James Cromwell Mr. Skolnick as Mr. Skolnick as Jamie Cromwell. Bernie Casey U. Jefferson as U. Alice Hirson Mrs. Lowe as Mrs. William Parker Sergeant as Sergeant.
Jeff Kanew. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. When lovable nerds Gilbert and Lewis embark on their freshman year at Adams College, little do they realize the dangers that await them.
They are beset by taunting from the jocks of Alpha Beta fraternity, which only worsens when the jocks accidentally burn down their house and toss the freshmen out of the freshmen dorm.
To make matters more problematic, Lewis develops a crush on pretty Betty Childs, popular sorority sister and quarterback's girlfriend. Joined by the aptly named Booger and the violin-playing Poindexter, the nerds soon realize they must form their own fraternity in self-defense.
Soon the tables are turned as the nerds employ high-tech warfare against the jocks They've been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even! Their time has come! Did you know Edit. Trivia James Cromwell has said that when he came up with the nerd laugh, after the other actors imitated it, he later realized - while driving home from the studio on the first day of production - it was his ex-wife's laugh.
When she steps onto "the moon" the heels are missing. If the heels were present, they would have punctured surface. Quotes Stan Gable : [to Booger] What are you looking at, nerd? Crazy credits The title appears on screen immediately following the 20th Century Fox logo, before the Fox Fanfare concludes.
According to Tulsaworld. This is me. I don't get offered Arnold Schwarzenegger roles. While Michelle Meyrink was cast as Lewis' girlfriend Judy in the film, several now-famous actresses auditioned for the role. Armstrong originally read for the part of Gilbert, which went to Anthony Edwards. When Armstrong was asked to read for the part of Booger, he was still reluctant to do so. He told his actor friend Bronson Pinchot that they "could forget it. I'm not picking my nose on camera for anyone.
Also confirmed in the Panty Raid DVD edition commentary is the rampant improvisation that took place on the set of the film. Poindexter's infamous agonized scream as he watches the Beta's undress in their dorm was ad-libbed by Timothy Busfield.
The running gag between him and Takashi playing cards and mispronouncing words were done on the fly when the actors' cots were accidentally placed next to each other. A major subplot from the film was excised from the final cut, in which the Lambdas travel to Las Vegas to attend the Tri-Lambda national convention.
When I look at it now with some distance, I realize all I was doing was writing about myself. The film tested well in Las Vegas—an 85—but when the Fox executives took the movie to Dallas, the number dipped.
The movie scored in the 60s, which caused Fox to cut marketing for the film and only release it on screens. At the time, the character was named Lipschultz, after the prop guy.
Anthony Edwards told The A. After two weeks of filming in the fall of , a Revenge of the Nerds remake stopped production. I get teary thinking about it, and you could certainly make an argument that that was the beginning of embracing nerd culture by everybody. BY Garin Pirnia.
Greek officials at the University of Arizona objected to the movie being filmed on their campus. The set was one big party. Curtis Armstrong knew it would be a good movie, even though his character wasn't fully fleshed out. The scenes between Booger and Takashi were improvised. Lambda Lambda Lambda exists in real life.
Booger's belch came from a camel.
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