The affluent eastern Bergen County borough of Alpine garnered some national recognition Tuesday night. It was officially established that Beth and Randall Pearson, as portrayed by Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson on NBC’s “This is Us,” also call the borough home.

Which makes Randall's decision to run for city council more than 100 miles away in Philadelphia a bit mind-boggling. He mentioned early in the new episode Tuesday night his plans to run for the post based on the fact that he owns a building in the city's 12th district.

So he popped down from North Jersey to have a campaign event while his wife went to a job interview. After she wrapped up, she dropped by his event as well. As though it was right around the corner, which residents of Bergen County know is not the case. And Twitter took notice.

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This isn’t new either. In the Oct. 16 episode, Randall was in Philly changing light bulbs and made it back to Midtown Manhattan in record time to attend his brother’s movie premiere. That's a two and a half hour ride with no traffic, and — let's be real — there's always traffic. The rules of geography don't seem to apply.

To add insult to injury for the complete disregard to the actual way the headache-inducing highway system in New Jersey works, the show's creator is a Bergen County native himself.

Dan Fogelman grew up in River Vale and is a graduate of Pascack Valley High School. He said in an interview earlier this week that he has the "ability to always think of myself as a guy from Jersey." Is that really the case though if he thinks a commute to Philadelphia is just a hop, skip and a jump away?

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