The California Institute of Technology (Cal-tech) features in which TV comedy series?
"often used to establish a character's high level of intelligence or a technical background; for example, in the novel ""Contact"" by Carl Sagan, Eleanor Arroway holds a Ph.D. in radio astronomy from there. On television, all four male lead characters in the sitcom ""The Big Bang Theory"" are employed at the Institute. Caltech is also the inspiration, and frequent film location, for the California Institute of Science of ""Numb3rs"". On film, the Pacific Tech of ""The War of the Worlds"" and ""Real Genius"" is based on Caltech. In nonfiction, two 2007 documentaries examine aspects of Caltech: ""Curious"", its researchers, and"
"""Quantum Hoops"", its men's basketball team. Given its Los Angeles-area location, the grounds of the Institute are often host to short scenes in movies and television. The Athenaeum dining club appears in the ""Beverly Hills Cop"" series, ""The X-Files"", ""True Romance"", and ""The West Wing"". California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech) is a private doctorate-granting research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Known for its strength in natural science and engineering, Caltech is often ranked as one of the world's top-ten universities. Although founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop"
"Californication (TV series) Californication is an American comedy-drama television series created by Tom Kapinos, which aired for seven seasons on Showtime from August 13, 2007 to June 29, 2014. The show follows New Yorker Hank Moody (David Duchovny), a troubled novelist who moves to California and suffers from writer's block. His drinking, womanizing, and drug abuse complicate his relationships with his longtime lover Karen (Natascha McElhone) and their daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin). Hank struggles to find purpose in his life as he passes up multiple opportunities, eventually making the right decision for happiness. The show's other main characters are Hank's"
"Caltech–MIT rivalry The Caltech–MIT rivalry is a college rivalry between California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), stemming from the colleges' reputations as the top science and engineering schools in the United States. The rivalry is unusual given the geographic distance between the schools (their campuses are separated by about 3000 miles and are on opposite coasts of the United States), as well as its focus on elaborate pranks rather than sporting events. The most recent pranking war was instigated in April 2005, when Caltech students pulled multiple pranks during MIT's Campus Preview Weekend for prospective"
"Tom Kapinos, features some secondary characters first introduced on Californication, such as Stu Beggs (played by Stephen Tobolowsky) and Kali (played by Meagan Good). Californication (TV series) Californication is an American comedy-drama television series created by Tom Kapinos, which aired for seven seasons on Showtime from August 13, 2007 to June 29, 2014. The show follows New Yorker Hank Moody (David Duchovny), a troubled novelist who moves to California and suffers from writer's block. His drinking, womanizing, and drug abuse complicate his relationships with his longtime lover Karen (Natascha McElhone) and their daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin). Hank struggles to find"
"Sherlock Holmes character, and to the ""Mathnet"" segment on the children's television show ""Square One"". Gabriel Macht was originally cast to portray the character of Don Eppes. Also, the original concept for the show had the events take place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; this was later changed to the fictional California Institute of Science, commonly called CalSci. Scenes which take place at CalSci are filmed at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Southern California. One of the most frequent campus locations at Caltech is the vicinity of , including the bridge over Millikan Pond, the Trustees"
"won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology, and Caltech was ranked first in the 2011–2016 Times Higher Education worldwide rankings of universities., whereas MIT was ranked first in the rival QS World University Rankings over the same period. Curiously from 2004-2009, The Times HES and QS collaborated to produce joint rankings. Caltech has a long history of off-campus pranks, which are sometimes referred to as ""RFs"". (RF is short for ""ratfuck"", referring to the shattering of a frozen dead rat in someone's room.) The most notable of these pranks include the 1961"
"co-creator Bill Prady. The show follows two genius physicists with very low social skills who befriend their neighbor, an attractive, outgoing young woman with average intelligence and no college education. Each episode usually focuses on the daily lives of the men and two of their equally socially challenged yet highly brilliant friends, with a dose of absurdity from the relationship with their uneducated, but socially brilliant, neighbor. The two main protagonists, Sheldon and Leonard, are named after the actor and television producer Sheldon Leonard. The show premiered on CBS in 2007 and is the highest rated comedy series in the"
"Community (TV series) Community is an American comedy television series created by Dan Harmon that aired on NBC and Yahoo! Screen from September 17, 2009, to June 2, 2015. The series follows an ensemble cast of characters played by Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase, and Jim Rash at a community college in the fictional town of Greendale, Colorado. It makes heavy use of meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television clichés and tropes. Harmon based the program on his own experiences attending a community college."
