History Main / WackyFratboyHijinx

* In Creator/EdgarAllanPoe 's "William Wilson," the eponymous character is implied to be in an early form of one of these, and spends a lot of time drinking and gambling, and chasing women. (Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow.)

* The insane and ill-advised stunts on shows like ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' can lead to the suspicion that if they didn't start out as inane, humiliating and dangerous fraternity initiations, ''somewhere'' at ''some'' college in the United States, they would ''become'' so.

* ''TheSpellcastingSeries'' has this as part of the plot in the second and third games. The second game centers around the main character having to perform various hijinks as part of his frat initiation, while the third centers around the main character's frat competing against a frat from a rival university over who is king of the beach. The first game references this trope by having every frat on campus throwing a wild party every night.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' had them called to a college to deal with the ghosts of a spectacularly unruly fraternity seeking revenge against the college for expelling them. The Ghostbusters eventually tricked them into thinking that they could convince the dean to graduate them if they jumped through a few hoops, the last of which was to pose for a graduation photo on bleachers with traps planted underneath.

* Episode 40 of ''Series/BonusStage'' is about a fraternity (played by the cast of ''WebAnimation/{{Waterman}}'') moving into the house next door. The initiation ritual involves dragging one's bed outside and peeing in it wearing a dress. Joel apparently mishears and instead pees in ''their'' beds. Then there are the frat party games: "Extreme Spelling Bee", "Bingo Pac-Man", and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "Throw the Screwdriver at Someone's Face"]].

->''Hearts full of youth! Hearts full of truth!''
->''Six parts gin to one part vermouth!''
-->--'''Music/TomLehrer''', "Bright College Days"

* ''[[Film/{{Neighbors2014}} Neighbors]]''is a DeconstructiveParody of such, showing what they look like to other people.

* ''Neighbors'', known as ''Bad Neighbours'' in the UK, is about a fraternity lead by Creator/ZacEfron moving in next to a family with Creator/SethRogan and performing numerous pranks on the family, including stealing the airbags out of their cars and placing them in Seth's couch... and chair at work.

* At one point in '''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' the Toughs have to get information out of a computer center in a college library. While they're there, some frat boys decide to play a game of 'taunt the human'. Their leader gets the brilliant idea of punching a man who outweighs him roughly 3:1, all of it in muscle, starting a brawl in which the frat boys get clobbered.

* The SpikeTV series ''BlueMountainState'' lives on this.

* ''National Lampoon's Van Wilder''.

A movie in which much of the humor comes from fratboys [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy getting highly intoxicated and doing incredibly stupid, risky, and dangerous things]] and getting away with it. Usually has the main characters as a bunch of loveable rogues pitted against the evil [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocratic]] old money frathouses or oppressive [[DeanBitterman deans]]. Expect panty raids. Lots of panty raids.

May overlap with StonerFlick. Generally parallels with CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2. Almost always includes a WildTeenParty, with college officials replacing the parents. Often set at a StrawmanU. Compare AllGuysWantSororityWomen, the stereotyped portrayal of the fraternity's DistaffCounterpart, the sorority.

-->--'''TomLehrer''', "Bright College Days"

* ''AnimalHouse''

* ''RevengeOfTheNerds''.

* In ''EuroTrip'' a FiveManBand of four high school graduates go on a wacky hijinx tour of an amazingly stereotypical Europe, culminating in nothing less than (accidentally) faking the death of and impersonating the replacement for the ''pope'' on live international television. And getting away with it.

* ''{{College}}''.
* The genre got turned upside-down in ''SororityBoys''.

* In ''ThePaleKing'', the [[BloodyHilarious confrontation]] between Fat Marcus the Moneylender and Diablo the Left-Handed Surrealist.

* In EdgarAllanPoe 's "William Wilson," the eponymous character is implied to be in an early form of one of these, and spends a lot of time drinking and gambling, and chasing women. (Overlaps with WriteWhatYouKnow.)

* The ''HappyDays'' episode "Hard Cover" has Richie, Fonzie, and pals trapped in a girls' dorm after curfew with much hilarity ensuing.

* ''{{Greek}}'' deals with this quite often due to the rivalry between the Kappa Taus and Omega Chi (with each house separately embodying a different side of the frat stereotype, the slovenly party boys and the uptight preppies respectively).

* ''{{CSI}}'' had one or two storylines that started out as this and ended up with someone dead by the start of the episode.

