->''Hearts full of youth! Hearts full of truth!''
->''Six parts gin to one part vermouth!''
->TomLehrer, "Bright College Days"

-> "There's a time and a place for everything. It's called 'college'."
-> Chef, ''SouthPark''.

A movie in which much of the humor comes from fratboys getting highly intoxicated and doing incredibly stupid, risky, and dangerous things and getting away with it. Usually has the main characters as a bunch of loveable rogues pitted against the evil [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocratic]] old money frathouses or oppressive [[DeanBitterman deans]]. Expect panty raids. Lots of panty raids.

Suffice to say, when this happens in real life people get excluded or neglect studying and drop out.

May overlap with THCTheater. Almost always includes a WildTeenParty, with {{college}} officials replacing the parents. Often set at a StrawmanU.
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!!Examples:

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* ''AnimalHouse''
** And the [[RecycledTheSeries TV series version]], ''DeltaHouse''.
*[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''{{Accepted}}'', because the only faculty at all at [[FunWithAcronyms SHIT]] is [[CueCullen Lewis Black]].
* ''{{Revenge of the Nerds}}''.
* ''National Lampoon's Van Wilder''.
* In ''EuroTrip'' a FiveManBand of four high school graduates go on a wacky hijinx tour of an amazingly stereotypical Europe, culminating in nothing less than faking the death of and impersonating the ''pope'' on live international television. And getting away with it.
*''Old School''
* ''PCU'' - Though the protagonists weren't technically a frat.
* ''AcrossTheUniverse'' has a bit of screen time devoted to Max's college antics. [[JukeboxMusical Put to song.]]

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* The ''HappyDays'' episode "Hard Cover" has Richie, Fonzie, and pals trapped in a girls' dorm after curfew with much hilarity ensuing.

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[[folder: New Media ]]

* ''TheOnion'' parodies it with [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news/fraternity_in_danger_of_losing Fraternity In Danger Of Losing House Launches Hairbrained Scheme To Fix Economy]].

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* Although there are no fratboys and wackiness is technically treason, the entire reason the Death Leopard society exists in ''{{Paranoia}}'' is to perform these hijinx, with [[StuffBlowingUp high explosives]], all the while talking in an excruciatingly TotallyRadical fashion.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''KingdomOfLoathing'' has Orcish Frat Boys as enemies. Most of their attacks and adventures are somehow related to this trope, whether fighting by spraying beer at you, hazing you, or stealing your underwear.
* The Delta Iota Omicron house in [[LeisureSuitLarry Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude]].
* The fraternity households in [[TheSims The Sims 2 University]] ''can'' be played this way, depending on the player's inclination, and some of the game mechanics (i.e. toga parties) certainly invite it.

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]

* ''ElGoonishShive'' has featured an un-named "college party comedy"/
* Exist even in fantasy worlds, as Roy Greenhilt has to learn in the ''OrderOfTheStick'' prequel "On the Origin of PCs".
* ''ShreddedMoose'' attempts to mix this with RefugeInVulgarity and gets {{Moral Event Horizon}}s.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* Parodied in a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode where Bender lives out this trope.
**[[MemeticMutation ROOBOT HOOOOUUUUSSE!]]
* Likewise parodied in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', where Homer has to go [[BackToSchool back to college]] and complete his degree, and blindly assumes that college in real life is like college in the movies.
* ''{{Undergrads}}'': Rocko engages in various kinds of these, particularly odd hazing rituals, to the embarrassment of his fratmates.

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