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* DepartmentOfReduncancyDepartment: Rocko's book of "Things Cal Does That Make Me Want To Kill Him Dead Dead Dead Dead Dead."
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* TheResenter: As the series goes on, Jessie grows increasingly more spiteful toward Kimmy as a result of Nitz's continual obsession with her.
* SlapSlapKiss: Gimpy and She-Prime form a relationship after they spend a straight 14 hours insulting each other online.
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* UnknownRival: Rocko effectively becomes this for State U as a whole in "Rivalries," when he tries to start a rivalry between his school and the former. It doesn't work because his college doesn't even have an athletics department and everyone finds his antics more amusing than offensive.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After Gimpy's rival, Spud, takes control of the dorm, he takes revenge on Gimpy by forcing the latter to watch ''Star Trek''.
* DoingItForTheArt: Gimpy treats his creation of fakes [=IDs=] as this. Naturally, he doesn't take it too well when his "customers" don't take time to appreciate them.
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* DumbIsGood: Cal is by far the nicest and most well-meaning character in the cast. He's also a literally drooling moron.
** Mump calls Gimpy out on his making of fake [=IDs=] that would allow for underage students to drink illegally.
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* BrickJoke: About halfway through "Virgins," Rocko eats a banana without realizing that it had a condom on it. Toward the end of the episode, he coughs it up after being on the receiving end of a GroinAttack.
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* FanDisservice: Toward the end of "Traditions," Gimpy strips naked to remove the evidence on his clothes that he had gone outside to prank the RA. When she goes into his room to confront him, she is notably [[{{Squick}} squicked]] at his appearance.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Cal's stupidity causes him to hurt the annoy his buddies or hurt the feelings of his girlfriends without realizing it.
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* MoralityPet: Nitz would qualify as this for Rocko. The latter is often utterly obnoxious to just about everyone, but he always looks out for Nitz.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: After Gimpy's antics cause some explosions in his dormitory, hi RA does a quick inspection of his room with the following observations:
-->'''RA:''' "Thirty plugs going into one socket, broken windows, severe water damage and...an illegal ''hot plate''!"
-->'''RA:''' "Thirty plugs going into one socket, broken windows, severe water damage and...an illegal ''hot plate''!"
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* UnknownRival: Rocko effectively becomes this for State U as a whole in "Rivals," when he tries to start a rivalry between his school and the former. It doesn't work because his college doesn't even have an athletics department and everyone finds his antics more amusing than offensive.
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* UnknownRival: Rocko effectively becomes this for State U as a whole in "Rivals," "Rivalries," when he tries to start a rivalry between his school and the former. It doesn't work because his college doesn't even have an athletics department and everyone finds his antics more amusing than offensive.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jessie opens up the beginning of the last episode with this saying: "The 'Walk of Shame' is particularly prevalent during Screw Week, that unique time of the year when the collegian finally put the moves on their close friend of the opposite sex before summer break." [[spoiler: She doesn't get a chance to "put the moves on" Nitz, but she does effectively reveal her feelings for him...after he irreparably screws up everything between them .]]
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* TheHeart: In "Identity Crisis," it becomes evident that the Click can't function correctly without Nitz around.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: In "Identity Crisis," Rocko instantly loses his grip on reality when he realizes he actually kind of likes Cal (or at least, turned him into someone he could stand).
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* NiceHat: Nitz's cap seldom ever leaves his head.
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** Gimpy in the same episode thinks that he and Rocko won't be able to continue being friends because frat boys and nerds can never get along. He then tries to sabotage Rocko's attempts to get into the fraternity by sending his nerd pals in...who get along very well with the guys thanks to their tech know-how.
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* BrosBeforeHoes: Nitz is often accused of violating this rule by putting his infatuation over Kimmy above his friends.
* ChickMagnet: Cal. Women flock to him without him even trying.
* EasilyForgiven: A RunningGag with Cal is how quickly women will forgive him after he does something to annoy or anger them. After going on how much of a jerk he is, they'll then say: "Call me."
* InkSuitActor: According to the [[WordOfGod commentary on the last episode]], just about everything about Jessie, from her personality to her character design, is based off of her voice actress.
* OneOfTheBoys: Jessie's the only girl in her circle of friends. She even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by describing herself as "a sarcastic cool girl who hangs out with dorks."
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* TransparentCloset: Mark, a drama student whom Kimmy carries a torch for. It's obvious to everyone he's gay...except for Kimmy and Nitz.
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* HoYay: Rocko had a sex dream about Cal once. And in a scene where Nitz is messing around in a photobooth, Dan kisses him on the cheek.
** Mump is kind of clingy and protective of his relationship with Gimpy, going so far as to sabotage Gimpy's friendship with Nitz, and Gimpy does seem to care for him above the other minions, worrying about, missing and later hugging him when Mump got carpal tunnel.
