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* AllGuysWantCheerleadersAllGuysWantCheerleaders: Played With. The haughty Pi cheerleaders are certainly considered hot, but the plain jane Omega Mus seem to get just as much tail.
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* {{Corpsing}}: In the Belching Contest scene in the first film, keep an eye on John Goodman as the coach. He keeps studying his shoes while simultaneously making sure his hat doesn't come off, all to keep from laughing out loud on camera from the antics of actors Donald Gibb and Curtis Armstrong.
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** In real life, college campus police ''do'' have jurisdiction over "Frat Pranks" and ''so do the regular police!'' So both sides of this feud could have gotten in serious legal trouble.
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** In real life, college campus police ''do'' have jurisdiction over "Frat Pranks" and ''so do the regular police!'' So both sides of this feud could have gotten in serious legal trouble. A ''RobotChicken'' DeconstructiveParody even showed this to be true.
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** In the third movie, when the nerds claim their basic human rights, the judge replies "Nerds don't have rights!". Yeah...
** The only thing that Coach Harris would really get from punching dean in the face in front of large crowd would be a prison term for assault.
** The only thing that Coach Harris would really get from punching dean in the face in front of large crowd would be a prison term for assault.
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** In the third movie, when the nerds claim their basic human rights, the judge replies "Nerds don't have rights!". Yeah...
Turns out they do, Chester.
** The only thing that Coach Harris would really get from punching the dean in the face in front of large crowd would be a prison term for assault.
** The only thing that Coach Harris would really get from punching the dean in the face in front of large crowd would be a prison term for assault.
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* ValuesDissonance: Putting cameras in womens bedrooms to spy on them naked, taking photos of someones breasts and selling them in a carnival and tricking someone into sex by pretending to be their boyfriend would definitely not be considered a justifiable response to bitchy behavior these days but in 1984 we were expected to cheer out "heroes" on for this.
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* DesignatedHero: The Tri-Lambs revenge on Betty Childs is hardly the actions of the nice guys characters they are supposed to be.
** Though, she did help ruin their party and potentially their chances of getting inducted into Lambda Lambda Lambda.
** Though, she did help ruin their party and potentially their chances of getting inducted into Lambda Lambda Lambda.
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* DesignatedHero: The Tri-Lambs revenge on Betty Childs is hardly the actions of the nice guys characters they are supposed to bebe.
** Though, she did help ruin their party and potentially their chances of getting inducted into Lambda Lambda Lambda.
** Though, she did help ruin their party and potentially their chances of getting inducted into Lambda Lambda Lambda.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lambda Lambda Lambda is usually an all-black Fraternity. Without even realising this, The Jocks leave a burning sign on their lawn.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lambda Lambda Lambda is usually an all-black Fraternity. Without even realising this, The Jocks leave a burning sign on their lawn.lawn, sending pigs in to their party, all because they are nerds. Its implied UN Jefferson was thinking along the same lines.
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* BeautyIsBadBeautyIsBad: Partially subverted in that Betty and Stan eventually have HeelFaceTurns, but played straight in the most part.
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* TarAndFeathers: Lewis and Gilbert are tarred and feathered by the Alpha Betas in response to their attempt to seek admittance to the fraternity.
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* ValuesDissonance: Putting cameras in womens bedrooms to spy on them naked, taking photos of someones breasts and selling them in a carnival and tricking someone into sex by pretending to be there boyfriend would definitely not be considered a justifiable response to bitchy behavior these days but in 1984 we were expected to cheer out "heroes" on for this
* VanityLicensePlate: In ''Part IV'' Lewis rolls up in an 18-wheeler with the plate "NERD MAN"
* VanityLicensePlate: In ''Part IV'' Lewis rolls up in an 18-wheeler with the plate "NERD MAN"
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* ValuesDissonance: Putting cameras in womens bedrooms to spy on them naked, taking photos of someones breasts and selling them in a carnival and tricking someone into sex by pretending to be there their boyfriend would definitely not be considered a justifiable response to bitchy behavior these days but in 1984 we were expected to cheer out "heroes" on for this
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* VanityLicensePlate: In ''Part IV'' Lewis rolls up in an 18-wheeler with the plate "NERDMAN"MAN".
