<p>Emory was mentioned on an episode of Dave Chappelle. That makes it famous.</p>
<p>Elmo went to Rice in an episode of Sesame Street.</p>
<p>Georgetown, Berkeley, Notre Dame, Harvard, and Princeton are all frequently mentioned in The West Wing.</p>
<p>Entourage has mentioned a lot of schools. Off the top of my head:</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence- Ari makes a joke about Lloyd being an Art History major at SLC</p>
<p>Stanford- Lloyd tells Ari how he worked at the school while studying there to
pay his way through during the episode where the agency drops him.</p>
<p>Harvard- Ari went there</p>
<p>Michigan- Ari went there</p>
<p>Queens Community College- Eric went there</p>
<p>According to IMDb, there is a 1993 movie called "The Trust" based on the story of William Marsh Rice, the founder of Rice University, and much of the movie was filmed there. Other than that, the only other movie filmed at Rice is apparently Brewster McCloud.</p>
<p>I can't believe everyone missed this one. </p>
<p>HOW HIGH with Method Man and Redman is set at Harvard</p>
<p>The movie invloves two black guys smoke a lot of weed and somehow get perfect SAT scores. Then they get accepted to Harvard and eventually show everyone the greatness of weed. lol. Stupidest movie ever and theoretically impossible, but funny.</p>
<p>This just shows how racially diverse or knowledge CC can be. In 7 pages of replies I still did not see one mention of the movie.</p>
<p>Duke
In "Boy Meets World", after Eric finds out that Boris College isn't a real college, he says that he feels bad for a girl who thinks that she is going to a college called Duke.</p>
<p>The Paul Newman character, a physicist who is a double agent, in the Alfred Hitchcock film "Torn Curtain" is a professor from the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Rudy: Notre Dame and UMiami
Any Given Sunday: UMiami
UMichigan: American Pie Naked Mile and American Pie Beta House lol :D
Friday Night Lights: Florida, USC, Baylor, UMiami, Purdue</p>
<p>House is NOT set at Princeton U! House is set at the FICTIONAL princeton-plainsboro teaching hospital! </p>
<p>I love House, sorry... lol.</p>
<p>BTW, Mount Holyoke was recently mentioned in House (the ep where the new potentials were breaking in and the older guy, Dobson, goes in to speak with the landlord with two daughters at Mount Holyoke).</p>
<p>In 10 Things I Hate About You, Julia Stiles' character's dream school was Sarah Lawrence.</p>
<p>*
-Mr. Burns went to Yale (Class of 1914)
-Principal skinner told lisa "well Harvard's doors are closed to you forever--but there's always <em>chuckle, roll eyes</em> Brown!*</p>
<p>bahaha! I find it hilarious that Mr. Burns went to Yale. I guess the writers of The Simpsons (many Harvard alumni) wanted to keep the Harvard-Yale rivalry going strong. hehe.</p>
<p>Many early movies were set in Ithaca NY (before Hollywood was the center of the movie industry) ... a few tidbits</p>
<ul>
<li><p>The original Tarzan movies with Jonny Weismueller (sp?) swinging on vines were shot in the gorges next to the Cornell campus</p></li>
<li><p>The original Little Rascal shots in row boats were shot on Beebe Lake on Cornell's campus</p></li>
<li><p>A bunch of the Cornell frat houses were original built as sets to shoot movies.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Dartmouth:
Grey's Anatomy (Meredith went to Dartmouth)
Gossip Girl (Nate's dad is obsessed w/Dartmouth)
and of course...
the spectacular, hilarious
Superbad (Evan and Fogell get into Dartmouth)</p>
<p>I also seem to remember that President Bartlett on West Wing was a Dartmouth Economics professor. Am I right? </p>
<p>A very obscure one: Jackie, on St Elsewhere went to Bates!</p>
<p>USC as a film set:</p>
<p>T.V Shows: 24, 7th Heaven, Alias, Ally McBeal, Beverly Hills 90210, Charlie's Angels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Clueless, Cold Case, The District, ER, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Gilmore Girls, The Ghost Whisperer, House, Judging Amy, Monk, Nip/Tuck, Numb3rs, The O.C, Saved by the Bell, West Wing, among others.</p>
<p>Films: Mr. Woodcock, Princess Diaries, Legally Blonde, The Girl Next Door, Forrest Gump, For Love of the Game, Die Hard 4, and many others for Film.</p>
<p>I also saw Carmen Electra filming a commercial in the middle of campus :)</p>
<p>Going waaaaay back:</p>
<p>The show "thirtysomething" was set outside of Philly and had many Penn references.
The two main characters, Michael and Elliott, were best friends at Penn, and their other friend, Gary, was an English professor at Penn -- who didn't get tenure there.</p>
<p>Georgetown-The Exorcist</p>
<p>Dr. Julius Hibbert went to Hopkins!</p>
<p>It was mentioned earlier in reference to A Beautiful Mind, but it's worth mentioning again...Bronx Community College. Though it's clearly not where a lot of stories are set, it has been used as a "collegiate"-looking filming location for plenty of movies: A Beautiful Mind, The Good Shepherd, Mona Lisa Smile, Kinsey...</p>
<p>Until 1973, Bronx Community College was actually the University Heights campus of NYU. It boasts some magnificent architecture--it was designed by McKim, Mead, & White around the time they were also designing Columbia--so it's easy to see why it's a stand-in for places like MIT (in A Beautiful Mind) and the Skull and Bones house at Yale (in The Good Shepherd).</p>
<p>I'm sure this has been mentioned, but "How I Met Your Mother" is basically about three Wesleyan alum living in what appears to be either the DUMBO section or Williamsburgh neighborhood of Brooklyn.</p>
<p>faber college- animal house</p>
<p>Oberlin: Eurotrip.</p>