** Cal once said "I love that guy." about Gimpy (episode being ''Rivalries''). Sure, he's an idiot, but he also got completely broken up when Nitz left the dorm in ''Roommates'' and replaced him with a watermelon labeled 'Nitz Guy'. And judging by the flashbacks, Nitz is always the guy Cal wants to do stuff with. Heck, he's probably so stupid, he doesn't even know his sexuality; he just does whoever jumps on him.
** Nitz and Gimpy's "Oh you..."
** Mump is kind of clingy and protective of his relationship with Gimpy, going so far as to sabotage Gimpy's friendship with Nitz, and Gimpy does seem to care for him above the other minions, worrying about, missing and later hugging him when Mump got carpal tunnel.
** Cal once said "I love that guy." about Gimpy (episode being ''Rivalries''). Sure, he's an idiot, but he also got completely broken up when Nitz left the dorm in ''Roommates'' and replaced him with a watermelon labeled 'Nitz Guy'. And judging by the flashbacks, Nitz is always the guy Cal wants to do stuff with. Heck, he's probably so stupid, he doesn't even know his sexuality; he just does whoever jumps on him.
** Nitz and Gimpy's "Oh you..."
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* CampStraight: Cal is fond of wearing short-shorts and singing, and speaks with a high pitched lisp, but he is an absurdly unstoppable lady's man.
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* WeightWoe: In one episode Nitz plans to join in on a annual streaking event held at the college, only to be horrified when he realizes he's gained the freshman fifteen. He begins to frantically work out to lose the weight in time, but winds up streaking anyway since it's too dark for anyone to see his slightly pudgy build.
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* WackyFratboyHijinx: Rocko believes this is what fraternities are all about. The other members of his fraternity...not so much.
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* ChangedMyMindKid: In a homage to the ending of ''ANewHope'', Nitz joins Gimpy's ''{{VideoGame/Quake}}'' game against the Trekkies at the last minute and the gang wins.
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: For almost every episode of the series, Jessie has a crush on Nitz. For one mid-season episode, he has feelings for her and she doesn't reciprocate.
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* {{Hikikomori}}: In "Identity Crisis," Nitz gets fed up with his status as the GenericGuy on campus and isolates himself in his room. Subsequently, he becomes more popular at that point as legends begin to build up around the mysterious "Room Guy."
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* DeepImmersionGaming: "New Friends".
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* LeFilmArtistique: The film Nitz watches with Jessie and her friends which is a parody of ''TheThinRedLine'' and VietnamWar movies in general (although the former is actually a WorldWarII movie).
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* ExplosiveInstrumentation: Gimpy's keyboard explodes and injures Mump in "New Friends". Gimpy responds that [[ButtMonkey Mump gets injured every week]] and doesn't seem that concerned about it.
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** "Roommates" has a ShoutOut to ''{{Daria}}'' and ''{{Star Trek II}}''.
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* ShoutOut: Many, mostly to ''StarWars''. The episode "New Friends" in particular, which focuses on a ''StarTrek'' versus ''StarWars'' conflict in Gimpy's university.
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[[caption-width-right:333:Clockwise from midnight: Cal, Rita, Jessie, Nitz, Rocko, Gimpy, Kimmy, Mump]]
''Undergrads'' was a short-lived animated series from 2001, made for MTV. Like other MTV cartoons, such as ''{{Daria}}'' and ''BeavisAndButthead'', it was adult-oriented and contained very mature content. [[TooGoodToLast Only 13 episodes were produced]], and the show ended on a cliffhanger.
The show is about four lifelong friends and their experiences during their first year at college. [[TheHero Nitz]], the protagonist, is an {{Everyman}} who constantly lets college life stress him out. [[CloudCuckoolander Cal]], [[BrainlessBeauty his roommate]], is a DumbBlonde [[TheDitz Ditz]] with an [[CluelessChickMagnet inexplicably rich sex life.]] [[JerkJock Rocko]] is part of a fraternity and is obsessed with girls, booze, and WackyFratboyHijinx, to the annoyance of his frat mates. The fourth, [[TheSmartGuy Gimpy]] (called G-Prime by his peers), is a tech geek who attends an MIT-like university and develops a personal cult due to his hacking prowess. He stays connected to the others mainly via the internet, though they all still live in the same city.
At the start of the year, two major people are introduced to the audience: Jessie, a hip, punk-ish girl who befriends Nitz and helps him learn the ropes (and later develops a crush on him), and [[TheDitz Kimmy]], a beautiful drama student with whom Nitz is smitten (and has been since high school). There are other recurring characters as well, including Rocko's frat "friends," Nitz and Cal's hippie-like Residential Assistant The Douggler, Jessie's friends (Brody, a film student with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture and old movies, Krueger, a profanity-spewing chain smoker, and Dan, a geek who just laughs), Kimmy's (unbeknownst to her, gay) friend Mark, and Gimpy's minions.
