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Place Worse Than Death

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Place Worse Than Death	comment	There are a few places in this world that nobody ever wants to go to. Not that it's immediately dangerous, like Hell. But its reputation is so bad that being sent there is a Cool and Unusual Punishment. The threat of sending someone there can function as a Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon threat. And willingly going there is an act of extreme bravery, insanity, and/or desperation. In a fantasy setting, there is a good chance your character will go there, for whatever reason (most likely because of The Law of Conservation of Detail). Of course, sometimes this is merely a throwaway gag. I mean, who would want to actually go there? See also Hell, Room 101, Maximum Fun Chamber, I Don't Like the Sound of That Place, Forbidden Zone, and Death World. See also You Would Not Want to Live in Dex and Reassigned to Antarctica.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_11c52110	comment	Instructions Not Included: During the trial to see if Valentin is fit to remain Maggie's father, it's mentioned that his job (stuntman) is one of the three most dangerous jobs in the world. The other two are construction worker and bus driver in Mexico City.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_16a23355	comment	In a section of How to Be a Superhero suggesting disguising yourself as a state, it's mentioned you could disguise yourself as New Jersey by covering yourself in trash and playing Bruce Springsteen too loud.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_1925916d	comment	In Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City, while much of New York is celebrated, treating Staten Island like the worst place imaginable is a Running Gag. Whenever anyone who doesnâ€™t live there talks of the idea of maybe going there, they come up with excuses not to do so. At one point, a monk treats his monastery as "far away, in a remote place, where only the most dedicated can reach it"â€¦ which turns out to be Staten Island.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_1a12bbee	comment	An issue of The Mighty Thor involves Hercules telling a group of kids a story about him fighting Thor. He's going on about how easily he was winning until he realizes that one of them is a Thor fan and the others are just hoping to pick on him. He quickly changes the story to Thor simply feigning weakness, and it ends with Herc getting punched across the sky. "I landed in a place the Gods forgot - New Jersey!"
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Place Worse Than Death / int_1a262ab5	comment	Minor example: when the topic of "vacationing by smell" came up in Get Fuzzy (the October 30, 2003 strip), one character suggested going to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh residents, to put it mildly, did not take it well. They weren't exactly shy about taking shots at other places for their odor, though. (Two that were named specifically were Philly and Jersey; see above.)
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Place Worse Than Death / int_24a18ffe	comment	In PartnerShip, the Royal Brats who become known as the Nyota Five have all been assigned places in the distant Nyota system, in several cases as a result of their various failings that would have seen people with fewer connections severely punished. Three are assigned to spots on the most pleasant and habitable planet in the system. Polyon has been assigned to a factory staffed by prisoners on a world with a constant, biting north wind. He disables all environmental regulations as soon as he takes charge and makes it significantly worse. Blaize is assigned to a station on Angalia that's nothing but a plateau rising above a horizon-to-horizon sea of mud that's regularly swept with mud waves.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_24ffd341	comment	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is this, period. Most of the jokes are directed at the characters, but it certainly doesn't let the town off easily either.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In one episode, Homer travels to Winnipeg, Canada, and the road sign on approaching the city proclaims "We were born here. What's your excuse?" And in the episode where they move to Cypress Creek: For Lisa Simpson, any university (and that is ANY university) that is not Ivy League is seen as an example of this. The very thought of the possibility that only Brown University will accept her if she doesn't ace a random test drives her to cheat on the episode "Lisa Gets an "A"". In another episode, Marge stared in a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire with a song that said some pretty bad things about New Orleans. This caused an outcry from quite a few actual citizens of that city, so much that Bart's chalkboard gag in an episode a few weeks later read "I will not defame New Orleans." At the end of "Kill The Alligator and Run", the Simpsons are banned from ever returning to Florida. In the final scene of the episode, Marge is standing next to a map of the United States, with 48 of the states crossed off, leaving North Dakota and Arizona as the only remaining states where they haven't been banned from yet. Bart gives good reasons why they should never go there in the first place, and she crosses them off too. In "Lisa Gets The Blues", Marge plans a family vacation to Gainsville, Florida. After immediate protesting by the family, the first thing she notices when buying plane tickets is that going there only costs $19. Getting out costs $999, much to Marge's annoyance. The airport employee consoles Homer after learning where they're going. Homer then incites a riot on board the plane, because nobody else wanted to go there either. This results in the plane landing in New Orleans instead.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_298c8595	comment	The Addams Family (2019): After being chased by an angry mob on their wedding day, Gomez and Morticia decide they need to move to a remote place so horrible, no one in their right minds would go there... cut to them driving past a sign that says "Welcome to New Jersey: What Are You Lookin' At?"
