I thought he used the verb “frag”?
NIEDERmeyer.
DEAD!
Also, Worf is not a merry man.
It’s a puzzle song. Like a test. Bluto has an alternate approach to tests. (Stealing answers at best. Not taking tests seems to be his thing in order to have no GPA: all courses incomplete.)
Somebody’s posing a question. “Solve” by breaking guitar. Simple enough for a future US Senator.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Why? Why not?
It’s the same sort of concept, more or less, as “Tell her to find me an acre of land / between the salt water and the sea strand,” etc. Or, this.
I sometimes think the Dope is the only place on the internet where there are people who remember that. I’m wrong, of course.
'Zactly!
Interesting. I always thought it was glaringly obvious why he smashed the guitar. The guitar player is a pompous douchebag. He has a little groomed moustache and perfectly styled hair. He wore a turtleneck sweater to a toga party. He’s hamming up the song like there’s no tomorrow, and seems insufferably pleased with himself and how handsome he believes himself to be. Smashing the guitar is the perfect response.
Trivia: I heard that Belushi was just supposed to grab the guitar and smash it, but it didn’t break on the first try, so he had to kind of go on a rampage and keep hitting it, which of course made the scene even more funny.
I hope it was a prop guitar he busted up. I’ve always thought there was something inherently wrong with destroying musical instruments. That’s why Pete Townsend and I weren’t on speaking terms for decades.
In guitar geek circles, it is referred to that way, even though most vintage acoustic dealers love the music of the day. It was a time when a lot of old acoustics were getting modded - pickups added, refinished, archtops replaced with flattops, psychedelic additions, etc. Not unlike the Eddie Van Halen-ification of electrics in the 80’s, when wonderful old Strats and Les Pauls were routed for locking tremolos.
And, of course, the two quotes together are a set from Martin Mull’s Sex and Violins.
And the guy was WAAAAY off-key. It’s as if Belushi was putting the guitar out of its misery.
The more I see this movie, the more I wonder why we are supposed to identify with the Deltas.
Not that anyone else in the movie is much better than them, but they’re pretty damn vile.
Why shouldn’t they all be expelled?
Dude, sometimes a funny movie is funny. I wouldn’t overthink a movie like Animal House.
Bugs Bunny tortures Daffy Duck throughout Duck Amuck, hilariously, and at the end says “Ain’t I a little stinker?” Just think of it like that…
Because some people like to draw outside the lines.
Just coming back to say: I posted this and then realized I was on the SDMB. Overthinking is what we do ;). Heck, we’re in a thread overthinking the guitar smashing scene…
Up next… why did D-Day choose to play the William Tell Overture on his throat after riding his motorcycle up the stairs? Was he intending to make people think of William Tell, or the Lone Ranger? Was he identifying with one or the other?
Expect a brief hijack on if the carb on his bike was correct for that model.
The interior shots of the delta house were made in an actual fraternity house at the University of Oregon. The IMDB trivia section of the movie listing says: