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* HarsherInHindsight: The film takes on a far darker feel today, now that fake colleges have become commonplace scams and hundreds of thousands of people have had their lives ruined by them.
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* ValuesDissonance: The film takes on a far darker feel today, now that fake colleges have become commonplace scams and hundreds of thousands of people have had their lives ruined by them.
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* ValuesDissonance: The film takes on a far darker feel today, now that fake colleges have become commonplace scams and hundreds of thousands of people have had their lives ruined by them.
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* TakeThat: The film is an epic level fuck you to the modern job-oriented education system. Glen loves food and for the first time in his life, he's allowed to just explore ''food''. Meanwhile, in "real school", Monica can't actually take any photography classes because some are only for journalism majors and some are only for art majors and she's stuck in the middle, wanting to take pretty pictures sometimes and meaningful pictures other times. Then we have Rory, whose life has been dedicated to "doing the right thing", only to get fucked by not getting accepted to her one school. And there's Hand, who tried to follow one of the few paths allowed to black men and athlete his way out of poverty, only to get injured, but who discovers his passion for art when given the freedom to explore his dreams. Oh, and Bartleby, who doesn't actually have a dream, but who discovers his joy in enabling others to find their bliss by founding an institution where they can explore their desires, rather than follow the random gray assigned to them by capitalism.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Bartleby accidentally starts a ''college'', and when he learns that he's surrounded by fellow losers and rejects, he ''runs with it''.
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Bartleby didn't intend to start a fake college, he just wanted to get his parents off his back. Only then Sherman "made it clickable", and he decided to lean in and make it an actual college. But then the local college took offense and there are all these "laws" and he has to keep playing the game, with Sherman's help.
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* ButtMonkey: Sherman.
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* ButtMonkey: Sherman.Sherman, to the nth. He can barely manage a conversation until the third act, when everyone acknowledges he's the OnlySaneMan and the true consigliere of SHIT.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: SHIT is an entire institution dedicated to this. Bartleby starts it by accident but he leans in and acknowledges it as a strength.
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* OhCrap: Bartleby is on the edge of shitting himself when "Dean Lewis" goes into an unhinged, anti-capitalist rant in front of his family. After some CharacterDevelopment, he more restrainedly doesn't shit himself when his fake college scheme is revealed at the end of the second act.
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* TheAlcoholic: It's played for laughs, but Bartleby's mom has a drinking problem. {{Foreshadowing}} the character of Betty White by a few years.
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* PullingTheThread: Bartleby's AnnoyingYoungerSibling keeps asking questions during the tour of the school in the first act. Including noting the bars on the windows to prevent the institutes former patients from escaping and pulling the restraints out from under the bed.
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* AsHimself: Lewis Black plays a deeply nihilistic asshole version of himself as the dean of SHIT.
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* UnconventionalElectives101: This is how the fictitious South Harmon Institute of Technology operates. Bartelby opens up the floor for those who were accepted to the school to create courses to their liking, in some cases, even taught by those students who originally proposed them. Courses include "Faking It 101", "Mo Money 555", and "Advanced Skepticism 401", among others.
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His friends Rory (Creator/MariaThayer), Glen (Adam Herschman), and Hands (Columbus Short) are in the same boat as him, but all for their own reasons. Hands, though accepted to numerous colleges, lost his football scholarship when he broke his leg and can no longer afford to attend the schools where he applied. Glen was not accepted anywhere [[CloudCuckoolander due to his score of "0" on the SAT's]]. Rory was the most academically competent of the group, and ''could'' have gotten into numerous prestigious universities, except she had ''[[CripplingOverspecialization only]]'' [[WhatAnIdiot applied to Yale, which did not accept her]]. What can they do?
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His friends Rory (Creator/MariaThayer), Glen (Adam Herschman), and Hands (Columbus Short) are in the same boat as him, but all for their own reasons. Hands, though accepted to numerous colleges, lost his football scholarship when he broke his leg and can no longer afford to attend the schools where he applied. Glen was not accepted anywhere [[CloudCuckoolander due to his score of "0" on the SAT's]]. Rory was the most academically competent of the group, and ''could'' have gotten into numerous prestigious universities, except she had ''[[CripplingOverspecialization only]]'' [[WhatAnIdiot applied to Yale, which did not accept her]].her. What can they do?
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* AlliterativeName: '''M'''onica '''M'''oreland (Blake Lively).(Creator/BlakeLively). Also '''S'''herman '''S'''chrader and '''H'''ands '''H'''olloway.
