Revenge of the Nerds: Difference between revisions

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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]].
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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.
{{quote|--'''Lewis''': All jocks ever think about is sports. All we [nerds] ever think about is sex.}}
** 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''.