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Dude, I'd freaking love to see you with some dark comedy. Martin McDonaugh's "Seven Psychopaths"; Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards"; Coen Brothers' "Fargo". Or anything else by any of them.
Caddyshack Bachelor Party Revenge of the Nerds Stripes Working Girl UHF Quick Change The Jerk The Frisco Kid Brewster's Millions Three Amigos Spies Like Us I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Richard Pryor in Moving
before "airplane"." before "animal house." and released the same year as "blazing saddles" there was a movie called "groove tube." sadly, its overlooked and underrated these days but this low budget cult classic is one of the funniest movies ever made. its a little racy and often in bad taste but that's what makes so funny.
I was in college when this came out, naturally it was quiet popular with college age kids. Lots of toga parties after this film came out. The Porkys movies would be worth a patreon poll , they came out in the 80s.
Love that you're doing classic late 70s-early 80s comedies! If you haven't already, check out Stripes. It's Bill Murray and John Candy among others, and it's a classic (I think 1980). It's one of my favorite comedies around this time.
Stripes definitely. If he's done Caddyshack already, proceed to Stripes! (Ditto Blues Brothers). For Ramis it's Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, then Ghostbusters. For Landis (and Belushi), it's Animal House and Blues Brothers.
Also the Maestro on two episodes of Seinfeld, the guy is friggin' brilliant. When I was a kid, I never realized how brilliant his performance was, or John Vernon as Dean Wormer, or Stephen Furst as Flounder. etc etc. I was just so focused on Belushi and D-Day and all the crazy Delta cats. But yeah.....I'm ashamed I don't even know that guy's name, the guy who played Nedermeyer (the "drill sgt.").
Professor Jennings was played by Donald Sutherland who originated the role of "Hawkeye" Pierce in the film M*A*SH* and i also starred n Clint Eastwood's Kelly's Heroes. He would also play in A Time to Kill opposite Matthew McConaughey. His son Kiefer a great actor in his own right had a part in the film. In the 2000s he was known as President Snow in The "Hunger Games" films.
Kelly's Heroes wasn't a Clint Eastwood film. It was an ensemble film. It was way before Clint's directorial days. To me it would be like saying The Great Escape is a Steve McQueen movie. Which is another great ensemble movie.
Ditto - Our small college class of 1980 did as much from this 1978 movie as we could get away with... Great times, paid our rent and utilities with a keg party every month... 18 was the drinking age. Police did not bother us because our house was next to campus, and no one could have cars on campus! Charged $2 for guys and $1 for girls... went through 9 and a half 16 gallon kegs one night... paid $12.95 for each keg - except the Schlitz Malt Liquor keg that we mixed in to slow people down.. that was $18.95. Glad there was no social media, cell phone cameras around in the day! Yes, we Toga'd!
Dude, fantastic reaction. This is the mother of every one of those raunchy youth comedies that came immediately after this movie was a hit, especially during the 80s and like you said the "American Pie" movies. And 95% of the imitators aren't nearly as smart, well-acted, well-written or directed as this one. This was the movie that put John Landis on the map, and also all of the millions of Saturday Night Live-affiliated hit comedies that have never ceased, to this very day. Other than Chevy Chase in "Foul Play", which preceded this, "Animal House" really put SNL (and National Lampoon) into the movie universe and beyond. From this comes everything from Caddyshack and Ghostbusters and Vacation to seeing Kristen Wiig in "Barbie". Or having Bill Hader do "Barry", or Jimmy Fallon taking over the Tonight Show! It just put SNL onto another level (and also helped SCTV.....this movie was written by Harold Ramis who, at that time was on SCTV. The OTHER brilliant late 70s late night comedy show with John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy and tons of others). THANKS!!!!!!!!
Fun fact: There's a 2003 mockumentary called 'Animal House: Where Are They Now?' That tells more about what happened to the characters 30 years after the events of the movie. Such as Dean Wormer retiring in Florida, who is now a scatterbrained coot who gets extremely pissed at anyone mentioning The Deltas, and Babs becoming a tour guide in Universal Studios Hollywood, despite being the top mean-girl of Faber College. Look it up on RUclips.
Another interesting thing. John Belushi (RIP) who played John "Bluto" Blutarsky was at that time the biggest start in the world. He is still to this day the only person to ever have a #1 TV Show (he was one of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players" who started Saturday Night Live) and a #1 Album (Briefcase full of Blues: He and Dan Aykroyd were the Blues Brothers) and a #1 Movie (Animal House) AT THE SAME TIME.
