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Freshman Fall (1996)

Rate: 6
Viewed: 6/24

FrFall
6/24: Whaddyaknow...Zack Morris rapes Danny Tanner's daughter.

The presented topic of Freshman Fall, aka She Cried No, is highly relevant in this day and age. Campus rape happens whenever alcohol is involved. It has been going on for so long that barely anyone gets in serious trouble for it. Just ask Brock Tanner of Stanford University who ended up getting light punishment (three months in jail), and he tried to have his convictions overturned afterwards. Woe betide anyone who's been raped by a high-profile athlete because the university will go so far to protect him.

Then, there are the fraternities which are the equivalent of street gangs. They and rape always go hand in hand. Right in the middle is alcohol. Sometimes, they spike drinks with date rape drugs such as GHB. Regardless of what they do, universities don't care about rape victims. Never have, and never will. When they get involved, it's about keeping the incident under wraps. Just get the assembly line moving, so they can continue to rake in the big bucks.

As for Zack Morris, he's a good-looking guy who has a decent chance with Danny Tanner's daughter. All he has to do is to take her out and get know to her more. In no time, they'll have sex. That's not so hard, hm? As a bonus, they can study together to get ready for the advanced calculus final exam.

By the way, it's interesting when Zack said to the girl's brother, "Where do you think I learned the game, huh? The trick about the dirty room. The drink tickets, jello shooters. The game, Mike, you taught me, you taught me everything." The implication is that Mike ran a house of rapists and that he's indirectly responsible for his sister's rape. What a stand-up guy Mike is, especially after he defended his frat "brothers" while not believing anything his sister said.

Unfortunately, the outcome in the film is unrealistic; it should've been over after the university hearing because Zack did get away with rape. That's the way it goes because there's no physical evidence. Instead, I'm shown tons of video footage for his comeuppance. Impossible. I had been to lots of college parties, but nobody ever recorded anything. Plus, the videotape of the hearing was supposed to be confidential.

By the way, I'm familiar with advanced calculus. That's actually differential equations they're teaching in class. I'm surprised to hear "the orthogonality of characteristic functions" at one point. That's not possible this early; it'll come almost at the end of the semester, just before the topic of Laplace Transforms is introduced. Besides, Danny Tanner's daughter will have to take Calculus I, II, and III before signing up for differential equations. Otherwise, the jump is too great, and no...having taken AP Calculus won't be good enough.

All in all, Freshman Fall is accurate except for everything that happened after the conclusion of the university hearing.