Is The Bachelorette's Ian Thomson The Most Embarrassing TV Princetonian Ever?

[Primetimer]

In the solar system of cringeworthy Tigers, someone's got to be Uranus. Sarah D. Bunting '94 made a list.

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[Narla]

No Paul Kinsey? My favourite moment with that character was his fight with a fellow alum about why he had to leave the Tiger Tones.

[JenE4]

Ian isn't even close to the most embarrassing reality show "star" to have gone to Princeton. I'd like to submit for consideration Vail from "Van Der Pump Rules." Granted, she dropped out to become an actress, so she didn't actually graduate, but that doesn't stop her from telling everyone that she went to Princeton as the peak of her tragic downfall story, which consists of being fired from whatever soap she was on for being a serious drug addict and culminating with not even getting Jax (of all people!) to sleep with her.

[CDB]

1) As a fellow Tiger, this article made my day.

2) Another notable reality TV Princetonian - Kyle from Real World: Chicago. And a delightful TV actress Princetonian - Ellie Kemper.

3) Not TV, but I've always been fond of the 10 second flashback in the first Nolan Batman movie to Bruce Wayne as a Princeton student. He looks exactly right, somehow.

[Sarah D. Bunting]

I can't believe I forgot Spongekyle Squarehead and Kinsey, hee. I think there was an ANTM Cycle 15 contestant as well. Keep the list going, y'all!

[Silly Angel]

Did he say, "the girl who wants to get her field plowed"?

[nexxie]

Did he say, "the girl who wants to get her field plowed"?

Kaitlyn said that Chris, the farmer, could plow her field anytime - or something like that - when first meeting him.

[CDB]

There *was* an ANTM contestant! Jane - in the High Fashion cycle. I seem to remember that she acquitted herself quite nicely, both from a modeling point of view and from a not being a horrible blight on the face of humanity/Princeton point of view.

[reggiejax]

No Sideshow Cecil? Is it because Sideshow Bob referred to Cecil's time at Princeton as"four years at clown college"?

[Trip]

Oh, if you want to see more Wentworth Miller, watch the episodes of "The Flash" where he appears as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold. He is AWESOME at the scenery-chewing.

[Sarah D. Bunting]

I also forgot Doogie Howser!

And anyone I forgot wasn't a diss. I just straight-up forgot in the...excitement of remembering the Temptation Island guy? I don't know.

#GoHeels

[Dirtybubble]

 

Can I add Andy Bernard from The Office?  I know he went to Cornell instead of Princeton but he still had that same Ivy League snootiness to him. His love of musical theater made him likeable.

[pomme de terre]

Anyone who'd throw that plow line in her face is terrible. I applaud Kaitlyn's wide-eyed, pursed-lips "I cannot believe what I am hearing" face. I'm having flashbacks to having dated a guy who had a face and an educational background much like Ian's. He imagined he was incredibly complex. He was not.

Most of the people I know who have brand name educations are nice, but there's definitely a strain of self-important weirdos who allow their diplomas to define them waaaaaaaaaay after they should. I went to Georgetown and I can explain the exact type of self-important political networker we are capable of producing. Tracy Flick is real, everyone.

[raymond]

Just here to support a fellow Princetonian. When asked where I went to school, I usually mumble "a small college in New Jersey."

 

Q: How can you know whether a man went to Harvard?

A: He tells you.

Edited June 23, 2015 by raymond

[Mu Shu]

They must have really good etiquette classes at Princeton, because Ian is an expert on how déclassé poop and fart jokes are.  I mean, us workaday heathens can't be expected  to control our baser urges to share our bodily functions, but thanks god there is a heavily educated, international bachelor of mystery to put us in our place.

 

I won't lie.   Ian sort of delights me.   He has defied death,  is desired domestically and internationally,  and transcends his own flatulence.    This is a man of substance.    At least he could join Finding Bigfoot, or something.    Bobo could use a Princeton man on his highly respected scientific team.    Except of course when they have to examine some 'Squatch poop or somesuch. 

[Former Nun]

Can we pay to see Ian's interview when he learns he doesn't meet even the most minimum requirements to be The Bachelor?

I hope Juan Pablo will give him the sad news.  Rah!  Tiger sis boom bah!

[Fable]

Bachelor = deep? I'm curious if Ian has ever seen this show.  On the other hand, I know it's not possible. 

[Mu Shu]

Can we pay to see Ian's interview when he learns he doesn't meet even the most minimum requirements to be The Bachelor?

I hope Juan Pablo will give him the sad news.  Rah!  Tiger sis boom bah!

"Es no OK, Ian".  

 

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[Former Nun]

Bachelor = deep? I'm curious if Ian has ever seen this show.

 

The Bachelorette, The Bachelor, and Bachelor in Paradise are all intellectually stimulating for Ian.  If I prayed, I'd ask that he be selected as the next Bachelor.  I might even watch.

Edited June 24, 2015 by Former Nun

[Dan F]

Hello, Mark Feuerstein '93? Intentional snub, surely. Ellie Kemper, obviously. And Jennie Snyder Urman '99 (originally '96) is the showrunner of Jane the Virgin, which should place her pretty high on this power list...

[Jessi]

As a fellow "College of New Jersey" attendee, who then had to change that once Trenton State actually became "The College of New Jersey," my deciding factor to not name drop came from the t-shirt sold at the U-store and worn un-ironically (by some students) that said, "It's lonely at the top." Also, Law and Order original flavor had more than its fair share of psychos attend Princeton--although not nearly as many as attended "Hudson University." In fact, I think PU was the only Ivy actually mentioned by name. I always thought someone on the writing staff had it in for Princeton.