# Name that school! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 10, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272 "2009-02-10T20:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/21 "2009-02-10T23:55:35Z")
**silenus** gets 4 correct. **zamboniracer** gets 1 point from me (and maybe a point for the other, I don’t know it). **as\_u\_wish** gets 1 point for Smeltings. **crimeney.jicket** gets 5 points! However, I already used Angel Beach in my list. **gonzomax** and **Rysto** each get 1 point. 🙂 What remains: Academy of Computer Sciences Barcliff Academy Dotheboys Hall Furinkan High School Horace Green Preparatory School Huber Elementary Hugglestones Io House Langley University Mayfield High School North High Oats Military Academy Pendleton State University Retroville Elementary Seaview Middle School Shiz University Skool St. Bartleby’s School for Young Gentlemen Stonybrook Academy Thomas Aquinas Private Girls’ School Walford High School Welton Academy Westbridge High Whitney High School Winslow High School Wordsmith University Worthington University ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/22 "2009-02-11T00:14:31Z")
> [@criminey.jicket](#): > > Riverdale High School Archie comics. **zamboniracer** : Your guess of _Happy Days_ was correct. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/23 "2009-02-11T00:39:22Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > **zamboniracer** : Your guess of _Happy Days_ was correct. I think you meant to say that my guess was, “Correcto-moondo”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/24 "2009-02-11T01:57:00Z")
Retroville Elementary-- Jimmy Neutron Stonybrook Academy-- Baby Sitters Club Barcliff Academy-- Desperate Housewives ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/25 "2009-02-11T02:01:03Z")
Welton Academy: **Dead Poets Society** ---
**Author:** ![Erasmus\_Darwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@Erasmus\_Darwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erasmus_Darwin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/26 "2009-02-11T03:48:42Z")
Skool - Invader ZIM ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/27 "2009-02-11T03:53:14Z")
Mayfield High School - **Leave It To Beaver** Shermer High School - **The Breakfast Club** ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/28 "2009-02-11T05:32:22Z")
Wasn’t Fillmore Junior High “Saved By The Bell”? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/29 "2009-02-11T05:47:04Z")
So **Fish** , do you maintain a database of schools in film and TV that you update whenever you’re facing a screen? Or did you have a week off, and decided to re-watch hundreds of films and TV shows to create this list? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/30 "2009-02-11T05:49:44Z")
Pendleton State University = Third Rock from the Sun? ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/31 "2009-02-11T09:33:07Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > So **Fish** , do you maintain a database of schools in film and TV that you update whenever you’re facing a screen? Or did you have a week off, and decided to re-watch hundreds of films and TV shows to create this list? Nope. I did do that for my original _Name that!_ list, but I decided it was too narrow: it would only give the shows I was personally familiar with. I have found since then a number of handy lists online which I cull through for likely answers. I try not to be cruel, so I don’t post the _entire_ list of whatevers. I weed out confusing duplicates — for Name That Pet! there were several choices of dogs named Dog or Deeyogee or similar, which I removed. No matter which of these lists I do, there are still some on each one which prove to be too difficult, though. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/32 "2009-02-11T10:22:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Dotheboys Hall I can’t believe nobody has answered this yet. Nicholas Nickleby > [@](#): > > Hugglestones Another Discworld school. William de Worde went there in The Truth, I think. > [@](#): > > Skool Nigel Molesworth’s spelling of school. The actual name was St Custards. > [@](#): > > Walford High School Eastenders? (set in the fictional London borough of Walford, certainly) ---
**Author:** ![EristicKallistic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@EristicKallistic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EristicKallistic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/33 "2009-02-11T14:49:03Z")
Shiz University is from Wicked (and presumably its sequels which I haven’t read, or the musical which I haven’t seen). Welton Academy is, I **think** , Dead Poets’ Society. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/34 "2009-02-11T14:58:08Z")
Anyone want to take a crack at mine that I posted above? ---
**Author:** ![EristicKallistic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@EristicKallistic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EristicKallistic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/35 "2009-02-11T15:30:28Z")
I’m about 80% sure Bayside High was Saved By The Bell… ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/36 "2009-02-11T15:56:55Z")
> [@EristicKallistic](#): > > I’m about 80% sure Bayside High was Saved By The Bell… Correct. ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/37 "2009-02-11T17:07:21Z")
**Sternvogel** : you are correct with Archie Comics (Riverdale High) **DudleyGarrett** : you are correct with the Breakfast Club (Shermer High) ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/38 "2009-02-11T17:17:32Z")
**RetroVertigo** gets 3 points. **fachverwirrt** gets 1 point for Welton Academy. **ErasmusDarwin** gets 1 point for Skool, from Invader Zim. (I’m sure “Skool” has been used as a humorous misspelling for many institutions, such as the Marx Brothers skit “Fun in Hi Skool,” I think Zim’s is the only one actually officially _named_ Skool.) **DudleyGarrett** gets another point for Mayfield from Leave It to Beaver. **Oakminster** gets 1 point for Pendleton. 🙂 **Peter Morris** gets at least 3 points: yes, Walford is from Eastenders. I don’t know about your “Skool,” as that isn’t what the institution is _named._ **Eristic Kallistic** gets 2 points for the schools from Wicked and Dead Poets Society. > [@Fish's list](#): > > Academy of Computer Sciences — 1980s t-t-t-television > Furinkan High School — anime > Horace Green Preparatory School — Jack Black > Huber Elementary — Cartoon Network > Io House — British television > Langley University — you take the good > North High — contemporary television > Oats Military Academy — duuude > Seaview Middle School — if you had a preteen daughter you’d know this > St. Bartleby’s School for Young Gentlemen — a foul clue > Thomas Aquinas Private Girls’ School — anime > Westbridge High — talking cat > Whitney High School — 1980s television > Winslow High School — contemporary television > Wordsmith University — Russian novel > Worthington University — 1998-2003 television > [@Munch's list](#): > > Pennbrook University > Bayside High > Chilton Academy > [@Sternvogel's list](#): > > Fillmore Junior High > Grant College > Harding High > Tom Landry Middle School > Walt Whitman High School > [@zamboniracer's list](#): > > Polk High School > Chilton Academy (duplicated by **Munch** ’s list) ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/39 "2009-02-11T17:34:24Z")
Polk High School --\*\* Married With Children\*\* Walt Whitman High School – **Room 222** Langley University – **Facts of Life** ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272/40 "2009-02-11T17:41:27Z")
I’m guessing Tom Landry Middle School is King of the Hill. Fillmore Junior High - Brady Bunch Chilton Academy - Gilmore Girls Some more: Millard Fillmore High School Eastland Academy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-school/485272.md?page=3)