The Best College Comedy Ever Gets Kept Off Streaming

By Robert Scucci
| Published 36 seconds ago

The early aughts brought us a deluge of college party movies like Van Wilder of the National Lampoon a Old Schoolbut I’m here to tell you that you’re doing yourself an incredible disservice if you’ve never seen 1994’s PCUwhich is by far the best film in the genre. Offers nothing more than a simple “we need to throw an epic party to save our house” plot line. PCU establishes its premise without patronizing its audience, and has no room for throwaway jokes due to its tight 79-minute running time.

Movie like PCU such a simple premise shouldn’t be dismissed as mindless entertainment, however, because sometimes we all just need a quick romance through the quad while a bunch of vegan protesters try to run us out of town after being assaulted with over 100. pounds of raw meat.

Politically Correct University

PCU stands for the University of Port Chester, but quickly became an acronym for Politically Correct University according to Jeremy Piven’s James “Droz” Andrews. Droz is one of those guys you’d like to have a beer or 12 with, but not the kind of person you’d want to establish any kind of meaningful relationship with because he’s an agent of chaos and a loose cannon who just want it. to party his face off. In his seventh year of college, Droz has an ax to grind against each of the “case heads” who latch onto whatever social issue happens to be the flavor of the week, resulting in a litany of complaints against his group of fellow students. called “The Pool.”

When Tom Lawrence (Chris Young) visits PCU as a freshman, he is caught in the middle of a years-long feud between The Pit, and their elegantly named rival group, the “Balls and Shaft, ” which are led by an insufferable preppie named Rand McPherson (David Spade). Although Tom only visits PCU, he quickly makes enemies because he always appears in the wrong place at the wrong time, and is extremely accident prone. Despite his innate ability to tick everyone off, especially after an accidental accident in the computer lab while everyone is worrying about their theses, Droz takes Tom under his wing and shows him what it’s like college life really.

On the University President’s Bad Side

The primary conflict in PCU featuring Rand’s desire to sabotage The Pit while simultaneously bringing Greek Life back to campus. In a previous timeline, the frat house occupied by The Pit used to be the residence of Balls and Shaft, but The Pit refuses to leave because it is their party headquarters. Working with University President Garcia-Thompson (Jessica Walter), Rand collects all the complaints against The Pit, as well as the damage bill from the previous semester, totaling over $7,000.

If The Pit can’t pay the damage bill and answer for their petty crimes, they will be kicked out of the house and expelled from school.

Party Your Way Out Of This One

As you would imagine, there is a rest PCU revolves around Droz, Gutter (Jon Favreau), and Mullaney (Alex Desert) decides to throw a rampage to end all the ragers in order to raise money and pay the damage bill while offending as many people as possible in the process. Meanwhile, Tom inadvertently (and continually) makes more enemies across campus as the film progresses.

After its initial establishment, PCU is a crash course in stealing beer from rival dorms, disrupting campus protests for fun when the opportunity arises, and using the Starland Vocal Band as a form of psychological torture if you know how to use a steering wheel lock as a means of trapping your objects in a stuffy banquet room.

But it may be the most important piece of advice you can get PCU is to never, under any circumstances, wear the shirt of the band you’re going to see.

Unlikely Double Feature

Alone, PCU is a solid, carefree party film about a rag tag group of miscreants who annoy everyone on campus as their main form of entertainment. But if you really want to see our hero, Droz, get a taste of his own medicine, I highly recommend you watch PCU before 2003 Old School and treat the latter as a sequel set in an alternate universe where Jeremy Piven plays Dean Gordon “Cheese” Pritchard, who finds himself on the receiving end of the same kind of chaos.

Unfortunately, this masterpiece of dry comedy is not streaming anywhere, so you’ll have to find a DVD if you want to see what PCU relating to.