This was Kevin Bacons first movie. He showed up a little bit late to the red carpet premier and security didn't even let him get close enough to talk to anybody that could convince them that he REALLY WAS in the movie!
Kevin Bacon had a continuing Soap Opera before "Animal House"...I think it was "The Guiding Light." He wasalso a victim in one of those "Teens Get Killed at a Resort" movie...it may have been the first "Jason" movie. He was killed by having an arrow forced into his neck.
@@mikeeckel2807 - Animal House was indeed Kevin's first role. He played Jack in Friday the 13th (1980), The Guiding Light role was from 1980-1981 (11 Episodes).
"Was it over...when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" "The Germans???" "Forget it, he's rolling." The movie that launched ten million Toga parties and a billion keggers.
not only that, this movie single-handedly revived the college frat/sor system - they were already gone from many campuses and on the verge of vanishing from the country completely. Depending on your viewpoint, that's good or bad.
My dad was a Beta at Vanderbilt and graduated in 1981 and says it’s by far the most relatable college movie for his generation. If someone wrote a college movie for the digital era they’d make a fortune. Can you imagine the comedic possibilities with social media on a College campus 😂 or tinder 😳
Around 1982, when I was 13, I went to a drive-in with my buddy's family. It was a double feature: Animal House and The Blues Brothers. It was wonderful and eye opening for my young eyes!
“Toga ! Toga ! Toga !” - Animal House was inspired by the experiences of the writers while attending Dartmouth College - This is the movie that popularized the words “FOOD FIGHT !!!”
Actually, only Chris Miller attended Dartmouth. Harold Ramis & Doug Kenney used stories from their own college days (along with others the three collected from friends).
When I was in Air Force technical school back in 1978 at Chanute Air Force Base, we saw this movie at the base theatre for 50 cents. What did our squadron do the next weekend? TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!!!
When they did the test screening for this movie, by sheer coincidence was a national convention of fraternities. So every single member of the test audience was a frat guy!
Watching to see if they recognize that: - Tom Hulce, who played Larry Kroger, was 1) The voice of Quazimodo in Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', and 2) Mozart in 'Amadeus'. - Bruce McGill, who played D-Day, was the sheriff in 'My Cousin Vinny'
@les4767 I always thought she had the most epic leap when she was in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" even though John Belushi was having the better career until he died.
29:03 the guy on the left was Douglas Kenney, he wrote the screenplay for Animal House and he was the publisher of National Lampoon's magazine. After Caddyshack, he sadly ended his life by throwing himself off a mountain top.
Other stories suggest he got wasted and fell off the cliff. He was memorialized in National Lampoon with a picture of the cliff and the caption “Doug Kenney Slipped Here,” a play on places that would claim “George Washington Slept Here.”
One of the most unique things about this movie is how it subverts the tropes that all its 80s descendants would embrace: Whenever some authority figure threatens to shut down the club/team/car wash, they always put on a wild party to save it...which they (barely) do. This movie, however, just says "fuck it!" and they never even TRY to save their frat, they just immediately jump right to going out in the biggest, most obnoxious way possible! It's pretty much the most fun AND nihilistic ending I've ever seen...🤣
Fun Fact: John Landis directed a segment of Twilight Zone the Movie. It involves a squad of Vietnam soldiers discussing the fate of their superior named "Niedermeier"
Fun reaction, this among a few Blues Brothers being my favorite make me wish Belushi could of bested his demons and gave us so much more then he was able to in his amazing SNL run and feature films. Good job you 2 :)
The scene with the horse, and the other scenes in the Dean's Office were shot in the real office of the real President of the University of Oregon. "Bluto", John Belushi, was in the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players on Saturday Night Live, while shooting "Animal House" during the week he crisscrossed the U.S. back to NYC on the weekend. Amazing cast.
31:15 A fun fact: In the Twilight Zone movie, one of the stories directed by the same guy (John Landis), we meet the troops who shot him. So this movie is in the same universe.
A much less fun fact....in the filming of that Twilight Zone segment, John Landis' callousness got actor Vic Morrow and two poor little children killed in a helicopter accident on set.
🔔 CHRIS & CURTIS: In Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) during the “Time Out” segment, a soldier says, “I told you guys we shouldn't have shot Lieutenant Neidermeyer!"
