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Animal House The Rewatchables
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Animal House

Half-Assed Internet Research

Oregon locations, cast bonding, music, sequel plans, and the contested Dexter’s scene

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Approx. transcript time · 01:09:16Read transcript
  • The University of Oregon reportedly rented its campus while asking not to be named
  • Black extras reportedly had to be brought from Portland
  • The Delta cast reportedly arrived early to bond while being separated from the Omega cast
  • Belushi’s exposure to Curtis Salgado is connected to the Blues Brothers
  • A Summer of Love sequel around Otter’s wedding was abandoned after More American Graffiti failed and Belushi died
  • DeWayne Jessie reportedly bought the Otis Day name and toured with it
  • Stephen Bishop’s relationship with Karen Allen reportedly inspired “Separate Lives”
  • Richard Pryor’s approval is described as preserving the Dexter’s bar sequence
Animal House The Rewatchables
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Animal House

Apex Mountain

Belushi, Tim Matheson, cafeteria scenes, college movies, toga parties, and Stephen Furst

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Approx. transcript time · 01:12:50Read transcript
  • John Belushi is an immediate yes
  • Tim Matheson is judged at his career apex after this film
  • The cafeteria scene is judged an apex for food fights
  • Trading Places is preferred as John Landis’s apex
  • The actor playing Flounder is judged at his apex
  • The actor playing Boone is judged to have a later apex in The Sopranos
  • The film is judged an apex for college movies and toga parties
Animal House The Rewatchables
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Animal House

Picking Nits

The fraternity’s expulsion process, implausible logistics, and omitted comic payoffs

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Approx. transcript time · 01:15:13Read transcript
  • Dean Wormer should not need constitutional research to expel students with zero grades
  • Several actors look too old for college, though that may aid the joke
  • Mandy should hear or see Bluto moving the ladder
  • Moving a twelve-foot ladder while standing on it is questioned
  • Flounder’s brother should understand the risks of lending his car to the fraternity
  • Boone’s neglect of Katie for the road trip is questioned
  • Mrs. Wormer attending the Delta party is called implausible
  • More explanation is requested for Fawn’s kiln-explosion death
  • Not showing Flounder vomit on Dean Wormer is called a missed payoff
  • A store having ten thousand marbles is questioned
  • The completely covered Eat Me float car appears impossible to see out of
Animal House The Rewatchables
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Animal House

Probably Unanswerable Questions

The origin of double-secret probation, the film’s genre influence, student majors, and Greg’s repression

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Approx. transcript time · 01:19:18Read transcript
  • Whether the film coined “double secret probation” is questioned
  • Whether the film invented both modern sex comedy and college comedy is questioned
  • The students’ majors and whether communications existed as a 1962 major are questioned
  • The Omega fraternity is jokingly compared to the Illuminati
  • Greg’s sexuality and repression are debated from his relationships and fixation on the Deltas
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