# Identify this 80s Beach comedy fo me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-80s-beach-comedy-fo-me/812184 "2018-04-10T21:11:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-80s-beach-comedy-fo-me/812184/1 "2018-04-10T21:11:48Z")
A post in the “do characters doing bad things in movies make the movies bad” thread made me think of a low budget beach comedy I saw as a kid in the 80s. I thought it was “Spring Break”, but it doesn’t seem to match my memories. The Plot: Two cool college frat boys go on spring break with their stereotypical-nerd fraternity brother because his rich father has promised to install a Jacuzzi and sauna in their house if they do. While there, one of the guys competes with a guy from a rival frat to have sex with a beautiful woman they meet. Both guys fail their attempts at seduction, resort to trickery and cheating, and eventually the nerd “wins” by treating her with respect and caring about her as a person. If my memories are correct, this may be a rare example of an 80s teen sex comedy that treats women as more that prizes to be won. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-80s-beach-comedy-fo-me/812184/2 "2018-04-10T21:14:56Z")
Possibly Fraternity Vacation? > **[Fraternity Vacation (1985) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089167/?ref_=kw_li_tt)** > > Fraternity Vacation: Directed by James Frawley. With Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye, Leigh McCloskey. Theta Pi Gamma fraternity's newest pledge--a gawky, innocent, and utterly uncool bookworm--and two of his self-confident... I found it with IMDB keywords. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-80s-beach-comedy-fo-me/812184/3 "2018-04-10T21:15:50Z")
And there you go. My google-fu is weak today. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-80s-beach-comedy-fo-me/812184/4 "2018-04-10T22:49:35Z")
With Tim Robbins, Britt Eklund, and the dad from “ALF”!