This was filmed on location at the University of Oregon. The other college film by National Lampoon I recommend watching is Van Wilder. This was Kevin Bacon's film debut. John Belushi and director John Landis followed this up with The Blues Brother
Are you sure it was Oregon, because in the courtroom scene there is a Tennessee state flag on the stage. You can see it when Dean Wormer is yelling at them.
@@fireman1294 Yes, it was filmed at the U of O. (and the parade scenes were filmed in Cottage Grove, Oregon). I was attending the U of O when this was being filmed. They wanted to film it at a college back east, but none of those colleges would allow it after reading the script. The U of O decided to allow them to film there because they had turned down filming the college scenes from "The Graduate" there, and felt that they had missed out.
Animal House has the most underrated soundtrack in film history. This came out my Freshman year of HS. This soundtrack and the album, especially the cut of Chris Montez's "Lets Dance" and the entire "Look Sharp" by Joe Jackson were on at every party. With a lot of Zep and Boston. Good times. Consider next "Porky's" Men, "Porky's"
Seeing Mark Metcalf as the Big Bad in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all I could think was, “Niedermeyer!” He’s under tons of latex, but that voice was unmistakable.
Fun fact, the band at the toga party was fictional, until so many people started trying to book them that they _became_ a real band and played at hundreds of colleges.
My sister and I saw this in the theater when it first came out. I was in my freshman year at a two year college. It was remarkedly on point, lol. My first week in my dorm, there was a panty raid and I met a guy just like Bluto--in his fourth year at a two year college. There were keg parties by the river and a biology professor who constantly hit on female students. At our graduation the valedictorian was so drunk, she fell off the stage.
The actor who played Eric Stratton went on to play Ryan Reynolds' father, in "Van Wilder". Doug Niedermayer went on to be in two Twisted Sister music videos. The pledge getting spanked, was Kevin Bacon. And I'm sure y'all recognized Katy as Indiana Jones' main squeeze, Marion.
It's about time you boys watched animal house!!!! It was a rainy day at summer day camp back in 1978 and we left and saw Animal House.....I've never been the same!
2:02 Door Smashed him! 3:33 he peed on him! 4:25 Incoming!! 6:20 Everybody hates Kent! 7:50 "Thank You Sir May I have another!" 9:22 Got'em him! 12:10 Freeze Fame! 13:05 Classic! 15:45 Not the bigger move! 17:20 Smashed Hit! 19:43 not the Angel and Devil shoulders! 21:43 Shut up a-holes! 22:07 The Wink! 30:06 Best Scene!! 31:11 of course!
1. Donald Sutherland was so convinced of the movie's lack of potential that, when offered a percent of the gross or a flat fee of $75,000 for his three days' work, he took the upfront payment. Had he taken the gross percentage, he would have been worth an additional $3-4 million. He also said he had the most fun in this film than anything else he's ever done. 2. Landis wanted Dan Ackroyd to play D Day/Bruce McGill got the part. Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live fame threatened to fire him if he took the part. 3. "Charming guy" with the guitar that gets smashed by Bluto is Steven Bishop a real musician at the time who had just put out his one hit wonder "On and on". 4. John Belushi stayed in a separate motel to keep him away from the drinking and drugs the other Delta cast members were participating in. 5. Douglas Kenny was part of the National Lampoon's writing team. He got the part of Stork so he could be in the movie. 6. Had Belushi not been available to play Bluto Meatloaf would have taken his place. 7. The Jack Daniels Bluto chugged was ice tea. 9. John Vernon/Dean Wormer😇 had the best pipes and there couldn't have been a better choice than to cast him. NOTE: He also played the Mayor in "Dirty Harry". 10. Trombones aren't placed in the front of the marching band (because it changes the dynamic of the unit It was put in for creative purposes. 11. This was a movie that if you watched it in the theater, it's likely you had to see it at least twice because the follow-on stuff is often covered up by other's laughter. Not to mention the little items slipped in. 12. Luckily, I was working in a movie theater when this was released.😎 13. Check out "Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke". It came out in 1978 also.
This came out the summer before I went off to college. My Freshman year was filled with food fights in the dining hall and toga parties. Life imitated art as much as we could. Next you guys REALLY need to watch Slapshot.