The end of this movie is actually a parody of George Lucas' "American Graffiti". In fact, the entire movie is a sort of evil cousin of "American Graffiti"! You should definitely see that one! "Animal House" is the mother of all the raunchy youth comedies; "American Graffiti" is simply the mother of all youth ensemble comedies. And like "Animal House", it's a period piece that takes place in 1962, when 1950s culture was in it's last year, before the 60s got super crazy. So there's a bit more depth than may initially meet the eye because, although it is outrageous and over the top, it does capture the time period in an accurate and affectionate way. And not just surfacey, like "look at the old cars and clothes". And yet it's so 70s the same way "Dazed And Confused" is so 90s, it has that perspective of looking back with some irony. "Senator Blutarsky"! Ha! Years later, the USA elected frat boy George W. Bush and his methods of hazing back in the day came under scrutiny!!! And then his opponent John Kerry had been in the same fraternity or something, and both candidates had their college shenanigans brought up to them in the debates.......So Animal House had it right on the money!
You are so right about the evil cousin to American Graffiti. Everyone around American Graffiti didn't want Lucas to put that on the end credits. I don't think it had been done before. When I saw the film in 1973 it hit like a ton of bricks! American Graffiti is a must watch! It was a little under ground film that came out of nowhere and like Star Wars it changed a lot of things in film. Like Star Wars the way they use sound in American Graffiti is amazing. It was the first film to play songs from start to finish. So many unknown actors who went on to fame. It is George Lucas's life story. Toad, John, Curt are the 3 parts of George. He was a nerd, He build and raced cars and almost died, He left his hometown and became a writer. The making of American Graffiti is on youtube. It's a great watch for anyone.
@@reesebn38 I love American Graffiti, but it wasn't underground at all. It was very popular. It is one of the highest grossing films upon its release. And it was nominated for best picture at the Oscars. Candy Clark who played Debbie was nominated for best supporting actress. It did win best picture in the musical or comedy category at the Golden Globe awards.
This was the FIRST and the best of the "wild party goes off the rails" movies. Everything that followed and still follows pales in comparison. The Hangover is an example of a movie that gets it origins from the classic Animal House. Animal House is a little dated but it is iconic.
Two things I'll say: it's just like drinking cool water to see a reaction to a movie I don't see reacted to so much. It's crazy how I jumped on this reaction just because it wasn't The Thing, lol. Secondly: not that you didn't still enjoy the ending, but even I will admit that the end feels slightly disturbing in a way that no one would have possibly anticipated back then. Nobody was predicting the public carnage that it seems gets unleashed every other week now. That stuff just didn't happen, other than some extremely isolated incidents. So when you see this movie, or Lindsay Anderson's "If", or even "Carrie"......they were all super outrageous, over the top endings nobody was thinking could or would ever happen. that's why they were used! Watching Animal House in '78 (and for years afterwards), everyone is just laughing and cheering on the carnage! Not that we still aren't, but it's like Kubrick changing the ending of Dr. Strangelove after the JFK thing; you probably wouldn't give Animal House the same ending if you made it today! (but that aside, I love it. A typical John Landis ending like Blues Brothers or American Werewolf In London. And a good nod and a wink to American Graffiti! You have to see American Graffiti! Great movie!
The guy "Stork" in the yellow shirt @5:59 was Doug Kenney. He co-wrote this and "Caddyshack" and was a writer/editor of Harvard's National Lampoon magazine.
1:23... quick history lesson from a 'boomer'- at the time this movie was made, that WAS called a 'beanie'- what you now refer to as a beanie used to be called (& still is by us geezers!) a 'stocking cap', or a 'watch cap'! (so called by sailors b/c night watch guards were posted aboard ship for safety, & these kept your head warm in cold weather!)
Late 70s early 80s comedies are some of the best. Check out Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, Airplane, Stripes, or Bachelor Party for some more classics.
This movie provided some of the best workplace meme's ever. We used the "you fucked up, you trusted us" all the time at work. Sadly this movie couldn't be made today.
loved seeing one of my HS crushes during the classroom scene the blond in front was Anne Penny. I was at Oregon (where this was shot) until I dropped out and joied the army in 1977. That was the actual freshman class of the Army Rotc unit and many of my class mates from HS and community college pop up in small and extra rolls.
Did you recognize the professor they smoked pot with was Donald Sutherland? He played President Snow in The Hunger Games movies. If you ever watch some of the Twisted Sister music videos, they have a character in the video based on the Doug Neidermeyer character in Animal House and is played by the same actor, Mark Metcalf. There is even a Flounder cameo appearance at the end of one of their videos.
This might be the first real raunchy comedy. Harold Ramis co-wrote this. Any movie written by or Directed by Ramis is the best! He made all the great comedies! "Meatballs", "Stripes", "CaddyShack", "Vacation", "Ghostbusters", "Groundhog Day", "Back to School", "Analyze This". All of these Actors went on to have good Careers. John Belushi is so tragic. He was so talented! If He had lived John would have been the Star of Ghostbusters. My favorite movie of John Belushi is "Continental Divide"(1981). A Rom-com that really shows off Belushi's charm.
