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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} A college comedy film that could be described as ''[[Animal House]]'' meets the clashing of right-wing and left-wing politics of [[The Nineties]].▼ [[File:PCU_image.png\|frame]] ▲A college comedy film that could be described as ''[[Animal House]]'' meets the clashing of right-wing and left-wing politics of [[The Nineties]], based on the [[PCU (novel)\|novel of the same name]] written by [[Neal Stephenson]] ''very'' early in his career. Tom is a pre-freshman having a visit to Port Chester University before he attends it properly. [[Hilarity Ensues]] 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 after fraternities were banned from the school, and The Pit, a group that split off from Balls and Shaft and just wants to goof around (and to get around the ban, it doesn't call itself a fraternity). Line 9 ⟶ 11: Not to be confused with [https://pcu.org/ Pawtucket Credit Union]. ~~----~~ ~~=== Provides Examples of: ===~~ {{tropelist}} * [[As Himself]]: [[George Clinton]] and the Parliament-Funkadelic * [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: Flower and her crowd. * [[Batman Gambit]] / [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The plan to get rid of The Pit was to slap them with all the unpaid bills for their building {{spoiler\|and anticipating that Droz would suggest a wild party to raise the money. This would cause loads of complaints from the PC students, thus giving enough reason to shut down The Pit even if the money was raised in time}}. Its the former for being based on what The Pit residents would do and the latter for benefiting whether they did it or not. ** Later Droz pulls a Batman Gambit of his own, {{spoiler\|anticipating he could get the student body to rally to him, thus getting the president fired for failing to handle the situation}}. * [[Dawson Casting]]: Nobody in this movie passes for college-aged. Jeremy Piven's character is at least said to be in his seventh year of college. Line 24 ⟶ 27: * [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The last student protest in the film: {{spoiler\|WE'RE NOT GONNA PROTEST!}} * [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Droz after getting in trouble for throwing "a hundred pounds of meat at a peaceful vegan protest." {{quote\| '''Droz''': Oh, come on! That was way more than a hundred pounds!}} * [[A Party - Also Known Asas an Orgy]]: One character invoked this trope by calling the party "Everyone Gets Laid", which at least sent the freshmen running to there. * [[Plot Hole]]: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic play a huge set with all their instruments and equipment yet somehow manage to not blow the dodgy fuses of the Pit. * [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] / [[Strawman Political]]: Both tropes are spoofed. Line 32 ⟶ 35: * [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: Droz locks most of the staff in a room with "Afternoon Delight" playing. After a while, they start pounding on the door, and then break windows to escape. * [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Or, in this case, changing ''causes''. Flower and company, again. {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] [[Category:~~PCU~~TLA]]