Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the nerds' revenge in its crudest form, a prank the film plays for laughs and which now looks like the point at which the film's sympathies get complicated. Fans quote the two words as a gag shout at any sudden invasion of privacy or a messy room being raided, and the scene is one of the best-known items of 1980s teen-comedy raunch.
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In context
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In Revenge of the Nerds (1984), the Alpha Betas and their sister sorority Pi Delta Pi have wrecked the nerds' party by letting pigs loose in the house. Stung, the nerds decide that they must retaliate or be the nerds everyone says they are. They sneak into the Pi Delta Pi house, with a periscope and cameras, while Betty and Suzy are chatting in a room about how funny the evening was. The cry of a panty raid rings out, the nerds burst in grabbing underwear and the cameras roll as the women scream. The footage is later used against the Alpha Betas' Stan, whose girlfriend Betty features in it.
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- Springfield! Springfield! Revenge of the Nerds scriptretaliation sequence after the pig prankReference checked
- Wikipedia, Revenge of the Nerdsplot summaryReference checked
- Wikiquote, Revenge of the Nerdspie-selling sceneReference checked
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