In Popular Culture
- In the 1999 film Being John Malkovich, Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is dropped in a ditch beside the New Jersey Turnpike.
- Much of the opening credits of The Sopranos consists of shots of or from the New Jersey Turnpike in the areas of exits 13, 14-14C, and 15W.
- Bruce Springsteen's song "State Trooper", describes someone driving the New Jersey Turnpike.
- Simon and Garfunkel's song "America" contains the lyric, "counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike."
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion song "Big Road," from their 1993 album Extra Width tells of driving on the Turnpike, and mentions several iconic features of the road, including a "Roy Rogers Roast Beef Sandwich," reference to the cost of gas and tolls to drive its full length, and concludes with Spencer rattling off the names of several of the people for whom rest areas have been named.
- Chuck Berry's 1956 song "You Can't Catch Me" features the lyrics "New Jersey Turnpike in the / wee wee hours I was / rolling slowly 'cause of / drizzlin' showers."
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