Stanford in popular culture

Stanford University has been often mentioned in fictional works of popular culture.

In Film [edit]

• In Avatar, Grace Augustine wears a Stanford t-shirt.^[1]
• Ray Stantz in Ghostbusters mentions that Stanford won't touch them "with a ten-meter cattle-prod."
• The 2001 film Das Experiment is based on the true story of the Stanford prison experiment.
• The 2010 film The Experiment is a remake of the 2001 film Das Experiment which was based on the true story of the Stanford prison experiment.
• In The American President, the President mentiones that he went to Stanford.^[2]
• The movie Orange County is about a student who applies at enroll at Stanford but is rejected after his student counseler actually sends the wrong transcript to Stanford.^[3][4][2]
• In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace claims to have attended Stanford Law school.^[5]
• Takagi in Die Hard graduated from Stanford Law School in 1962.^[6]
• In the 1942 movie The Spirit of Stanford, Stanford's quarterback Frank Albert actually played himself.^[7][2]
• The 1944 film Double Indemnity is about a wife who conspires with her lover to kill her husband in Palo Alto on his way to a Stanford reunion.^[2]
• The Stanford Band has a short appearance in Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.^[2]
• The main character of Antitrust is depicted as a Stanford graduate.^[2][8]
• Hillary Whitney in Beaches studies at Stanford.^[2]
• Gabriella in High School Musical 3: Senior Year is accepted at Stanford.
• Amy in The Social Network is a Stanford student.^[9]

In TV [edit]

• Star Trek character Jonathan Archer studied at Stanford.^[2]
• The opening sequence of Greek shows an areal overview of the Stanford campus.
• The Simpsons contains several references to Stanford. Typically these references are derogatory since most^[2] of the Simpsons writers studied at Harvard.
  • In Brawl in the Family, Bart teases Lisa with "You're going to Stanford, you're going to Stanford..." after she is concerned whether being arrested reduces her chance to be accepted by an Ivy League university.^[2][10]
  • In Elementary School Musical, Martin makes a betting pool with other children to bet who will win the next Nobel Prize. The bets include Steve Harris, Richard Zare and W. E. Moerner who are all Professors at Stanford.
  • In Treehouse of Horror XXII, Lisa wears a cardinal t-shirt with the text "STANFORD ELEMENTARY" while giving Bart an Avatar body.
  • In The Food Wife, Lisa makes fun of the "lame, dead-on-arrival humor" of Stanford Band.
• Dana Scully in The X-Files earned her medical degree from Stanford University.^[11]
• In Chuck, the main character Chuck Bartowski is presented as a Stanford dropout.^[2]
• Sam Winchester in Supernatural begins the series as an undergraduate in Stanford^[12]
• In Grey's Anatomy, Cristina Yang holds a Doctor of Medicine from Stanford^[3] where her former boyfriend Colin Marlowe was a professor.^[2]
• Captain B. J. Hunnicutt in M*A*S*H graduated from Stanford.^[2]
• Kate Warner in 24 has a Stanford degree.^[13][2]
• Stella (Ted's almost bride) in "How I Met Your Mother" attended Stanford as both an undergrad and medical school graduate.
• Detective Kate Beckett in "Castle" attended Stanford as a pre law undergrad.

See also [edit]

List of Stanford University people#Fictional Stanford alumni

References [edit]

1. ^ http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2010/marapr/webonly/avatar.html
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2008/janfeb/red/fictionalstanford.html
3. ^ ^{a b} http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/04/21/the-stanford-brand/
4. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273923/
5. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/quotes
6. ^ http://www.moviedeaths.com/die_hard/joseph_yoshinobu_takagi/
7. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035368/
8. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
9. ^ http://flash.sonypictures.com/video/movies/thesocialnetwork/awards/thesocialnetwork_screenplay.pdf
10. ^ http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/314935-lisa-simpson-doesnt-like-stanford-why.html
11. ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004843/bio
12. ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018168/bio
13. ^ http://tvmegasite.net/prime/shows/24/profiles/katewarner.shtml