SOURCE: AZ CENTRAL
Once again ASU shows up as the butt of a joke, this time in "Dumb and Dumber To." I mentioned this in my review, but I didn't give the joke away because I wanted Sun Devils to, um, experience it themselves, first hand. But now that the movie is out -- and winning the box office with a haul of more than $38 million -- we're probably past the point of spoiler alerts for a throwaway joke.
So here goes: Lloyd (Jim Carrey) and Harry (Jeff Daniels) are reunited after a two-decade practical joke (don't ask). Harry hasn't checked his mail in 20 years, so as he's flipping through the stack he looks at a letter, says, "Oh, I got into Arizona State University," shrugs and tosses it aside.
The joke being, obviously, that ASU is so easy to get into one of these guys managed to. I didn't say it was a good joke (few are in this movie). Just that it was there.
This is not the first time pop culture has poked fun at ASU. Probably the best-known occurrence was the episode of "The Simpsons" in which a flood hits Springfield. Flanders, Homer's self-righteous neighbor, says to his wife, "Maude, it's a miracle! The Lord has drowned the wicked and spared the righteous." She replies, "Isn't that Homer Simpson?" To which Flanders says, "Looks like Heaven's easier to get into than Arizona State."