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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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A running gag in The Penguins of Madagascar is the horror of the Hoboken Zoo in North Jersey. In the episode "All Tied Up With a Boa" there is a news report of a snake escaping from the Hoboken Zoo. When the anchor points out the panicked people running in the background, the reporter says, "This has nothing to do with the snake, it's just Hoboken." One episode has the penguins actually arrive at the Hoboken Zoo, only to find that it's actually a pleasant place where everyone is nicer. Double Subverted when it turns out that the new zookeeper is a Stepford Smiler obsessed with cleaning who has replaced all the animals with robots. |
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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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Megas XLR takes a shot at Philly, too, it being Coop's go-to place to dispose of the giant monsters he had accidentally unleashed. | |
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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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In the skit "Last Will and Temperament" by the Canadian radio comedy troupe, The Frantics, the will ends with the deceased leaving "my entire estate of 10 million dollars to the people of Calgary so they can afford to move somewhere decent." | |
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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 doesn’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"… which turns out to be Staten Island. | |
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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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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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The headline in Our Dumb Century "Harry Houdini Escapes From Wisconsin", about the famed magician's death.note Most of his childhood was spent in Wisconsin. There's a plaza named after him in Appleton. | |
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X-Men: On seeing Krakoa (the Living Island) for the first time, Iceman quips that it could be Cleveland. After some rambling, he decides that yes, it definitely could be Cleveland. | |
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In a Decap Attack strip of Fleetway's Sonic the Comic, the crew are all bustled down into an infernal train station, where the intercom advises passengers bound for the netherworld, hell, and Milton Keynes to change trains. | |
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Max gets a twofer in Poker Night at the Inventory as part of his anecdote about Artie Flopshark getting assaulted by Flint Paper for seeking payment from a person he'd taught to play a game that Flint believed didn't exist. When Tycho pressed him for the name of the game, Max replied that it was the name of 'someplace horrible', suggesting either Omaha or Topeka.note Omaha Hold'em is a real poker variant, like Texas Hold'em | |
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The Channel Awesome Anniversary Brawl begins with The Nostalgia Critic singing an ode to Chicago, (Oh what an adequate morning!) loaded with Take Thats to Chicago that make it sound like this. Malachite, who was banished to a Starbucks Expy after being defeated in the third year anniversary of Channel Awesome. |
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Spiderman Into The Spiderverse: Peter Parker remarks that while opening a black hole in Brooklyn would be unacceptable, doing it in Staten Island might be ok. | |
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JonTron upon finding out that the Barbie Game Boy game was developed in Glenn Rock, New Jersey. | |
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Chucky: In the episode "Goin' to the Chapel", this is Chucky's reaction to the start of the heroes' attempted exorcism on him: | |
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Harold and Kumar live in New Jersey (Hoboken, to be precise), but after accidentally taking a detour near the beginning: And then they see two guys who Kumar describes as "a lame version of us" get the crap kicked out of them, prompting them to haul ass out of there. |
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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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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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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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In the Disney Channel Original Movie, The Luck of the Irish, Big Bad Seamus makes a deal with Kyle to return the latter's lucky coin after losing a bet, and to "live forever in the land of [Kyle's] father, in the shores of Erie." Seamus misinterprets Erie as Kyle mispronouncing Eire, the Irish word for Ireland, and is horrified when Kyle corrects him that his dad's from Cleveland, and Seamus gets transported into Lake Erie. | |
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At one point the members of Justice League Europe believe they are going to be relocated from London to Vienna. They universally regard this with horror and dismay. | |
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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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One episode of the American Whose Line Is It Anyway? had as a Scene From A Hat "Versions of Hell without fire or brimstone". Greg presented it as driving eternally in Mississippi. They also repeat the joke for Fresno and Seattle. | |
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In Delta Farce when the trio mistakenly thinks they've been deployed in Iraq (actually Mexico), Larry comments "We're in Iraq! The most dangerous place in the world... Well, except for Detroit." | |
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In Bruges regards the title city as such. | |
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The Looney Tunes short "Devil's Feud Cake" (also known as the "Satan's Waitin' Segment in The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie) involved Yosemite Sam going to Hell. | |