Well actually the movie M*A*S*H is very raunchy. In some ways, raunchier than this. Maybe that's why they got Donald Sutherland to be in it. M*A*S*H came out in 1970.
Hey, Primate, a couple of fun facts for you: John "Bluto" Blutarsky was played by John Belushi, brother of Jim Belushi from "King Of Queens" The actress that played the mayor's daughter was also in "Caddyshack," playing the character of "Maggie"
I saw this movie when it came out, and when I first layed eyes on Tim Matheson, I couldn't believe it, he was almost a deadringer of someone I dated back in 1967 and 68. I was an au pair from Denmark in Westport Ct. He was a Westport native, and a student at Miami University. He was also a model with the Eileen Ford agency in New York. He had the same dimples, smile and demeaner as Tim Matheson.
My favorite factoid about this, Flounder was a pizza delivery guy trying to break into acting and taped his picture in the pizza boxes delivered to the studio and got hired.
The end credits indicate that Needermeyer is "fragged" by his own soldiers in Vietnam. There's a scene indicating that in "Twilight Zone: the movie". Landis directed both.
D-Day (Bruce McGill) is the one of the few original cast members to be in the TV series.Delta House (apparently there was a copyright problem with the name Animal House). In one episode (The Draft) he had to report to the draft board - he gets rejected because his feet point backwards. The transition from regular to backwards is shown in one continuous take. It's either a really great illusion or he's double jointed and can really do this. ruclips.net/video/8NAFSOT8ph8/видео.html (check 21:10)
This was filmed at the University of Oregon, and Cottage Grove, Oregon. I was attending the U of O at the time, I like to watch this, because it reminds me of what the U of O campus looked like when I was going there.
I love how Otter is just so damn unapologetically sleazy. He didn't "switch up". He went in full well knowing Fawn had died and used it to scam girls. He's a genius and a degenerate in the same breath. Tim Matheson plays father to Ryan Reynolds in "National Lampoons Van Wilder". A fun film but my head cannon says Van is the son of Otter...
Now this movie is a welcome surprise. The original raunchy school comedy that set the standard for everything from Porky's to American Pie and everything after American Pie that ripped off American Pie
You should check out the movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) It is a biographical comedy about Greg Kenney. The creator of the magazine National Lampoon. He wrote Animal House and Caddyshack. In Animal House he plays Stork. The guy that leads the band in a dead end alley. It's an interesting tale, but it's a sad ending.
Hey, Primate! I don't know how this video slipped past me..... but I'm here for it now. I was 11 when this came out, so I didn't see it until the early 80s. Another such movie you might enjoy is "Real Genius", starring Val Kilmer.
Our college class of 1980 did as much from this 1978 movie as we could get away with... Great times, paid our rent and utilities with a keg party every month... 18 was the drinking age. Police did not bother us because our house was next to campus, and no one could have cars on campus! Charged $2 for guys and $1 for girls... went through 9 and a half 16 gallon kegs one night... paid $12.95 for each keg - except the Schlitz Malt Liquor keg that we mixed in to slow people down.. that was $18.95. Glad there was no social media, cell phone cameras around in the day! Yes, we Toga'd!
Donald Sutherland only worked on the film for two days he was offered $50,000 or 2% of the films gross. Sutherland thought the movie would be a flop so he took the guaranteed $50,000 had he taken the 2% he would have made 14 million. Also believe it or not John Belushi and the horse's owner each were paid $40,000.
Really do enjoy your reactions. Hope nobody has mentioned this before, and if they have… I apologize for mentioning it now. Katie is played by Karen Allen. You would know her as Marion (Not Miriam😉) Ravenwood in the Indiana Jones flicks! :-) D-Day also played Sheriff Farley in My Cousin Vinny! 😉
Oh wow. Can't wait to see you with this. I don't rmbr anything about it except that I laughed my ass off thru most of it. Long time ago 🙄😅 (Oh, and a certain subject that comes up near the end I believe. 🙈🤣) I've had a fkd up couple of weeks. I need this. 😊
It is funny to see how socially conservative Millennials are and so worried about property. Also he doesn't seem to realize that this so good because it is a John Landis film, if he even knows who he is. He also takes no notice of the music which is often Sam Cooke.
