Ithaca College’s Cornell Impression More Cornell-y Than Real Cornell

by Maureen O'Connor | November 25, 2008 at 6:32 pm

The intrepid lads and lasses of Ithaca College — some sort of liberal arts dealie that coexists with the Ivy Most Likely To Have An Inferiority Complex And/Or Belong To A Sorority — have created a delightful little soap opera entitled IVY. Filmed on Cornell's campus, IVY "may or may not be based on actual Cornell students. ... Okay. Yeah, they're kind of based on actual Cornell students. Like pretty much." The resulting parody so inspired, so ingenious, so delightfully spot-on, why, it almost makes you wish you went to a safety school! But seriously: I nearly died choking on my Diet Coke Plus with Vitamins during the opening scene, featuring a back-to-school monologue from Sorostitute #1, Emily:

Sure, the acting can be a little awkward, and the camera work kind of makes me motion-sick, but in the context of college, social discomfort and a lingering scent of vomit only enhance the cinema vérité quality. Emily emerges as the Blair Waldorf of the bunch, the scheming princess with her pussywhipped pre-med boyfriend, Chris. But Chris is having a change of heart! He's thinking about dropping out of Orgo! Even worse— he might be falling for Natalie, the outcast studio art major with a nose pierce and Jenny Lewis bangs!

After the jump (and mostly because "Gossip Girl" isn't on this week, which leaves a big hole in the "painfully-soundtracked elitist melodrama" part of our hearts) more video and we knock off Daily Intel's Gossip Girl reality index.

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