"California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech) is a private doctorate-granting research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Known for its strength in natural science and engineering, Caltech is often ranked as one of the world's top-ten universities. Although founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891, the college attracted influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early 20th century. The vocational and preparatory schools were disbanded and spun off in 1910 and the college assumed its present name in 1921."
"Comedy Channel. In the United Kingdom, it premiered on July 16, 2014, airing on Sky Atlantic, while also being available on internet view-on-demand services such as Blinkbox. In New Zealand, the series airs on on the SoHo channel. In India, the series is available for streaming on Hotstar. Silicon Valley (TV series) Silicon Valley is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. The series focuses on five young men who founded a startup company in Silicon Valley. The series premiered on April 6, 2014 on HBO, and the fifth season premiered on March"
"are also two Caltech Jazz Bands and a Concert Band. For vocal music, Caltech has a mixed voice Glee Club and a smaller Chamber Singer group. The theater program at Caltech is known as TACIT, or Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology. There are two to three plays organized by TACIT per year, and they were involved in the production of the , released in 2011. Every Halloween, Dabney House conducts the infamous ""Millikan pumpkin-drop experiment"" from the top of Millikan Library, the highest point on campus. According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering"
"and in . The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is in the southern-central area of Pasadena. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (managed for NASA by Caltech) is in Pasadena. As of 2017, Caltech's 37 Nobel Laureates have brought 38 Nobel Prizes home to Pasadena. In 2005, Caltech dedicated an on-campus weather station honoring the late Nobel laureate geneticist and meteorologist Ed Lewis. The Ed Lewis Memorial Weather Station generates weather information for KNBC and thousands of other Web sites on school campuses in Pasadena and all over the nation. Fuller Theological Seminary, one of the largest multidenominational seminaries in the world,"
"on cable TV. An exception to the prevailing style of the series is the recurring sketch ""Wheels, Ontario"", which parodies earnest issues-based teen dramas such as ""Degrassi Junior High"". Most sketches in the series feature Nick Kroll, who plays multiple characters, including dysfunctional teenage dad C-Czar, aspiring entrepreneur and ""ghost-bouncer"" Bobby Bottleservice, inept publicity agent Liz G. (co-founder of Hollywood PR firm ""PubLizity""), celebrity pet plastic surgeon Dr. Armond, aging prankster Gil Faizon (""Too Much Tuna"", ""The Oh, Hello Show""), ""nouveau riche"" party boy Aspen Bruckenheimer (""Rich Dicks""), Philadelphia-based pawn shop owner Murph (""Pawnsylvania""), and Canadian teen actor-musician Bryan La"
"2007, Caltech distributed a sixteen-page fake edition of MIT's student newspaper, ""The Tech"", containing articles such as ""Math Dept. Hires Rising Star Matt Damon"", ""Infinite Corridor Not Actually Infinite"", referring to MIT's iconic main thoroughfare, and a mock advertisement for sperm donation offering more money for Caltech students than MIT students. The prank was inspired by the suggestion that a similar fake-newspaper caper had been perpetrated by the University of Southern California against the University of California, Los Angeles in the past, and the paper was prepared in just two weeks with 15,000 issues printed. The three Caltech students sent"
"characters getting into trouble each week at the fictitious California University (Cal U), under the watchful eye of Mike Rogers (Bob Golic), their dorm adviser. The series includes Zack Morris, Samuel ""Screech"" Powers, and A.C. Slater (from the original ""Saved by the Bell"" series) as the main characters, along with newcomers Leslie Burke (Anne Tremko), Alex Tabor (Kiersten Warren) and Danielle Marks (Essence Atkins). After the pilot, however, Atkins's role was eliminated, and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen returned to the show in her role of Kelly Kapowski. Danielle was written out of the series as having transferred to another college. During the"
