Congratulations on going to Yale
A sign of erudition and good diction
But Yale will never finish with you
Including allusions in film and fiction.

In Casablanca, when they drink their beers
You can sing Bright College Years!

Yale casts its shadow in Plath’s Bell Jar
And spoils the fun in Where the Boys Are.

Quinn from Glee has the Waffletoots
And there’s Travis Tanner who appears in Suits.

These actors can act without having to sing
Remember Josh Lyman from The West Wing.

Tom Hanks in The Money Pit suffered chagrin
And as Sherman McCoy had a Yale chin.

And of course, who else but Paul Giamatti
Could portray BIllions’ Charles Rhodes as suitably haughty.

Nick from Great Gatsby and other gentiles
Including Frazier’s brother, the inestimable Niles.

And here’s a factoid that’s actually true:
Bruce Wayne, known as Batman, was an old blue.

You will find Yale alums among industry’s finest
Like Mr. Burns and Sabrina’s Linus.

There are some comic alums more fun than John Kerry
I’m thinking of course of the cast of Doonesbury.

And every five years you will take Eli communion
At the open bars you find at reunion.

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Gossip Girl
Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)


John O’Hara wanted to go to Yale.  Former Yale president Kingman
Brewster was forthright — and supercilious — in his explanation of
O'Hara's disappointments in New Haven: he said Yale didn't give him an
LL. D. degree "because he asked for it."

Mystic Pizza
Indiana Jones
Charlotte (Lost in Translation) Scarlett Johansson
Gone Girl - Rosamund Pike
Moneyball - Jonah Hill