Primate have you seen peaky blinders? If not please considering putting it into your polls, an absolute amazing crime show up there with the likes of breaking bad and bcs in my opinion. On season 4 right now and every episode is a wild ride and you have no idea what is gonna happen next
3.26 A little respect. That was back when beer cans were steel, not the tin foil crap of today. 5.49 Way to show us what you're laughing at. 10.25 You cut the funniest line from that scene. 20.00 Thank you for leaving in the toga party. So many reactors don't, for some reason. 25.40 You missed that the guys were reading the obituaries on the way over. Not every moment must be filled with talk. 26.47 You cut the remarks at the door. It's cowardly and you cheated your viewers out of a hilarious moment. One ball, two strikes. 30.21 Further great lines skipped. Those like me will notice them gone. 31.20 Things were different in the 60s. 34.00 You included most of the parade. Base hit. Overall, a pretty good treatment of one of the greatest comedies of all time. Improve your swing a little and I'll buy season tickets.
Maybe it’s just my taste of humor or my time with college but I didn’t really like this film and felt it hasn’t aged that well. Mainly because the film wants you to root against the dean who for all intents and purposes is doing his job. He maybe an uptight ass about it but these guys are on academic probation and they’re not doing anything to solve it besides party and cheat(and much if caught can get you expelled). I’m not against partying in college but it’s best to party responsibly especially when you’re paying through the nose to go there. I realize this is satirical and anti establishment for the time but I can’t root for characters who don’t do anything to dig themselves out of the hole they got themselves into.
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Dude, I'd freaking love to see you with some dark comedy. Martin McDonaugh's "Seven Psychopaths"; Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards"; Coen Brothers' "Fargo". Or anything else by any of them.
Caddyshack
Bachelor Party
Revenge of the Nerds
Stripes
Working Girl
UHF
Quick Change
The Jerk
The Frisco Kid
Brewster's Millions
Three Amigos
Spies Like Us
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Richard Pryor in Moving
If you want the raunchy comedies then you should see Porkys, and revenge of the nerds
before "airplane"." before "animal house." and released the same year as "blazing saddles" there was a movie called "groove tube." sadly, its overlooked and underrated these days but this low budget cult classic is one of the funniest movies ever made. its a little racy and often in bad taste but that's what makes so funny.
I think you should check out the raunchy The Last American Virgin
Dont know if you noticed that was Kevin Bacon getting the paddle. This was his debut acting role.
I was in college when this came out, naturally it was quiet popular with college age kids. Lots of toga parties after this film came out. The Porkys movies would be worth a patreon poll , they came out in the 80s.
We paid our rent and utilities by having house parties after this movie came out.
The guy who played Otter (the womanizing frat guy) was Tim Matheson. He was also the child actor who voiced Jonny Quest in the classic 1964 cartoon.
He was also in an episode of Andy griffith when he was veryyyyyyyy young
Love that you're doing classic late 70s-early 80s comedies! If you haven't already, check out Stripes. It's Bill Murray and John Candy among others, and it's a classic (I think 1980). It's one of my favorite comedies around this time.
Stripes definitely. If he's done Caddyshack already, proceed to Stripes! (Ditto Blues Brothers). For Ramis it's Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, then Ghostbusters. For Landis (and Belushi), it's Animal House and Blues Brothers.
Stripes is a classic!!
The "drill sgt" was the father in twisted sisters "were not gonna take it"
Also the Maestro on two episodes of Seinfeld, the guy is friggin' brilliant. When I was a kid, I never realized how brilliant his performance was, or John Vernon as Dean Wormer, or Stephen Furst as Flounder. etc etc. I was just so focused on Belushi and D-Day and all the crazy Delta cats. But yeah.....I'm ashamed I don't even know that guy's name, the guy who played Nedermeyer (the "drill sgt.").
@@TTM9691 yeah my brother was huge on John Belushi... Big time
Also The Master in Buffy the Vampire Slayer series season 1.
D-Day (the guy with the motorcycle) played the Sheriff in My Cousin Vinny.
@@norwegianblue2017I ment the judge from My Cousin Vinny ... I watched that in the movie theater.. my cousin Vinny. I have the DVD too 😂
Professor Jennings was played by Donald Sutherland who originated the role of "Hawkeye" Pierce in the film M*A*SH* and i also starred n Clint Eastwood's Kelly's Heroes. He would also play in A Time to Kill opposite Matthew McConaughey. His son Kiefer a great actor in his own right had a part in the film. In the 2000s he was known as President Snow in The "Hunger Games" films.
He was also in the invasion of the body snatchers
Kelly's Heroes wasn't a Clint Eastwood film. It was an ensemble film. It was way before Clint's directorial days.
To me it would be like saying The Great Escape is a Steve McQueen movie. Which is another great ensemble movie.
Also had a minor role in Dirty Dozen.
