终身职位 (2009)

查理瑟伯是格雷大学的一位英语教授。今年他正争取获得终身职位，但最近目睹了好朋友、人类学教授杰伊申请终身职位受挫后，他也开始担心了。当英语系招募了一位性格的金发耶鲁英语教授后，查理变得更加担心了。(文：life_is_good@YDY)

Charlie Thurber (Luke Wilson) is an English professor at Gray College; he is up for tenure this year and, after recently witnessing his good friend and Anthropology professor Jay’s (David Koechner) tenure hopes get trampled, Charlie is concerned. Charlie’s worriment increases when the English department hires a hot blond English professor from Yale, Elaine Grasso (Gretchen Mol).

Still smarting from his failed attempt at tenure, Jay pitches in to help Charlie in his quest for tenure; however most of Jay’s plans (toilet-papering the Dean’s house, going to a student party while on ecstasy, chasing after Bigfoot) only prove to damage Charlie’s chances.

Charlie’s personal life is also in turmoil. He and his sister, Margarette (Sasha Alexander), recently put their forgetful father (Bob Gunton) in a nursing home; but their father is acting out (calling PBS telethons, running away) because he feels abandoned by his kids. As far as his romantic life is concerned – things are so bad that when Elaine invites him over for dinner, he resorts to taking a cue from his father and calling the PBS telethon for a date.