A Film at 45 - Animal House

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to
nineteen seventy eight in a Film Buys limited

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series, A Film at forty five. I am David Burns and I'm Scott

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Affman, welcoming your back as we
dust off the end of a decade that

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changed cinema forever with a fresh look
at modern classics and hidden gems who can't

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stop watching even forty five years after
their debut. In today's episode, we're

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pledging the granddaddy of all college comedies, National Lampoons, Animal House, with

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a very special guest, Docking Day
seventy seven, Zone Dayton, Johnson Dayton,

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Welcome to it. Yeah Yeah,
Who dumped a whole truckload of fizzies

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into the swim meet, Who delivered
the medical school cadivers to the alumni dinner

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Every Halloween? Trees are filled with
underwear Every spring, the toilets explode.

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You're talking about Delta, Sir,
who dumped a truckload of fizzies into the

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swim meet, Who delivered the medical
school cadavers to Lemni dinner every Halloween.

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The trees are filled with underwear every
spring, the toilets explode. I'm happy

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and excited to be here. You
know, Dayton, I know we've been

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waiting for this one because we knew
you were going to be a guest with

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us, and we could not wait. So I'm excited to have you here.

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I cannot wait to dive into this
film because we know there have been

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a few college movies made over the
years, but none of them have stuck

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the landing like the one we are
discussing today. It is a cultural landmark.

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Nashe Lampoon has given us many treats
over the years, but nothing like

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Animal House has. It is far
above film. All All right, guys,

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let's time travel back to nineteen sixty
two and join Delta House, get

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our pledge pins, grab our togas, and challenge the dean of favorite college

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and do what we do best.
Have some fun talking about this classic comedy.

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Release July thirtieth, nineteen seventy eight, with a budget of three million,

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it would go on and earne shy
one hundred forty two million dollars worldwide.

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Scott, let's walk down the halls
and visit the different houses of the

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campus and let our listeners know what
is this film all about? Yeah,

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so apparently there's something about seventy eight
that always seems to take us out of

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the seventies, and this movie is
no exception. So, like you said,

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it's set in sixty two, and
there are two sides of the fictional

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favorite college campus, the Omega House
Omega Theta Pie and the Delta House Delta

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Tao Chai Chi Chai saying there,
who cares they wouldn't twis me on it,

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so I woncluse myself. Omega is
the uptight fret coming straight out of

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a leave It to Beaver episode,
while Delta House leaves its door wide open

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to welcome anyone who wants to cut
luc and have a good time. When

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the Dean threatens to shut down Delta
forever, the underdogs take over, fight

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back and make an unforgettable last stand. So let's talk about the first time

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National Lampoon hits cinemas, the college
movie that find all college movies that followed

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it in a film that conquered comedy
in nineteen seventy eight for only three this

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thing was a powerhouse. Yes,
it was. My goodness, Dayton,

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do you remember the first time you
saw this film? Indeed? I do.

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Uh. This was actually my very
first rated R film I saw in

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the theater. Okay, cool.
So my parents heard the everything was going

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on about this movie that was such
a big deal. It was so funny,

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and they had some friends that had
seen it, and they said,

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well, why is it rated R? And their friends misinformed them. I

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said, Oh, it's just just
a language and drinking and stuff. So

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so yes, oh no. In
the first twenty minutest thing, so out

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of family movie night out, the
four of us went to go see Animal

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House at the theater. So of
course, you know, you're I was

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seven eight ish at the time.
We finally got to see it because it

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came out in seven dates was we
probably saw a little bit later. But

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every time, you know, the
shirts come off, you got to cover

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your eyes and you know some but
I remember laughing at the stuff. I

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understood, you know what I mean, because there's a lot of jokes in

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there to go over a seven eight
year olds head. But it I will

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never forget, you know, peeking
through my eyes to get a shot of

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the of the boobies and stuff like
that, and even though I'm sitting next

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to my parents and like, I
still kind of want to see that,

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you know, but oh my god, it just so much, so throughout

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my teen years, so much so
that actually, when I graduated from high

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school based on my second parents gave
me a VHS copy of it as a

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graduation gift. Nice Scott, what
about you? This is one where I've

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seen more clips more often than I've
seen it all the way through. First

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time I saw it was probably in
college. It was probably like you know,

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mid to late nineties, when I
was starting to get into classics that

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I had never really seen but hadn't
seen everywhere, Like you can't walk through

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like an Applebee's or a Friday's,
or like many places where they have kind

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of iconic scenes or kind of posters
or whatever animal house is Oliver, Like,

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you can't not have seen something from
this movie for good reason. It

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was later years for me. Um. I didn't see this when I was

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in high school. It was my
Sun Sun Coach years actually when I got

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to see this for the first time, because you know, hanging out with

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guys like you, becoming friends with
you, and you know, we talk

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about the movies that we love and
those classics, and that's when I started

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going back and visiting films like this, and that's where I saw it and

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quickly obviously fell in love with it
because it is clearly a classic comic.

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Yeah, so let's talk a little
bit about the film itself. So,

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as you said, we you know, we open up with two characters.

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Well, we got what Larry and
Kent I believe, who are visiting two

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fraternities because they want to figure out
which one they hope to join. And

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clearly we get two different visions of
houses. You know, we get the

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Omega House and we get the Delta
House. I don't know about you guys,

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but I would clearly go towards the
Delta House in my opinion. Yeah,

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I agreed. You know, yeah, I might not drink, but

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I'm not getting smacked in the butt, you know, by you know,

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asking for another that's not thanks,
no, thank you, none at all.

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No. Um. So, I
guess before we really dive into talking

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about the scenes that we love and
you know, but let's talk a little

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bit about the characters that we have
here, Um, Dayton, any favorite

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characters. Uh, well, it's
very difficult. I I kind of cycle

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through, like every time I watch
it, I kind of just drift from

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person to person. I mean,
uh, Kroger, you know, uh

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Pinto, He's a likable guy.
He actually kind of has, um,

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you know, a heart to him, and so does he so dos Dwarfman

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and stuff. So I like those
guys because they're kind of our avatars almost

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through this adventure, because I kind
of you kind of linked to them.

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But you know, I don't want
to be like Bluto because even though he's

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hilarious, he's disgusting. But but
every once in a while I have wanted

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to grab somebody's acoustic guitar and smashing
inst the wall because they're playing a terrible

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song. But but I think what
it comes down to, um, it's

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d Day. He's he's my favorite
character. He's got the best intro,

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he's got the best prologue, you
know, the intro when he bashes through

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the door and his motorcycle drives up
the you know stairs. It just hands

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a bear to Kroger. Here you
go, here's a bear. And then

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he does that thing, the Lone
Ranger theme on his throat and I'm like,

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Okay, that guy's cool. And
then yeah, he just hanging around

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on a motorcycle the whole time.
He's he's wonderful man. Yeah, Ruth

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mcgil I believe DDA is who I
always remember as Jack Bolton from mcgiver.

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Yes, yeah, years. It
took me years before I really put that

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together. Like I would watch I'd
see him and other stuff, and it

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never occurred to me, I swear. I think it was probably mid twenties.

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Pear, I went, oh my
god, that's D Day. Now.

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He was pretty disposed to be my
favorite character in this aside from like

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everything that you mentioned, like the
mad scientist angle that you've got, like

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the mad Scientist motorcycle biker um.
But because of Jack Dalton, because he

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was the guy on the last episode
of Quantum Leap all the Bartender, he

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was already going to be one of
my favorites, and it just knocked it

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out of the park. Like his
performance is fantastic, especially the fact that

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his whereabouts are unknown. Yeah,
I love That's a perfect way to do

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it. It's the most believable out
of all of them. Really, Yeah,

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yeah, I agree, absolutely,
So, Scott, is that your

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favorite character or do you haven't had
the one? Absolutely? Like, I'm

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not gonna do my usual cheat and
say like, well there's this one or

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this one. It's got to be
D Day, I mean versus mcgil just

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for being somebody that you know,
when you look at the rest of the

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cast, you know SNL and a
lot of the background that some of these

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actors come from us. He's not
one of the bigger names in here,

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but he's definitely one of the biggest
characters. And he's so iconic that whenever

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I see him on the screen,
it just makes me happy. Yeah.

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And he does all that with a
lot of lines either right true, right,

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right, like when they're um when
they're making the Deathmobile and he's sitting

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there with a blowtorch and a cigar
and it's just it's fantastic. Just leave

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everything to me, right right.
I remember the first time I saw that

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vehicle, Like you don't get to
see the whole thing yet, you see

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like just like the hood or the
side of it. I was like,

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hey, it's the Batmobile because it
kind of a first right they put those

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like fake fins on the side.
Yeah. Yeah, Like, oh man,

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that's awesome. That that whole great
stuff. That whole sequence is just

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fantastic. And I'm sure we're gonna
get to that eventually. Uh. For

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me, Um, I'm going towards
with Stephen first as kent Ye Flounder.