* VanityLicensePlate: In ''Part IV'' Lewis rolls up in an 18-wheeler with the plate "NERD
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* TheOtherDarrin: Robbie Rist plays Booger in the TV movies.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Robbie Rist plays Booger A pilot for a TV series was produced in 1991 and the TV movies.returning characters were all recast. Rob Stone played Lewis, Lightfield Lewis was Gilbert, Grant Gelt was Harold and Jeff Benson was Ogre.
** Anthony Edwards did not return for the third movie, so he was played by Mike Greenwood in a one scene.
** Anthony Edwards did not return for the third movie, so he was played by Mike Greenwood in a one scene.
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**Lampshaded in the 4th film when Ogre asks where the hell is Gilbert during that party early in the film.
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* NerdsAreVirginsNerdsAreVirgins: Played with. Some of the nerds are virgins, but others are clearly more "experienced."
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* BrickJoke: Booger demands to see "bush" after the nerds plant hidden cameras in the girls dorm. In the second movie after being stranding on an island Booger comes across a giant marijuana plant and drops to his knees in awe, exclaiming, "Bush...."
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* BrickJoke: Booger demands to see "bush" after the nerds plant hidden cameras in the girls dorm. In the second movie after being stranding on an island Booger comes across a giant marijuana plant and drops to his knees in awe, exclaiming, "Bush...."
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* BrickJoke: Booger demands to see "bush" after the nerds plant hidden cameras in the girls dorm. In the second movie after being stranding on an island Booger comes across a giant marijuana plant and drops to his knees in awe, exclaiming, "Bush...."
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[MarriedWithChildren Ted [=McGinley=]]] as Stan Gable, leader of the Alpha Betas.
** Danny from ''TheWestWing'' as Poindexter.
** Josh from ''TheWestWing'' as Roger, the BigBad JerkJock/cool guy from ''Part II'' (his first big acting gig)
** James Cromwell as Lewis' father.
** John Goodman as the football coach.
** [[{{ER}} Dr. Mark Greene]] as Gilbert.
** Reverse-HeyItsThatGuy: Booger gets a literal ShoutOut (the music actually sings, "Hey, it's that guy!") in an "[[TheEighties 80s Montage]]" scene on a Progressive Commercial starring Flo.
** Lamar [[SpaceCamp wants to own a fast food joint in space]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Takashi would go on to voice the movie version of [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]].
** Danny from ''TheWestWing'' as Poindexter.
** Josh from ''TheWestWing'' as Roger, the BigBad JerkJock/cool guy from ''Part II'' (his first big acting gig)
** James Cromwell as Lewis' father.
** John Goodman as the football coach.
** [[{{ER}} Dr. Mark Greene]] as Gilbert.
** Reverse-HeyItsThatGuy: Booger gets a literal ShoutOut (the music actually sings, "Hey, it's that guy!") in an "[[TheEighties 80s Montage]]" scene on a Progressive Commercial starring Flo.
** Lamar [[SpaceCamp wants to own a fast food joint in space]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Takashi would go on to voice the movie version of [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]].
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* SadisticTeacher: The coach activly encourages the jocks to assault the nerds, berates them when they fail to beat them, strong arms and bullies the dean into giving him what he wants and actually threatens to punch him in the face in front of a large crowd of people when the Dean remembers that as his boss the Coach must do what 'he' says and stand up to the brute.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: Lamar's gayness would not make him as much of an outcast as the rest of the Lambdas today.
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** Danny from TheWestWing ''TheWestWing'' as Poindexter.Poindexter.
** Josh from ''TheWestWing'' as Roger, the BigBad JerkJock/cool guy from ''Part II'' (his first big acting gig)
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* VanityLicensePlate: In ''Part IV'' Lewis rolls up in an 18-wheeler with the plate "NERD MAN"
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* BeefBandage: In ''Part IV'' Booger's fiancee's mother faints when she meets him and bangs her head, so he gets her a steak to put on the wound.
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* NWordPrivileges: When used by non-nerds, the word "nerd" is generally offensive.
** In ''Part IV'' NouveauRiche is considered offensive to the Nouveau Riche father of the bride. At the end of the film he embraces it.
