2003–2005

A popular kids’ show set in the future, here the principal of the school (a regular character) is directing Macbeth in Space.

Vassar’s probably shown up on the soaps more often than we’ve been able to identify.

This family dramedy set in the 1960s had a character departing for Vassar right at the end of its run.

A super-campy movie with drag queens playing their own personas.

The Hammer is a Jewish parody of a Shaft-like tough detective supporting his community. This scene, where he and his girlfriend begin to get intimate, leads to a brilliant Vassar joke.

Well, not exactly Lost, but an extra from a set of audition tapes.

This light comedy puts tough-guy lawman Tommy Lee Jones in a house to protect a bunch of cheerleaders, the only witnesses to a crime.

Here’s yet another criminal procedural show with yet another Vassar victim.

In this very first episode of the HBO political talk show, comedian Chris Rock strips the hide off conservative attack poodle Ann Coulter about George W. Bush’s SAT scores.

Made-for-TV docudrama based on journalist Morton Kondracke’s memoir about his wife, who died of Parkinson’s in 2004.

The ur-text of this collection, almost everyone knows at least one of these references, which now are a running joke/character point across all 30+ years of this show’s run.

A wretched made-for-tv movie, where cocktail waitress Jami Gertz witnesses a crime, and is taken home for Christmas by the investigating detective for protection.

Investigators check into a suspect’s background, whose Vassar alumnus status is seen as enviable.