Greek

Greek can be best described with this equation: "[[Brotherhood of Funny Hat] + [[Teen Dram] + [[Dramed] + a little nutmeg + some pepper + a pinch of cheese = GRΣΣK".

For an ABC Family original series, it's surprisingly decent. Not good, exactly, but not a waste of time. Focuses on the fraternity ambitions of Rusty, a nerdy freshman (now probably a Junior, the passage of time is very much stop-and-go in the series, with some episodes taking place back to back and others jumping weeks if not months ahead of the last), and the goings-on of his friends and relatives. (His sister, Casey, is played by [[Kelsey Gramme]'s daughter) Contrary to many teen dramas on nowadays, it's not really a drama. College/Greek life isn't treated as a matter of life or death. Some "serious" issues, such as Betsy's alcoholism, are even played for laughs.

Likely not what a majority of Tropers are looking for, but it's good, funny, interesting dramedy-fluff.

"Beaver: "I am the star of my own life. I deserve to be center stage... Thanks Mom.""
 * [[Absentee Acto]: Mainly Dale, but both Evan and Rebecca have been missing for stretches.
 * Anyone outside the core group of Rusty, Cappie, Casey (and usually Ashleigh) will be absent (without commentary) for random episodes every season. Presumably, this is when these people actually go to class.
 * The Alcoholic: Betsy.
 * [[Alliteratio]/[[Full-Name Basi]: Ben Bennett.
 * Alpha Bitch:
 * Frannie.
 * Tegan at the Nationals level proves that being an Alpha Bitch is one of two general paths of a ZBZ alumna (with Lizzi being the other general path).
 * [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]:.
 * [[An Offer You Can't Refus]: Evan bribes.
 * [[Anticipatory Breath Spra]: Of course, this being Dale, he sprays it right into his eyes.
 * [[Bachelor Auctio]: Geek Auction in Season 3.
 * The Backwards R: Σ for E in the name. Note that Σ is Sigma, and is the equivalent of S in English.
 * [[Bait and Switch Tyran]: Lizzi.
 * [[Baseball Episod]: In Season Three, Omega Chi and ZBZ team up against Gamma Psi and Kappa Tau.
 * Beautiful All Alon]: Lizzi, after Casey and Ashleigh make her over to bust her out of [[Plucky Office Girl mode.
 * [[Betty and Veronic]: Evan (Betty) and Cappie (Veronica) for Casey (in this case, only because Cappie is the [[Cannon Love Interes], Evan actually fits the Veronica personality type much better, being rich and kind of a prick).
 * Casey (Betty) and Rebecca (Veronica) for Cappie.
 * Max (Betty) and Cappie (Veronica) for Casey.
 * Tina (Betty) and Katherine (Veronica) for Rusty.
 * Black Best Friend: Calvin, to Rusty, and Ashleigh to Casey.
 * Well, not really. He's more a best friend who happens to be black (and gay); he's never played up as "hip" or anything along those lines (only RELATIVELY so compared to Rusty and Dale who are both very nerdy, especially early on).
 * [[Bridezill]: Kiki, Frannie's Big Sis.
 * [[Brilliant but Laz]: Cappie.
 * [[Brother-Sister Inces]: The writer's really seem to like having Rusty unknowingly hit on his sister.
 * [[Brotherhood of Funny Hat]: Without the hats and with a lot more drinking.
 * [[Cool Big Si]: Casey to Rusty.
 * [[Cool Lose]: Rusty.
 * [[Corrupt the Cuti]: Cappie and one of his girl friend's reactions to Rusty.
 * [[Credit Card Plo]: With Ashleigh in the end of Season One.
 * The Cynic: Rebecca.
 * [[Dark Horse Victor]: Ashleigh comes out of nowhere to win the ZBZ presidency.
 * [[A Day in the Limeligh]: "All About Beav".