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Place Worse Than Death / int_309df9ea	comment	On Atop the Fourth Wall, in the review of Action Comics #593 Linkara has to explain about the New Gods. When he describes Apokalips, this is what he says "... Apokalips, which is New Jersey." A text blurb appears on the screen apologizing for the joke.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2: "That's the old passage to Ravenholm. We donÂ´t go there anymore." This isn't so much a joke, but rather serious commentary about the living conditions of Ravenholm. The player will later find out that the whole city has been completely overrun by Headcrab Zombies, and that nobody actually can live there anymore. The Combine Overworld is considered this, if not the entire dimension it exists in. Both citizens and soldiers are threatened with "Permanent Off-World Reassignment". Humans need invasive medical procedures to even survive the transfer, while Combine Soldiers have already had them. When soldiers in Nova Prospekt are told to kill or capture Gordon Freeman or be transferred to the Overworld, they relentlessly attack into his defensive position until every soldier in the sector is killed.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_8c5f856b	comment	Being Human: Nina asks Annie if she wants to talk about her experience of Purgatory: After rescuing her from Purgatory, Mitchell tells Annie that they've moved to a home in Wales. Annie jokingly replies that she'd rather go back to Purgatory.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_914ddbfd	comment	And then, when you thought Western PA didn't have anything more to throw you in the face, it shows it can go downhill... Pittsburgh, bad? Picture Punxsutawney. In winter. In a very, very silly festival. And then, every time you awake is February 2nd. Such is Phil Connors' fate in Groundhog Day.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_974f7efb	comment	On The Drew Carey Show Drew is amused to learn that Kate's boyfriend (who claims to be the devil) was born in Jersey, although this could also be a reference to urban legends of a monster called the Jersey Devil.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Impel Down is the World Government-controlled supermax prison housing many criminals and where all prisoners are tortured with various methods. It's referred to as Hell thanks to all the (mostly true) rumors floating around. The prison's Levels are based on various interpretations of Hell: the sharp and pointy "Crimson Hell" on level 1, the vicious and destructive beasts housed in the "Wild Beast Hell" on level 2, the scorching desert biome with minimal supply in "Starvation Hell" on level 3, the more conventional interpretation as home to constant inferno, smoldering brimstone and boiling lakes of blood in "Blazing Hell" on level 4, and the slow death by hypothermia and frostbite in the chilled "Freezing Hell" on level 5. There exists a Level 6, the "Eternal Hell" because anyone or anything sentenced there is considered a threat so great, it must be forgotten, and so they are wiped from the record completely and left to waste away. The Hanging Judge of Enies Lobby considers issuing a death sentence as a compromise — looking at Impel Down, it makes sense. The New World, the second half of the Grand Line, is widely described as such by the average Grand Line pirate. It's such a hellish place that they call the first half a "Paradise" in comparison, which says a lot when the first half is already considered to be this trope by most pirates from the Four Blues.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_a4514267	comment	In the horror movie-themed levels of Gex, Gex will compare his surrounding to Detroit.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_a506a38b	comment	In Wayne's World, Wayne and Garth use a backscreen that's flashing exotic locales to which the two make fun of the stereotypes associated with those places. Then the backscreen flashes Delaware, and the two can't think of anything associated with Delaware.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_a5549ed0	comment	"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" (John 1:46)
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Place Worse Than Death / int_a5fec434	comment	Twisted Metal III: in Minion's ending, he wishes to spend eternity in Hell. Calypso obliges and sends him to Hell, Michigan.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_a77de360	comment	In one of the episodes of the short-lived Dilbert TV show, two teams of engineers are competing, and the losing team will be transferred to Albany, NY — which is shown as being incredibly cold on the first day of summer. 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."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_a8729c90	comment	In The Fairly OddParents!, Jorgen Von Strangle lamented how Cosmo ended up stripping him from being a 4-star Fairy General down to 1 star because of his miraculous blunders, all in the timespan of a single day. First, with the reasoning that he was making it cleaner, he sunk Atlantis... nine times and erupted Mt. Vesuvius and destroyed the prosperous civilization of Pompeii (to make it warmer). Cosmo's last act displayed in this flashback is him changing the "high-tech, gleaming Utopia that was once Xanadu", turning it into a a factory-riddled city with a smog-covered sky, a murky, polluted river, and a perpetual traffic jam:
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ab67d84	comment	An issue of Ctrl+Alt+Del has Zeke heading somewhere 'devoid of humanity but where I can observe it'. Ethan questions: 'Jersey?'
