30th Anniversary of Animal House

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Tomorrow - Aug 13th at 8:00pm Central Time - the Biography Channel will air a special honoring one of the greatest movies of all time.

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I first watched that movie when I was about 8.

When Otter says "she'll take this seriously" I remember asking my Dad what that thing was.
 
I gave my love a cherry,
That had no stone,
I gave my love a chicken,
That had no bones,
I gave my love a story,
That had no end,
I gave my...
 
The horse in the Dean's office has to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a movie.

For some reason, my favorite line is "May I dance with yo date". Then you see a hand as big as the girls head.

What a great movie!
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I guess y'all have heard Donald Sutherland's take. He plays the stoned out professor in the movie. At the time, he was by far the most well known actor in the movie, Belushi hadn't gotten big yet. Anyway, for his pay, they offered him $15,000 or he could instead have like 3 points of the gross of the movie. That's like a 1/3rd of a percent. He picked the $15,000 having no faith at all in the movie. He periodically calculates how many tens of millions of dollars he threw away with that decision.
 
Some great stories about this movie from Belushi's biography.

Movie was filmed complete in about 30 days on location somewhere in the Northeast (oregon or washington). belushi was doing SNL at the time. Would do SNL on Saturday night and start partying after the show. Would catch a redeye sometime Saturday night/sunday morning all the way across the country to location. Would be hammered when he landed and would then film/party from Sunday night to Tuesday night. Would hop a redeye back tuesday night and arrive on SNL set Wednesday morning. Prep for his show wed-sat and then start over. He estmated he was loaded for way more hours than not during the month and figured he got about 10 hours of sleep a week (couldnt sleep on planes). Wild ride.
 
The scene where Belushi is on the ladder looking in the window may be the funniest thing on screen that most people didn't catch. It flew over my head until I saw John Landis talking about it. He said most people don't get the joke.
 
Otter: Let me give you a hint. She's got a couple of major-league yabbos.
Boon: Beverly!
Otter: No. But you're getting warmer. Here's another: "Oh God, Oh God, OH GOD!"
Boon: Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
Otter: Pork?
Boon: You're gonna hump her brains out, aren't you?
Otter: Boon, I anticipate a deeply religious experience
 
Anyone from Tennessee who watches the movie will undoubtedly notice the Tennessee state flag in the courtroom during the trial. Faber College is supposedly in Pennsylvania, and the movie was filmed in Oregon, so why is there a Tennessee state flag in there?


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The short answer, which I found after exhaustive research in college, was that the state flag of Oregon actually has the word "Oregon" on the flag, and guy in charge of the set wanted the most "generic" state flag he could find.

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I've heard that Landis wanted to use Chevy Chase for Otter, Bill Murray for Boon, and Dan Akroyd for D-Day. Akroyd as D-Day would have been awful, IMO.

I've also heard that the scene where Belushi smashes the guitar was ad libbed. If that is true, I don't know how any actor on earth could keep a straight face during that scene.
 
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