<p>not to ruin any of the fun, but Wikipedia obviously manages to make quite a list here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture</a></p>
<p>I knew Steve Buschemi in Armageddon, and Tobias Funke (David Cross) in Arrested Development, but they have about a dozen others listed there too.</p>
<p>Ah, someone beat me to it.</p>