Everyone likes the idea of Revenge of the Nerds — the nerds beat the jockish frat boys who keep humiliating them — but this is one of those movies that is the subject of recent revisionist think pieces calling out its very ’80s blind spots on consent.
In one scene, our supposed hero, Lewis (Robert Carradine) has sex with sorority girl Betty Childs (Julie Montgomery) by wearing a mask to impersonate her boyfriend Stan (Ted McGinley). There’s also a sequence where the nerds install a hidden camera in a sorority house. These things are felonies, nerds.
While the film itself doesn’t apologize for these scenes, screenwriter Steve Zacharias has said he regrets them, and removed them when he sat down to write a musical adaptation of the film.
“I made it that Betty was thrown off the cheerleader squad because she flunked trigonometry and Lewis teaches her trigonometry and then… he reveals who he is and she wants to have sex with him. I also regret the video scene,” he told GQ in 2019.
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