In the 80s the song shout was always at the dances . Everyone did the parts included the worm everyone's favorite
"I think this falls into the category of one of the oldest movies I've watched..."... I was sitting in college courses in 1978. lol
Ditto - Our small college class of 1980 did as much from this 1978 movie as we could get away with... Great times, paid our rent and utilities with a keg party every month... 18 was the drinking age. Police did not bother us because our house was next to campus, and no one could have cars on campus! Charged $2 for guys and $1 for girls... went through 9 and a half 16 gallon kegs one night... paid $12.95 for each keg - except the Schlitz Malt Liquor keg that we mixed in to slow people down.. that was $18.95. Glad there was no social media, cell phone cameras around in the day! Yes, we Toga'd!
Dude, fantastic reaction. This is the mother of every one of those raunchy youth comedies that came immediately after this movie was a hit, especially during the 80s and like you said the "American Pie" movies. And 95% of the imitators aren't nearly as smart, well-acted, well-written or directed as this one. This was the movie that put John Landis on the map, and also all of the millions of Saturday Night Live-affiliated hit comedies that have never ceased, to this very day. Other than Chevy Chase in "Foul Play", which preceded this, "Animal House" really put SNL (and National Lampoon) into the movie universe and beyond. From this comes everything from Caddyshack and Ghostbusters and Vacation to seeing Kristen Wiig in "Barbie". Or having Bill Hader do "Barry", or Jimmy Fallon taking over the Tonight Show! It just put SNL onto another level (and also helped SCTV.....this movie was written by Harold Ramis who, at that time was on SCTV. The OTHER brilliant late 70s late night comedy show with John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy and tons of others). THANKS!!!!!!!!
Dude, I actually watched this reaction TWICE. Can you believe it??!!
Fun fact: There's a 2003 mockumentary called 'Animal House: Where Are They Now?' That tells more about what happened to the characters 30 years after the events of the movie. Such as Dean Wormer retiring in Florida, who is now a scatterbrained coot who gets extremely pissed at anyone mentioning The Deltas, and Babs becoming a tour guide in Universal Studios Hollywood, despite being the top mean-girl of Faber College. Look it up on RUclips.
I'm 36 years old, and I was raised at these kinds of movies since I was 8 years old.
Give the Police Academy movies a try if you haven't already.
I wouldn't.
@nedludd7622 why not?
Another interesting thing. John Belushi (RIP) who played John "Bluto" Blutarsky was at that time the biggest start in the world. He is still to this day the only person to ever have a #1 TV Show (he was one of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players" who started Saturday Night Live) and a #1 Album (Briefcase full of Blues: He and Dan Aykroyd were the Blues Brothers) and a #1 Movie (Animal House) AT THE SAME TIME.
This has nothing to do with comedy, but I hope you can see “Larry” play Mozart in the movie Amadeus. It is such an experience.
Tom Hulce. He was amazing in "Dominick and Eugene" with Ray Leiotta too
The end of this movie is actually a parody of George Lucas' "American Graffiti". In fact, the entire movie is a sort of evil cousin of "American Graffiti"! You should definitely see that one! "Animal House" is the mother of all the raunchy youth comedies; "American Graffiti" is simply the mother of all youth ensemble comedies. And like "Animal House", it's a period piece that takes place in 1962, when 1950s culture was in it's last year, before the 60s got super crazy. So there's a bit more depth than may initially meet the eye because, although it is outrageous and over the top, it does capture the time period in an accurate and affectionate way. And not just surfacey, like "look at the old cars and clothes". And yet it's so 70s the same way "Dazed And Confused" is so 90s, it has that perspective of looking back with some irony. "Senator Blutarsky"! Ha! Years later, the USA elected frat boy George W. Bush and his methods of hazing back in the day came under scrutiny!!! And then his opponent John Kerry had been in the same fraternity or something, and both candidates had their college shenanigans brought up to them in the debates.......So Animal House had it right on the money!
You are so right about the evil cousin to American Graffiti. Everyone around American Graffiti didn't want Lucas to put that on the end credits. I don't think it had been done before. When I saw the film in 1973 it hit like a ton of bricks! American Graffiti is a must watch! It was a little under ground film that came out of nowhere and like Star Wars it changed a lot of things in film. Like Star Wars the way they use sound in American Graffiti is amazing. It was the first film to play songs from start to finish. So many unknown actors who went on to fame. It is George Lucas's life story. Toad, John, Curt are the 3 parts of George. He was a nerd, He build and raced cars and almost died, He left his hometown and became a writer. The making of American Graffiti is on youtube. It's a great watch for anyone.
@@reesebn38 I completely agree with every single thing you said. I also saw it when it came out......I was blown away.
@@reesebn38 I love American Graffiti, but it wasn't underground at all. It was very popular. It is one of the highest grossing films upon its release.
