''House'' is just a mile or so away -- it's the back side of Princeton University's Frist Student Center.)

*** Tony was born in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark; like any true Newarker of his age he calls the neighborhood "Down Neck." Livia's house (later Janice's and then Tony's during his separation) is here. Uncle Junior's trial also takes place in Newark, at the federal courthouse downtown. Additionally, "the Esplanade", one of the most important plot points in the series, is an urban redevelopment project in Newark.

** Scenes involving the ''Stugots'' and Whitecaps are set in Monmouth County. (Whitecaps specifically is in Sea Bright.)

** The upcoming season takes the entire cast to Italy itself to "get back to their roots." [[TrailersAlwaysLie According to the previews,]] we can expect an international diplomatic incident within the first episode or two.

** One interview mentioned a truly bizarre case of this: the interviewee, Maziar Bahari, is an Iranian reporter who was imprisoned and tortured for six months on suspicions of being an American spy. One of his captors, a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was apparently obsessed with a "paradise on Earth" located in America named... New Jersey, which he apparently saw as "the prototypical American state where people drink all the time, have sex all the time and never run into Jews." Talk about YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame.

* ''Series/WillAndGrace'' played with this. They described Jersey as something of New York City's suburb, a nice, peaceful place to raise a family. However, this being ''Will and Grace'', that was also considered where New Yorkers go to die. The only reason to go to New Jersey (aside from the outlet malls) is if you've gotten married and had kids (and essentially your "interesting" life as a New Yorker is over.) Also known in-universe for its fine wine, Chateau Secaucus. (There are in fact some pretty decent wineries in Jersey, but they definitely aren't in Secaucus.)

** In Season 7, Peggy Olson befriends a boy named Julio, who at some point mentions that his family is moving and that he doesn't want to go to Newark. Peggy replies, "Nobody wants to go to Newark."

* On ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'', Marty Allen - a [[UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} Pittsburgher]] - was asked, "What does a person from Philadelphia dunk his pretzel in?" His response: "A girl from New Jersey."

* ''{{Theatre/Hamilton}}'': "Where is this [duel] happening?" "Across the river in Jersey. Everything is legal in New Jersey."

* From ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-258-new-jersey/ "A Pop Culture Tour of New Jersey."]]

--->'''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.)

* Why did New York get all the lawyers and New Jersey get all the toxic waste? [[EvilLawyerJoke New Jersey got first pick.]] (Sometimes UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC is substituted for New York in this joke; the point is the same.)

* 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, all tolls are collected one-way leaving New Jersey in order to avoid perpetual traffic congestion in New York or Philadelphia. In other words, it's free to enter New Jersey but you have to pay to leave it (and it ain't cheap -- all six crossings of the Hudson[[note]]from north to south: the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, the Bayonne Bridge, the Goethals Bridge, and the Outerbridge Crossing[[/note]] costs $15. On the bright side, it only costs $5 to enter Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia area [at most locations], and a maximum of $3 to enter Pennsylvania from Trenton or anywhere north.)
** Unlike, say, the Brooklyn Bridge with its raised promenade, the Manhattan-NJ tunnels are not pedestrian-friendly. [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing One does not simply walk into Jersey]]. (The George Washington Bridge allows pedestrian access, but you first have to get all the way up to 178th Street.)

* Most Creator/{{Troma}} movies, particularly ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'', where the protagonist is a guy who falls into a drum of toxic waste that turns him into a mutated superhero fighting criminals in a town run by crooks.

* Most Creator/{{Troma}} movies, particularly ''Film/TheToxicAvenger''.

* ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' 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 infamous Creator/OrsonWelles broadcast of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.

* The protagonists of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' films, being New Yorkers (they were raised in the Central Park Zoo), will occasionally take jabs at New Jersey.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Guy" Gumball disguises himself as "Ferzandelerp", a Fauxreigner waiter with an [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent outrageously bad "European" accent]] from an undisclosed "far away land" full of weird traditions and customs. When asked where he actually comes from, he of course replies "New Jersey".

''A: Neither wants you [[DoubleEntendre pumping your]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms own gas]].''