** In ''Part IV'' NouveauRiche is considered offensive to the Nouveau Riche father of the bride. At the end of the film he embraces it.
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* ThePeepingTom: The Lambdas in ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' take this trope to an extreme by installing surveillance cameras in all the bedrooms and showers of the sorority house.
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* ThePeepingTom: The Lambdas in ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' take this trope to an extreme by installing surveillance cameras in all the bedrooms and showers of the sorority house. They literally stay awake all night, just watching women sleep.
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** In real life, collegecampuses ''are'' subject to campus police ''do'' have jurisdiction over "Frat Pranks" and ''so do the local jurisdictions, so regular police!'' So both sides of this feud could have gotten in serious legal trouble.
** In real life, college
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Jocks leave a burning sign on their lawn, for God's sake!
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lambda Lambda Lambda is usually an all-black Fraternity. Without even realising this, The Jocks leave a burning sign on their lawn, for God's sake!lawn.
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* DemotedToExtra: Gilbert is the protagonist of the first movie, a supporting character in the second, makes a cameo in the third, and is entirely absent from the fourth.
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Not to be discouraged, the nerds decide to [[StartMyOwn start their own frat]], and through an oversight are given permission to set up a branch of the normally all-black fraternity Lambda Lambda Lambda. But all is not well; the existing frats, not to mention the resident jocks, don't appreciate nerds horning in on their territory, and so begins a war of attrition that involves vandalism, nude photos, the liberal application of 'liquid heat' to jockstraps, and various other [[HijinksEnsue wacky hijinks]]. It's BetterThanItSounds.
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Not to be discouraged, the nerds decide to [[StartMyOwn start their own frat]], and through an oversight are given permission to set up a branch of the normally all-black fraternity Lambda Lambda Lambda. But all is not well; the existing frats, not to mention the resident jocks, don't appreciate nerds horning in on their territory, and so begins a war of attrition that involves vandalism, nude photos, the liberal application of 'liquid heat' to jockstraps, and various other [[HijinksEnsue wacky hijinks]]. It's BetterThanItSounds.
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-->''NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!''
-->--'''Ogre''' when he first spots Gilbert and Lewis at Adams College
'''Revenge of the Nerds''' (1984) is a classic [[TheEighties '80s]] teen sex comedy, one of the rarer breed that takes place in college instead of HighSchool. After the football team accidentally burns down their shared house in an ill-conceived '[[BoozeFlameThrower fire breathing]]' stunt, they commandeer the freshman dorms as their own. The Freshmen are allowed to pledge fraternities earlier than usual so they'll have a place to live, but your typical frats' well-known aversion to scholarly types leaves the nine nerdiest new students out in the cold.
Not to be discouraged, the nerds decide to [[StartMyOwn start their own frat]], and through an oversight are given permission to set up a branch of the normally all-black fraternity Lambda Lambda Lambda. But all is not well; the existing frats, not to mention the resident jocks, don't appreciate nerds horning in on their territory, and so begins a war of attrition that involves vandalism, nude photos, the liberal application of 'liquid heat' to jockstraps, and various other [[HijinksEnsue wacky hijinks]]. It's BetterThanItSounds.
Was followed by three more sequels, one a theatrical film and the last two {{Made For TV Movie}}s:
* '''Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise''' (1987). The second movie sends the nerds to a national fraternity conference in Florida where they once again have to put up with a JerkJock fraternity that gives them no end of grief.
* '''Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation''' (1992). The third movie focuses on a new batch of nerds going to the same college as the first, which has become a paradise for geeks, nerds and outcasts. However, an alumnus of the college isn't happy with this and, teaming with a former nemesis from the first movie, proceeds to try to change the pecking order of the school. The new cast, of course, goes on the offensive.
* '''Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love''' (1994). The fourth and final movie finds one of the original nerds getting married, but the father of the bride objects to the union and tries to break them up. It's up to the original cast to keep the wedding going as scheduled.
The series was going to have a remake in 2007, but complications with shooting ultimately shelved the project.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders
* AmbulanceChaser: Dudley "Booger" Dawson from the first film is an attorney by the third film, and when they call him for legal help, he is tailgating an ambulance.
