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*** Uh, isn't being forced to parade around in your UnMentionables in public karma?
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Directed by JohnLandis, Creator/JohnLandis, ''Animal House'' launched the short lived film career of ''SaturdayNightLive'' castmember JohnBelushi. Inspired dozens of FollowTheLeader takes on the raunchy college frat movie, including some by National Lampoon themselves. Spawned a spinoff TV series called ''Delta House''.
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* {{Adorkable]]: Flounder and Pinto, to a lesser extent.
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* {{Adorkable]]: {{Adorkable}}: Flounder and Pinto, to a lesser extent.
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* MakeOutPoint: One overlooks the town of Faber. It's frequently visited by the Omegas, and never by the Deltas (probably because the latter group would rather make out in their frat house... or football field... [[AllMenArePerverts or, well, anywhere]]).
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* MakeOutPoint: One overlooks the town of Faber. It's frequently visited by the Omegas, and never by the Deltas (probably because the latter group would rather make out in the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sex Rooms]]" at their frat house... or the football field... [[AllMenArePerverts or, well, anywhere]]).
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** At the Club Delta Lake: "If I was you, I'd be ..." "Leaving!"
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** Babs never really gets any comeuppance for being a manipulative liar and getting Otter beaten up by the Omegas.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Otter gets one from the Omegas after Babs lies to Greg about him and Mandy having an affair.
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* {{Adorkable]]: Flounder and Pinto, to a lesser extent.
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* AutoErotica: Interrupted.
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* CloudCuckoolander: D-Day and to a lesser extent, Bluto.
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* OnlySaneMan: Robert Hoover, somewhat.
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* HumiliationConga: The entire homecoming parade is this for the Omegas and Wormer.
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* ThereIsAGod: At the end, when one of the co-eds dressed in bunny ears and a leotard fly into the room of a young teen boy (reading through some Playboys), the boy simply shouts out, "Thank you, God!"
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->''And then we got to see Donald Sutherland's ass.''
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dave Jennings is the cool professor at Faber. In the classroom, he's up front with his students about how boring he finds Milton. In private, he calls his own work a piece of excrement. Katie says he's the only professor she likes, and Pinto agrees that he's a wonderful teacher. Then [[spoiler: he turns Katie, Pinto and Boon on to drugs; later, he seduces Katie.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Dave Jennings. In the 60s or today, an untenured prof who did what he does to Katie would be, to quote his Dean, "out of here like shit through a goose," and even a tenured one would be forced into "early retirement."
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** Not to mention that nobody in the Deltas invites anyone in the Omegas to a meeting at the [[GangOfBullies Rainbow]] [[CurbstompBattle Motel]].
*** Note which hand picks up Neidermeyer in Flounder's DeusExMachina moment.
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** Faber College is a strict, pre-counterculture 1960s Bob Jones University example.
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** Faber College is a strict, pre-counterculture 1960s Bob Jones University wannabe-Ivy League example.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Katy has the hots for Mr. Jennings, who spends one night in her house.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Katy has the hots for Mr. Jennings, who spends one night in her house.
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** [[spoiler:When the "documentary" is made, Bluto is unavailable for comment as he's currently serving as ''President'']].
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* MakeOutPoint: One overlooks the town of Faber. It's frequently visited by the Omegas, and never by the Deltas (probably because the latter group would rather make out in their frat house).
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* MakeOutPoint: One overlooks the town of Faber. It's frequently visited by the Omegas, and never by the Deltas (probably because the latter group would rather make out in their frat house).house... or football field... [[AllMenArePerverts or, well, anywhere]]).
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* SeriousBusiness: Fraternity initiations. Even Delta's whacked-out ceremony.
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** The epilogue reveals that Babs became a tour guide at [[UniversalThemeParks Universal Studios Hollywood]]. After the end credits, there's a title card: "When in California Visit Universal Studios Hollywood (Ask for Babs)".
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* IncessantMusicMadness: At the toga party, Stephen Bison in [[TheCameo a cameo]] is playing a guitar and singing when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvR6d08L3nc Bluto happens by]]. After listening to the singing for a while, Bluto takes the guitar away from the guy, smashes it to pieces against a wall and then [[HypocriticalHumor utters a halfhearted sorry]].
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* IncessantMusicMadness: At the toga party, Stephen Bison Bishop in [[TheCameo a cameo]] is playing a guitar and singing when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvR6d08L3nc Bluto happens by]]. After listening to the singing for a while, Bluto takes the guitar away from the guy, smashes it to pieces against a wall and then [[HypocriticalHumor utters a halfhearted sorry]]."Sorry]]."
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* InUniverseNickname: Numerous, the first thing assigned to freshmen after an initiation. Flounder is the one given more thought.
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* InUniverseNickname: Numerous, since they're the first thing assigned to freshmen after an initiation. Flounder is the one given more most thought.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" Schoenstein, Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]]. The actor, Peter Riegert, comes from an non-observant Jewish Family.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" "Boon" Schoenstein, Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]]. The actor, Peter Riegert, comes from an a non-observant Jewish Family.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Omegas are snobbish, bigoted, mean, and sneaky. The Deltas are not-- but they're still far, ''far'' from model citizens. Let's face it, they're petty criminals at best.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Omegas are snobbish, bigoted, mean, and sneaky. The Deltas are not-- not -- but they're still far, ''far'' from model citizens. Let's face it, they're petty criminals at best.
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* BlatantLies: "Remain calm. All is well! ALL IS WELL!". It also counts as a VillainousBreakdown for Diller.
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* BlatantLies: "Remain calm. All is well! ALL IS WELL!". WELL!" It also counts as a VillainousBreakdown for Diller.
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** Boone accidentally shanks a golf ball through the window of the campus cafeteria's kitchen, where it lands in a big tureen of soup. A couple of scenes later, Bluto discovers the ball in his soup while buying lunch in that cafeteria and promptly eats it.
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** Boone Boon accidentally shanks a golf ball through the window of the campus cafeteria's kitchen, where it lands in a big tureen of soup. A couple of scenes later, Bluto discovers the ball in his soup while buying lunch in that cafeteria and promptly eats it.
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* CaptainObvious: Flounder's asking "You guys playing cards? " .[[DeathGlare Hostile gazes]] ensue.
* CarFu: The "Delta Deathmobile"
* CarFu: The "Delta Deathmobile"
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* CaptainObvious: Flounder's asking "You guys playing cards? " .cards?" [[DeathGlare Hostile gazes]] ensue.
* CarFu: The "DeltaDeathmobile" Deathmobile".
* CarFu: The "Delta
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** Subverted as it doesn't help at all.
** Then again...
** Then again...
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** Subverted as it doesn't help at all.
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* DawsonCasting: Most of the cast. For example, Mark Metcalf (Neidermayer) was 32.
* DeadlyPrank: Poor Niedermayer's horse, the gun unintendedly [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets worked well enough without bullets]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Basically all the Delta members, expecially Bluto.
* DeadlyPrank: Poor Niedermayer's horse, the gun unintendedly [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets worked well enough without bullets]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Basically all the Delta members, expecially Bluto.
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* DawsonCasting: Most of the cast. For example, Mark Metcalf (Neidermayer) (Neidermeyer) was 32.
* DeadlyPrank: PoorNiedermayer's Niedermeyer's horse, the gun unintendedly unintentionally [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets worked well enough without bullets]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Basically all the Delta members,expecially especially Bluto.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Basically all the Delta members,
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** {{The Big Guy}}/{{Mascot}}: TheBigGuy[=/=]{{Mascot}}: Bluto
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** {{Those Two Guys}}/{{Sixth Ranger}}s: Pinto and Flounder
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** {{Those Two Guys}}/{{Sixth ThoseTwoGuys[=/=]{{Sixth Ranger}}s: Pinto and Flounder
** [[spoiler:HighHeelFaceTurn: MandyPapridge]]Pepperidge]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]CensorDecoy: When Pinto and Clorette are about to have sex, she reveals she's only 13. The writers originally intender her to be 17 but didn't think the censors would approve. They believed that if they had her say she was 13, the censors would tell them she needed to be older and in that case, 17 would be okay. However, the censors said nothing about her character being 13, so it was left that way.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]CensorDecoy: When Pinto and Clorette are about to have sex, she reveals she's only 13. The writers originally intender intended her to be 17 but didn't think the censors would approve. They believed that if they had her say she was 13, the censors would tell them she needed to be older and in that case, 17 would be okay. However, the censors said nothing about her character being 13, so it was left that way.
