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RU848789

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I'll start. Just watched the new Jim Jarmusch film, "Paterson" tonight and in an early scene in the bar in which the main character (named "Paterson" who is a bus driver in Paterson by day and writes poetry most other times) makes his regular evening stop at the local bar, while walking his significant other's dog, one of the characters in the bar yells at the bartender, "when are you going to get a TV - the Rutgers game is on!" It's one of those little accurate touches that a director like Jarmusch always gets right in his films. His movies aren't for everyone, as they're usually very slow and character driven, but they're always thought provoking and often funny in their way.

Anyway, that was one of the more obscure Rutgers references I can recall seeing on TV or in film or elsewhere. What you got?

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/ri...-paterson-and-the-myth-of-the-solitary-artist
 
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... possibly the best reference ever, Todd Anderson, a three time all american RU basketball player, drafted at number one, and the movies central character i

sorry, can't find the gif of his name being called at the draft
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-cookout/review/137563/




someone he knew growing up, Wheezer, tries to find a way to make money from his fame....imagine that!
 
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Too Close for Comfort


  • Season 4 Episode 11: High and Inside
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Knight Shift said:
Too Close for Comfort


  • Season 4 Episode 11: High and Inside
    ADD TRIVIA
  • JM J. Bullock does not appear in this episode. However, Monroe calls home at the end of the episode to tell Henry he somehow wound up in Mexico while surfing.

    Edit Share
  • Ted Knight's college sweatshirts: Penn State University, Rutgers University

Never realized he wore the shirt of our enemy in that same episode.
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To be fair there was no way they could have predicted that 30 years later we would be rubbing elbows with our nemesis as conference colleagues.
 
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From James Cagney file "13 Rue Madeline" (about the founding of what would become the CIA)

Bill O'Connell, a Rutgers graduate...

Bill O'Connell, a Rutgers graduate... had been employed in the Foreign Department of the Chase National Bank. He spent two years in the bank's European branches... then Hitler went on the march... and O'Connell returned to New York.

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Unfortunately.. the CIA recruit from the foreign-sounding Rutgers was a NAZI agent..
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Have you found the German agent?

Yes. O'Connell. He stands at the head of his class. That was the lead. And the report on the final problem clinched it. - Have you read it?

- Yes. I checked the results of the other groups on the problem.
- It was designed for them to make mistakes.
- O'Connell didn't make any. Thanks to quick thinking... too quick for a beginner. O'Connell has been through it all before. This is a manual from the German espionage school. Very good too. "Es gibt keine Kameraden. "Greift selbst den Kameraden an. Verdachtigt ihn. Vernichtet ihn wenn notig." "There are no comrades. Turn in a comrade, accuse him, even destroy him if necessary." Well, there it is. That was the technique he used. American kids would have slugged the guard and fought together.
- Would you say he was good?
- Only one thing the matter... he's on the wrong side.
 
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I believe there's a movie out there with Brad Pitt as well being beat up by a cop. The cop was quoted as saying, "You know why I like beating up rich Princeton pricks? Because I went to Rutgers." Not quite sure what movie it was, perhaps someone here can jog my memory on that one.
 
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An episode of Blue Bloods where Erin learns Nicky may not get into Rutgers because of several tweets she made about one of her teachers.
 
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bigmatt718 said:
I believe there's a movie out there with Brad Pitt as well being beat up by a cop. The cop was quoted as saying, "You know why I like beating up rich Princeton pricks? Because I went to Rutgers." Not quite sure what movie it was, perhaps someone here can jog my memory on that one.
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Forget the name right now but it was a movie about a bookie on a Caribbean island.
 
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_dave_ said:
Wasn't filmed there but the executive producer was a Rutgers alumnus and the house was supposed to be in Highland Park.
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Yep was just a set. It was also used in an episode of Knight Rider ...some chick Michael was dating lived there.

There is a neighborhood over by Douglass that looks similar, though.
 
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Futurisitic buildings in Woody Allen's Sleeper filmed on Busch

Lucy McClain attends Rutgers in one on the later Die Hard movies
 
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Larry David's neighbor in the episode of "The Wire" in Curb Your Enthusiasm's first season was said to be a Rutgers graduate. Larry needed permission from the neighbor to bury an overhead wire but the neighbor was obsessed with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and insisted on Larry setting up a meeting with her before allowing permission.

The Director of the episode was Larry Charles who dropped out of Rutgers but later went on to be a writer on Seinfeld and direct a bunch of stuff including Borat.
 
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bigmatt718 said:
I believe there's a movie out there with Brad Pitt as well being beat up by a cop. The cop was quoted as saying, "You know why I like beating up rich Princeton pricks? Because I went to Rutgers." Not quite sure what movie it was, perhaps someone here can jog my memory on that one.
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Didn't the Mark Ruffalo character in "Now You See Me" go to Rutgers?

And in TV series, "Mancuso, FBI" didn't Robert Loggia's character (and a Federal Judge he converses with in one episode) go to Rutgers?
 
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Filmed in Hollywood. Set in New Brunswick. The lead character, Charles, attended Rutgers in the show.
Exterior shots looked like a random condominium in California. No effort to make it look anything like NJ.
 
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bigmatt718 said:
I believe there's a movie out there with Brad Pitt as well being beat up by a cop. The cop was quoted as saying, "You know why I like beating up rich Princeton pricks? Because I went to Rutgers." Not quite sure what movie it was, perhaps someone here can jog my memory on that one.
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Zak57 said:
Forget the name right now but it was a movie about a bookie on a Caribbean island.
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It was Runner Runner, Anthony Mackie(FBI agent) utters that line to Justin Timberlake(Princeton student).
 
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Scarlet16E said:
Filmed in Hollywood. Set in New Brunswick. The lead character, Charles, attended Rutgers in the show.
Exterior shots looked like a random condominium in California. No effort to make it look anything like NJ.
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It looks like a generic townhome complex anywhere. And there is an NB neighborhood that looks very similar. Don't know of it was the inspiration or not, but looks like it could have been.
 
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Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) on an episode of Scrubs:



I think he was also in a movie where he says something like "I don't have some fancy Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, Yale or Rutgers degree like you...". I can't remember the movie or the exact line, but I remember thinking someone must have a connection to Rutgers to be thrown into that list of schools :p
 
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My Dad played Michael Douglas' father in law in Fatal Attraction and he also taught acting and directing at Mason Gross
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That's pretty cool. Used to go to a lot of Mason Gross productions at the Levin and other theaters on campus back in the late 80s/early 90s. Not as much now. One of my favorites was seeing Avery Brooks as Othello; it also featured a young Andre Braugher as Iago.
 
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ruman said:
Futurisitic buildings in Woody Allen's Sleeper filmed on Busch

Lucy McClain attends Rutgers in one on the later Die Hard movies
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Pretty sure that was Rutgers-Camden, not that that doesn't count...
 
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bigmatt718 said:
I believe there's a movie out there with Brad Pitt as well being beat up by a cop. The cop was quoted as saying, "You know why I like beating up rich Princeton pricks? Because I went to Rutgers." Not quite sure what movie it was, perhaps someone here can jog my memory on that one.
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The movie was Runner, Runner. And it wasn't Brad Pitt but Justin Timberlake.

Federal Agent was trying to get Justin to rat out Ben Affleck who was running an illegal offshore online casino among other nefarious things.
 
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