History Series / Greek

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Any mention of the Gag Reflex.
** 'I'm sorry for being such a dick... tator'.
** The use of 'fun-buddies' qualifies, and also serves as an in-universe example.
** Then there's all the sexual innuendo during the cram session for "Joshua Whopper"; from the discussion of phalluses 'going soft', 'too much to cram in', it goes on...
** "Guilty Treasures" has Heath, who is gay, holding a rooster statue.
** The title and last line of the ZBZ national convention episode: "[[CountryMatters See You Next Time, Sisters!]]"
** Cappie unknowingly hits on a married woman, who holds up her ring finger in a very [[FlippingTheBird familiar gesture]].

** Cappie straight up quotes directly from TheMatrix at least twice while giving advice to Rusty.

* YourCheatingHeart: Evan on Casey
** [[spoiler:Rebecca on Evan]]
** [[spoiler:Fisher]] on Ashleigh
** Jordan on Andy.

* SuddenlySexuality: Rebecca decides that she's a lesbian after kissing a girl and realizing that she enjoyed it. Her prior relationships with Cappie and Evan beg to differ, and she decides it was just a passing girl crush after the second date ([[NoBisexuals because for some reason there's no chance that she could be bisexual]]).

[[caption-width-right:325: [[WackyCollege Pictured]] (from left to right): [[SouthernFriedGenius Dale]], [[StraightGay Calvin]], [[BlackBestFriend Ashleigh]], [[BrilliantButLazy Cappie]], [[CoolBigSis Casey]], [[{{Jerkass}} Evan]], [[RichBitch Rebecca]], [[CoolLoser Rusty]]. Not pictured: [[AlphaBitch Frannie]].]]

* BlackBestFriend: Calvin (sort of) to Rusty, and Ashleigh to Casey.
** To elaborate on Calvin, he's more a best friend who happens to be black (and gay); he's never played up as "hip" or anything along those lines, only ''relatively'' so compared to Rusty and Dale who are both very nerdy, especially early on.

** Casey and Cappie give us this Film/StarWars themed gem in 'Picking Teams':

** "[[Film/StarWars Help me Toby Kwon; you're my only hope.]]"

** Cappie unknowingly hits on a married woman, who holds up her ring finger in a very [[FlipTheBird familiar gesture]].

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** Ben Bennett.
** And his fake ID, Frankie Franklin.
** Other characters with alliterative names include Casey Cartwright, Lisa Lawson, and Peter Parkes.

** Cappie and Evan get jobs at PartyDown catering; they even have to wear pink bowties.

* SeriousBusiness: [=ZBZ's=] social calendar.

-> ''"I wanna have a real college experience! I wanna have fun!"''
-> ''"You don't know how to have fun!"''
-> ''"But I can learn; isn't that what college is for?"''
-> ''"Hell no!"''

Set at the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University in Ohio, the series focuses on Rusty Cartwright, a HollywoodNerd fresh out of high-school with dreams of joining a fraternity and having a 'real college experience', while also being a member of the Honors Engineering program and pursuing a degree in [[WeirdScience Polymer Science]]. The series begins on his [[FishOutOfWater first day at school]] and ends during his junior year, exploring the goings-on of his friends and classmates, as well as his relationship with his CoolBigSis, Casey [[note]](played by KelseyGrammer's daughter, Spencer Grammer)[[/note]]. Unlike many teen dramas on nowadays, it's not really a drama; College/Greek life isn't treated as a matter of life or death (usually), and some "serious" issues - such as Betsy's alcoholism - are even played for laughs.

* Ben Bennett.
* And his fake ID, Frankie Franklin.
* Other characters with alliterative names include Casey Cartwright, Lisa Lawson, and Peter Parkes.

* MayDecemberRomance: Ashleigh and Simon Segal, Casey's law professor.

--> '''Dale''': ''{{Film/Sahara|2005}}''? Uh, ''{{Film/EDtv}}''? ''The Wedding Planner''? ''Film/FailureToLaunch''? ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days''? ''Fool's Gold''?
--> '''Rebecca''': No! ''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past''.

* BigHeroicRun: Subverted so hard in 'Picking Teams', with the Kappa Tau's running off a night of very hard drinking on their way to face off against the Omega Chi's in floor hockey.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal[=/=]FullNameBasis[=/=]RepetitiveName: Ben Bennett.
** And his fake ID, Frankie Franklin.
** Other characters with alliterative names include Casey Cartwright, Lisa Lawson, and Peter Parkes.