"Cappie: Gentlemen (beat) and Omega Chis."
 * Did Not Do the Research: Where to begin... Season 4 has probably had the most egregious examples:
 * The complete breach of academic protocols regarding credit on Rusty's wire when his girlfriend tried to list herself as a co-inventor after the fact, rather than simply a primary contributor or researcher which she would certainly have actually qualified for.
 * Several Law Students dismissal Casey's attempts to dispel a rumor with her side of the story as "hearsay" (a rumor is, by it's very nature, already hearsay).
 * Pretty much all the Law School stuff. The prof even threatens to just fire one of his interns (which he says would look bad to her future potential employers) when she expresses concern over working on a case against her boyfriend's frat house. Neither of them seems to have ever heard the phrase "conflict of interest" or be aware that is a perfectly legitimate reason for a real lawyer NOT to work on a case (and could be a major liability to their client in court if they go ahead with it anyway).
 * [[Dogged Nice Gu]: Rusty Rusty Rusty and Dale too.
 * [[Double Agen]: Rebecca.
 * [[Dramed]
 * [[Dumb Blond]: Laura and Beth, averted by Katherine and Casey (well, most of the time).
 * [[Establishing Character Momen]: Evan cheating on Casey in the first episode.
 * Lizzi's entire spiel to Ashleigh and Casey when she's first introduced set her entire tone, and Ashleigh and Casey's faces said it all... This is going t] [[Oh Crap|suck.
 * [[Expansion Pack Pas]: Cappie's majors (and one-time photography minor).
 * [[Expository Hairstyle Chang]: In "Freshman Daze": In a flashback to show that Evan has left his rebellious ways behind.
 * [[Fake Defecto]: Rebecca to Iota Kappa Iota.
 * [[Freudian Excus]: Implied about.
 * [[Gargle Blaste]: Aerosol Death Juice turns a geek party into the wildest party the party frat's thrown in years.
 * [[The Generic Gu]: Heath, he's still adorable.
 * [[Getting Crap Past the Rada]: Any mention of the Gag Reflex.
 * 'I'm sorry for being such a dick... tator'.
 * I guess the use of 'fun-buddies' might qualify too.
 * Am I the only one that thought of all the sexual innuendo during the cram session for "Joshua Whopper"? From the discussion of phalluses 'going soft', too much to cram in, it goes on...
 * [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalr]: Zeta Beta Zeta.
 * Hair of Gold: Katherine, president of Panhellenic.
 * Hello, Attorney!: well, "hello law student!" for Katherine.
 * [[Heterosexual Life Partner]: Ashleigh and Casey.
 * [[Hidden Depth]: Rebecca.
 * His Story Repeats Itself:.
 * Hollywood Nerd: Rusty straddles both types. Dale is a type 1 and Max is a type 2. Psi Phi Pi is an [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats|entire fraternity of type 1'].
 * [[Hollywood Spellin]: Ashleigh (self-explanatory); Lizzi ("Two Zeta-Beta Z's", no E).
 * Ashleigh is a fairly traditional spelling.
 * Traditionally [[Viewer Gender Confusion|mal]...
 * [[Horrible Judge of Characte]: Casey, to maximum.
 * [[Hufflepuff Hous]: Every house not named Omega Chi, Kappa Tau, or ZBZ...
 * Huge Schoolgirl: Katherine.
 * [[Invisible to Gayda]: Calvin, Heath and initially Grant, although after coming out to his brothers he morphed overnight into full-on [[Camp Ga].
 * [[Ironic Ech]: "I didn't give you permission to call me by a nickname."
 * [[I Take Offense to That Last On]: Evan: "Now the fate of the entire Greek system is in the hands of a flaky, alcoholic degenerate." Cappie: "I'm not an alcoholic."
 * [[It's Always Sprin]/[[SoCalizatio]: Seriously, an Ohio with no snow?
 * Lampshaded by Cappie in "The Tortoise and the Hair", including "the weather never seems to change" in his list of reasons he would never want to leave college.
 * Also in "Our Fathers" when telling Rebecca's dad about the school, Cappie says, "It's the only place in Ohio that's exactly like Southern California."
 * [[Jerkass Has a Poin]: Frannie's frequent bouts of advice to Casey.
 * [[Kidnapped by an All]:.
 * Lampshade Hangin]: Rusty's girlfriend, "Jen K", is played by Jessica Rose, aka, "[[Lonelygirl15". At one point, she says living with her roommate is "like living with lonelygirl15."
 * Lonely Rich Kid: Evan and Rebecca both fall in this category, sometimes.
 * [[Love Triangl]: Among others, Cappie/Casey/Evan.
 * [[May-December Romanc]:.
 * [[The Mol]: Jen K.
 * [[My Friends and Zoidber]: During the beer pong game in episode two:
 * [[My Friends and Zoidber]: During the beer pong game in episode two:

"Cappie: Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? [[Bea]. Cappie: Translation! How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!|undefined"
 * My Name Is Not Durwood: Cappie finds several names to refer to Evan by.
 * [[Hilarious in Hindsigh]: One of which is "Evan Longoria", before the baseball player with the same name led his team to the World Series. Cappie was going for the [[Desperate Housewive] connection.
 * [[Naive Newcome]: Rusty to the Greek system.
 * [[Nerds Are Virgin]: Averted with Rusty,.
 * [[The Nickname]: Kappa Tau!
 * [[Noodle Inciden]: The CRU Honors Engineering students managed to get a building condemned after an incident involving a genetically modified raccoon.
 * According to Cappie, Beaver nearly became a Canadian citizen.
 * What happened on Cinco de Mayo between Cappie and Casey?
 * [[Obfuscating Stupidit]: Cappie.
 * With a dose of Wicked Cultured, such as the time he wins an argument in Latin and then gives the following:


 * [[One of the Boy]: Jordan.
 * [[Only Known by Their Nicknam]: Cappie most notably; plus a few of the minor Kappa Taus are only known thusly.
 * Another notable example is Wade, his real name is Wade, and so is his nickname.
 * We get to find out in the finale that his name is.
 * [[Pair the Spare]: Evan and Rebecca.
 * Ashleigh and Rusty in the final series.
 * piiiink. Lampshaded in the convention episode: "I've never realized there could be so many shades of pink."
 * Plot Parallel: Evan/Casey/Cappie triangle to.
 * Plucky Office Girl: Lizzi fulfills this trope to the rest of ZBZ Nationals at the convention.
 * [[Prim and Proper Bu]: Katherine.
 * [[Put on a Bu]: Jordan, and hopefully she never comes back.
 * [[Quirky Curl]: Lizzi, to the point where Ashleigh's first line to her as they get ready to make her over is, "It's time to get serious... and it starts with the hair."
 * [[Real Life Writes the Plo]: Or in this case, didn't. The writers' strike bisected the first season; the producers decided to keep shooting them in 10-12 episode "chapters" and haven't looked back since.
 * Really Seventeen Years Old: That guy Casey met at the shelter and later slept with.
 * Retco]: . I love Heath, but [[Writers Cannot Do Math.
 * Rich Bitch: Rebecca, before her father had an affair and lost his office and his influence.
 * [[Rich Peopl]: The Chambers and the Logans.
 * Romantic Runner-Up: Evan.
 * [[Science Fai]: In Season 3.
 * [[Shout-Ou]: Two characters participate in a psychological study numbered 8675309.
 * Shown Their Work: The series is set in Ohio, so why not get an Ohio weatherman to do a cameo weatherman appearance? (Although it's set in Central Ohio (Analogous to Ohio University), and the weatherman was from the Toledo ABC station...)
 * [[The Slacke]: Cappie. When some speak of graduating, he tells them, "Bite your tongue!"
 * This looks to be a ship sticking point for the final chapter, as.
 * [[Speed Datin]: Rusty and Cappie go through this at Dobler's
 * [[Suddenly Sexualit]: Rebecca says she's a lesbian now. Cappie and Evan disagree. Within a day, so does she.
 * [[Take Our Word for I]: Heath's sister being [[Younger Than They Look|younger than she look].
 * [[Teen Dram]
 * [[Teens Are Shor]: All of the freshmen (Rebecca, Rusty, Calvin) are shorter than their "bigs" (Casey, Cappie, Evan). Averted with Lizzi, who's shorter than most of the ZBZ sisters even though she's older than all of them.
 * [[Tombo]: Jordan
 * [[Three Amigo]: Cappie, Evan, and Casey in the [[Backstor].
 * [[Trickster Mento]: Cappie to Rusty.
 * Two Guys and a Girl: Cappie, Evan, and Casey.
 * [[Volleying Insult]: Cappie and Evan. Rebecca and Casey.
 * Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Kappa Tau.
 * [[Weird Scienc]: Why Max decided to study science.
 * [[We Used to Be Friend]: Cappie and Evan.
 * Whole-Episode Flashback: Freshman Daze, for the most part.
 * Will They or Won't They?: Cappie and Casey, definitely.
 * You Didn't Ask
 * Younger Than They Look: Jonah, Casey's date in "Highway to the Discomfort Zone". He's 16, but has a fake ID good enough to fool Lizzi, the resident "Party Patrol" for the [[Alliteration|Double Date Dash at Dobler'].
 * And, of course, Heath's younger sister.
 * [[Your Cheating Hear]: Evan on Casey,, on Ashleigh, and Jordan on Andy.

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