The student body pools its resources to defend Van against the charges before a university panel featuring, among others, VanвЂ™s collegiate adversary Professor McDougal (Paul Gleason), Deloris and Richard. As a result, Van is arrested for selling alcohol to minors and faces expulsion from Coolidge. Richard arranges to sabotage Van's latest party with Jeannie (Emily Rutherfurd), a member of a sister sorority by smuggling underaged children into the party and get them drunk, then call a campus police officer to the scene. Angry that Gwen dug into such personal details, Van disassociates himself with Gwen and takes a contemplative look at his life. Gwen accesses VanвЂ™s records from the Admissions & Records office while doing background work on her piece learning that Van has actively avoided graduating for the past seven semesters. Van and Richard exchange escalating pranks until it culminates in Van, Taj and VanвЂ™s roommate Hutch (Teck Holmes) replacing the cream filling of a batch of pastries with canine semen taken from VanвЂ™s English Bulldog Colossus. As he learns of GwenвЂ™s work with Van and suspects a growing bond between them, he moves to sabotage their prospective romance. GwenвЂ™s boyfriend, Richard вЂњDickвЂќ Bagg (Daniel Cosgrove), is a pre-medical student and the president of his fraternity Delta Iota Kappa. Van eventually agrees to sit down with Gwen for the follow-up piece. Though Van hates the article at first, he realizes it can be the 'cash cow' he needs to stay in school. Overhearing two of the Lambdas expressing their excitement over the partyвЂ™s success and their satisfaction with VanвЂ™s work, Gwen writes a story crediting Van as the host of the party. After a couple of attempts to get money fast, Van is approached by the Lambda Omega Omega fraternity, offering to pay him a thousand dollars to throw them a blowout party and boost their popularity. Her editor assigns her to get an вЂњunattainableвЂќ human interest story on Van Wilder. Gwen Pearson, though talented with her journalism for the school paper, they do not generate interest from the student body. After having sex with her, Deloris hands him the paperwork for an extension, which Van realizes he only needed to ask for in the first place. Faced with disenrollment due to unpaid tuition, Van seeks a payment extension from the registrar.

Upon learning that his son is still in school, VanвЂ™s father (Tim Matheson) decides to sever VanвЂ™s financial support.

With no ambition to graduate, Van spends his days driving around campus in his customized golf cart, posing nude for figure drawing classes, organizing soirees for his peers and interviewing for a new assistant, whom he eventually finds in the sexually repressed Taj Badalandabad (Kal Penn). Vance вЂњVanвЂќ Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) is a confident and cheeky-chappy seventh year senior at Coolidge College. A prequel, Van Wilder: Freshman Year, was released straight-to-DVD on July 14, 2009. Van tries various schemes to earn enough money to pay his tuition and graduate, with help from Gwen and the rest of the student body, except a couple of sinister enemies who attempt to sabotage his efforts.ДЄ sequel, Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, was released on December 1, 2006. Van Wilder gets stuck in the middle of a love triangle between Gwen and her mean-spirited boyfriend, Richard 'Dick' Bagg (Daniel Cosgrove) while struggling to graduate. This attracts the attention of Van's father, played by Matheson, which leads to his tuition being cut off. An article is then written for the campus newspaper by a fellow student, Gwen Pearson, played by Reid, bringing to light Van Wilder's college life. The film follows the misadventures of its lead character Van Wilder, a seventh year senior, who has made his life goal in helping undergrads at Coolidge College succeed in the future. National Lampoon's Van Wilder stars Ryan Reynolds as the title character alongside Tara Reid, Kal Penn, and Tim Matheson.

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