Ivy League References On The Simpsons
Maintained by Haynes Lee
Harvard references:
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[7F10]
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Lionel Hutz mentions Harvard in the list of schools he's attended. {je}
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[7F16]
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Homer's long lost brother paid his way through Harvard
by waiting on tables and scrubbing toilets.
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[7F21]
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Comic Book Guy has a masters degree in Folklore and Mythology,
commonly considered one of the wackiest "disciplines" at Harvard. {mc}
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[9F07]
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Young Barney studies for his SAT's, with hopes of getting into Harvard.
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[9F16] |
Itchy & Scratchy writer from Harvard.
(That was John Vitti getting fired by Roger Meyers. {dh})
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[1F16]
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Marge imagines Bart receiving his diploma from Harvard.
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[2F15]
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When Lisa has her future foretold, she goes to an "Eastern University" which is
clearly modeled on Harvard. {cs}
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[3F06]
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Fake driver's license issued to Homer's mother has 44 Bow Street (address of Harvard Lampoon).
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[3F10]
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Otto tries to win Harvard diploma from prize machine.
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[3F13]
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The museum curator, Hollis Hurlbut, is named after two of the Harvard Yard dorms.
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[3F17]
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Springfield Elementary School is on 19 Plympton Street (address on Skinner's envelope containing air tickets).
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[3F20]
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The local Kwik-E-Mart is on 57 Mount Auburn Street.
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[4F05]
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Smithers and Burns comment on Harvard's rampant cheating at the football game.
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[4F13]
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Riviera's walk-in clinic address is 44 Bow Street.
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[4F16]
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Blind guy's address is 57 Mount Auburn Street.
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[5F05]
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Dr. Stephen Jay Gould guest stars as himself. {rs}
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[AABF03]
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Harvard's doors are closed to Lisa because she got a zero in test.
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[DABF15]
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Lisa attends a poetry reading. As the poet reads,
five guys in the crowd spell out B-A-S-H-O by writing
one letter in crimson on each man's chest. The man
with the "H" on his chest (Harvard reference) is
wearing a crimson and white scarf (a la Oliver in
"Love Story" and typical of Harvard undergrads). {rs}
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[DABF18]
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Lisa says Marge's [breast] endowment is larger than Harvard's.
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[EABF07]
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Female students at Radcliffe College meet Harvard men,
those at Wellesly marry them.
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[FABF14]
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Lenny and Carl say the movie "Love Story" is about a chick
who falls for a Harvard guy and then dies.
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[GABF07]
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Homeless woman's cadaver sent to Harvard Medical School.
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Note: Harvard Lampoon Castle is located at the juncture of Bow,
Plympton, and Mount Auburn street. The addresses of the Harvard
Lampoon Castle are as follows:
- 44 Bow Street
- 57 Mt. Auburn
- 14 Lindon St.
- 17 Plympton St.
- 0 Freedom Square {wdw}
List of Harvard writers {dh}
| Al Jean | Dan McGrath | John Collier | Patric Verrone |
| Bill Canterbury | David Cohen | Jon Vitti | Rich Appel |
| Bill Oakley | David Sacks | Ken Keeler | Steve Tompkins |
| Conan O'Brien | George Meyer | Max Pross | Steve Young |
| Dan Greaney | Jeff Martin | Mike Reiss | Tom Gammill |
| Nell Scovell |
Note: Conan O'Brien who wrote "Homer Goes To College"
once served as the president of the Harvard Lampoon
and Bill Oakley once served as vice president.
Professor Michael Sandel, who is a famous moral and political
philosopher at Harvard. He is also widely believed to be the
physical model for Mr. Burns (He teaches one of the most popular
classes on campus). {mah}
See 1997 Harvard magazine artice on Simpsons alumni.
Yale references:
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[7F10]
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Lionel Hutz mentions Yale in the list of schools he's attended. {je}
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[9F16]
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Roger Meyers Jr. has the boorish manners of a Yalie. {je}
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[2F02]
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Sideshow Bob is a Yalie. {je}
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[3F05]
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Burns is seen directing calesthenics in a Yale Varsity
Sweater, couple that with the old time megaphone he is using
and his slight physique, one can only conclude that, at one
time, Mr. Burns was a coxswain for the Yale Varsity Crew
Team. {jtv}
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[3F23]
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In Homer's new office is a picture of an 8 oared shell
with the word Yale on it. {wk}
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[3F24]
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In Chili cook-off, Mr. Burns runs a booth called
"Old Eliku's Yale Style Saltpeter Chili". {djw}
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[4F01]
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Burns has a skull in his book collection (Skull & Bones?).
