Hearts full of youth! Hearts full of truth!
Six parts gin to one part vermouth!
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
aristocratic old money frathouses or oppressive
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
THC Theater. Almost always includes a
Wild Teen Party, with
college officials replacing the parents. Often set at a
Strawman U.
Examples:
- Animal House
- Parodied in a Futurama episode where Bender lives out this trope.
- Likewise parodied in an episode of The Simpsons, where Homer has to go back to college and complete his degree, and blindly assumes that college in real life is like college in the movies.
- Justified in Accepted, because the only faculty at all at SHIT is Lewis Black.
- Revenge of the Nerds.
- National Lampoon's Van Wilder.
- Kingdom Of Loathing 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.
- El Goonish Shive has featured an un-named "college party comedy"/
- In Euro Trip a Five Man Band 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.
- The Onion parodies it with Fraternity In Danger Of Losing House Launches Hairbrained Scheme To Fix Economy
.
- The Happy Days episode "Hard Cover" has Richie, Fonzie, and pals trapped in a girls' dorm after curfew with much hilarity ensuing.
- Across The Universe has a bit of screen time devoted to Max's college antics. Put to song.
- Exist even in fantasy worlds, as Roy Greenhilt has to learn in the Order Of The Stick prequel "On the Origin of P Cs".
