Funny / Animal House

What A New Hope and Jaws is to blockbusters, Animal House is to comedies. Expect lots of fucking laughs.

• "Assume the Position!" "Thank you, sir! May I have another?" Made it even funnier when you see who plays the guy getting spanked. On the DVD, Bacon tells of how, during the film's premiere, he didn't get to sit with the rest of the cast and crew because the ushers didn't believe he was in the movie. Talk about being a Butt-Monkey all throughout...
• The food fight scene. Preceded by the whole cafeteria scene of Bluto tasting every dish the cafeteria has on display. You will never look at mashed potatoes the same way again...
  • "I'm a zit! Get it?"
• Almost anything Dean Wormer says.
  "It's about time someone put their foot down, and that foot... is me."
  • Then there’s his memorable line way down below. You know what it is...
• "Double Secret Probation."
  "I really hate those guys."
• Dean Wormer's desire to see Delta House kicked off campus forever:
  Dean Wormer: I've got their disciplinary files right here. Who dropped a whole truckload of Fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. (dramatic pause) Every spring, the toilets... explode.
  Marmalard: You are talking about Delta, sir...
  Wormer: Of course I'm talking about Delta, you twerp!
• Bluto chugging an entire bottle of Jack Daniels.
  • "'Cause when the goin' gets tough... [Beat for 9 seconds] the tough the tough get goin'!"
• And quite possibly the greatest Rousing Speech in all of filmdom. The whole thing is epic, but especially this:
  Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over till WE say it's over! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL NO!
  Otter: "Germans?"
  Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
  • And shortly before:
    Boon (after watching Neidermeyer verbally abuse Flounder): A vicious mother, isn't he?
    Otter: He can't do that to our pledges.
    Boon: Only we can do that to our pledges!
• Otter and Boon practice their golf swings.

  Boon: I gotta work on my game.

  Otter: No, no, no, don't think of it as work. The whole point is... just to enjoy yourself.

  Neidermeyer: (screams in the distance)

• Everything about the scene where the pack walks into a black bar
  • "We are gonna die."
  • A gigantic black man asks "Do you mind if we dance with your dates?" and then uproots and removes the table they were sitting by, much to the girl's horror. The guys then make themselves scarce and run for their lives.
    Black Man: If I was in your shoes, I'd be...
    Boon: Leaving! What a good idea!
  • "The Negroes took our dates!"
• "The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took some liberties with our female guests...we did. *winks at Dean Wormer*"
• When they accidentally kill the horse. "HOLY SHIT!"
  • What sells the scene is that not only did D-Day load the gun with blanks as a Secret Test of Character, but Flounder deliberately misses the horse by shooting the gun in the air! And the second he does that, the horse still drops dead. The Oh, Crap! reactions from D-Day and Bluto when they hear the horse go "thud" is just the appetizer for the Mass "Oh, Crap!" when they join Flounder panicking over the dead horse.
    Bluto: Holy shit!
    D-Day: There were blanks in that gun!
    Flounder: I didn't even point the gun at him!
    Bluto: Holy shit!
    (D-Day checks the gun)
    D-Day: There WERE blanks in that gun!
    Flounder: Maybe he had a heart attack?
    Bluto: Holy shit!
    (The three of them then look at each other, scream, and book it out of there like a bat outta hell.)
  • With the following scene of Dean Wormer and the town's mayor matter-of-factly discussing the upcoming parade with the horse's legs sticking straight up on the opposite side of the room, and then the 'disposal guy', after measuring the horse and the doorway, comes back in with a chainsaw...
• "I can't believe I threw up in front of Dean Wormer..."
  • "Face it, Kent. You threw up ON Dean Wormer!"
    • Although Wormer did ask for it: "OUT WITH IT!"
• The Delta Pledge and Delta Naming scene.
  Bluto: Dorfman, I've given this a lot of thought. From now on, your Delta Tau name is... Flounder.
• Bluto stumbles into a folk singer and a captive female audience: "I gave my love... a cherry... that had no stone..." Cue guitar smash. It's the slow burn Bluto gives as he stands there, taking in the utter wretchedness of that song. It's the anticipation of his response that makes it so... enjoyable. And to top it, he mutters a fake sheepish "sorry" after the mayhem.
  • Rumor has it this was ad-libbed by John Belushi.
• How does Otter comfort a weeping Flounder when the latter is crying over the destruction caused to his brother's Cool Car?
  Otter: You fucked up! You trusted us!
• During the Misfit Mobilization Moment when the Deltas are transforming Fred's car into the Death Tank, Bluto measures the front window's width and length carefully with a tape measure... before he picks up a hammer and starts smashing it in.
• Pinto's Good Angel, Bad Angel moment.
• "Zero...point...zero."
• "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
• When Wormer tells Pinto that his 1.2 GPA puts him at the top of the Delta pledge class, Bluto and Flounder give Pinto some "attaboy" gestures.
• "Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky"
• Bluto wiggling his eyebrows at us while spying on the undressing Mandy.
• "They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!"
• "Seven years of college down the drain... might as well join the fucking Peace Corps."
• After Delta House is dismantled.
  Neidermeyer: How's it feel to be an independent, Schoenstein?
  Boon: How's it feel to be an asshole, Neidermeyer?
• Delta House's contribution to the Faber parade: A giant float shaped like a cake that reads "Eat Me."
• The Deathmobile rams a pro-integration float in the parade and tears completely apart its white and black hands.
• Clorette introduces Pinto to her father as "the boy who molested me last month", then adds "we have to get married." And as he runs away, Pinto's future is shown: "Editor-in-chief, National Lampoon".
• When in Hollywood, Visit Universal Studios (Ask For Babs)
• Neidermeyer's Villainous Breakdown: "GET UP, YOU FAGGOTS! GET UP AND CHARGE!"
  • And Chip's: "Remain calm. All is well. ALLLLL IS WELLLLLLL!!!"'
• Neidermeyer's fate: "Killed in Vietnam by his own troops." ^note ...In Twilight Zone: The Movie. No Really!
• Marmalard’s fate which really isn’t much better than Neidermeyer’s: “Nixon white house aide. Raped in prison, 1974”
• The entire probation hearing, but most notably this exchange, occurring as Delta house is noisily cheering on the proceedings:
  Yarn: *whispering* Will you tell those assholes to shut up?
  Boon: *leaps to his feet* Hey, shut up, you assholes!!
• The young boy who yells "Thank you, God!" after a Playboy bunny flies through the window and lands on his bed. He's even billed as "Lucky Boy" in the credits.
• Greg Marmalard banging on the top of the Deathmobile.
  Greg: Come out of there, you bastards!
  Otter: (over the top "female" voice)Who is it?
  Greg: You know damn well who it is!
  Otter: I'm sorry, you'll have to come back later, I'm doing the dishes!
• Bluto popping out of the Deathmobile in full pirate getup and Wormer's reaction:
  Wormer: Oh my God.
• The fact that amidst all the chaos in the parade riot, Hoover actually tries asking Wormer to give the guys one more chance. Wormer’s look of absolute defeat just says it all.

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