Although the show is set in college, the characters are almost never shown in class; episodes mainly focus on other aspects of campus life, like dealing with roommates, fitting in with groups, attending mixers, getting student loans, and figuring out what to do in life. Oh, and girls and booze, naturally.
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!!Undergrads provides examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Kimmy to Mark, Nitz to Kimmy, Jessie to Nitz...
** Hell, in one episode Nitz to Jessie. That's right, they both manage to have unrequited love towards each other. Why she never bothered to reciprocate (or have mixed feelings) about this when he was openly crushing on her wasn't explained.
*** It could be that Jessie's earlier rejection of Nitz was meant to show that she knew he wasn't really into her because he liked her, but because he had accidentally seen her naked.
**** When Nitz initially proposes they go out (and then 'get in the same bed'), Jessie doesn't flat-out reject him - all she says is that she can't because she has a previous commitment that night to work on a project with her classmates. If Nitz hadn't subsequently made a big show of asking Jessie out in public, disrupting her plans and embarrassing her, she might well have reciprocated.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with in the show. Nitz at first had no real concern about being a virgin until he saw the girl of his dreams buying a ''heap'' of condoms and such. He then attempts to be a CelibateHero, but when that didn't work he decided to try and become a manly CasanovaWannabe persona. Then he realized it doesn't actually matter that much and stopped worrying about it.
* AuthorAppeal: The Thompson Twins song "Hold Me Now" shows up a few times in the background in an instrumental version. It's also Gimpy's go-to karaoke song.
* BareYourMidriff: Jessie's preferred dress style.
* BettyAndVeronica: Played with to a more complex level. Kimmy is nice like Betty, but her concept is "The Unattainable Girl" like a Veronica, while Jessie is more cynical and mean like Veronica, but is the "pal" like a Betty.
* BigDamnHeroes: Nitz, Jessie, Brodie, Kruger & Dan play this role... In a team deathmatch when they arrive to help an outguned Gimpy defeat Spud in a contest to decide [[FandomRivalry if Star Wars or Star Trek is to be the dominant force in their dorms.]]
* BigNo: In SlowMotion, when Rocko "rescues" Nitz from alcohol.
* BitingTheHandHumor: They take pot shots at Good Charlotte, who wrote the theme song.
* BitterSweetEnding: Gimpy's first love is She-Prime, a girl online. At the end of the episode it revealed [[spoiler: that their dorm rooms are located right next to each other. And neither of them ever found out.]]
** The entire series ended on this note. [[spoiler: Kimmy and Nitz [[WillTheyOrWontThey got together]]. Things work out well for the other three, and the only thing that went wrong was that Jessie and Nitz aren't on easy terms now.]]
* BrainlessBeauty: Cal.
* BuffySpeak: Mump: "I'm just to absorb all of your ill will like some kind of ill will absorbing...absorber?"
* ButtMonkey: Cal - In one episode, Rocko tries to start a college rivalry with State U by beating up Cal after he becomes their mascot... A manatee. However, this doesn't have the desired effect, as nobody really liked the mascot anyway so they just start cheering Cal getting his ass kicked. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] at the end of the episode, when the characters remark on what they've learned...
--> '''Rocko''': "I shouldn't beat Cal up because he's the mascot... I should beat Cal up because ''he's Cal''."
* CelibateHero: Nitz [[spoiler: until the last episode.]]
* CliffHanger: On the last day of first year, [[spoiler: Nitz and Kimmy have a drunken makeout session and afterwards, Jessie chews Nitz out for not realizing she's been in love with him the whole year]], and then... the show ends. Forever.
* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much everything Krueger says.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In the last episode, it's was never made clear just how far [[spoiler: Nitz got with Kimmie]].
* DidYouThinkICantFeel: Jessie to Nitz in the final episode.
* DistaffCounterpart: Gimpy's rival/love interest is a female hacker known only as She-Prime.
* TheDitz: Cal, though Kimmy has traces as well.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Two of the three sunbathing girls Cal applies suntan lotion to in "Risk". One [[LimitedWardrobe owns nothing but one bikini]], the other changes into regular clothes but still does not wear shoes.
* DoesNotLikeWomen: Gimpy, who firmly believes that, besides Agent Scully, all women are the enemy.
* {{Dominatrix}}: The female RA at Tekerson Tech dressed like this while Cal was visiting her, taking geek chic to a whole new level. See SheCleansUpNicely below.
* DramaticWind: The first time we meet Kimmy (bonus points because she is indoors.)
* DumbBlonde: Cal.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Parker Walsh and Justin Taylor are always addressed as "Nitz" and "Gimpy", respectively. By pretty much everyone.
** Finding out their real names is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it detail that you'd easily forget they even have a different name. Nitz is even written on his financial aid cheques and the birthday cake sent by his mom.
