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H.O.T.S. (1979)

The mistreated and downtrodden college girls at FU University(..ha ha), picked on by the rich gals at the local sorority, decide to form their own little club, repairing a bedraggled and unkempt house, naming themselves H.O.T.S.(each letter named after the founding girls’ last names). This is where the two dueling sisterhoods battle for supremacy over the university jocks, initiating pranks and other humiliating methods against each other. The final showdown will be a striptease tag football game where once and for all the ultimate winner will be determined.

You get plenty of the usual familiar traits which accompany these kind of sex comedies, including plentiful nudity, tons of (less than subtle)sexual innuendo, sophomoric humor, the wet T-shirt contest, a cat fight, animal mascots, shenanigans involving the faculty, among other things. I’ve read that H.O.T.S. basically follows(..or is inspired by)National Lampoon’s Animal House, but it’s more in line with something like The Cheerleaders, basically young adults living it up like there’s no tomorrow, all smiles as beautiful boys and girls hook up, engaging in lasciviousness and immorality. Those at HOTS will do whatever it takes to make the grade and embarrass their rivals by any means possible.

You have bumbling mafioso escape convicts attempting to recover their loot inside the attic of the HOTS’ house, antics involving a hot air balloon, a kidnapped mascot bear who goes free invading the sorority’s headquarters, a “pleasantly plump” member of HOTS and her nerdy boyfriend, and Danny Bonaduce. You’d think Bonaduce would just have a glorified cameo, but his role is actually more extensive..he has his own band, is often the butt of a number of cruel(..but hilarious)jokes(..including a special smackerooni at a kissing booth, and a practical sex joke involving the HOTS’ mascot seal) and there’s some poking fun at his member.