Was John Belushi a hater of folk music? Did he hate the guys singing? What made it so bad? The music performance or just a shitty song?
It’s actually supposed to be slow and cloying. I can’t think of a more irritating and despised folk song. I love folk music but not this song.
Joan Baez’s attempt. It sets my teeth on edge just like that guy in Animal House. Too damn slow! Get some tempo woman!! Allegro or at least Moderato! Never sing this song lento or adagio.
Doc Watson did it too. Much better, faster. But its still pretty irritating.
Charming Guy with the Guitar was surrounded by adoring females. Who weren’t surrounding and adoring Bluto.
B. This was Bluto, remember? I’d class this incident as one of many entries on his “Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time” list. That is, if a “list” can come in volumes I, II, and III.
Ok… look at Belushi’s character. They are at an “Animal House” party with beer being thrown motorcycles ridden up the stairs etc. And there in the middle is a guy with a sweater around his neck who obviously brought a guitar to this party singing a dippy song and a bunch of the girls swooning over him.
Didn’t quite fit in with the type of party Bluto wants and he thought it was annoying. Smashing the dweeb’s guitar is the only logical reaction. After all… he said “sorry.”
Yeah, I’m thinking imagine you’re an “Animal House” and you’re throwing this rocking no-holds-barred type of party, and there’s some douche sitting with a guitar playing, I dunno, Jack Johnson tunes or whatever. Wouldn’t you want to smash his guitar into bits?
I had no idea that such an awful song was, like, a real song. I just assumed for the last few decades that a clever National Lampoon writer came up with the most stupid lyric ever, about cherries with no stones and chicken with no bones.
In The Kentucky Fried Movie, Stephen Bishop appeared in a tiny role in a fake porno movie called Catholic High School Girls in Trouble. They used an ancient dirty joke in that scene. Bishop is standing there, trying to look suave. A big-boobed blonde approaches and says, “Show me your nuts.” Bishop responds by making weird faces and sounds.
2) As we've discussed, he was "Charming guy with guitar" in ***Animal House.***
He was Charming state trooper in The Blues Brothers.
And, in The Twilight Zone, he was the Charming G.I. He’s one of a group of soldiers tramping through a rice paddy in Viet Nam. At one point, in an allusion to the ending of Animal House, he whines, “Man, I wish we didn’t kill Lieutenant Niermeyer.”