Hey… if you knew how many brain cells have been destroyed in the last 32 years… 3 out of 4 isn’t bad.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
The flip side of that is: all the worthwhile, important stuff I’ve forgotten since then…but I remembered “Jugdish”! 
Animal House trivia isn’t important???
Sophomore Dies in Kiln Explosion
“She was gonna make a pot for me.”
“I know. She told me.”
No, it is not overrated. It cannot be overrated. Often imitated, never equalled. I just needed to jump in to say that.
It basically created the genre. You would not have Revenge of the Nerds, PCU, Van Wilder, American Pie, Old School, and dozens of other, more inferior, college frat comedies without Animal House.
I’m sure it appears on a lot of “Greatest Films of All Time” lists. Maybe not top ten, but certainly it’s on someone’s lists.
Also it one an Oscar for Hilarity.
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It’s not overrated. It’s properly rated as one of the greatest comedy movies of all time. I just watched it again today (prompted by this thread’s ludicrous premise), and it’s still funny as hell.
What’s the difference?
Also:
There were blanks in that gun!
I didn’t even point it at him.
There WERE blanks in that gun!
No, no. Niedermeyer introduced them to Dorfman first, and called the guy “Jugdish.” Then Marmalard brought Dorfman back over there and introduced them again, and called him by his correct name - “Jugless.” (You can see in the first scene that after Niedermeyer calls him Jugdish he quickly checks his nametag).
It also took me several viewings before I realized the significance of Otter holding up his satchel and smiling when he entered the courthouse. (It’s where ke keeps his giant dildo that we saw way at the beginning of the movie)
Oh - obviously I fall into the “not overrated” camp.
I saw it for the first time this year, and I hardly cracked a smile once. I realize that it is the movie that created and defined the genre, but for me it was just a bit slow and formulaic (if the movie that generated the formula can be called formulaic).
Not overrated, but it is outdated. Animal House used to be the movie that all the kids watched and quoted endlessly. Then it was the movie the younger kids watched because their older brother liked it and said it was cool. Then it was the movie everybody loved because it was on TBS every other day. I think enough time has past and the original audience has aged to the point where it doesn’t have the same impact it once did.
It’s a little bit long-winded. It doesn’t translate very well into our generation, and its jokes are terrible. But that doesn’t relieve you from your responsibility for this material. I’m waiting for reports from some of you. I’m not joking! This is my job.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
I haven’t been able to watch Animal House since my fiancee, Fawn Liebowitz, was killed in a kiln explosion. OK, so we we’re actually engaged to be engaged…but she was making me an ashtray.
Thank you… I was concerned the correct response would not be posted.
Again… any other 32 year old movies that can get this many responses with trivial quotes… other than the other classics of the era like Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and the Holly Grail
Best. Movie. Ever.
And Animal House- definitely not overrated.
It’s also worth noting that Animal House is a key movie when it comes to Kevin Bacon degrees-of-separation.
Thank you sir, may I have another!