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Um he he's that that innocence you
know him in Kroeger. You know,

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they're the innocent part of all of
this film, eventually getting corrupted of course

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when they go into Delta House and
stuff like that. But you know,

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just as Deeton said, you know, we come back to them from time

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to time because you know, they
are our main characters until we get introduced

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through all these other characters that are
in the Delta House and it kind of

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goes all over the place. At
that point, we still come back to

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these two. Yeah. Um,
Stephen first, to me, I don't

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know if either one of you watched
Babylon five, but I loved him as

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Veer that he was incredible in that
role. Um, and I when I

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when I think about Stephen first,
that's who I go to right away.

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But then of course, you know, I remember who I'm playing Flounder in

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Animal House, and I absolutely loved
him. But one of the things that

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you know, I really want to
point out too, everyone gravitates towards Blue

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Do because it's John Belushi. You
know, you watch his roles and this,

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you watched his scenes in this movie, and you realize what a talented

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guy he is. Um and everybody
knows that, and it's a shame that

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we lost him when we lost him
because the things he could have given us

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over the years, and the same
thing with John Candy. Um. You

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know, it's it's such a shame
because when I revisited this film this week,

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watching it, it just I am
in all of that guy, watching

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his performance, and I know a
lot of behind the scene stuff too that

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they had to do a lot of
takes because people would just bust out laughing

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because of what he was doing on
scene. One of the things that I

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never noticed before until I watched it
this week is how much he is like

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Lou Costello. Yeah did I see
that? Though? Yeah, I did

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not realize that. His mannerisms,
his facial expressions, just the way he

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acts, like the scene when like
they were going to take the horse to

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the Dean's office, how he was
doing that little sneaky moves like up the

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steps going into the into the building, even like you know when we lead

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up to the food fight scene.
Just watching him his reactions and stuff like

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that, it's like, holy crap. If he had lived, I guarantee

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that he probably would have done a
Lou Costello movie and probably would have won

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an Oscar for it, There's no
doubt. Yeah, I could totally see

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that, totally see that. I
mean, if you think about his performance,

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the almost entire cafeteria scene was improved. Yeah, he's going out the

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food line. Ryman just said just
keep the camera on because we don't know

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what he's gonna do. Even the
gag was even the zip gag was a

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joke. He didn't They didn't.
He just you know, Stephen, guess

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why I am Now seriously, they
didn't know. The actors didn't know either,

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So it's it's fantastic. It's just
absolutely wonderful. And like you were

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saying with Bruce McGill, like that, the non verbals. Yes, there's

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not a lot of lines to Bluto, which is kinda surprising. When you

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watch this, you're like, oh, it's John Belushi movie. Of course

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he's going to have a lot of
dialogue, which he has a considerable amount,

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right, but a lot of his
comedic delivery is with non verbals.

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It's it's it's i'd say, like
fifty percent eyebrows, yeah, right,

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kind of like you know, yeah, and you know, we we've had

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this discussion before. I believe on
Documents seenty seven two Dayton, where we

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talked about um comedians on how they
become the best dramatic actors. Yeah,

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because you know the way they have
to perform. They have to come up

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with stuff really quick and ad lib
stuff. And when you are really good

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at that, you keep you catch
people off guard and you get true reactions

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from the people around you, which
makes some of the most phenomenal scenes in

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movies. And you get that in
Animal House, right, Yeah, absolutely

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mean, even when he i you
know, he raises his eyebrow at the

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jar of mustard, It's like it's
like, what is what is he thinking

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with that? You know? But
yeah, yeah, he has he of

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course he has his speech at the
end, but for the most part he

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only has like a handful of lines
going up to that point. So yeah,

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it's a lot of a lot of
just delivery through his hands, his

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eyes, you know, him falling
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it's most of his performance is just
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it's great. And just the simplest
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into the Delta House for the first
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a box with the empty beer can
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his hands, like what really,
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bottle and then this is the one
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so random it just makes it so
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move on a little bit more of
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lot of famous people in it who
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in the coming years. Um,
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plays Boone. Um, you know, he has his relationship with somebody who

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we all know very much right for
me as marrying from Raiders of Lost Art.

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And of course that's Karen Allen,
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I don't think she can do any
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Absolutely. Yeah, even if I
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scene. Um, you know for
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yea, and to steal so many
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lean into like um, you know, funny lines, it's not trying to

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you know, kind of lean into
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to her. I love that,
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you when you watch her, you
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debut, but it is. I
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actors around her. Oh yes she
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she's kind of like somewhere between the
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know, she's not quite as obnoxious
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others. So she's she's trying to
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she keeps getting on Boon about you
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do all the time, you know, get drunk calf you know, every

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weekend and stuff, and you're gonna
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you like her because she's trying to
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to stop being you know, kind
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yeah, every time she's on screen, you're just kind of watching her because

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you do like her. I mean, so yeah, and like you said,

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for this to be your big screen
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good, really good, and the
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visit her and she opens the door, and of course the professor Jennings Yes,

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and actually I did read that she
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her but but Donald Sutherland said,
well, I'll show mine if that helps.

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So it wasn't in the script for
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well, I'll show mine if that
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how we get to see her bare
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his too. Right, Well,
thank you Donald, right from Invasion of

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the Body Snatchers to fare Button Animal
House right way to take one for the

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team exactly, yes, thank you
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Dotton who played Greg Marmillard um who, as we know, is the preppy

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jerk who teams up with the Dean
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Um. Mark Metcalf who plays a
Niedermeyer twisted sisters. Yes, yes,

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yes, when he's when he's saying
those lines, it's so hard not

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to go back to that. You
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from the videos and all that other
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in order, so when the videos
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Animal House. Yeah, the scenes, especially when he gets so expressive and

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he's yelling in somebody's face and he's
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know if he's doing that on purpose
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when he when he gets like that, but damn is it funny? Um?

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Mary Louise Weller as Mammy Pepperidge.
And then the other guy who film

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debut was in this movie, Good
old Kevin Bacon as Chip Diller. He's

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been in one or two things,
one or two. A bad name,

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Chip, but a perfect name it
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job in this movie, fills in
a role perfectly. You know, I've

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got a quote from him, but
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on when he found out he got
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clearly what the what this led up
to for him, what he was going

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to have in his future after this, because he has done such tons of

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work throughout the years, right,
yes, right, absolutely, drama to

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scary, like yeah, yeah,
And it's so shocking when you go back

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to see these movies after you're used
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young they were. It's like,
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because you see how young and little
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yeah, especially at the end of
the parade when he turns into like the

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flattened cartoon character on the side as
well. Yes, hysterical, Yes,

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we do him. Uh. Then
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plays Otter. We know he has
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as well. Um, we've already
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because I know Scott, you and
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in nineteen seventy eight. Yeah.
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got to talk about the Dean a
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don't think you could have got a
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Vernon. Um. When when you
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you like he there is no doubt
this guy was born to be a

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Dean. Absolutely Yeah. He's got
that like that dead pan delivery of all

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those lens like what you were saying
before Dayton, like all those lens heat

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delivers, just completely straight faced.
I don't know how he did it.

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In one take. I'm sure it
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maybe I don't know, I would. Yeah, he uh, he definitely

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embodies the head of a school that
you just want to punch, you know,

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because he's because he cares about a
school, but for all the wrong

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reasons, you know what I mean. So, yeah, he's a but

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yes, he does it so well, you know so and apparently, I

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mean obviously he's he knows how to
improv too, because the scene where he's

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on the phone with the mayor after
oh what's her name? Comes back totally

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drunk. He's like, you know, yelling at the phone, my fault,

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how the hell can be? Even
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Rightman didn't like to dialog those written
previously, so he said, well,

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you're just you know, make something
up. So and it's a great scene.

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Crazy, you know, his wife
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she's drunk too. It's great,
It's so much fun. I think that's

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one of the things that really helped
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ad living went on in this And
I think when you're dealing with writers of

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National Lampoon, you're dealing with these
talented people from SNL and you know,

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it's just get a lot of that, and that made this movie that much

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more special. Yeah yeah, Well, and you can see with with characters

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like his, it's easy to kind
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the dots between his character is the
Dean and other characters like Dick Vernon and

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Breakfast Club right right, They're very
closely related, and um it sets the

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bar for those kind of characters and
especially for comedies being able to take this

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as a template and kind of look
at I can use this range of characters

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to put together a great ensemble movie
and put together you cut well, you

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know, talking about the cast,
but we got to talk about the directors

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himself too. M John Landis,
as we know, has quite a career

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himself. You know a few things
I did not know about this guy.

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He started his career in the mail
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this is the part I really did
not know, is that he went over

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to Yugoslavia to work as a production
assistant for Kelly's Heroes. Oh yeah,

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I read that too, Yeah,
yeah, I did not know that.

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And he stayed over there working as
like a stump and an extra for like

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all those spaghetti westerns. Did not
know any of that about John landish do

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what you gotta do. This just
true. You know, you don't get

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that much anymore today, you know, walking onto a set or you know,

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breaking into the businesses because you want
to, like Steven Spielberg kind of

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kind of get arrested for that nowadays, but you know, back then,

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you know that kind of happened to
some of these people. You had to

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do what he just like you said, you had to do what you had

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to do to get into something that
you loved. Otherwise it wasn't going to

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work for you unless you knew somebody. Yeah yeah, um. But as

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you know, Landis gave us,
um, you know, the Blues Brothers,

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American Werewolf in London, trading places, spies like Us, three Amigos

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coming to America, just to name
a few of his long list of work

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that he's done over his career,
and of course Twilight Zone the movie and

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if no one knows what happened with
that movie, we won't go into details

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on that lawsuit and everything. He
had definitely checked that out because you know,

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it's that almost broke Landis and Ann
Spielberg, so definitely check that out

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if you ever get a chance.
Um. But uh, yeah, Landis.

