History Film / PCU

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Ms. Garcia-Thompson. The crux of the plot lies in the fact she has used PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and allowing 24/7 protests fron 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.

* KafkaKomedy: Every single thing Luke does throughout the film manages to piss off some group within the university in one way or another that ends end up with them chasing him as an irate mob... pretty much everybody except The Pit (which are friendly) and the Balls and Shaft (who he finds scary and annoying).

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

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Moonbeam and her crowd, the aptly-named "Causeheads."

* TheNineties

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Ms. Garcia-Thompson. The crux of the plot lies in the fact she has used PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad to almost drive the campus' effectiveness as a an actual place for education into the ground.

* AsHimself: Music/GeorgeClinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Droz is introduced waking up from a bender and repeatedly screaming, "Coffee!"

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Pit, an ethnically/gender-mixed group united under the banner of rocking out and coasting through college.

* 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.

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

* CampGay: While the student body is trying to find Tom, several members discuss things he's doing wrong. An Afrocentrist says he was recruiting for the CIA. A Causehead said he injected the thrown meat with hormones. A gay student says he... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wore brown shoes with a blue blazer.]]

* InitiationCeremony: Droz and The Pit were about to give Tom one for saving their frat house, but eventually, it didn't take place after Tom's bus arrives.

* IsThisThingStillOn: When Rand starts attacking the dean [[spoiler: 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 the entire campus body... [[spoiler:who promptly chase after him in a ''bigger'' mob than the one that chased Tom throughout the movie.]]

* TheStoner: Jerrytown, a hippie-based group. They even named the team's dog Blotter.
* StrawFeminist: The "Womynists".

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film gives a good glimpse at life, particularly in college, in the 90s.
* VandalismBackfire: The crew from the Pit trash what they believe to be Rand's cherry-red classic sports car. Turns out they got the wrong one. [[spoiler:[[BrickJoke The film ends with Samamtha, Droz's love interest, mentioning that she can drive on their date, since she's borrowed her grandmother's classic car of the same kind for the weekend...]]]]

* GroinAttack: During the protest at the Bicentennial, Katy attacks one of the Balls and Shaft members by hitting him in the groin with the handle of her sign.

The film features a special appearance by Music/GeorgeClinton.

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[[caption-width-right:214:Flunk 'em if they can't take a joke.]]

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

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 The Pit, a group that just wants 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. Both groups were spun off from Psi Kappa Mu after fraternities were banned from the school in the late 1960s.

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

* CampGay: While the student body is trying to find Tom, several members discuss things he's doing wrong. A black student says he was recruiting for the CIA. A vegan say he injected the thrown meat with hormones. A gay student says he... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wore brown shoes with a blue blazer.]]

* AsHimself: Music/GeorgeClinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic

* IsThisThingStillOn: When Rand starts attacking the dean [[spoiler: 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 Cause-Heads... [[spoiler:who promptly chase after him in a ''bigger'' mob than the one that chased Tom throughout the movie.]]

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, and The Pit, a group that just wants to goof around (and to get around the ban, it doesn't call itself a fraternity). Both groups were spun off from Psi Kappa Mu after fraternities were banned from the school in the late 1960s.

However, the fraternity 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.

* VandalismBackfire: The crew from the Pit trash what they believe to be Rand's cherry-red classic sports car. Turns out they got the wrong one. [[BrickJoke The film ends with Piven's love interest mentioning that she can drive on their date, since she's borrowed her grandmother's classic car of the same kind for the weekend...]]