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* PrecisionFStrike: After "Dean Lewis" explains to Bartleby's parents the [[AluminumChristmasTrees real reason kids go to college is the hopes that education, or at least the degree from the college, will lead to a good, well paying job]] and they accept that explanation.
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* PrecisionFStrike: After "Dean Lewis" explains to Bartleby's parents the [[AluminumChristmasTrees real reason kids go to college is the hopes that education, or at least the degree from the college, will lead to a good, well paying job]] job and they accept that explanation.
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* SignificantWardrobeShift: For the first half of the movie, Monica wears a lot of pastels. [[spoiler:After she breaks up with Hoyt, she wears a lot more brown, one of the colors of South Harmon.]]
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His friends Rory (Maria Thayer), Glen (Adam Herschman), and Hands (Columbus Short) are in the same boat as him, but all for their own reasons. Hands, though accepted to numerous colleges, lost his football scholarship when he broke his leg and can no longer afford to attend the schools where he applied. Glen was not accepted anywhere [[CloudCuckoolander due to his score of "0" on the SAT's]]. Rory was the most academically competent of the group, and ''could'' have gotten into numerous prestigious universities, except she had ''[[CripplingOverspecialization only]]'' [[WhatAnIdiot applied to Yale, which did not accept her]]. What can they do?
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His friends Rory (Maria Thayer), (Creator/MariaThayer), Glen (Adam Herschman), and Hands (Columbus Short) are in the same boat as him, but all for their own reasons. Hands, though accepted to numerous colleges, lost his football scholarship when he broke his leg and can no longer afford to attend the schools where he applied. Glen was not accepted anywhere [[CloudCuckoolander due to his score of "0" on the SAT's]]. Rory was the most academically competent of the group, and ''could'' have gotten into numerous prestigious universities, except she had ''[[CripplingOverspecialization only]]'' [[WhatAnIdiot applied to Yale, which did not accept her]]. What can they do?
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At the end of the movie, the resident DeanBitterman is heading to his car when it spontaneously explodes for no reason. The weird kid who took a class on blowing things up with his mind takes responsibility, but it could just as easily have been a coincidence. We'll never know for sure, since the film ends after that.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The head of the accreditation board makes it clear that he believes that education ought to follow strict guidelines. But he does see the value of experimentation, and gives Bartleby probationary accreditation to see if his ideas of running a school can work.
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* TechnicianVsPerformer: Harmon is a conventionally run educational institution with professional teachers and staff, but its students are weighed down by an intolerant and inflexible campus culture. Bartleby has zero educational background to speak off and his "students" are not academically gifted. But Bartleby stumbles into creating a campus culture that places experimentation and creativity above a strict curriculum. Soon enough, the South Harmon students begin to flourish and develop all sorts of cool ideas.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: When Lizzie blackmails Bartleby so that she'll keep the secret about SHIT from their parents, she demands $20,000, but then a Razor scooter and a fake ID after some negotiation with Bartleby, who is initially hesitant about giving his younger sister a fake ID because he thinks that she'll use it for underaged drinking. However, she explains she wanted to use it to votes and he's okay with making an ID for that.
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* MinorWithFakeID: When Lizzie figures out that Bartleby's college is a sham, she blackmails him, first for $20,000 dollars, then is argued down to his Razor scooter and a fake ID. A horrified Bartleby refuses to give her something to buy alcohol, before she clarifies she doesn't want it to ''drink''... she wants it to ''vote''.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Many of the S.H.I.T. students turn out to be legitimately talented people when given the opportunity to polish their talents, despite being a bunch of weirdoes, but the standout example is Glen, who turns out to be a world-class, fiercely original chef, despite struggling to follow a conversation across a street and making culinary choices that could charitably be called "unorthodox."
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* DeanBitterman: The Harmon College Dean Richard Van Horne.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Despite his other issues (see [[invoked]]StrawmanHasAPoint) Bartleby has a point that American culture (and popular culture, this movie included) places so much emphasis on going to college and getting into a "good" school while putting so much pressure on students to turn them into "stress freaks and caffeine addicts". Bartleby's parents' repeated exclamation of "He's thrown his life away" really hammers home just what the average American feels and the fact that his sister, Lizzie, is already in college prep courses and exhibits TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour especially for someone who looks like they're only 10.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Despite his other issues (see [[invoked]]StrawmanHasAPoint) Bartleby has a point that American culture (and popular culture, this movie included) places so much emphasis on going to college and getting into a "good" school while putting so much pressure on students to turn them into "stress freaks and caffeine addicts". Bartleby's parents' repeated exclamation of "He's thrown his life away" really hammers home just what the average American feels and the fact that his sister, Lizzie, is already in college prep courses and exhibits TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour especially for someone who looks like they're only 10.