* FacePalm: Nitz has been waiting for Kimmy to show up at a party. When she calls, Cal answers and tells her she doesn't have to show up because there are plenty of other pretty ladies there. Cue FacePalm, first by Nitz, then by everyone else at the party.
* FiveManBand:
** Nitz (TheHero)
** Jessie (TheLancer / SixthRanger)
** Rocko (TheBigGuy)
** Gimpy (TheSmartGuy)
** Cal (TheKid)
** Kimmy (TheChick)
* TheFool: Cal, again. Everything always turns out the best for him, except the episode "Identity Crisis" that ends with him forgotten and stuck in a tree in the middle of winter.
* GenerationXerox: In the grand tradition of animation, Gimpy's parents both have his trademark weird eyes, and his dad looks pretty much like an older version of him in a slightly-more realistic style.
* TheGenericGuy: Nitz is an in-universe example of this. He manages to make many friends over the first semester, but after winter, no one on campus even remembers him.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''Rivalries'', there's a guy in the crowd during the final showdown wearing a shirt that says 'Tuck Fech'. (The episode is about the competitiveness between Tekerson Tech and State U...)
* GibberishOfLove: Whenever he talks to Kimmy, most of what Nitz tries to say will come out as "Bluh."
* GilliganCut: In ''New Friends''.
--> '''Nitz:''' "Eh, I'm sure the clique doesn't need my help."
--> '''Rocko:''' "Man, we could sure use Nitz's help!"
* {{Gonk}}: Gimpy.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Kimmy, the object of Nitz's infatuation.
* HollywoodHacking: When She-Prime infects Gimpy's computer.
* HoYay: Rocko had a sex dream about Cal once. And in a scene where Nitz is messing around in a photobooth, Dan kisses him on the cheek.
** Mump is kind of clingy and protective of his relationship with Gimpy, going so far as to sabotage Gimpy's friendship with Nitz, and Gimpy does seem to care for him above the other minions, worrying about, missing and later hugging him when Mump got carpal tunnel.
** Cal once said "I love that guy." about Gimpy (episode being ''Rivalries''). Sure, he's an idiot, but he also got completely broken up when Nitz left the dorm in ''Roommates'' and replaced him with a watermelon labeled 'Nitz Guy'. And judging by the flashbacks, Nitz is always the guy Cal wants to do stuff with. Heck, he's probably so stupid, he doesn't even know his sexuality; he just does whoever jumps on him.
** Nitz and Gimpy's "Oh you..."
* TheHyena: Dan. All he does is laugh.
* IAmSpartacus: Parodied: When the RA asks who has been pulling pranks around campus, all Gimpy's minions stand up and claim to be the man responsible. In a supreme act of ComicallyMissingThePoint, Gimpy gets angry with them, assuming they are all trying to mooch in on his fame. One of said minions even [[LampshadeHanging specifically says]] "I am Spartacus!"
* IncomingHam: Gimpy usually pops up on Nitz's computer on his webcam saying "Did someone just say my name?" On some episodes it works, in others it doesn't.
* InitiationCeremony: Subverted with Rocko's fraternity. The college banned embarrassing hazing rituals, so they just have a get-together party. Rocko refuses to believe there is no hazing, believing it all to be a SecretTestOfCharacter, so he goes out and does several bizarre, humiliating acts in the name of his frat.
* JerkJock: Rocko has this persona, despite not being an athlete. He is quite burly, though.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ...He does legitimately care about his friends ([[VitriolicBestBuds besides possibly Cal]]), though.
* KavorkaMan: While Cal is attractive and good-natured, the sheer amount of women he attracts is obscene.
* LimitedWardrobe: Pretty much everyone. Nitz however favors the "closet full of the same outfit" version of the trope, as shown in the last episode when Cal gives out his clothes to girls after sleeping with them.
** Taken UpToEleven with one girl in "Risk" who literally owns nothing but one bikini, and [[RunningGag spends most of the episode covering her boobs with her hands, looking for her missing top]] (Cal has it).
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The probable reasoning behind the eXposed eXpo, when freshmen run around naked during the first snowfall.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Some characters look more realistically drawn, such as Rocko, Kimmy, and Nitz. Others look much more cartoony, like Mump, Cal, and Gimpy, who almost seems like he's from a different show entirely. Several characters have giant heads (Nitz, Gimpy, Kimmy), while others are more-or-less realistically-proportioned (most background characters).
* NotSoAboveItAll: Nitz ''thinks'' he's the OnlySaneMan in his circle of friends, but he has plenty of moments of craziness and stupidity himself.
* ObliviousToLove: Jessie was never really that subtle about her feelings for Nitz, not that he ever got the message.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: It's like no one at this college goes to class.
** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the final episode.
-->'''Brody''': I feel like I haven't cracked a textbook or seen the inside of a classroom all year.