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Place Worse Than Death / int_abfcff6a	comment	Rocky and Bullwinkle had Mooslevania, a place so bad that people would vacation there because afterwards any other place seemed like a vacation. It was also the subject of a territorial dispute between the US and Canada; Canada said it was part of the US, while the US said it was a part of Canada. Mooslevania almost became a real place thanks to a nationwide campaign. However, it was cut short due to the visit to Washington D.C. coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Nuisance", the Wattersons end up being such a nuisance to the town of Elmore that the mayor decides that they are to be relocated to Ohio. Anais comments that 8 people ended up becoming President of the United States just to get away from there.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ad29dc16	comment	All in the Family: Mike and Gloria are house hunting and Archie, wanting to get rid of Mike, keeps suggesting that he "Try Jersey":
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ae454c45	comment	The opening credits of Beverly Hills Cop really do not scathe in showing Detroit as a hellhole, in extremely stark contrast to the idyllically clean (although worm-infested) City of Beverly Hills. It's growing up in this city that turned Axel Foley into a Cowboy Cop.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b111d534	comment	Felix the Cat: The Movie: Felix comes over a hill and sees Progress City, a seedy town surrounded by a deadly swamp, to which Felix says "Where are we, New Jersey?"
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b2afdc9d	comment	Every game line in the Chronicles of Darkness has a signature city. Vampires have New Orleans, mages have Boston, changelings have Miami, and so on. Prometheans, standard-bearers of Blessed with Suck? Detroit. The books explain it away as tying in with the themes of creation, something new rising from wreckage of old... and the Wasteland effect Prometheans inflict.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b4996199	comment	When Spider-Man goes on live television to say that he's switching sides during Civil War, he says that the prison that unregistered heroes are being sent to is in the Negative Zone, which is like New Jersey... but worse''.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In the Invader Zim episode "A Room with a Moose," Zim threatens to send the entire class into the titular room with a moose, a dimension that simply consists of a white plane with a giant moose noisily and graphically munching on walnuts, which apparently is worse than both a dimension of pure dookie and one of pure itching.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b5a087d7	comment	An episode of Robot Chicken has the Care Bears ethnically cleansing Care-A-Lot by killing the Care Bear Cousins. Because of their actions, the Cloud-Keeper-In-The-Sky turns Care-A-Lot into New Jersey. It turns out to be a video reenactment on the history of New Jersey.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: "Solstheim? A terrible place, I've heard. There's a boat from Khuul, if you have any reason to go."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b618b457	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 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 Southend!"
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b6d7f4a8	comment	In the Celebrity Deathmatch episode where the Super-Freaks are introduced, Nick Diamond says that to create them, "we had to break the laws of physics! And most of the laws of industrial New Jersey."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b8404ba7	comment	Domina: In a Wretched Hive most of the world won't even touch, Acheron is still considered one of the worst parts of it, populated by nothing but traitors. And then there's Nishrek, the Fifty Battlefields, which is hated even more for its stupid design.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b9cc7496	comment	In Dogma, Metatron tells Bethany that God punished Bartleby and Loki for their crimes until the Rapture occurred.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_b9d45d45	comment	In Easy A, Olive's narration commenting on a character's punishment for contracting a venereal disease:
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ba084d45	comment	Hamilton pokes fun at New Jersey, but Word of God says it's "with love". In "Farmer Refuted": When Philip is about to duel:
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Place Worse Than Death / int_bafdcf82	comment	In Overside, Surya: a frozen wasteland where criminals and dissidents are exiled.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers: Animated: Inverted - 22nd century Detroit is the modern and shiny heart of the robot revolution. That is, the technological shift towards the greater use of robots, not a violent overthrow by robots. Although Soundwave does try that at one point. This seems to be mostly harkening back to the days when Detroit was a major hub of automobile manufactures. The Botcon script reading "Bee in the City" still had to get a dig in, however.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_bd9edbdd	comment	Ghostbusters II has Venkman calling Vigo the Carpathian an idiot for choosing New York as the site of his rebirth.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_c06a9c1c	comment	Final Space: Gary Goodspeed's reaction when he learns that the KVN Network is located in "The place formerly known as Wisconsin" on that abandoned version of Earth pretty much screams this trope. Later on Bolo, of all people, has a similar reaction.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_c4282b71	comment	The fluffy pony group fic The Fall of Cleveland has a developer build a theme park for fluffy ponies (small, fluffy man-made life forms often kept as pets) in Cleveland, a plan approved by the mayor in a desperate attempt to make some money for the city. However, the developer has rigged the park to explode as part of a plan to make his creations, "fuzzy ponies", the only biotoy on the market. The story ends with a massive tidal wave of fluffy ponies overwhelming the park, a herd getting into the local nuclear power plant, and Lake Erie swallowing the city.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Castrovalva": "The Unquiet Dead": The Doctor explains to Rose that he's landed in the wrong place and time, and she's so taken with being in the past that she keeps saying "I don't care". Then he says "It's Cardiff!" and she stops dead in shock. Later in the episode, the Doctor himself is disgusted that he's "gonna die in a dungeon! In Cardiff!"