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Naru ([[DubNameChange Molly]]) was localized with an overly heavy New Yorker/Jersey accent in the ''Creator/DICEntertainment'' dub. It was a case of CulturalTranslation, as she spoke with a Kansai-Ben dialect in the Japanese version.

# An overgrown Little Italy. Everybody seems to know somebody who knows somebody who is "[[TheMafia connected]]", be they a mechanic in Hoboken or a soccer mom in Parsippany. [[SleazyPolitician The politicians]] rival Third World dictators in brazen corruption. All the white people are Italian (and as of the 2010s, they'll be [[ButNotTooWhite white in-name-only]], as they'll be slathered in fake-tan body paint), and they all know what the hottest clubs are. The men have blowouts, dress in either Armani Exchange clothing or muscle shirts, do vast quantities of steroids, drive [[CoolCar '80s IROC-Z Camaros or entry-level BMWs]], and are insanely misogynistic and homophobic. The women, known as "Jersey Girls," are all {{Hard Drinking Party Girl}}s, still have EightiesHair decades after it went out of style, wear ten pounds of makeup, and are always [[{{Stripperiffic}} dressed like they're headed to the club]]. The only radio station is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKTU WKTU]], and they are always playing Music/LadyGaga or Music/{{Cascada}} remixes. If a techno-sounding beat starts playing, the natural response is to start pumping one's fist in the air. And everyone speaks with an [[RambunctiousItalian obnoxious, nasally, highly]] {{Flanderized}} [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Italian-American/New York accent]].[[note]]Despite popular perceptions, New Jersey doesn't have the largest proportion or absolute numbers of Italian-Americans of all the American states; that honor goes to Rhode Island and New York respectively, according to the 2010 Census. That being said, New Jersey does have a very high proportion of Italian-Americans; it has the third-highest percentage of residents reporting Italian ancestry (after Rhode Island and Connecticut), at around 17%.[[/note]]%%==> That's kinda nonsense, with all due respect. In terms of acting like hotshots, plenty of WASPs, Jews, Danes, Spaniards act like that in Jersey, moreso than Italians. That accent, by the way, isn't Italian.

* New Jersey gets a pretty positive depiction in ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014''. A big part of Kamala's characterization is that she lives in Jersey City, and writer G. Willow Wilson has actually gone to great lengths to replicate the experience of daily life in Jersey City and what it's like to grow up there. Kamala's major enemies thus far have been threats to her community as much as her personally: they include a MadScientist exploiting local teenagers and [[spoiler: HYDRA-sponsored]] gentrification.

* ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' spends a fair chunk of the movie in Princeton. (Although the university [[http://www.michaelbay.com/archives/site/2008-2010/newsblog/files/d56f71572ffbeb023c7bea941830a529-226.php is left unnamed]], it's pretty obvious that Sam's not going to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Choir_College Westminster Choir College]].)

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Steve uses Paramus as a fake hometown during one of his failed attempts to enlist in the army. After Bucky chastises him for illegally lying on his enlistment form, he adds "And seriously, Jersey?". In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' it is revealed that Steve actually was sent to New Jersey for his Army basic training before the super soldier serum was administered. He regards it almost as the place where he was born, telling Natasha Romanoff that he was "made" there.

* John Gorka has a song called "I'm from New Jersey," which is a pretty accurate impression of residents' reactions to New Jersey jokes. Can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkMTM7wrCs4 here]].

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OfI4qm7sHA You Can't Get There From Here In Jersey]]" by Jason Didner, a commentary on Jersey's hard-to-navigate highways (made even harder by the other motorists).

* Creator/ObsidianEntertainment's "Project New Jersey"[[note]]Obsidian assigns code names based on US states in order of introduction to the union.[[/note]], which was ultimately canceled.

* In the two-part finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'', [[spoiler: Jim, Claire, Blinky, Nomura, and Merlin leave Arcadia to seek out a colony of trolls living in New Jersey. [[ShownTheirWork This actually makes a lot of sense, considering that much of the state (including the infamous Pine Barrens) is covered in vegetation and mountains, perfect for hiding trolls]].]]

