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Up the Creek

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Up the Creek	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A 1984 comedy film, directed by Robert Butler and starring Tim Matheson of Animal House fame.Bob McGraw (Matheson) is in his 12th year of college, a loveable malcontent bouncing from one school to another (currently La Petomane University), coasting by with countless loans and showing no plans of graduating anytime soon... at least, not until he's escorted by campus security — along with his underachieving peers Irwin (Sandy Helberg), Gonzer (Stephen Furst), and Max (Dan Monahan) — to a clandestine meeting with Dean Burch (John Hillerman) one morning at dawn.Burch bemoans the school's lack of notoriety (apparently no student or alum of La Petomane has ever accomplished anything of note) and cites the four students, the bottom four in the university, as prime examples. He tells them about an upcoming annual intercollegiate raft race and issues an ultimatum: win the race and put the school on the map in exchange for immediate graduation with their degree of choice or lose and face expulsion for poor performance and respective shady dealings.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })It's not long before the foursome find themselves on their way to the big race, facing the likes of an unhinged Washington Military Institute squad, a snobbish team from Ivy University with designs to cheat their way to victory, and an all-female co-ed group led by requisite romantic interest Heather Merriweather (Jennifer Runyon). If you expect anything but hilarity to ensue you're probably watching the wrong movie.This gem of '80s cinematic wackiness is viewable in its entirety on YouTube starting here.
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Up the Creek / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Up the Creek / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The Ivy University team's modus operandi: bribe who you can, buy weaponry and gadgets to sabotage everyone else.
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Up the Creek / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Up the Creek / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: "La Petomane" translates to "the fartmaster" in French. Classy, movie. Real classy.
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Up the Creek / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Up the Creek / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: According to Dean Burch, La Petomane is known in the academic community as "Lobotomy U."
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Up the Creek / int_354f7d1c	type	TheresNoKillLikeOverkill
Up the Creek / int_354f7d1c	comment	There's No Kill Like Overkill: College students on rafts attacking one another with military-grade weaponry.
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Up the Creek / int_43971f6f	type	Everything's Better with Monkeys
Up the Creek / int_43971f6f	comment	Everything's Better with Monkeys: Irwin has a stuffed monkey named Mr. Mo-Mo.
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Up the Creek / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
Up the Creek / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Bob, by far the smoothest and most competent of the protagonists, is a human chimney.
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Up the Creek / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Up the Creek / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Gonzer.
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Up the Creek / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Up the Creek / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: College students on rafts attacking one another with military-grade weaponry.
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Up the Creek / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Up the Creek / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: Come on, this is a paint-by-numbers '80s underdog comedy. Do we really need to spoiler this one?
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Up the Creek / int_7f2427a6	type	Dawson Casting
Up the Creek / int_7f2427a6	comment	Dawson Casting: Before Dawson's Creek even existed, this movie cast actors aged 30 to 45 as college students. Fridge Brilliance: Bob's been in college for 12 years, which - barring advanced placement - would make him right about 30 years old. No excuse for the rest, though.
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Up the Creek / int_8cd097d1	type	River of Insanity
Up the Creek / int_8cd097d1	comment	River of Insanity: Bob keeps following the river despite it getting dangerous.
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Up the Creek / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
Up the Creek / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: No ugly people here.
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Up the Creek / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Up the Creek / int_b0cd3349	comment	Fridge Brilliance: Bob's been in college for 12 years, which - barring advanced placement - would make him right about 30 years old. No excuse for the rest, though.
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Up the Creek / int_b7413fda	type	Did the Earth Move for You, Too?
Up the Creek / int_b7413fda	comment	Did the Earth Move for You, Too?
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Up the Creek / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Up the Creek / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Bob's dog, Chuck; He shows above average intelligence and acts as though he understands Bob's every word. Bob treats him more like a teenage son than a pet, letting him run off into the forest unattended to commune with the local wolfpack.
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Up the Creek / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
Up the Creek / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: Every time the hero makes love to his new girlfriend, he asks her "Was it as good for for you as it was for me?" and she replies "No...", and then something happens to distract them. This happens three or four times, until at the end of the movie, when he asks the question she responds, "No, it was better."
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Up the Creek / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Up the Creek / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Dean Burch's plan: if Bob and company lose he's minus four trouble students. If they win he's minus four trouble students and the school finally gets some positive recognition.
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Up the Creek / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Up the Creek / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A rather unexpected one from Max while he derides Gonzer for overindulging in junk food:
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Up the Creek / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Up the Creek / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Bob's kept himself in college for over a decade by taking out loans in multiple aliases.
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Up the Creek / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Up the Creek / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Irwin. Our first shot of him has him sleeping in Superman bedsheets, wearing a onesie and toting a stuffed animal.
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Up the Creek / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Up the Creek / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Not so much in terms of characters as actors: Veterans of recent college sex romps Animal House (Stephen Furst and Tim Matheson) and Porky's (Dan Monahan) appeared as main characters here.
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Up the Creek / int_ec729d5d	type	Wild Wilderness
Up the Creek / int_ec729d5d	comment	Wild Wilderness: The whole movie takes place in a wilderness untouched by man, and no one else in boats has so much problems as Bob and his teammates do.
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Up the Creek / int_f5c6409a	type	Military Academy
Up the Creek / int_f5c6409a	comment	Military Academy: The Washington Military Institute.
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