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* InUniverseNickname: Numerous, the first thing assigned to freshmen after an initiaion. Flounder is the one given more thought.
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* InUniverseNickname: Numerous, the first thing assigned to freshmen after an initiaion.initiation. Flounder is the one given more thought.
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* NoodleIncident: Dean Wormer has a pile of files on Delta'sDelta's.
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* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Villains]]: At their rush party, the Omegas humiliate Pinto and Flounder by having them sit at a segregated table with a Muslim (albeit one in a Sikh turban), a Hindu, a Jew, and a blind kid. Oh, and they mispronounce the Hindu guy's name - on purpose. (They also consistently call Pinto [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Lonnie instead of Larry]], and his attempts to correct them are rewarded only with a patronising chuckle.)
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* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically {{Politically Incorrect Villains]]: Villain}}s: At their rush party, the Omegas humiliate Pinto and Flounder by having them sit at a segregated table with a Muslim (albeit one in a Sikh turban), a Hindu, a Jew, and a blind kid. Oh, and they mispronounce the Hindu guy's name - on purpose. (They also consistently call Pinto [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Lonnie instead of Larry]], and his attempts to correct them are rewarded only with a patronising chuckle.)
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* PrisonRape: [[spoiler:Greg's caption reveals that he went on to become a White House aid during Nixon's presidency, and was subsequently raped in prison. Probably meant to double as a BlackComedyRape, since he's a douchebag (and according to his girlfriend, was saving himself for marriage).]]
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* PrisonRape: [[spoiler:Greg's caption reveals that he went on to become a White House aid aide during Nixon's presidency, and was subsequently raped in prison. Probably meant to double as a BlackComedyRape, since he's a douchebag (and according to his girlfriend, was saving himself for marriage).]]
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** [[spoiler:Not only that, but at the end of the movie she introduces Pinto to her parents and announces "[[ShotgunWedding we have to get married]]." OhCrap times ten.]]
*** [[spoiler: It's even worse. She introduces Pinto as "the boy who molested me last month", and ''then'' says they have to get married. OhCrap times a hundred]].
*** [[spoiler: It's even worse. She introduces Pinto as "the boy who molested me last month", and ''then'' says they have to get married. OhCrap times a hundred]].
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** [[spoiler:Not only that, but at the end of the movie she introduces Pinto to her parents as "the boy who molested me last month", and then announces "[[ShotgunWedding we have to get married]]." OhCrap times ten.]]
*** [[spoiler: It's even worse. She introduces Pinto as "the boy who molested me last month", and ''then'' says they have to get married. OhCrap times a hundred]].]]
*** [[spoiler: It's even worse. She introduces Pinto as "the boy who molested me last month", and ''then'' says they have to get married. OhCrap times a hundred]].
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Dean Wormer is an unpleasant antagonist, but for the most part he's a JerkassHasAPoint merely enforcing campus rules without any real inmoral actions against hilarious but admittedly proto-delinquents. Part of his problem is that he's under pressure from the town's mayor, who goes so far as to threaten to have Wormer physically crippled if the Deltas do anything to embarrass him.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Dean Wormer is an unpleasant antagonist, but for the most part he's a JerkassHasAPoint merely enforcing campus rules without any real inmoral immoral actions against hilarious but admittedly proto-delinquents. Part of his problem is that he's under pressure from the town's mayor, who goes so far as to threaten to have Wormer physically crippled if the Deltas do anything to embarrass him.
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\"Murder\" is killing people, not animals. Trust me, I\'m pre-law. *rimshot*
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* WackyFratboyHijinx: The Deltas steal and (accidentally) murder a horse, leave both Mrs. Wormer and Clorette [=DePasto=] drunken wrecks, and of course turn the Homecoming Parade into an utter fiasco. Not to mention what happens every Halloween....
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* WackyFratboyHijinx: The Deltas steal and (accidentally) murder kill a horse, leave both Mrs. Wormer and Clorette [=DePasto=] drunken wrecks, and of course turn the Homecoming Parade into an utter fiasco. Not to mention what happens every Halloween....
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D-Day and Bluto specifically reassured each other they were using blanks after Flounder entered the office, and after the horse snuffed it, they double-checked. \"There *are* blanks in this gun!\"
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* DeadlyPrank: Poor Niedermayer's horse, the gun unintendedly [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets worked well with bullets]].
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* InsultOfEndearment: Plump and naive Kent Dorfman, the newest member of the Delta house is given the nickname "Flounder", probably because of his size (in comparison to fish maybe), yet this becomes an endearing name for him over time.
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* MyDearIdiot: Plump and naive Kent Dorfman, the newest member of the Delta house is given the nickname "Flounder", probably because of his size (in comparison to fish maybe), yet this becomes an endearing name for him over time.
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* PillowFightPillowFight: The first thing Bluto sees while using said ladder.
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* DawsonCasting: Most of the cast. For example, Mark Metcalf (Niedermayer) was 32.
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* DawsonCasting: Most of the cast. For example, Mark Metcalf (Niedermayer) (Neidermayer) was 32.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Otter is a {{Casanova}}. Greg is saving himself for marriage and can't even get it up for a handjob.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Otter is a {{Casanova}}.TheCasanova. Greg is saving himself for marriage and can't even get it up for a handjob.
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->''And then they did the end bit like ''AmericanGraffiti'',''
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->''And then they did the end bit like ''AmericanGraffiti'',''''Film/AmericanGraffiti'',''
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Perhaps the best known of all the National Lampoon movies, ''Animal House'' is about the wacky hijinx of the members of the Delta fraternity at "Faber College", as they fight against the snooty Omegas and the uptight dean Vernon Wormer.
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Perhaps the best known of all the National Lampoon movies, ''Animal House'' '''''Animal House''''' is a 1978 film about the wacky hijinx of the members of the Delta fraternity at "Faber College", as they fight against the snooty Omegas and the uptight dean Vernon Wormer.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Pluto, who doesn't look particularly fit, shows his gymnastic prowess in the climax.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" Schoenstein, Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]]. The actor, Peter Riegert comes from an non-observant Jewish Family.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" Schoenstein, Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]]. The actor, Peter Riegert Riegert, comes from an non-observant Jewish Family.
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* BrickJoke: Boone accidentally shanks a golf ball through the window of the campus cafeteria's kitchen, where it lands in a big tureen of soup. A couple of scenes later, Bluto discovers the ball in his soup while buying lunch in that cafeteria and promptly eats it.
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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
** Boone accidentally shanks a golf ball through the window of the campus cafeteria's kitchen, where it lands in a big tureen of soup. A couple of scenes later, Bluto discovers the ball in his soup while buying lunch in that cafeteria and promptly eats it.
** Boone accidentally shanks a golf ball through the window of the campus cafeteria's kitchen, where it lands in a big tureen of soup. A couple of scenes later, Bluto discovers the ball in his soup while buying lunch in that cafeteria and promptly eats it.
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* CorruptPolitician: The Mayor of Faber extorts money from the college to finance the parade. His little screen time is enough to depict him as a bigwig even nastier than Dean Wormer, whom he threats and is given a positive light by comparison.
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* CorruptPolitician: The Mayor of Faber extorts money from the college to finance the parade. His little screen time is enough to depict him as a bigwig even nastier than Dean Wormer, whom he threats threatens and is given a positive light by comparison.