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Place Worse Than Death / int_c4537e66	comment	In The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Mma Ramotswe (a proud Batswana) notes that she's not sure about Hell, but it must look something like Nigeria.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black:
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ca0410d1	comment	In Waitress, Becky suggests that Jenna open up a pie shop somewhere where they could use one, like Europe, "or New Jersey."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ca08598f	comment	As police commissioner Burrell says of his city during The Wire: "It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: The episode "Operation: D.I.A.P.E.R." has a shot taken at New Jersey where Numbuh Five tells the rest of the team where babies come from. The episode cuts off before Numbuh Five explains where babies come from, but we see the other operatives' reactions during the end credits. Most of them are sickened or confused, but Numbuh One (who has a reputation for being a Properly Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist) says, "Wait a second, that's preposterous! Babies don't come from New Jersey! They come from Philadelphia." In "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.", the Grand Finale of the series, the Disney Villain Death of the Delightful Children from Down the Lane is rather undignified and takes place in New Jersey, apparently. Numbuh One is struggling with them on a roller coaster at a condemned, toilet-themed theme park (which gives you a good reason why the place was condemned), which climaxes when they pass under a sign that reads "Now Entering New Jersey", and the five villains plummet into a giant toilet.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_e19d3690	comment	Dude, Where's My Car?: "We will now use the power of the Continuum Transfunctioner to banish you to Hoboken, New Jersey!" Ironically, nowadays Hoboken is the one place in New Jersey that New Yorkers don't look down on — it's actually seen as quite a good place to live.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "mini-golf", Strong Bad gets an email signed from "Somebody No-one Cares About in Iowa", to which Strong Bad quips "Also known as, everyone in Iowa." "Where The Crap Are We?", a short originally included as an Easter egg in Macromedia Central, has Strong Bad freaking out on realizing the "blue fadey land" he and Homestar were trapped in isn't heaven. Then Homestar chimes in with "Yeah, you're right. I think it's Massachusetts."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_e5db2eb8	comment	Pico: Philly is depicted as a demented City of Adventure home to child terrorists, nefarious cloning projects, and aliens looking to level the place, and that's in Tom Fulp's games alone. In order of appearance, its main "heroes" are an arsonist, a suicidal knife-wielding Dirty Kid, and the titular gun-toting hothead.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: The Academy is this to River.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In the episode "The Most Interesting Man in the World", Peter gets smarter from visiting America's smartest cities, so his family turns him back to normal by sending him to America's dumbest city: Tucson, Arizona. There, the people are giggling, snaggletoothed dolts who beat each other up, their philharmonic consists of wet t-shirt contests with chocolate milk, and the movie Battleship is still playing in theaters. (and apparently, this wasn't the first time Seth MacFarlane took shots at Tucson.) In the episode "Into Harmony's Way", Peter and Quagmire go on tour as a singing duo; the first place they go to is New York, but it turns out to be a thin painting of New York over the road, with Delaware on the other side. The sign outside the state reads, "Sorry we had to trick you. This is how we get visitors."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ea7635f4	comment	In Alien: Resurrection, Johner half-seriously says that he'd rather face the Aliens than go to Earth.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ec58a50e	comment	The late comedian Robin Harris often made jokes that calling Hell from Compton, CA was a Local call (as opposed to Long-Distance). The joke was adapted into the animated adaptation of BÃ©bÃ©'s Kids, with the titular kids' apartment building being the place: "Try to phone Hell from here, it'd be a local call."
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Place Worse Than Death / int_ef0c089b	comment	Cannibal! The Musical:
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Place Worse Than Death / int_f0a86c12	comment	A running gag in How I Met Your Mother is the gang (especially Barney) poking fun at Robin for being from Canada. This comes to a peak in "Return of the Slutty Pumpkin", where Barney is horrified to discover his paternal grandmother was born in Canada, making him one-quarter Canadian. Hilarity Ensues.
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Place Worse Than Death / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	In Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, one of the Rangers' semi-regular Rogues Gallery has bought all of New Jersey. Gooseman's tone of voice when Doc relates this fact to him is one of disbelief that anyone with that amount of cash would choose to live there, much less own it. Something of an in-joke, as the series was produced in New York.
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