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WESU gets some love on HIMYM

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aaronread

As any fan of How I Met Your Mother knows, three of the main characters (Ted, Marshall and Lily) all met while students at Wesleyan University...a not-so-subtle nod to show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas also being Wesleyan grads.

I think it's been established that Ted was a DJ at WESU in a vague sense before, but tonight's episode specifically mentions WESU and how Ted was program director there (they show a closeup of his resume entry about it) and how his DJ persona was "Mr.X" and, basically, his show sucked and he wasn't half the radical he thought he was. My wife's a Wesleyan alum and she was howling with laughter about how true to life it was. ;D Although they called it "Radio Free Wesleyan" and I don't think WESU ever really went by that moniker (not in the 1998-2000 period, anyways).

A question, though: I thought that when national TV shows cited specific radio stations there were royalty issues involved. The characters never say "WESU" (they just say "88.1") but the call letters are clearly visible on the aforementioned resume closeup. Maybe Bays and Thomas managed to get blanket permission to reference their characters' supposed history at Wesleyan?
 
I've never seen the show, but the mention of the whole WESU connection does have me a little interested, so I checked out the WIKI link you posted and noticed another Wesleyan Alum mentioned, Joss Whedon. I was at WESU (1986-1989) and I can't remember if JW was a WESU DJ or not, though when I first heard the name years ago when the Buffy TV series first came out, the name did click in my head, but at the time I had a side job as a cashier in the campus center and couldn't avoid seeing hundreds of names as I had to run the "WESCARD" through the register, so it could have been from there. Many of the DJ's from WESU at that time have gone on to some pretty big things, without name dropping, I can mention that some have gone into the record industry, script writing (some in movies and others in TV), TV News and so on. It amazes me sometimes to think that I used to know some of these people and I sometimes wonder how things would have turned out if I had stuck with broadcasting (or associated fields) instead of going into IT/MIS.
 
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