Old School

Revealing mistake: When Frank shoots himself with the dart gun and he falls in the pool, you can see a weight belt through his blue robe. (00:53:50)

Revealing mistake: When the b.j. instructor gives Frank the black eye, Frank has a bandage on his neck where the dart will strike.

Revealing mistake: When Frank shoots himself with the trank gun you can see that he is wearing a prosthetic neck piece with the dart in it.

Revealing mistake: The shot of Luke Wilson rushing through a corridor of an unnamed airport to catch a plane (the name of the town/airport is never mentioned)- they show him rushing down a corridor of the "airport" which is actually a corridor in the LA Convention Center - the sign showing "South Hall," "Kenetia Hall", etc. is visible in the background.

Revealing mistake: When Frank and the Dean are falling down the stairs in the classroom, the stunt double for Frank has short brown hair with yellow highlights, which is quite noticeably not Frank's hair type.

Revealing mistake: When Will Ferrell is drunk on stage talking about streaking and bends over, the students watching the screen are grossed out. The assumption is he is nude. However, when he starts running off the stage through the crowd you eventually see below his waist, and he is wearing underwear.

Gluck

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.

megamelv

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Mitch: Wow. Cheese. Is that you?
Dean Pritchard: Hello, Mitch. Bernard. I see you guys haven't changed much.
Beanie: Who's this guy?
Mitch: Beanie, you remember Cheese, Rodney's kid brother?
Dean Pritchard: Actually, my name's not Cheese anymore. It's Gordon Pritchard.
Beanie: Oh, yeah. Cheeeeeese. Yeah, didn't we lock you in a dumpster one time?
Dean Pritchard: Yea, I got out.
Beanie: Cool man. Good. Glad you did.

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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.

T Poston

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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?

The_Iceman

Chosen answer: No. Because it could be viewed more as extortion than a bribe.

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