Attention, Nerds: Emory University is now nerd-free. You are not welcome there. Take your anti-jock jibes and hi-tech robot sprinklers elsewhere.
Yup, Emory has belated decided it doesn’t want the Revenge of the Nerds remake filming on its campus. Possibly something about raunchiness? (VHS technology has not yet come to Emory: They had no way of vetting the original, pictured, for inapproriate content.) Anyway, all’s well with this new development… except that much of the film has already been shot. Yike. It’s as if Ogre were just made Dean or something.
College PopWatchers, this is your moment. It’s time to draft a petition. You’re college students, you ought to be good at that. Here’s the angle: Below, I want you to tell me (and thus, the world, and also Canada) why your educational institution deserves to host Booger and Co. in their new incarnation. Be brief, be literate, be nerdy, and please, please, PLEASE use the phrase "hair pie."
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Revenge of the Nerds might not get remade?
Fox Atomics reason for the redo I dont completely understand for Christs sake, there were about fifty other better films, worthy of a remake, released the same year but nonetheless, Ill still be front row centre fo…
Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. It’s small but pretty, with a statue of a viking with a sword by his side. Viewed from the right angle, it looks like the viking has a protrusion…
They filmed the original at the University of Arizona…they could have gone back. But I’m a little biased, because I go there…
Georgetown University, Washington, DC. We’ve been the site of such varied films as The Exorcist and St. Elmo’s Fire. The Exorcist steps alone should be good for at least a few jokes. We don’t have frats. Or should I say, we don’t have Greek frats. Rather, our “fraternities” consist of a business school fraternity, Jewish fraternity, and community service fraterntiy, to name a few. How nerdy is that? They all like to drink, and if they’re not throwing a party, chances are the baseball team, swim team, or pep band will be throwing one. Yes, I said pep band, and they’re parties are routinely huge. Plus, we’re a Jesuit school, so we have priests living and teaching on campus, and they’re all insanely cool. They can outdrink most students and are routinely invited to parties (and sometimes show up). Also, we’re in DC, the seat of our government and home to MANY nerds. I mean, the possibilities are endless.
University of CT in Storrs. Sure, we’re known as a former VoAg school that now kicks a** at basketball. That’s your jock quotient right there. But did you also know we are one of only two institutions in the country to offer a BFA and MFA in Puppetry? They were not making that up on Who’s the Boss. It’s true and I defy you to name a nerdier major than puppetry.
SFSU aka SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY!! its so uncool it doesnt even have a football team, the gym is smaller than my high school gym, and the library is huge for no apparent reason. The school’s Cesar Chavez center is filled with nerds playing video games and pool. any more questions?
I am not proposing that any university let them film a remake of Revenge of the Nerds because WHY do they need to remake this movie???? WHY??!!!! This is getting way out of hand. While this was a hilarious movie, please let it stay in the 80s where it belongs!
Carnegie Mellon University is the school that hosts freaks and geeks…I think we have a winner
I agree, it should be made on the same campus as the original, University of Arizona in Tuscon, yeah baby! Go wildcats!
It must be shot at San Diego State University. San Diego has a thriving film industry so they have the resources, the manpower, and the experience. “Bring It On” and Veronica Mars was shot on the SDSU campus so you know we have enough beautiful people to walk around in the background. If you’re looking for nerds, check out the freaks in the tv/film major or the grad students in the Comm. Dept. Plus, our local nickname is STD-SU. C’MON!!!!!
And if you insist…hair pie.
“Booger and co.” Nope. I’ve read the script. No Booger, No Ogre. All new characters.
Then this is not a remake. Or, the writers could not get permission to use names of the original characters.
Washington University in St. Louis, one of the other schools in the Nerdy 9 conference that includes Emory and Carnegie Mellon. There’s the gigantic bunny statue in the middle of campus. The requisite fraternity row. And we also have great “robster craws.”
Speaking as an Atlanta native, I though Emory was an inspired choice. But if you’ve got to film elsewhere, there’s a giant horde of nerds across town at Georgia Tech!
Bunny Statute? OK. That’s beyond strange. Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus has a sculpture that sort of resembles an abstract Rubics Cube. That’s kinda nerdy.
There is no question, just as others have said… The University of Arizona! It’s where they filmed the original. It is a great party school with huge Greek system. Would it really be the same if Cochise Dorm was not in the background as the Nerds get kicked out in their pajamas?
WE ARE…PENN STATE!
Why why why must they ruin the sanctity of my beloved nerds! I bet they’ll try to get a PG-13 rating instead of embracing the R they deserve, this will just make things worse. Next stop: Porky’s 8: Pee Wee’s Revenge.
The University of Georgia! We’re just as nerdy as Georgia Tech with a huge jock and/or frat population to serve as the arch enemies. We also have previous experience. The campus was featured in Road Trip and our mascot Uga was in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
What about the University of Wisconsin-Madison? It’s where “Back to School” was filmed, the campus has a massive frat row, a huge school of engineering, and during the summer the city is like one massive ghost town with a lot of stoners. Perfect place for such a movie!
Though DC’d be good too. Nerds have a special place in DC’s heart as even our mayor wears a bowtie.
Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.
One of the nerdy 9, wireless all over campus, gigabit network. 60% engineers. Kids who make network search engines in their spare time.
Script is definitely an R. I’m sure they have the rights to everything in regard to the property, they’ve just chosen to ‘reimagine’ rather than ‘remake’. (To use a seriously annoying point of clarification)
Concordia College, Moorhead MN.
Our mascot is the Cobber. As in, a Cob of Corn. We’re a suburb of Fargo, ND. We have a smug sense of superiority, even though none of you have heard of us until right now.
They filmed the original at my alma mater, the University of Arizona in Tucson (not Tuscon, hopefully the person who misspelled it earlier isn’t an English major) the summer after I graduated. I was further shocked to see that Robert Carradine’s character woke up in the SAME BED SET that I had earlier proudly purchased from Monkey Ward’s. (Hello, my name is Alice and I’m a nerd.) But it’s always a thrill to see Booger in his Greasy Tony’s T-shirt and the Eat a Pi at Spring Fling. Why remake a classic??? If they do, then DON’T BUY MY CURRENT BED SET!!!!!!!!
I was going to offer up my old alma mater, UW-Madison, but Ep Sato not only beat me to it but mentioned every reason I’d planned to list.
Though, living in Atlanta as I do now, Alex makes a good point about using Georgia Tech.
Must say, I’m baffled that Emory would get cold feet. Maybe they thought that “hair pie” meant something else when they made the initial agreement…
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As an Emory student, I am both not surprised and a little upset they won’t be filming here. Not surprised because my school is full of pretentious ne’er-do-wells, a horde of esteemed professors, and a president that makes over a million dollars a year. Ugh. Upset because who wouldn’t want a movie to be filmed at their school? Possible class cancelings and movie stars? I’m sad. Wish they would reconsider.