New Jersey, Simpsons-style

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27 seasons, so many nods to Jersey

Sunday marks the 27th season finale for Fox TV's 'The Simpsons.' To mark the ocassion, we turned to the amazing web site Frinkiac.com, which allows users to search more than 3 million Simpsons screen captures by text, to find all those times Homer and Marge mention or enter the great state of New Jersey, like this shot of the Simpsons' version of the NJ State flag flying over the Atlantic City boardwalk. We also added a few extras that Frinkiac didn't catch. Doubtless there's been many more New Jersey references over the years. What did we miss? Let us know in the comments.

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1. "Catch 'Em if you Can," Season 15, Episode 18

When Homer starts to get frisky with Marge inside a glass elevator in Atlantic City's "Trump Brothel" Marge warns that people can see them through the windows. "Oh, yeah, like people in New Jersey have never seen a fat man making out?” Homer replies. “It's on the freakin' state flag."

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2. "The Springfield File" Season 8, Episode 10

Homer reports seeing an alien and, in an X-Files spoof, FGI Agents Mulder and Scully decide to investigate. Scully questions the alien sighting and mentions a shipment of drugs and weapons coming into New Jersey as possibly more important. But they blow it off, with Mulder saying, "I hardly think the FBI cares about that."

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3. "Lost Our Lisa" Season 9 Episode 24

Lisa takes public bus to the museum and the driver announces the stop as “Little Newark, Little Newark.” Then, “Crackton, Crackton next stop.”

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4. Prank calls to Moe

A running gag through multiple episodes are prank calls Bart places to bartender Moe. It's based on the famous Tube Bar tapes, a series of cassette tapes widely circulated in the 1980's of pranksters John Elmo and Jim Davidson calling the Tube Bar, then located in Journal Square in Jersey City, which prompted similar threats of violence from the bartender Louis "Red" Deutsch. This one is from Season 1, Episode 3.

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5. 'Missionary: Impossible' Season 11, Episode 15

Homer becomes a missionary on a pristine tropical island and introduces the natives to alcohol and gambling, with disastrous results. Of course, he blames them for the chaos that ensues, saying, “I gave you a glittering Vegas and you turned it into a skanky Atlantic City!”

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6."Brother from Another Series" Season 8, Episode 16

Fresh out of prison, Krusty the Clown sidekick Sideshow Bob catches up with his brother Cecil (who years earlier failed the audition for the Clown sidekick gig) over dinner and the two rehash old grievances, with Cecil accusing Bob of referring to Princeton University as a clown college.

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7. "Old Money" Season 2, episode 17

Grandpa has a girlfriend and goes to a military antiques shop to buy her a birthday present, where the owner drops a Battleship New Jersey reference.

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8. "Homer the Vigilante" Season 5, Episode 11

This totally random New Jersey reference comes in a faux beat poem being read by beatniks gather in a park. Homer drops a nuclear bomb the group in a (day)dream sequence as he forms a vigilante group to stop a neighborhood burglar

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9. "Screaming Yellow Honkers" Season 10, Episode 15

Marge gets a new SUV and drives like a maniac through traffic, zig zagging and cutting people off and, when she gets stuck behind some slow pokes, yells "Oh for God's sake, go back to New Jersey."

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10. "Stark Raving Dad" Season 3 Episode 1

Homer gets sent to a mental institution and befriends a man claiming to be Michael Jackson and who speaks in Jackson’s soft voice (Jackson himself voiced the character). The man later confesses to being a bricklayer from New Jersey.

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11. "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge" Season 13 Episode 22

Homer starts a private police department amid blackout looting and busts "Fat Tony" for selling ferrets with glued-on cottontails and passing them off as poodles. Fat Tony decides to retaliate and calls in his goons. "Ah, my Jersey muscle,'' he says, as Sopranos-like characters show up. Next follows a brilliant Simpsons remake of the opening credits of HBO's 'The Sopranos', with Fat Tony driving through Springfield like Tony Soprano on the NJ Turnpike.

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12."The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" Season 10 episode 2

Homer and Bart go to the Edison National Historical Site in West Orange to steal a tip-proof chair Edison invented. They join a tour group but slip away as the group heads into the Edison’s “childhood gift shop” which is lined with items like a t-shirts with images of lightbulbs reading “screw this” and “AC/DC ”