Disney-ABC Family Original Productions, Piller/Segan Company
I've gotta thank 'Feet' for recommending that I watch Greek. She confessed that everything she knows about Fraternity and Sorority life she learned from the ABC Family series, created by Patrick Sean Smith, which ran 4 seasons from 2007-2011.
Greek digs into the college life of new Freshman arrival, Rusty Cartwright, his popular ZBZ sister, Casey, his KT big brother and her ex, Cappie, and their friends, roommates, brothers and sisters who all attend Cypress-Rhodes University–mostly on Fraternity Row, usually at a mixer, often battling it out over intramural sports (or beer pong), and strictly during afternoon classes.
Rusty enters Greek life in the hopes of shedding his former nerdy self and to finally learn how to let go and have fun. While Greek life attempts to corrupt the innocent pledge, Rusty, AKA 'Spitter,' he instead acts as the wise Jiminey Cricket to Casey, to get out of her social climbing head, and to Cappie, to accept a world beyond the KT house. He also learns how to drink tequila, make it rain beer and find a girlfriend, all while keeping up his honors engineering GPA.
I like the escapism of staying up till the wee hours at the latest themed mixer, talking it out on the KT rooftop, and the excitement of the unknown that lies ahead. While the ZBZ house often is a bit too pink and Aqua Net for my taste, I have no problem idling the hours away at the KT house–even with its fragrance of stale beer, feet, and Cheeseritos. I'd have no problem discussing philosophy in lawn chairs with Calvin, getting drunk in an empty canoe with Dale, building Mount Vesuvius with Rusty, or contemplating life's greater questions over a game of pool with Cappie.
While the fictional Ohio University and all of its inhabitants must remain in my syndicated dreams, over here in reality, I'll recreate Cypress-Rhodes local haunt, Dobbler's, with Carolina Lair’s I’m Not Over You Just Yet on repeat while dancing around my apartment. There's no End of the World party flyer on the wall, nor a bid night bar fight breaking out, but it'll do. Oh Greek, I raise my red solo cup to you. I'm so not over you just yet.