I remember sneaking into the theater to see Animal House, I was 13 at the time. This movie has been one of my favorites that I watch often, and I know just about every line in the movie. The cast was excellent.
The first time I saw this movie was in 1980 and we bought our first VCR and it was a 3rd generation tape. I was an Air Force dependent on Okinawa. Greatest memories. It’s been in my collection ever since
I was a student at the U of O when this was being filmed. I remember walking across University Avenue somewhere in front of Mac Court around dusk one evening and I noticed some commotion from a group of about 25-30 people walking on the sidewalk on the other side and spilling out onto the street to my left. They were being held back by 3 or 4 people holding them back with outstretched arms. I wondered what was going on, so I looked farther down the side walk to my left and there he was. John Belushi was by himself on the sidewalk walking the opposite direction from where I had come from next to the big boulders that make up one side of the Pioneer Cemetery. I stood in the middle of the street standing about 25 feet away from him as I remembered that people had been talking about this movie being made on campus. I was awestruck. He was pulling some litter out from between the stones when he noticed me standing in the middle of the street. He stopped what he was doing and stared back for a couple seconds - and then kind of grunted and moved on. I remember wanting to say something like, "Hey! I'm your biggest fan - don't grunt at me!" But I just kept on walking and thinking about how I was a huge fan of SNL and was also living near campus two years earlier when the very first SNL aired. It was a pretty cool time to be a college student... and at the University of Oregon.
I was 20 and in college. Our weekends already centered on Saturday Night Live back when it was good. This was the most hilarious movie in history, broke the mold.
I was a country kid. My more sophisticated cousin took me to this during summer vacation. I wasn't old enough but nobody cared. As we'd say now, he took me for the memes. If I didn't see it, I wouldn't get anybody's jokes all summer. I'm forever grateful. We knew it was a classic. (I lived so far in the woods I missed the local drive-in run of Kentucky... too. What an outcast I felt like in high school. People did those bits constantly.)
By the time the movie came out, I was already a huge Chris Miller fan so, OF COURSE, I was gonna go see it! He's the best writer I've ever read! I started working at Cedar Point on July 5th, `78. a week & a half later was my 21st b-day. A week & a half later this movie came out and, within the next week or so, I took the ferry over to the Sandusky Mall (or, wherever they had a movie theatre) and saw it there for the first time and LOVED it!! About 10 or 15 years ago, I got hold of Chris and we exchanged e-mails for a week or so. I told him how much I loved his work and sent him some recordings of my band and he said he really liked them and sent me a copy of his first story, which I hadn't been able to find for my collection. Then, suddenly, he went "POOF!" And I haven't heard from him, since! As far as I know, he's 80 years old, now. I think his book, "The Real Animal House" came out shortly after that and I bought it a read it from cover to cover. Another great Chris Miller work!! It sure would be nice if he could put out more books! Even if one was just a collection of all the stuff he wrote for Screw, Oui and the Lampoon! Sadly, as far as I know, there's not even a web site about him OR his work!
I lived in the apartment where they got high for the first time. It’s on 6th and Lawrence in Eugene. They also used to throw punk shows in the basement of animal house until they tore it down in ‘86
I hated Tim Matheson until he played "Otter" because he had become typecast as this romantic weepie Mills and Boone character and he became a mirror image
Li's came out they had a soundtrack album that had a poster in it that had everybody shooting the bird great movie and a great time to be alive but the soundtrack was awesome
Had just moved to Oregon 7 years ago [2016], and some local channel was playing an old Buster Keaton movie I had never heard of. As I watched the train sequence [ missed the beginning] I realized what his predicament was, and I just started busting outlaughing. As Buster [The General] ran out of wood for the steam engine, he was off next to the rails throwing fallen trees onto the train to try and not run out of steam in enemy territory!! So f-en funny! My daughter followed us to Oregon and settled in Cottage grove. As I visited her I spotted the big mural about the film. I was shocked that Iwas near where a movie I had just proclaimed the funniest thing I had seen was filmed in Cottage Grove!