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* AboveTheInfluence: Pinto is sorely tempted (literally, by the devil on his shoulder) to have his way with Clorette after [[DudeShesLikeInAComa she's passed out]] but he resists said temptation. This is [[BlackComedyRape played for laughs]], TheSeventies were a strange place.
* {{Acrofatic}}: Pluto, who doesn't look particularly fit, shows his gymnastic prowess in the climax.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" Schoenstein (Peter Riegert), who is Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]].
** According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegert#Early_life The Other Wiki]], Riegert comes from a (nonobservant) Jewish family.
** According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegert#Early_life The Other Wiki]], Riegert comes from a (nonobservant) Jewish family.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" Schoenstein (Peter Riegert), who is Schoenstein, Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]].
** According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegert#Early_lifewell]]. The Other Wiki]], actor, Peter Riegert comes from a (nonobservant) an non-observant Jewish family.Family.
** According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegert#Early_life
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* BerserkButton: For Bluto, live folk music.
** For Niedermeyer, a pledge pin on a cadet's uniform.
** For Niedermeyer, a pledge pin on a cadet's uniform.
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* BerserkButton: For Bluto, live folk music.
**music. For Niedermeyer, a pledge pin on a cadet's uniform.uniform.
* BiggerBad: The Mayor, a genuinely evil amalgam of Mafia don and authoritarian plutocrat, is ultimately behind Dean Wormer's actions against Delta.
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* BiggerBad: The Mayor, a genuinely evil amalgam of Mafia don and authoritarian plutocrat, is ultimately behind Dean Wormer's actions against Delta.
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** Also counts as a VillainousBreakdown.
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** AlsoWELL!". It also counts as a VillainousBreakdown.VillainousBreakdown for Diller.
** Also
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* CorruptPolitician: The Mayor of Faber extorts money from the college to finance the parade. His little screen time is enough to depict him as a bigwig even nastier than Dean Wormer.
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* CorruptPolitician: The Mayor of Faber extorts money from the college to finance the parade. His little screen time is enough to depict him as a bigwig even nastier than Dean Wormer.Wormer, whom he threats and is given a positive light by comparison.
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* DateRapeAverted / DudeShesLikeInAComa / NearRapeExperience / BlackComedyRape: Pinto is sorely tempted (literally, by the devil on his shoulder) to have his way with Clorette after she's passed out. This is done for laughs. TheSeventies were a strange time.
** Pinto does, after all, resist said temptation.
** Pinto does, after all, resist said temptation.
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* IncessantMusicMadness: At the toga party, some guy is playing a guitar and singing when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvR6d08L3nc Bluto happens by]]. After listening to the singing for a while, Bluto takes the guitar away from the guy, smashes it to pieces against a wall and then [[HypocriticalHumor utters a halfhearted sorry]].
** "[[TheCameo Some guy]]" is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_(musician) Stephen Bishop]].
** "[[TheCameo Some guy]]" is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_(musician) Stephen Bishop]].
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* IncessantMusicMadness: At the toga party, some guy Stephen Bison in [[TheCameo a cameo]] is playing a guitar and singing when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvR6d08L3nc Bluto happens by]]. After listening to the singing for a while, Bluto takes the guitar away from the guy, smashes it to pieces against a wall and then [[HypocriticalHumor utters a halfhearted sorry]].
** "[[TheCameo Some guy]]" is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_(musician) Stephen Bishop]].sorry]].
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Dean Wormer is an unpleasant antagonist, but for the most part he's a JerkassHasAPoint merely enforcing campus rules without any real inmoral actions against hilarious but admittedly proto-delinquents.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Dean Wormer is an unpleasant antagonist, but for the most part he's a JerkassHasAPoint merely enforcing campus rules without any real inmoral actions against hilarious but admittedly proto-delinquents. Part of his problem is that he's under pressure from the town's mayor, who goes so far as to threaten to have Wormer physically crippled if the Deltas do anything to embarrass him.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
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->''"Animal House, House, House''
->''Where nobody ever went to class,''
->''And then we got to see Donald Sutherland's ass.''
->''And then they did the end bit like ''AmericanGraffiti'',''
->''[[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue Where we find out what happened to everyone]]."''
-->- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson's]]''' unique summary of ''Animal House'', to the tune of the ''Animal House'' theme song.
Perhaps the best known of all the National Lampoon movies, ''Animal House'' is about the wacky hijinx of the members of the Delta fraternity at "Faber College", as they fight against the snooty Omegas and the uptight dean Vernon Wormer.
Directed by JohnLandis, ''Animal House'' launched the short lived film career of ''SaturdayNightLive'' castmember JohnBelushi. Inspired dozens of FollowTheLeader takes on the raunchy college frat movie, including some by National Lampoon themselves. Spawned a spinoff TV series called ''Delta House''.
Written by a guy from Harvard (who gave himself one line: [[OneSceneWonder "What the hell we s'pose to do, ya mo-RON"]]), advised by a guy from Dartmouth; and if you happen to visit the latter you can buy all sorts of ''Animal House''-themed memorabilia in the co-op.
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!! This film is the TropeNamer for:
* TheNeidermeyer
!! ...the TropeCodifier for:
* DeanBitterman
* SlobsVersusSnobs
* WackyFratboyHijinx
!! ...and the former TropeNamer of:
* NonSequiturDistraction (formerly "ForgetItHesRolling")
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AllMenArePerverts: "We're willing to trade looks for a certain....morally casual attitude."
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" Schoenstein (Peter Riegert), who is Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]].
** According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegert#Early_life The Other Wiki]], Riegert comes from a (nonobservant) Jewish family.
* TheArtOfBraRemoval: Pinto can't do it.
* AsideGlance: Bluto, while peeking into the girls' dormitory and right before smashing the guitar, in both cases primarily as an excuse for John Belushi's trademark raised eyebrow.
* BadassBiker: Daniel Simpson Day/"D-Day"
* BasedOnATrueStory: Chris Miller, whose ''National Lampoon'' stories are the basis for the story, wrote a book detailing the real events. It involves a lot more vomiting.
* BerserkButton: For Bluto, live folk music.
** For Niedermeyer, a pledge pin on a cadet's uniform.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Omegas are snobbish, bigoted, mean, and sneaky. The Deltas are not-- but they're still far, ''far'' from model citizens. Let's face it, they're petty criminals at best.
** To the credit of the members of the Delta House, they at least admit it. To quote Otter: "This calls for a really futile and stupid gesture on somebody's part, and we're just the guys to do it."
** It's also worth noting that, sleazy as the members of Delta are, they're notably friendlier than the members of Omega.
* BlatantLies: "Remain calm. All is well! ALL IS WELL!"
** Also counts as a VillainousBreakdown.
* BrickJoke: Boone accidentally shanks a golf ball through the window of the campus cafeteria's kitchen, where it lands in a big tureen of soup. A couple of scenes later, Bluto discovers the ball in his soup while buying lunch in that cafeteria and promptly eats it.
** The speed limit sign seen in the background of Delta House could count as a short-term one. A few minutes after it first appears, D-Day rides in on his motorcycle.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Otis Day plays at Delta House's unforgettable toga party. When they go to see him at a bar a few days later, he doesn't even remember who they are.
** An alternate interpretation is that Otis and his bandmates ''do'' remember the Deltas, but they have to pretend like they don't because the Deltas are white and everyone else in the bar is an AngryBlackMan.
* ButtMonkey: KevinBacon, both in the film and real life. As this was his first role, when he went to the premiere, he wasn't allowed to sit with the rest of the cast because the ushers didn't believe he was in it. He had to sit in the back with everyone else.
* CaliforniaDoubling: While Faber College is supposedly in Pennsylvania (or Tennessee, if the state flag in the tribunal scene is any indication), filming actually took place at the University of Oregon.
* CanCrushingCranium: Bluto possibly provides the UrExample.
