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Longtime wrote:I wish someone with the skilz could put together a YouTube video of SMU mentions and appearances in TV and film. It would be impressive. For a little ol' private school in Texas, SMU has had more than its share of shots and shout-outs in Movies and TV.

These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head:

Born of the Fourth of July
Talk Radio
Seniors (Dennis Quaid's first movie, and Animal House ripoff)
Mars Needs Women (scenes from an SMU-Baylor football game at the Cotton Bowl!)
Jerry Maguire (SMU is the alma mater of "Cush" the hotshot QB - you see a poster of him in an SMU uniform in the backgroung)
The West Wing (SMU is the president's alma mater)
Dallas (countless episodes showing Lucy Ewing on campus)
Gilligan's Island (one of The Professor's degrees is from SMU...he lists an alphabet soup of alma maters)
Celebrity (an NBC mini-series in the 1980s)

I'm sure there are many more references to SMU. It would be fun to see them compiled in one video.

great list. of course, Walker Texas Ranger filmed on campus a few times.
JFK also had a few framing shot I believe.

Correction, I was thinking of this movie, The Big Show from 1936:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027361/

Not sure if it shows the school, but it does have the SMU band playing as "The SMU 50".

Also in this movie is the Lightcrust Doughboys, who would cut an album with the SMU band 60 years later in the 1990s, 'The High Road on the Hilltop"



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couch 'em wrote:Correction, I was thinking of this movie, The Big Show from 1936:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027361/

Not sure if it shows the school, but it does have the SMU band playing as "The SMU 50".

Also in this movie is the Lightcrust Doughboys, who would cut an album with the SMU band 60 years later in the 1990s, 'The High Road on the Hilltop"



Featuring such lyrics as "Hey [deleted] [deleted] [deleted] [deleted], where can you be"

oh no, that's not my [deleted], my [deleted] never smelled that bad

Some movies filmed in dallas, to jog memory, from wikipedia:

1950, Dallas (movie)
1959, The Killer Shrews
1959, The Giant Gila Monster
1960, My Dog Buddy
1962, State Fair
1967, Bonnie and Clyde
1967, Mars Needs Women
1973, Executive Action
1974, Benji
1974, Phantom of the Paradise
1976, Logan's Run
1978, Debbie Does Dallas
1980, The Lathe of Heaven
1983, Silkwood
1983, Tender Mercies
1984, Places in the Heart
1985, The Trip to Bountiful
1986, True Stories
1987, Paramedics
1987, RoboCop
1988, Dead Solid Perfect (HBO movie)
1988, It Takes Two
1988, Il Nido del Ragno ("The Spider's Nest")
1988, Talk Radio
1988-1991, Gerbert (TV series)
1989, Born on the Fourth of July
1990, Problem Child
1991, JFK
1991, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991, Necessary Roughness
1991, Steele's Law
1992-2002, Barney & Friends (TV series)
1992, Leap of Faith
1992, Love Crimes
1992, Love Field
1992, Ruby
1993, Hexed
1993-2001, Walker, Texas Ranger (TV series)
1994, Curse of the Starving Class
1995-1998, Wishbone (TV series)
1996, Bottle Rocket
1997, The Apostle
1997, Asteroid (TV movie)
1997, Batman & Robin
1997, Point Blank
1998, The X Files: Fight the Future
1999, Any Given Sunday
1999, Boys Don't Cry
1999, Office Space
1999, Olive, the Other Reindeer (TV special; animated in Dallas)
1999, Universal Soldier: The Return
2000, Dr. T & the Women
2001, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (animated in Dallas)
2001, Pendulum
2002-2007, The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (TV series; animated in Dallas)
2002, The Anarchist Cookbook
2002, The Rookie
2002, Serving Sara
2002, Slap Her... She's French
2003, Saving Jessica Lynch (TV movie)
2004, The Ant Bully (animated in Dallas)
2004, The Benefactor (TV series)
2004, Primer
2005, Bewitched
2006, The Night of the White Pants
2006-2008, Prison Break (TV series)
2010-Present, The Good Guys (TV series)

Forgot about Problem Child. Growing up, the guy who played the warden in that movie lived down the street. I remember as a little kid seeing a movie being filmed at a park down the street from me at the baseball field, and finding out later it was the Tball scene in that movie.

If anyone is curious, the guy who played the warden also did the voice of LBJ in JFK and Forrest Gump.

I watched that Big Show movie. Looks like the entire thing was filmed at Fair Park and somewhere in LA. Anyways, there's a big scene for the "opening day" of the fair, and sure enough, there's the Mustang Band, marching around the main area (esplanade?) up to the Hall of States. Kinda cool, and I can ever figure it out, I'd love to throw it on youtube.

I will have a steak sandwich, a bloody mary, and a steak sandwich.

SMU is referenced in the Tommy Lee Jones movie, "Man of the House." His daughter tells him at dinner that she is applying to Rice and SMU

was Debbie does Dallas even set in Dallas, let alone filmed here? I thought the whole point was that she was trying to get here. Not that I've seen that particular movie...or any movie of that genre...

Billy on Melrose Place went to SMU. It was mentioned in at least one episode. Meh.

Shout out from Aaron spelling I guess

RGV Pony wrote:Shout out from Aaron spelling I guess

Now that you mention it, I think he worked in several SMU references in his various series.

2ndandlong wrote:

RGV Pony wrote:Shout out from Aaron spelling I guess

Now that you mention it, I think he worked in several SMU references in his various series.

get back to work.

I've known for years about SMU being in the "Mars Needs Women" movie. It was filmed in Dallas and includes a small bit of the game in 1966 when SMU beat Baylor 24----22.

It starts at about 60:30 into the movie and goes for a few minutes. Ponyboy reminded me of the movie when he said in another thread that he was born in 1966.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NwWyDj7JGg

I was in the 5th grade at that time.

Great game!!! I was there. Jerry Levias' TD runback!!! Wow!!!

BEST UNIS WE EVER HAD & PROBABLY WILL HAVE!!!