This is a classic movie but I've seen worse behavior!! I was a volunteer for the Sheriff's Department and went to Frat houses at 4AM to quiet them down!! If we went back they would go to jail! We went back to one the second time and the Sargent told them if we come back EVERYBODY'S going to jail to including that barking dog!😊 When I went to see the 🎥 movie it was packed out and a line two blocks long waiting!! Drunken fights broke out and the POS were called!! Half the people were in Togas and were searched for weapons and booze! Several went to jail! 15 minutes were cut out of the theater version by the sensors witch would breeze thru today!!😮 The only thing that bothered me was the classic cars destroyed!!😢
Yeah the actors were great. They were perfect. Yeah the director was inspired, he was the perfect choice to bring that parade home. Belushi, Landis, Matheson, McNall, Reitman, Elmer Bernstien, Dean Wormer, it was their greatest work in great careers. But when you have people going around quoting numerous lines from "Animal House" for 40 years it shows what genius screenwriting looks like. They say it was Doug Kinney's baby that he collaborated with two others on. I think the greatest thing they did was make funny some really serious subjects in such an honest way. Anarchy, the Delta House represents that all over, with a healthy dose of nihilism. Class conflict, Omegas versus Deltas. But what I like is that Kinney and crew don't really say which is better. Racism, the interaction between the white Deltas and Otis Day and the blacks from the"Dexter Lake Club" is a refreshing dose of reality to face conflict. In other words, this may be a comedy but it's painfully real. Feminism, the ladies from "Emily Dickenson College."
I didn't say deep meaning. It's as deep as it needs to be. But damn "A.H."covers a lot of ground, makes fun of so much. It's the nihilism and anarchy so comedically driven in the screenplay that delivers: "It's gotta be better than the truth," "You fucked up, you trusted us," "Drop and give me twenty." "Otis, my man!" ..."Animal House started a genre. There'd be no "Footloose" or "Risky Business" without it. I find it historically significant, like somewhere between The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, and Cheech & Chong
"Well, what are we supposed to say about him, you moron!" . You're right. See the documentary about NL - "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" for more about D.K.
Animal House came out just before my freshman year of college. EVERYBODY had seen the movie before landing at freshman orientation. There were record number of people pledging that year. And toga parties were all the rage. Good times!
Great, fantastic memories !!! We had a blast growing up in OUR time ! You were involved with comic royalty. One of the greatest scenes of movie history.....and you're in it !!! Incredible ! Cheers from Detroit 🇺🇲
Supposedly, John Vernon spent the entire shoot begging John Landis to give him some funny dialog or some slapstick to do, insisting that he could be as funny as anybody else in the cast. Meanwhile, Landis was seeing the dailies and knew that, with the exception of a tour de force performance by John Belushi, Vernon was the funniest thing in the movie... and it wasn't close.. so he kept saying no.
When Animal House came out it played on all six screens at our local drive in in Anaheim, CA for the entire summer. We would sneak into the Drive In and start looking for our friends. It was way more than a movie it was a happening.
The original voice of Jonny Quest and Jace of Space Ghost becomes Otter... whoda' thunk it? ;-) It was prophetic that he also becomes Van Wilder's dad... ;-)
Casting director Michael Chinich really is the unsung hero of this classic, as you could NOT cast a better group of actors than this? Everyone from Dean Wormer, the rival WASP fraternity to Donald Sutherland etc it was perfect! I think anyone who went to college knew at least one or all of these characters?
We were there in 78. All of us getting ready for college or the Marines...we saw this 3 times in 2 weeks. All 9 of us got kicked out for bringing in beer the 3rd time. This movie and Cheech and Chong were epic !!! Thank God we grew up when we did. 🇺🇲
I know the guy in the scene who was left standing alone with a beer in his hand after Otter snatched the girl away he was talking to during the party scene early in the movie. The guy left standing was one of many U of O students used as extras.
yeah I played in a band with the guy about 10 years after the movie was made. He's in another scene in the classroom when Donald Sutherland say's "I'm not joking, this is my job." lol.@@veltonmeade1057
Animal House and Up in Smoke came out the same year -1978 , basically 2 months apart. I was 17 and just wanted to live in an old house with all my buddies, drink beer, smoke pot and have toga parties. Well the house didn't happen, but the toga parties did, just waited for the folks to go on a trip. Good times man!
