History Film / PCU

* DeanBitterman: Ms. Garcia-Thompson. Not only does she micromanage everything with the school, but she's also pushing a "cultural sensitivity" agenda that borders on extremism (she discusses giving an entire building to the "[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Department of Bisexual Asian Studies]]." But, who goes? The Math Department or the Hockey team?). Her extremism is to the point that her bosses are looking for an excuse to get rid of her.

-->'''Rand''': Hey, poor boy, go and have your parties with all you new friends. I can see it now, Andrews. You and all the knee-jerk bleeding heart liberals sipping tea and playing patty-cake, and those useless hippie potheads, those commie-pinko leftists, the bunny huggers, the pillow biters--\\

'''Droz''': ''[[[IsThisThingStillOn turns Rand around to show everyone is listening to him]]]'' Rand [=McPherson=] everyone! Remember the 4:00 show is completely different from the 12:00 show.

* FiendishFraternity: Technically they are not fraternities because fraternities have been banned, nevertheless we have the Pit (who are a bunch of slovenly party animals facing expulsion because of their expensive collateral damage and the good guys) and the Balls and Shaft (an underground society of elitist reactionary jerks). The other student societies are only "fiendish" in the sense that [[HatedByAll Tom has accidentally pissed them all off in some way, shape or form]] and [[EveryoneChasingYou want a pound of his flesh]].

A 1994 college comedy film that could be described as ''Film/AnimalHouse'' meets the clashing of right-wing and left-wing politics of TheNineties.

* ConflictingLoyalty: Samantha, Droz's girlfriend, is a member of the Womynists, but it's shown that she still has feelings for him, despite the other Womynist members keeping her away from him.

Tom (Chris Young) is a pre-freshman having a visit to Port Chester University before he attends it properly. HilarityEnsues as he manages to piss off half the campus, with his only safety between two groups, which themselves hate each other: the groups are The Pit, a group led by James "Droz" Andrews (Jeremy Piven) who just want to goof around (and to get around the ban, it doesn't call itself a fraternity); and Balls and Shaft, a right-wing fraternity that went underground, headed by Rand [=McPherson=] (Creator/DavidSpade). Both groups were spun off from Psi Kappa Mu after fraternities were banned from the school in the late 1960s.

* {{Nerd}}: The Computer Geek, as well as those working on their theses.

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Ms. Garcia-Thompson. The crux of the plot lies in the fact she has used Political Correctness and allowing 24/7 protests from anybody who has an opinion and a capacity to yell about it to almost drive the campus' effectiveness as an actual place for education into the ground.
* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Ms. Garcia-Thompson has allowed her extremism to turn the campus into a haven for political correctness to run its capacity to be an actual place to get an education into the ground. This means that her superiors in the board of education are just itching for a reason to kick her out, a reason that the Pit is more than eager to supply at the climax.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad / StrawmanPolitical: Both tropes are spoofed.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Ms. Garcia-Thompson. The crux of the plot lies in the fact she has used PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and allowing 24/7 protests from anybody who has an opinion and a capacity to yell about it to almost drive the campus' effectiveness as an actual place for education into the ground.

* TheNineties: Showcasing the hard-core new wave of "Berserkerly" politics.

* ICallHimMisterHappy: Samantha's pet name for Droz's penis is "Mr. Pokey".

-->'''Rand''': Hey, poor boy, go and have your parties with all you new friends. I can see it now, Andrews. You and all the knee-jerk bleeding heart liberals sipping tea and playing patty-cake, and those useless hippie potheads, those commie-pinko leftists, the bunny hugger, the pillow biters--\\

However, Balls and Shaft has the allegiance of the left-wing school president, at least in the sense of both hating The Pit. And they have a good plan on getting rid of it.

* EnemyMine[=/=]TeethClenchedTeamwork: [[StrawmanPolitical Rand]] and [[StrawFeminist the dean]] hate each other's guts, and are only united in their hatred of The Pit.

** According to Adam Leff and Zak Penn, the writers of the film, The Pit was based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclectic_Society_(fraternity) Eclectic Society]] from Wesleyan University, in which they were hangers-on of the group.

'''Rand''': The butt pirates! And those beastly man-haters—tell those chicks to shave their pits and call me. And the whiny crybaby minorities. You can keep’em all.\\

* StrawFeminist: The "Womynists", of which Samantha, Droz's girlfriend, is a member of.

* FreudianExcuse: PlayedWith. While it's not made clear if Rand was any less of a JerkAss before he roomed with Droz, it's shown in a flashback that Droz was a pretty horrible room mate.

* StrawmanU: The titular college.