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==Popular culture== [[File:Jack & Bill's Bar.jpeg|thumb|right|Jack & Bill's Bar, a landmark watering hole in Seaside Heights.]] Seaside Heights was the setting for MTV's reality TV series ''[[Jersey Shore (TV series)|Jersey Shore]]''. The first season of ''Jersey Shore'' was filmed in Seaside Heights and [[Toms River, New Jersey|Toms River]] during August 2009. The show's third season was also filmed in Seaside Heights, during July, August, and September 2010.<ref name=ppc>Reiss, Fraidy. [http://www.app.com/article/20091129/NEWS/91129051/Residents+express+anger+with+MTV+ "Shore residents express anger with MTV's ''Jersey Shore'' premise"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', November 30, 2009. Accessed January 25, 2015.</ref> After [[New York City]] officials nixed MTV's plans to hold a "[[Snooki]] Drop" at its studios in [[Times Square]] alongside the square's [[Times Square Ball|own ball drop]], the event was moved to Seaside Heights.<ref>Schwartz, Alison. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101231215943/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20453878,00.html "Snooki's New Year's Eve Ball to Drop in New Jersey"], ''[[People (magazine)]]'', December 31, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2011. "Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi will drop inside a ball on New Year's Eve in a location where she has fallen before: The Jersey Shore. Although it was reported earlier this month that the MTV reality star would ring in 2011 in New York City's Times Square, the location has been switched to Seaside Heights, N.J., where season 1 and the upcoming season 3 of ''Jersey Shore'' were filmed."</ref> The show returned to Seaside Heights for its fifth season, which wrapped filming on August 2, 2011, and began airing in January 2012.<ref>[http://www.realityaired.com/2011/shows/the-jersey-shore/jersey-shore-season-5-wraps-up-filming/ "'Jersey Shore' Season 5 Wraps Up Filming"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019090731/http://www.realityaired.com/2011/shows/the-jersey-shore/jersey-shore-season-5-wraps-up-filming/ |date=October 19, 2011 }}, RealityAired.com.</ref> Prior to ''Jersey Shore'', the town was also the setting of [[MTV]]'s ''True Life: I Have A Summer Share'', which was filmed in Seaside Heights, as was MTV's ''True Life: I'm a Jersey Shore Girl'' from 2004, which was one of the network's first stories of [[guidette]]s looking for the perfect [[Guido (slang)|guido]].<ref name=Sentinel>Jones, Marilyn. [https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2010/07/11/being-there-new-jersey-seaside-heights-popular-even-without-mtv-fame/ "Being there: New Jersey -- Seaside Heights popular, even without MTV fame"], ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]'', July 11, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2011. "MTV has been rocking the shore town since 1998, and again in 2002, when Seaside Heights was selected as the site for Total Request Live and other shows including Shore Thing. MTV also filmed True Life: I Have A Summer Share in Seaside Heights, and rock bands including Bon Jovi have used the borough visually for album covers and music videos."</ref><ref>Nark, Jason. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110322060017/http://articles.philly.com/2010-07-31/news/24969144_1_j-woww-nicole-snooki-polizzi-mtv-beach-house "Seaside Heights cashing in on 'Jersey Shore'"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', July 31, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2011. "In 2004, MTV's ''True Life: I'm a Jersey Shore Girl'' first chronicled the spectacle of spray-tanned, tough-talking 'guidettes' who invaded Ocean and Monmouth counties' Shore towns each summer to bag a buff 'guido' with gleaming spikes atop his head."</ref> Additionally, MTV selected Seaside Heights as the filming location for its summer programming in both 1998 and 2002.<ref name=Sentinel/><ref>Pritchard, Michael. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AC&p_theme=ac&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F30415D36217494&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "MTV'S 'Shore Thing' Back In Seaside Heights"], ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', April 19, 2002. Accessed July 13, 2011. "Being cool in Seaside Heights will be a "Shore Thing" this summer as MTV announced it is returning to the resort for its annual summer beach house location. The network will take over a beach house adjacent to the resort's boardwalk for ''MTV's Shore Thing,'' the name of the network's summer programming."</ref> In 1985, New Jersey rock band [[Bon Jovi]] filmed most of their music video for the song "[[In and Out of Love (Bon Jovi song)|In and Out of Love]]" in Seaside Heights, mainly on the boardwalk.<ref name=Sentinel/><ref>[http://nj-guido.com/wow-bon-jovi-music-video-filmed-entirely-in-seaside-heigts/ Wow! β Bon Jovi Music Video Filmed Entirely In Seaside Heights, New Jersey β Back In 1985]</ref> Portions of the [[2006 in film|2006]] movie ''[[Artie Lange's Beer League]]'' were filmed in Seaside Heights.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453453/locations Filming locations for Beer League], [[Internet Movie Database]]. Accessed August 6, 2007.</ref> The ABC soap opera ''[[One Life to Live]]'' filmed a portion of its 2008 storyline in Seaside Heights, mainly on the beach and boardwalk.<ref>Staff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108000944/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/app/access/1713024501.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+30,+2008&author=CHELSEA+MICHELS&pub=Asbury+Park+Press&desc=Soap+opera+%22One+Life+To+Live%22+to+be+filmed+on+boardwalk&pqatl=google "Soap opera "One Life To Live" to be filmed on boardwalk"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', March 30, 2008. Accessed July 13, 2011. "Filming for the soap opera ''One Life To Live'' is scheduled for the week of April 14 at popular Seaside Heights boardwalk spots including Casino Pier..."</ref> The song 'Mera Dil Tera Deewana' from the 1999 Hindi film [[Aa Ab Laut Chalen]] directed by [[Rishi Kapoor]] and starring [[Akshaye Khanna]] and [[Aishwarya Rai]] was shot at Seaside Heights.
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