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Grand Theft Auto 2: It's hinted at through the radio that the city is on the verge of complete chaos. Poor Dean Frantz has had his car stolen five times in as many weeks. | |
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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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Onrac may as well be cursed even by the standards of 8-Bit Theater, given that it loses the tourist destination its economy was based on, is cut off by sea monster attacks, and then plays host to the Light Warriors, which leads to it being repeatedly devastated and eventually totally obliterated. | |
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Half-Life 2: "That's the old passage to Ravenholm. We don´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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On the mid-season finale of the final season of Mad Men, Peggy and Julio (the son of the woman renting an apartment from Peggy) have this conversation: | |
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Airplane!: "It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It was worse than Detroit." | |
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In the musical 1776, John Adams laments: | |
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Special credit must be given to future Manhattan in Escape from New York, which has been walled off as a prison and turned over entirely to the dregs of society. | |
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London, according to Sweeney Todd: | |
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From Calvin and Hobbes: | |
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Unforgiven | |
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The Devil's Dictionary: Man spreads so rapidly as to conquer "the entire habitable Earth and Canada". It was the fool who founded "theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago". |
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Animaniacs: In "Meatballs or Consequences", The Grim Reaper brings the Warner siblings to the bleak and ominous Land of the Dead. | |
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In The Mighty Kong, Carl Denham discusses a plan to buy land in New Jersey for King Kong to inhabit. Anne protests this: "He can’t survive in Jersey! No one can!" | |
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In Supernatural, when Sam and Dean Winchester need to meet with Lucifer in person in order to implement their ill-advised plan, they find the Devil and his entourage in Detroit. | |
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Cowboy Bebop: "Nothing good comes from the Earth anymore." | |
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Earthworm Jim found it on a list of the worst places in the universe when searching for an Artifact of Doom. | |
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The LeQuint Dickey Mining Company in Django Unchained is a mining company infamous for its cruel treatment of their slaves, such that Stephen, the head house slave of Candyland, considers being sold to them worse than being castrated, whipped to death, thrown to the Mandingos, or even ripped apart by Stonesipher's dogs. Django narrowly avoids winding up there after the Candyland shootout. | |
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Adeptus Ridiculous is a podcast about Warhammer 40,000. Sometimes, when the two stars (Bricky and DK) talk about a particularly horrible part of the galaxy (of which there are many), the editor (Shy) would display a picture of Cleveland. One time Bricky and DK noticed, and commented that the Warhammer 40k universe isn't that bad. | |
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Eraserhead was partly inspired by David Lynch's stay in this city, which he claims left him with a sense of dread. | |
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Donovan D. Dawson from VA-11 Hall-A calls the titular bar a hell hole, but says he's seen worse... like New Jersey III. | |
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MADtv (1995) did a skit about words being removed from the dictionary and Detroit is one of those words. | |
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In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 3 ends with Jake and Captain Holt being forced to enter witness protection in Florida. It's pretty much portrayed as a hell of tanning beds, firearms, corn dogs, ATVs, and far-right conservatives. Jake refers to the state as "America's butt". | |
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Everyone in Skin Horse agrees... but the transgenic animals just love the place. | |
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The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker (and its film version) shows New York as a real cesspit, even before the introduction of the serial killing Butcher and the ancient conspiracy he serves. The main character originally had hopes of "falling in love" with the city when he first moved there, but has become cynical about New York when the story starts. To be fair, he does love the city by the end, if only because he's been mutilated and brainwashed into serving as the new Butcher of New York after killing the old one in self-defence. | |
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Axl Rose, and by extension, Guns N' Roses, have had a lot of bad beef with St. Louis, and especially the municipality of Riverport. Not only was it the place where Axl gained notoriety in 1991 for having a concert halted midway due to poor security refusing to take down someone allowed to have a camcorder in the audience and indirectly sparked a city-wide riot, which the blame was then laid onto the groupnote According to eyewitness accounts and offhand stories from staff at the time, said person with the camcorder had ties with security, allowing him to sneak it through. Axl and the band were going to go back on stage for the audience, but the cops and stage management refused to let them on., but Axl also had some messy experiences in the town, including nearly getting raped by an ice machine repairman who hitchhiked him to a nearby hotel when he visited the city as a runaway teen. As such, the reason why Use Your Illusion I & II has the nice hidden message of "Fuck You St. Louis". | |