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This was his first movie directing,
wasn't it. M Yep. Another

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kind of interesting I saw about this
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working on Kelly's Heroes, he was
he became friends with Donald Sutherland and what

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occasionally babysit for Kiefer And he later
said that it's it's Donald Sutherland who got

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this movie made because of his you
know, um what what he brought to

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the cast and what he could prove
to the producers, like what would be

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a you know what the kind of
movie would be. Um. So it's

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interesting how those little connections lead to
the big things. Yeah, but I

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did read that Sutherland I thought it
was going to bomb, so he took

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payment upfront instead of some of the
gross and end up losing money because he

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would have got a lot more money. Oh no, oops he did.

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Okay afterwards though, I think,
yes, I know, but still that's

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the Yeah, maybe maybe that,
you know, because I think he would

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end up like, like, I
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of what he made. So right, yeah, it was it was considerably

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more than what he got paid to
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That just makes you sicken that your
stomach thinking about that, like the reaction

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he probably had when he found out
what kind of money he made. Oh

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yeah, right, gross, I
showed my butt for this movie. Right.

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bit about National Lampoon guys. Uh,

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you know, they were around a
little bit from where this movie came

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from. Um, you know,
they were known for their humor magazine which

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ran from what seventy to ninety eight? I believe it was, you know,

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they they were the creators of a
lot of this stuff where this was

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coming from. Um, I believe
it was um Harvard with it Lampoon?

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Is that is that his name?
Yes? Shoot, I forget um,

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I think it was Kenny Henry Beard
and Robert Hoffman. Weren't they the guys

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who created National Lampoon? Is that
is it? Is that correct? That

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sounds right? I know I haven't
watched it, but there's a Netflix special.

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Oh yeah, there's a good Yeah
I haven't. I haven't watched it

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yet. It's on my list,
But yeah, that sounds about right.

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I remember growing up listening to their
comedy albums, So that's that's how I

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really was exposed to you know,
this and the and the movie. So

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their comedy albums are just what you're
expecting to hear. That's so, yeah,

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because they did They did like radio
broadcas cast, and they did like

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some stage play stuff too, before
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Correct that sounds right? Yeah,
yeah, because I think Ivan Reitman was

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the one who kind of was the
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And we all know who Ivan Reitman
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a lot of work too, and
I think he was He wanted to direct

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Animal House, but they wouldn't let
him because I don't think he had enough,

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you know, behind him to support
the fact that he could handle directing

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a movie of this caliber, which
John Lanis I didn't really have either.

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So I don't know how they got
it. But I don't know what this

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would have been like if Rerightman would
have got it, But I think we

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might have had something similar in my
opinion. Yeah, at the same hum,

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I'm sure, yeah, absolutely.
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the writers who who helped with this
movie, Harold Ramis. It's funny when

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you look at this movie and you
see all of these people who are involved

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in all the things that they did, which clearly going to lead us into

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talking about the impact a little bit
later all the people who were involved with

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this movie and the careers they would
have later on, And of course we'll

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talk about that a little bit later. But let's let's go through the lens

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and let's talk about this movie.
Guys. Let's talk about some behind the

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scenes in some of this movie.
So, um, dayton in any interesting

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things that you found about this movie? Oh, so many things, so

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many things. So a couple of
things really quick. Dwayne Jesse, the

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guy that played Otis Day in the
movie, was so successful in his how

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people received his performance that he legally
changed his name to Otis Day and then

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toured and recorded under that name.
So I thought that was kind of interesting.

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The inspiration for the Blues Brothers actually
came during the production of this movie.

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Blueshi would go to local clubs and
check out the music scene, and

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he became fascinated with the musician named
Curtis Salgado. Salgado's look and harmonica planning

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and the love of the blues that
would inspire him to create the Blues Brothers

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characters for SNL. I know,
right to think of like, you know,

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if he wasn't on this movie,
we wouldn't got the Blues Brothers characters,

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00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:03.039
you know what I mean. So
yeah, that's a that's a big

408
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.200
one because they got their own movie
and so yeah records, So yeah,

409
00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.559
that's pretty awesome. Uh So,
um, you mentioned the writers of the

410
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.799
movie. Douglas Kenney was one of
the writers who also appears in the movie

411
00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:18.039
as Stork you know, what the
hell we're supposed to do? You more

412
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.480
on and and uh we meet him
as a Kroger and Dorfmann are coming in

413
00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:25.559
and you hear somebody say I had
a boner, I know how to boner,

414
00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:26.680
And that's Dork, you know,
because that's the first way we meet

415
00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.119
him, you know. So that
was funny. But yeah, he would

416
00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:33.440
go on later to also write Caddyshack, and unfortunately he had passed away at

417
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.480
a young age. But but yeah, he's in there. But the one

418
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:38.640
thing that really cracked me up there
was one musical thing and the one thing

419
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:42.599
that's really very funny. The screenplay
was sent over two hundred and fifty schools

420
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:47.200
and every one of them turned it
down because it was two raunchy. Now,

421
00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:52.039
the University of Oregon. Okay,
the president of that once had previously

422
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:55.640
turned down the production of a film
on his campus, and it turned out

423
00:27:55.640 --> 00:28:00.559
to be the graduate that he turned
down. So he loved them that movie

424
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.440
so much he decided that he wouldn't
miss out again and he agreed to this

425
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:10.839
one, which is not but the
cast and cruise shows up. He reads

426
00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:12.880
the screenplanes as a no, wait
a minute, um, no, I

427
00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:15.720
don't want to do this, but
it was too late at that point.

428
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.079
But he did request that the college
campus not be shown in the credits.

429
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.200
But since then, of course,
later they narrowed it. Say yes it

430
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.240
was shot here, all excited,
so um. The only one other thing

431
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.200
I want to mention is part of
the out of Stay in the Night to

432
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:30.559
the band if you pay real close
attention to one of the members of the

433
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:37.799
band, the bass player is legendary
lose musician Robert Cray. Yeah really I

434
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.039
didn't. Yes, yeah he was. He was actually responsible for getting the

435
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.240
band members together for the for the
movie. But yeah, it's slow to

436
00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:45.799
see. You don't really I read
it. I'm like no, and I'm

437
00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:49.039
like looking at I'm like, oh
my god, that is Robert Cray.

438
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:52.240
So Yeah, that was a that's
a that's a big one because he was

439
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:59.079
He wasn't anybody then, but for
sure later became quite known for his musicianship.

440
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.680
So yeah, I thought that interesting. So there it is. I'm

441
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.599
done rambling. So there you go. That's that's good stuff. Man.

442
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:08.400
Absolutely, Scott, what about you
now? Now wait a minute, before

443
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:12.720
you go too much further, let's
take a quick break. We'll come back

444
00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:18.279
to that answer now, Jeff.
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everything from Anthrax to the Muppets to
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459
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buckle up because we have hit the
bottom of the barrel. Because he

460
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slaughters all the Tuscan Raiders. The
fact that she stays by his side,

461
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.079
that tells me everything I need to
know about these women that write letters to

462
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.440
the serial killers in prison. You
know, it makes it made sense?

463
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:49.920
You know Moby Young Sad always dumped
Tim. That was the theme song.

464
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:55.559
You know when you listen, Tim, did you have the volume on?

465
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.799
The witches are definitely much more nightmare
fuel. But the fact that they looked

466
00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:08.240
like the Texas Chainsaw centerfolds um um
if jancof Thatt is so awesome. He's

467
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.640
hired to be cloned. Why the
hell isn't he doing the job. He

468
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:15.440
like my clients, getting impatiently what
you slack ass mother? Whyon't you do

469
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470
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pod Bean, or wherever you get
your podcasts. See high A Resistant

471
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.880
singing that line, I can't Yeah, I'm not kissing that line. Um

472
00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:34.480
No, I think I think that
we're going to talk about the music later.

473
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:38.759
But yeah, O to Stand the
Knights. It's the standout performance in

474
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:42.039
this one. Um. And I
loved hearing that he had had so much

475
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:47.000
success that he took that and ran
with it. That's that's one of the

476
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:51.400
fantastic story I love hearing about this
movie. Um So. I also heard

477
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:56.480
that when they were shooting um according
to an interview with Tim Mathison, he

478
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.839
said Universe will only let them do
one take of each scene, or that

479
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.920
the they'd only produced the print for
one take, So in a lot of

480
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:09.319
instances, uh Landis would basically wouldn't
say cut at the end of the scene.

481
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:13.200
He would just have actors keep doing
it and doing it until them no,

482
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.400
no, no, get back,
reset it, do it again,

483
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:19.599
funnier and faster. That's a great
way. I mean, that seems like

484
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.480
a Roger Corman way to kind of
get around some of those, um smart

485
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:28.440
of those barriers. Yeah, um
yeah, we already talked about a bunch

486
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:31.960
of you know, Donald Sutherland's bare
butt going through the screen, and had

487
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.799
I assume that he was wearing a
sock on the other side, I feel

488
00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:38.440
like, I don't know, would
have had a little bit of regret.

