TV character wearing real life sorority merchandise

[33girl]

Originally Posted by *winter*

I feel like the actress in this situation is taking the brunt of this...we assume everyone else understands Greek letters and Greek traditions and not to use the letters if you’re not a member...but she may not have even realized this when she was handed the outfit that day. If anyone is responsible, it’s the people who write the show.

If she knew enough to jokingly say she was “me phi me” in college and use phrases like “cross the burning sands,” SHE KNOWS she crossed a line.

Re Happy Days, they used pinning songs from DG and ATO as part of a plot with Potsie and his girlfriend. I’m assuming people associated with the show had ties to those two groups. They really never talked about it again or showed anyone in letters or anything. Now when the boys were pledging a fraternity and were hazed and then blackballed, they used a fake name for that fraternity.

It’s one thing to have real Greek letters be part of a background, it’s quite another to have them associated with an ongoing story or character.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Re Happy Days, they used pinning songs from DG and ATO as part of a plot with Potsie and his girlfriend. I’m assuming people associated with the show had ties to those two groups. They really never talked about it again or showed anyone in letters or anything. Now when the boys were pledging a fraternity and were hazed and then blackballed, they used a fake name for that fraternity.
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Close, 33. One of the producers was a Beta Theta Pi - so they were mentioned. One of the production staff was a Delta Gamma - hence the references and the anchors.