PCU

Episode 200: PCU (1994)

Theme: Education Movies Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis celebrate a huge milestone — Episode 200! — by diving into PCU, a movie marriage of Old School + Entourage + the spirit of South Park, all tied together with House Party. It’s peak early-’90s mayhem: activist groups lining every sidewalk, Jeremy Piven aging in real time, Chris Young playing “Tom the Thread,” a seven-year senior running a dorm empire, and George Clinton accidentally uniting the entire campus because the Greyhound route clearly stops at Port Chester University. It’s chaotic, broad, weirdly prophetic, and absolutely a time capsule of what people thought college was like in 1994.

Join your two favorite “don’t wear the shirt of the band you’re going to see” podcasters as they unravel:

• The Pit — the non-frat frat house of misfits, Daves, and one man trying to prove the Kane/Hackman theory.

• Tom Lawrence, the most hated prospie in history, uniting 2,000 students simply by existing.

• Rand McPherson (David Spade), the perfect smarmy ’90s villain who weaponizes whining.

• The womenists, envirds, causeheads, afrocentrists, and every activist group Hollywood could imagine standing 10 feet apart.

• George Clinton showing up, using the restroom, and playing a campus party because why not?

From meatball warfare to beer-fetching odysseys to a bisesquicentennial meltdown featuring a rogue whooping crane, Oz and Curtis revisit a movie that skewers everyone equally — and somehow ends with the student body chanting, “We’re not gonna protest!”

Final Verdict

Oz — 6 Dozen Giant Meatballs
Curtis — 71 Cammies from The Great Outdoors
Both — Still wondering how the real bird handlers felt when Droz and Gutter stole their uniforms.