During the filming of this movie, the Delta actors parties together every night in the hotel, and the guy who played Niedermeyer was in the room above theirs, so he heard _everything_ and was never invited, so his dislike on set was partially genuine, and it was all done deliberately.
If you two have heard Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" the official video has a great Animal House connection. Neidermeyer, who was played by Mark Metcalf, appears in the video with a nod to AH
The film that all others in this genre tried to be. Did you recognize D-Day (the one on the motorcycle) is the same guy as "Sheriff Farley" in My Cousin Vinny? Did you guys happen to notice Kevin Bacon? This was his film debut.
For a while John Belushi was the biggest comedian in the world. He had the #1 TV show Saturday Night Live, the #1 album with the Blues Brothers and the #1 movie Animal House.
Tom Hulce, aka Larry Kroger was also notable for his roles as Mozart in "Amadeus", as Quasimodo in Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame", and was the original Lt. Danny Kaffee in the premiere stage production of "A Few Good Men" - the role that was later famously played by Tom Cruise in the film version.
There's a special that was included in the DVD, couldn't find it on TH-cam, it basically portrays the movie as a documentary and the film crew are back to see where everyone is, not much has changed for most, the dean is in a home and kind of lost his mind, we saw in the movie that Boon and Katy got married and divorced, but third times the charm, they're married again and had a kid, and Bluto went from senator to President of the United States.
There was a shout-out to this film in 'The Twilight Zone Movie:' In a Vietnam flashback, There is a group of soldiers, lost in the jungle at night. Somebody in the group growls, "I told ya we shouldn't have fragged Lieutenant Niedermeyer." Bluto is one of the best characters in this film; he's wild and nasty, but he's genuinely good-natured, as shown in the scene (26:45) where he's trying to cheer Flounder up. And that immortal line: "You mind if we dance with your dates?"
The Animal House is based on a crazy fraternity at Dartmouth University, and the guy leading the marching band in the final scene is the writer of the movie Doug Kenny, who also is one of the people who started The National Lampoon Magazine.
Yeah the studio banned writers From the set so he wrote himself in as a minor character (only one line). He looked pretty old for a college student (around 30 but looked older)
@@andrewward5891 Which is stupid because having the writers on set when the dynamic doesn't match the dialog they are there to instantly clean it up give it a different tone or just to make it more fluid. What looked good on paper might not sound or translate well to the living actors portraying the parts. But studios are cheap and often detrimental to the film making process by sticking their noses into what they don't understand.
I was 20 when this came out ... and was in college. I'd never seen a movie quite like it, and kept busting out laughing. They can't make anything this funny today because humor involves putting people in ridiculous situations, meaning that someone will identify with that character (no matter who they are) and thus be offended. This was no problem when all of us weren't being given constant affirmation and, when we got too big for our britches, were asked "Who do you think you are?" It was a lot easier to amuse people when everyone was used to laughing at themselves. And, of course, the character playing Dean Wormer was also the cartoon voice of Tony Stark/Iron Man in the 1966 Marvel Superheroes cartoons -- not to mention also lending his voice to the cartoon "Heavy Metal".
The Human zit scene, the Toga Party withe Sceam and Shout song and the climatic parade crashing scene at the end. Lol. Next up Porky's and Revenge of The Nerds please. Viewer discretion advised.
Fun fact - the "I'm only 13!" line was *meant* to be 16, but the writers started with 13 figuring the MPAA would object to it and they could haggle for 16 instead of getting 16 rejected... they were just as surprised as anyone when the line was let through unchanged!
In the credits of Animal House (1978) it says Douglas C. Neidermeyer was killed in Vietnam by his own troops. In Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) during the “Time Out” segment, a soldier says, “I told you guys we shouldn’t have shot Lieutenant Neidermeyer.” Both movies were directed by John Landis.
First movie I ever heard the entire theater bawling w laughter and applauded at the end. For a sleazeball R rated comedy! Those were the days! The back story of this movie is sad cause some of the main people died tragically within a few years. First Doug Kenney the tortured writer and national Lampoon creator (also co-wrote Caddyshack) at 33 under possible accident, possible suicide and then Belushi from drugs. They were all a mess. Supposedly both movies had large cocaine budgets!
Often imitated, NEVER duplicated. A classic in every sense of the word. Glad you guys enjoyed this one!
Even National Lampoon could never recapture the magic of this movie no matter how hard they tried. Vacation was the only one that came close!