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** Despite his other issues (see [[invoked]]StrawmanHasAPoint) Bartleby has a point that American culture (and popular culture, this movie included) places so much emphasis on going to college and getting into a "good" school while putting so much pressure on students to turn them into "stress freaks and caffeine addicts". Bartleby's parents' repeated exclamation of "He's thrown his life away" really hammers home just what the average American feels and the fact that his sister, Lizzie, is already in college prep courses and exhibits TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour especially for someone who looks like they're only10.10.
** While some of the students just pick hormonal pursuits like looking at girls or weird esoterica like trying to develop explosive mental superpowers, lots of them instead end up working on artistic projects and actively trying to cultivate themselves; it's mentioned that the rock and roll "course" also branched into musical history. While the wild and wooly way the film portrays it is an obvious exaggeration, there is a legitimate argument to be made there about letting the student chart the course of their own education.
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** Despite his other issues (see [[invoked]]StrawmanHasAPoint) Bartleby has a point that American culture (and popular culture, this movie included) places so much emphasis on going to college and getting into a "good" school while putting so much pressure on students to turn them into "stress freaks and caffeine addicts". Bartleby's parents' repeated exclamation of "He's thrown his life away" really hammers home just what the average American feels and the fact that his sister, Lizzie, is already in college prep courses and exhibits TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour especially for someone who looks like they're only
** While some of the students just pick hormonal pursuits like looking at girls or weird esoterica like trying to develop explosive mental superpowers, lots of them instead end up working on artistic projects and actively trying to cultivate themselves; it's mentioned that the rock and roll "course" also branched into musical history. While the wild and wooly way the film portrays it is an obvious exaggeration, there is a legitimate argument to be made there about letting the student chart the course of their own education.
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** The only mention of anything else is Sherman's quick line of "I'm teaching Skepticism 401." at the end, which at least implies some cursory interest in science, philosophy and rationality.
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* BigStore: This method is used by the protagonists to create a fictional stand-in college to fool their parents. Unfortunately, it works a little ''too'' well...
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Meet Abernathy. Abernathy is a spaz.is... Abernathy.
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* EmbarrassingInitials: The rejected students (who live in Harmon) created their own college, and Bartleby gave it [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the "ideal" name for it]]: '''S'''outh '''H'''armon '''I'''nstitute of '''T'''echnology. This was immediately {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by his friends, of course.
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* EmbarrassingInitials: The rejected students (who live in Harmon) created their own college, and Bartleby gave it [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the "ideal" name for it]]: it: '''S'''outh '''H'''armon '''I'''nstitute of '''T'''echnology. This was immediately {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by his friends, of course.
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* EmbarrassingInitials: The rejected students (who live in Harmon) created their own college, and Bartleby gave it [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the "ideal" name for it]]: '''S'''outh '''H'''armon '''I'''nstitute of '''T'''echnology. This was immediately {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by his friends, of course.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: In order to make his father get off his case about not getting accepted into any college, Bartleby recruits his friends to make it seem as though they have been accepted into the fictional South Harmon Institute of Technology, with Sherman being given the job of creating a fake website that makes the fake college seem like a credible institution. At first it seems as though the team is out of the woods after Bartleby's family buys the ruse and leaves him to enjoy slacking off with his similarly-rejected friends, but not long after does Bartleby realize that Sherman's website, which said anyone could be accepted with just one click, worked ''too'' well when hundreds of rejected college applicants show up at their doorstep because South Harmon was the only college they applied to that accepted them.
-->'''Bartleby''': I told you to make the website look legitimate, not functional!
-->'''Sherman''': Hey, you wanted to fool your dad and the guy's not an idiot! And, also, it was your idea to put "Acceptance is just one click away"!
-->'''Bartleby''': Yeah, yeah, yeah! Put it as one click away, you don't make it ''clickable''!
-->'''Bartleby''': I told you to make the website look legitimate, not functional!
-->'''Sherman''': Hey, you wanted to fool your dad and the guy's not an idiot! And, also, it was your idea to put "Acceptance is just one click away"!
-->'''Bartleby''': Yeah, yeah, yeah! Put it as one click away, you don't make it ''clickable''!
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