489
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:40.279
She would have been like, Oh, you're gonna do that too. Oh

490
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:46.279
that's what that means. Oh okay, I'm okay, I'm okay. Hey,

491
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:49.079
it might have been cold, It
wouldn't matter. Do you never know,

492
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:55.160
you know. I liked I liked
hearing about all the improvised moments like

493
00:32:55.160 --> 00:33:00.359
you talked about the uh, the
scene in the cafeteria when he's loading up

494
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:04.480
the tray. Um, I can't
believe that he's stuffed that burger into his

495
00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:12.119
I know, God, he didn't
have to do that, yes, um,

496
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:19.319
but it reminds me of the scene
where Flounder is in the grocery store

497
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:24.039
and he's having to catch all of
those things and does so very very well.

498
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:29.319
Um. There's there's a lot of
that that's just so surprising that they

499
00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:31.000
were just able to get that timing
just right, to get those kind of

500
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:36.200
things, even though apparently a lot
of his scenes would take like eighteen or

501
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:38.039
more takes to get them right,
because he kept cracking up laughing, which

502
00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:45.279
I don't blame him for at all, Dave, what about you? Um.

503
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:46.839
So one of the things I found
interesting, which, of course,

504
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:51.319
as we all know, John Belushi
was known for his drinking, his partying

505
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.440
and those kinds of things. Um, they would not allow him to do

506
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:58.799
any of that when he was working
on Animal House, all right. So

507
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:00.440
anytime you see him like drinking alcohol
and stuff like that, I think it's

508
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:06.000
like, what ty, Yes,
there's no way, there's no way,

509
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.719
some way down the whole bottle of
whiskey like that and survives. Oh my

510
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:14.199
god, no, because he us
that thing man. Um. But you

511
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:15.440
know, I just I just found
that interesting. But you know, you

512
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.719
know, Dayton hit on. The
big one for me that I was going

513
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:21.000
to talk about was the fact that
you know, it was because of this

514
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.440
movie, because of John Belushi being
there and going while he was in between

515
00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:28.760
filming that he was going in,
you know, to these places and listening

516
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:31.800
to music and stuff like that is
what created the Blues Brothers. Um.

517
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:36.920
I just find that just absolutely fascinating
because Dayton hit it again when he said

518
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.119
that if that didn't happen. We
wouldn't have that today, and what a

519
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:44.199
shame that would have been. Bill. So it was meant to be.

520
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:46.639
It was fate that that was going
to happen, and when we got the

521
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:51.159
Blues Bug. What I want to
know is whose idea was it for Otter

522
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.320
to whistle Peter and the wolf all
the time? Like every he does it,

523
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:57.920
like three or four different times throughout
the movie. And I'm like,

524
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.719
I wonder if that was written or
if that was just him, because I

525
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.920
think that's a it's a nice little
thing, uh care to building for him,

526
00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:07.440
you know, And I as you
know, like I said, he's

527
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:12.400
not my favorite care but I love
Otter because he's he's the cool guy that

528
00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:14.199
you want to be, you know. I mean, he's a nice cool

529
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:15.519
guy because he's because you know,
he's a ladies man. But at the

530
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.719
same time, he's actually genuine.
He's the one that basically gets Dorfman into

531
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:22.679
this, into the frat house,
you know. I mean, yeah,

532
00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:28.159
at the same time, he's always
trying to, you know, get laid,

533
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:30.800
but at the same time he's he's
a he seems like an overall a

534
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:34.559
decent guy though, you know,
but it's it's funny. It's funny.

535
00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:37.079
Yes, something popped out to me. Yeah, No, I mean he

536
00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:39.679
cares. You clearly see he cares
and he has a heart. You're right,

537
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:44.639
absolutely, Um, you know he
does love the women. He does

538
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:47.400
love going around and and finding ways
to get the women. Um. Because

539
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:52.199
the fact it was it when he
went to pose as a boyfriend of someone

540
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:59.960
who was dead for themselves, Are
you kidding me? That was called terrible

541
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:06.840
man. That's just it's just really
happening. Yeah, that so wouldn't work

542
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:15.920
now because of the Internet. But
in this movie, now, oh cringe

543
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.960
alarm in some of this. But
yeah, I mean those characters aren't.

544
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:22.920
It's not like Delta is just a
party house. It's just that they're not

545
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:28.159
taking college so seriously that they're letting
it define everything they do. You know,

546
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:31.639
they're not being those cookie cutters when
you mentioned like Honor Otter, when

547
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:37.840
you mentioned like Boone, um,
even you know, Hoover Um, trying

548
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:43.800
to get everybody through the experience without
letting it define who they are. Um.

549
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.440
And that's something that absolutely comes up
as a theme in every one of

550
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:52.079
the movies that follows us that hits
into college is making it that like be

551
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.280
who you are, find people like
you, and have a good time and

552
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:59.239
come out better for it on the
other side. Yeah. Um, I

553
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:01.840
think another one of the things I'd
love to uh, the courtroom team I

554
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:06.320
think was hysterical too. Um.
I mean there's so much funny stuff about

555
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:08.360
this movie. Um, but but
the courtroom as well, when the Dean

556
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:12.360
is just trying to keep control of
all of this and of course you know,

557
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.960
they're all standing up and you know, refusing to listen in exiting the

558
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:20.960
courtroom as he's still trying to keep
the proceedings going. I just I laugh

559
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:29.320
every time I see that. Yeah, it's like, oh my god.

560
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:31.880
Everything about that scene is very,
very funny. It is. Yeah.

561
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:38.760
Absolutely, the horse shooting, Oh
my god, that's my favorite. That's

562
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:44.519
my favorite. Love that scene.
That part is the horse's reaction that's still

563
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:51.440
a friend. And then the reactions
on d Day and Bluto's faith are both

564
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:54.000
like they're smiling, laugh and then
they're like, oh, oh my god,

565
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:58.280
did he do it? Oh man? When they go in and find

566
00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.159
the horse and all Blue can say
is that holy? And that's all he

567
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:06.320
kept saying, I know. And
then they carry that through at the end

568
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:07.840
with the guy with the measuring tape
and the chainsaw, and it's just gonna

569
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:14.119
like that maintenance guy is everywhere.
He's there, he's he's there when they're

570
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:15.800
tearing all the stuff off the Delta
house. I saw he shows up like

571
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.599
ten times in this movie. Yeah, Scott is funny. I know you

572
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:23.239
and I have had discussions about here
in a film at forty five where I

573
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.679
told you that I don't like a
lot of those freeze frame shots, but

574
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:32.559
that one, that one was fantastic
and it worked so well. That works

575
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:38.960
or since I'm like tearing up right
now, laugh about it right right,

576
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:43.800
just bears all of its teeth in
The sound that goes with it is just

577
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:50.239
perfect, absolutely perfect. It's brilliant. Absolutely Dating any other favorite scenes,

578
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:54.079
one of the things I want to
mention is the lot of the scene transitions.

579
00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:59.639
They use crashes of some kind,
Like when we first see the Delta

580
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.760
House, the mannequin comes flying out
the window. Yeah, okay, so

581
00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:07.400
and um dda course burst to the
door when we first meet him. You

582
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:14.679
have that, um let's see.
Uh. They also before the Toga party

583
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:17.800
they do it twice there a keg
flies right through the window at the beginning

584
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:22.199
of the Toga party, and then
Missus Warmer shows up crashing into like from

585
00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:27.400
a scene change. So they use
a crash even when they go when they

586
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:31.000
go on the road trip and they
pull up to the Dexter Lake Club and

587
00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:35.960
Otis Day is introducing the song Jamiamdigdong. He says, so hits it,

588
00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:39.239
and then Otter hits another car with
his car. So they use a crash

589
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:44.679
or something like a car crash or
something bashing through a window multiple times and

590
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:47.199
a scene change. And I think
that's just an interesting choice. And I'm

591
00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:50.800
kind of curious if it was you
know, Landis or somebody else, but

592
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:53.079
I've noticed that. I like,
that's a really cool thing because it's almost

593
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:58.079
like that's just who they are.
There are just lots of crash and banging

594
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.719
with this, you know, with
this with this Delta house. So well,

595
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:04.719
it is interesting, like you have
a quick impact the loud noise that

596
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.239
kind of breaks you out of what
you think you're going to get in the

597
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:12.639
scene and getting something completely different afterwards. It's very fitting. Uh, Daton,

598
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:14.679
That's a good thing to point out, because I really didn't look at

599
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.039
it that way or think about that, but that's pretty neat. Well,

600
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:21.480
like I said, when you've seen
this movie, like get to know a

601
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:23.599
little bit backwards and forwards. Right, Um, Scott, what about you?

602
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:27.159
What's your favorite scene? Man?
I know mine's the horse, so

603
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:32.079
I have to say then the Deathmobile
Okay, just steals the entire parade,

604
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:37.000
Like the parade itself is fantastic and
it's a it's a great setup. I've

605
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:39.320
used that device where it's kind of
like you know, where are they now?

606
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:44.360
And I think there was something about
American graffiti had used that similar kind

607
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.039
of device, but using it in
a funny way like this one does.

