Hearts full of youth! Hearts full of truth!
Six parts gin to one part vermouth!
"There's a time and a place for everything. It's called 'college'."
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
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
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
Western Animation
- 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.
- Undergrads: Rocko engages in various kinds of these, particularly odd hazing rituals, to the embarrassment of his fratmates.
