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The Facts of Life

Film & TelevisionSitcom
  • Season 4, Episode 13 “Magnificent Obsession” [Jan. 12, 1983]
  • Season 4, Episode 15 “Teacher’s Pet” [Jan. 26, 1983]
  • Season 6, Episode 12 “The Rich Aren’t Different” [Dec. 12, 1984]
  • Season 6, Episode 19 “Gone With the Wind, Part 1” [Feb. 13, 1985]

Sitcoms frequently used Vassar as a punchline, especially in the ’80s and the 2010s. Here are four episodes from this ’70s/’80s show, set in Peekskill in a private all-girls school. In two episodes, we hear about men at Vassar—these aired in 1983 and 1984, and men had been attending Vassar for more than a decade. This is the earliest point we see men referenced as attending simply as a statement of fact, no joke.