Michael Kern in House of Cards graduated from Williams College and was the editor-in-chief of the Williams newspaper. Francis Underwood used the Williams newspaper to sabotage Kern’s bid for the presidential election.
The Big Bang Theory features CalTech faculty, not students.
Oh, I love House of Cards! Frank went to Harvard Law, correct? It was secretary of state, not president.
Who could forget Andy Bernard and Cornell on the Office?! XD
The last I heard, Big bangs th only filmed on campus once. A student or 2 played some mischief with the bookshelf.
Patrick Bateman of American Psycho went to Harvard.
I have seen a few episodes of “black-ish.” The father went to Howard and the mother went to Brown. The oldest D chooses USC (now changed to Cal State LA) after getting into Vanderbilt, Princeton, ,Penn, Yale and U Chicago (plus more, I think) all in about 30 seconds. The actress, Yara Shahidi, is headed to Harvard in real life.
@Magnetron That is interesting – FWIW Anthony Anderson graduated from Howard and Tracee Ellis Ross graduated from Brown (in real life).
Kiefer Sutherland plays President Tom Kirkman on ABC’s Designated Survivor.
Kirkman is a Cornell professor who becomes President, and it sworn in while wearing his Cornell sweatshirt. I am sure all of the Cornell profs look like Kiefer Sutherland. lol
Changing subject slightly to cartoon characters – the Simpsons is full of jabs at colleges. Most notably Monty Burns is “Yale man” (supposedly because the Simpsons teams are dominated by Harvard grads). But there are funny references to Tufts, Princeton, the Seven Sisters, etc.
Brian Griffin (Family Guy) attended Brown.
(Not college, but Seth McFarlane (Kent) loves to poke fun at Choate in Family Guy episodes.)
The tv show “Suits” is about a fictional law firm that only hires Harvard grads. Anybody remember “LA Law”? Many of the actors graduated from Carnegie Mellon IRL.
In Big Bang Theory, have they ever said where Sheldon got his degree? I know Leonard went Princeton, Howard was MIT, not sure about Raj or Sheldon.
Katherine Ross/Elaine Robinson in The Graduate goes to Berkeley.
Ted,Marshall and Lily on How I Met Your Mother went to Williams.
Rory’s college search-and financial aid story lines were so dumb… but I loved that show.
How were his stories dumb? I’ve never seen how I met your mother.
Well we know for sure Sheldon didn’t go to MIT, he dismisses it as a “trade school”. I’m not sure if they’ve ever said where he got his degrees but I’ve always suspected at least one of them was from Caltech, just because he has so many negative things to say about MIT.
Do Caltech and MIT have a rivalry or something?
Michael Corleone in “The Godfather” went to Dartmouth. He dropped out to go off and fight in WWII.
Sandra Bullock played two different Harvard graduates in two different movies: “Two Weeks Notice” and “Gravity.”
“Paper Chase” - both the movie and the TV series were set at Harvard Law School and the main characters were of course law students plus one professor.
In “Good Will Hunting” Will was a janitor at MIT and Skylar was a Harvard student.
Otto the bus driver on The Simpsons went to Brown, a jibe thrown by the writers who are mostly Harvard Lampoon alumni. To Brown’s credit, they showed that as part of a montage of Brown in popular culture at ita accepted students weekend
All of the friends in The Big Chill went to Michigan. (Go Blue!)
Caltech and MIT have a long rivalry, but steeped In Humor. MIT successively stole the cannon outside of one of the 7 Houses at MIT. Alumni from that House stepped in, and flew caltech students to MIT to,get the cannon back. The MIT students were ingenious, in how they had a name on their moving truck and escaped detection. It took as much skill to retrieve the cannon.
CAltech students made a t-shirt that said, on the front, something positive about MIT. On the back, it said something like, for those who didn’t get into Caltech. These Caltech students went to MIT orientation, had a booth, and gave out these free t-shirts. Took a long time for the MIT recruits to catch on.
These are only 2 examples from a few years. In terms of admissions for grad school, or postdocs, the schools share so much.