* TheAlcoholic: Betsy.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: [[spoiler: Cappie's parents]].
* AmicableExes: Cappie and Rebecca.

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: Wade, Jen K and Lisa Lawson. Frannie was back for the episode before.]]

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Lizzi.

* BettyAndVeronica: Evan (Betty) and Cappie (Veronica) for Casey (in this case, only because Cappie is the canon LoveInterest; Evan actually fits the Veronica personality type much better, being rich and kind of a prick).

* {{Bridezilla}}: Kiki, Frannie's Big Sis.
* BrilliantButLazy: Cappie, in spades.

* CoolBigSis: Casey to Rusty.

* CoolLoser: Rusty

* CreditCardPlot: With Ashleigh in the end of season one.
* CrisisOfFaith: Dale goes through one during his guilt spiral over [[spoiler: losing his virginity]]. It's PlayedForLaughs, and he gets over it within a few episodes.

--> "You my little friend are now a fu...([[ItMakesSenseInContext a random nun appears]])...fun buddy. A fun buddy."

* DoggedNiceGuy: Rusty Rusty Rusty.
** Dale as well.
* DoubleAgent: Rebecca in season two.
* {{Dramedy}}

* DumbBlonde: Both Laura and Beth, but averted by Katherine and Casey (well, most of the time).

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Evan cheating on Casey in the first episode.
** Lizzi's entire spiel to Ashleigh and Casey when she's first introduced set her entire tone, and Ashleigh and Casey's faces said it all...[[OhCrap This is going to]] ''[[OhCrap suck]]''.

* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Lasker Parkes]] to Kappa Tau.

* FirstGirlWins: Gender-flipped. [[spoiler: Casey and Calvin both end the series in relationships with the guys they hooked up with in their first week at college (Cappie and Heath), and the finale implies that Rebecca could end up the same way (with Evan).]]

* FishOutOfWater: Rusty, early on.

* FreudianExcuse: Implied about [[spoiler: why Cappie doesn't want to leave college.]]

* FunWithAcronyms: In season two, [[spoiler: Frannie]] leaves ZBZ to start her own sorority called Iota Kappa Iota... also known as IKI.

** 'I'm sorry for being such a dick...tator'.

* TheGenericGuy: Heath; he's still adorable.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Ashleigh and Casey.
* HiddenDepths: Rebecca who is shown to be more than a RichBitch.
** We find out in season four that [[spoiler: Beaver]], of all people, is studying to be a kindergarten teacher.

* HisStoryRepeatsItself: [[spoiler: Casey & Cappie's relationship. Cappie & Evan's friendship]]

* HollywoodSpelling: Ashleigh (self-explanatory); Lizzi ("Two Zeta-Beta Z's", no E.)

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Casey, to maximum.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Katherine.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Ashleigh thinks Calvin has a crush on her in early season one, and she tries to come on to him after she gets drunk at a party which results in him revealing to her that he's gay.

* InventedIndividual: [[spoiler: Joshua Whopper]], the genius KT member created by brothers past to keep their house grades from dropping below the required average.

* ItsAlwaysSpring[=/=]SoCalization: Seriously, an Ohio with no snow?

* KidnappedByAnAlly: [[spoiler: The Kappa Tau pledge class kidnap Cappie and Rusty on their way to play golf with Omega Chi, resulting in their loss by default]].

* NerdsAreVirgins: Averted with Rusty, [[spoiler: who has slept with every girl he has dated.]]
** Also averted with [[spoiler: Dale, but his reaction was quite disheartening]].

** GivenNameReveal: We get to find out in the finale that his name is [[spoiler: Captain John Paul Jones]].

* OneOfTheBoys: Jordan.

* PrimAndProperBun: Katherine.
* PutOnABus: Jordan, who moves to New York to pursue a career in photography.

* QuirkyCurls: Lizzi, to the point where Ashleigh's first line to her as they get ready to make her over is, "It's time to get serious...''and it starts with the hair''."
* ReallyGetsAround: Pretty much every member of Kappa Tau would qualify as a male example, though Cappie probably has the biggest reputation.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens infrequently throughout the series, as minor characters pop up throughout the different houses/Greek system in general as needed.

* RomanticRunnerup: Evan.
* RousingSpeech: Cappie loves them. They usually contain a high number of movie references.
** Rusty gives one to the [=KTs=] after [[spoiler: their house gets torn down in the finale, cementing his place as Cappie's successor]].
* RunningGag: The ''other'' Gentleman's Choice.