* PoorMansPorn: At one point Rocko starts reading Cosmo, [[IReadItForTheArticles but only for the pictures.]]
* RealitySubtext / WriteWhoYouKnow: All of the characters are based on the creator and his best friends and people he met in college. In fact Jessie is voiced by the actual woman she's based on.
* RightBehindMe: Nitz says right after calling Rocko a terrible friend.
* SeriousBusiness: For Gimpy, ''StarWars'', ''{{The X-Files}}'' and ''{{Quake}}''. For all of the gang, ''{{Risk}}''.
* SheCleansUpNicely: When Gimpy introduces Cal to his RA we suddenly see her with no glasses, hair down, in a cut-off shirt and [[WhoWearsShortShorts daisy dukes]]. Later in the episode she takes geek chic [[{{Dominatrix}} to a whole new level]].
* ShoutOut: Many, mostly to ''StarWars''. The episode "New Friends" in particular, which focuses on a ''StarTrek'' versus ''StarWars'' conflict in Gimpy's university.
** Some to [[TheXFiles The X Files]] and [[TheMatrix The Matrix]] (Gimpy's screensavers).
** "Roommates" has a ShoutOut to ''{{Daria}}'' and ''{{Star Trek II}}''.
** The final episode had a shout out towards [[TheLegendofZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]] with the constant "X hours remaining" being pretty much the same.
** The show's theme song is the [[GoodCharlotte Good Charlotte]] song "''The Click''" - At one point in the series, they're playing a show at State U & when Nitz is told this, he questions where he knows them from.
** One of the girls in "Drunks" is wearing [[SpaceChannel5 Ulala's costume]].
* TheSixties: The Duggler is pretty stuck in them. Kimmy has her moments, what with her role in campus protests.
* SliceOfLife
* SoapboxSadie: Kimmy, especially in the episode "Financial Aid".
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Duggler.
* StalkerWithACrush: Charity towards Rocko, and pretty much any guy.
* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: Gimpy's belief until he encounters She-Prime.
* TakeThat: Rocko has a homoerotic dream about Cal. When Nitz starts to say that it may not have been homoerotic, Rocko immediately asserts that Keanu Reeves was there.
* TalkingToHimself: Almost all of the male characters are all voiced by the same guy.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Brody and Krueger usually fit this role.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jessie and Kimmy.
* TransparentCloset: Mark, a drama student whom Kimmy carries a torch for. It's obvious to everyone he's gay...except for Kimmy and Nitz.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: For almost every episode of the series, Jessie has a crush on Nitz. For one mid-season episode, he has feelings for her and she doesn't reciprocate.
** Though that was mostly because his way of approach was ''completely'' wrong.
* VerbalTic: Cal's "Guy" and slurping. Kruger's bleeped-out swearing. Gimpy's "...the hell?" might count.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Kimmy and Charity (Rocko's girlfriend during "Virgins").
* VitriolicBestBuds: Rocko and Cal are a Type 1. Rocko absolutely cannot ''stand'' Cal, and never hesitates to abuse him, verbally and physically. Cal, however, is oblivious to his outright hostility, and still considers Rocko his friend despite it all.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: Rocko believes this is what fraternities are all about. The other members of his fraternity...not so much.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In one episode, the disciplinary RC at Tekerson Tech (Gimpy's school) is removed from the picture after her introduction to Cal. Chaos ensues amongst the students and soon Gimpy decides that they need the RC back.
* WhatTheHellHero: Nitz gets this frequently -- usually because he was ignoring his friends to chase Kimmy. Jessie gives him one of these frequently (and literally at least once), and the rest of his gang also mock him for bailing on them.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The colleges the characters go to give no indication for the location, such as the delightfully impossible "State University"
** They seem to have New York State I.D.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Rocko thinks he's about to enter a [[WackyFratboyHijinx wacky fratboy movie]] akin to ''AnimalHouse''. Turns out that's not how his frat actually works.
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[[caption-width-right:333:Clockwise from midnight: Cal, Rita, Jessie, Nitz, Rocko, Gimpy, Kimmy, Mump]]
''Undergrads'' was a short-lived animated series from 2001, made for MTV. Like other MTV cartoons, such as ''{{Daria}}'' and ''BeavisAndButthead'', it was adult-oriented and contained very mature content. [[TooGoodToLast Only 13 episodes were produced]], and the show ended on a cliffhanger.
The show is about four lifelong friends and their experiences during their first year at college. [[TheHero Nitz]], the protagonist, is an {{Everyman}} who constantly lets college life stress him out. [[CloudCuckoolander Cal]], [[BrainlessBeauty his roommate]], is a DumbBlonde [[TheDitz Ditz]] with an [[CluelessChickMagnet inexplicably rich sex life.]] [[JerkJock Rocko]] is part of a fraternity and is obsessed with girls, booze, and WackyFratboyHijinx, to the annoyance of his frat mates. The fourth, [[TheSmartGuy Gimpy]] (called G-Prime by his peers), is a tech geek who attends an MIT-like university and develops a personal cult due to his hacking prowess. He stays connected to the others mainly via the internet, though they all still live in the same city.
