Zac Efron decisively ditches his squeaky clean High School Movie persona for one as a red-blooded horndog with this week's That Awkward Moment, an R-rated adventure in the grand tradition of '80s sex comedies. That Efron's latest can't hold a candle to those hormonally charged classics isn't an enormous surprise, since as the past two decades have shown, making a boisterous sex romp takes more than just a handful of pimply actors and some women eager to flash their wares for the camera. Nonetheless, in honor of Efron's noble effort at rekindling this hallowed big-screen T&A tradition, and with no due respect to American Pie — which, Stifler notwithstanding, remains the most overrated of such endeavors — we present the fifteen all-time greatest teen sex comedies. With GIFs, naturally.

Meatballs (1979)

Ivan Reitman and Bill Murray's movie careers were jumpstarted by this 1979 gem, in which Murray stars as the head counselor at a low-rent summer camp, where he mentors — and is aided in his own quest for love by — a lonely nerd. Though not quite as out-and-out raunchy as its sequels (the best of which is Meatballs III), it's nonetheless an amusingly juvenile slice of sex-charged silliness.

H.O.T.S. (1979)

Headlined by three Playboy Playmates — and Danny Bonaduce! — H.O.T.S. follows a group of sexy college girls who form their own sorority in order to steal their rivals' boyfriends. Which they do, while wearing tight-fighting shirts with the film's title emblazoned across their oft-bouncing chests.

Porky's (1982)

Set in the '50s but defined by a distinctive '80s mix of slapstick-y humor and boing!-style gratuitous nudity, Porky's set the template that the rest of the decade's likeminded movies would slavishly follow. Inane, immature, and less than flattering to women, it stands as an almost pitch-perfect look into the mind of a pubescent boy.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

The less moronic counterpart to Porky's, Fast Times at Ridgemont High made a star out of Sean Penn, confronted teen romance — and the serious consequences it can sometimes entail — with both comedy and sobriety, and bestowed a generation with its signature cinematic wet dream in the figure of Phoebe Cates exiting a pool.

Weird Science (1985)

John Hughes's under-appreciated '80s effort plays out like a long-form episode of Amazing Stories, with its story — about teen friends Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith successfully creating Kelly LeBrock with their computer — proving to be the ideal teen fantasy for the budding high-tech age.

Risky Business (1983)

Tom Cruise's glide across the hardwood floor still stands as one of the genre's iconic sights, though it has somewhat overshadowed the fact that the film itself remains a rollicking saga of what happens when you leave a teenage boy at home, alone, with access to a Porsche and a call girl who looks like Rebecca De Mornay.

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

Delivering gratuitous nudity amid a class-warfare stand-off between college geeks and frat boys, Revenge of the Nerds not only made sexual hijinks seem sweet — because hey, who doesn't want to see the underdog score? — but did so while also providing a cast of cartoon characters (Booger!) as well as an unforgettable NERRRRRRDS!-hating villain in Donald Gibb's Ogre.

Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)

Serving up sexscapades on the ski slopes, Hot Dog... The Movie is a reasonably junky affair (albeit one that made considerable money during its theatrical release) that's elevated to sex-comedy greatness via the participation of the woman, the legend, the all-time Skinemax queen herself, Shannon Tweed.

Zapped! (1982)

Such a perfect pair that they'd subsequently team up for TV's Charles in Charge, Scott Baio and Willy Ames find their lives turned upside down in Zapped! when Baio's nerd acquires telekinetic powers, thus allowing him to get revenge on bullies and check out what's going on beneath school beauties' shirts, which is... boobs.

Screwballs (1983)

Screwballs might be the purest distillation of the teen-sex comedy, given that its plot concerns four boys' efforts to see the most popular girl in school's breasts. The Seventh Seal this is not, but for shameless T&A titillation, it may be the least pretentious of the entire, wholly unpretentious horndog bunch.

Losin' It (1983)

Before he became a teen pin-up icon with Risky Business, Tom Cruise was looking to eradicate his virginity in Losin' It, a rollicking romp (directed by L.A. Confidential's Curtis Hanson) in which Cruise and his buddies team up with Shelly Long on their way to Tijuana to find hookers who will deflower them.

Private Resort (1985)

Like Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp also made early cinematic in-roads by starring in a teen-sex comedy, in his case Private Resort, the actor's leading-man debut, in which he costars with Rob Morrow (and Andrew Dice Clay) as a teen trying to score with the ladies, as well as deal with a jewel thief, at a ritzy Miami resort.

Ski School (1990)

Ski School provides another sterling vehicle for the goofy comedic stylings of Dean Cameron, who — coming off his breakout role in 1987's Summer School, and ahead of his syndicated TV show, They Came from Outer Space — gets into all sorts of amusing T&A-centric shenanigans while battling a bunch of preppy adversaries in a skiing competition.

The Girl Next Door (2004)

A fantasy straight out of a Howard Stern segment, The Girl Next Door gets solid mileage out of its story of a high-school goody two-shoes (Emile Hirsch) who winds up falling in love — and attending the prom — with a glamorous former porn star (Elisha Cuthbert). Toss in Timothy Olyphant as Cuthbert's former boyfriend (and producer), and you've got the rare modern sex comedy to get both the sex and comedy quotients right.

Superbad (2007)

The best modern-day teen-sex comedy, Superbad simultaneously delivers raunchy sex-related mayhem and a touching portrait of both male friendship and the difficult transition from high school to college. Buoyed by Jonah Hill and Michael Cera's odd-couple rapport, it's the new century's gold standard in sex-charged teen misadventures. Which is quite the standard to uphold.

Honorable Mention:

Wet Hot American Summer (2001), the apex of teen-sex comedy parodies.

Nick Schager Nick Schager is a NYC-area film critic and culture writer with twenty years of professional experience writing about all the movies you love, and countless others that you don’t.

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