You trusted us.”), Otter comes off as the guy who you shouldn’t want around. The Griswolds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues. There was a lot of getting to know each other and calling each other by our character names." [4] Adjusted for inflation, it is the 68th highest-grossing film in North America.[49]. Of course, deans in real life aren’t too bad (The Simpsons played on this trope hilariously in the episode “Homer Goes to College”). Previously, he wrote for Taste of Cinema and BabbleTop. Every college movie, every roadtrip movie, every snobs vs. slobs movie, every pitiful 'slacker' comedy ever made in the past owes a great debt to 'Animal House'. Doug Kenney was a Lampoon writer and the magazine's first editor-in-chief. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of the smooth-talking Eric "Otter" Stratton in the comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House(1978) and of Vice President John Hoynesin the NBCdrama The West Wing, which earned him 2 Primetime Emmy Awardnominations for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Kroger's and Pepperidge's characters in the yearbook were effectively the same as their characters in the movie, whereas Vernon Wormer was a P. E. and civics teacher as well as an athletic coach in the yearbook. Ramis drew from his own fraternity experiences as a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis and was working on a film treatment about college called "Freshman Year", but the magazine's editors were not happy with it.
The writers of Animal House were keen to tap into this, as their original cast list shows: John Belushi as Bluto, Dan Aykroyd as D-Day, Bill Murray as Boon, and Chevy Chase as Otter. two different deleted scenes with Otter and a couple of his girlfriends (one played by Sunny Johnson—listed in the credits as "Otter's Co-Ed" although her scene was deleted—and the other played by location scout Katherine Wilson, whose deleted scene can be seen in the theatrical trailer). [61], It became available on Blu-ray optical disc in July 26, 2011. It’s crass, it’s loud, it’s childish – and it’s absolutely hilarious.
The writers of Animal House were keen to tap into this, as their original cast list shows: John Belushi as Bluto, Dan Aykroyd as D-Day, Bill Murray as Boon, and Chevy Chase as Otter. two different deleted scenes with Otter and a couple of his girlfriends (one played by Sunny Johnson—listed in the credits as "Otter's Co-Ed" although her scene was deleted—and the other played by location scout Katherine Wilson, whose deleted scene can be seen in the theatrical trailer). [61], It became available on Blu-ray optical disc in July 26, 2011. It’s crass, it’s loud, it’s childish – and it’s absolutely hilarious.
The writers of Animal House were keen to tap into this, as their original cast list shows: John Belushi as Bluto, Dan Aykroyd as D-Day, Bill Murray as Boon, and Chevy Chase as Otter. two different deleted scenes with Otter and a couple of his girlfriends (one played by Sunny Johnson—listed in the credits as "Otter's Co-Ed" although her scene was deleted—and the other played by location scout Katherine Wilson, whose deleted scene can be seen in the theatrical trailer). [61], It became available on Blu-ray optical disc in July 26, 2011. It’s crass, it’s loud, it’s childish – and it’s absolutely hilarious.
There was a great deal of projectile vomiting and rape and all these things". Maybe we even liked him at the time or pretended to. He said that Bluto was a blend of two characters: Harpo Marx and Cookie Monster. The only things we learn about our characters that we don’t see during the brief run time are that Flounder’s brother Fred was a Delta (and a real closet-case), Otter has perhaps slept with Mandy somehow somewhen, and the Deltas had the medical school cadavers delivered to the alumni dinner. Yep, Animal House was basically gonna be SNL Gatecrashes National Lampoon, and director John Landis couldn't think of anything worse. It stars John Belushi, Peter Riegert, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, Stephen Furst, and Donald Sutherland. But then we grew up. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus.
You trusted us.”), Otter comes off as the guy who you shouldn’t want around. The Griswolds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues. There was a lot of getting to know each other and calling each other by our character names." [4] Adjusted for inflation, it is the 68th highest-grossing film in North America.[49]. Of course, deans in real life aren’t too bad (The Simpsons played on this trope hilariously in the episode “Homer Goes to College”). Previously, he wrote for Taste of Cinema and BabbleTop. Every college movie, every roadtrip movie, every snobs vs. slobs movie, every pitiful 'slacker' comedy ever made in the past owes a great debt to 'Animal House'. Doug Kenney was a Lampoon writer and the magazine's first editor-in-chief. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of the smooth-talking Eric "Otter" Stratton in the comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House(1978) and of Vice President John Hoynesin the NBCdrama The West Wing, which earned him 2 Primetime Emmy Awardnominations for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Kroger's and Pepperidge's characters in the yearbook were effectively the same as their characters in the movie, whereas Vernon Wormer was a P. E. and civics teacher as well as an athletic coach in the yearbook. Ramis drew from his own fraternity experiences as a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis and was working on a film treatment about college called "Freshman Year", but the magazine's editors were not happy with it.
The writers of Animal House were keen to tap into this, as their original cast list shows: John Belushi as Bluto, Dan Aykroyd as D-Day, Bill Murray as Boon, and Chevy Chase as Otter. two different deleted scenes with Otter and a couple of his girlfriends (one played by Sunny Johnson—listed in the credits as "Otter's Co-Ed" although her scene was deleted—and the other played by location scout Katherine Wilson, whose deleted scene can be seen in the theatrical trailer). [61], It became available on Blu-ray optical disc in July 26, 2011. It’s crass, it’s loud, it’s childish – and it’s absolutely hilarious.
The character of D-Day was based on Aykroyd, who was a motorcycle aficionado. Gender: Male. Seven years of college down the drain. Not everything is sweetness. He isn’t sweet, not even a little. [64] Animal House is first on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies. Fill Out Adoption Form Yes, I want to sponsor! [50] The pilot episode was written by the film's screenwriters, Kenney, Miller, and Ramis. He co-starred as Joe Hardy, opposite Richard Gates as Frank Hardy, in a 1967 pilot episode for what would have been a TV series called The Hardy Boys, based on the novel series of the same name, but the series was not picked up.[5]. We'd been living with it for two years and we hated that". Because even though this is a film filled with bouncing bare boobs and sex out the wazoo (plus male flesh, too), it isn’t actually anti-woman, unless you’re watching and wishing you were Otter. Otter’s not a villain. [7] Landis remembers, "When I was given the script, it was the funniest thing I had ever read up to that time. But who’s good or bad in Animal House is intriguing, even understanding that we’re talking about the grandpappy of teen sex comedies. House trained and crate trained.