608
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:52.960
Um yeah, that the the Deathmobile. I can't stop looking at it.

609
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:57.400
Like the design of it and just
the way that it's used is fantastic.

610
00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:04.159
I think the the look at my
thumbs kind of like whoa, that doesn't

611
00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.000
that's not great? But anyway,
yeah, yeah, i'd say the Deathmobile.

612
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:10.000
There's just so much goodness in this
movie. You know, you'll find

613
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.440
that one that you you talk about
all the time, but you know,

614
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:17.280
there's so many one liners, there's
so many scenes that you just can revisit

615
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:22.199
over and over and over and you
will still laugh hysterically at it every time.

616
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:23.519
You know, all right, well, let's let's score this film.

617
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.000
Let's talk a little bit. Excuse
me, party, party, excarty,

618
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:29.360
I must do that. It's like, oh, go ahead, sorry,

619
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:34.159
So I just said, would boon
his whole uh excuse me, pardon me,

620
00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:36.239
excuse me, part me bard me. I do that like all the

621
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:39.320
time. You know. It's like
I combine his with like with bugs Bunny's

622
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:42.199
version of it. That's what I
used, like all the time. So

623
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.840
it's it's yeah, I've used all
kinds of things from this movie quoted all

624
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.800
the time, and so it and
you've revisit it, and yes, it

625
00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:52.599
is definitely still funny even forty five
years later. Yeah, and you look

626
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:55.199
for the reaction. You look for
the reaction for those people that get it,

627
00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:59.719
and you're like, oh, okay, we're gonna be all right right,

628
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:04.159
all right, gentlemen, Well,
let's let's score this film. Let's

629
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:06.800
talk a little bit about the music, because it has a lot in here

630
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.960
that is very fitting for the scenes
that we see. Um one thing that

631
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:14.239
I would like to talk about the
Animal House theme song, which is written

632
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:19.159
performed by Stephen Bishop. Um.
He is does a few of the pop

633
00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:22.760
tunes in the film, but he
is notable for the folk song I Gave

634
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:28.800
My Love a Jerry in this film. Okay, yeah, um you know

635
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:30.800
because this this movie obviously, you
know, most movies, a lot of

636
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:34.480
movies, you know, have a
score a theme to it, but this

637
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:37.880
one obviously holds strong to like,
you know, actual songs and stuff like

638
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:40.679
that. Um so, and there's
a lot of them on here. Dating

639
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:45.079
any favorites, yeah, many,
Right, Well, it's not so much

640
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.960
favorites. I think it's where they're
used that really makes me like them.

641
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.000
Like, for instance, when they
do the song Let's Dance, right when

642
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:57.800
Bluto gets into a fight in the
in the lunch room, you know,

643
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.360
he's like right here, right now, this song just kicks in. And

644
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:02.320
because you've heard that expression before,
it was some tough guy goes, why

645
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:05.360
you want to dance, you know, like trying to fight somebody. I'm

646
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.119
like, this is perfectly placed.
Mean And you know, of course them

647
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:14.000
when they've getten drunk at the Delta
House right after the Pledges get there,

648
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.119
and then of course they're all drunk
and singing Louie Louie, because that's the

649
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:20.840
only way to sing that song,
because nobody knows lyrics, you know,

650
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:23.679
you know, so you sound like
you're right if you're drunk. So it's

651
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:29.320
and then you know, um,
Sam cooks, what a wonderful world.

652
00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:31.480
You know, we're referencing all those
you know, college classes, and it's

653
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:37.599
just there's the placement. You know, it's using that song and referencing science

654
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.119
and history and you know, biology
on all those things. It just makes

655
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:43.880
sense and fits within the content,
you know, confines of the of the

656
00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:46.599
movie. So I don't have a
favorite one because that would just be like,

657
00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:51.440
you know, picking a favorite child. So it's I like this the

658
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.000
placement. So I think actually,
uh, Let's Dance is probably my favorite

659
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:58.039
in the movie because of where it's
placed. It's got anything for you.

660
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.440
So I know that there's one song
in here obviously it's pretty iconic, but

661
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:05.119
I've got to go with twist in
the Night Away, the other same Cook

662
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:08.840
song. That's yeah, yeah,
I love that song. Um introduced the

663
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:12.840
same Cook through Inner Space, which
I'm sure we'll talk about it at some

664
00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.760
point, um, but yeah,
for me, it's twisting the Night Away.

665
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.320
What about you do mine? Mine's
got to be shout? I mean,

666
00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:22.199
come on, I don't care what
movie you see that that song in

667
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:24.920
You're gonna sing right along and you're
gonna have a dang good time with it.

668
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:30.760
And they'd use it so well in
this movie with them just dancing to

669
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:34.440
it, singing with it. You
know, it was fantastic. And I

670
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.000
revisit that scene a lot because I
just get myself in a good mood to

671
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.519
get meself laughing. I go to
that scene all of the demo. Well,

672
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:44.760
it's interesting how that's that's used so
many times in so many kind of

673
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:46.800
big sporting events and all this other
kind of stuff and big crowd, but

674
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:51.920
in that scene, it's such a
small space, right yeah, like a

675
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.920
very small intimate basement space, and
it just blows up with that scene.

676
00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:00.519
Yeah, yeah, it does.
Yeah, absolutely when anything else on the

677
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:05.519
music as well, any any of
the Oda Stay scenes, you know,

678
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.760
those are great scenes. Yeah,
but uh no, it's I it's one

679
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:13.320
of those the soundtrack you know,
takes you and travels you back to that

680
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.119
time. You know, the pop
music there, and like I said,

681
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.519
it's where it's not just the songs
they were choosing, but where they're playing.

682
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:22.800
So they did a really good job
knowing where to put the songs,

683
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:25.079
you know, it's Dayton. I
think you had the same kind of conversation

684
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:29.119
in the nineteen eighty six years with
stand By Me, with the music that

685
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:30.880
they used for that, it's very
similar to this, right. Oh yeah,

686
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:34.719
absolutely. I mean you can always
put you know, good songs and

687
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.719
movies, but where they're placed and
how they go with the tone of the

688
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.360
scene really matters. And in this
one, they you know, they really

689
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:45.360
made it work very well. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Well, let's

690
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.199
rewind a little bit. I know
we already talked about our likes and stuff

691
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:52.119
like that, but um, Dayton, anything that didn't work in this movie

692
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:53.840
for you, because it's such a
classic and you don't want to pick anything

693
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:59.840
apart, but anything that you didn't
like. Okay, So after you've seen

694
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:04.440
seen it so many times, yes, there are things that you know,

695
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:10.159
I'm still kind of going really,
um really, So when Bluto is spying

696
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:15.800
on the sorority girls, Okay,
very funny scene, yes, but you're

697
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:17.880
telling me he's not even trying to
hide. He's like latly in the window

698
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.159
and they don't see him. Okay, fine, whatever, But then he

699
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:28.039
hops the ladder and it's and it's
a loud sound effect. I'm thinking nobody's

700
00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:31.440
hearing this seriously, So that as
much as I love this movie, that

701
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:34.920
just like, nah, come one, guy, you could have tried harder

702
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.119
than you know, at least try
to, you know, make it worthwhile,

703
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.519
make him go down the ladder and
then back up. You know something

704
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:43.840
are having like you know, I
don't know. That just bothers me.

705
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:50.119
So and uh, after the toga
party, Pento takes the mayor's daughter home.

706
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:52.719
But how does he know where she
lives? He's not carrying a purse,

707
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:57.039
he didn't pick her up, doesn't
even know her last name, So

708
00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:59.559
how does he know? Because even
surprised, he walks up and that says

709
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:01.360
the mayor him. He's like,
oh, so, like, how do

710
00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:05.880
you know that? I mean because
she wasn't she wasn't conscious. So it's

711
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:08.639
you're kind of like, okay,
whatever, I'll deal with that, you

712
00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:15.480
know, no big deal. But
um, and we've already mentioned the the

713
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:21.440
homecoming parade scene. It's just it
is extremely funny. But the marching band

714
00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:23.360
just walking into a wall and staying
there the whole time. I mean,

715
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:28.440
are these are these nothing but lemmings? Come on? At least at least

716
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:30.280
send him down a road that just
keeps going that I would have been okay

717
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:34.400
with. But yeah, you know, um, and there's no way that

718
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:37.119
chick has Flounder's girlfriend. I'm just
you know, I mean, unless there's

719
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.679
like nothing else in his town that
you know, I like that guy.

720
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.360
But and then they show up like
they're going to you know, a wedding.

721
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:46.320
She's in his nice dress, he's
wearing a suit. I'm like,

722
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:50.639
it's a toga party, people,
relax, you know, just choices,

723
00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:53.679
man choices. So I think I
think some of the parade got a little

724
00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:59.320
cartoony a little bit, I feel, Yeah, And then Mandy's just standing

725
00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:00.480
there in the middle of it,
you know, she's she's just kind of

726
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:04.920
like waiting for Bluto to sleep her
up. I'm like, okay, she's

727
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:07.559
not even running or else is running
around her. She just standing there whatever,

728
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:13.559
whatever it is, what it is, I guess yes, because I

729
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:19.800
still love the movies exactly exactly.
Yeah. I mean there's there's some cringey

730
00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:23.519
dialogue that they use in there where
it's kind of like that I know way

731
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:29.039
it's done that way, but god, it's not okay, that's not okay.

