Johns Hopkins University in popular culture

Instances and mentions of Johns Hopkins University in popular culture.

In non-fiction
  • The HBO film Something the Lord Made (2004), based on the true story of Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (an unusual team for the time), depicts their work as pioneers of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
  • Johns Hopkins University Hospital is the focus of Hopkins, an ABC News' six-part series which takes an intimate look at the men and women who call the Johns Hopkins Hospital their home. Began June 26, 2008.[1]

In fiction

In film
  • In John Waters' trash film Desperate Living (1977), the lesbian character Mole McHenry enters Johns Hopkins Hospital and forces a surgeon at knifepoint to give her a sex-change operation.
  • In the movie Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Meg Ryan visits her brother, a professor, at his office in the George Peabody Library.
  • In the movie Getting In (1994), a college graduate ends up sixth on the waiting list for Johns Hopkins University and attempts to "dissuade" six people in front from attending. However, along the way, he discovers that somebody else is attempting to do the same thing by murdering the other applicants.
  • In the movie Species II (1998), Senator Ross offers to take his son Patrick to Johns Hopkins after he was infected with alien DNA.
  • The film The Curve (1998) was filmed at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University.
  • In Head of State (2003), the unlikely Democratic presidential candidate Mays Gilliam (played by Chris Rock) rallies campus supporters from the steps of Shriver Hall, on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins, in this comedy that marked Rock's directorial debut and co-starred the late Bernie Mac.
  • The HBO film Something the Lord Made (2004) was filmed both on the Homewood campus and medical campus.
  • In the science fiction movie The Island (2005), the retinal scans of Lincoln Six Echo are sent to Johns Hopkins for analysis.
  • The Nicole Kidman film The Invasion (2007) was partly filmed in a laboratory in Mudd Hall on the Homewood campus.[2][3]
  • In the movie The Prince and Me (2007), the character Paige Morgan is accepted into the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • In the movie Whip It (2009), Bliss Cavendar's friend Pash is accepted into the Johns Hopkins University.
  • The campus scenery of Harvard University in The Social Network (2010) was filmed on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins.
  • The movie Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) takes place at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where the world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson completed his residency and works.
  • In the movie Annihilation (2018), Lena, portrayed by Natalie Portman, is a cellular biology professor at Johns Hopkins.

On television
  • In the television series The Simpsons, Dr. Julius Hibbert is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • In the television series Scrubs', Dr. Perry Cox is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • Dr. Gregory House, portrayed by British actor Hugh Laurie in the television series House, graduated from Johns Hopkins University and was expelled from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for cheating. Dr. Foreman also attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • In the television series Grey's Anatomy, the character Dr. Preston Burke is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was first in his class. Dr. Erica Hahn, the cardiac surgeon who performed Denny Duquette's heart transplant, graduated from Hopkins, ranking second only to Dr. Burke. Dr. Arizona Robbins is also a graduate of the medical school.
  • In the television series The Twilight Zone (Season 1 Episode 12), the character Andrew L. Gaddis graduates from the Johns Hopkins University, claiming to have done so "without any real difficulty".
  • In the television series NCIS, Special Agent Timothy McGee graduated from MIT and has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, revealed in the Episode 'Sub Rosa'.
  • In the television series Judging Amy, the character Kyle McCarty had attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine before being expelled.
  • In the television series South Park episode "Britney's New Look", Butters, mistaken for a talking squirrel, is taken to Johns Hopkins for evaluation.
  • In the television series Gilmore Girls, Paris Geller applies to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Doctor that takes care of Logan Huntzberger is a Johns Hopkins Graduate.
  • In the season two finale of Nip/Tuck (2003), Christian Troy and Sean McNamara visit Johns Hopkins to find out more about Ava Moore.
  • In the American television show Commander in Chief, President Allen asks about the results of a recent "John" Hopkins study in episode 18.
  • In an episode of the science-fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the character Dr. Beckett comments on an applicant to the Atlantis mission as being much more qualified in medicine than he. The applicant was from "John" Hopkins.
  • On the HBO drama The Wire, Baltimore Police Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin looks into a retirement job as deputy director of campus security for JHU, an offer that is withdrawn when his "Hamsterdam" experiment of allowing the free trade of drugs in certain areas of his district is exposed.
  • In the television series The Game, character Melanie Barnett attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore before moving to San Diego with her boyfriend Derwin, a pro football player.
  • In The West Wing, Eleanor Bartlet attends the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • In the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, episode "Road Trip", Leslie Knope tries to think of conversation topics to bore her traveling companion. She decides to mention the recent trend of students opting to loft their beds in Wolman and McCoy dorms.
  • In Reno 911!, two mental health patients claim to be doctors, one from "John Hodgman University" and one from Johns Hopkins University, until an actual doctor at the hospital finds them.[4]
  • In Archer, the eponymous protagonist Sterling Archer was offered an athletic scholarship to Johns Hopkins until his lacrosse career was prematurely ended by a gunshot injury.
  • In Modern Family, the episode named "Under Pressure," Alex has a mental breakdown during her sweet 16 birthday party, throwing her hands into her cake and stressing over her upcoming SATs and the 15-year-old genius who is studying a cancer cure at Johns Hopkins while she’s having a party.
  • In The Client List, a doctor who attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine named Dr. Mark Flemming (portrayed by Jon Prescott) tries to woo Riley (portrayed by Jennifer Love Hewitt), without knowing that she secretly works at a massage parlor.
  • In M*A*S*H, after Hawkeye completes a difficult operation he is told “they couldn’t have done it better at Johns Hopkins.” Several seasons later, when Colonel Potter and Major Winchester fall ill with the mumps, replacement surgeon Steve Newsom says he went to medical school at Johns Hopkins.
  • In season 4 of the television series "Better Call Saul," a Johns Hopkins physician is brought to an Albuquerque hospital via a large cash grant from Gustavo Fring to radically alter the treatment plan of Hector Salamanca, a recent victim of a stroke.
  • In Hart of Dixie, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine graduate Dr. Zoe Hart is a big city surgical resident turned rural Alabama general practitioner played by Rachel Bilson.

References
  1. Hopkins | Home Archived 2009-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "The Hedgecock Laboratory - Article". Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
  3. "Invasion Movie - Invasion Trailer - Nicole Kidman - Daniel Craig - Visiting Movie". Retrieved 2007-08-18.
  4. Comedycentral.com


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