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[4F05]
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Mr. Burns and Smithers are riding back from the Yale-Harvard
football game in a Pullman Railway car. This is significant
because, Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Pullman Railway
Company and the Vanderbilt family is a huge
benefactor of the university. Oddly enough, Cornelius
Vanderbilt had many of the same ogre-ish tendancies as
Burns... he even looks like him. {jtv}
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[4F05]
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Mr. Burns tries to get persuade Yale officials to accept his boorish son.
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[4F11]
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John offers Homer the hat worn by Yale Summers in Daktari. {je}
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[4F16]
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Mr. Burns comment that Laddie has "the fine coat of a Yale
Man" (a reference to the racoon skin coats worn by Yalies
at the turn of the 1900's). Only after Mr. Burns shakes
Laddie' s hand does he turn to Smithers and suggest that
Laddie was in Skull & Bones (a reference to the supposed
secret handshakes bonesmen use to identify one another). {jtv}
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[AABF17]
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Burns mentiones that someone "couldn't find ugly at a
Radcliffe mixer", which is something you might expect a
Yalie to say (Radcliffe being the "female Harvard"). {ddg}
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[FABF05]
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Book author says she she got her special to be a writer at a class at the "Y", Yale University.
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[GABF12]
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Eight years in the future:
- Lisa wins a Montgomery Burns Scholarship to go to Yale.
- Mr. Burns had to set up the scholarship as punishment
for stealing Christmas (which apparently he never returned).
- Yale has forbidden male-oriented scienes and replaced
them with courses such as "galgebra" and "femistry".
- Mr. Burns gives the scholarship to layabout Bart instead.
- McDonald's now owns Yale.
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[GABF13]
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"Privileged Boy" song has the line "Then I will go to Yale because I am a legacy".
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[HABF08]
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Reality show mom is the youngest full professor at Yale.
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Cornell references:
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[1F02]
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Cornell's clock tower (the most distinguishing feature on
campus) can be seen in series of pictures of Springfield
College. {ak}
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[1F02]
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Just before the nerds are to save the dean according to
Homer's plan, there is a distance shot of campus that bears
a striking resemblance to Cornell's Arts. Notice the white
domed building (Sibley Hall) and the building opposite it
Olin Library. {ak}
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[1F02]
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The pig mascot (Sir Oinksalot) is likely a reference to the
Ag school (Agriculture and Life Sciences), making fun of
Cornell's reputation as a farmer school. {ak}
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[1F02]
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Sign outside Springfield College: "Ask about our latin motto
contest". Cornell is the only Ivy League school that's motto
is in english. {ba}
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[FABF20]
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Sideshow Mel said he's an Cornell alumnus.
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Princeton references:
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[1F13]
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The person who introduces Homer and Barney at the NASA press
conference calls them "Nassau astronauts".
Old Nassua has been Princeton University's alma mater since 1859.
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[2F02]
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Sideshow Bob is in rowboat against Princeton alums.
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[4F14]
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Sideshow Bob refers to his brother Cecil's four years at Princeton as "clown college".
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[EABF01]
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Chief Wiggum calls Lou "Princeton Pete".
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[GABF12]
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Eight years in the future to elaborate to Bart that an ivy
league education makes one husband material Snake said he
once broke into a Princeteon dude's house and that he was
"totally married".
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Brown references:
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[AABF03]
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Otto almost got tenure at Brown university.
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[AABF03]
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Lisa expresses disgust about her application being
passed to Brown university. |
List of Brown writers:
Pennsylvannia references:
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[BABF10]
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The businesswomen with whom Ned goes on
a date says she has a Wharton MBA (the business
school of the University of
Pennsylvania). {tgp}
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[HABF02]
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Penn State pennant in Sideshow Bob's old house. Chief Wiggum asks
kids if they ever heard of his brother there.