* CaptainErsatz: Bluto, Otter, Boon, D-Day, and Hoover were based on John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Brian Doyle-Murray, respectively.
* CaptainObvious: Flounder's asking "You guys playing cards? " .[[DeathGlare Hostile gazes]] ensue.
* CarFu: The "Delta Deathmobile"
* CensorDecoy: Clorette's age was meant to be cut to a more reasonable age... but the censors didn't object.
* ChewbaccaDefense: Otter's "point of parliamentary procedure" during the hearing:
-->[...] And if this is indeed an indictment of our educational system, is it not an attack on our entire American society?! Well you can do with us what you wish, but we're not gonna sit here and let you ''bad mouth'' THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!
** Subverted as it doesn't help at all.
** Then again...
*** 1. They didn't give it a ''chance'' to help, since they walked out after Otter finished the speech.
*** 2. They knew that the whole thing was a KangarooCourt by this time. Walking out in protest probably ''was'' the best they could do under those circumstances.
* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: Justified with the Delta fraternity, given their nature as the fraternity for all the burnouts and "dumb kids." Averted with the Omega fraternity, whose members act like pretty typical college bullies.
* CollegeWidow: Although not literally a widow, Mrs. Wormer.
* CorruptPolitician: The Mayor of Faber extorts money from the college to finance the parade. His little screen time is enough to depict him as a bigwig even nastier than Dean Wormer.
* CoughSnarkCough: Cough*blowjob*Cough*blowjob*!
* CringeComedy: The entire sequence in the all-black bar.
* TheDanza: John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky.
** Subverted, however, with John Vernon's character Vernon Wormer, the dean of the college. According to John Landis, his first choice for the role was [[{{Radio/Dragnet}} Jack Webb]], who turned it down because he felt that the film was making fun of his straight-laced, law-and-order image.
* DateRapeAverted / DudeShesLikeInAComa / NearRapeExperience / BlackComedyRape: Pinto is sorely tempted (literally, by the devil on his shoulder) to have his way with Clorette after she's passed out. This is done for laughs. TheSeventies were a strange time.
** Pinto does, after all, resist said temptation.
* DawsonCasting: Most of the cast. For example, Mark Metcalf (Niedermayer) was 32.
* DeadlyPrank: Poor Niedermayer's horse, the gun unintendedly [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets worked well with bullets]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Basically all the Delta members, expecially Bluto.
* DeanBitterman: Dean Vernon Wormer. While not the TropeNamer, Dean Wormer is the TropeCodifier for this type of character.
* {{Defictionalized}}: [=DeWayne=] Jessie, the actor who played Otis Day, changed his name and recorded with the Knights.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The movie was made in 1978, but takes place in 1962 (back when yelling "The negroes took our dates!" in public was slightly more acceptable).
* DontExplainTheJoke: "I'm a zit. Get it?"
* EnforcedMethodActing: When not filming, John Landis purposely prevented the actors playing Deltas from interacting with the actors playing Omegas so that the "enemies" wouldn't end up bonding with each other.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Various. Universal President Ned Tanen insisted the Road Trip sequence be cut because he worried it could start race riots. Landis showed the clip to RichardPryor, who wrote to the executive "Ned, Animal House is fucking funny and white people are crazy - Richard."
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Played during the closing credits.
* FakeFood: The whiskey Bluto drinks just after Delta House is dismantled was actually tea.
* FanDisservice: Oh hi, Donald Sutherland's ass! Didn't expect to see ''you'' here!
** Although, to be fair, the only reason why we see Donald Sutherland's ass is because Karen Allen, who was also in that scene, was reluctant to bare her ass. Seeing that she was nervous, Sutherland offered to bare his ass if she bared hers, and she agreed. So you might say that, were it not for Donald Sutherland's ass, the movie would have one less instance of {{Fanservice}} (see below).
* {{Fanservice}}: Way too many examples to mention, and for both sexes.
* FengSchwing: [[HandsomeLech Eric "Otter" Stratton]]'s room.
* FiveBadBand: Dean Wormer and the Omegas
** The BigBad: Dean Wormer
** TheDragon: Greg Marmalard
** TheBrute: [[TheNeidermeyer Doug Neidermeyer]]
** TheEvilGenius: Chip Diller
** TheDarkChick: Babs Jensen
* FiveManBand: The Deltas
** TheHero: Otter
** TheLancer: Boon
** {{The Big Guy}}/{{Mascot}}: Bluto
** TheSmartGuy: D-Day
** TheChick: Hoover
** {{Those Two Guys}}/{{Sixth Ranger}}s: Pinto and Flounder
** [[spoiler:HighHeelFaceTurn: Mandy Papridge]]
* FoodFight: Quite possibly the TropeNamer.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]CensorDecoy: When Pinto and Clorette are about to have sex, she reveals she's only 13. The writers originally intender her to be 17 but didn't think the censors would approve. They believed that if they had her say she was 13, the censors would tell them she needed to be older and in that case, 17 would be okay. However, the censors said nothing about her character being 13, so it was left that way.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Pinto when he's with Clorette and she passes out, [[DudeShesLikeInAComa leaving her at his mercy]].
-->'''Devil''': Fuck her. Fuck her brains out. Suck her tits, squeeze her buns. You know she wants it. [...] Aw, don't listen to that jack-off. Look at those gazongas. You'll never get a better chance.
-->''(Angel wins)''
--> '''Angel''': "I'm proud of you, Lawrence."
--> '''Devil''': "You homo!"
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Otter is a {{Casanova}}. Greg is saving himself for marriage and can't even get it up for a handjob.
** Greg can't get it up with a girl because he's gay, but in his defense he probably can't even conceive of this as a possibility in 1962.
* HandsomeLech: Eric "Otter" Stratton.
* IncessantMusicMadness: At the toga party, some guy is playing a guitar and singing when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvR6d08L3nc Bluto happens by]]. After listening to the singing for a while, Bluto takes the guitar away from the guy, smashes it to pieces against a wall and then [[HypocriticalHumor utters a halfhearted sorry]].
** "[[TheCameo Some guy]]" is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_(musician) Stephen Bishop]].
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Bluto, after Delta House is cleaned out once their charter is revoked. Bluto starts to panic, when someone tosses him a wide-mouthed bottle of Jack Daniels. He ''chugs'' the entire bottle. "Thanks; I needed that."
* InitiationCeremony: At Delta House, it involves getting drunk. At Omega House... "Assume the position."
* InsultBackfire: After Delta House is dismantled.
-->'''Niedermeyer:''' How's it feel to be an independent, Schoenstein?
-->'''Boone:''' How's it feel to be an asshole, Niedermeyer?
* InUniverseNickname: Numerous, the first thing assigned to freshmen after an initiaion. Flounder is the one given more thought.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Donald Sutherland was offered either a percentage of the gross, or cash up front. He chose cash, sure that the film would flop. If he had taken the former option, he would've raked in several million dollars.
* JokerJury[=/=]KangarooCourt: The Omegas throw the book at the Deltas at the latter's probation hearing, even outright making up one of the accusations against them.
** In the movie, the charge of providing pledges with "diet pills" (amphetamines) is baseless. However, in the novelization (by script co-writer Chris Miller), it's quite true. The pills are kept in a dish marked "Study Aids". Pinto takes some to get through writing a term paper, crashes during his exams and fails that class.
* TheKhan: Bluto after the frat's beer bar is taken away.
* LadyDrunk: Mrs. Wormer.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre:
-->''(Otter and Mrs. Wormer are in the supermarket vegetable section)''
-->'''Otter''' : Mine's bigger than that. Oh, my cucumber. It's bigger. Vegetables can be really sensuous don't you think?
-->'''Mrs. Wormer''' : No, [[YouMakeMeSic Vegetables are sensual, people are sensuous]]
* LazyBum: With a GPA of '''0.0''' Bluto is head and shoulders ''below'' the rest of his BookDumb colleagues. [[TakeThat He gets to be a Senator]].