And it was nominated for best picture at the Oscars. Candy Clark who played Debbie was nominated for best supporting actress. It did win best picture in the musical or comedy category at the Golden Globe awards.
This was filmed in my hometown, my doctor's office is between the two fraternity houses today and they are still standing!
This was the FIRST and the best of the "wild party goes off the rails" movies. Everything that followed and still follows pales in comparison. The Hangover is an example of a movie that gets it origins from the classic Animal House. Animal House is a little dated but it is iconic.
Two things I'll say: it's just like drinking cool water to see a reaction to a movie I don't see reacted to so much. It's crazy how I jumped on this reaction just because it wasn't The Thing, lol. Secondly: not that you didn't still enjoy the ending, but even I will admit that the end feels slightly disturbing in a way that no one would have possibly anticipated back then. Nobody was predicting the public carnage that it seems gets unleashed every other week now. That stuff just didn't happen, other than some extremely isolated incidents. So when you see this movie, or Lindsay Anderson's "If", or even "Carrie"......they were all super outrageous, over the top endings nobody was thinking could or would ever happen. that's why they were used! Watching Animal House in '78 (and for years afterwards), everyone is just laughing and cheering on the carnage! Not that we still aren't, but it's like Kubrick changing the ending of Dr. Strangelove after the JFK thing; you probably wouldn't give Animal House the same ending if you made it today! (but that aside, I love it. A typical John Landis ending like Blues Brothers or American Werewolf In London. And a good nod and a wink to American Graffiti! You have to see American Graffiti! Great movie!
The guy "Stork" in the yellow shirt @5:59 was Doug Kenney. He co-wrote this and "Caddyshack" and was a writer/editor of Harvard's National Lampoon magazine.
1:23... quick history lesson from a 'boomer'- at the time this movie was made, that WAS called a 'beanie'- what you now refer to as a beanie used to be called (& still is by us geezers!) a 'stocking cap', or a 'watch cap'! (so called by sailors b/c night watch guards were posted aboard ship for safety, & these kept your head warm in cold weather!)
Late 70s early 80s comedies are some of the best. Check out Caddyshack, The Blues Brothers, Airplane, Stripes, or Bachelor Party for some more classics.
MANY ACTORS WENT ON TO GREATNESS
This movie provided some of the best workplace meme's ever. We used the "you fucked up, you trusted us" all the time at work. Sadly this movie couldn't be made today.
loved seeing one of my HS crushes during the classroom scene the blond in front was Anne Penny. I was at Oregon (where this was shot) until I dropped out and joied the army in 1977. That was the actual freshman class of the Army Rotc unit and many of my class mates from HS and community college pop up in small and extra rolls.
Did you recognize the professor they smoked pot with was Donald Sutherland? He played President Snow in The Hunger Games movies.
If you ever watch some of the Twisted Sister music videos, they have a character in the video based on the Doug Neidermeyer character in Animal House and is played by the same actor, Mark Metcalf. There is even a Flounder cameo appearance at the end of one of their videos.
I didn’t!
The band singing is actually The Isley Brothers:)
This might be the first real raunchy comedy. Harold Ramis co-wrote this. Any movie written by or Directed by Ramis is the best! He made all the great comedies! "Meatballs", "Stripes", "CaddyShack", "Vacation", "Ghostbusters", "Groundhog Day", "Back to School", "Analyze This". All of these Actors went on to have good Careers. John Belushi is so tragic. He was so talented! If He had lived John would have been the Star of Ghostbusters. My favorite movie of John Belushi is "Continental Divide"(1981). A Rom-com that really shows off Belushi's charm.
Well actually the movie M*A*S*H is very raunchy. In some ways, raunchier than this. Maybe that's why they got Donald Sutherland to be in it. M*A*S*H came out in 1970.
I went to a fraternity party in 1985, with Otis Day, and the Knights as the band.
Hey, Primate, a couple of fun facts for you:
John "Bluto" Blutarsky was played by John Belushi, brother of Jim Belushi from "King Of Queens"
The actress that played the mayor's daughter was also in "Caddyshack," playing the character of "Maggie"
You're confusing Kevin James (The King of Queens) with Jim Belushi (According to Jim).
@cup_cuppy_cuppers5817 must be a Mandela effect because I could've sworn that Jim Belushi was the lead on "King Of Queens" also
Those hats were called beanies. That's where the word originated.
Dude if you have the dvd of this in the bonus part theres a video of Dean wormers wife now , holy, she's a total drunk bar fly
7 years of college down the drain 😢😂😂😂😂
While watching it I was like doesn't he seem to old for college until he said that line then it seemed reasonable t
Might as well have joined the f***ing peace corps!
