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** The scene in which Otter, Boon, Flounder, and Pinto visit a roadhouse bar which turns out to have an exclusively black clientele and, as a result, immediately fear for their lives, is also cringeworthy for some viewers today. It doesn't help that several tall ScaryBlackMan stereotypes proceed to verbally intimidate the Deltas by asking to [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt dance with their dates]]. This was also during the early sixties when segregation was still around. The scene was already contentious in its day. Ned Tanen (head of Universal's film division) wanted the scene gone, but famous comedian Creator/RichardPryor [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales found it to be incredibly hilarious]] and wrote a letter that reads “Ned, ‘Animal House’ is fucking funny, and white people are crazy”, so the scene was kept.

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** The scene in which Otter, Boon, Flounder, and Pinto visit a roadhouse bar which turns out to have an exclusively black clientele and, as a result, immediately fear for their lives, is also cringeworthy for some viewers today. It doesn't help that several tall ScaryBlackMan stereotypes proceed to verbally intimidate the Deltas by asking to [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt dance with their dates]]. This was also during the early sixties when segregation was still around. The scene was already contentious in its day. Ned Tanen (head (president of Universal's film division) wanted the scene gone, but famous African American comedian Creator/RichardPryor [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales found it to be incredibly hilarious]] and wrote a letter that reads “Ned, ‘Animal House’ is fucking funny, and white people are crazy”, so the scene was kept.

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