wow. back in the day when a movie was lightning in a bottle, and the studios/writers DIDN"T make a terrible sequel and run the damn thing into the ground. How refreshing. It wasn't always crap like it is now. Maybe we'll see that happen again
The first time I saw this movie was under the perfect conditions. My brother and I and two friends went to see it in a theatre in Seattle when it first came out. We’d been eating some mushrooms (not the kind you put on pizza) and we asked some cops if they knew where the theatre was and we were right in front of it. They looked at us like we were high or something and said “it’s right there” and we started to get paranoid. When we went into the theatre we sat right behind a guy who looked just like Flounder (at least to us, did I mention the mushrooms?). He turned to his friends and said “this is supposed to be funny” and he sounded just like Flounder too (at least to us) and we all just busted out laughing. He turned around and gave us the side eye which caused us to laugh harder. The movie hadn’t even really gotten started and we were busting a gut. We never stopped laughing the whole time. Sometimes at the movie and sometimes at that guy. I guess we were being kinda rude but we didn’t care. Everything came together perfectly to make that movie a once in a lifetime classic. A sequel taking place in the Haight would have been nice but I don’t think they could have ever matched the original, even if John Belushi hadn’t died. Some things only happen once and can’t be re created.
Sounds like us guys here north of Detroit !!. We'd trip on Cid or shroomies...go to the drive-in triple features. Or to concerts. We got kicked out of the cinema for drinking beer at Animal House, while laughing hysterically on mescaline. We had a blast growing up....all 9 of us guys still hang together at 63 y.o. The stories are never ending and like us....they never get old...( I wish..)
Yep, I don’t like being old but I wouldn’t give up the experiences I had when I was young for anything. Things are different now. People who didn’t live through those days can never understand.
Do you know how many times I've heard the line, my name is so an so I'm running for class president or whatever they decide to insert and followed up with ,and im damn glad to meet you. And then someone else repeat the line to the same person back to back saying the first guy's name and he is so an so and he's damn glad to meet you. Even still today I hear that from time to time. And it's still funny😊
I'd forgotten this, it's been years, pretty sure my wife has never seen the movie, which could be interesting...........................thanks for posting !!! And my God don't these actors look young, even Sutherland !
I first saw this film when it was released to Military theaters when I was in-processing to Korea. I laughed SO hard and did not realize how close to reality it could be.
Doug Kenney was a genius, and would have probably been skeptical of being able to kill himself in a 10 meter jump. He most likely lost his footing and fell.
I remember recording this on a blank VHS tape. It came out sometime between the start of the 2nd semester of my 7th grade year of middle school & the end of the first semester of my 8th grade year of middle school. Great times... I still have it, to this day.
There's a B&W freeze frame from the toga party here with Landis saying the cast were college kids. The dark haired cutie is Rosy Bell, my friend at the time. I graduated from UO the summer of shooting, and went to Japan to teach, which is where I saw Animal House when it released there. This was OUR story! Too bad they tore down the Delta house. And #metoo has ruined the popularity of this movie, which the UO has basically banned from campus. So sad.
I remember going to see the movie out of college, and I kept thinking, "I knew an Otter... I knew a Bluto... I knew a..." I saw so many people from my college experience in that movie (and my group hated the privileged "frat rats", too)... ;-) As long as there are college kids and alumni, "Animal House" will always have an audience... ;-)
Ramis and Kenney were absolute comedic geniuses! Films like this and “The Kentucky Fried Movie” could never be made these days, without the woke Twitter mob absolutely losing their shyte? They have no sense of humour, and pretty much killed the raunchy comedy film genre.
I was a freshman in a small town heavily religious stuck up straight laced boring assbackwards college in NW Iowa, and we drove to see this movie when it first came out on a whim. The complete juxtaposition of what I was experiencing at the time, to what was happening on this fabulous big screen, had me holding my stomach laughing. I am 63 now. The hardest I have ever laughed, and best time I have ever had at a movie to this day... Classic. Still my all-time fav!
That was probably just in the big cities or in LA. I distinctly remember the cost of a movie ticket was $2.50 in the early to mid 80s. When I was a kid I always brought $5 to the movies and that covered the ticket, a snack, and a coke. Of course that was in small town Louisiana.
Saw it when I was 10 and they almost didn't let me in the theatre. We were on vacation in Florida and my parents were going out to dinner and dropped me and my 12 and 9 year old brothers off to see it. Awesome movie.