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: "Is it supposed to be this soft?"
* MakeOutPoint: One overlooks the town of Faber. It's frequently visited by the Omegas, and never by the Deltas (probably because the latter group would rather make out in their frat house).
* ManChild: Bluto, proven by the cafeteria scene.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment
* MrsRobinson: Mrs. Wormer
* MyDearIdiot: Plump and naive Kent Dorfman, the newest member of the Delta house is given the nickname "Flounder", probably because of his size (in comparison to fish maybe), yet this becomes an endearing name for him over time.
* NakedFreakOut: Babs Jansen at the end of the homecoming parade (in her final appearance in the movie). (Okay, so it's really FullyClothedNudity, but still...)
* NakedOnArrival: We're introduced to Otter as he's about to get dressed for a date.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The movie's circus-like climax features crashing floats, multicolored smoke bombs, an elephant, clowns on bicycles, Bluto swinging down from the rooftops dressed as a swashbuckler... and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 10,000 marbles]].
* NonSequiturDistraction: The former TropeNamer. Towards the end, [[JohnBelushi Bluto]] gives a stirring speech about not giving up, and at one point says "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" Otter, in reaction, looks confused for a moment and mutters, "Germans?" to which Boon responds "Forget it, he's rolling."
* NoodleIncident: Dean Wormer has a pile of files on Delta's
-->'''Wormer''': Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the varsity swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Mrs. Wormer.
* OhCrap: When the Deltas' prank [[GoneHorriblyWrong Goes Horribly Wrong]] and they end up with a dead horse in Dean Vernon's office, all Bluto can say is "Holy SHIT!"
* OurFounder: The Faber fellow. "Knowledge is Good"
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Toga, Toga, Toga!
* ThePeepingTom: Bluto Blutarsky uses a ladder to peer through the second-story window of a sorority house.
* PillowFight
* PlayBoy: Martha Smith, Miss July 1973, played Babs.
* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Villains]]: At their rush party, the Omegas humiliate Pinto and Flounder by having them sit at a segregated table with a Muslim (albeit one in a Sikh turban), a Hindu, a Jew, and a blind kid. Oh, and they mispronounce the Hindu guy's name - on purpose. (They also consistently call Pinto [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Lonnie instead of Larry]], and his attempts to correct them are rewarded only with a patronising chuckle.)
** ''And'' they lead Flounder back over there whenever he tries to get up and mingle.
** The fact that the non-white people and the blind guy were the "reject" table was likely supposed to [[LampshadeHanging Lampshade]] Omega's status as the "Nazi fraternity".
** The movie seems to be subverting - or at least playing with - the "bad-guys-bigoted-good-guys-tolerant" stock plot. The Deltas certainly ''try'' to be open-minded, but they're hardly civil-rights crusaders: they implicitly accept the ''de facto'' segregation of the Dexter Lake Club by fleeing in terror (which is, admittedly, [[RealityEnsues what most white people in that situation would have done]], but the point is that in most movies of this type, [[StupidGood the heroes would sincerely try to calm down the rampaging mob]]). And they seem unconcerned - and even gleeful - about UnfortunateImplications when they ram a pro-integration float in the climactic parade scene, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything tearing the two papier-mache hands of different colors completely apart]].
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Flounder's brother's car. Inverted in that Flounder is a helpless and naive ButtMonkey there.
* PrisonRape: [[spoiler:Greg's caption reveals that he went on to become a White House aid during Nixon's presidency, and was subsequently raped in prison. Probably meant to double as a BlackComedyRape, since he's a douchebag (and according to his girlfriend, was saving himself for marriage).]]
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: OhCrap, she's actually only ''thirteen'' years old!
** [[spoiler:Not only that, but at the end of the movie she introduces Pinto to her parents and announces "[[ShotgunWedding we have to get married]]." OhCrap times ten.]]
*** [[spoiler: It's even worse. She introduces Pinto as "the boy who molested me last month", and ''then'' says they have to get married. OhCrap times a hundred]].
* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" One Liner]]: "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
** Though it's notable that Wormer says it in a slightly sympathetic way (compared to how he addressed the rest of the Deltas), making it a slight PetTheDog towards Flounder as well.
* RecycledTheSeries: ''Delta House''.
* RefugeInAudacity: Indeed, it's a testament to this movie's sheer level of audacity that it's still considered politically incorrect (but funny!) an entire generation after it was made.
* RepeatAfterMe: During the Delta House initiation.
-->"I, state your name ..." "''I, state your name ...''"
* RousingSpeech: "Was it over when the [[YouFailHistoryForever Germans bombed Pearl Harbor]]? Hell no!"
** It's been reported that LAURA FREAKIN' BUSH launched into "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!" when the 2000 vote count in Florida wasn't going well.
* SadistTeacher: Dean Wormer.
* SelfDeprecation: Pinto's eventual fate: "Editor-in-chief, National Lampoon".
* SlipperySkid: Marbles during the parade.
* SlipperySlopeFallacy: Used rather awesomely in the court scene where Otter argues that attacking his fraternity is attacking the entire American society.
* SlobsVersusSnobs: In ''spades.''
* SmugSnake: Most of the Omegas, especially Niedermeyer and Marmalard.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Some of the stuffier characters (Dave Jennings being a good example) aren't above occasionally using such words as "shit" and "fuck."
* StrawManHasAPoint: It's hard not to understand just ''why'' Dean Wormer wants Delta off campus and out of Faber.
* StrawmanU:
** Faber College is a strict, pre-counterculture 1960s Bob Jones University example.
** About three-quarters of the way through the picture, the Deltas take a road trip and make a brief stop at a "progressive" women's college to pick up some dates. The college is a bit staid to qualify as "Berserkeley," but the point is made that the girls are all bleeding-heart liberals. (In order to make it with them, you have to mention that you're into some kind of progressive cause.)* Not in 1962.Most of the "counterculture/hippy" stuff is exaggerated in the movies, and didn't take off until the late 60s anyway.1962 was still much more like the 50s than the stereotypical idea of the 60s, even at Berkeley.
* TeamDad: Hoover, to the Deltas. He's the only one of them who seems to genuinely care about avoiding trouble and staying on Dean Wormer's good side (at least enough to avoid getting thrown out of school), and generally tries to keep the Deltas from going too far off the rails. Granted, they usually ignore his advice...but at least he tries.
* ThemeTuneRollCall
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When the gang enters the black night club, and everyone inside is instantly silent (including the band), Otter leans forward and says, calmly, "We are going to die."
* ThoseTwoGuys: Otter and Boon.
* [[TrustMeImAnX Trust Me, I'm An X]]:
-->'''Bluto''': My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
-->'''Otter''': You'd better listen to him, Flounder, he's pre-med.
** Earlier...
--->'''Otter:''' ''(Rising in a disciplinary hearing)'' Point of parliamentary procedure!
--->'''Hoover:''' Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
--->'''Otter:''' ''(aside)'' Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
--->'''Boon:''' I thought you were pre-med.
--->'''Otter:''' What's the difference?
* UnbuiltTrope: This film actually does a lot in deconstructing WackyFratboyHijinx.
* TheUnreveal: Part of what makes "D-Day" so fascinating is how much the movie leaves ambiguous about his true nature. ("Daniel Simpson Day....has no grade point average. All courses incomplete." Okay, so what has he been ''doing'' all this time?) And at the very end, as he's [[spoiler: roaring off in a stolen police car: "Daniel Simpson Day: whereabouts unknown."]]
* VillainyFreeVillain: Dean Wormer is an unpleasant antagonist, but for the most part he's a JerkassHasAPoint merely enforcing campus rules without any real inmoral actions against hilarious but admittedly proto-delinquents.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Flounder throws up ''on'' Dean Wormer - offscreen. (But we hear the "splat" and see Wormer's secretary's shocked reaction.)