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After John McCain announced that he would "chase Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell," The Daily Show decided to have a correspondent file a report from the gates of hell... which are in Philadelphia/South Jersey. | |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim: In Episode 19, Norlock banishes some hobos who are attacking him by throwing them through a portal which is supposed to send people to a hellish nightmare world but for some reason only sends them to Newark. He then shrugs and says that it's the same end result. | |
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EuroTrip: Thanks to Scotty's rather poor grasp of German, a truck driver in Amsterdam takes the gang to Bratislava instead of Berlin. They collectively react with dismay. | |
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Starbomb's "It's Dangerous to Go Alone" has Link mention Hyrule looking "just like Philadelphia but even more shitty" at one point in the song. | |
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Terminal Lance: The suck that is deployment to Twentynine Palms has apparently reached memetic levels within the Marine Corps. However, according to the author's dispassionate analysis, Camp Lejeune is actually worse. While Lejeune is just as hot and the surroundings just as inhospitable as Twentynine Palms, the heat at Twentynine Palms is dry, and Twentynine Palms is within a couple of hours' drive from both Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Lejeune is stuck in the swampy ass-end of North Carolina nowhere and the humidity is murderous. | |
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In the plot of the John Candy movie Delirious he plays a soap opera writer transported into his own show and can write out other people's words and actions. When one character (played by Robert Wagner, who Candy's character calls Robert Wagner in a No Fourth Wall moment) becomes a nuisance he writes for them a hasty exit. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): Both "Dealer's Choices" and "I of Newton" explicitly compare New Jersey (the city of Newark specifically in the latter) to Hell. In "Dealer's Choice", the Devil shows up for a card game: | |
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A bonus video for Suburban Knights reveals that Malachite was banished to a cafe in Wisconsin, forced to work as a barista there forever and be abused by the owner. | |
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In PAYDAY 2's Slaughterhouse job, going into the toilet as Houston will make him remark it smells like Detroit. | |
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Mario Puzo's books have mobsters talk of being "sent to Siberia", meaning upstate New York prisons in general and Dannemora State Prison near Malone by the Canadian border in particular. | |
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Dave Barry Slept Here jokes that Richard Nixon left politics to live in a state of utter disgrace: New Jersey. (He was not making that up; Nixon actually lived out his last years in Park Ridge, New Jersey.) | |
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Matt of Two Best Friends Play brings this up during one Let's Play. | |
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In Dinosaucers, when the Tyrannos are on the brink of success, Quackpot (based on a Hadrosaurus) says he wants Florida. Genghis Rex tells him that he'll get what he deserves, at which Quackpot laments, "Not New Jersey! That's too small!" | |
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High School Lessons: Outsiders consider the town of Eastpoint to be this. Eastpoint resident Rowan considers Nevada this. | |
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Red Dwarf: "What's death like?" "Ever been to Swindon?" | |
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In Kingdom Hearts: The Short and Honest Version, we had the rather brilliant Bait-and-Switch Comparison below. | |
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In Labyrinth, Hoggle is terrified of being banished to the Bog of Eternal Stench. Unlike many of the other places on this list, the audience actually does get to see it. Perhaps fortunately, however, we don't get to smell it. | |
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Steel: A quite divisive arc of the series had John Henry Irons moving Steelworks to New Jersey, which was represented as a humongous Wretched Hive in which he barely made a dent, either socially or through fighting supervillains, before moving back to Metropolis. | |
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Asuka throws out a line on Germany in the manga of Neon Genesis Evangelion: since the Second Impact, all she can remark upon is how the streets constantly smell like alcohol and garbage. | |
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MAD: In a parody of American Idol, a judge tells a Dreadful Musician, "You know how when contestants do very well, they're told 'You're going to L.A.' or 'You're going to New York'? Well, you're going to Steubenville!" | |
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American Dad!: In "Minstrel Krampus", one of the songs Krampus sings has him lament his ex Sheila standing him up in "dirty-ass Baltimore". After Krampus is killed and Stan's dad takes over as the new Krampus, Jack is then shown holding a steady job as a bus driver in Baltimore, and he's quick to rag on the city. |
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Subverted in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Want." A dancer at a strip club refuses her boss's suggestion that she transfer to a club in Jersey, with a disgusted tone that suggests this trope. But later, we find out that's where her mother lives: the implication is that the girl just didn't want to bring her unsavory work so close to home. | |
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In Blue Yonder, Black Dog is told his pilot, if lucky, is in the rings of Saturn, and if not -- Edinburgh. | |
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CinemaSins: Milwaukee is sinned in the first episode of Wednesday. | |