* The [[RecycledTheSeries TV series version]] of ''AnimalHouse'': ''Series/DeltaHouse''.

* ''TheOnion'' parodies it with [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news/fraternity_in_danger_of_losing Fraternity In Danger Of Losing House Launches Hairbrained Scheme To Fix Economy]].

* The Delta Iota Omicron house in ''[[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude]]''.
* The fraternity households in ''[[TheSims The Sims 2 University]]'' certainly ''can'' be played this way, depending on the player's inclination, and some of the game mechanics (e.g. toga parties) are obviously meant to invite it.

* Episode 40 of ''Series/BonusStage'' is about a fraternity (played by the cast of ''{{Waterman}}'') moving into the house next door. The initiation ritual involves dragging one's bed outside and peeing in it wearing a dress. Joel apparently mishears and instead pees in ''their'' beds. Then there are the frat party games: "Extreme Spelling Bee", "Bingo Pac-Man", and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "Throw the Screwdriver at Someone's Face"]].
* One episode of ''TheRealGhostbusters'' had them called to a college to deal with the ghosts of a spectacularly unruly fraternity seeking revenge against the college for expelling them. The Ghostbusters eventually tricked them into thinking that they could convince the dean to graduate them if they jumped through a few hoops, the last of which was to pose for a graduation photo on bleachers with traps planted underneath.

* Parodied in a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode where Bender lives out this trope.

* ''{{Undergrads}}'': Rocko engages in various kinds of these, particularly odd hazing rituals, to the embarrassment of his fratmates.

* ''PCU'' - Though the protagonists weren't technically a frat (the bad guys were, even though frats had been banned, forcing them to become a secret society scheming to reclaim their old house from the riff raff)

* In ThePaleKing, the [[BloodyHilarious confrontation]] between Fat Marcus the Moneylender and Diablo the Left-Handed Surrealist.

* ThatsMyBush parodies this trope in an episode (A Poorly Executed Plan) by portraying George W. Bush's well-over-fifty year old friends as immature manchildren still engaging in stereotypical fratboy behavior.

* The [[RecycledTheSeries TV series version]] of ''AnimalHouse'': ''DeltaHouse''.

* Several Website/{{Cracked}} articles (usually about, surprise surprise, college) note that the people who thought college was the kind of party central seen in eighties movies (i.e., Cracked columnists) were ''very'' disappointed.

* ''ShreddedMoose'' attempts to mix this with vulgarity and gets {{Moral Event Horizon}}s.

* Likewise parodied in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', where Homer has to go [[BackToSchool back to college]] and complete his degree, and blindly assumes that college in real life is like college in the movies, going so far as to watch various ''AnimalHouse'' knock-offs as "research". [[WrongGenreSavvy It isn't.]]

** The irony is that Rocko is the only one that fills in the fratboy stereotype. His other fratmates don't go for drinking, ogling at girls, or pulling pranks (Well except for parties).
* Subverted in WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers. The guys in the underdog house think they're involved in a prank war with the popular house, but they're being tricked by a house alumni. The guys in the popular house spend their free time doing charity work.

* The fraternity households in ''[[TheSims The Sims 2 University]]'' certainly ''can'' be played this way, depending on the player's inclination, and some of the game mechanics (e.g. toga parties) certainly invite it.

* The fraternity households in [[TheSims The Sims 2 University]] ''can'' be played this way, depending on the player's inclination, and some of the game mechanics (e.g. toga parties) certainly invite it.

* The fraternity households in [[TheSims The Sims 2 University]] ''can'' be played this way, depending on the player's inclination, and some of the game mechanics (i.e. toga parties) certainly invite it.

May overlap with StonerFlick. Generally parallels with CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2. Almost always includes a WildTeenParty, with college officials replacing the parents. Often set at a StrawmanU. Compare AllGuysWantSororitySisters, the stereotyped portrayal of the fraternity's DistaffCounterpart, the sorority.

May overlap with THCTheater. Generally parallels with CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2. Almost always includes a WildTeenParty, with college officials replacing the parents. Often set at a StrawmanU. Compare AllGuysWantSororitySisters, the stereotyped portrayal of the fraternity's DistaffCounterpart, the sorority.

* ''MonstersUniversity''', even though it's the different frats competing against each other rather than causing mischief.

* In ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3 during Rarity's after party, involving a stallion with [[AnimalHouse Bluto's]] likeness, (he even has Delta Tau Chi as his cutie mark, Octavia and Pinkie.