It's not pretty, but 'Animal House' defines a generation

Miami Herald ^ | 08/24/03 | GLEN GARVIN

[Gorzaloon]

Honestly, it has been a long time since I read it and I need at least a half-z and a copy!!

I found that when you go back and re-read something you have not seen for a decade or more, it is even more enjoyable. You are already starting with the major plot, and the rereading lets you pay attention to ALL KINDS of stuff you missed before, either due to laughter, or (whatever), or even being younger the first time.

HST is is nuts; It is genius on the very border. He is reputed to have hung metal gongs in the woods near his house. On some boring nights, he likes to shoot at them at odd hours.

Ether or N2O do not work as reading aids, BTW....

[Nitro]

I weep for the loss of cheap, abundant and effective Mexican Maijuanua!!

[Rebelbase]

TOGA!, TOGA!..............

[dennisw]

Animal House and Caddy Shack are my favorite funny movies.

[Jhensy]

Forget Hollywood lifers like Reitman, Ramis and Landis -- all old Lampoon fans knew the real secret behind AH was Doug Kenney and Chris Miller. Basic scenes in the movie all appeared in early Lampoon issues, in particular their 1964 High School Yearbook parody, featuring Larry Kroger.

It always made me laugh when critics called the film "low-brow" -- Miller was retelling his Dartmouth fraternity days, and Kenney was of course the Harvard Lampoon's most brilliant editor.

If you can find it, Chris Miller's novelization of the movie is hilarious, with loads of scenes and character details that never made the film.

[Gorzaloon]

There are unwanted orphan seeds, soil, water, and sun!

Do your duty!

Save the orphans.

[AppyPappy]

It defined college life when it came out. Luckily, I was in college. After the movie, the fraternity pretty much threw caution to the wind.

[yarddog]

Animal House was actually a pretty PC movie.

It always fascinated me how the Hollywood rebels and nonconformists always rebel in the same way. The same people are always the villains and the same groups are always the good guys, although now that I think about it, I don't recall the Black guys saving the day in this one.

Have to admit tho, it really was funny.

[Nitro]

Do you think Brooklyn, New York has a sufficient growing cycle?

And where the seeds, if YES!

[Jonah Hex]

"Happy Birthday, Delta!"

[Rocko]

The finest moment is when Belushi smashes up the folkie's guitar, then says, "Sorry."

[Fresh Wind]

Mr. Blutarski. Zero point zero.

[Benrand]

Terry Gilliam's move made me look at the book different, not as a avant agrde interesting piece of work but rather a desperate flush down a large toilet bowl.

Gave me the skeevys. HST was going totally insane. The end of the movie depicts what happens to him and it's not pretty, brutally ugly and something no one should think about really.

Used to be a fan of the book 'til I saw that.

[B-Chan]

“I gave my love a cherry / that had no stone...
I gave my love a chicken/that had no bone...”

Yes, Animal House was about the '60s... but it was about the booze-chugging, madras-wearing, Ivy League '60s. Kenney & Co. had nothing but scorn for the knit-browed, “sincere” folk-rock hippie '60s. None of the Deltas would have been caught dead at Woodstock; they would have hated the patchouli oil and flower-power Freaks as much as they'd have despised the ROTCies, the faculty, and the other Straights.

“Son -- fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.”

[Radix]

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.

 

[grania]

"FOOD FIGHT!" ping.

Back when I was in college, in the mid-'60s, a dorm at the (then) all-male Ivy League school "down the hill" had a Tom Jones Dinner. Finger foods...chicken, peas, french fries, were the menu, no silverware. Yep, we sat there in the dorm dining room, throwing food at each other. Then, there was that toga party...

Ahhhh, those were the bad ol' days!

[Exeter]

Bluto-Over? OVER? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Boone-"Germans?"

Otter-Forget it, he's on a roll...

[Rocko]

"Sorry."

[45semi]

Nah...when Otter has 'Shelly' in the back of the car outside the nightclub, saying "I used to touch (whatever her name was) like this"
and she says "I know, she told me"

Greg, honey? Is it supposed to be this soft?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
No, let me give you a hint. She's got a couple of major league yabos.
May I have 10,000 marbles, please.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Senator, and Mrs.John Blutarski,Washington, D.C.

Still in office? Who?