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

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

[plsvn]

You know, Belushi's picture in post 51 looks alot like Jimmy Kimmel (sp?). I wonder if this has something to do with Kimmel's current popularity?

[Atlas Sneezed]

"She was going to make a pot for me!"

[sheik yerbouty]

Who was Raoul Duke's son, and what were his infirmities?

[wardaddy]

I agree...along with the peeping tom "views".

Mandy...wasn't that her name.....and the when the girl lands in the boy reading Playboys lap and he shrieks with delight "thank you God"...lol

[wardaddy]

I don't know what micro-dot you took and they may well have called it mescaline but syntesised mescaline results in a powder (of crushed flakes after forming a concentrtaed alkali) that requires a large capsule to contain a dose large enough for effect...and typically would actually require several capsules.

Micro dot has typically been in reality LSD-lite....50-100 micograms.

[wardaddy]

It has long been surmised by many who knew Kenny that he did not tumble off the cliff in Hawaii but rather committed suicide.

He had fairly severe emotional issues....bi-polar or manic depression among them and was known to have a very hard time handling the fame.

[PISANO]

I am 59 years old and I missed being a boomer by a few years, luckily, I guess. Because after reading the first 10 posts (stopped reading after that) I can honestly say that I have NOTHING in common with the writers. I truly have arrived to the OLD FUDDY DUDDY stage.

This from a man who received a farewell plaque from his fellow nam vets upon leaving his unit. It started, "To MR. LIFE IN THE FAST LANE".......amazing!

[longfellow]

The best line is to Flounder when they wrecked his brothers car- anyone want a shot at it?

[RichInOC]

Otter: "You [bleep]ed up. You trusted us."

[Former Proud Canadian]

Top 10 movies of all time bump.

[longfellow]

Great wasn't it?!

[ex-Texan]

Maui wowie beat the all except for the red stuff from Belize
but that was way back in 1973.

[lowbridge]

[lowbridge]

That's the late Doug Kenney on the far right in the green shirt and glasses. His character name in the movie was Stork. His one and only line in the film, to Belushi: "Well what the hell we supposed to do, ya moron?"

[lowbridge]

Fawn Lebowitz...

http://fawnleibowitz.com/

[NYCVirago]

More importantly, it was the first comedy that was made by, for and about baby boomers.

I guess this author never heard of "American Graffiti."

[Gamecock]

[RichInOC]

"Animal House" didn't close the deal on my joining a fraternity...for one thing, it came out five years beforehand...but it probably set me on the road. The havoc it helped me to wreak on my studies aside, I had a lot of fun, met some good people and learned about life because I joined, so I'd like to thank Landis and company for their role in that. Fraternity nationals should probably help commemorate the silver anniversary in appreciation for the boost that film gave to their memberships, but for what I think are obvious reasons, probably won't.

I didn't know that Martha Smith was originally going to be Mandy Pepperidge instead of Babs Jansen. Given that Babs was next-to-last heard asking the immortal question "Gregg, honey...is it supposed to be this soft?", I wonder whether that role was any easier to explain to her parents than Mandy would have been. (By the way, the ladder scene and the bleachers scene are some of Belushi's best work ever. His expressions are worth a thousand words.)

[The South Texan]

A classic, a true classic!

[RichInOC]

...and yeah, it was a classic.