* WackyFratboyHijinx: The Deltas steal and (accidentally) murder a horse, leave both Mrs. Wormer and Clorette [=DePasto=] drunken wrecks, and of course turn the Homecoming Parade into an utter fiasco. Not to mention what happens every Halloween....
** Halloween [[spoiler: when ''the trees are full of underwear'']] has nothing on Spring [[spoiler: when ''the toilets '''explode''''']].
* WasJustLeaving: Subverted. When a coed says, "He was just leaving," Otter replies, "No I'm not."
* WatchThePaintJob: Flounder's brother's car.
* WeNeedADistraction
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: DanAykroyd turned down the role of D-Day.
** BillMurray turned down the role of Boon.
** Chevy Chase was originally going to be Otter, but had to cancel due to a schedule conflict.
** If John Belushi turned down the role of Bluto, the next choice would've been MeatLoaf.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Perhaps the best known example.
** The DVD featured a modern-day update on this. The highlights: Otter is a doctor with sexy patients, Diller is a missionary thanks to seeing Jesus in his food numerous times (including a shot of Kevin Bacon from ''{{Tremors}}''), Babs is still a tour guide giving ludicrously bad information, Boon and Katie have married, divorced, and reconciled a number of times, Dean Wormer is senile but the Deltas are still a {{Berserk Button}}, D-Day is living off the grid across the border and flees when John Landis tracks him down, and Bluto is ''[[GeorgeWBush the President of the United States]]''.
* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: This is the entire ethos of Omega House, right down to the way the characters dress and (sometimes) how they talk. Delta House, while equally monochromatic, is at least a blend of more sympathetic and less stereotypical [=WASPs=] and various "ethnic whites" (including one possible Jew, as noted above).
** The Deltas have precisely [[TokenMinority one black member]]. Exactly one more than the Omegas.
* WildTeenParty: The Delta House toga party.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Clorette. Though the actress playing her ''was'' eighteen.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Bluto: Making toga parties popular since [[strike:1978]]1962.]]
->''"Animal House, House, House''
->''Where nobody ever went to class,''
->''And then we got to see Donald Sutherland's ass.''
->''And then they did the end bit like ''AmericanGraffiti'',''
->''[[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue Where we find out what happened to everyone]]."''
-->- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson's]]''' unique summary of ''Animal House'', to the tune of the ''Animal House'' theme song.
Perhaps the best known of all the National Lampoon movies, ''Animal House'' is about the wacky hijinx of the members of the Delta fraternity at "Faber College", as they fight against the snooty Omegas and the uptight dean Vernon Wormer.
Directed by JohnLandis, ''Animal House'' launched the short lived film career of ''SaturdayNightLive'' castmember JohnBelushi. Inspired dozens of FollowTheLeader takes on the raunchy college frat movie, including some by National Lampoon themselves. Spawned a spinoff TV series called ''Delta House''.
Written by a guy from Harvard (who gave himself one line: [[OneSceneWonder "What the hell we s'pose to do, ya mo-RON"]]), advised by a guy from Dartmouth; and if you happen to visit the latter you can buy all sorts of ''Animal House''-themed memorabilia in the co-op.
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!! This film is the TropeNamer for:
* TheNeidermeyer
!! ...the TropeCodifier for:
* DeanBitterman
* SlobsVersusSnobs
* WackyFratboyHijinx
!! ...and the former TropeNamer of:
* NonSequiturDistraction (formerly "ForgetItHesRolling")
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AllMenArePerverts: "We're willing to trade looks for a certain....morally casual attitude."
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Donald "Boone" Schoenstein (Peter Riegert), who is Eric "Otter" Stratton's best friend. German last name, short in stature, dark curly hair, unusual nose shape, New York accent, wisecracking personality - ''Come on''! Either he's Jewish, or [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's faking it really well]].
** According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegert#Early_life The Other Wiki]], Riegert comes from a (nonobservant) Jewish family.
* TheArtOfBraRemoval: Pinto can't do it.
* AsideGlance: Bluto, while peeking into the girls' dormitory and right before smashing the guitar, in both cases primarily as an excuse for John Belushi's trademark raised eyebrow.
* BadassBiker: Daniel Simpson Day/"D-Day"
* BasedOnATrueStory: Chris Miller, whose ''National Lampoon'' stories are the basis for the story, wrote a book detailing the real events. It involves a lot more vomiting.
* BerserkButton: For Bluto, live folk music.
** For Niedermeyer, a pledge pin on a cadet's uniform.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Omegas are snobbish, bigoted, mean, and sneaky. The Deltas are not-- but they're still far, ''far'' from model citizens. Let's face it, they're petty criminals at best.
** To the credit of the members of the Delta House, they at least admit it. To quote Otter: "This calls for a really futile and stupid gesture on somebody's part, and we're just the guys to do it."
** It's also worth noting that, sleazy as the members of Delta are, they're notably friendlier than the members of Omega.
* BlatantLies: "Remain calm. All is well! ALL IS WELL!"
** Also counts as a VillainousBreakdown.
* BrickJoke: Boone accidentally shanks a golf ball through the window of the campus cafeteria's kitchen, where it lands in a big tureen of soup. A couple of scenes later, Bluto discovers the ball in his soup while buying lunch in that cafeteria and promptly eats it.
** The speed limit sign seen in the background of Delta House could count as a short-term one. A few minutes after it first appears, D-Day rides in on his motorcycle.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Otis Day plays at Delta House's unforgettable toga party. When they go to see him at a bar a few days later, he doesn't even remember who they are.
** An alternate interpretation is that Otis and his bandmates ''do'' remember the Deltas, but they have to pretend like they don't because the Deltas are white and everyone else in the bar is an AngryBlackMan.
* ButtMonkey: KevinBacon, both in the film and real life. As this was his first role, when he went to the premiere, he wasn't allowed to sit with the rest of the cast because the ushers didn't believe he was in it. He had to sit in the back with everyone else.
* CaliforniaDoubling: While Faber College is supposedly in Pennsylvania (or Tennessee, if the state flag in the tribunal scene is any indication), filming actually took place at the University of Oregon.
* CanCrushingCranium: Bluto possibly provides the UrExample.
* CaptainErsatz: Bluto, Otter, Boon, D-Day, and Hoover were based on John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Brian Doyle-Murray, respectively.
* CaptainObvious: Flounder's asking "You guys playing cards? " .[[DeathGlare Hostile gazes]] ensue.
* CarFu: The "Delta Deathmobile"
* CensorDecoy: Clorette's age was meant to be cut to a more reasonable age... but the censors didn't object.
* ChewbaccaDefense: Otter's "point of parliamentary procedure" during the hearing:
-->[...] And if this is indeed an indictment of our educational system, is it not an attack on our entire American society?! Well you can do with us what you wish, but we're not gonna sit here and let you ''bad mouth'' THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!
** Subverted as it doesn't help at all.
** Then again...
*** 1. They didn't give it a ''chance'' to help, since they walked out after Otter finished the speech.
*** 2. They knew that the whole thing was a KangarooCourt by this time. Walking out in protest probably ''was'' the best they could do under those circumstances.
* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: Justified with the Delta fraternity, given their nature as the fraternity for all the burnouts and "dumb kids." Averted with the Omega fraternity, whose members act like pretty typical college bullies.
* CollegeWidow: Although not literally a widow, Mrs. Wormer.
* CorruptPolitician: The Mayor of Faber extorts money from the college to finance the parade. His little screen time is enough to depict him as a bigwig even nastier than Dean Wormer.
* CoughSnarkCough: Cough*blowjob*Cough*blowjob*!
* CringeComedy: The entire sequence in the all-black bar.
* TheDanza: John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky.
** Subverted, however, with John Vernon's character Vernon Wormer, the dean of the college. According to John Landis, his first choice for the role was [[{{Radio/Dragnet}} Jack Webb]], who turned it down because he felt that the film was making fun of his straight-laced, law-and-order image.
