New Jersey is the fourth smallest state in the US, but it is also the eleventh most populated and single adventure travel vacation package most densely populated. It has a high level of ethnic and religious diversity, being home to Italians, Irish, Jews, Russians , Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Jamaicans , Haitians, Guyanese adventure travel vacation package , Trinidadians, etc. in large numbers. Its landscape is also highly diverse, especially for a state of its size, being home to forests, mountains, swamps, cliffs, white sand beaches, and miles of rolling farmland. It is the location of several military facilities, including one of the largest in the country, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. It has the highest adventure travel vacation package population density in the US, and combined with its excellent adventure travel vacation package system of public transit, it is easy to get anywhere. New Jersey is the second most affluent state in the US, possesses one of the most highly-regarded education systems in the country, and has the lowest poverty rate in the nation.There are affluent suburbs, bustling cities, and lush dairy farms all within a few miles of each other. In short, it's one of the most diverse states, filled to the brim with a plethora of different cultures and lifestyles.
An overgrown Little Italy. Everybody seems to know somebody who knows somebody who is " connected ", be they a mechanic in Hoboken or a soccer mom in Parsippany. The politicians rival Third World dictators in brazen corruption. All the white people are Italian (and as of the 2010s they'll be 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 '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 Girls , still have '80s Hair decades after it went out of style, wear ten pounds of makeup, and are always dressed like they're headed to the club . The only radio station is WKTU, and they are always playing Lady Gaga or Cascada remixes. If a techno-sounding beat starts playing, the natural adventure travel vacation package response is to start pumping one's fist in the air. And everyone speaks with an obnoxious, nasally, highly Flanderized Italian-American/New York accent .
A Place Worse Than Death , where people's hopes and dreams adventure travel vacation package go to die. Suburbs , malls and smokestacks dominate adventure travel vacation package the landscape, adventure travel vacation package most of the kids are either vapid Alpha Bitches , Jerk Jocks or guidoes (see above), and the adults aren't much better . The cops are inept and more concerned with DWB (Driving While Black) than with the dude beating adventure travel vacation package his wife just down the street. Our heroes are forced to have "fun" by loitering in convenience stores or malls, going to Action Park , and moping around to either a hip indie/ emo soundtrack or '80s power ballads (preferably Bon Jovi or The Boss ). The highways are jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance adventure travel vacation package power drive. You can only wonder why 8.7 million people choose to make New Jersey the most densely-populated state in the nation. This is arguably the most popular portrayal of New Jersey in the media, and will be played either for laughs or dead seriously.
A Weirdness Magnet , with UFOs, monsters, ghosts, and The Jersey Devil waiting around every corner, and with the gateway to Hell sitting in the sewers of Clifton. Parts of it may be an out-of- New England branch of Lovecraft Country , only more likely to be Played for Laughs and/or snark (because hey, it's Jersey ).
At least one part of the stereotype is somewhat Truth in Television : New Jersey has the dubious distinction of being home to more Superfund adventure travel vacation package sites (sites that are contaminated adventure travel vacation package with radioactive or otherwise chemically toxic hazardous materials in need of cleanup) than any other state. Keep in mind that New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by land area.
The trope name comes from what is commonly believed adventure travel vacation package to be the local pronunciation of New Jersey. In reality, this is only how it is pronounced by people who think they're being clever saying "Joisey" to a New Jerseyan will earn you a boot up the ass . New Jerseyans, however, can use it any time they like as evidenced by billboards for the 2010 New Jersey State Fair, which proudly proclaimed that the fair "puts the 'Joy' back in 'Joisey'". One of the easiest ways to tell if someone is from New Jersey or not: those who are (poorly) faking a New York accent say "Joisey," those from anywhere besides Jersey (including actual New Yorkers) say "New Jersey," those from Jersey simply say "Jersey."
Shangri-La, the hometown of most of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ 's main characters, is a lot like the stereotypical image of Jersey... if it were a 60 km-long cylinder floating around in space. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly used as a space garbage dump .
Given its position on the coast it seems Gotham is in the area of Little Egg Harbor. This would make Bludhaven the equivalent of Camden, which we can all agree is fair. Gotham's official history (yes, there really is such a thing) explains that it was heavily settled by Swedes; since Swedish immigrants had a large presence in southern New Jersey and Delaware, Camden is a fair candidate.
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.
Felix the Cat: The Movie has Felix setting his eyes upon the crumbling, corrupt Progress City , and what does he say? "Where are we, New Jersey?" Also an example of Self-Deprecation when you realize that Felix the Cat Productions Inc. just happens to be located in New Jersey.
In Superman: The Movie , Lex Luthor's master plan involves two nuclear missiles, one aimed at the San Andreas Fault in California, and the other aimed at Hackensack, New Jersey. adventure travel vacation package It's implied that the latter target was chosen because he doesn't like his girlfriend's mother who lives there.
The first half hour of The Remake of The War of the Worlds had New Jersey (specifically Bayonne) getting blown up. The film crew actually did blow up a small park in Bayonne adventure travel vacation package as part of the movie (the crew rebuilt it afterwards).
At one point in Zoolander , Derek goes to work with his family in the coal mines of South Jersey. The real South Jersey is a vast coastal plain, hardly the place where one would find coal mines... but of course, this is supposed to be a joke.
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 adventure travel vacation package can't resist going for the easy target when her training starts adventure travel vacation package to wear on her nerves.
In The Long Kiss Goodnight , Geena Davis' character, a CIA agent, lives in New Jersey, and has to get out. She complains adventure travel vacation package that she gave birth to a child got herself out of Beirut, so getting adventure travel vacation package out of New Jersey shouldn't be too hard. Samuel L. Jackson 's character disagrees, saying many have tried and failed, including the state's entire population.
The Professional (aka Leon ) 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.)
Michael adventure travel vacation package Myers' hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois in the Halloween series was named after producer Debra Hill's hometown of Haddonfield, New Jersey... which shares a freeway exit with the nearby town of Voorhees .
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 the sequel :
Eddie: Baby, there's nowhere else in the world like the Garden State! You got miles of swamps and mountains of dumps... different colored rivers... automobile graveyards, adventure travel vacation package breweries, factories, ballparks, all mixed up together. It's the best place to live.
Jean Shepherd wrote many short stories about Joisey. Many of them satirizing pop art such as the large ship sailing against traffic on Route 22, Lucy, the giant elephant hotel room in Margate, and them concrete Mexicans and flamingos on people's lawns.
On Big Bang Theory Leonard adventure travel vacation package 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 adventure travel vacation package at retribution. However when Sheldon tries to pull a trick on Leonard, Leonard manages to turn it against Sheldon.
New Jersey is often used as the butt of jokes by late-night comics like Jay Leno and David Letterman , as well as New York-based sitcoms like Seinfeld and Friends . Listing all of the instances of this would require a separate page.
Particularly adventure travel vacation package notable is How I Met Your Mother , which has devoted entire episodes to mocking adventure travel vacation package Jersey, despite the writers seeming to have no idea what the state is like. note Nobody would say "There's adventure travel vacation package a motel just down the Turnpike." The Turnpike runs the entire length of the state with very few exits, and is used to travel long distances quickly. They probably meant the Parkway.
A genuine Princeton-Plainsboro hospital is under construction on Route 1 as of this writing; the design of it has obviously been inspired adventure travel vacation package by House . (The actual building used for House is just a mile or so away it's the back side of Princeton University's adventure travel vacation package Frist Student Center.)
The notorious MTV Reality Show Jersey Shore follows eight self-proclaimed guidoes/guidettes (most of whom aren't from
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