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Hairspray (2007): "Good morning Baltimore! There's the flasher that lives next door, there's the drunk on his barroom stool; they wish me luck on my way to school..." (Most John Waters films tends towards an affectionate mocking of his hometown, though.) | |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight has this exchange: | |
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The entire world in Swan Song. A massive earthquake strikes the region on Christmas, while in the middle of a massive snowstorm that lasts for days on end. It just becomes so much of a Crapsack World where people are struggling to survive, that some comment that those who died in the initial earthquake were the lucky ones. | |
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In Videodrome, Pittsburgh is treated this way throughout the film. It is where the videodrome signal comes from, and "See you in Pittsburgh" is later used in lieu of the regular "See You in Hell". | |
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According to Monsters, Inc., the main form of punishment for a monster is permanent banishment to the human world, though, given that the monsters believe that humans, especially children, are deadly, this is justifiable. | |
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In the Fallout 3 DLC "The Pitt", the city of Pittsburgh has become a radioactive and highly toxic center for slavery. | |
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At the beginning of Mr. Baseball, over-the-hill ballplayer Jack Elliot gets told his team (The New York Yankees) has traded him, and that there was only one taker. He immediately asks with horror if they're sending him to Cleveland, and is visibly relieved when the manager says it's not Cleveland. | |
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In one episode of The Inbetweeners, Mr Gilbert threatens to sabotage Will's university prospects so that it's "Goodbye first-rate education, hello University of Lincoln." | |
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Occasional mention is made in Borderlands and Borderlands 2 of Promethea, which is said to be the only known planet where life is even more miserable than on Pandora, and Pandora is pretty damn bad. Borderlands 3 would show that Promethea is a modernized civilization with a very hard divide between the rich and the impoverished. Promethea is apparently so bad because the majority of the population just can't afford anything to live with. | |
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In the Infocom interactive fiction game Leather Goddesses of Phobos, there is a scene in Cleveland. They make fun of it even in the InvisiClues. ('How do I get out of Cleveland?' 'Millions of people ask this question every day!') | |
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Animaniacs (2020): The short "Equal Time" has Dot doing a news report on the 2020 primary election in Iowa, which is depicted as a backwater farm covered in half-melted snow with no one around but a single bored cow. She also describes Iowa as "the one state we pretend to care about one January every four years." | |
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Banjo-Kazooie: "You should be grateful, I could've sent you to Hoedown Town. It's awful. The music, the dancing! Oh my!" | |
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Omega station, built on the core of a mined-out asteroid, has this kind of reputation in Mass Effect 2. The place is a Wretched Hive where there is no law enforcement, no government, mercenary gangs run amok, batarian slavers can wrangle victims out in the open, Collectors routinely abduct "interesting and rare specimens" for experimentation, bartenders poison people of a certain species, short-lived but sentient people are treated as vermin with "cleaners" advertising themselves, burlesque acts are implied to involve on stage taming of beasts, Ardat Yakshi can openly hunt for prey, and newbie storekeepers are forced to sell high by well-established competition. | |
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Howard the Duck keeps ending up back in Cleveland, much to his chagrin. | |
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Even Steven Universe makes fun of New Jersey in "Same Old World". While Steven is showing Lapis Lazuli some of the sights near Beach City, they fly over "Jersey", which is full of smog-belching factories and traffic jams. Steven jokes "The people here seem to hate the Earth too", and a grumpy local throws a boot at Lapis for "flying through our airways". | |
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In God, the Devil and Bob, God needs Bob to talk Satan out of his funk...which means Bob has to go to Hell. "You've been to Branson, Missouri. It's not that different!" | |
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Stephen Colbert on Pittsburgh, from The Colbert Report: | |
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In 42, being traded to Pittsburgh is used as a threat against some of the Dodgers. | |
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The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police: In "Dysfunction of the Gods", Max accidentally opens Pandora's box in the middle of a Las Vegas casino. | |
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In Diva of Musical Hell's review of the 1986 Made-for-TV Movie version of Babes in Toyland, she is spectacularly unimpressed by the characters' fanatical pride in their hometown of Cincinnati, expressed in song form. When the song is reprised and protagonist Lisa's hometown pride counters the antagonist's magic, a disgusted Diva asks, "Have you ever actually been there?" and cues an unflattering picture of an inner-city street as she adds the scene to the film's sin count. As one of the film's punishments, "for singing the praises of a very un-praiseworthy city", she condemns the late Leslie Bricusse (who composed the new songs for the adaptation) to an extended stay there. | |
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The whole point of The Toxic Avenger movies - where else would someone get turned into a hideous radioactive mutant? | |