* DateRapeAverted / DudeShesLikeInAComa / NearRapeExperience / BlackComedyRape: Pinto is sorely tempted (literally, by the devil on his shoulder) to have his way with Clorette after she's passed out. This is done for laughs. TheSeventies were a strange time.
** Pinto does, after all, resist said temptation.
* DawsonCasting: Most of the cast. For example, Mark Metcalf (Niedermayer) was 32.
* DeadlyPrank: Poor Niedermayer's horse, the gun unintendedly [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets worked well with bullets]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Basically all the Delta members, expecially Bluto.
* DeanBitterman: Dean Vernon Wormer. While not the TropeNamer, Dean Wormer is the TropeCodifier for this type of character.
* {{Defictionalized}}: [=DeWayne=] Jessie, the actor who played Otis Day, changed his name and recorded with the Knights.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The movie was made in 1978, but takes place in 1962 (back when yelling "The negroes took our dates!" in public was slightly more acceptable).
* DontExplainTheJoke: "I'm a zit. Get it?"
* EnforcedMethodActing: When not filming, John Landis purposely prevented the actors playing Deltas from interacting with the actors playing Omegas so that the "enemies" wouldn't end up bonding with each other.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Various. Universal President Ned Tanen insisted the Road Trip sequence be cut because he worried it could start race riots. Landis showed the clip to RichardPryor, who wrote to the executive "Ned, Animal House is fucking funny and white people are crazy - Richard."
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Played during the closing credits.
* FakeFood: The whiskey Bluto drinks just after Delta House is dismantled was actually tea.
* FanDisservice: Oh hi, Donald Sutherland's ass! Didn't expect to see ''you'' here!
** Although, to be fair, the only reason why we see Donald Sutherland's ass is because Karen Allen, who was also in that scene, was reluctant to bare her ass. Seeing that she was nervous, Sutherland offered to bare his ass if she bared hers, and she agreed. So you might say that, were it not for Donald Sutherland's ass, the movie would have one less instance of {{Fanservice}} (see below).
* {{Fanservice}}: Way too many examples to mention, and for both sexes.
* FengSchwing: [[HandsomeLech Eric "Otter" Stratton]]'s room.
* FiveBadBand: Dean Wormer and the Omegas
** The BigBad: Dean Wormer
** TheDragon: Greg Marmalard
** TheBrute: [[TheNeidermeyer Doug Neidermeyer]]
** TheEvilGenius: Chip Diller
** TheDarkChick: Babs Jensen
* FiveManBand: The Deltas
** TheHero: Otter
** TheLancer: Boon
** {{The Big Guy}}/{{Mascot}}: Bluto
** TheSmartGuy: D-Day
** TheChick: Hoover
** {{Those Two Guys}}/{{Sixth Ranger}}s: Pinto and Flounder
** [[spoiler:HighHeelFaceTurn: Mandy Papridge]]
* FoodFight: Quite possibly the TropeNamer.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]CensorDecoy: When Pinto and Clorette are about to have sex, she reveals she's only 13. The writers originally intender her to be 17 but didn't think the censors would approve. They believed that if they had her say she was 13, the censors would tell them she needed to be older and in that case, 17 would be okay. However, the censors said nothing about her character being 13, so it was left that way.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Pinto when he's with Clorette and she passes out, [[DudeShesLikeInAComa leaving her at his mercy]].
-->'''Devil''': Fuck her. Fuck her brains out. Suck her tits, squeeze her buns. You know she wants it. [...] Aw, don't listen to that jack-off. Look at those gazongas. You'll never get a better chance.
-->''(Angel wins)''
--> '''Angel''': "I'm proud of you, Lawrence."
--> '''Devil''': "You homo!"
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Otter is a {{Casanova}}. Greg is saving himself for marriage and can't even get it up for a handjob.
** Greg can't get it up with a girl because he's gay, but in his defense he probably can't even conceive of this as a possibility in 1962.
* HandsomeLech: Eric "Otter" Stratton.
* IncessantMusicMadness: At the toga party, some guy is playing a guitar and singing when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvR6d08L3nc Bluto happens by]]. After listening to the singing for a while, Bluto takes the guitar away from the guy, smashes it to pieces against a wall and then [[HypocriticalHumor utters a halfhearted sorry]].
** "[[TheCameo Some guy]]" is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_(musician) Stephen Bishop]].
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Bluto, after Delta House is cleaned out once their charter is revoked. Bluto starts to panic, when someone tosses him a wide-mouthed bottle of Jack Daniels. He ''chugs'' the entire bottle. "Thanks; I needed that."
* InitiationCeremony: At Delta House, it involves getting drunk. At Omega House... "Assume the position."
* InsultBackfire: After Delta House is dismantled.
-->'''Niedermeyer:''' How's it feel to be an independent, Schoenstein?
-->'''Boone:''' How's it feel to be an asshole, Niedermeyer?
* InUniverseNickname: Numerous, the first thing assigned to freshmen after an initiaion. Flounder is the one given more thought.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Donald Sutherland was offered either a percentage of the gross, or cash up front. He chose cash, sure that the film would flop. If he had taken the former option, he would've raked in several million dollars.
* JokerJury[=/=]KangarooCourt: The Omegas throw the book at the Deltas at the latter's probation hearing, even outright making up one of the accusations against them.
** In the movie, the charge of providing pledges with "diet pills" (amphetamines) is baseless. However, in the novelization (by script co-writer Chris Miller), it's quite true. The pills are kept in a dish marked "Study Aids". Pinto takes some to get through writing a term paper, crashes during his exams and fails that class.
* TheKhan: Bluto after the frat's beer bar is taken away.
* LadyDrunk: Mrs. Wormer.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre:
-->''(Otter and Mrs. Wormer are in the supermarket vegetable section)''
-->'''Otter''' : Mine's bigger than that. Oh, my cucumber. It's bigger. Vegetables can be really sensuous don't you think?
-->'''Mrs. Wormer''' : No, [[YouMakeMeSic Vegetables are sensual, people are sensuous]]
* LazyBum: With a GPA of '''0.0''' Bluto is head and shoulders ''below'' the rest of his BookDumb colleagues. [[TakeThat He gets to be a Senator]].
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: "Is it supposed to be this soft?"
* MakeOutPoint: One overlooks the town of Faber. It's frequently visited by the Omegas, and never by the Deltas (probably because the latter group would rather make out in their frat house).
* ManChild: Bluto, proven by the cafeteria scene.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment
* MrsRobinson: Mrs. Wormer
* MyDearIdiot: Plump and naive Kent Dorfman, the newest member of the Delta house is given the nickname "Flounder", probably because of his size (in comparison to fish maybe), yet this becomes an endearing name for him over time.
* NakedFreakOut: Babs Jansen at the end of the homecoming parade (in her final appearance in the movie). (Okay, so it's really FullyClothedNudity, but still...)
* NakedOnArrival: We're introduced to Otter as he's about to get dressed for a date.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The movie's circus-like climax features crashing floats, multicolored smoke bombs, an elephant, clowns on bicycles, Bluto swinging down from the rooftops dressed as a swashbuckler... and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 10,000 marbles]].
* NonSequiturDistraction: The former TropeNamer. Towards the end, [[JohnBelushi Bluto]] gives a stirring speech about not giving up, and at one point says "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" Otter, in reaction, looks confused for a moment and mutters, "Germans?" to which Boon responds "Forget it, he's rolling."
* NoodleIncident: Dean Wormer has a pile of files on Delta's
-->'''Wormer''': Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the varsity swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Mrs. Wormer.
* OhCrap: When the Deltas' prank [[GoneHorriblyWrong Goes Horribly Wrong]] and they end up with a dead horse in Dean Vernon's office, all Bluto can say is "Holy SHIT!"
* OurFounder: The Faber fellow. "Knowledge is Good"
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Toga, Toga, Toga!
* ThePeepingTom: Bluto Blutarsky uses a ladder to peer through the second-story window of a sorority house.