** His ever-persistent AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Ridley]] constantly speaks in a screechy Joisey accent.

* The island of Alderney in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' is based on New Jersey (in real life, Alderney is one of the other [[UsefulNotes/TheChannelIslands Channel Islands]]). Geographically, it replaces the actual UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity island of Staten Island, which is an improvement on the geography of the city. In previous versions of GTA, it was named "New Guernsey", and in one GTA IV mission, an NPC makes mention of "just a bunch of Guernsey goombas".

* Two levels in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 3'' take place in New Jersey, where Max has to fight off the local Mob. Later, during Max's flashback to Panama, he jokingly compares the boat he's on to Jersey, what with all the tanned people with plastic surgery listening to dance music and doing drugs.

* Music/TheTravelingWilburys song "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" is a Springsteen ... parody? pastiche? tribute? ... something, and features many references to New Jersey.

* The notorious Creator/{{MTV}} RealityShow ''Series/JerseyShore'' follows eight self-proclaimed guidoes/guidettes (most of whom aren't from New Jersey, and two of whom [[FakeNationality aren't even Italian]]) living and partying in a Seaside Heights beach house, cranking the "Joisey" stereotype UpToEleven. [[http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/state-new-jersey-mtv-jersey-shore-one-dimentional-portrayal-11238 New Jersey residents]] and [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/tellmemore/2009/12/mtvs_jersey_shore_reality_or_r.html Italian-American groups]] were ''pissed'', but it's done nothing to stop the show from turning into [[strike:a hit]] a pop culture phenomenon.

* Most media about UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution will reference New Jersey in some capacity. The state played a pivotal role in the war as New York and Philadelphia (two of the three largest cities in the colonies at the time, with Patriot hotbed Boston the other) are literally next to it, and control of New Jersey meant quick access to both. Some of the War's most famous battles took place here; UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington's crossing of the Delaware River, immortalized by the famous painting, was the beginning of his attack on Trenton, and the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse[[note]]An old name for Freehold, by the by[[/note]] pretty much ended the first phase of the war and ''could'' have ended the war entirely if not for the bungling of Charles Lee. Washington made his winter camp at Morristown twice in the war, and generally spent the whole war after Monmouth keeping a large British force pinned down in NYC using North Jersey as a base while his Southern Theater commanders decided the last phase of the war in the Carolinas.

** This is not the case near Philadelphia: the Ben Franklin Bridge has two walkways on each side of the bridge that you can walk from Philly into Jersey. That said, the walkways lead into Camden, the aforementioned WretchedHive. You are advised to use the southern walkway if you care to save your life--the south side of the bridge leads to the actually pretty much OK area around the Camden campus of Rutgers University; some professors and students actually ''commute'' by taking the half-hour walk. However, "north of the bridge" is the proverbial worst part of Camden, with a violent-crime rate high enough to ''deter college students from walking there to buy cheap booze''.

* Most media about UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution will reference New Jersey in some capacity. The state played a pivotal role in the war as New York and Philadelphia (two of the three largest cities in the colonies at the time, with Patriot hotbed Boston the other) are literally next to it, and control of New Jersey meant quick access to both. Some of the War's most famous battles took place here; UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington's crossing of the Delaware River, immortalized by the famous painting, was the beginning of his attack on Trenton, and he made his winter camp at Morristown twice in the war.

* According to [[AllThereInTheManual Instrucion Manual]], [[VideoGame/SyphonFilter Gabriel Logan]] was born in Camden, New Jersey.

* ''AH.com Wars'', a spin-off of ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'' that parodies ''Franchise/StarWars'', features a Naboo-analogue planet called Najoisey, a {{Planetville}} version of New Jersey.

** [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/harley-quinn-history-917464 Her accent is actually based]] on Miss Adelaide from ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls Guys and Dolls]]''.

* In the two-part finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'', [[spoiler: Jim, Claire, Blinky, Nomura, and Merlin leave Arcadia to seek out a colony of trolls living in New Jersey. [[ShownTheirWork This actually makes a lot of sense, considering that much of the state {including the infamous Pine Barrens) is covered in vegetation and mountains, perfect for hiding trolls]].]]