At the start of the year, two major people are introduced to the audience: Jessie, a hip, punk-ish girl who befriends Nitz and helps him learn the ropes (and later develops a crush on him), and [[TheDitz Kimmy]], a beautiful drama student with whom Nitz is smitten (and has been since high school). There are other recurring characters as well, including Rocko's frat "friends," Nitz and Cal's hippie-like Residential Assistant The Douggler, Jessie's friends (Brody, a film student with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture and old movies, Krueger, a profanity-spewing chain smoker, and Dan, a geek who just laughs), Kimmy's (unbeknownst to her, gay) friend Mark, and Gimpy's minions.
Although the show is set in college, the characters are almost never shown in class; episodes mainly focus on other aspects of campus life, like dealing with roommates, fitting in with groups, attending mixers, getting student loans, and figuring out what to do in life. Oh, and girls and booze, naturally.
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!!Undergrads provides examples of:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Kimmy to Mark, Nitz to Kimmy, Jessie to Nitz...
** Hell, in one episode Nitz to Jessie. That's right, they both manage to have unrequited love towards each other. Why she never bothered to reciprocate (or have mixed feelings) about this when he was openly crushing on her wasn't explained.
*** It could be that Jessie's earlier rejection of Nitz was meant to show that she knew he wasn't really into her because he liked her, but because he had accidentally seen her naked.
**** When Nitz initially proposes they go out (and then 'get in the same bed'), Jessie doesn't flat-out reject him - all she says is that she can't because she has a previous commitment that night to work on a project with her classmates. If Nitz hadn't subsequently made a big show of asking Jessie out in public, disrupting her plans and embarrassing her, she might well have reciprocated.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with in the show. Nitz at first had no real concern about being a virgin until he saw the girl of his dreams buying a ''heap'' of condoms and such. He then attempts to be a CelibateHero, but when that didn't work he decided to try and become a manly CasanovaWannabe persona. Then he realized it doesn't actually matter that much and stopped worrying about it.
* AuthorAppeal: The Thompson Twins song "Hold Me Now" shows up a few times in the background in an instrumental version. It's also Gimpy's go-to karaoke song.
* BareYourMidriff: Jessie's preferred dress style.
* BettyAndVeronica: Played with to a more complex level. Kimmy is nice like Betty, but her concept is "The Unattainable Girl" like a Veronica, while Jessie is more cynical and mean like Veronica, but is the "pal" like a Betty.
* BigDamnHeroes: Nitz, Jessie, Brodie, Kruger & Dan play this role... In a team deathmatch when they arrive to help an outguned Gimpy defeat Spud in a contest to decide [[FandomRivalry if Star Wars or Star Trek is to be the dominant force in their dorms.]]
* BigNo: In SlowMotion, when Rocko "rescues" Nitz from alcohol.
* BitingTheHandHumor: They take pot shots at Good Charlotte, who wrote the theme song.
* BitterSweetEnding: Gimpy's first love is She-Prime, a girl online. At the end of the episode it revealed [[spoiler: that their dorm rooms are located right next to each other. And neither of them ever found out.]]
** The entire series ended on this note. [[spoiler: Kimmy and Nitz [[WillTheyOrWontThey got together]]. Things work out well for the other three, and the only thing that went wrong was that Jessie and Nitz aren't on easy terms now.]]
* BrainlessBeauty: Cal.
* BuffySpeak: Mump: "I'm just to absorb all of your ill will like some kind of ill will absorbing...absorber?"
* ButtMonkey: Cal - In one episode, Rocko tries to start a college rivalry with State U by beating up Cal after he becomes their mascot... A manatee. However, this doesn't have the desired effect, as nobody really liked the mascot anyway so they just start cheering Cal getting his ass kicked. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] at the end of the episode, when the characters remark on what they've learned...
--> '''Rocko''': "I shouldn't beat Cal up because he's the mascot... I should beat Cal up because ''he's Cal''."
* CelibateHero: Nitz [[spoiler: until the last episode.]]
* CliffHanger: On the last day of first year, [[spoiler: Nitz and Kimmy have a drunken makeout session and afterwards, Jessie chews Nitz out for not realizing she's been in love with him the whole year]], and then... the show ends. Forever.
* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much everything Krueger says.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In the last episode, it's was never made clear just how far [[spoiler: Nitz got with Kimmie]].
* DidYouThinkICantFeel: Jessie to Nitz in the final episode.
* DistaffCounterpart: Gimpy's rival/love interest is a female hacker known only as She-Prime.
