Agreed. It may all go back to the likes of Porkys, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, and Fast…

Reflecting as someone who both lived in this time then saw the entire medium evolve, I think that the American Pie series didn’t just result in the end of the teen sex comedy (which it actually briefly rebirthed). It actually changed storytelling across a series, and set the stage for the huge wave of reboot culture that would come.
From the Death of the Teen Sex Comedy to Reboot Culture: The American Pie Quadrology
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Simon Dillon
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Agreed. It may all go back to the likes of Porkys, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, and Fast Times and Ridgemont High, but American Pie definitely led to the likes of Superbad and so forth.
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