Homage to your GLO
 

I know most of you are familiar with the SNL skit that had the valley girlish "Delta Delta Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya". Its funny when I tell them I'm a tri-delta and they immediately need to quote said skit...well maybe not so funny after the millionth time.:rolleyes:

I was just wondering if how many movies, songs, or books pay some sort of homage to a GLO????

There are many movies/tv shows that mention Kappa Kappa Gamma. Here are some I can think of right away:

Legally Blonde 2

Hello Again (Shelly Long sings "I'm so happy that I am a Kappa Kappa Kappa Gamma")

Newhart (Julia Duffy tells one of the Daryls that she is a Kappa Kappa Gamma)

Sex and the City (Meanwhile...Charlotte was having lunch with the Kappa Kappa Gammas)

The Young and the Restless (they made two of the characters Kappas - one was a new girl on the show and the regular cast member saw her gold bar with K K G on it and said "oh and you're a Kappa"). This was right after I finished school in 1990.

Those are the only ones I can think of right off hand, but there may be more shows where Kappa is mentioned specifically.

Most of us know that Rue McLanahan from the Golden Girls is a Kappa Alpha Theta. :)

But there's an episode of the GG where Blanche Devereaux goes on and on about her wonderful sorority years in Alpha Gamma Delta. :D

I'm guessing one of the writers at that time was an AGD?

Kate Jackson (a Kappa from my chapter!) said something about being a Kappa towards the end of an episode of "Scarecrow & Mrs. King." She didn't say "Kappa Kappa Gamma" but just "Kappa" to Lee.

The play "Vanities" is about 3 friends who are Kappas.

In addition to a couple PKTKKG mentioned, these are the only ones I can think of right now, too.

And in the play "Vanities", the girls sing a Pi Phi song, "The Girls of the Pi Beta Phi"!

Phi Kappa Psi
 

The Wizard of Oz uses Phi Kappa Psi ritual throughout the movie, but you'll never figure out how or where! ;)

Any documentary on JFK Jr. mentions the Phi Psis at Brown, where he was (re)colony president.

Breaking Away was written by a Phi Psi, and is based on a Phi Psi team that won the Little 500.

In the movie Animal House, the Omega house is the Phi Psi house at the University of Oregon.

the movie and play Steel Magnolias was written about a Phi Mu...thus showing why pink and pink were the colors for "Shelby's" wedding

On Happy Days....I believe that it was Potsie that pinned his Delta Gamma girlfriend ;)

If you watch the background in the movie "Necessary Roughness" (a football movie based in a small Texas college), you'll see some Sigma Nu letters in the background during the final game.

A little off topic: Weren't a couple of scenes from the movie "Good Will Hunting" filmed outside one of U of T's frat houses? If so, which frat was it?

Don't you mean "bashful" and "blush"? ;) I love that movie :)

Re: Homage to your GLO
 

There's also the not-so-positive depiction of our Alabama chapter in the book "Eating the Chesire Cat."

Anne Rivers Siddons refers to Pi Phis and Kappas and KAs in "Heartbreak Hotel" (there are fleeting mentions in her other novels, too) -- although she never references KKG in particular; she always refers to them as simply "Kappas."

Alpha Phi Alpha was featured in the step show scene of "School Daze."

Apparently, Tim Reid's character on "Sister, Sister" was an Alpha, though I have never seen the episode in question. (I have seen no proof that he is a member, but his son definitely is.)

People wearing Alpha shirts were frequently seen in the backgound on "A Different World."

There was a short story called "Pledging Alpha" in the anthology Brotherman.

Wasn't it Ritchie's Lori Beth?

The scariest book I ever read was called "Let's Go Play At The Adam's" and the main character was a Kappa Kappa Gamma. I think there are more references to Kappa than any other sorority I've ever heard of!


It's a very rare day when you see an Alpha Delta Pi reference. Our IO is terribly strict about the use of the name! In fact, the only time I can think of is when Alpha Delta Pi Jean Smart, playing Charlene on Designing Women, talks about some adorable coed, with her little Alpha Delta Pi pin...

Sometimes it's frustrating, but at the same time, I certainly understand!

In a book by Fannie Flagg(she wrote fried green tomatoes) the main character is a Kappa. I think it was that book that made me decide to seek greek.

The movie "The Little Mermaid" holds special meaning for Zetas.

I thought the movie was filmed entirely in Boston?

The movie was filmed in and around MIT and Harvard, plus (I think) Bunker Hill Community College. I don't recall any fraternity references, but then I only saw it once.

