I remember when the Village People were “big” that Saturday Night Live did a skit on “In the Navy” called “Port of Call: Bayonne, New Jersey”. Bayonne has been the butt of many jokes over the years. Now Bayonne is making itself into an even bigger joke.
I suspect the next step is too issue two coupons on birth certificates, one becomes a driver’s license in 16 years and the other a high school diploma in 17-1/2 years.
The Jersey City Education Association has a slogan on the outside of its building “First in Quality Education”
It was a parody not so much of the Village People as of the then-current recruiting commercials, which showed the exciting parts of Navy life (flight ops, ASW tracking, liberty call in exotic ports, etc.) accompanied by driving music. So the fellas at SNL thought it’d be fun to use the same format, the same music, and instead have the ship in-port in New Jersey (short of New York City itself obviously the part of the world the New Yorkers in the audience least needed to join the Navy to see), and the crew doing the normal cooking, cleaning and maintenance type stuff.
Here’s one of the original commercials...
...and here’s the transcript of the SNL parody. No video, but you can use your imagination.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78onavy.phtml