She may have been writing in short hand which is a quicker way in a different type of written language
Love this movie... on of my favorite trivia facts is that in Otis' band, the guitarist is a young Robert Cray, celebrated blues guitarist! So fun...
One of my faves ,growing up my buddys dad would throw out quotes from this and caddyshack lol
The actress that played the mayor's daughter, whose name was Clorette, was the same actress that played Maggie in Caddyshack
I saw this movie when it came out, and when I first layed eyes on Tim Matheson, I couldn't believe it, he was almost a deadringer of someone I dated back in 1967 and 68. I was an au pair from Denmark in Westport Ct. He was a Westport native, and a student at Miami University. He was also a model with the Eileen Ford agency in New York. He had the same dimples, smile and demeaner as Tim Matheson.
You gotta watch national lampoon vacation, it’s an amazing comedy and it’s an amazing classic
Just did today will be on patreon soon!
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Vacation & Animal House were both written by the King of Comedy Harold Ramis.@@ItsAPrimatee
Holiday roooooooooooooad!
Damn, I'd forgotten how many icons were in this.
They shot this film in thirty days which lends to the spontaneous vibe. Saw this on the big screen when I was about seventeen. Classic.
Legendary movie. RIP John Belushi 😢
I watched this in the theaters when I was 16 and it was a huge hit!!!! Im really glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.
ruclips.net/video/7i-KkRqZRDU/видео.html may I ask what name of the movie in video, please.
My favorite factoid about this, Flounder was a pizza delivery guy trying to break into acting and taped his picture in the pizza boxes delivered to the studio and got hired.
Should check out a movie called Porkys.
The ironic thing about this movie is that the fraternity system was kind of dying off in the 70's. And this movie revitalized it.
"Katy" was in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
The end credits indicate that Needermeyer is "fragged" by his own soldiers in Vietnam. There's a scene indicating that in "Twilight Zone: the movie". Landis directed both.
The man playing d day could actually play the william tell overture...he said that trick got him several free beers throughout the years
I was a junior in college in 1978. This film and Saturday Night Live helped me get a grip on reality and made everything more visceral.
D-Day (Bruce McGill) is the one of the few original cast members to be in the TV series.Delta House (apparently there was a copyright problem with the name Animal House). In one episode (The Draft) he had to report to the draft board - he gets rejected because his feet point backwards. The transition from regular to backwards is shown in one continuous take. It's either a really great illusion or he's double jointed and can really do this. ruclips.net/video/8NAFSOT8ph8/видео.html (check 21:10)
You should watch the "making of" documentary. The behind the scenes stuff was even more wild.
This was filmed at the University of Oregon, and Cottage Grove, Oregon. I was attending the U of O at the time, I like to watch this, because it reminds me of what the U of O campus looked like when I was going there.
Robert Cray was the bass player in Otis’s band.
I love how Otter is just so damn unapologetically sleazy. He didn't "switch up". He went in full well knowing Fawn had died and used it to scam girls. He's a genius and a degenerate in the same breath. Tim Matheson plays father to Ryan Reynolds in "National Lampoons Van Wilder". A fun film but my head cannon says Van is the son of Otter...
Back in the day marijuana was EXCEEDINGLY illegal - we're talking a twenty year sentence. So Yeah it was hidden.
To Me late 70's 80's and early 90's are peak comedy
funniest old movie i've seen. love it
I went to college in the mid seventies and I'd swear I knew every one of those guys.
"Im in pre law"
"I thought you were pre med"
"Whats the difference"
Absolute classic
Now this movie is a welcome surprise. The original raunchy school comedy that set the standard for everything from Porky's to American Pie and everything after American Pie that ripped off American Pie
Thanks, Primate! 🍻 Kudos to director John Landis.
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You should check out the movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) It is a biographical comedy about Greg Kenney. The creator of the magazine National Lampoon. He wrote Animal House and Caddyshack.
In Animal House he plays Stork. The guy that leads the band in a dead end alley. It's an interesting tale, but it's a sad ending.
There were great comedies in the late nineties.
Watch Election, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.
Community often referenced Animal House on the show.
Porky's next?? 🙏
Thank you sir, may I have another 70s or 80s comedy?
Katy had a thing for college professors.
Hey, Primate! I don't know how this video slipped past me..... but I'm here for it now. I was 11 when this came out, so I didn't see it until the early 80s. Another such movie you might enjoy is "Real Genius", starring Val Kilmer.
Our college class of 1980 did as much from this 1978 movie as we could get away with... Great times, paid our rent and utilities with a keg party every month... 18 was the drinking age. Police did not bother us because our house was next to campus, and no one could have cars on campus! Charged $2 for guys and $1 for girls... went through 9 and a half 16 gallon kegs one night... paid $12.95 for each keg - except the Schlitz Malt Liquor keg that we mixed in to slow people down.. that was $18.95. Glad there was no social media, cell phone cameras around in the day! Yes, we Toga'd!