@ seabreeze9296 That would be something you would never get away with today. Let's face it. If you tried that today,you would have animal rights activists down on you like a ton of bricks.
This movie changed the college experience for every student since...you either act like someone from the movie, or you have to deal with people who act like a character from the movie...
I remember my sister and her boyfriend went to the drive in movies. They came back cracking up and telling parts of the movie. I was excited when it came out on VHS 📼
I remember sneaking into the theater to see Animal House, I was 13 at the time. This movie has been one of my favorites that I watch often, and I know just about every line in the movie. The cast was excellent.
The first time I saw this movie was in 1980 and we bought our first VCR and it was a 3rd generation tape. I was an Air Force dependent on Okinawa. Greatest memories. It’s been in my collection ever since
They stated 25years ago…. It’s been almost 50 now folks.
Holly crap! 1/2 a century!!
That comment hit hard! All those moments...
I was a student at the U of O when this was being filmed. I remember walking across University Avenue somewhere in front of Mac Court around dusk one evening and I noticed some commotion from a group of about 25-30 people walking on the sidewalk on the other side and spilling out onto the street to my left. They were being held back by 3 or 4 people holding them back with outstretched arms. I wondered what was going on, so I looked farther down the side walk to my left and there he was.
John Belushi was by himself on the sidewalk walking the opposite direction from where I had come from next to the big boulders that make up one side of the Pioneer Cemetery. I stood in the middle of the street standing about 25 feet away from him as I remembered that people had been talking about this movie being made on campus. I was awestruck. He was pulling some litter out from between the stones when he noticed me standing in the middle of the street. He stopped what he was doing and stared back for a couple seconds - and then kind of grunted and moved on. I remember wanting to say something like, "Hey! I'm your biggest fan - don't grunt at me!" But I just kept on walking and thinking about how I was a huge fan of SNL and was also living near campus two years earlier when the very first SNL aired. It was a pretty cool time to be a college student... and at the University of Oregon.
Awesome 💯
I was 20 and in college. Our weekends already centered on Saturday Night Live back when it was good. This was the most hilarious movie in history, broke the mold.
The old saying of Delta, "Don't get mad, get even." A motto I live by today.
Originally from John F Kennedy’s father, Joe Kennedy.
Even better...get satisfaction.
I was a country kid. My more sophisticated cousin took me to this during summer vacation. I wasn't old enough but nobody cared. As we'd say now, he took me for the memes. If I didn't see it, I wouldn't get anybody's jokes all summer. I'm forever grateful. We knew it was a classic.
(I lived so far in the woods I missed the local drive-in run of Kentucky... too. What an outcast I felt like in high school. People did those bits constantly.)
By the time the movie came out, I was already a huge Chris Miller fan so, OF COURSE, I was gonna go see it! He's the best writer I've ever read!
I started working at Cedar Point on July 5th, `78. a week & a half later was my 21st b-day. A week & a half later this movie came out and, within the next week or so, I took the ferry over to the Sandusky Mall (or, wherever they had a movie theatre) and saw it there for the first time and LOVED it!!
About 10 or 15 years ago, I got hold of Chris and we exchanged e-mails for a week or so. I told him how much I loved his work and sent him some recordings of my band and he said he really liked them and sent me a copy of his first story, which I hadn't been able to find for my collection. Then, suddenly, he went "POOF!" And I haven't heard from him, since!
As far as I know, he's 80 years old, now. I think his book, "The Real Animal House" came out shortly after that and I bought it a read it from cover to cover. Another great Chris Miller work!! It sure would be nice if he could put out more books! Even if one was just a collection of all the stuff he wrote for Screw, Oui and the Lampoon!
Sadly, as far as I know, there's not even a web site about him OR his work!
I lived in the apartment where they got high for the first time. It’s on 6th and Lawrence in Eugene. They also used to throw punk shows in the basement of animal house until they tore it down in ‘86
I bought the movie years ago! I still have it on DVD now!
I hated Tim Matheson until he played "Otter" because he had become typecast as this romantic weepie Mills and Boone character and he became a mirror image
Li's came out they had a soundtrack album that had a poster in it that had everybody shooting the bird great movie and a great time to be alive but the soundtrack was awesome
Thank the universe there was never a sequel.
