Watching Animal House

[goldmom]

Really kind of amazing how life, by which I mean fraternity culture at universities, imitated art after that movie.

Closest thing I’ve seen since is when I was taking my kids on college tours and every school insisted that THEIR library was the model for the Hogwarts library in Harry Potter.

When you listen to the dialogue and realize how many of the phrases are in use today it’s pretty funny.
I mean was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? 😎

 

[goldmom]

I think it’s because there is a huge segment of the population, baby boomers and Gen X, who have seen Animal House multiple times, and by multiple I mean a lot. Cable TV and HBO/Cinemax had a huge impact. With VHS and cable TV, you could watch movies over and over and over.

I am sure there are a few of us in our 40’s - 60’s who could damn near quote the entire movie. Stripes is another one in the highly quoted category and that’s a fact, Jack.

So many of 80’s movies if you think about it.
My kids and their cousins still do whole scenes of dialogue from Mr. Mom or The Goonies. Lost Boys. Breakfast Club (in junior high).
Stand By Me.
We Boomer parents bought VCR’s and hit Blockbuster with them every Friday night then hit Little Caesar (pizza pizza) and let them binge out on both in the Family Room. (Not many basements in the South).

 

[noleclone2]

Mid 70s-80s were kind of the golden age raunch comedies as the restrictions on cussing and nudity lessened but before political correctness and comedy collided. Just a wonderful combination of actors and writers and directors and some amazing movies over a 10 year time say 1974-1983.

Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Caddyshack
Airplane
Porky’s
Young Frankenstein
The Jerk
Stripes
Vacation
Revenge of the Nerds
Meatballs
Blues Brothers

Belushi, Aykroyd, Murray, Martin, Prior, Wilder, Chase…

 

[HawkeyeShawn]

So many of 80’s movies if you think about it.
My kids and their cousins still do whole scenes of dialogue from Mr. Mom or The Goonies. Lost Boys. Breakfast Club (in junior high).
Stand By Me.
We Boomer parents bought VCR’s and hit Blockbuster with them every Friday night then hit Little Caesar (pizza pizza) and let them binge out on both in the Family Room. (Not many basements in the South).

Spot on. My Mom worked right next to a video rental store. This was back before most people actually owned a VCR. You could rent the VCR along with the movies. She come home on. Friday evening with a suitcase looking bag that housed the monster VCR player and 3-4 movies rented for the weekend. Which we watched on our giant console Zenith TV.

 

[BubsFinn]

The peeping tom scene would NEVER be allowed today.

Neither would a college freshman banging a 13 year old.

 

[ICWestfan]

 

[davenporter]

Spot on. My Mom worked right next to a video rental store. This was back before most people actually owned a VCR. You could rent the VCR along with the movies. She come home on. Friday evening with a suitcase looking bag that housed the monster VCR player and 3-4 movies rented for the weekend. Which we watched on our giant console Zenith TV.

Let me guess the VCR weighed like 50lbs and the vhs tape holder came up from the top of the VHS player, you inserted tape, and then tape dropped back into the VCR?

 

[HawkeyeShawn]

Let me guess the VCR weighed like 50lbs and the vhs tape holder came up from the top of the VHS player, you inserted tape, and then tape dropped back into the VCR?

Indeed.

 

[rfgiowa]

 

[BonzoFury]

Sophomore dies in kiln explosion.

"She was gonna make me a pot"

 

[SolarHawk]

The peeping tom scene would NEVER be allowed today.

Probably not. Revenge of the Nerds is another one. The main protagonist basically rapes a women by tricking her into thinking he’s her boyfriend.

 

[BonzoFury]

You homo !!!!!!!

 

[win4jj]

“Those assholes must of stolen the wrong ****ing exam!”

I think of this Animal House quote often when I am grading tests at school. It’s always the same dumb morons that can’t comprehend the material or are to lazy to study.

 

[BubsFinn]

Sophomore dies in kiln explosion.

"She was gonna make me a pot"

** "She was gonna make a pot for me."

 

[BonzoFury]

** "She was gonna make a pot for me."

"I used to touch Fawn this way".
"I know...she told me".
"She did?"

 

[goldmom]

“Those assholes must of stolen the wrong ****ing exam!”

I think of this Animal House quote often when I am grading tests at school. It’s always the same dumb morons that can’t comprehend the material or are to lazy to study.

Ugh. I had kids who spent more time cheating than studying for tests.
Guys who wrote stuff on soda cans and came to class pretending they were drinking a Coke.
Girls who only wore a skirt on test days because they wrote stuff on their thigh.
They got caught every time.

 

[win4jj]

Ugh. I had kids who spent more time cheating than studying for tests.
Guys who wrote stuff on soda cans and came to class pretending they were drinking a Coke.
Girls who only wore a skirt on test days because they wrote stuff on their thigh.
They got caught every time.

Yep. I usually have some pretty good sarcasm geared up when I catch students cheating. Or I just stick with my standard, “if you put the same effort into preparing yourself for the test as you did cheating you would pass.”

 

[SolarHawk]

Ugh. I had kids who spent more time cheating than studying for tests.
Guys who wrote stuff on soda cans and came to class pretending they were drinking a Coke.
Girls who only wore a skirt on test days because they wrote stuff on their thigh.
They got caught every time.

Yep. I usually have some pretty good sarcasm geared up when I catch students cheating. Or I just stick with my standard, “if you put the same effort into preparing yourself for the test as you did cheating you would pass.”

I mean, our society does not care about doing things the right way. We idolize winning at all costs regardless of the rules. Look who we just elected to be president. We are on a downhill slide.