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The Punisher MAX: "Six Hours to Kill" sees Frank get gassed and wakes up in Philadelphia, where yuppie criminals tell him they've injected him with a poison that will kill him in six hours unless he kills the people they tell him to. Frank kills the Smug Snake telling him this and goes around killing every Philadelphia operation he knows of. Then it turns out the yuppies are in league with the mayor of Philadelphia committing just about every crime possible (including corrupt cops used as hitmen). Frank is rescued in extremis (much to his chagrin: he didn't even bother looking for the antidote and spent those six hours removing as much scum as he could), and leaves, reflecting how much he hates the city (note that Frank lives in an even worse version of The Big Rotten Apple, where drug dealers, human traffickers, and snuff filmmakers operate in near-broad daylight). | |
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In the U.S. Acres segments of Garfield and Friends, Orson the pig's overactive imagination is so powerful that when he reads a book, reality warps to look like whatever he's reading about. In one episode, he accidentally transports everyone to the surface of the Moon; one character, when asked where they are, responds, "Looks like New Jersey, except with more trees." | |
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John Betjeman wrote the poem "Slough" to trash its transformation into a dreary factory town, inviting bombs to obliterate it in the first stanza. This was one of the reasons the town was chosen as the setting for the original The Office (UK). The DVD packaging includes the poem. David Brent also gives his analysis of the poem in the series proper. | |
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Angela Martin from The Office (US) hates Philadelphia. This is somewhat expected for someone from Northeastern Pennsylvania, though the intensity is (as expected from Angela) on another level: | |
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The Bastard Operator from Hell does this with Luton. | |
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God in Puppet History freely admits to crafting some of the worst natural catastrophies on Earth, but also includes creating "Tampa, Florida, and also the rest of Florida" with this list. | |
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In Book of the Dead (2006), Agent Coffey threatens the prison guards with termination and transfer to North Dakota. When everything comes crashing down on him, Coffey is heavily demoted and transferred to North Dakota. | |
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Helloween4545 says that Swindon, England is this. | |
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The mock-atlas "Our Dumb World" by The Onion (which was created in Madison, Wisconsin) has a part entitled "Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Retards" | |
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Deliberately averted in Champions. In the Champions Universe, Detroit is leveled during an epic super-battle against Dr. Destroyer and is rebuilt afterward as Millennium City, a shining high-tech city of wonder that every other metropolis in the United States wishes it could be. Millennium City author Darren Watts specifically noted that he chose Detroit because of its underdog reputation and that "if any city deserved another shot ... it seems to me it's Detroit." | |
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In one episode of Hogan's Heroes, while going through the POWs' collection of maps, Kimch is surprised to see a map of Pittsburgh amongst them and asks if they ever had anyone escape to Pittsburgh, getting this retort in response: | |
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In Multiplex they are discussing the source of the zombie invasion of the movie theater. | |
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Inverted in 30 Rock, where Liz visits her then boyfriend after he's moved to Cleveland. She finds it to be far better than New York, including being asked if she's a model. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses. A Running Gag is Star dreading being sent there for causing trouble. | |
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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." | |
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During the "A Fistful of Yen" sequence in The Kentucky Fried Movie, a captured CIA agent is defiant at Dr. Klahn's taunts and even racially insults him... only to start screaming for mercy when he is to be... taken to Detroit. | |
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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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Game Grumps: In the first episode of their Hollow Knight playthrough, Arin and Danny jokingly compare Dirthmouth to Pittsburgh, and Hallownest/the Crossroads to Columbus, OH. | |
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In the Robocop franchise, the city has become such an impressive hellhole that turning a dead cop into a Nigh-Invulnerable cyborg with a Hand Cannon only barely begins to bring it Back from the Brink. Then comes the people who want to put a RoboCop statue in the city... | |
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In one episode, Homer makes a crack about Detroit, and Moe admonishes him, telling him that the people there are "living in Mad Max times" so they have it bad enough already. | |
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Jokes about New Jersey are common in The Real Ghostbusters. For example, in one episode, the heroes are dealing with an Eldritch Abomination that could consume the city: | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks gives us Starbase 80. Not much is known about this place, but mentioning the place is certain to put people like Military Maverick Beckett Mariner in line. When it's finally seen (albeit briefly) after Mariner is unjustly sent there, it's a rundown hellhole that drives her to resign her commission. | |
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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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Yogi Bear is frequently threatened by Ranger Smith to be sent there. | |
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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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Mystery Science Theater 3000: While watching Mac and Me in the revival series, one of the riffs is, "When visiting Bakersfield, California...reconsider." | |