* AndStarring: John Goodman as Coach Harris.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowe possess epic examples.
** It's contagious too, with all the Tri-Lambs eventually doing it. Even ''Ogre'' after his HeelFaceTurn in the second film!
* BeautyIsBad
* BedTrick: See RapeIsLove, below.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: And played by [[HeyItsThatGuy Jefferson]] [[MarriedWithChildren D'arcy!]]
* BurpingContest: Dudley "Booger" Dawson vs. Ogre. Point goes to Booger, thanks to a belch that lasts [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwPbKLEGOc a full twelve seconds]].
** Ogre starts crying when he loses.
* CampGay: Lamarr
* CanCrushingCranium: Ogre
* TheCavalry: The Tri-Lambda ScaryBlackMan backup dancers.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Gilbert in the third movie. In all of sequels, Coach Harris, Burke, and all the other Alpha Betas aside from Stan and Ogre are never seen again.
* CoolOldGuy: Master Snotty
* CozyCatastrophe: In a small-scale example, the Alpha Betas seem remarkably cheerful about having just lost everything but the clothes on their backs to a fire their own recklessness started.
** They were probably very, very drunk when they were watching the dorms burn.
* DawsonCasting: Robert Carradine (Skolnick) and Curtis Armstrong (Booger) were thirty and thirty-one when the movie came out, playing eighteen year olds.
* DemotedToExtra: Gilbert is the protagonist of the first movie, a supporting character in the second, makes a cameo in the third, and is entirely absent from the fourth.
* DeusExMachina: Jefferson and several national Tri-Lamb brothers arrive when Gilbert is about to get the crap beat out of him by the Alpha Betas in the CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What kicks off the whole conflict when the jocks burn down their frat house then take over the dorms the nerds were staying at. And even then, when the nerds find a place of their own and are living peacefully, the jocks still won't quit.
* DistaffCounterpart: The Omega Mu's to the Lambda guys.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Jocks leave a burning sign on their lawn, for God's sake!
* DorkHorseCandidate: The heroes want to take over the school council and get revenge on the jocks.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the Alpha Beta's ForTheEvulz attitude.
* DrugsAreBad: Inverted; Booger brings pot to the Lambdas' party, and the weed gives the party the kickstart it so ''desperately'' needed.
* ForTheEvulz: When the Nerds move into their own off-campus house, the Alpha Betas continue to try to force them out for its own sake.
* GargleBlaster: The "fireball" liquor, which is ridiculously high proof.
* GiveGeeksAChance: Lewis Skolnick and Betty Childs.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Lewis is apparently good enough to win Betty over after one tumble; Stan is shown on several occasions to not care for sex at all, being too busy with football. The way Lewis describes the difference to Betty thusly:
-->'''Lewis''': ''All jocks ever think about is sports. All we [nerds] ever think about is sex.''
* {{Hachimaki}}: Takashi dons the Kamikaze headband before going on the panty raid.
* HeelFaceTurn: Betty, after Lewis pulls the BedTrick on her. (In her case, it's more a SexFaceTurn.)
** And Ogre in the sequel.
** Stan himself does it in the third movie.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[MarriedWithChildren Ted [=McGinley=]]] as Stan Gable, leader of the Alpha Betas.
** Danny from TheWestWing as Poindexter.
** James Cromwell as Lewis' father.
** John Goodman as the football coach.
** [[{{ER}} Dr. Mark Greene]] as Gilbert.
** Reverse-HeyItsThatGuy: Booger gets a literal ShoutOut (the music actually sings, "Hey, it's that guy!") in an "[[TheEighties 80s Montage]]" scene on a Progressive Commercial starring Flo.
** Lamar [[SpaceCamp wants to own a fast food joint in space]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Takashi would go on to voice the movie version of [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]].
* HollywoodLaw: In real life, college campuses ''are'' subject to the local jurisdictions, so both sides of this feud could have gotten in serious legal trouble.
** And the parents could and ''should'' have sued Adams College for evicting their sons from the double dorm rooms they'd paid considerable money for, particularly as the eviction proceedings involved the residents and their possessions being bodily ''flung out doors and windows'' by the jocks.