732
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:34.119
I used say it was nineteen seventy
eight we had and I know they

733
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.760
were they were they were poking at
the sixties, right and that time period.

734
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:42.199
Also the kind of stuff um well
yeah, because also the people like

735
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.880
with Ninermeyer, everything he says is
terrible, so the words he's using,

736
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:49.719
it fits that character, so you
know, you know what I mean.

737
00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:52.840
So yeah, the only the only
thing that bothered me is just something that's

738
00:48:53.400 --> 00:49:00.840
personal, because, um, my
first exposure to Peter Reichert was probably the

739
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:04.920
Basque. So every time I saw
him on the screen, I heard him

740
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:08.400
say Doyle and I couldn't. I
was like, damn it, why did

741
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:12.039
I have to see that movie so
many times? I want to stop hearing

742
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:16.880
that word. Um. For me, I feel like the the the creators

743
00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:21.559
of it leaned a little too heavily
on American graffiti. I know they were

744
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:25.880
inspired by American graffiti, but there
are some similarities with this movie and with

745
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.440
that clearly the setting nineteen sixty two, which I won't blame them for that

746
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.199
because I understand the reasoning why they
chose that year, but you know,

747
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:37.440
you still got this the same kind
of vibes and stuff like that Roman romantic

748
00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:43.920
comedy feel to it, and even
like the storyboard credits at the end were

749
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:47.039
just like American Graffiti. Um.
So I feel like they could have given

750
00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:51.519
us a little bit more originality when
it comes to some of that instead of

751
00:49:51.559 --> 00:49:54.519
like almost copying American graffiti. Um. But again, like Dayton says,

752
00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:58.639
I'll let it go because this movie
is just so funny, so good in

753
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:00.960
such a classic. Yeah. Well, and I like how they kind of

754
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:06.000
started that as a spoof of that
as a comedic device that other people would

755
00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:09.000
then pick up and carry on to
either use it dramatically or you know,

756
00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:14.239
in a comedy right. Yeah.
Yeah. So as as everybody knews,

757
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.760
when we have a special guest on, we like to have a few questions

758
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:21.280
where we want to talk and just
have up a little bit of fun with

759
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:23.320
each other. Um. So have
you, either one, have you been

760
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:28.360
involved in any food fights or anything
like that throughout your years of high school

761
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:34.039
college anything like that? No,
any interesting, nothing more than a few

762
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:37.480
fries or something like that being thrown
across the table at each other. Never,

763
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.920
never on the scale like this one. Um. But yeah, you

764
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:44.239
know, maybe a few people down
on the table. But yeah, that's

765
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.159
as far as it ever went.
Yeah. So here, unfortunately, it's

766
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:49.800
a sad story for all of us. None of us have anything as interesting

767
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:54.039
as they had in this movie when
it comes to the right. Absolutely,

768
00:50:54.159 --> 00:51:00.360
so it's got any questions, um
So, knowing that, um, this

769
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:06.199
is something that kind of set the
bar for a bunch of college comedies that

770
00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:10.639
followed. Obviously there's an lot on
National Dampoon, Van Wilder, and et

771
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:15.599
cetera, et cetera. There's like
thirty movies that carry the title. Um

772
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:17.599
But I'm kind of wondering, what
do we think are the three best college

773
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:22.360
comedies that followed this example? Good
question. I'm gonna put that up to

774
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:27.039
you first, Okay. So I
kind of went with a bit of a

775
00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:31.599
variety that still holds some of the
some of this movie to it. The

776
00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:36.199
first one that pops in my head
was accepted with Justin Long, Jonah Hill

777
00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:39.360
and playing Lively. They basically create
a college for all the people that didn't

778
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:44.519
get accepted to other colleges. It's
a it's a very fun movie. And

779
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.159
and there's a Jonah Hill has a
great line in there, asked me about

780
00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:51.000
my winger. He's dressed up as
an Oscar winn whener. So it's just

781
00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:54.280
I don't know how many times I've
quoted that line. Just very funny.

782
00:51:54.599 --> 00:52:00.159
Yeah right, uh but that's a
that's a good's. It was better than

783
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:02.239
I expected, and it has heart, the same kind of heart that this

784
00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:07.760
one has. So um, and
it definitely it's not quite as on the

785
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:12.599
level of raunchy, but it definitely
has that feel. Another one a little

786
00:52:12.599 --> 00:52:14.880
bit, a little bit more tame, but I love it. As far

787
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.119
as a college movie goes, is
Legally Blonde three Witherspoon. I just I

788
00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:22.880
love that movie because it has it's
a little bit more of the Omega,

789
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:25.880
you know, attitude with some of
the people, but you also have that

790
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:31.480
um she befriends the people that would
be more like Delta's. So I just

791
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:36.000
think it's a very fun, um, a slightly different turn of a college

792
00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:39.119
movie, but it still likes it
has that. I don't think we get

793
00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:44.519
it without Animal House. But and
then of course, um Pitch Perfect,

794
00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.440
just because of how many times,
how surprising it was, how many times

795
00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:52.000
I've watched that movie since then,
and I'm like, I would have hung

796
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:53.119
out with those people. I would
have hung out with those music nerds.

797
00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:58.719
So yeah, you know, that's
that's why I pick it pretty good picks.

798
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:01.480
I have ever seen Pitch Perfect.
Oh my god, dude, it's

799
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:05.159
so much fun. Is so much
in your endorsement. I'll put it on

800
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.920
my list. Yeah, you will
not be disappointed. It's so much fun.

801
00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:12.440
You can you can get skip the
sequels, but the first one's fantastic.

802
00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:16.960
I will take your advice on that. Uh for me. Um,

803
00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:22.199
Old School is one of the ones
that I just watched it again the other

804
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:24.199
night. Oh my goodness. This
the cast that you get in that and

805
00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:29.639
the antics that you get in that
is very uh feels like what we get

806
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:32.039
with Animal House at times. And
I go back to that one a lot

807
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:37.920
too, like I do Animal House
um much. You know, more modern

808
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:40.079
classic comedy that goes back to what
we used to have, you know,

809
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:44.440
And I enjoy that very much.
Um. And I'm gonna date myself a

810
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:49.280
little bit with the next two.
Uh love Revenge of the Nerds. Um,

811
00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:52.440
that one was so much fun.
Uh you know, if you've not

812
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:54.360
seen it. I'm a nerd to
myself, So there's some times I'm like,

813
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:58.320
oh man, yuck, I'm a
nerd and I could probably see myself

814
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:04.119
in a situation like that. But
yeah, embraces one of us, and

815
00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:07.119
the other one, of course,
is I can't is Porky's Come on guys,

816
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:12.000
Yeah, I love Porky's. Yeah, and I know it's back during

817
00:54:12.039 --> 00:54:15.320
that time period, but just so
much fun in that movie. I know

818
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:16.480
it can be runch of times,
but still his animal House, you know,

819
00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:21.159
right, you just gotta again embrace
that and take it for what it

820
00:54:21.239 --> 00:54:23.239
is and sit back and just last
because you know, there are some things

821
00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:28.480
that probably they wouldn't get away with
today like they did then clearly, but

822
00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:30.880
take it for the time period that
it was. Me Yeah, anything,

823
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:35.320
thank you. Well, I agree
with we're overlapping with old school. Totally

824
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.119
agree that. Now maybe somebody else
was said, so I'm gonna skip it,

825
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:44.519
gus one. I know that um
uh, Jeff Johnson would probably be

826
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:47.360
glaring at me and tapping his pencil
if he didn't hear one of us mentioned

827
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:52.000
back to school. Oh yeah,
yeah, I always on the too similar

828
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.559
kind of like you know, with
all these it's all that kind of like

829
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:59.000
um, fish out of water kind
of thing and that kind of you know,

830
00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:02.559
uh, setting college jup is a
place that should be accepting people,

831
00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:07.159
right and letting you find out who
you are and not being what you feel

832
00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:09.440
like you should be on the brochure
that they send you for the school.

833
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:16.039
Um, but I feel like I
really have to mention Real Genius. Oh

834
00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:20.679
that was so good. And I
feel like it's in a similar category with

835
00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:22.360
Revenge of the Nerds, where it's
all focusing on, like, you know,

836
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:24.559
the geek culture and allso the kind
of stuff. It doesn't have to

837
00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:30.719
get into all the greekness of the
other ones. Um, but Val Kilmer's

838
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:36.719
comedy angled with that one specifically that
in top secret. But Real Genius is

839
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:38.800
the one that stands out to me. He is, He's fantastic and it's

840
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:43.760
so much fun, much fun.
So, speaking of Revenge of the Nerds,

841
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:47.360
if there is a food fight between
the Deltas and the Trilambs, who's

842
00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:52.880
leading the charge on each side and
what's their tasty weapon of choice? Yeah,

843
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:57.320
so it's got to be Bluto and
bog and Booger. It's got to

844
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:00.400
be those two dead on mine,
good job man, so and Bluto's throwing

845
00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:05.000
a plateful of jello of course,
because you know, yeah, um,

846
00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:07.639
I'm you know, and I thought
just for kind of kind of stay on

847
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:14.679
theme maybe or on Boogers throwing pudding. Yeah, and pudding, because that

848
00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:17.519
would be nice and messy, David, is that what you had? It's

849
00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:20.679
it's across. I think it's gone
across the board on this, isn't it?

