Directed by: Todd Phillips
Starring: Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Seann William Scott, Luke Wilson, Juliette Lewis, Jeremy Piven, Elisha Cuthbert, Ellen Pompeo, Leah Remini
Genres: Comedy
Audio problem: When Will Ferrell breaks the glass with the hockey stick, the baby starts to cry, however you can see from the baby's face that it is not really crying. (00:14:30)
Audio problem: After Dean Pritchard spots the pledges jogging around campus, the Dean talks to his assistant. At the end of the scene, Dean Pritchard's voice says, "This is me leaving, this is me leaving." But it's the assistant who leaves, not Dean Pritchard. (00:39:30)
Plot hole: When they are being told they have failed the evaluation, the dean tells them, "Yes, you people did finish with 84%, but another one of your pledges finished with a zero in every category." It then goes on to state that this drops them down to 58%. For one pledge to bring them down 26% there would have to have been less than four pledges, including Blue, i.e. only three actually taking the evaluation.
Trivia: It is rumored that this was thought of by director Todd Philips as a comedic version of "Fight Club" (1999) and there are a few obvious references to it in the movie. Some include the basement wrestling match, the photocopying of club propaganda at work, the men appearing worn at work, the restaurant scene, and the behavior of the men during the initiation phase.
Question: At the end, the Dean has been arrested for bribery. Would the student who exposed him (Wang?) not have been expelled for accepting the bribe and abusing her position and shutting down a frat house?
Chosen answer: No. Because it could be viewed more as extortion than a bribe.