<p>So, now that early decision results are out, what are some Penn references in pop-culture and fiction that you guys know about?</p>
<p>earlier this season on The Office during the episode in which Dwight was obsessed with Cornell in order to **** off Andy Bernard, he references their upcoming football game vs Penn</p>
<p>Just the Addams Family house, pretty much.</p>
<p>Tony Kornheiser mentioned on PTI he was going to Penn's commencement last year, for his son, I believe, if that counts.</p>
<p>I remember one episode in The Simpsons in which Flanders is looking for a wife, and one of the girl she talks to says something like "I went to Wharton and make six figures".</p>
<p>I found this on wikipedia:</p>
<p>Tom Wolfe's novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, is based in part on the particular collegiate subculture found at Penn. Wolfe researched the novel by talking to students from Penn, and even attended a party at one of Penn's secret societies.[citation needed]
Much of Jonathan Franzen's novel, The Corrections, takes place in Philadelphia and mentions Penn a number of times. Gary Lambert, one of the main characters, attends Penn as undergraduate.
The main character's sex fantasy in Jennifer Weiner's novel, Good in Bed, involves a Penn film professor.
A number of scenes at the beginning of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were filmed in the freshman quad as well as in front of The Castle, a fraternity house and a prominent example of gothic-collegiate architecture.
A number of scenes from the 1993 Academy Award-winning film Philadelphia were filmed inside the Fisher Fine Arts Library, which doubles as the law school library for the movie.
A poignant chase scene in M. Night Shyamalan's film Unbreakable starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis features the exterior of Franklin Field.
In the 2006 film Invincible starring Mark Wahlberg, Franklin Field acted as a substitute for the now razed Veteran's Stadium.
Dave Eggers's suicidal childhood friend Tom from the novel A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius attends Penn.
In the popular television show, The Office, Dwight Schrute mentions the Penn football game in order to upset Andy, a Cornell alumnus.
Penn is often mentioned in the NBC drama, American Dreams. Two of the main characters, Sam and Beth, attend the school. In the second and third seasons, several of the recreations took place at The Lair, a coffee house/student union facility on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
In an episode of the The Cosby Show titled "Off to the Races" Cliff Huxtable competes in the Penn Relays. Many portions of the episode were filmed at Franklin Field.
Several It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes have been filmed at Penn.
In the television series Queer as Folk Ted Schmidt often makes reference to the fact that he is a graduate of the Wharton School.
In the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile, one of the characters is scheduled to attend graduate school at Penn.
In the 2000 filmThe Skulls, one of the crew teams during the boat race at the beginning of the movie is from Penn.
In the 2004 Bollywood film Swades, Shahrukh Khan was a student at Penn.</p>
<p>Nothing super substantial; no wonder people think we are a state school haha.
ALSO: Wikipedia doesn't list this, but the bestseller The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold mentions Penn a lot.</p>
<p>I thought Charlotte Simmons was based on Duke!</p>
<p>There's a simpons episode that includes the button.</p>
<p>Several films and TV shows from the '80s and '90s referred to Penn or Wharton to a greater or lesser extent (e.g., St. Elsewhere, thirtysomething).</p>
<p>Probably one of the worst movies ever (War, Inc.) mentions Wharton for undergrad and Annenberg for masters</p>
<p>I think Dennis and Dee from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia both went to UPENN--Dee majored in psychology but never graduated, Dennis had a minor in psychology and did graduate...</p>