Wacky Fratboy Hijinx - Television Tropes & Idioms

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:

Film

Animal House
- And the TV series version, Delta House.
Justified in Accepted, because the only faculty at all at SHIT is Lewis Black.
Revenge of the Nerds.
National Lampoon's Van Wilder.
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.
Across The Universe has a bit of screen time devoted to Max's college antics. Put to song.

Live Action TV

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

New Media

The Onion parodies it with Fraternity In Danger Of Losing House Launches Hairbrained Scheme To Fix Economy.

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 high explosives, all the while talking in an excruciatingly Totally Radical fashion.

Video Games

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.
The Delta Iota Omicron house in Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
The fraternity households in 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.

Webcomics

El Goonish Shive has featured an un-named "college party comedy"/
Exist even in fantasy worlds, as Roy Greenhilt has to learn in the Order Of The Stick prequel "On the Origin of P Cs".
Shredded Moose attempts to mix this with Refuge In Vulgarity and gets Moral Event Horizons.

Western Animation

Parodied in a Futurama episode where Bender lives out this trope.
- ROOBOT HOOOOUUUUSSE!
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.
Undergrads: Rocko engages in various kinds of these, particularly odd hazing rituals, to the embarrassment of his fratmates.