This was Kevin Bacons first movie. He showed up a little bit late to the red carpet premier and security didn't even let him get close enough to talk to anybody that could convince them that he REALLY WAS in the movie!
I would have been so pissed. First movie, refused entrance? Ya somebody would have been bailing me out.
Kevin Bacon had a continuing Soap Opera before "Animal House"...I think it was "The Guiding Light."
He wasalso a victim in one of those "Teens Get Killed at a Resort" movie...it may have been the first "Jason" movie. He was killed by having an arrow forced into his neck.
@@mikeeckel2807 - Animal House was indeed Kevin's first role. He played Jack in Friday the 13th (1980), The Guiding Light role was from 1980-1981 (11 Episodes).
John Belushi, moving the ladder, by hopping it to the next window, then breaking the fourth wall, is comedy Gold!
Took me several watches before I got the erection/ladder joke but it's a classic!
Family Guy spoofed that scene with Herbert using a ladder to look into Chris’ window when he’s in his room with his shirt off
"Was it over...when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" "The Germans???" "Forget it, he's rolling."
The movie that launched ten million Toga parties and a billion keggers.
They cut this out of the vid!! It's the most famous line of the movie!! 😫😫😫😫
THE most iconic line in the film!
not only that, this movie single-handedly revived the college frat/sor system - they were already gone from many campuses and on the verge of vanishing from the country completely. Depending on your viewpoint, that's good or bad.
Just came to agree with being surprised they didn’t have the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor… wonder if they just missed it..
My dad was a Beta at Vanderbilt and graduated in 1981 and says it’s by far the most relatable college movie for his generation. If someone wrote a college movie for the digital era they’d make a fortune. Can you imagine the comedic possibilities with social media on a College campus 😂 or tinder 😳
The actor that played Needermeier, reprised his role for a series of Twisted Sister music videos.
Wait, was he the dad in "We're Not Gonna Take It"?
@@RichardX1100%
Oh yeah? Well,what are you gonna do with your life?
Yes he is. Mark Metcalf. In the video the mom even calls him “Dougie”. In Animal House the name is Douglass C Needermeier.
I forgot about that video.
When the girl flys through the window and lands on the kids bed "THANK YOU GOD!" Lmao
Best line of the movie.
Senator John "Bluto" Blutarsky, one of our finest Americans.
That is why he became president!
@@complex314i Bluto has more charm than Captain Mango.
A lot better than some of hour currently-serving representatives.
John Belushi was a national treasure, whether those uppity Omegas liked it or not. 😁👍
Bluto 2024!!
Around 1982, when I was 13, I went to a drive-in with my buddy's family. It was a double feature: Animal House and The Blues Brothers. It was wonderful and eye opening for my young eyes!
Back when National Lampoon was funny, Caddyshack, Vacation , and this classic!
I'm here to watch "Animla House"😳
Their GPA 0.0 😂
Must be Delta Tau Ki graduates 😁😂😂
I’m here to watch it too. 🙂
they're slipping
Tago, tago!
“Toga ! Toga ! Toga !”
- Animal House was inspired by the experiences of the writers while attending Dartmouth College
- This is the movie that popularized the words “FOOD FIGHT !!!”
The story night of the 7 fires in national lampoon magazine introduce the characters of pinto and flounder.
Actually, only Chris Miller attended Dartmouth. Harold Ramis & Doug Kenney used stories from their own college days (along with others the three collected from friends).
@@Redplant99- Harold Ramis attended Washington University in Saint Louis.
When I was in Air Force technical school back in 1978 at Chanute Air Force Base, we saw this movie at the base theatre for 50 cents. What did our squadron do the next weekend? TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!!!
Kevin Bacon as the Omega pledge: "thank you sir! May I have another?"😅
When they did the test screening for this movie, by sheer coincidence was a national convention of fraternities. So every single member of the test audience was a frat guy!
LOL talk about a stacked deck...
The guy who hijacked the band at the end was one of the writers of the movie. So was Harold Ramis whom you may remember from Ghostbusters.
The late Doug Kenney.
Watching to see if they recognize that:
- Tom Hulce, who played Larry Kroger, was 1) The voice of Quazimodo in Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', and 2) Mozart in 'Amadeus'.
