$treet jousts Bull for yuppie broker viewers
$treet
Faye Iosotaluno, WH '02
Issue date: 11/6/00 Section: Undergraduate
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“Yale sperm is worth more than Penn sperm!”— the moment this line was said in Fox’s series premiere of The $treet, my mouth dropped and I thought, "what are they talking about?" Of course, my Penn pride was devastated, but my Wharton pride took it personally. How can you have a show about Wall Street and the hardcore life of investment banking and say that Penn sperm (which invariably includes Wharton sperm!) is less valuable than Yale sperm?
But to assume that a Fox show created by Darren Star (also creator of Sex and the City and Melrose Place) would remotely resemble the truth is absolutely naïve. But not all of my expectations were wrong: plenty of sexual innuendoes, absurd storylines, and boys playing with money.
The $treet chronicles the lives of hotshot traders at Balmont Stevens, an elite New York investment firm. If you missed the show, choose your pick of storylines:
Jack Kenderson leads the group and represents the not-fully corrupted, money-grubbing Wall Street type. He soon finds out that his Harvard MBA fiancée, Alexandra Brill, has been incessantly calling her investment banker ex-boyfriend. She has only agreed to marry Kenderson after performing a thorough quasi-utility maximizing analysis of all her options.
Brill is heading up the IPO of ivygene.com, a company that sells Ivy League semen and eggs over the Internet. It is from this storyline that the aforementioned quote was taken. Looks like she might have to do some serious explaining to win Kenderson’s trust back.
Then there’s Freddie Sacker, the all-too offensive character who we all love to hate. He is what most of us imagine to be the prototypical investment banking jerk. While at a strip club during Kenderson’s bachelor party, he propositions two strippers for more than the typical dance show - and he’s willing to pay big bucks. The strippers reply that they’re not only interested in money, but they also want equity. (Yeah, real believable.)
But to assume that a Fox show created by Darren Star (also creator of Sex and the City and Melrose Place) would remotely resemble the truth is absolutely naïve. But not all of my expectations were wrong: plenty of sexual innuendoes, absurd storylines, and boys playing with money.
The $treet chronicles the lives of hotshot traders at Balmont Stevens, an elite New York investment firm. If you missed the show, choose your pick of storylines:
Jack Kenderson leads the group and represents the not-fully corrupted, money-grubbing Wall Street type. He soon finds out that his Harvard MBA fiancée, Alexandra Brill, has been incessantly calling her investment banker ex-boyfriend. She has only agreed to marry Kenderson after performing a thorough quasi-utility maximizing analysis of all her options.
Brill is heading up the IPO of ivygene.com, a company that sells Ivy League semen and eggs over the Internet. It is from this storyline that the aforementioned quote was taken. Looks like she might have to do some serious explaining to win Kenderson’s trust back.
Then there’s Freddie Sacker, the all-too offensive character who we all love to hate. He is what most of us imagine to be the prototypical investment banking jerk. While at a strip club during Kenderson’s bachelor party, he propositions two strippers for more than the typical dance show - and he’s willing to pay big bucks. The strippers reply that they’re not only interested in money, but they also want equity. (Yeah, real believable.)