History Film / PCU

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Or, in this case, changing ''causes''. Moonbeam and company, again.

This 1994 film starred Jeremy Piven as Droz and Creator/DavidSpade as Rand, with a special appearance by GeorgeClinton.

* AsHimself: GeorgeClinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic

* PlotHole: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic play a huge set with all their instruments and equipment yet somehow manage to not blow the dodgy fuses of the Pit.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''AnimalHouse''.

* 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 "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.

* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The Pit invokes this trope by advertising the party with the just-decided-on name of their band: "Everyone Gets Laid". It at least sent the freshmen running there.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Or, in this case, changing ''causes''. Flower and company, again.

* 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 "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.

* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: One character invoked this trope by calling the party "Everyone Gets Laid", which at least sent the freshmen running there.

* 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 threatens to kill off the hockey team in order to fund a "Bisexual Asian" department). Her extremism is to the point that her bosses are looking for an excuse to get rid of her.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Flower and her crowd.

** According to the writers of the film, The Pit was based on the Eclectic Society from Wesleyan University, in which they were hangers-on of the group.

Tom 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 Balls and Shaft, a right-wing fraternity that went underground after fraternities were banned from the school, and The Pit, a group that split off from Balls and Shaft and just wants to goof around (and to get around the ban, it doesn't call itself a fraternity).

* EnemyMine: Despite their political differences, Rand worked with Garcia-Thompson to get The Pit kicked out of PCU.

* TheStoner: The Frisbee team. They even named the team's dog Blotter.

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

* BatmanGambit / XanatosGambit: The plan to get rid of The Pit was to slap them with all the unpaid bills for their building [[spoiler:and anticipating that Droz would suggest a wild party to raise the money. This would cause loads of complaints from the PC students, thus giving enough reason to shut down The Pit even if the money was raised in time]]. Its the former for being based on what The Pit residents would do and the latter for benefiting whether they did it or not.

* DeanBitterman: Ms. Garcia-Thompson. Not only micromanaging everything with the school, but also pushing a "cultural sensitivity" agenda that borders on extremism (she threatens to kill off the hockey team in order to fund a "Bisexual Asian" department). Her extremism is to the point that her bosses are just looking for an excuse to get rid of her.

* EvilPlan: The Dean wants to get rid of the Pit but its a means to an end. For others, its an end in and of itself.

** Port Chester University itself is close enough (Port Chester NY is right on the Connecticut border) to being Yale University (New Haven CT).

* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: One character invoked this trope by calling the party "Everyone Gets Laid", which at least sent the freshmen running to there.

This 1994 film starred JeremyPiven as Droz and Creator/DavidSpade as Rand, with a special appearance by GeorgeClinton.

* VindicatedByCable: Not a huge hit when released - the ad campaign was forgettable - the movie picked up a following thanks to repeated airings on ComedyCentral and some of the cast - Piven and Spade especially - [[HeyItsThatGuy becoming known actors]].

* TechnologyMarchesOn: The computers in the computer lab are all taken down when Tom accidentally trips on a power cord.

* DawsonCasting: Nobody in this movie passes for college-aged. Justified in that half the campus are career students going well into their 20s. Jeremy Piven's character is at least said to be in his seventh year of college.

* {{Expy}}: The "Balls and Shaft" underground fraternity, which is a more rude variation on the "Skull and Bones" fraternity that's (in)famously tied to a number of Presidents and political leaders.

* DawsonCasting: Nobody in this movie passes for college-aged. Jeremy Piven's character is at least said to be in his seventh year of college.
* DeanBitterman: So much, that her bosses are just looking for an excuse to get rid of her.

* ExactEavesdropping: Tom just happens to overhear the university's board members complaining about the dean, which gives Droz and The Pit crew the idea [[spoiler:of using a large protest at the dean's speech to give those board members the excuse they need.]]

* IsThisThingStillOn: When Rand starts attacking the dean for getting fired (and ruining his hopes of getting his fraternity house back) he starts ranting about all the unwashed heathens she'd allowed to take over the campus. The Pit had wisely lined up a set of live microphones by that time so that Rand's words are heard by all the protesters... who promptly chase after him in a ''bigger'' mob than the one that chased Tom throughout the movie.

* EvilPlan: The Dean wants to get rid of the Pit but its a means to an end. For others, its an end in and of itself

** Later Droz pulls a Batman Gambit of his own, [[spoiler:anticipating he could get the student body to rally to him, thus getting the president fired for failing to handle the situation]].

This 1994 film starred JeremyPiven as Droz and DavidSpade as Rand, with a special appearance by GeorgeClinton.