* SpeedDating: Rusty and Cappie go through this at Dobler's

* StonersAreFunny: Casey and Evan get high in 'High and Dry' after unknowingly eating pot brownies while on sober patrol. After consuming a large quantity of food (and apparently sitting under the table for ten minutes pretending they were a pair of shoes), they finally wind up sitting in the shower together and smelling various hair products.

* TeenDrama

* ThatCameOutWrong: At various times, in particular Heath saying he was going to pound one of the Omega Chi's, elaborating that he meant with his fist and realizing that wasn't quite clear enough either.

* TitleCard
* TomBoy: Jordan.

* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler: The KT house gets destroyed in the most emotional scene of the series finale]].

* VolleyingInsults: Cappie and Evan. Rebecca and Casey.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Cappie and Evan.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Cappie spends an evening trying desperately to have a threesome at a party in order to squash the rumors that he has become a serial monogamist. The following morning he [[BedmateReveal wakes up in bed with]]... [[spoiler: Wade and Beaver]]. [[AmbiguousSituation They probably didn't have sex]], but unanimously decide go eat breakfast instead of thinking about it too hard.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Cappie and Casey, definitely.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Jonah, Casey's date in "Highway to the Discomfort Zone". He's 16, but has a fake ID good enough to fool Lizzi, the resident "Party Patrol" for the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Double Date Dash at Dobler's]].

* YourCheatingHeart: Evan on Casey, [[spoiler: Rebecca on Evan]], [[spoiler:Fisher]] on Ashleigh, and Jordan on Andy.

** "The Half-Naked Gun" plot with Rusty and Jordan has shades of MrAndMrsSmith.

* AbsenteeActor: Mainly Dale, but Evan and Rebecca have been known to also go missing for an episode or two at a time. In fact, the only main characters to appear in every episode are Rusty, Casey, and Cappie.
** Anyone outside the main three (and usually Ashleigh) will be absent (without commentary) for random episodes every season. Presumably, this is when these people actually go to class.
** Probably the most egregious example is in "War and Peace", where Lizzi specifically says that ''every'' member of ZBZ must take Frannie back for Lizzi to proclaim the house fit (and finally be gone), and the crux of the episode is whether Casey will welcome Frannie back...except Rebecca is ''not seen at all'' in this episode. It might have been justified that pledges were excluded, except several recurring ''pledge'' sisters were seen at the ceremony.

* HiddenDepths: Rebecca.

* IncompatibleOrientation: Ashleigh thinks Calvin has a crush on her in early season one, and she tries to come on to him after she gets drunk at a party. Turns out he's gay, and was just trying to be friendly.

* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Ashleigh and Simon Segal, Casey's law professor.]]

* TheMole: Jen K.

* PairTheSpares: Evan and Rebecca.
** Ashleigh and Rusty in the final series.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Or in this case, ''didn't''. The writers' strike bisected the first season; the producers decided to keep shooting them in 10-12 episode "chapters" and haven't looked back since.

* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Jonah, the guy Casey met at the shelter and later slept with. She's suitably squicked when she finds out.

--> '''Rebecca''': "Hey, remember that terrible Creator/MatthewMcConaughey film?"
--> '''Dale''': "{{Film/Sahara}}? Uh, {{Film/EDtv}}? The Wedding Planner? Film/FailureToLaunch? Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days? Fool's Gold?"
--> '''Rebecca''': "No! Ghosts of Girlfriends Past."

** Tina (Betty) and Katherine (Veronica) for Rusty.

-> ''"[[NaiveNewcomer But I can learn; isn't that what college is for?]]"''

-->'''Wade:''' Gentlemen (beat) and Omega Chi's.

** Casey and Cappie give us this Film/StarWars themed gem in 1x04:

--> "I know I may seem like just a Christian hick with a very bright future ahead of him..."

* SuddenlySexuality: Rebecca decides that she's a lesbian after kissing a girl and realizing that she enjoyed it. Her prior relationships with Cappie and Evan beg to differ, and she decides it was just a passing girl crush after the second date ([[NoBisexuals because for some reason there's no chance that she's bisexual instead]]).

* Fish out of Water: Rusty, early on.

** Casey and Cappie give us this Series/StarWars themed gem in 1x04:

** This was a ship sticking point for the final chapter, as Casey broke up with him because he couldn't commit to graduating. He finally does in the last episode...[[spoiler:but it took the KT house being destroyed to get him to commit.]]

