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{{quote| ''"These are the best years of your life. You get four years, enjoy them. 'Cause after that, [[Precision F -Strike|you're fucked]]."''}}
 
'''''Accepted''''' is a film.
Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) has a problem. His parents want him to go to college, and he has applied to every college he knows of -- but all of them have given him a polite "thanks, but no" letter in response. Bartleby is smart and innovative, two talents he has turned to such ventures as making fake IDs and pulling pranks, but which do not, sadly, [[Book Dumb|extend to his grades]]. His friends Rory, Glen, and Hands are in the same boat with him, but all for their own reasons. Hands, though accepted to numerous colleges, lost his football scholarship when he broke his leg and can no longer afford to attend the schools where he applied. Glen was not accepted anywhere [[Cloudcuckoolander|due to his score of "0" on the SAT's]]. Rory was the most academically competent of the group, and ''could'' have gotten into numerous prestigious universities, except [[Crippling Overspecialization|she had]] ''[[Crippling Overspecialization|only]]'' [[What an Idiot|applied to Yale, which did not accept her]]. What can they do?
 
Bartleby Gaines ([[Justin Long]]) has a problem. His parents want him to go to college, and he has applied to every college he knows of -- but all of them have given him a polite "thanks, but no" letter in response. Bartleby is smart and innovative, two talents he has turned to such ventures as making fake IDs and pulling pranks, but which do not, sadly, [[Book Dumb|extend to his grades]]. His friends Rory, Glen, and Hands are in the same boat with him, but all for their own reasons. Hands, though accepted to numerous colleges, lost his football scholarship when he broke his leg and can no longer afford to attend the schools where he applied. Glen was not accepted anywhere [[Cloudcuckoolander|due to his score of "0" on the SAT's]]. Rory was the most academically competent of the group, and ''could'' have gotten into numerous prestigious universities, except [[Crippling Overspecialization|she had]] ''[[Crippling Overspecialization|only'']]'' [[What an Idiot!|applied to Yale, which did not accept her]]. What can they do?
 
Well, if every college has rejected them, they make up their own, of course. With the help of Sherman, who has been accepted into the prestigious Harmon College, they make a fully-functional website for their fake school, and turn an [[Abandoned Hospital|abandoned mental hospital]] into a college building. They put forth Sherman's irascible uncle as the dean. Their parents are happy. Our heroes are happy.
 
Now they have a new problem: The "fake" website automatically sends an acceptance letter to any and all applicants -- and now they have hundreds of fellow rejects to deal with. But Bartleby has a plan. Bartleby always has a plan. Now he has to figure out what that plan is...
 
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=== This movie contains examples of: ===
* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: Turned into a college building for the ruse.
* [[Alone in Aa Crowd]]: Bartleby's reaction to Harmon College during his visit to find out how colleges work.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Meet Abernathy. Abernathy is a spaz.
{{quote| '''Abernathy:''' Hi there! What's your name? My name's Abernathy Darwin Dunlap but you can call me A.D.D. on the account of the fact that I have A.D.D., which is attention deficit disorder. You know -- everyone used to think it was just an addiction to sugar when I was 6 and my mom used to cry because she thought I would never be like a fully functioning member of society like my neighbor who has Legionnaires' disease. [snickers] }}
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Uncle Ben and his role as the fake Dean. It takes him a bit, though:
{{quote| "Look, we throw a lot of fancy words in front of these kids in order to attract them to going to school in the belief that they're gonna have a better life, and we know that all were doing is breeding a whole new generation of buyers and sellers, BUYERS AND SELLERS! Pimps and whores, PIMPS AND WHORES! And indoctrinating them into a life long hell of debt and indecision!" }}
* [[Big Store]]: This method is used by the protagonists to create a fictional stand-in college to fool their parents. Unfortunately, it works a little ''too'' well...
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: When Monica discovers her (blond) boyfriend is a jerk, she dumps him in favor of (brunette) Bartleby.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Sherman.
* [[Calvin Ball]]: South Harmon's curriculum, at first.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Well, more like Cluster S Bomb. The PG-13 Movie uses the word Shit sixty-two times, one hundred less than the [[South Park]] Episode ''It Hits The Fan.'' Again, it's PG-13.
* [[Cool Loser]]: Bartleby.
* [[Cool Uncle]]: Ben, Sherman's uncle, who becomes the Dean.
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* [[Dean Bitterman]]: The Dean Richard Van Horne.
* [[Fake Real Turn]]
* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: The fake school is called '''S'''outh '''H'''armon '''I'''nstitute of '''T'''echnology.
** Immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]], of course.
{{quote| You do realize that that makes us "shit", right?}}
** And the school color? [[Bring My Brown Pants|Brown]].
* [[High School Hustler]]: Bartleby.
* [[Indy Ploy]]: The premise for the entire film. Bartleby fakes an acceptance letter and a website. Uh oh, now dad wants to see the building! [[Oh Crap]], now he wants to meet the dean! [[Oh Crap]], you made the website ''functional''?!
{{quote| '''Rory:''' What's he doing?<br />
'''Hands:''' He's winging it. }}
** In fact, for the hearing at the end, their defense is entirely based on Bartleby's ability to extemporize. And he didn't know that going in.
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* [[Never Recycle a Building]]: The hospital has been sitting around for who knows how long before the kids decide to appropriate it.
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
{{quote| '''Bartleby''': Remember that time we had to steal my mom's birth control?<br />
'''Sherman''': And then Lizzy was born? }}
* [[Offstage Villainy]]: Harmon College. The worst thing they do on-stage is haze Sherman, but we are supposed to see them as evil, close-minded, bigoted, racist, spoiled rich kids with a superiority complex.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Sherman constantly tries to tell Bartleby and the others how stupid and illegal their actions are.
** {{spoiler|In the end, his worry-warting saves them, as he applied for accreditation in case something happened.}}
* [[Peek -a -Boo Corpse]]: ... [[Hilarity Ensues]] during the hospital clean-up.
* [[Prison Rape]]: Ben states to Gates that "''you're young, your butt can take it''" after he states he would go to prison if their plan doesn't work.
* [[Professional Slacker]]: Uncle Ben starts as one, even if he might have had more ambition in the past:
{{quote| '''Girl''': Can you sign a copy of your book for me. I got it on Ebay.<br />
'''Ben''': They sell my shit on Ebay?<br />
'''Hands''': You wrote a book?<br />
'''Ben''': Yeah, that was back when I was drinking. (''he takes a shot'') }}
* [[Psychic Powers]]: One of the students at South Harmon wants to major in Mental Detonation. To everyone's surprise, he apparently makes a car explode during a credits gag ({{spoiler|Incidentally, said car also belonged to the dean of the rival school who tried to have Bartleby's school invalidated}}).
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Sherman.
{{quote| '''Sherman:''' It would be really cool if you guys didn't tell anyone I scream like that...}}
* [[Setting Update]]: As explained in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110301171607/http://www.acslater.com/2011/02/23/accepted-is-camp-nowhere/ this article], ''Accepted'' is basically an update of ''[[Camp Nowhere]]'' set in college.
* [[Smug Snake]]: The ''entire'' Harmon faculty.
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: At the end, {{spoiler|Fuck}} is beeped out, to keep it from being rated R. {{spoiler|[[Bleep, Dammit!|They had already used it once, uncensored]].}}
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The mascot of S.H.I.T. is a sandwich.
** And the school paper is the S.H.I.T. Rag.
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