Phillips Academy - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In Chapter 17 of The Catcher in the Rye, Sally Hayes introduces Holden to a boy who attended Andover. "You'd have thought they'd taken baths in the same bathtub or something when they were little kids. Old buddyroos. It was nauseating. The funny part was, they probably met each other just once, at some phony party. Finally, when they were all done slobbering around, old Sally introduced us. His name was George something—I don't even remember—and he went to Andover. Big, big deal."
• In the John Guare play Six Degrees of Separation, one of the characters laments that his parents could not afford to send him to Andover or Exeter.
• In Eloise, the six year old's tutor is said to have attended Andover.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise has several characters who attended Andover.
• In Scent of a Woman, Charles Simms tries to start an argument with the irascible Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade by saying that "... I believe President Bush went to Andover."
• In A Beautiful Mind, John's imaginary roommate refers to Andover and Exeter in a rooftop conversation.
• In Gossip Girl, they mention a friend who goes to Andover; in a recent episode, it was said that Eric was in Andover "with the debate team".
• In Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Jimmy Murtaugh said he had two kids at Andover and one at Exeter.
• In an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will has Carlton give him a makeover to impress a girl. Carlton tells Will to say he went to "Andover" and Will retorts, "Bend-over".
• In The West Wing, Chief of Staff Leo McGarry states that, based on a recent poll, if President Bartlet's next election was on that day he would become the "chair of the economics department at Phillips Andover Academy".
• In Gilmore Girls, Logan mentioned that he spent some time at a boarding school in Andover.
• In The Emperor's Club, the mottos for St. Benedict's are also non sibi and finis origine pendet.
• In The Social Network, the scene where Eduardo Saverin is hazed as part of Final Club initiation and another student vomited was filmed at Phillips Academy in front of Paresky Commons after the addition of a fake John Harvard statue and fake snow. The sign "Paresky Commons" can be clearly seen on the building.
• In The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum, James Barbour Matlock, the main character, is described as having attended Andover: "His education had been properly Eastern Establishment: Andover and Amherst..."
• In Deception (film), the character Wyatt Bose, played by Hugh Jackman, mentioned how many of the colleagues working in the firm matriculated at "Harvard by way of Andover".
• In Iron Man and The Avengers, the file of character Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey, Jr., states that Stark attended Andover from ages 7 to 14.