* PillowFight
* PlayBoy: Martha Smith, Miss July 1973, played Babs.
* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Villains]]: At their rush party, the Omegas humiliate Pinto and Flounder by having them sit at a segregated table with a Muslim (albeit one in a Sikh turban), a Hindu, a Jew, and a blind kid. Oh, and they mispronounce the Hindu guy's name - on purpose. (They also consistently call Pinto [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Lonnie instead of Larry]], and his attempts to correct them are rewarded only with a patronising chuckle.)
** ''And'' they lead Flounder back over there whenever he tries to get up and mingle.
** The fact that the non-white people and the blind guy were the "reject" table was likely supposed to [[LampshadeHanging Lampshade]] Omega's status as the "Nazi fraternity".
** The movie seems to be subverting - or at least playing with - the "bad-guys-bigoted-good-guys-tolerant" stock plot. The Deltas certainly ''try'' to be open-minded, but they're hardly civil-rights crusaders: they implicitly accept the ''de facto'' segregation of the Dexter Lake Club by fleeing in terror (which is, admittedly, [[RealityEnsues what most white people in that situation would have done]], but the point is that in most movies of this type, [[StupidGood the heroes would sincerely try to calm down the rampaging mob]]). And they seem unconcerned - and even gleeful - about UnfortunateImplications when they ram a pro-integration float in the climactic parade scene, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything tearing the two papier-mache hands of different colors completely apart]].
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Flounder's brother's car. Inverted in that Flounder is a helpless and naive ButtMonkey there.
* PrisonRape: [[spoiler:Greg's caption reveals that he went on to become a White House aid during Nixon's presidency, and was subsequently raped in prison. Probably meant to double as a BlackComedyRape, since he's a douchebag (and according to his girlfriend, was saving himself for marriage).]]
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: OhCrap, she's actually only ''thirteen'' years old!
** [[spoiler:Not only that, but at the end of the movie she introduces Pinto to her parents and announces "[[ShotgunWedding we have to get married]]." OhCrap times ten.]]
*** [[spoiler: It's even worse. She introduces Pinto as "the boy who molested me last month", and ''then'' says they have to get married. OhCrap times a hundred]].
* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" One Liner]]: "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
** Though it's notable that Wormer says it in a slightly sympathetic way (compared to how he addressed the rest of the Deltas), making it a slight PetTheDog towards Flounder as well.
* RecycledTheSeries: ''Delta House''.
* RefugeInAudacity: Indeed, it's a testament to this movie's sheer level of audacity that it's still considered politically incorrect (but funny!) an entire generation after it was made.
* RepeatAfterMe: During the Delta House initiation.
-->"I, state your name ..." "''I, state your name ...''"
* RousingSpeech: "Was it over when the [[YouFailHistoryForever Germans bombed Pearl Harbor]]? Hell no!"
** It's been reported that LAURA FREAKIN' BUSH launched into "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!" when the 2000 vote count in Florida wasn't going well.
* SadistTeacher: Dean Wormer.
* SelfDeprecation: Pinto's eventual fate: "Editor-in-chief, National Lampoon".
* SlipperySkid: Marbles during the parade.
* SlipperySlopeFallacy: Used rather awesomely in the court scene where Otter argues that attacking his fraternity is attacking the entire American society.
* SlobsVersusSnobs: In ''spades.''
* SmugSnake: Most of the Omegas, especially Niedermeyer and Marmalard.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Some of the stuffier characters (Dave Jennings being a good example) aren't above occasionally using such words as "shit" and "fuck."
* StrawManHasAPoint: It's hard not to understand just ''why'' Dean Wormer wants Delta off campus and out of Faber.
* StrawmanU:
** Faber College is a strict, pre-counterculture 1960s Bob Jones University example.
** About three-quarters of the way through the picture, the Deltas take a road trip and make a brief stop at a "progressive" women's college to pick up some dates. The college is a bit staid to qualify as "Berserkeley," but the point is made that the girls are all bleeding-heart liberals. (In order to make it with them, you have to mention that you're into some kind of progressive cause.)* Not in 1962.Most of the "counterculture/hippy" stuff is exaggerated in the movies, and didn't take off until the late 60s anyway.1962 was still much more like the 50s than the stereotypical idea of the 60s, even at Berkeley.
* TeamDad: Hoover, to the Deltas. He's the only one of them who seems to genuinely care about avoiding trouble and staying on Dean Wormer's good side (at least enough to avoid getting thrown out of school), and generally tries to keep the Deltas from going too far off the rails. Granted, they usually ignore his advice...but at least he tries.
* ThemeTuneRollCall
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When the gang enters the black night club, and everyone inside is instantly silent (including the band), Otter leans forward and says, calmly, "We are going to die."
* ThoseTwoGuys: Otter and Boon.
* [[TrustMeImAnX Trust Me, I'm An X]]:
-->'''Bluto''': My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
-->'''Otter''': You'd better listen to him, Flounder, he's pre-med.
** Earlier...
--->'''Otter:''' ''(Rising in a disciplinary hearing)'' Point of parliamentary procedure!
--->'''Hoover:''' Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
--->'''Otter:''' ''(aside)'' Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
--->'''Boon:''' I thought you were pre-med.
--->'''Otter:''' What's the difference?
* UnbuiltTrope: This film actually does a lot in deconstructing WackyFratboyHijinx.
* TheUnreveal: Part of what makes "D-Day" so fascinating is how much the movie leaves ambiguous about his true nature. ("Daniel Simpson Day....has no grade point average. All courses incomplete." Okay, so what has he been ''doing'' all this time?) And at the very end, as he's [[spoiler: roaring off in a stolen police car: "Daniel Simpson Day: whereabouts unknown."]]
* VillainyFreeVillain: Dean Wormer is an unpleasant antagonist, but for the most part he's a JerkassHasAPoint merely enforcing campus rules without any real inmoral actions against hilarious but admittedly proto-delinquents.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Flounder throws up ''on'' Dean Wormer - offscreen. (But we hear the "splat" and see Wormer's secretary's shocked reaction.)
* WackyFratboyHijinx: The Deltas steal and (accidentally) murder a horse, leave both Mrs. Wormer and Clorette [=DePasto=] drunken wrecks, and of course turn the Homecoming Parade into an utter fiasco. Not to mention what happens every Halloween....
** Halloween [[spoiler: when ''the trees are full of underwear'']] has nothing on Spring [[spoiler: when ''the toilets '''explode''''']].
* WasJustLeaving: Subverted. When a coed says, "He was just leaving," Otter replies, "No I'm not."
* WatchThePaintJob: Flounder's brother's car.
* WeNeedADistraction
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: DanAykroyd turned down the role of D-Day.
** BillMurray turned down the role of Boon.
** Chevy Chase was originally going to be Otter, but had to cancel due to a schedule conflict.
** If John Belushi turned down the role of Bluto, the next choice would've been MeatLoaf.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Perhaps the best known example.
** The DVD featured a modern-day update on this. The highlights: Otter is a doctor with sexy patients, Diller is a missionary thanks to seeing Jesus in his food numerous times (including a shot of Kevin Bacon from ''{{Tremors}}''), Babs is still a tour guide giving ludicrously bad information, Boon and Katie have married, divorced, and reconciled a number of times, Dean Wormer is senile but the Deltas are still a {{Berserk Button}}, D-Day is living off the grid across the border and flees when John Landis tracks him down, and Bluto is ''[[GeorgeWBush the President of the United States]]''.
* WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: This is the entire ethos of Omega House, right down to the way the characters dress and (sometimes) how they talk. Delta House, while equally monochromatic, is at least a blend of more sympathetic and less stereotypical [=WASPs=] and various "ethnic whites" (including one possible Jew, as noted above).
** The Deltas have precisely [[TokenMinority one black member]]. Exactly one more than the Omegas.
* WildTeenParty: The Delta House toga party.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Clorette. Though the actress playing her ''was'' eighteen.
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