* TheDitz: Cal, though Kimmy has traces as well.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Two of the three sunbathing girls Cal applies suntan lotion to in "Risk". One [[LimitedWardrobe owns nothing but one bikini]], the other changes into regular clothes but still does not wear shoes.
* DoesNotLikeWomen: Gimpy, who firmly believes that, besides Agent Scully, all women are the enemy.
* {{Dominatrix}}: The female RA at Tekerson Tech dressed like this while Cal was visiting her, taking geek chic to a whole new level. See SheCleansUpNicely below.
* DramaticWind: The first time we meet Kimmy (bonus points because she is indoors.)
* DumbBlonde: Cal.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Parker Walsh and Justin Taylor are always addressed as "Nitz" and "Gimpy", respectively. By pretty much everyone.
** Finding out their real names is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it detail that you'd easily forget they even have a different name. Nitz is even written on his financial aid cheques and the birthday cake sent by his mom.
* FacePalm: Nitz has been waiting for Kimmy to show up at a party. When she calls, Cal answers and tells her she doesn't have to show up because there are plenty of other pretty ladies there. Cue FacePalm, first by Nitz, then by everyone else at the party.
* FiveManBand:
** Nitz (TheHero)
** Jessie (TheLancer / SixthRanger)
** Rocko (TheBigGuy)
** Gimpy (TheSmartGuy)
** Cal (TheKid)
** Kimmy (TheChick)
* TheFool: Cal, again. Everything always turns out the best for him, except the episode "Identity Crisis" that ends with him forgotten and stuck in a tree in the middle of winter.
* GenerationXerox: In the grand tradition of animation, Gimpy's parents both have his trademark weird eyes, and his dad looks pretty much like an older version of him in a slightly-more realistic style.
* TheGenericGuy: Nitz is an in-universe example of this. He manages to make many friends over the first semester, but after winter, no one on campus even remembers him.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''Rivalries'', there's a guy in the crowd during the final showdown wearing a shirt that says 'Tuck Fech'. (The episode is about the competitiveness between Tekerson Tech and State U...)
* GibberishOfLove: Whenever he talks to Kimmy, most of what Nitz tries to say will come out as "Bluh."
* GilliganCut: In ''New Friends''.
--> '''Nitz:''' "Eh, I'm sure the clique doesn't need my help."
--> '''Rocko:''' "Man, we could sure use Nitz's help!"
* {{Gonk}}: Gimpy.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Kimmy, the object of Nitz's infatuation.
* HollywoodHacking: When She-Prime infects Gimpy's computer.
* HoYay: Rocko had a sex dream about Cal once. And in a scene where Nitz is messing around in a photobooth, Dan kisses him on the cheek.
** Mump is kind of clingy and protective of his relationship with Gimpy, going so far as to sabotage Gimpy's friendship with Nitz, and Gimpy does seem to care for him above the other minions, worrying about, missing and later hugging him when Mump got carpal tunnel.
** Cal once said "I love that guy." about Gimpy (episode being ''Rivalries''). Sure, he's an idiot, but he also got completely broken up when Nitz left the dorm in ''Roommates'' and replaced him with a watermelon labeled 'Nitz Guy'. And judging by the flashbacks, Nitz is always the guy Cal wants to do stuff with. Heck, he's probably so stupid, he doesn't even know his sexuality; he just does whoever jumps on him.
** Nitz and Gimpy's "Oh you..."
* TheHyena: Dan. All he does is laugh.
* IAmSpartacus: Parodied: When the RA asks who has been pulling pranks around campus, all Gimpy's minions stand up and claim to be the man responsible. In a supreme act of ComicallyMissingThePoint, Gimpy gets angry with them, assuming they are all trying to mooch in on his fame. One of said minions even [[LampshadeHanging specifically says]] "I am Spartacus!"
* IncomingHam: Gimpy usually pops up on Nitz's computer on his webcam saying "Did someone just say my name?" On some episodes it works, in others it doesn't.
* InitiationCeremony: Subverted with Rocko's fraternity. The college banned embarrassing hazing rituals, so they just have a get-together party. Rocko refuses to believe there is no hazing, believing it all to be a SecretTestOfCharacter, so he goes out and does several bizarre, humiliating acts in the name of his frat.
* JerkJock: Rocko has this persona, despite not being an athlete. He is quite burly, though.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ...He does legitimately care about his friends ([[VitriolicBestBuds besides possibly Cal]]), though.
* KavorkaMan: While Cal is attractive and good-natured, the sheer amount of women he attracts is obscene.
* LimitedWardrobe: Pretty much everyone. Nitz however favors the "closet full of the same outfit" version of the trope, as shown in the last episode when Cal gives out his clothes to girls after sleeping with them.
** Taken UpToEleven with one girl in "Risk" who literally owns nothing but one bikini, and [[RunningGag spends most of the episode covering her boobs with her hands, looking for her missing top]] (Cal has it).