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Dan Vs.: In the episode "Dan Vs. Burgerphile", the local Burgerphile manager Jeff is terrified of the prospect of being sent back to Maryland. | |
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Helluva Boss: The episode Seeing Stars has Octavia run away to the human world in an attempt to see a meteor shower. Loona is able to determine that she went to Los Angeles based on the scent of "urine and desperation''. Blitzo comments that LA "doesn't look much different from Hell". | |
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He gets in on this in Ultimate Spider-Man, too. After ending up in Brazil during a fight with Doc Ock (which involved Ock hijacking a plane), he hitches a ride on another plane, smuggles himself onto a third plane, and is finally woken up by baggage handlers. "Ugh! What's that smell? Oh, good, I made it to Jersey!" | |
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Often happens on 'Scenes We'd Like to See': The same programme has also had this: |
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The Good Place: Downplayed example in the first episode. Eleanor insists there ought to be a "medium" afterlife for people who aren't good enough to get into The Good Place but didn't commit any crimes worthy of eternal torture—then decides that Cincinnati would fit the bill. When Tahani finds out how she died (being crushed by a statue of her sister she was trying to knock down) her immediate reaction is horror to find out she died in Cleveland. |
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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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Much sport of the city of Milton Keynes is made in Good Omens (both the angel and the devil claim it as a success for their side), while Crowley is particularly proud of his work with Manchester. | |
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NewsRadio | |
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In The Men from the Ministry Outer Hebrides (where all civil servants too incompetent are reassigned) are considered the worst possible place to go; apparently bowler hats will get moldy in a week and the climate is so cold that even germs can't live there. | |
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Futurama: Utah gets it in the episode "Mars University". | |
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Apollo 13, when asked why the networks aren't showing the astronauts' broadcast: | |
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In the horror movie-themed levels of Gex, Gex will compare his surrounding to Detroit. | |
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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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"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" (John 1:46) | |
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The original edition of The Lorax, no less, contained a dig at the level of industrial pollution in Cleveland’s Lake Erie, when the humming-fish were forced to leave their home: While in the 1970s it really was that bad, some years later environmental researchers informed Seuss that efforts at cleaning the lake water had been successful, and he fairly removed the line from later printings. |
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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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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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Mr. Barron from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children considers Florida to be this. Later on, he adds Wales to the list. |
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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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Mel Brooks's original opening for the musical version of The Producers was Max Bialystock's horrible spoof of Oklahoma, titled "Hey Nebraska". The entire song was essentially this. Lyrics include "Oh, what a terrible morning/Oh what a terrible night,/Things in the state of Nebraska/Never will ever go right" and "Hey, Nebraska- You suck!" | |
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This is how Tomoya from CLANNAD perceives the town he grew up in, which is actually quite nice. This is more due to his Dark and Troubled Past rather than the actual town. His opinion changes by the end of the series. | |
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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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Upon reaching the climactic fights against the Jin Twins in Fatal Fury 3: Road To The Final Victory, Jin Chonshu declares their intention to take over the world and reinstate the Qin Dynasty after they're through with you... With the exception of Oshkosh, of course. The free world post its subjugation can have that part of Wisconsin. | |
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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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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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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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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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Significant portions of Transformers: Age of Extinction were filmed in downtown Detroit. One guess as to why. | |
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Played with on a Saturday Night Live sketch in which a group of white nationalists are describing their perfect world, an agrarian society devoid of any ethnic minorities. A newcomer interjects to point out that they had just perfectly described Vermont. Overlaps with Damned By a Fool's Praise, since the white supremacists mean it as a compliment In-Universe. | |
