Bobby Beresford and Mark Szasz the selfappointed Knights Templar of the Code of Buddyhood are undergraduates at the University of Oklahoma in 1979 There couldnt be a more unlikely pair of best friends Bobbys cautious social ineptitude and romantic fumblings offset Marks flamboyant devilmaycare attitude his irrepressible pranks and his prowess with shapely coeds But the cardinal rule of the CodeA buddy does not move in on another buddys girlrequires Bobby to watch quietly as Mark makes time with Annie the woman of Bobbys dreams Mark and Bobbys college exploits include crashing frat parties arranging elaborate double dates that at least for Bobby go disastrously and hilariously wrong and shuttling a decomposing corpse across campus But inevitably the girl they both love becomes a wedge that divides the buddies not only during their college days but well into the future