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Hearts full of youth! Hearts full of truth!
Six parts gin to one part vermouth!
Tom Lehrer, "Bright College Days"

"There's a time and a place for everything. It's called 'college'."—-Chef, South Park.

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.
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