"of the series focuses on science, particularly physics. The four main male characters are employed at Caltech and have science-related occupations, as do Bernadette and Amy. The characters frequently banter about scientific theories or news (notably around the start of the show), and make science-related jokes. Science has also interfered with the characters' romantic lives. Leslie breaks up with Leonard when he sides with Sheldon in his support for string theory rather than loop quantum gravity. When Leonard joins Sheldon, Raj, and Howard on a three-month Arctic research trip, it separates Leonard and Penny at a time when their relationship"
"eight institutions in North and South America selected as a Rockefeller Foundation humanities fellowship residency site. The HBO show ""Silicon Valley"" used the face of the U-SU as the building for the Hooli company. California State University, Los Angeles offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, a women's center, a job placement service, a day care, health services, and health insurance. Cal State LA also offers campus safety and police services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and student patrols. Students, faculty, and staff can get a wireless connection"
"the University of Southern California. Hall is a writer, director and comic actress, best known as a cast member on Season 13 (5 episodes 2008) of MADtv, and as the zaniest cast member on BET's prank dating show ""Hell Date"". Her body of work also includes several web series created under the banner www.Tickles.Tv; a documentary short film and a finalist in the HBO short films awards, for ""The Memo"" 2004 and ""Mandingo in a Box"" 2006. She says about comedy ""... comedy is my primary vehicle for expressing myself. I describe my style as a special blend of humor"
"Science Weighted Companion Cube from the video game ""Portal"". Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen '99 and Mason Porter '98 and published in May 2007. In 2005, a group of Caltech students pulled a string of pranks during MIT's Campus Preview Weekend for admitted students. These include covering up the word Massachusetts in the ""Massachusetts Institute of Technology"" engraving on the main building façade with a banner so that it read ""That Other Institute of Technology"". A group of MIT hackers responded by altering"
"(and) Forgo Practice'. This was part of a play / sketch addressing the friction between theoretical and applied researchers. MIT and Caltech have been prank rivals since Spring 2005, when a group of Caltech students traveled to Cambridge to pull a string of pranks during ""Campus Preview Weekend"" (CPW) for prospective new MIT students. The stunts included covering up the word ""Massachusetts"" in the ""Massachusetts Institute of Technology"" engraving on the main building façade with a banner, so that it read ""That Other Institute of Technology"". A group of MIT hackers quickly responded by altering the banner so that the"
"for singer Kali. Season seven sees Hank becoming a staff writer for the television adaptation of ""Santa Monica Cop"". David Duchovny stated that following ""The X-Files"", he wanted to work on a comedy series, but believed casting directors and audiences would not be receptive to his being cast in such a role because of the dark tone of his previous work. He also felt that the ""underdog comedies"" being made at the time would not have suited him. He was attracted to ""Californication"" because the show is a ""hyper-articulate comedy"" and deals with adults trying to solve their problems. Duchovny"
"Kidding Kidding is an American comedy-drama television series created by Dave Holstein that premiered on September 9, 2018, on Showtime. The series stars Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer, Cole Allen, Juliet Morris, and Catherine Keener and marks the second collaboration between director and executive producer Michel Gondry and Carrey, who previously worked together on the film ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"". On October 10, 2018, it was announced that Showtime had renewed the series for a second season. ""Kidding"" is set in Columbus, Ohio and follows Jeff Piccirillo, aka beloved children's television presenter Mr. Pickles, appreciated by children"
"television programs originating in the Twin Cities have been aired nationally on terrestrial and cable TV networks. KTCA created the science program ""Newton's Apple"" and distributes a children's program today. A few unusual comedic shows also originated in the area. In the 1980s, KTMA (predecessor to WUCW) created a number of low-budget shows, including cult classic ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"". The short-lived ""Let's Bowl"" started on KARE, and PBS series ""Mental Engineering"" originated on the St. Paul cable access network. The radio market in the Twin Cities is ranked 15th by Nielsen in 2018, similar to its TV market size."
