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Vice Condemns Comedy Classic, Insults Fans: 'Animal House Will Never Die...Should It?'
newsbusters.org ^ | 7/29/2018 | Clay Waters

Posted on 07/30/2018 8:14:37 AM PDT by rktman

From the “Liberals Spoil Everything” department, where everything is a problem, here’s Vice writer Harry Cheadle: “Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of 'Animal House' by Tossing It in the Trash -- Drunken frat boys don't seem so charming anymore, and the film's gender politics are 'xxxxx'd' beyond repair.”

From his 2018 perch, Cheadle tears into the offensive, vulgar, and extremely hilarious college comedy hit for its lack of wokeness:

It’s difficult to imagine what it was like when Animal House dropped into theaters on July 28, 1978, exactly 40 years ago. It landed like the opening of a revolution and spread through the country like a virus, eventually grossing over $500 million in today's dollars and becoming part of the DNA of every campus comedy for the next few decades....Animal House will never die. The question is, should it?

After listing the antics of John Belushi’s character, Cheadle quickly got to the more “problematic” scenes, while insulting fans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: animalhouse; comedic; hollywood; irreverence; moviereview
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To: rktman

read yesterday they are showing a “cleaned up” version of Blazing Saddles.


101 posted on 07/30/2018 10:17:49 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Clutch Martin

“tis all a matter of taste (said the lady who kissed the cow)...”


102 posted on 07/30/2018 10:21:32 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rktman

Another good example of Liberalism coming full circle is Porky’s. The kids were fun-loving liberal kids who wanted to “explore” their sexuality just like any other normal, non-repressed liberal person would. They were up against the lunatic, Bible-spouting Evangelical reverend and the prudish church lady. The audience clearly knew who the villains were — those prudish, repressed conservative Christian types whose only goal in life was to stop anyone from having “fun” and who would faint at the simple mention of sex of the sight of a naked woman. These days, the reverend and church lady would be school counselors and their goal still would be to stop the kids from having sex. But they’d be portrayed as the heroes.


103 posted on 07/30/2018 10:26:33 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: rktman

While “Animal House” and similar aren’t may cup of tea, they are nowhere as offensive as libs who hate everything.


104 posted on 07/30/2018 10:42:38 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

:-) Well, there is that. LOL!


105 posted on 07/30/2018 10:43:23 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!


106 posted on 07/30/2018 10:46:25 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: mrsmel

Zasu Pitts appears in so many of the old comedies too. She really did well after the silent movies when the talkies came around in the 1930s.


107 posted on 07/30/2018 10:50:39 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: mrsmel

We cut the cable too. Have Roku, Slingbox, Netflix and Amazon Prime. Our free Hulu trial is about to expire.

I can’t believe all those services cost at least half of what we were paying for cable.

I’m really into food shows. I loved Ugly Delicious and Better Feed Phil. Cooking and eating delicious food are a passion of mine.


108 posted on 07/30/2018 10:52:32 AM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: rktman
Tsk, tsk, my fellow Freepers. Cheadle is in the right here. After all, John Belushi was a known and serial cultural appropriator from wayback and that is a serious Bozo no-no in Wokeland.

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109 posted on 07/30/2018 10:52:38 AM PDT by Dahoser
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To: DesertRhino

Thanks...
You wrote what I was thinking.


110 posted on 07/30/2018 11:28:40 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: NorthMountain

“Only a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit would ask that question.”

Don’t hold back. How do you really feel?


111 posted on 07/30/2018 11:32:08 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: bert

it has been 54 years since we lived together.


Even though it came out in the late 70s, I always thought it was really about college in the 60s. The dead horse prank was talked about, not actually done, on my campus in the mid 60s. Freshmen were supposed to wear beanies, etc. etc.


112 posted on 07/30/2018 11:51:14 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: rktman

Ramming speed!!!!


113 posted on 07/30/2018 11:52:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Keyga8tor

I was widowed 14 years ago and had 2 young sons at the time. As such, my sons were raised on the good stuff like this.

Fast forward to today. My oldest son is in college at Morehead State University and stayed there this summer to work a job he enjoys at a liquor store there. There is a film crew in Morehead this summer making a movie of some kind. My son is in the store one night and Bruce McGill (D-Day) walks in. My son shakes his hand and says “D-Day!”.

He said McGill was very surprised and pleased that my son knew who he was. :-)


114 posted on 07/30/2018 11:54:48 AM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: katana
"Why sure!"

I remember that line mostly for the "studiously casual" way it was delivered. Just his tone was enough to make me bust a gut laughing.

115 posted on 07/30/2018 12:09:19 PM PDT by Company Man (SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED)
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To: rktman


Otter: Mine's bigger than that.
Mrs. Wormer: I beg your pardon?
Otter: My cucumber, it's bigger. Vegetables can be really sensuous, don't you think?
Mrs. Wormer: No. Vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous.
Otter: Right. "Sensual. " That's what I meant.
116 posted on 07/30/2018 12:11:16 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: GreenHornet
We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!

And we're just the guys to do it.

117 posted on 07/30/2018 12:12:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Did you miss the part where Animal House made over 500 million in 1978 dollars?”

It made 141 million at the box office but not 500 million in 1978. I didn’t say it wasn’t successful, it struck me as more boring than funny.

“Gosh, you sound so cultured and tasteful. What a boring human being you must be.”

Animal house was boring. I liked the first Blues Brothers, I like P.G. Wodehouse adaptations, Caddy Shack was okay, and the Palacio Domingo shtick in Naked Gun was humorous. Young Frankenstein was good, Dead Men don’t wear plaid was okay but the ending was stupid. I never cared for Marx Brothers movies, or The Three Stooges, or Abbott and Costello... Blazing Saddles... boring.

Little Big Man was funny. No Time for Sergeants was funny. Dr. Strangelove was funny. Heck, Tin Cup was funny...

Animal House was boring.

ZOT!


118 posted on 07/30/2018 12:21:31 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: NorthMountain

My son and I applaud you sir.Were still laughing.


119 posted on 07/30/2018 12:21:57 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

Perfect!


120 posted on 07/30/2018 12:30:53 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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