Read Harold Ramis' daughter's book.
"I'll get my coat.". Ah ha, I heard that in Cruella, and thought I know I heard that somewhere else funny
"Animal House" was the 2nd AFI top-100 film to be shot in Cottage Grove, OR.
Trivia question . . . "What was the first?"
“The General” Buster Keaton
Had just moved to Oregon 7 years ago [2016], and some local channel was playing an old Buster Keaton movie I had never heard of. As I watched the train sequence [ missed the beginning] I realized what his predicament was, and I just started busting outlaughing. As Buster [The General] ran out of wood for the steam engine, he was off next to the rails throwing fallen trees onto the train to try and not run out of steam in enemy territory!! So f-en funny!
My daughter followed us to Oregon and settled in Cottage grove. As I visited her I spotted the big mural about the film.
I was shocked that Iwas near where a movie I had just proclaimed the funniest thing I had seen was filmed in Cottage Grove!
This movie has made me famous. My real name is Louie.
That national lampoon guy looked like kevin Neyland crossed with david hartman
This is a classic movie but I've seen worse behavior!! I was a volunteer for the Sheriff's Department and went to Frat houses at 4AM to quiet them down!! If we went back they would go to jail!
We went back to one the second time and the Sargent told them if we come back EVERYBODY'S going to jail to including that barking dog!😊 When I went to see the 🎥 movie it was packed out and a line two blocks long waiting!! Drunken fights broke out and the POS were called!!
Half the people were in Togas and were searched for weapons and booze! Several went to jail!
15 minutes were cut out of the theater version by the sensors witch would breeze thru today!!😮
The only thing that bothered me was the classic cars destroyed!!😢
Yeah the actors were great. They were perfect. Yeah the director was inspired, he was the perfect choice to bring that parade home. Belushi, Landis, Matheson, McNall, Reitman, Elmer Bernstien, Dean Wormer, it was their greatest work in great careers. But when you have people going around quoting numerous lines from "Animal House" for 40 years it shows what genius screenwriting looks like. They say it was Doug Kinney's baby that he collaborated with two others on. I think the greatest thing they did was make funny some really serious subjects in such an honest way. Anarchy, the Delta House represents that all over, with a healthy dose of nihilism. Class conflict, Omegas versus Deltas. But what I like is that Kinney and crew don't really say which is better. Racism, the interaction between the white Deltas and Otis Day and the blacks from the"Dexter Lake Club" is a refreshing dose of reality to face conflict. In other words, this may be a comedy but it's painfully real. Feminism, the ladies from "Emily Dickenson College."
Don’t overthink the movie! It was a National Lampoon movie and not intended to have any deep meaning other humor.
I didn't say deep meaning. It's as deep as it needs to be. But damn "A.H."covers a lot of ground, makes fun of so much. It's the nihilism and anarchy so comedically driven in the screenplay that delivers: "It's gotta be better than the truth," "You fucked up, you trusted us," "Drop and give me twenty." "Otis, my man!" ..."Animal House started a genre. There'd be no "Footloose" or "Risky Business" without it. I find it historically significant, like somewhere between The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, and Cheech & Chong
It isn't just silly,..it's silly with contemporaneous social references. Now don't accuse me of overthinking it. @@OlsenTheWonderDog
Most over-rated film of all time
When I applied for a loan at the local Wells Fargo, the loan officer’s name was Doug Neidermeyer. I immediately said: You’re kidding!
This movie would not even exist if it weren’t for Doug Kenney. It’s such a shame he’s barely even mentioned.
Stork.
One of the greatest wits. A literal and very funny person
Yep, it’s a damn shame he was barely mentioned.
And sadly, he died two years later.
"Well, what are we supposed to say about him, you moron!"
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You're right. See the documentary about NL - "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" for more about D.K.
I was 17 and had a thing for Dean Wormer's wife.
I was 16 and I did also.
Animal House came out just before my freshman year of college. EVERYBODY had seen the movie before landing at freshman orientation. There were record number of people pledging that year. And toga parties were all the rage. Good times!
I was an extra in the food fight sequence, John Belushi was even funnier between takes than he was when the cameras were rolling.