"Lab Rats (U.S. TV series) Lab Rats, also known as Lab Rats: Bionic Island for the fourth season, is an American comedy television series created by Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore that aired on Disney XD from February 27, 2012 to February 3, 2016. The series stars Billy Unger, Spencer Boldman, Kelli Berglund, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and Hal Sparks. A young teenager named Leo Dooley lives a normal life until the day his mother Tasha gets married to billionaire inventor Donald Davenport, with whom they move in. While trying to find his bedroom, Leo accidentally discovers teenage siblings with bionic"
"comedy ""Over Her Dead Body,"" played Cameron Diaz's character's best friend in the romantic comedy ""What Happens in Vegas"" and played the wife of Colin Farrell's character in crime drama ""Pride and Glory."" She was also cast as the lead female role, Dr. Cat Black, in Rob Corddry's satirical comedy ""Childrens Hospital."" The fourth season began airing in August 2012 and featured two episodes that were directed by Bell—the season premiere, ""The Boy with the Pancakes Tattoo"", a parody of ""The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"" and the ninth episode, ""A Kid Walks in to a Hospital"". In 2009, Bell"
"the tone of the show, saying it is ""somewhere between comedy and drama, and isn’t entirely successful at either."" Kidding Kidding is an American comedy-drama television series created by Dave Holstein that premiered on September 9, 2018, on Showtime. The series stars Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer, Cole Allen, Juliet Morris, and Catherine Keener and marks the second collaboration between director and executive producer Michel Gondry and Carrey, who previously worked together on the film ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"". On October 10, 2018, it was announced that Showtime had renewed the series for a second season. ""Kidding"""
"CalTV CalTV is University of California, Berkeley's ASUC sponsored online television network. Programming is student-run, and broadcast online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at CalTV.org, YouTube. Since its founding, CalTV has grown into one of the largest student-run television organizations on the West Coast. Although there had been multiple attempts to get a television station for Berkeley off the ground, it wasn't until Spring 2005 that the ASUC was able to allocate sufficient seed money towards setting up an online TV network. CalTV uses web and digital media technologies to produce its online broadcasts. As its web"
"a weather balloon labeled ""MIT"" at the 50-yard line at the Harvard/Yale football game in 1982. Pranks at the two institutions are seen as a way to relax from the stress of the notoriously rigorous academics of each. Both Caltech and MIT have a set of pranking ethics, stating that pranks should be reversible and not cause permanent damage, and emphasize creativity and originality. In recent years, pranking has been officially encouraged by Tom Mannion, Caltech's Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Campus Life. ""The grand old days of pranking have gone away at Caltech, and that's what we"
"added on to the series. The kitchen and the living were always seen on camera. None of the bedrooms were ever shown. The university Malik attended was a more recent setting and various areas were shown. And C.J.'s office where him and Janine work was another setting that was added to the series. Also, the Help Center where Ella works was shown in various forms. 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012: Outstanding Comedy Series 2008, 2009: Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series (Lavan Davis); nominated in 2010 and 2011. 2009, 2010, 2013: Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series (Cassi Davis); nominated"
"go far enough to be called risky or a biting commentary of the tech industry. ""Because I'm a software engineer, Silicon Valley might portray me with my pants up to my armpits, nerdily and nasally complaining that Thomas' compression algorithm is impossible or that nine times F in hexadecimal is 87, not 'fleventy five' (as Erlich says), but I would forgive such slips in a second if the show were funny."" Auerbach claimed that he used to work for Google, and that his wife also worked for them at the time of the review. The second season received critical acclaim,"
"on the Showtime comedy-drama series ""Californication"". The show's main character Hank Moody, played by actor David Duchovny, is an author based in Los Angeles who subscribes to the same kind of lifestyle that Bukowski became known for. The show depicts profuse indulgence of alcoholism, sex and narcotics, which many critics have described as a television adaption of Bukowski's third novel ""Women"". In the ninth episode of the first season, Moody's girlfriend can be seen reading ""Sifting Through the Madness For The World, The Line, The Way: New Poems"", a collection of Bukowski's posthumously-published work. Charles Bukowski's work and life has"
"dozens of stoic, blue-blooded Harvard men to spit port wine all over their smoking jackets."" ""Sports Illustrated"" featured the prank with ""some of the best attempts to get the other guy's goat"". ESPN and ESPN2 featured the prank in a 15-minute documentary on the rivalry. This prank echoes many similar stunts, most notably the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961. In that Rose Bowl game, California Institute of Technology students had manipulated several of the ending card stunts led by Washington cheerleaders, the last of which caused the letters in ""Caltech"" to be spelled out. In 2002, at the rivalry"