Original sentence: These appearances have ranged from serious acknowledgements of the College's academic tradition, as in the film 10 Things I Hate about You, wherein a character desperately wishes to attend Sarah Lawrence; also in the film The Notebook, where Rachel McAdams character attends the institution, to more humorous depictions of the same, as in an episode of The Simpsons, where the school is referenced as an alternative college where teachers are called by their first name
Edited sentence: These appearances have ranged from serious acknowledgements of the College's academic tradition, as in the film 10 Things I Hate about You, wherein a character desperately wishes to attend Sarah Lawrence; also in the film The Notebook, where Rachel McAdams character attends the institution, to more humorous mockeries of the same, as in an episode of The Simpsons, where the school is caricatured as a silly, new-age replacement for traditional academia