Great, fantastic memories !!!
We had a blast growing up in OUR time !
You were involved with comic royalty.
One of the greatest scenes of movie history.....and you're in it !!!
Incredible !
Cheers from Detroit 🇺🇲
I worked on the Blues Brothers film, John and Dan Aykroyd were very cool, used to take the crew out for drinks after filming. Wild times for sure!!
Awesome 💯
both my parents were there too! i wonder if you happened to see them. Plus, I was born in Cottage Grove.
Haha, that house is three blocks down my street. It's a pot store now.
That's ROBERT CRAY guitarist for Otis Day and The Nights. I saw this film twice during the week of release.
Wow!
@@gingernightmare9152 indeed!
Doug kenney is hardly mentioned him and Henry beard WERE NATIONAL LAMPOON
Yeah and it also was the start of the toga craze I join the airforce the following year and they were still having toga parties
Supposedly, John Vernon spent the entire shoot begging John Landis to give him some funny dialog or some slapstick to do, insisting that he could be as funny as anybody else in the cast. Meanwhile, Landis was seeing the dailies and knew that, with the exception of a tour de force performance by John Belushi, Vernon was the funniest thing in the movie... and it wasn't close.. so he kept saying no.
When Animal House came out it played on all six screens at our local drive in in Anaheim, CA for the entire summer. We would sneak into the Drive In and start looking for our friends. It was way more than a movie it was a happening.
The original voice of Jonny Quest and Jace of Space Ghost becomes Otter... whoda' thunk it? ;-)
It was prophetic that he also becomes Van Wilder's dad... ;-)
Casting director Michael Chinich really is the unsung hero of this classic, as you could NOT cast a better group of actors than this? Everyone from Dean Wormer, the rival WASP fraternity to Donald Sutherland etc it was perfect! I think anyone who went to college knew at least one or all of these characters?
We were there in 78. All of us getting ready for college or the Marines...we saw this 3 times in 2 weeks. All 9 of us got kicked out for bringing in beer the 3rd time. This movie and Cheech and Chong were epic !!!
Thank God we grew up when we did. 🇺🇲
I miss Harold Ramis. He was great, but never got the recognition he deserved, even if you consider Ghost Busters.
Among everyone I know, he's considered one of the greatest. The greatest movies of the 80s are all thanks to him!
@Dwendele Yes Sir, well said.
@@rvierra7235Funny thing is I didn't know who he was until I saw Stripes for the first time. R.I.P Harold Ramis
He was a funny guy. I miss him.
Doug Kenny was a comedic genius. The comedies that could have been !
“Knowledge is GOOD “
English here. This hit UK cinemas when i was in RAF at 18. Its a favourite film. Good tomes. Reinforced our ideas the Yanks are nuts! In the best way.
I know the guy in the scene who was left standing alone with a beer in his hand after Otter snatched the girl away he was talking to during the party scene early in the movie. The guy left standing was one of many U of O students used as extras.
I always thought that he looked like someone I had known.
yeah I played in a band with the guy about 10 years after the movie was made. He's in another scene in the classroom when Donald Sutherland say's "I'm not joking, this is my job." lol.@@veltonmeade1057
Animal House and Up in Smoke came out the same year -1978 , basically 2 months apart. I was 17 and just wanted to live in an old house with all my buddies, drink beer, smoke pot and have toga parties. Well the house didn't happen, but the toga parties did, just waited for the folks to go on a trip. Good times man!
wow. back in the day when a movie was lightning in a bottle, and the studios/writers DIDN"T make a terrible sequel and run the damn thing into the ground. How refreshing. It wasn't always crap like it is now. Maybe we'll see that happen again
Belushi died thats only reason no sequel money talks
Sad that some of these people are no longer with us.
