Watched Revenge of the Nerds and Revenge of the Nerds II yesterday.
I find it interesting to look at cultural commentary from 1984.
At that point, anyone who wasn't pretty and preppy was a "nerd:" geeks, foreigners, those with disabilities, gay people, stoners . . .
It's also interesting to see how the second wave of feminism hadn't yet trickled through into mass media. Women were trying to assert themselves as equal, but their attempts at intelligent conversation and dominance of social situations is parodied as failure.
Speaking of nerds . . . there's a bunch in this office.
One came into the library today to inform me that I was allowed to LEAVE the library if I wanted to (like there's anything for me to do elsewhere). And then thought it was incredibly funny to make the joke that I was chained to my desk.
Another arrived to find out what books I got yesterday, because he'd been thinking about them since that time. He then remarked that it must be "exciting" to receive piles of new books every day.
Not that it isn't actually exciting and I'm just as nerdy as these two. But it's funny to see so many dorky people concentrated in one area.
Posted by Ally at January 7, 2009 08:29 AMThe original revenge of the nerds has to be one of my favourite movies. Tons of memorable scenes, drunken tricycle race, hi-tech panty raid, hair pie, moon sex, the tri-lams...
Posted by: Todd at January 7, 2009 11:20 AMYeah, and we get MovieTime on satellite, so it was wholly uncensored.
Andy was happy to see the boobs.
Posted by: Alio at January 7, 2009 11:36 AM