Oh, I seem to recall an episode of "Friends" where Rachel mentions that she was a Kappa when she sees a group of women wearing her sorority letters (can't recall if it was actually Kappa Kappa Gamma, though).

Actually I think it was a fictional sorority (sort of)... Kappa Kappa Delta.

I remember seeing it and going "heyyyy, I wonder which one they're making fun of!"

About Rachel from "Friends"...I recall her talking about a sorority and I do believe the first two letters were Kappa Kappa, but I am almost positive that they did not use Kappa Kappa Gamma. I wish I could remember the third letter that was on the girls shirt that snubbed her, but I am drawing a blank!

I thought so.

There have been several movies filmed in and around UofT though.

To my knowledge there is no AOII in a book or a movie. Now there is that C.Ricci film, Pumpkin, where they are called AOPi's, but their letters are Alpha Omega Pi. That holds no special meaning to Alpha Omicron Pi's.

This is random but there is a restaurant in New Orleans who uses dinnerwear with sheafs of wheat on them.....

Legally Blond, the book, had the name Delta Gamma as El's sorority. The house in the movie was a DG house as well.

Chi Phi is mentioned in American Pie 2...well, it was, but then it got edited out.

You can catch it in the "Outtakes" section of the DVDs though.

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Fannie Flagg has written a couple other books, and they're equally good. "Standing in the Rainbow" is very good mind candy!

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In Florence King's books, she always mentions that she was in a sorority, but deactivated. Does anyone know which sorority?

the character of "carol holywell" in the willie morris novel "the last of the southern girls" is based on a real-life "miss ole miss" chi omega.

if you're interested in southern fiction, morris had a wonderful way of capturing a moment. check out this article about how the author quietly observed a group of phi mu's on bid day. </end book nerd>

I too think it was Kappa Kappa Delta. Rachel saw them in the hallway and said hello and they ignored her. Also, when Winona Rider was on, weren't they supposedly sorority sisters? I remember her asking Phoebe if she had ever joined a sorority and Phoebe made up some weird name. Anyone else remember this?

From http://www.friends-tv.org/zz604.html

Rachel: Oh, hey, look! There's some Kappa Kappa Deltas! I was a Kappa! Hey sisters!

[no response]

Rachel:Wow, we really are bitches.

don't forget Laurie on trading spaces singing "kappa, kappa cabana"

Theta was mentioned in the book a lot, as well.

Good Will Hunting was filmed in Toronto. I know that one of the residences (don't remember which one) was used for Minnie Driver's character's dorm room. The Upfront Bar and Grill was used as the interiors of the "bar scene" and I heard somewhere that both Hart House and Sid Smith were used. If you go to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/locations it would give you a basic list of locations.

Well there go. You learn something new every day.

Central tech was used in the movie. My brother went there. I don't remeber seeing the school in that film. I'll have to watch it again.

Somebody who has more knowledge than I have let me know if I'm wrong, but as far as I know a sorority can't STOP someone from using the name in a book or TV show -- they can only sue if they feel the name has been used improperly. The reason why lots of writers make up GLO names instead of using real ones isn't because they couldn't get permission, it's because they don't want to get sued.


Back to the subject: there's also the episode of Sex and the City where Charlotte talks about how she was a Kappa.

In the book version of "Legally Blonde," Elle is a DG, and Theta and Kappa are also mentioned (I think Brooke is a Kappa and the killer is a Theta, although it could be the other way around -- I haven't actually read the book).

if i remember correctly, Brooke was a Theta. I can't remember any Kappa references though. it's been a few weeks and even more books since i've read it!

The woman host from win Ben Stein's money is a Phi Sig and she also wrote the movie the sweetest thing with Selma Blair and Christina Applegate... Although she didn't include any refrences in the movie that I noticed...

i decided to quote Sally Fields as opposed to Julia Roberts...i can't assume everyone has seen Steel Magnolias :D

What's Steel Magnolias?

I was just going to mention this! It's called Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! and is a pretty good book!

Yep! She was featured in The Key a few issues back. It was a very nice article!

Hmm... can't think of any others off the top of my head (though that could have more to do with the entire bottle of Reisling I drank at my company's Christmas lunch more than anything!)

I heard about that, and I'm sooooo jealous!!! The Little Mermaid is one of my favorite movies.....ever!!!

For all who don't know the woman who invented the care bears is a tri-sigma. Therefor the first care bear had 3 purple stars (or hearts???) on it. That is the only homage that I know of. Though, being someone who had a care bear, i love it.