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* [[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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* [[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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