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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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Marty and Doc invoke this in Back to the Future Part II, faced with an alternate 1985 ruled by Biff Tannen. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Dogma, Metatron tells Bethany that God punished Bartleby and Loki for their crimes until the Rapture occurred. | |
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In Easy A, Olive's narration commenting on a character's punishment for contracting a venereal disease: | |
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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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In Overside, Surya: a frozen wasteland where criminals and dissidents are exiled. | |
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In The Purple Rose of Cairo, Gil Shepherd finds out from his agent that the character he plays has walked off the screen to be with a moviegoer. Gil thinks it's physically impossible, to which his agent simply replies, "In New Jersey, anything can happen." | |
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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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Ghostbusters II has Venkman calling Vigo the Carpathian an idiot for choosing New York as the site of his rebirth. | |
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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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Campfire Stories: Zach claims Fort Polk, Louisiana (renamed to Fort Johnson in 2023) is by far the worst U.S. Army base in existence (even counting the ones near combat zones), and that everyone who ends up there never ends up re-enlisting. In his words, "I don't have PTSD from being in Iraq, I have PTSD from being stationed at Ft. Polk and its shittiness!". | |
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When Mockingbird is asked to rejoin the Avengers, she quietly whispers, "Please don't say West Coast Avengers. Please don't say West Coast Avengers..." | |
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From Desperately Seeking Susan: | |
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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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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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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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Men in Black: | |
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In the original series of Biker Mice from Mars, Detroit is portrayed this way, being a decaying, dingy cesspit overrun by marauding bandits under the control of Napoleon Brie, a Plutarkian agent who has been strip-mining the entire city to sell its resources back to Plutark. The only ones who don't shun Detroit are the titular Biker Mice, who have a fascination with the city due to its motorcycle connections. | |
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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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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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The Great Lakes Avengers are based out of Milwaukee and treated as something of a joke by other heroing teams (and Marvel's writers); Squirrel Girl notwithstanding. The location is treated with the same reverence as the team. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: The "Election Night Special" sketch has a series of jokes about the "swing-o-meter", which ends up leading into a joke about how "Wales is not swinging at all; no surprise there." | |
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Inverted in the second season finale of The League of Gentlemen, when the dim-witted and sheltered Tubbs, faced with the possibility of death, asks Edward, "Will heaven... be like Swansea?" | |
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In All Saints Street, Australia is part of Hell's territory. | |
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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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Mac Hall features a terrified country boy refusing to set foot in NYC for fear of certain death. | |
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Light and Dark: New Hadden, the main setting of the comic, has a bad reputation for being a hellhole run by a corrupt mayor, where crime rates are high and gangs run amuck. | |
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Lampshaded in the lead-up to Secret Invasion: 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. He gets in on this in Ultimate Spider-Man, too. After ending up in Brazil during a fight with Doc Ock (which involved Ock hijacking a plane), he hitches a ride on another plane, smuggles himself onto a third plane, and is finally woken up by baggage handlers. "Ugh! What's that smell? Oh, good, I made it to Jersey!" |
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It's a running joke on Get Smart. Another one involves a retired bank robber who was deported... to Pittsburgh. "They really threw the book at him." |
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The Captain America riff is copied from Casablanca where Rick tells the Nazi commander that there are parts of New York he would advise the German Army not to invade. | |
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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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Downplayed in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Batou narrates that Berlin, Germany is the only city to have the "dubious honor" of having been bombed out in all four world wars, yet managed to rebuild after each time. | |
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The Sandman spin-off comic The Dreaming had one very lost character lament: | |
