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Slogans

• "Content is created at the point of consumption."
• "California: It's where you make TV shows about New Jersey."

What constitutes a legitimate cultural reference?

Numerous cultural products make reference to nj in passing. For example, the television programs Queer Eye for the Straight Guy or T loves Coco are set in NJ, but are not known for making substantial references to or comments about the state.

To qualify as a bona fide example, a cultural product should intentionally make an attempt to portray something about the state of nj , such as its socio-economic realities, inhabitants, geography, mode of dress, lifestyle, accent, notable event, or behavior. or it should communicate or portray aspects of new jersey life, culture, or geography, among others. a given reference to or portrayal of life in new jersey may be very brief - and many are; the issue concerns whether there is an intent on the part of the creators to reference new jersey. of course, it is possible that a bona fide new jersey reference could be unintentional.

Cryptic references

references which would pass unnoticed and/or uninterpreted to those not from or familiar with new jersey life. the only person laughing in the movie theatre (example).

Extreme notoriety

• the Hindenberg issue (fame, etc)
• Lindbergh kidnapping
• John List Westfield, NJ murders (November 9, 1971)
• Valerie Jean Solanas b. Ventnor City, New Jersey April 9, 1936 - Unsuccessful assassin of Andy Warhol, June 3, 1968

Television series

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force (currently titled Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1)
• Cake Boss
• Jersey Shore
• Jerseylicious
• The Real Housewives of New Jersey
• Royal Pains
• The Sopranos
• The Uncle Floyd Show

Television episodes

• Breakout Kings
• It's a Jersey Thing, South Park, season 14, episode 9
• MonsterQuest, season 3, episode 4: "Devils in New Jersey"
• Bourdain, Cajun episode, Aug-Sept 2011, "double-tap".

Scenes in television

• 30 Rock, season X, episide X, real name character from Scotch Plains, NJ
• Breakout Kings, season X, episode X
• Futurama, season 6, episode (summer 2011), "...New Jersey official joke state...", Hubert J. Farnsworth
• The Cleveland Show, season X, episode X: "Rallo's Rap" (Montclair "Rallo" Tubbs), in which Bernard (Bernard Bernard) mentions Piscataway, NJ, à propos of nothing. (watch screen capture)
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 6, episode X

Film

• Clerks; set in Leonardo, New Jersey
• Mallrats
• Chasing Amy
• Garden State
• Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
• Jersey Girl
• New Jersey: The Movie
• On the Waterfront

Scenes in film

• Apocalypse Now (can't find youtube clip)
• Cadillac Man
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)

Lloyd: That's a lovely accent you have. New Jersey? Lady at bus stop: Austria. Lloyd: Austria! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie! Lady at bus stop: Let's not.

Characters in film

• Buckaroo Banzai, from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Melvin Ferd III, main character in The Toxic Avenger.

Theater

• Jersey Boys
• What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (George Carlin)

Scenes in Theater

• "Are you from Jersey? I'm from Jersey...What exit?", Saturday Night Live, (period), recurring sketch.

Music

• New Jersey is the only American state without a state song.
• Grooveshark playlist of the songs mentioned in this article (link).

Music: Albums

• Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen
• New Jersey (album) (Bon Jovi)

Music Videos

• New Jersey: The Videos (Bon Jovi)
• Union City Blue (Blondie)

-Shot on location at Union Dry Dock, Hoboken, New Jersey

Music: Songs

• Breakout Kings, season X, episode X (The Smithereens) (not about New Jersey, except now it is)
• "Homicide", Cam'ron, Crime Pays.

• "Sundays Piscataway / 8 Ki's I have we lay"
• listen

• "The Garden State Parkway Boogie" (Holme), watch
• "Let's Have a War", Fear, The Record
• "Union City Blue", Blondie, Eat to the Beat
• "You Can't Catch Me" released in 1956 by Chuck Berry, mentions the New Jersey Turnpike.
• "Jersey Girl (song)" by Tom Waits from the album Heartattack and Vine (1980)
• "Jersey Girl (song)" by Tom Waits covered by Bruce Springsteen as the B-side of the "Cover Me" single (1984)
• On Bob Dylan's 1976 album Desire, the song "Hurricane", about boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter references Patterson, New Jersey:

"In Patterson that's just the way things go/If you're black you might as well not show up on the street/'Less you wanna draw the heat."

• Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album "Nebraska" included the song "Atlantic City.” It was released as a single in the UK, but not the US (and therefore: not even New Jersey.)
• Lou Reed's 1986 album Mistrial includes the song "Tell It To Your Heart” which references New Jersey:

"I was standing by the Hudson River's edge at night/Looking out across the Jersey shore."

Literature

• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.? cf. (The Lonely Island, Incredibad, "Ras Trent", listen
• Forever... (novel)?
• Philip Roth
• Charles Addams
• Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Chelsea Handler (2008)
• (Weird NJ)
• mona lisa overdrive: ...a reclusive artist named Slick Henry, who lives in a place named Factory in the Dog Solitude a large, poisoned expanse of deserted factories and dumps, perhaps in New Jersey.

Web sites

• Hot Chicks with Douchebags
• Weird NJ

News and current events

• hacking, congress, kid from new jersey

Language

• New Jersey English

References

How to make footnotes/references.

External links

Category:New Jersey culture Category:New Jersey-related lists