** In the third movie, when the nerds claim their basic human rights, the judge replies "Nerds don't have rights!". Yeah...
* JerkJock: There's a whole frat full of them, but in due course, the nerds get their revenge. And again in the second movie...
* LargeHam: Both Coach Harris and Ogre in the first movie. Ogre: "NERDS!!!"
* LovableNerd: Most of the protagonists.
* MadeForTVMovie: The third and fourth movies.
* MasqueradeBall: Lewis takes a page from [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet Judge Turpin's]] Creative Uses For Awesome Costumes manual. See RapeIsLove, below.
* MookCarryover: The character Ogre from the first movie shows up in the sequel in a different chapter of the Alpha Beta fraternity. The brothers he had in the original film are all gone, apparently defeated.
* MookFaceTurn: Ogre, in the 2nd movie.
* {{Mooning}}: The Alpha Betas. All of them at the same time.
* {{Nerd}}: Present and accounted for, in mass quantities.
* NerdsAreVirgins
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Ogre is revealed to be one at the end of the second movie.
* PantyThief: The Panty Raid.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy
* ThePeepingTom: The Lambdas in ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' take this trope to an extreme by installing surveillance cameras in all the bedrooms and showers of the sorority house.
* PlayingAgainstType: John Goodman has almost always been associated with kind and affable [[TheBigGuy Big Guys]], here he plays the petty, cruel, and almost criminally negligent Coach Harris.
* ProudToBeAGeek: The epiphany speech at the end of the movie, given to an audience entirely composed of jocks.
* QueerPeopleAreFunny
* RapeIsLove: Lewis engages in covert seduction via a Darth Vader mask. She finds out [[BedTrick it's not her boyfriend]] when he unmasks halfway through, and is briefly upset - but then decides he's a great lover and is in heat for him thereafter.
-->--'''Lewis''': All jocks ever think about is sports. All we [nerds] ever think about is sex.
* RevivalByCommercialization: {{Queen}}'s ''We Are The Champions''.
* ScaryBlackMan: The 'reinforcements' that accompany U. N. Jefferson when he comes to the aid of the Adams College Tri-Lambs.
* SeriousBusiness: School politics and fraternities are portrayed this way.
* SocietyMarchesOn: Lamar's gayness would not make him as much of an outcast as the rest of the Lambdas today.
* StartMyOwn: Fraternity in this case, the premise of the entire movie.
* TheDogBitesBack: You can only pick on a nerd so much...
* TitleThemeTune: Revenge of the Nerds! (NERDS!) Revenge of the Nerds! (NERDS!)
-->''Won't be long, mark my words! The time has come for'' Revenge of the Nerds!
* TwoferTokenMinority: Lamar - the only gay nerd, the only black nerd, and the only nerd with a date to the dance!
* TwoTeacherSchool- The entire staff seems to consist of the Coach and the Dean.
** And nobody is ever shown in a classroom. The closest they get is when Gilbert meets Judy in a computer lab.
* VillainousCrossdresser: The Alpha Betas dress like cheerleaders for their Greek Games musical skit, and are still in drag when their coach chews them out for the "unmanliness" of losing to nerds.
* WackyFratboyHijinx
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-->''NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!''
-->--'''Ogre''' when he first spots Gilbert and Lewis at Adams College
'''Revenge of the Nerds''' (1984) is a classic [[TheEighties '80s]] teen sex comedy, one of the rarer breed that takes place in college instead of HighSchool. After the football team accidentally burns down their shared house in an ill-conceived '[[BoozeFlameThrower fire breathing]]' stunt, they commandeer the freshman dorms as their own. The Freshmen are allowed to pledge fraternities earlier than usual so they'll have a place to live, but your typical frats' well-known aversion to scholarly types leaves the nine nerdiest new students out in the cold.
Not to be discouraged, the nerds decide to [[StartMyOwn start their own frat]], and through an oversight are given permission to set up a branch of the normally all-black fraternity Lambda Lambda Lambda. But all is not well; the existing frats, not to mention the resident jocks, don't appreciate nerds horning in on their territory, and so begins a war of attrition that involves vandalism, nude photos, the liberal application of 'liquid heat' to jockstraps, and various other [[HijinksEnsue wacky hijinks]]. It's BetterThanItSounds.
