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* [[Cozy Catastrophe]]: 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.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Robert Carradine (Skolnick) and Curtis Armstrong (Booger) were thirty and thirty-one when the movie came out, playing eighteen year olds.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: 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.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: 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 [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: 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.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: The Omega Mu's to the Lambda guys.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Jocks leave a burning sign on their lawn, for God's sake! (See ''Meaningful Name/Fun with Acronyms'' below.)
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: You can only pick on a nerd so much...
* [[Dork Horse Candidate]]: The heroes want to take over the school council and get revenge on the jocks.
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** Stan himself does it in the third movie.
* [[Hollywood Law]]: In real life, college campuses ''are'' subject to the local jurisdictions, so both sides of this feud could have gotten in serious legal trouble.
** It is possible that 'you must put up with fraternity pranks' is a social contract that students accept by enrolling. Of course, while this excuses all the minor torts and misdemeanors it still shouldn't cover actual felonies such as dangling people off of roofs.
** 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...
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* [[Made for TV Movie]]: The third and fourth movies.
* [[Masquerade Ball]]: Lewis takes a page from [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Judge Turpin's]] Creative Uses For Awesome Costumes manual. See [[Rape Is Love]], below.
* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Fun with Acronyms]]: "Lambda Lambda Lambda" (ƛƛƛ), the all-black fraternity, would be "LLL" in Roman letters -- which is to say, 1 letter higher than "KKK".
* [[Mook Carryover]]: 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.
* [[Mook Face Turn]]: Ogre, in the 2nd movie.
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* [[Queer People Are Funny]]
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Lewis engages in covert seduction via a Darth Vader mask. She finds out [[Bed Trick|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.
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** At that time, tricking someone into sex by impersonation was only rape under California state law if it involved impersonating their spouse.
* [[Revival by Commercialization]]: [[Queen]]'s ''We Are The Champions''.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: The 'reinforcements' that accompany U. N. Jefferson when he comes to the aid of the Adams College Tri-Lambs.
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