History Main / PlaceWorseThanDeath

-->Bartleby: Where were we afraid he'd send us?
-->Loki: New Jersey.

** In the northern half of the Golden State, Yuba City, though less well known, also has image problems - partly because of its place as the hometown of the 1970s serial ax murderer Juan Corona, and also because the "Rand McNally Places Rated" quality-of-life ranking in 1985 placed the city 330rd and last among U.S. cities.

* In [[SoCalization California]] the cities of Salinas, Bakersfield, and Fresno have this reputation, mostly spread by residents themselves.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVr6rFXJg88 David Brent]] also gives his [[CompletelyMissingThePoint analysis]] of the poem in the series proper.

** David Brent also gives [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVr6rFXJg88 his analysis]] of the poem in the series proper.

* TruthInTelevision: There is actually a Hell in Norway. We don't know whether or not it's actually that bad a place, though...
** For the record: "Hell" in Norwegian means "cave". ''"Helvete"'' is Norwegian for "Hell".
** We've got a Hell, Michigan over here in the 'states. According to the story, after the first few names were rejected, their postmaster declared "You can name it Hell if you want to!" They took him up on it.

* In {{Futurama}}, Fry wakes up from a second cryo-stasis and finds himself in a blasted wasteland. Its really present day LosAngeles.
** Well... {{Futurama}}'s present day, at least.

* Truth In Television: One of J. Edgar Hoover's ... idiosyncrasies ... was sending FBI agents who displeased him to New Orleans, a city he hated.
** [[SarcasmMode Oh, how awful]].
** Seeing as he was a well known racist, you can probably imagine why he'd think that.
* [[AC:[[{{Animaniacs}} are we dead, or is this Ohio]]?]]
* Mississippi is the most rural state in TheDeepSouth, and, by many accounts, the most backward state in the U.S. Particular scorn was heaped upon it by H.L. Mencken:
-->"All other mammals would succumb quickly to what man endures without damage. Consider, for example, the life of a soldier in the front line--or the life of anyone in Mississippi."

* In TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent says, "When I was little I used to have this nightmare about dying - all my school friends went to Heaven or Hell and I was sent to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southend-on-Sea Southend]]!"

* ''DaveBarry Slept Here'' jokes that RichardNixon left politics to live in a state of utter disgrace: New Jersey.

* Twain said about Cincinnati, "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." And he wasn't to fond of San Francisco, "The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco."

* In [[SoCalization California]] the cities of Salinas, Bakersfield, and Fresno have this reputation.

* Naturally being made in Minnesota, MysteryScienceTheater3000 is chock-full of Wisconsin bashing. For example, during the host segment for ''The Killer Bees'', Brain Guy manages to trump two Observers who had come to take him home. After taking their brains, thus making them idiots, he decides that the ''absolute worse'' punishment he could give is to make them live in Wisconsin where they will work for a small dairy co-op, and be rabid ''Packers'' fans.

* Proving that this trope is really old, in the the 1989 movie of "FelixTheCat" there is a part where Felix comes over a hill and sees a baren shell of a town surrounded by a deadly swamp, to which Felix says "where are we, New Jersey? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJVut_LUlo&feature=related]]"

-->'''Packer:''' You ever been to Wyoming? [cut to Packer in a lonely, barren wasteland]

*** Which is ironic, since he's leaving Klahn's fortress in the Hartz Mountains, described as worse than Detroit.

* {{Robocop}}. Dear God in heaven, {{Robocop}}
** [[CriticalResearchFailure They failed]] [[TheyJustDidntCare to make any attempt]] [[CaliforniaDoubling to make it look like Detroit at all...]]

* In one of the episodes of the short-lived ''Series/{{Dilbert}}'' TV show, two teams of engineers are competed, and the losing team will be transferred to Albany, NY -- which is shown as being incredibly cold on ''the first day of summer''. [[spoiler:When the episode's {{Big Bad}} -- no, not the boss but the rival team's leader -- is decapitated, her head comments "Well, better this than Albany."]]

'''[[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]]'''

** One episode of the American ''WhoseLineIsItAnyone'' had as a Scene From A Hat "Versions of Hell without fire or brimstone". Greg presented it as driving eternally in Mississippi.

* In Argentina, during the first half of the XX century, capital punishment was imprisonment in the infamous Ushuaia prison, in Tierra del Fuego, a frozen hell in the middle of nowhere in the most southern point of America. There were even not many guards, as it was understated that anyone as crazy as to escape would survive a couple of days, at best. A lot of them tried, anyway, with unsurprising results. Considering the kind of inmates [[FateWorseThanDeath you would share your cell with]], I'd have ventured into the frozen woods without second thoughts too.