Was followed by three more sequels, one a theatrical film and the last two {{Made For TV Movie}}s:
* '''Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise''' (1987). The second movie sends the nerds to a national fraternity conference in Florida where they once again have to put up with a JerkJock fraternity that gives them no end of grief.
* '''Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation''' (1992). The third movie focuses on a new batch of nerds going to the same college as the first, which has become a paradise for geeks, nerds and outcasts. However, an alumnus of the college isn't happy with this and, teaming with a former nemesis from the first movie, proceeds to try to change the pecking order of the school. The new cast, of course, goes on the offensive.
* '''Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love''' (1994). The fourth and final movie finds one of the original nerds getting married, but the father of the bride objects to the union and tries to break them up. It's up to the original cast to keep the wedding going as scheduled.
The series was going to have a remake in 2007, but complications with shooting ultimately shelved the project.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders
* AmbulanceChaser: Dudley "Booger" Dawson from the first film is an attorney by the third film, and when they call him for legal help, he is tailgating an ambulance.
* AndStarring: John Goodman as Coach Harris.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowe possess epic examples.
** It's contagious too, with all the Tri-Lambs eventually doing it. Even ''Ogre'' after his HeelFaceTurn in the second film!
* BeautyIsBad
* BedTrick: See RapeIsLove, below.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: And played by [[HeyItsThatGuy Jefferson]] [[MarriedWithChildren D'arcy!]]
* BurpingContest: Dudley "Booger" Dawson vs. Ogre. Point goes to Booger, thanks to a belch that lasts [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwPbKLEGOc a full twelve seconds]].
** Ogre starts crying when he loses.
* CampGay: Lamarr
* CanCrushingCranium: Ogre
* TheCavalry: The Tri-Lambda ScaryBlackMan backup dancers.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Gilbert in the third movie. In all of sequels, Coach Harris, Burke, and all the other Alpha Betas aside from Stan and Ogre are never seen again.
* CoolOldGuy: Master Snotty
* CozyCatastrophe: In a small-scale example, the Alpha Betas seem remarkably cheerful about having just lost everything but the clothes on their backs to a fire their own recklessness started.
** They were probably very, very drunk when they were watching the dorms burn.
* DawsonCasting: Robert Carradine (Skolnick) and Curtis Armstrong (Booger) were thirty and thirty-one when the movie came out, playing eighteen year olds.
* DemotedToExtra: Gilbert is the protagonist of the first movie, a supporting character in the second, makes a cameo in the third, and is entirely absent from the fourth.
* DeusExMachina: Jefferson and several national Tri-Lamb brothers arrive when Gilbert is about to get the crap beat out of him by the Alpha Betas in the CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What kicks off the whole conflict when the jocks burn down their frat house then take over the dorms the nerds were staying at. And even then, when the nerds find a place of their own and are living peacefully, the jocks still won't quit.
* DistaffCounterpart: The Omega Mu's to the Lambda guys.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Jocks leave a burning sign on their lawn, for God's sake!
* DorkHorseCandidate: The heroes want to take over the school council and get revenge on the jocks.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the Alpha Beta's ForTheEvulz attitude.
* DrugsAreBad: Inverted; Booger brings pot to the Lambdas' party, and the weed gives the party the kickstart it so ''desperately'' needed.
* ForTheEvulz: When the Nerds move into their own off-campus house, the Alpha Betas continue to try to force them out for its own sake.
* GargleBlaster: The "fireball" liquor, which is ridiculously high proof.
* GiveGeeksAChance: Lewis Skolnick and Betty Childs.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Lewis is apparently good enough to win Betty over after one tumble; Stan is shown on several occasions to not care for sex at all, being too busy with football. The way Lewis describes the difference to Betty thusly:
-->'''Lewis''': ''All jocks ever think about is sports. All we [nerds] ever think about is sex.''
* {{Hachimaki}}: Takashi dons the Kamikaze headband before going on the panty raid.
* HeelFaceTurn: Betty, after Lewis pulls the BedTrick on her. (In her case, it's more a SexFaceTurn.)