I STILL DIE LAUGHING AT THE BLACK BAR THEY TAKE SORORITY GIRLS. AND WHEN THEY SMOKE POT WITH PROFESSOR...😉😆😅😄😃😂Donald Sutherland!!❤
Professor Donald Sutherland is dad to Keifer Sutherland ("24" "LOST BOYS", " STAND BY ME", "PHONE BOOTH", "and many others!!👍👍👍👍👍
Now you have to do 'Up In Smoke' w/ Cheech n Chong.
A very young Kevin Bacon(his 1st movie).
Holy W
Donald Sutherland only worked on the film for two days he was offered $50,000 or 2% of the films gross. Sutherland thought the movie would be a flop so he took the guaranteed $50,000 had he taken the 2% he would have made 14 million. Also believe it or not John Belushi and the horse's owner each were paid $40,000.
Really do enjoy your reactions. Hope nobody has mentioned this before, and if they have… I apologize for mentioning it now. Katie is played by Karen Allen. You would know her as Marion (Not Miriam😉) Ravenwood in the Indiana Jones flicks! :-)
D-Day also played Sheriff Farley in My Cousin Vinny! 😉
Oh wow. Can't wait to see you with this. I don't rmbr anything about it except that I laughed my ass off thru most of it. Long time ago 🙄😅 (Oh, and a certain subject that comes up near the end I believe. 🙈🤣) I've had a fkd up couple of weeks. I need this. 😊
Oops. That ending I was thinking of was in Revenge of the Nerds.
Next you Should react to The Blues Brothers it stats John Belushi who's on this film it's great should check it out came iut in 1982.
Looking at my notifications..... gtfo, Primate's watching Animal House!!!! (Drops everything)
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🎶🎵🎶🎵GREAT SOUNDTRACK!!!🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵JOHN BELUSHI IS DRUNKKEN CHUBBY DUDE!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Invincible season two is here
Did you really have to hit "old-ass movie.....OLD-ass movie" quite so hard? Damn. Make me feel like a archeological relic. lol
It is funny to see how socially conservative Millennials are and so worried about property. Also he doesn't seem to realize that this so good because it is a John Landis film, if he even knows who he is. He also takes no notice of the music which is often Sam Cooke.
Should check out these movies, Revenge of the Nerds & Porkys.
Please watch The Blues Brothers (1980)!!!!! It has John Belushi. Its also one of my favorite movies my dad showed me growing up
Primate have you seen peaky blinders? If not please considering putting it into your polls, an absolute amazing crime show up there with the likes of breaking bad and bcs in my opinion. On season 4 right now and every episode is a wild ride and you have no idea what is gonna happen next
Great reaction to a true classic! WELL DONE!
JOHN BELUSHI is "BLUTO"
Spy’s like Us
DEAN WORMER WAS A BADDY IN OLD FILMS!!!
Notice Kevin Bacon?
Yeah
Thank you sir may I have another.
Keep calm all is well
KEVIN BACON,TOO
Shama Lama Ding Dong
I was in college.
You need to watch Porky's and Revenge Of The Nerds
Now do THE BLUES BROTHERS!
CLASSICAL COMEDY❤❤❤👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍
SEE "AMERICAN GRAFFITI" IT'S FIRE👍👍👍👍👍
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3.26 A little respect. That was back when beer cans were steel, not the tin foil crap of today. 5.49 Way to show us what you're laughing at. 10.25 You cut the funniest line from that scene. 20.00 Thank you for leaving in the toga party. So many reactors don't, for some reason. 25.40 You missed that the guys were reading the obituaries on the way over. Not every moment must be filled with talk. 26.47 You cut the remarks at the door. It's cowardly and you cheated your viewers out of a hilarious moment. One ball, two strikes. 30.21 Further great lines skipped. Those like me will notice them gone. 31.20 Things were different in the 60s. 34.00 You included most of the parade. Base hit. Overall, a pretty good treatment of one of the greatest comedies of all time. Improve your swing a little and I'll buy season tickets.
Maybe it’s just my taste of humor or my time with college but I didn’t really like this film and felt it hasn’t aged that well. Mainly because the film wants you to root against the dean who for all intents and purposes is doing his job. He maybe an uptight ass about it but these guys are on academic probation and they’re not doing anything to solve it besides party and cheat(and much if caught can get you expelled). I’m not against partying in college but it’s best to party responsibly especially when you’re paying through the nose to go there.
I realize this is satirical and anti establishment for the time but I can’t root for characters who don’t do anything to dig themselves out of the hole they got themselves into.