- Bruce McGill, who played D-Day, was the sheriff in 'My Cousin Vinny'
Karen Allen, who played Katie was Marion Ravenwood in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
@les4767 I always thought she had the most epic leap when she was in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" even though John Belushi was having the better career until he died.
29:03 the guy on the left was Douglas Kenney, he wrote the screenplay for Animal House and he was the publisher of National Lampoon's magazine. After Caddyshack, he sadly ended his life by throwing himself off a mountain top.
Other stories suggest he got wasted and fell off the cliff. He was memorialized in National Lampoon with a picture of the cliff and the caption “Doug Kenney Slipped Here,” a play on places that would claim “George Washington Slept Here.”
What a classic rest in peace to John Belushi and This Is Kevin Bacon Film Debut as he was still in college
First The Warriors and now this. You are full of pleasant surprises
I was waiting to come over this side of the fence. Guys, this is by far, top 5 comedy of all-time.
One of the most unique things about this movie is how it subverts the tropes that all its 80s descendants would embrace: Whenever some authority figure threatens to shut down the club/team/car wash, they always put on a wild party to save it...which they (barely) do. This movie, however, just says "fuck it!" and they never even TRY to save their frat, they just immediately jump right to going out in the biggest, most obnoxious way possible! It's pretty much the most fun AND nihilistic ending I've ever seen...🤣
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang, but a belch.
(And a belly-laugh, with apologies to Mr. Eliot.) 🤓
Nothing like sticking it to The Man on the way out and getting away with it. 😂😂
I remember watching this in the theater when it first came out. The whole audience just rocked with laughter. It is still a classic.
Fun Fact:
John Landis directed a segment of Twilight Zone the Movie.
It involves a squad of Vietnam soldiers discussing the fate of their superior named "Niedermeier"
Animal House reaction?
Oh boy, is this great! 😁
I can't believe you two love this disgusting, low brow, toilet humor.
I love you for it. Great reaction.
time to get them to watch MASH
Fun reaction, this among a few Blues Brothers being my favorite make me wish Belushi could of bested his demons and gave us so much more then he was able to in his amazing SNL run and feature films. Good job you 2 :)
I was lucky enough to see this in the theater when I was 11. Thanks mom, 😂😂😂
My best friend’s older sister took him and me to see this in 1978 theatrically. We were 11 years old. No wonder I have a warp sense of humor.😂
Yeah totally, i was 7, my slightly older cousin was 8 and we in with my older cousin who was 15 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The scene with the horse, and the other scenes in the Dean's Office were shot in the real office of the real President of the University of Oregon. "Bluto", John Belushi, was in the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players on Saturday Night Live, while shooting "Animal House" during the week he crisscrossed the U.S. back to NYC on the weekend. Amazing cast.
And the cocaine habit starts to make even more sense...
31:15 A fun fact: In the Twilight Zone movie, one of the stories directed by the same guy (John Landis), we meet the troops who shot him. So this movie is in the same universe.
"Damn....I wish we hadn't killed Lt. Niedermeyer......."
A much less fun fact....in the filming of that Twilight Zone segment, John Landis' callousness got actor Vic Morrow and two poor little children killed in a helicopter accident on set.
The ways you can bust someone's balls with "0.0" because of this movie in almost any conversation is amazing.
🔔 CHRIS & CURTIS: In Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) during the “Time Out” segment, a soldier says, “I told you guys we shouldn't have shot Lieutenant Neidermeyer!"
This was filmed on location at the University of Oregon. The other college film by National Lampoon I recommend watching is Van Wilder. This was Kevin Bacon's film debut. John Belushi and director John Landis followed this up with The Blues Brother
Are you sure it was Oregon, because in the courtroom scene there is a Tennessee state flag on the stage. You can see it when Dean Wormer is yelling at them.
@@fireman1294I know the campus itself is UO
@@fireman1294I was attending the University of Oregon when Animal House was filmed. Two of my frat brothers were in it.
@@fireman1294 Yes, it was filmed at the U of O. (and the parade scenes were filmed in Cottage Grove, Oregon). I was attending the U of O when this was being filmed. They wanted to film it at a college back east, but none of those colleges would allow it after reading the script. The U of O decided to allow them to film there because they had turned down filming the college scenes from "The Graduate" there, and felt that they had missed out.
Animal House has the most underrated soundtrack in film history.