The first time I saw this movie was under the perfect conditions. My brother and I and two friends went to see it in a theatre in Seattle when it first came out. We’d been eating some mushrooms (not the kind you put on pizza) and we asked some cops if they knew where the theatre was and we were right in front of it. They looked at us like we were high or something and said “it’s right there” and we started to get paranoid. When we went into the theatre we sat right behind a guy who looked just like Flounder (at least to us, did I mention the mushrooms?). He turned to his friends and said “this is supposed to be funny” and he sounded just like Flounder too (at least to us) and we all just busted out laughing. He turned around and gave us the side eye which caused us to laugh harder. The movie hadn’t even really gotten started and we were busting a gut. We never stopped laughing the whole time. Sometimes at the movie and sometimes at that guy. I guess we were being kinda rude but we didn’t care. Everything came together perfectly to make that movie a once in a lifetime classic. A sequel taking place in the Haight would have been nice but I don’t think they could have ever matched the original, even if John Belushi hadn’t died. Some things only happen once and can’t be re created.
Sounds like us guys here north of Detroit !!.
We'd trip on Cid or shroomies...go to the drive-in triple features. Or to concerts. We got kicked out of the cinema for drinking beer at Animal House, while laughing hysterically on mescaline.
We had a blast growing up....all 9 of us guys still hang together at 63 y.o. The stories are never ending and like us....they never get old...( I wish..)
Yep, I don’t like being old but I wouldn’t give up the experiences I had when I was young for anything.
Things are different now. People who didn’t live through those days can never understand.
November 15, 1962. This date (said in a class room in the movie) was the exact day I was born! :)
it was and always will be one of the few movies that you cannot channel surf past; it's a seminal flick for us baby boomers; Caddyshack is a close 2nd
I’ve never seen two heterosexual guys, sitting and being interviewed together, in this position. 24:28 😂
And that my friend, is the real shame. They are showing friendship and a camaraderie.
"i'm a zit, get it ", I have used that line so many times.
Do you know how many times I've heard the line, my name is so an so I'm running for class president or whatever they decide to insert and followed up with ,and im damn glad to meet you. And then someone else repeat the line to the same person back to back saying the first guy's name and he is so an so and he's damn glad to meet you. Even still today I hear that from time to time. And it's still funny😊
I was not in that fraternity, but my basic training unit sure was alot like them!!
Mine wasn’t, but my permanent party location sure was!
I'd forgotten this, it's been years, pretty sure my wife has never seen the movie, which could be interesting...........................thanks for posting !!! And my God don't these actors look young, even Sutherland !
I think I was a sophomore or junior in HS when this hit the theaters. Thats all my friends talked about, that and the Carpenter film Halloween.
I first saw this film when it was released to Military theaters when I was in-processing to Korea. I laughed SO hard and did not realize how close to reality it could be.
Doug Kennedy was such a huge contributor to Animal House and his demise was so sad. He thew himself off a Hawaiian cliff.
Kenney
@@if6was929 That was spellcheck
Doug Kenney was a genius, and would have probably been skeptical of being able to kill himself in a 10 meter jump. He most likely lost his footing and fell.
@@zekelucente9702 Kenny Spellcheck? Yeah, he and I were in 1st grade together. He used to eat paste.
@WendelltheSongwriter the line they used was that he probably slipped and fell accidentally while scouting a location to commit suicide 😅😅
The corvette in the movie was sold a couple years ago. It was stored couple years after the movie was released
I’m a founding father of Delta Tau Delta at Arizona State University! I was pinto to Otter in 4 years. We watched this movie on a loop
I remember recording this on a blank VHS tape.
It came out sometime between the start of the 2nd semester of my 7th grade year of middle school & the end of the first semester of my 8th grade year of middle school.
Great times...
I still have it, to this day.
I remember driving down to Eugene and Cottage Grove to watch the filming when I was in high school. *SO very cool!*
Kiln explosion, One of the funniest lines ever
Kinda like how mobsters have to watch Godfather Movies to learn how to be mobsters
There's a B&W freeze frame from the toga party here with Landis saying the cast were college kids. The dark haired cutie is Rosy Bell, my friend at the time. I graduated from UO the summer of shooting, and went to Japan to teach, which is where I saw Animal House when it released there. This was OUR story! Too bad they tore down the Delta house. And #metoo has ruined the popularity of this movie, which the UO has basically banned from campus. So sad.
Is the scene you are referring to @ 26:59? The dark-haired woman on the right? If so, yes she is a cutie. I have always admired brunettes.
At least Landis didn't kill anyone on the film, as with Vic Morrow and the kid.
I played music there in Cottage Grove Oregon where they filmed the movie. Many of the Cottage Grove Police Dept. were extras.
