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** The ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch comes down ''hard'' on the nerds for what they did.
*** That was another case of Hollywood Law, since it ignored the defense of selective prosecution (i.e. the law cannot be applied selectively, to punish those whom it will not protect from the same offenses). The campus police had already told the Nerds outright, that fraternity pranks were "out of their jurisdiction" (which is correct, if it's considered a "social contract" among college students that they accept by enrolling there); and everything the Nerds did in their "revenge," pretty much qualified as fraternity-pranks (since they ''were'' acting as members of a fraternity, being honorary tri-Lambs). Likewise, the rape-victim, Betty Childs, didn't ''want'' to file charges, falling [[Rape Is Love|hopelessly in love]] with Lewis (he was [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|just that good]] at the science of sex, as he evidenced earlier in the film). Meanwhile, the jocks got away with destroying the Nerds' house, and the police ''still'' didn't care—a case of [[Truth in Television]], since football players have been known to get away with ''murder.'' (Now, if Booger had ''actually'' "blown the fuckers up" and still gotten away with it, then THAT would have been an interesting case indeed.)
*** Also, tricking someone into sex by imperaonating their partner was not considered rape under California state law at that time. The only exception was if you impersonated someone's spouse, but Betty and her boyfriend were not married or even engaged.
* For a film based on real events, ''[[The Untouchables]]'' gets just about everything about Al Capone's trial dead wrong:
** The judge orders the jury switched with a jury next door. No judge has the power to call in a jury that the parties didn't select. Also, the new jury was brought in ''after'' the key prosecution witness had testified. Any Defense lawyer would ''love'' to have a jury that never saw the prosecution's evidence! (The actual judge did switch the pool of available jurors, but that happened before the trial began.)
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