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The probable reasoning behind the eXposed eXpo, when freshmen run around naked during the first snowfall.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Some characters look more realistically drawn, such as Rocko, Kimmy, and Nitz. Others look much more cartoony, like Mump, Cal, and Gimpy, who almost seems like he's from a different show entirely. Several characters have giant heads (Nitz, Gimpy, Kimmy), while others are more-or-less realistically-proportioned (most background characters).
* NotSoAboveItAll: Nitz ''thinks'' he's the OnlySaneMan in his circle of friends, but he has plenty of moments of craziness and stupidity himself.
* ObliviousToLove: Jessie was never really that subtle about her feelings for Nitz, not that he ever got the message.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: It's like no one at this college goes to class.
** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the final episode.
-->'''Brody''': I feel like I haven't cracked a textbook or seen the inside of a classroom all year.
* PoorMansPorn: At one point Rocko starts reading Cosmo, [[IReadItForTheArticles but only for the pictures.]]
* RealitySubtext / WriteWhoYouKnow: All of the characters are based on the creator and his best friends and people he met in college. In fact Jessie is voiced by the actual woman she's based on.
* RightBehindMe: Nitz says right after calling Rocko a terrible friend.
* SeriousBusiness: For Gimpy, ''StarWars'', ''{{The X-Files}}'' and ''{{Quake}}''. For all of the gang, ''{{Risk}}''.
* SheCleansUpNicely: When Gimpy introduces Cal to his RA we suddenly see her with no glasses, hair down, in a cut-off shirt and [[WhoWearsShortShorts daisy dukes]]. Later in the episode she takes geek chic [[{{Dominatrix}} to a whole new level]].
* ShoutOut: Many, mostly to ''StarWars''. The episode "New Friends" in particular, which focuses on a ''StarTrek'' versus ''StarWars'' conflict in Gimpy's university.
** Some to [[TheXFiles The X Files]] and [[TheMatrix The Matrix]] (Gimpy's screensavers).
** "Roommates" has a ShoutOut to ''{{Daria}}'' and ''{{Star Trek II}}''.
** The final episode had a shout out towards [[TheLegendofZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]] with the constant "X hours remaining" being pretty much the same.
** The show's theme song is the [[GoodCharlotte Good Charlotte]] song "''The Click''" - At one point in the series, they're playing a show at State U & when Nitz is told this, he questions where he knows them from.
** One of the girls in "Drunks" is wearing [[SpaceChannel5 Ulala's costume]].
* TheSixties: The Duggler is pretty stuck in them. Kimmy has her moments, what with her role in campus protests.
* SliceOfLife
* SoapboxSadie: Kimmy, especially in the episode "Financial Aid".
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Duggler.
* StalkerWithACrush: Charity towards Rocko, and pretty much any guy.
* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: Gimpy's belief until he encounters She-Prime.
* TakeThat: Rocko has a homoerotic dream about Cal. When Nitz starts to say that it may not have been homoerotic, Rocko immediately asserts that Keanu Reeves was there.
* TalkingToHimself: Almost all of the male characters are all voiced by the same guy.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Brody and Krueger usually fit this role.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jessie and Kimmy.
* TransparentCloset: Mark, a drama student whom Kimmy carries a torch for. It's obvious to everyone he's gay...except for Kimmy and Nitz.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: For almost every episode of the series, Jessie has a crush on Nitz. For one mid-season episode, he has feelings for her and she doesn't reciprocate.
** Though that was mostly because his way of approach was ''completely'' wrong.
* VerbalTic: Cal's "Guy" and slurping. Kruger's bleeped-out swearing. Gimpy's "...the hell?" might count.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Kimmy and Charity (Rocko's girlfriend during "Virgins").
* VitriolicBestBuds: Rocko and Cal are a Type 1. Rocko absolutely cannot ''stand'' Cal, and never hesitates to abuse him, verbally and physically. Cal, however, is oblivious to his outright hostility, and still considers Rocko his friend despite it all.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: Rocko believes this is what fraternities are all about. The other members of his fraternity...not so much.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In one episode, the disciplinary RC at Tekerson Tech (Gimpy's school) is removed from the picture after her introduction to Cal. Chaos ensues amongst the students and soon Gimpy decides that they need the RC back.
* WhatTheHellHero: Nitz gets this frequently -- usually because he was ignoring his friends to chase Kimmy. Jessie gives him one of these frequently (and literally at least once), and the rest of his gang also mock him for bailing on them.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The colleges the characters go to give no indication for the location, such as the delightfully impossible "State University"
** They seem to have New York State I.D.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Rocko thinks he's about to enter a [[WackyFratboyHijinx wacky fratboy movie]] akin to ''AnimalHouse''. Turns out that's not how his frat actually works.
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