This came out my Freshman year of HS.
This soundtrack and the album, especially the cut of Chris Montez's "Lets Dance" and the entire "Look Sharp" by Joe Jackson were on at every party. With a lot of Zep and Boston.
Good times.
Consider next
"Porky's"
Men,
"Porky's"
Seeing Mark Metcalf as the Big Bad in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all I could think was, “Niedermeyer!” He’s under tons of latex, but that voice was unmistakable.
He briefly retired after his S7 reprise. He was tired of playing villains. He was a very nice guy.
He does a GREAT job there too.
Or The Maestro on Seinfeld
"NO PRISONERS!" (the guy on the stairs with the guitar is the singer/songwriter steven bishop.)
Knew you guys would like this. I was in college when this came out, and watching it (plus SNL) really enriched my whole experience.
Still do the Adams apple tap noise at work. Makes everyone do their respective favorite antics from the show.
You two are good reactors. No bullshit.
It's nice you could see how wonderful America was back in the day.
Sadly, we will never see America like this again. 😢
Fun fact, the band at the toga party was fictional, until so many people started trying to book them that they _became_ a real band and played at hundreds of colleges.
And the leader actually changed his name to Otis Day.
I was just thinking the other day what reactors in 2024 could a watch Animal House and “get it”. And you guys are the answer.
My sister and I saw this in the theater when it first came out. I was in my freshman year at a two year college. It was remarkedly on point, lol. My first week in my dorm, there was a panty raid and I met a guy just like Bluto--in his fourth year at a two year college. There were keg parties by the river and a biology professor who constantly hit on female students. At our graduation the valedictorian was so drunk, she fell off the stage.
The actor who played Eric Stratton went on to play Ryan Reynolds' father, in "Van Wilder". Doug Niedermayer went on to be in two Twisted Sister music videos. The pledge getting spanked, was Kevin Bacon. And I'm sure y'all recognized Katy as Indiana Jones' main squeeze, Marion.
Saw this on cable when I was 14 and patterned my teenage years after it. :) We had a lot of fun. Only 1 person got set on fire.
If things are being set on fire that sounds more like Revenge of the Nerds.
Knew a cabbie in Chicago that had Belushi take his cab one time. Said he was no different in person than on-screen, wild and crazy. RIP Al Pasquale.
This movies so epic but something about the stork a the end with the marching band is so hilarious it gets me every time!
Futurama spoofed an entire episode following Bender that was the plot of Animal House. It was called Mars University
"Rrrobot HOUSSSE!"
Well, to be fair, the Animal House homage is the B-plot of that episode
@@RichardX1 Close enough.
Revenge of the nerds is a must see next
Yes. I hope they react to it as well!
Classic
Also Real Genius :)
This was the first movie I watched in my first apartment at college. Love you two and your reactions!
It's about time you boys watched animal house!!!! It was a rainy day at summer day camp back in 1978 and we left and saw Animal House.....I've never been the same!
This has always been one of my favorite comedies of all time.
2:02 Door Smashed him!
3:33 he peed on him!
4:25 Incoming!!
6:20 Everybody hates Kent!
7:50 "Thank You Sir May I have another!"
9:22 Got'em him!
12:10 Freeze Fame!
13:05 Classic!
15:45 Not the bigger move!
17:20 Smashed Hit!
19:43 not the Angel and Devil shoulders!
21:43 Shut up a-holes!
22:07 The Wink!
30:06 Best Scene!!
31:11 of course!
1. Donald Sutherland was so convinced of the movie's lack of potential that, when offered a percent of the gross or a flat fee of $75,000 for his three days' work, he took the upfront payment. Had he taken the gross percentage, he would have been worth an additional $3-4 million. He also said he had the most fun in this film than anything else he's ever done.
2. Landis wanted Dan Ackroyd to play D Day/Bruce McGill got the part. Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live fame threatened to fire him if he took the part.
3. "Charming guy" with the guitar that gets smashed by Bluto is Steven Bishop a real musician at the time who had just put out his one hit wonder "On and on".
4. John Belushi stayed in a separate motel to keep him away from the drinking and drugs the other Delta cast members were participating in.