Set at the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University in Ohio, the series focuses on the fraternity ambitions of Rusty Cartwright, a HollywoodNerd fresh out of highschool with dreams of fitting in at school and having a 'real college experience', while also being a member of the Honors Engineering program and pursuing a degree in [[WeirdScience Polymer Science]]. The series begins on his [[FishOutOfWater first day at school]] and ends during his junior year, exploring the goings-on of his friends and classmates, as well as his relationship with his CoolBigSis, Casey [[note]](played by KelseyGrammer's daughter, Spencer Greammer)[[/note]]. Unlike many teen dramas on nowadays, it's not really a drama; College/Greek life isn't treated as a matter of life or death (usually), and some "serious" issues - such as Betsy's alcoholism - are even played for laughs.

** Other characters with alliterative names are Casey Cartwright and Lisa Lawson.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Evan seems to be this to Cappie at first, but as you get to know them you realize Cappie's actually this to Evan, or at least the Evan he wanted to be at the beginning of college given the fact he's the KT golden boy and dates Casey first.

* BlackBestFriend: Calvin, to Rusty, and Ashleigh to Casey.
** Well, not really. He's more a best friend who happens to be black (and gay); he's never played up as "hip" or anything along those lines (only ''relatively'' so compared to Rusty and Dale who are both very nerdy, especially early on).

* CoolBigSis: Casey to Rusty

* DarkHorseVictory: Ashleigh comes out of nowhere to win the ZBZ presidency.

* FishOutOfWater: Tomboyish Jordan first doesn't fit in well with the rest of feminine ZBZ girls.

** The use of 'fun-buddies' qualifies as well, and also serves as an in-universe example.

* InventedIndividual: [[spoiler: Joshua Whopper]], the genius member created by Kappa Tau's past to keep their house grades from dropping below the required average.

* KidnappedByAnAlly: [[spoiler: The Kappa Tau pledge class kidnap Cappie and Rusty, resulting in their loss to Omega Chi]].

* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Ashleigh and Casey's law professor Simon Segal.]]

-->'''Cappie:''' Gentlemen (beat) and Omega Chi's.

** What happened on Cinco de Mayo between Cappie and Casey?

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Cappie most notably; even the dean calls him Mr. Cappie.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens infrequently throughout the series, as minor characters pop up throughout the different houses/Greek system in general as needed. The most glaring example is Grant, introduced at the end of season 2 as a love interest for Calvin, who has apparently been in the OX house for the entire series so far, including having pre-existing friendships with Evan and Ashleigh, and having been part of the group of [=OXs=] who taped Rusty to a wall midway through season 1.
** OX President Dean; it's even lampshaded early in season 2 when someone says, "I thought Evan was president of OX?"

* SuddenlySexuality: Rebecca says she's a lesbian now. Cappie and Evan disagree. Within a day, so does she.

* {{Yandere}}: One from Cappie's past finds him in "Friday Night Frights", though in the end, she is completely unimpressed by his kiss.

->''I don't know if you're aware of the following static, but two percent of the male population was in a fraternity...''

Set at the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University in Ohio, the series focuses on the fraternity ambitions of Rusty Cartwright, a HollywoodNerd with dreams of fitting in at school and having a 'real college experience', while also being a member of the Honors Engineering program and pursuing a degree in [[WeirdScience Polymer Science]]. The series begins on his [[FishOutOfWater first day at school]] and ends during his junior year, exploring the goings-on of his friends and classmates, as well as his relationship with his CoolBigSis, Casey (played by KelseyGrammer's daughter, Spencer Greammer). Contrary to many teen dramas on nowadays, it's not really a drama; College/Greek life isn't treated as a matter of life or death (usually), and some "serious" issues - such as Betsy's alcoholism - are even played for laughs.

[[caption-width-right:325:Pictured:[[WackyCollege Fun!]][[superscript:[[note]]From left to right: Dale, Calvin, Ashleigh, Cappie, Casey, Evan, Rebecca, Rusty.[[/note]]]] - '''Not''' pictured: [[AlphaBitch Frannie...]]]]

* NerdsAreVirgins: Averted with Rusty, [[spoiler: who has slept with every girl he has dated. And also, Dale, but his reaction was quite disheartening]].

* PlotParallel: Evan/Casey/Cappie triangle to [[spoiler:Rusty/Jordan/Andy.]]

--> '''Cappie''': "You need to do her before she does you. [beat] With your gun. [beat] That shoots. [beat] DARTS!"

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