In the end, it's a feel good revenge movie and college sex romp (see: a panty raid with the latest in 80s technology leads to a legendary line involving our current President's last name) rolled into one. It enthralled me as a youngster growing up in the go-go Reagan 80s, and I still love it today.

And, to top it all off, it contains a classic montage replete with inspirational power chords in which the nerds fix up their dilapidated house. You get to see a robot painting a wall. I mean, what's funnier than that?

#1
PCU (1994)
There are several reasons why PCU is the greatest Campus Comedy of all time. It's got a cast of great and emerging stars and it effectively digs at an emerging/disturbing world of political correctness in which it's off limits to poke fun of anyone or anything. But most of all, it's a consistently funny and entertaining film.

You get to a very subjective point at this stage of a countdown, and it really starts to come down to pure kick-assedness. And this one does just that.

Jeremy Piven is just about perfect as Droz, the Party Maestro with Attitude. He makes asides about his "fifth sophomore year," sells term papers out of his dorm room (located in The Pit, the center of activities for most of the film) — though he scoffs at those who come looking for help in such areas as Sanskrit (a five-thousand year old dead language?) and Phys Ed (okay, that's it, you're out of my room, get out). Through a practical joke beset upon him by Alex Desert (the This place is dead anyway guy from Swingers) he's paired for a weekend by perspective freshman and disaster prone Chris Young.

The match allows Piven to show Young and the audience an extraordinary satire of modern collegiate life: diversity pushed to such extremes that no one outside their own niche talks to each other anymore coupled with a stifling of setting one's feet or mouth outside those strict boundaries.

We meet David Spade, in one of his best roles, as Rand McPherson, head of the fraternity that sets heritage dating back to The Mayflower as one of its terms of entry. There's also Moonbeam, a girl so intent upon protest that she carries a spare placard and magic marker wherever she roams. Then there's the Womynists, who enjoy chanting such protest songs as Hey Hey Ho Ho This Penis Party's Got to Go, and the ultimate pot hazed Jerry Garcia-worshipping Ultimate Frisbee team.

Finally, there's The Pits' gang of wacky outsiders, including the great Jon Favreau in an early role as Gutter, the guy who wears the concert tee-shirt displaying the name of the band he's going to see live (PCU & DB Note: Don't be that guy) and someone named Pigman, who is forced to watch television throughout most of the film so that he can complete his thesis, which turns out to be the Cain-Hackman theory... which basically means that there's always a Michael Cain or Gene Hackman movie on. As it's explained to the "pre-frosh": You can major in GameBoy if you know how to bullshit.