The great Ivan Reitman & Harold Ramis before the 2 Ghostbusters movies were behind the greatest college fraternity movie ever
Don’t forget Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller!
I remember going to see the movie out of college, and I kept thinking, "I knew an Otter... I knew a Bluto... I knew a..." I saw so many people from my college experience in that movie (and my group hated the privileged "frat rats", too)... ;-)
As long as there are college kids and alumni, "Animal House" will always have an audience... ;-)
The Most Maddest Comedy Film Ever!😂😂It Rips Me To Bits Laughing😂😂
Ramis and Kenney were absolute comedic geniuses!
Films like this and “The Kentucky Fried Movie” could never be made these days, without the woke Twitter mob absolutely losing their shyte?
They have no sense of humour, and pretty much killed the raunchy comedy film genre.
Yep. They have no sense of humor.
I was a freshman in a small town heavily religious stuck up straight laced boring assbackwards college in NW Iowa, and we drove to see this movie when it first came out on a whim. The complete juxtaposition of what I was experiencing at the time, to what was happening on this fabulous big screen, had me holding my stomach laughing. I am 63 now. The hardest I have ever laughed, and best time I have ever had at a movie to this day... Classic. Still my all-time fav!
Matt’s Simmons DID NOT start the Lampoon lmao. It was Doug Kenney and Henry Beard. How can you be that wrong?
They wouldn’t have got it going if it wasn’t for Matty’s publishing. He was most definitely started the Lampoon
Don’t forget Rob Hoffman. He was a Doug and Henry’s partner
Love this info on a great movie.
Half size, blurry, stolen, pirated video... love watching those.
Absolutely one of the greatest movies ever. Couldn't make it today and still laugh everytime I see even small parts of it.
I was looking for this! Thanks for the upload!
$4.00 to watch a movie in 1978? Damn that was alot back than!
That was probably just in the big cities or in LA. I distinctly remember the cost of a movie ticket was $2.50 in the early to mid 80s. When I was a kid I always brought $5 to the movies and that covered the ticket, a snack, and a coke. Of course that was in small town Louisiana.
They did a vomit joke, but they kept it offscreen, which made it better, I think.
Yeah I agree. Just the imagery of him throwing up on Dean Wormer made it much funnier, than if they had shown it actually happen.
A masterpiece.
Saw it when I was 10 and they almost didn't let me in the theatre. We were on vacation in Florida and my parents were going out to dinner and dropped me and my 12 and 9 year old brothers off to see it. Awesome movie.
It only proves that studio/network "suits" don't know sh!t...
they killed a horse in the film but they wouldn't shoot a puke scene?
You are really cute!
@ seabreeze9296 That would be something you would never get away with today. Let's face it. If you tried that today,you would have animal rights activists down on you like a ton of bricks.
Now we know what happen to that generation.
Interesting Mark Melcalf as lead Omega! The man ,who is one of the producers of Double Play Productions with Amy Robinson and Griffin Dunne
Toga Toga Toga
I saw this before I went to university (in Britain). I was disappointed (by uni). The film is a classic though and my uni years a haze in the past!
This movie changed the college experience for every student since...you either act like someone from the movie, or you have to deal with people who act like a character from the movie...
Funniest comedy of all time
Dartmouth is where BASIC was developed.
Greatest comedy of all time!
25:33. So Karen went Full Karen. That’s OG.
i feel sorry for John Belushi. he was a great Bluto. RIP
too many drugs will kill you every time.
Clint Howard out performing Johnny Depp…!?
Karen Allen’s role as Smalls’ mom in the Sandlot will always be what i remember her for.
These scenes are just as hilarious now as they were when I first saw the movie all of those years ago - what a hoot is was and still is...
A wild, crazy riot of a movie and a gloriously funny one to boot
This is truly the funniest college flim!
I'm sorry I'm going out to get a keg of beer 😊😮
Mathison and First were casted in Up the Creek too.
Great movie! I was in college at the time and we had a Delta house that was just as bad as these guys, maybe worse.
ZBT St Louis. 😅 was there
I remember my sister and her boyfriend went to the drive in movies. They came back cracking up and telling parts of the movie. I was excited when it came out on VHS 📼
I read the book before I saw the movie.
A few Canucks in there!