Greek night on "UNDECLARED"

[Pike4Life]

OK everyone:

The Fox television show "Undeclared" about college life is making its jump into the Greek Life!

It should be interesting to see how the television producers portray fraternities and sororities on the show -- if the promo's are accurate, we can probably expect the same, lame-ass, stereotypical rich frat boy and ditzy sorority girl images that many of us work so hard to discard and change!

I predict scenes of massive alcohol consumption, hazing, elitism, huge parties, inconsequential sexual conquests, and all the other "wonderful" things that the media thinks reflects today's Greek Community!

The official TV listing for this episode says:
Undeclared
This week, Steven
considers joining a
frat much to his
friends' dismay. Plus,
Lizzie's joining the
Little Sisters? What
the heck is
happening at
U.N.E.C.?

Check your local listings, but UNDECLARED comes on TONIGHT, Tuesday, at 8:30 p.m.

Thoughts, critiques and general complaints shall be registered about the show, probably immediately following the credits!

You beat me , before I could write it. I agree this should be interesting though and I cant wait to see it. From reason though, I dont think it will be that bad.

[maggieaxid]

Yes, after we watched the commercial for it last night, my non-greek boyfriend asked me what the heck did "boob with a bow tie" ment. I had to explain what a theta looked like which ended up being a whole conversation about the greek alphabet, wich then led to "well why can't you people just use the regular alphabet!"....thats when i gave up.

[juniorgrrl]

I've been LMAO at "boob with a bow tie" since I saw the promo

[AlphaGam1019]

What's new in TV land? Positive things about greeks are rare!

[Optimist Prime]

I heard they had people in Theta Chi letters on that show.

[KarenC725]

My boyfriend had a field day with that comment! He wanted to know why I had to be in a house that had "normal" letters. For the record, I think that show is extremely stupid so I won't be surprised by anything they do.

[Parsifal]

I saw a preview for this last week, and I think it might be entertaining enough to warrant missing an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
It's so sad, because I know that I could write a great sorority rush episode. It would show the posititve side of Greek life, for once. All the TV people care about is showing people getting drunk, hazed, etc.

[maggieaxid]

so did anyone else watch it?

I thought it was so rediculous... i wasn't offended (but it takes a lot for me to get pissed about something like that.)

What did you all think?

[Beef]

Yeah, that was pretty weak...

Some parts werent much beyond the truth though. I thought the most retarded part was the intro with the 2 dads....

The friends came across as some pretty big morons though.

[BrianMUDU]

I saw it -- very very corny.

[Pike4Life]

Ok, so the episode wasn't quite as bad as I had thought it COULD have been...although it did rehash many of those tired old stereotypes.

I thought the fraternity rush scenes were fairly close to reality - all the guys trying to "sell" their house to the rushees using the standard freshman attracters of women, parties and the ubiquitous promise of "brotherhood".

I thought it was hilarious to hear the Theta Delta Zetas use the "80% of all Fortune 500 CEOs are fraternity men" line!! Who among us hasn't heard that stat (or others like it) from someone during our time in Greek Life?!?!

But the fraternity characters are pretty much the cookie cutter stereotypes - rich, snobby, jocks, pretentious and elitist.

The opinion of Steven's roommates was, I thought, a standard and common reaction that many Independents have when a friend makes the choice to join or get involved without them.

The whole "Little Sister" thread was a bit weak...except for using them in Rush...which made me recall a few memories of when we used to have Little Sisters pick up rushees at their dorms. But the fake, ditzy way the girls relate to each other was pretty lame...I don't know many sorority girls (which these girls were not exactly supposed to be) that act that way.

I think the show could have used more of an actual sorority atmosphere for the girls to explore instead of the Little Sister group, which as we all know from other threads on the GC, are mostly illegal!

It seems that next week's episode will delve into the HAZING aspect of the Theta's. Gee, I can't wait.....

some parts funny, most not ( i fell asleep for like 10 mins). But like Pike said....cant wait to see what kind of hazing is done. When I saw the last part i was like, great, here we go...

[SSS1365]

It was funny, although disgustingly stereotypical. I found it annoying how they made it look like all a "sorority" is is a group of fraternity little sisters!

[curiouss]

Hmm, I wouldn't mind tuning in on that.