5. Douglas Kenny was part of the National Lampoon's writing team. He got the part of Stork so he could be in the movie.
6. Had Belushi not been available to play Bluto Meatloaf would have taken his place.
7. The Jack Daniels Bluto chugged was ice tea.
9. John Vernon/Dean Wormer😇 had the best pipes and there couldn't have been a better choice than to cast him. NOTE: He also played the Mayor in "Dirty Harry".
10. Trombones aren't placed in the front of the marching band (because it changes the dynamic of the unit It was put in for creative purposes.
11. This was a movie that if you watched it in the theater, it's likely you had to see it at least twice because the follow-on stuff is often covered up by other's laughter.
Not to mention the little items slipped in.
12. Luckily, I was working in a movie theater when this was released.😎
13. Check out "Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke". It came out in 1978 also.
John Vernon was also in the movie, "Outlaw Josie Wales."
Also, "Airplane II!"@@danielcobbins8861
I saw this when i was 7 in the theaters....I loved being a kid in the 70s 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A fun reaction to a really, really fun movie. Back when we weren't so sensitive and offended at everything. Love it!
And how man MAGA hats are in your wardrobe Miss?
One of the great movies of my childhood. Absolutely love it.
Eric "Otter" Stratton was played by Tim Matheson, who was the voice of the original "Jonny Quest."
And a bad guy in Fletch
Watching these movies with you guys is like seeing them for the first time. Had a ball (not "balls") , thanks loads!
This came out the summer before I went off to college. My Freshman year was filled with food fights in the dining hall and toga parties. Life imitated art as much as we could. Next you guys REALLY need to watch Slapshot.
During the filming of this movie, the Delta actors parties together every night in the hotel, and the guy who played Niedermeyer was in the room above theirs, so he heard _everything_ and was never invited, so his dislike on set was partially genuine, and it was all done deliberately.
If you two have heard Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" the official video has a great Animal House connection. Neidermeyer, who was played by Mark Metcalf, appears in the video with a nod to AH
8:08 I laughed at this for like 5 straight minutes 😂😂😂 I'm still not fully recovered.
"😱WHOOOOA-I'm sorry..."
The film that all others in this genre tried to be. Did you recognize D-Day (the one on the motorcycle) is the same guy as "Sheriff Farley" in My Cousin Vinny? Did you guys happen to notice Kevin Bacon? This was his film debut.
Also played Jack Dalton in original TV series MacGyver
For a while John Belushi was the biggest comedian in the world.
He had the #1 TV show Saturday Night Live, the #1 album with the Blues Brothers and the #1 movie Animal House.
I pledged a fraternity 5 years after this movie came out. We pretty much quoted every other line for the next 4 years.
Animal house will forever be a classic.
Curtis’s sheer disdain for children is hilarious. Such a satisfied cackle whenever one of them falls over or gets told.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for reacting to this movie! It's one of my all-time favorite movies & I think you're the first to react to it!
Such a classic. RIP John Belushi.
The “cool professor” who’s first seen giving everyone pot is President Snow from The Hunger Games
The young kid that said Thank you God became a pastor . Video about it is on You Tube.
Tom Hulce, aka Larry Kroger was also notable for his roles as Mozart in "Amadeus", as Quasimodo in Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame", and was the original Lt. Danny Kaffee in the premiere stage production of "A Few Good Men" - the role that was later famously played by Tom Cruise in the film version.
He was also the screw up son in "Parenthood". Tom is now a Broadway producer.
Double Secret Probation! So many great one-liners. 30:00 "Thank you, God!" 🤣 The guitar scene in the stairwell is my favorite!
This was my sophmore year of high school. We saw this movie so many times that summer. Glad you guys reacted to this movie. It makes perfect sense.
Dean Wormer(John Vernon) was the original voice of Tony Stark/Iron Man from 60's Marvel Cartoons.
You guys are nailing it with these classics keep it up ❤❤
Fawn was working on her pottery project and the kiln she was using to finish her project exploded and killed her
There's a special that was included in the DVD, couldn't find it on TH-cam, it basically portrays the movie as a documentary and the film crew are back to see where everyone is, not much has changed for most, the dean is in a home and kind of lost his mind, we saw in the movie that Boon and Katy got married and divorced, but third times the charm, they're married again and had a kid, and Bluto went from senator to President of the United States.