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South Park: In "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson!", when Cartman and the boys go to visit his grandmother they pass a sign that says "Now leaving Colorful Colorado," on a mountain background with a rainbow. The scenery changes abruptly to a gray sky (that is literally split on the state line) and seemingly-endless corn fields and a new sign reads "You are now in NEBRASKA. ...Sorry." There's also an episode where Kenny gets hit by a bus but doesn't die, instead ending up carried under the bus all the way to Mexico. In the next episode, Kenny manages to call his friends, and when he describes the place he wound up (i.e. drinking the water gives you bloody diarrhea), they're convinced Kenny is in Hell. In the same episode, Jesus decides to punish Cartman by sending him to a place "worse" than Hell. Guess where? And: When going to the Worldwide Recorder Concert in Arkansas, the sign when they entered declared "Yes, we are a state!". In "The Ungroundable", the goth kids send the leader of the vampire kids to what they consider the most horrible, most miserable place on Earth: Scottsdale, Arizona. |
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In episode 7 of Ugly Americans, Randall gets hit by a bus, tearing him in half, with his top half stuck to the bus. Because Randall's a zombie, this kind of traumatic injury isn't all that serious, and he seems moderately annoyed at the inconvenience of the situation... until he realizes the bus is heading to New Jersey, at which point he lets out a Big "NO!". | |
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In the T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Law & Odor" Dudley describes the Stink Bug's stench as "A hobo with an abscessed tooth driving a garbage truck in August in Atlantic City!" The "Atlantic City" part becomes a running gag throughout the episode. | |
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In Barney Miller, Fish once encountered a cult leader who claimed to be preparing his flock for an exodus to the planet Saturn. | |
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Honest Trailers when covering the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater franchise: | |
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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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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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It's mentioned a few times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer that there's a Hellmouth in Cleveland. | |
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Ms. Marvel (2014) is set in New Jersey, and Kamala herself will passionately defend the place, but during Loki's guest appearance in issue 12, he and the All-Mother engage in this (possibly with a shout-out to the The Mighty Thor comic mentioned above): | |
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In the film Disclosure, Tom Sanders is offered a transfer to Austin, Texas. This is later described as similar to "a duck making a lateral move to 'Ã l'orange'", or in other words similar to being roasted and eaten. Part of this may have less to do with any general shittiness of Austin, and more to do that Sanders knows that the transfer is a thinly veiled plot to get rid of him. The Austin branch is due to close in six months, meaning that the company could transfer him, pay him six months of salary and then quietly let him go, instead of having to handle the messy sexual harassment suit he is caught up in. | |
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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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As James Gandolfini's character in In the Loop so eloquently said, while talking about War Is Hell: "This is the problem with civilians wanting to go to war. It's terrible, horrible, and once you've been there you never want to go again unless you absolutely fuckin' have to.... It's like France." | |
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Firefly: The Academy is this to River. | |
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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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In Alien: Resurrection, Johner half-seriously says that he'd rather face the Aliens than go to Earth. | |
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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 Bébé'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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Def Jam: Fight For New York: | |
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One issue of The Transformers (Marvel) had Scorponok brawling with Starscream and Shockwave. Several humans in New York looked on from across the river when one of them asked if they should call the army or something. The guy standing next to him said "who cares, it's just New Jersey." | |
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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." | |
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Cannibal! The Musical: | |
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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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Burn Notice was originally going to be set in Newark, but network executives apparently found the idea of Michael Westen being exiled to New Jersey to be too depressing. | |
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History of the World Part II has this: | |
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The pilot of Hot in Cleveland refers to the city very negatively for the most part. The only reason the characters change their mind is that they're seen as attractive there, unlike in Los Angeles. | |
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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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Captain America White: After being asked what he would do if his home neighborhood of Brooklyn was taken over by Nazis, Cap jokes that there are parts of Brooklyn he wouldn't wish on even his worst enemies. Keep in mind that this was 1940's era Brooklyn, though. | |
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An episode of Night Court had Bull asking Yakov Smirnoff why it was so bad living in the Soviet Union. Yakov tells him to close his eyes and imagine he is "standing in the middle of Milwaukee. No matter where you go, you will still be in the middle of Milwaukee. You could get in a car and drive a hundred miles, you will still be in the middle of Milwaukee. You could..." At which point Bull screams for Yakov to stop. | |
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