Go Kefauver High!

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The National Lampoon High School Yearbook parody is back in print!

This was one of the highest points of that peak of American comedy, the National Lampoon – a dead on parody of a high school yearbook. The more you read it, the more jokes you find
(Take a look at the list of underclassmen, for instance) and it’s filled with plots and subplots that only become clear after several readings (the identity of the MC, for instance).

If you don’t already have an original, get the new one. You won’t be disappointed.

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I still remember the aerial photo of the school with someone having written “Drop H-Bomb Here” along with a big “X” next to the school.

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Ah yes, the tortured love triangle between Larry, Twinky and Eggy.

Give yourself extra points if you knew why Buckeye Cola was so popular at the drive-in.

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Smok, smok!

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Buy one, rip the cover off to reveal the “yearbook”-looking cover, then leave it lying around for friends to pick up and read.

I also did that with the NatLamp sunday paper parody, and got quite a few “This is cool. … this is weir… huh?” moments as it began to dawn on friends.

What I would LOVVVVE to do is have a local bookbinder recover the yearbook in real embossed hardcover cover. (But they want $60-100, so I’ll wait).

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Hey, WAIT a minute! I’ll just gut one of my old yearbooks (or buy one at a local goodwill-type store) that’s the right size and glue the Kefauver High version in (hmmm… maybe bookbinder’s glue…).

That’s it – gotta run to St. Vinnie’s and a craft store.

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RealityChuck, thanks for posting this. My copy should arrive in the mail today. I’ve still got a copy of the sequels Animal House and Sunday Newspaper Parody, but my tattered copy of the yearbook got loaned out and never returned. Some folks may not realize, the parody is Larry Kroger’s yearbook–he’s one of the pledges at Delta house in both the movie and book versions of Animal House. In the Sunday Newspaper, you can get an update on what’s happened to most of the seniors, along with delightful side by side stories on global warming and the impending ice age.

My favorite part of the yearbook is all the names, especially those under the freshman class pictures. I.C.Yew, M.E. Nems, Meyer C. Doates, Harry P. Ness, Charles Ulmer Farley, etc. etc.

I hadn’t heard about the re-issue. And, ahem, Kunilou, I know why cola was popular at the drive in–are my extra points good for something?