There was a shout-out to this film in 'The Twilight Zone Movie:' In a Vietnam flashback, There is a group of soldiers, lost in the jungle at night. Somebody in the group growls, "I told ya we shouldn't have fragged Lieutenant Niedermeyer."
Bluto is one of the best characters in this film; he's wild and nasty, but he's genuinely good-natured, as shown in the scene (26:45) where he's trying to cheer Flounder up.
And that immortal line: "You mind if we dance with your dates?"
The freeze frame horse seen has stuck with me for decades. 😂
Oh a few more from this time period, Arthur, 9-5, Tootsie, The Bad News Bears, Meatballs, and Seems Like Old Times.
I'll add Porkies
@@gerardconsidinejr3258 we could even suggest to go way back to Some Like it Hot and It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Two great screwball comedies.
This movie created a genre. It the first of its kind and a big hit.
The Animal House is based on a crazy fraternity at Dartmouth University, and the guy leading the marching band in the final scene is the writer of the movie Doug Kenny, who also is one of the people who started The National Lampoon Magazine.
Yeah the studio banned writers From the set so he wrote himself in as a minor character (only one line). He looked pretty old for a college student (around 30 but looked older)
@@andrewward5891 Which is stupid because having the writers on set when the dynamic doesn't match the dialog they are there to instantly clean it up give it a different tone or just to make it more fluid. What looked good on paper might not sound or translate well to the living actors portraying the parts. But studios are cheap and often detrimental to the film making process by sticking their noses into what they don't understand.
I was 20 when this came out ... and was in college. I'd never seen a movie quite like it, and kept busting out laughing. They can't make anything this funny today because humor involves putting people in ridiculous situations, meaning that someone will identify with that character (no matter who they are) and thus be offended. This was no problem when all of us weren't being given constant affirmation and, when we got too big for our britches, were asked "Who do you think you are?" It was a lot easier to amuse people when everyone was used to laughing at themselves. And, of course, the character playing Dean Wormer was also the cartoon voice of Tony Stark/Iron Man in the 1966 Marvel Superheroes cartoons -- not to mention also lending his voice to the cartoon "Heavy Metal".
"The making of" is just as funny
The Human zit scene, the Toga Party withe Sceam and Shout song and the climatic parade crashing scene at the end. Lol. Next up Porky's and Revenge of The Nerds please. Viewer discretion advised.
The " I'm a zit.. get it?" move by improvised by John Belushi. The actors reaction was real. Film was Kevin Bacon's first movie,
30:06 Best scene ever!!!
Been watching this movie since 1984, glad you enjoyed it.
Fun fact: The filming location for this entire movie took place as the same college my brother’s in. You guys make me smile.😃😃
Fun fact - the "I'm only 13!" line was *meant* to be 16, but the writers started with 13 figuring the MPAA would object to it and they could haggle for 16 instead of getting 16 rejected... they were just as surprised as anyone when the line was let through unchanged!
Yeah she wouldn’t be working at a grocery store at age 13
@@andrewward5891 This was set in the early 60's. If she was working in her father's or another relative's store, very possible.
@@andrewward5891Child labor laws weren’t great in the ‘60s.
The guy with the guitar was the movie's composer, Steven Bishop. He had the broken guitar signed by the cast and still has it.
In the credits of Animal House (1978) it says Douglas C. Neidermeyer was killed in Vietnam by his own troops. In Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) during the “Time Out” segment, a soldier says, “I told you guys we shouldn’t have shot Lieutenant Neidermeyer.” Both movies were directed by John Landis.
Nice!!! I got my popcorn ready for this one! Great choice!!
Wow, watching this reaction was the first time I realized the supermarket girl was Danny's Irish girlfriend in Caddyshack.
The professor with the cat was Donald Sutherland,Keifers father 😊
23:30 “What’s the plan here?” - bet you didn’t expect that
So excited for this. I had always just assumed that you already did it!
One of the GREATEST movies ever made!!!! Did they make the connection between this movie and Van Wilder?
First movie I ever heard the entire theater bawling w laughter and applauded at the end. For a sleazeball R rated comedy! Those were the days! The back story of this movie is sad cause some of the main people died tragically within a few years. First Doug Kenney the tortured writer and national Lampoon creator (also co-wrote Caddyshack) at 33 under possible accident, possible suicide and then Belushi from drugs. They were all a mess. Supposedly both movies had large cocaine budgets!