850
00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:27.039
Because yes, that's exactly mine.
Well done, Dayton. So mine's

851
00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:30.320
a little different, but there's a
bit of a cheat in it. Um

852
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:37.639
what No, So with the trial
ams, I'm going with Gilbert just because

853
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:43.039
Anthony Edwards is one of my favorite
um and d day Um. I'd like

854
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:45.480
to see what they both do with
mashed potatoes because I had such range,

855
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:49.280
Like you can put it into a
meatball, It's got a good splatter,

856
00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.079
It's got a lot of a lot
of versatility. I think they do a

857
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:54.239
lot of interesting things with it,
although DDA would probably turn it into like

858
00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:59.440
plastic explosives or something like that.
Yeah, bringing the roof crashing down,

859
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:02.800
but that's funny. No good choices
though, I like that. Well done,

860
00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:07.199
all right, So let's go move
on to a quote this. I

861
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:12.159
was talking to one a little bit
earlier that about Kevin Bacon. I found

862
00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:16.039
one from him about actually landing the
role of an animal house. I'm gonna

863
00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:19.800
have to clean it up a little
bit because as you know, it's Kevin

864
00:57:19.800 --> 00:57:23.960
Bacon. He says. They cast
me straight out of acting school. I

865
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:28.199
went for this goofy audition for this
movie, and then I forgot all about

866
00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:30.760
it. I'm living in this two
room crap hole with another guy in a

867
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:36.280
welfare hotel that eighty fifth and Broadway. Then months later they called me up

868
00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:39.039
and said they wanted me to do
some movie for Scale. Honestly, I

869
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:43.360
not only didn't know how much scale
was, I didn't know what the f

870
00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:47.079
it was at that point. I
think I was it was like seven hundred

871
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:50.800
and eighty five dollars a week.
Man. When I found that out,

872
00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:53.519
it was incredible. But they needed
me out there the day after tomorrow.

873
00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:57.440
I had to get on a plane
the next day, so I was flown

874
00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:01.079
first class to San Francisco, stayed
in a out overnight. Man, I

875
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:05.880
was in seventh f and heaven.
I've been a couple of flights before,

876
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:08.239
but I never flown firsth class.
I couldn't believe you didn't have to pay

877
00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:12.639
for a beer in firth class.
Clearly dating that I don't believe it.

878
00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:16.599
I take out my script and start
reading it, hoping the stewardess will notice

879
00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:21.400
nice. And then he gets to
the premiere and they don't even believe that

880
00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:24.320
he's part of the cast. They
wouldn let him sit with everybody else's.

881
00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:29.840
There's no quote that can top that. That is fantastic. I know,

882
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:32.440
I laughed when I read that quote. I've got to save this because that's

883
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:37.400
fantastic. Kevin, thank you so
much. I found one from Roger Ebert

884
00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:42.880
that I thought was interesting because all
of us, I think remember watching at

885
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:45.599
the movies and whatever. So I
saw this, I'm like, I gotta

886
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:50.880
mention this. So he says the
movie's vulgar, raunchy, rawlbot and occasionally

887
00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:53.719
scatological m You can look that up
if you want to know what that means.

888
00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:59.119
If you can. It is also
the funniest comedy since Melbrooks made the

889
00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:02.480
Producers. So I was like,
okay, you know, because you're reading,

890
00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:05.159
I'm like, Okay, he didn't
like it. He didn't like it.

891
00:59:05.159 --> 00:59:07.199
And then he says that I'm like, Okay, he liked it.

892
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:10.880
He liked it. That's which is
interesting because I think with Siskel and Ebert

893
00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:14.880
it could go either way. Oh
yeah, I very much feel like if

894
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:16.840
you're imagine you're sitting in the theater
and there next to you, and then

895
00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:21.199
the credits come up and you kind
of like slowly look over like, yeah,

896
00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:24.360
we're good. Bro. No,
I'm glad that they loved it.

897
00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:27.599
Yeah. No, I was gonna
say. They just talked about the time

898
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:30.360
period. You know, Let's keep
in mind when this movie came out,

899
00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:35.519
there wasn't a lot of this on
the big screen or anywhere really. So

900
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:37.519
for somebody like that, of that
caliber of a critic, do you know

901
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:40.800
to like a film like this that
speaks volume right there? Yeah? It

902
00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:45.840
does. It does well. I
mean speaking about like the time when it

903
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:47.960
was happening and kind of the time
period. So I found an interesting thing

904
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:51.800
from Harold Ramos. He did an
interview with GQ. I think it was

905
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:54.119
um says, when we were writing
Animal House, we assumed it would be

906
00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:59.440
the most successful comedy ever. Our
generation of broken into television with SNL and

907
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:01.599
this is going to be the first
new Hollywood comedy. He was our attempt

908
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:06.159
to capture those years right up to
November nineteen sixty three, when there's a

909
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:08.239
feeling that kids were going to take
over the country for the first time in

910
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:10.840
our minds. The end of that
movie, the parade, all that euphoria.

911
01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:15.440
It takes place the day before Kennedy
was shot, because the day after,

912
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:17.920
none of that mattered anymore, which
is really interesting and pointed when you

913
01:00:17.960 --> 01:00:23.760
think about like all those the girls
that were addressed as Jackie ol on that

914
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:28.320
parade float, and I know there
was like a scene there was another thing

915
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:30.079
they're going to do with the parade
float that they said, that's a bad

916
01:00:30.119 --> 01:00:36.400
taste. Let's not have JFK's head, you know, yeah, having an

917
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:39.280
unfortunate incident. Let's just move on
from that. But it's it's interesting that

918
01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:43.039
they were kind of keeping that kind
of stuff in mind, and they knew

919
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:45.360
that this is not only a movie
about you know, acceptance in college and

920
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:51.639
having a good time, but also
about like a change in a change in

921
01:00:51.719 --> 01:00:53.519
history and kind of when that was
coming about, and needing to have a

922
01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:58.280
different kind of college experience for everybody
going into it. That was clever that

923
01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:00.280
So let's go ahead and talk about
the back of those films since you mentioned

924
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:04.599
that, Scott. That's one of
the reasons why they chose this to be

925
01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:09.440
nineteen sixty two is because they felt
that was like the last innocent year of

926
01:01:09.440 --> 01:01:15.119
America when a lot of stuff was
going to change because, as you know,

927
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:17.440
the next year, we know JFK
and then Vietnam War and on and

928
01:01:17.519 --> 01:01:22.400
on and on. America wasn't the
same after that. So that's why I

929
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:25.199
forgive them for having the same year
as American Graffiti because when they when I

930
01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:29.239
see that's why they chose that,
that makes a ton of sense. Yeah,

931
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:32.519
at that point, because you're right, it would be difficult if it

932
01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:36.519
was in sixty three or sixty four, any of those years to laugh at

933
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:38.519
something like this when you know what
was going on in America and what was

934
01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:43.639
going on the campuses across America because
of the war and stuff like that.

935
01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:49.039
So you know, I completely understand
why they chose that. But not just

936
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:53.119
that, but the impact this film
had on the entire industry of film when

937
01:01:53.159 --> 01:01:58.320
it comes to that, launching that
gross out film genre, right, you

938
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:01.360
know, we didn't have this before, and you know, this movie came

939
01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:06.159
out of nowhere and just shocked America. And I guarantee it, man,

940
01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:07.480
you know, you're going to have
those groups out there who are just going

941
01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:10.800
to see this film and just trash
it to death because it's like this is

942
01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:15.440
going to ruin America, it's going
to ruin the kids and blah blah blah.

943
01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:20.079
But you know, this really opened
the eyes of the film industry because

944
01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:22.440
it was so successful. We saw
how much money this movie made, so

945
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:27.760
clearly it's what we needed and what
we wanted, and we get so many

946
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:30.719
good comedies because of this month,
right, Well, I mean I would

947
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:32.480
I would hope that a lot of
like, you know, I know there

948
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:36.280
was some kind of controversy at the
time with you know, whether or not

949
01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:38.760
they wanted to show this and what
kind of impact it's going to have on

950
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:43.360
universities and things like that, But
I mean, him, think beyond the

951
01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:46.239
drunk parties, beyond the state of
the Delta House and alls other kind of

952
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:51.159
stuff. Just think about it.
If you're the parent of somebody like Dorfman

953
01:02:51.960 --> 01:02:55.079
coming into a school, you're just
wanting to be accepted by a place,

954
01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:58.880
right. You don't want them to
continue to be pushed to the back room

955
01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:02.559
or you know, or to not
have a chance to kind of find out

956
01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:06.679
who they want to be because they've
spent so many years trying to be who

957
01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:10.760
other people want them to be.
And yeah, so I think it set

958
01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:15.239
the bar for other comedies to not
only kind of take that kind of you

959
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:19.360
know, going to the gross out
place or going to the shock humor kind

960
01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:21.920
of place and all this other kind
of stuff, but having that central theme

961
01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:24.880
of like, when you get there, it's supposed to be a good time,

962
01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:28.840
You're supposed to cut loose to a
cate degree. You know, there's

963
01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:32.800
something on the other side. You've
got the you know Karen Allen's character that's

964
01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:36.559
kind of keeping you grounded and saying
I'm like, yeah, there's something after

965
01:03:36.599 --> 01:03:38.440
this, but while we're here,
we're never going to have this again,

966
01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:43.559
and just setting that kind of tone, and I mean it's the thing that

967
01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:47.679
makes some people want to go to
college forget this right, So let it

968
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:52.199
be. Yeah, it's your introduction
to adulthood. You know, you're you've

969
01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:57.159
you've officially grown up. When you
introduce you move into that world, you

970
01:03:57.199 --> 01:03:59.880
know, And that's really what Animal's
House is showing us. You know,

971
01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:03.320
you become an adult and things change, right. Another thing that you know,

972
01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:09.320
toga parties, you know, they
kind of fell out of as a

973
01:04:09.360 --> 01:04:12.719
fad and then this movie brought it
right back, you know, you know,

974
01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:18.880
so another thing to think Animal House
for Sorry, I just hear blueshi

975
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:24.599
in my head. Oh yeah,
and the famous one liners. We know

976
01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:27.519
we mentioned that, you know,
the things that came out of this movie.

