Editing Plainsboro Township, New Jersey (section)

==Media appearances==
* Plainsboro is the namesake of the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in the Fox TV series ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''.<ref>Hicks, Kathy. [https://movieweb.com/house-best-medical-series-why/ "Here’s What Makes House One of the Best Medical Series in TV History"], [[MovieWeb]], February 26, 2022. Accessed January 20, 2023. "Running from 2004 to 2012, the Fox hit show followed the pill-popping, narcissistic Dr. Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie, who is the head of the Diagnostics department at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey."</ref>
* Plainsboro is referred to in [[Tim Curry]]'s song "Paradise Garage" from his album ''Fearless''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041120084017/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/7387/ency/lyrics.htm "Paradise Garage" lyrics], accessed November 2, 2006.</ref>
* Plainsboro and the fictional Plainsboro High School are the setting around which the HBO film ''[[Rocket Science (film)|Rocket Science]]'' is based.<ref>Shea, Kevin T. [https://www.nj.com/timesupdates/2007/08/plainsboro_on_friday_a_little.html "It's not Plainsboro, it's ''Rocket Science''"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], August 4, 2007. Accessed July 8, 2022. "On Friday, a little movie called ''Rocket Science'' could put Plainsboro on the map.... Jeffrey Blitz never has been to Plainsboro or Trenton, both of which figure prominently in the movie that goes into wider release Aug. 17. True, he was a stutterer who joined the speakers team in high school, but he was never a stutterer who joined the debate team at Plainsboro High School."</ref>
* Plainsboro is mentioned in the description of the battle area in [[Orson Welles]]'s 1938 radio broadcast, ''[[The War of the Worlds (radio)|The War of the Worlds]]'', when the radio announcer describes the aftermath of the purported Martian invasion at nearby [[Grover's Mill, New Jersey|Grover's Mill]].<ref>[http://www.genericradio.com/show.php?id=3e128b5a5d82a7fc ''War of the Worlds'' radio script], ''[[The Mercury Theatre on the Air]]'', October 30, 1938; accessed April 28, 2007. "One hundred and twenty known survivors. The rest strewn over the battle area from Grovers Mill to Plainsboro, crushed and trampled to death under the metal feet of the monster, or burned to cinders by its heat ray."</ref>
* Plainsboro was featured on the MTV series, [[List of True Life episodes|''True Life'' ("I'm Graduating from High School") season 11, 2008]], on which MTV took a look at the life of three seniors who were enrolled at High School North.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150205043652/http://www.mtv.com/shows/truelife/true-life-im-graduating-from-high-school/1635704/playlist/#id=1635704 I'm Graduating From High School - Full Episode], [[MTV.com]]. Accessed January 2, 2015</ref>
* Plainsboro is the site for the tomb of Elsie the Cow.<ref>Garbarine, Rachelle. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/27/realestate/in-the-region-new-jersey-in-plainsboro-clustering-for-conservation.html "In the Region/New Jersey; In Plainsboro, Clustering for Conservation"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 27, 1999. Accessed October 22, 2013. "The original Elsie the cow, used in Borden's advertising, is buried on the site, which, like many of the company's other properties, was farmed until it was sold."</ref>