** And Ogre in the sequel.
** Stan himself does it in the third movie.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[MarriedWithChildren Ted [=McGinley=]]] as Stan Gable, leader of the Alpha Betas.
** Danny from TheWestWing as Poindexter.
** James Cromwell as Lewis' father.
** John Goodman as the football coach.
** [[{{ER}} Dr. Mark Greene]] as Gilbert.
** Reverse-HeyItsThatGuy: Booger gets a literal ShoutOut (the music actually sings, "Hey, it's that guy!") in an "[[TheEighties 80s Montage]]" scene on a Progressive Commercial starring Flo.
** Lamar [[SpaceCamp wants to own a fast food joint in space]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Takashi would go on to voice the movie version of [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]].
* HollywoodLaw: In real life, college campuses ''are'' subject to the local jurisdictions, so both sides of this feud could have gotten in serious legal trouble.
** And the parents could and ''should'' have sued Adams College for evicting their sons from the double dorm rooms they'd paid considerable money for, particularly as the eviction proceedings involved the residents and their possessions being bodily ''flung out doors and windows'' by the jocks.
** In the third movie, when the nerds claim their basic human rights, the judge replies "Nerds don't have rights!". Yeah...
* JerkJock: There's a whole frat full of them, but in due course, the nerds get their revenge. And again in the second movie...
* LargeHam: Both Coach Harris and Ogre in the first movie. Ogre: "NERDS!!!"
* LovableNerd: Most of the protagonists.
* MadeForTVMovie: The third and fourth movies.
* MasqueradeBall: Lewis takes a page from [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet Judge Turpin's]] Creative Uses For Awesome Costumes manual. See RapeIsLove, below.
* MookCarryover: The character Ogre from the first movie shows up in the sequel in a different chapter of the Alpha Beta fraternity. The brothers he had in the original film are all gone, apparently defeated.
* MookFaceTurn: Ogre, in the 2nd movie.
* {{Mooning}}: The Alpha Betas. All of them at the same time.
* {{Nerd}}: Present and accounted for, in mass quantities.
* NerdsAreVirgins
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Ogre is revealed to be one at the end of the second movie.
* PantyThief: The Panty Raid.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy
* ThePeepingTom: The Lambdas in ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' take this trope to an extreme by installing surveillance cameras in all the bedrooms and showers of the sorority house.
* PlayingAgainstType: John Goodman has almost always been associated with kind and affable [[TheBigGuy Big Guys]], here he plays the petty, cruel, and almost criminally negligent Coach Harris.
* ProudToBeAGeek: The epiphany speech at the end of the movie, given to an audience entirely composed of jocks.
* QueerPeopleAreFunny
* RapeIsLove: Lewis engages in covert seduction via a Darth Vader mask. She finds out [[BedTrick it's not her boyfriend]] when he unmasks halfway through, and is briefly upset - but then decides he's a great lover and is in heat for him thereafter.
-->--'''Lewis''': All jocks ever think about is sports. All we [nerds] ever think about is sex.
* RevivalByCommercialization: {{Queen}}'s ''We Are The Champions''.
* ScaryBlackMan: The 'reinforcements' that accompany U. N. Jefferson when he comes to the aid of the Adams College Tri-Lambs.
* SeriousBusiness: School politics and fraternities are portrayed this way.
* SocietyMarchesOn: Lamar's gayness would not make him as much of an outcast as the rest of the Lambdas today.
* StartMyOwn: Fraternity in this case, the premise of the entire movie.
* TheDogBitesBack: You can only pick on a nerd so much...
* TitleThemeTune: Revenge of the Nerds! (NERDS!) Revenge of the Nerds! (NERDS!)
-->''Won't be long, mark my words! The time has come for'' Revenge of the Nerds!
* TwoferTokenMinority: Lamar - the only gay nerd, the only black nerd, and the only nerd with a date to the dance!
* TwoTeacherSchool- The entire staff seems to consist of the Coach and the Dean.
** And nobody is ever shown in a classroom. The closest they get is when Gilbert meets Judy in a computer lab.
* VillainousCrossdresser: The Alpha Betas dress like cheerleaders for their Greek Games musical skit, and are still in drag when their coach chews them out for the "unmanliness" of losing to nerds.
* WackyFratboyHijinx
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