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Dartmouth College references:
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[BABF10]
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The female singer in church mentions
that she was "drinking like a Dartmouth boy." {tgp}
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[BABF12]
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Duffman says correct answers will count toward Dartmouth College course credit. {tgp}
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[GABF15]
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"Banjologist" Stefan Whitmore from Dartmouth comments on the dying art of Peruvian banjo music.
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Fraternity hijinks:
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[7F08]
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Flanders wears Maude's Sunday dress mowing lawn.
Reminisces about wearing dresses during his fraternity days.
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[8F10]
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Smithers recognizes two job applicants as frat brothers at Alpha Tau.
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[8F18]
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Flanders reminisces about playing Blanche Dubois in
"Streetcar Named Desire" during his fraternity days
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[9F12]
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A bunch of drunken frat boys use name "I.P. Freeley." as the name of news source.
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[BABF06]
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Homer victim of Kappa Gamma Tau prank.
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[FABF02]
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Flanders rents out his house to a college fraternity.
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[FABF08]
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Movie at theatre: "Frat Ghost".
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Other references:
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[7G04]
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Lisa had dreams of going to Vassar College. {jh}
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[8F15]
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Mrs. Krabappel mentions Bryn Mawr. {nm}
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[9F09]
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Dr. Nick flashes back to Medical School where he is seen
talking to a co-ed in a Sigma Chi Fraternity House. {wl}
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[1F02]
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Pretty much everything with Springfield College.
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[2F12]
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Krusty Clown College.
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[2F19]
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Lisa wonders what effect the teachers' strike might
have on her acceptance to an ivy league school. {je}
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[2F19]
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Homer tells Lisa to stop her Vassar-bashing. {jh}
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[3F18]
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Snake wearing a Middlebury shirt.
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[3F20]
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Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
(There's a funny bit of folklore about the initials)
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[3F20]
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Apu tells Marge the story of how he graduated at the top of his
7,000,000 class at [Caltech] Calcutta Technical Institute. {as}
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[4F22]
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Barney remembers giving a guest lecture at Villa Nova.
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[5F13]
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Bart refers to the Morningwood Penitentiary as "Pen State".
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[AABF01]
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Snake played lacrosse at Ball State University. {rm}
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[AABF15]
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Ned says (after seeing homer was saved by flood) "Heaven
must be easier to get into than Arizona State!". {am}
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[AABF19]
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Supt. Chalmers said he went to Ball State University. {rm}
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[AABF20]
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Japanese waiter wearing a UCLA shirt.
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[BABF03]
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Homer's makeout script for Apu has him going to Ivy
state university with a scholarship.
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[BABF06]
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Homer attends Springfield University reunion.
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[CABF11]
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Lisa's Malibu Stacy doll is wearing a Pepperdine t-shirt. {cb}, {jl}
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[CABF20]
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Moe went to bartending college at Swigmore University.
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[DABF01]
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After getting arrested, Lisa realizes she'll be unable to go to an Ivy League school: she's stuck going to Stanford instead. {bp}
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[DABF15]
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Episode title "Little Girl in the Big Ten" refers to the
"Big Ten Conference", a group of eleven world-class
universities with a common mission (sports being
the biggest one).
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[DABF15]
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Lisa attends Springfield University.
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[EABF07]
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Lisa offered scholarship at any of the Seven Sisters colleges.
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Contributors:
{ak} Aron Katz, Cornell
{am} Aceman
{as} Alex Sheive
{ba} Brad Appel, Cornell
{bp} Brian Palmer, Stanford
{cb} Chase Brown
{cs} Charles Savage
{ddg} Don Del Drande
{dh} Dave Hall
{djw} Daniel J. Walworth
{je} Jordan Eisenberg
{jh} Jonathon Howard, Vassar College 1997
{jl} Jake Little, Pepperdine 1999
{jtv} J. Ted Vogt, Yale 1995
{mah} Matthew A. Hartzell, Harvard
{mc} Matt Carter, Harvard 1999
{nm} Nadia Masri, Bryn Mawr 1994
{rm} Ryan McCracken
{rs} Renee Soto, Harvard
{tgp} Theodore G. Paulakis, University of Pennsylvania 2003
{wk} Will King
{wl} Will Lee, Sigma Chi, Iota Psi Chapter 1991
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