977
01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:30.000
I mean, thank you, sir, May I have another? You

978
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:34.079
know, don't get mad get even
the one that I still laugh hysterically that

979
01:04:34.119 --> 01:04:42.599
boy is a pig, you know
so. And then of course there's just

980
01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:45.800
so many good things in this movie
that just we see show up again throughout

981
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:50.079
the industry in later years. So
much. Well have you even mentioned earlier

982
01:04:50.119 --> 01:04:55.039
the just the people, the careers
that came from this movie. Yeah,

983
01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:58.440
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
And then if you look at the movies

984
01:04:58.559 --> 01:05:00.920
that without this don't get made.
I mean, we don't get American Pie,

985
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:04.320
we don't get like mentioned Van Wild, or you don't get Old School,

986
01:05:04.360 --> 01:05:09.880
you don't there's so many of the
not necessarily college movies, but just

987
01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:13.480
the kind of the grow out,
the gross out, raunchy humor, you

988
01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:15.480
know, Revenge of the Nerds,
I don't. We don't get that either,

989
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:19.719
you know. So it's it really
created as a genre, and it

990
01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:24.199
was popular and successful and they said, okay, well let's make some more

991
01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:30.199
of these, and granted to sometimes
to the wrong end. But you know,

992
01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:32.320
they can't all be great, they
can't all be this movie. So

993
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:36.320
but yeah, without it, we
definitely don't get a lot of movies in

994
01:05:36.639 --> 01:05:40.559
our future. And you know,
the society is always gonna, you know,

995
01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:42.559
be upset about something. And hey, I saw this when I was

996
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:45.280
eight years old, but I think
I turned out all right. Absolutely,

997
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:48.039
And think of all the connections this
movie has made. I mean, you

998
01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:53.440
you Lanis and Spielberg would work together, Karen Allen would work with Spielberg later

999
01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:57.280
match you would work with Lanis again. Yeah, you know in future movies.

1000
01:05:57.599 --> 01:06:00.119
But you know you also get all
these other actors who you know,

1001
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:03.079
we get Ghostbusters. Think about it, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman. You

1002
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:06.400
know you're going to lead in with
Dan Ackroyd because of you know, SNL,

1003
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:12.079
but the Blues Brothers. You know, so much comes out of all

1004
01:06:12.119 --> 01:06:16.719
these connections of people working on a
set together that they build that future together.

1005
01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:20.079
They don't realize. And then because
when you're making that next movie,

1006
01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:23.320
your first thought is, oh my
god, I really enjoyed working with that

1007
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:26.079
person. I want to bring them
right onto this next project, and so

1008
01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:30.639
on and so on, and you
just see how much that builds into other

1009
01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:33.159
movies that we get later on.
It's really incredible when you think about that.

1010
01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:39.440
Yeah, well in that whole National
Dampoon and Masthead, Yeah, it

1011
01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:43.239
was kind of a you know,
I remember reading that. It was some

1012
01:06:43.280 --> 01:06:45.800
people were wild about it because they're
like, this is the fall of National

1013
01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.760
Dampoon, and when it started out
as and what it's going to be,

1014
01:06:48.920 --> 01:06:55.480
I feel like it's just branching into
another type of media. It's another way

1015
01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:59.159
of kind of you know, establishing
you know what kind of comedy you're walking

1016
01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:01.159
into. And you see that at
the top, right with the Vacation movie

1017
01:07:01.159 --> 01:07:05.039
with Christmas Vacation and yeah, there's
there's you know, Van Wilder, and

1018
01:07:05.079 --> 01:07:11.800
there's obviously a scale there of gross
out or not, but you know that

1019
01:07:11.960 --> 01:07:14.519
at the same time, it's kind
of like when you see that at the

1020
01:07:14.559 --> 01:07:17.760
top, you know what kind of
a movie you're going to get and you

1021
01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:23.400
just leave it at the door,
right, Yeah, absolutely, All right,

1022
01:07:23.639 --> 01:07:27.159
Um, so we will close it
out with that. So where do

1023
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:30.719
you guys watching this that? Well, I own a copy because of course

1024
01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:34.360
I do. And uh, it's
also I know I saw it on Netflix

1025
01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:36.800
I think when I was so I
actually I went through like four or five

1026
01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:41.320
times leading up to this. Uh, some at home, and then while

1027
01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:43.440
I was at work. Of course
I watched a little bit of it too,

1028
01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:46.559
because why not exactly, Yeah,
I caught it on I caught it

1029
01:07:46.599 --> 01:07:49.760
on Netflix. Um. But I
definitely think this is one that should be

1030
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:57.679
physical media because I feel like this
is one of those where the backstory adds

1031
01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:00.360
so much more to the actual movie
itself, right behind the scenes, and

1032
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:03.000
I think this is one where I'd
absolutely want to see a commentary. I'd

1033
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:08.400
want to see the special you guys
were mentioning about behind the scenes, because

1034
01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:11.360
there's so much more to it that
you know, you watch it in your

1035
01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:14.519
first run just to see the movie, but then when you get some behind

1036
01:08:14.559 --> 01:08:15.960
the scenes, you want to watch
it again. Yeah, but now that

1037
01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:18.840
you know what's been happening with it, Dave, what about you? There's

1038
01:08:19.079 --> 01:08:21.880
I own a copy of it as
well. There's like, you know,

1039
01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:26.640
there are certain landmark films that you
really need to have in your physical collection,

1040
01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:30.560
and this is clearly one of them, because it's one of those movies

1041
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:31.720
that when you go back and watch
it again, and we already mentioned this

1042
01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:35.199
several times, it will just put
you in a good mood and get you

1043
01:08:35.399 --> 01:08:40.800
laughing and just having a great time. So definitely own a physical copy of

1044
01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:43.279
this fee All right, Well,
I want to thank all of our listeners

1045
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:45.279
for sure, but I want to
thank Dayton. Dayton. You know what,

1046
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:48.560
it's always a blast of having you
along to have these conversations about movies

1047
01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:53.159
that we love. As I mentioned
earlier, Scott and I, we're very

1048
01:08:53.199 --> 01:08:56.920
excited when we're doing Animal House because
we knew Dayton is going to be our

1049
01:08:56.960 --> 01:08:59.279
guest on this film, because we
knew how much you love this movie.

1050
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:01.000
Oh yes, thank you guys for
having me on because I will talk about

1051
01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:06.239
this movie all day long and twice
on Sunday. So well, that's good

1052
01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:10.319
and that's why we had you here, Dayton. So what's coming up next

1053
01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:14.159
for Docking Based seventy seven. Well, actually, the last couple episodes of

1054
01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:18.880
the month of this month we have
we're discussing the Disney animated movie Meet the

1055
01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:26.680
Robinson's m Scott was there for that, so thank you and a great episode.

1056
01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:30.239
Great movie. Yeah, to check
that out. That actually drops tomorrow

1057
01:09:30.560 --> 01:09:32.279
and the day after this drops,
and then the final week of the month,

1058
01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:38.039
we're getting our our thinking Man's Medal
on so to speak, we are

1059
01:09:38.079 --> 01:09:44.199
covering Queen's Reich's concept album Operation Mind
Crime. I can't wait for that episode.

1060
01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:46.399
If you haven't heard Docking Base seventy
seven, you really need to get

1061
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:51.720
into it because he has such a
great range of topics of guests. It's

1062
01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:58.199
music, it's comics, it's books, it's movies all over the place.

1063
01:09:58.239 --> 01:10:02.279
And I think one of the one
of the best produced podcasts um I've had

1064
01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:09.600
the fortune of finding recently. Uh
Dayton really digs in deep with a lot

1065
01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:14.640
of his content and always has a
very very interesting topics to talk about when

1066
01:10:14.640 --> 01:10:16.399
you're getting into it, and every
time I'm able to join his show,

1067
01:10:16.520 --> 01:10:21.359
you know, it's it's looking back
on things like Meet the Robinson's that you

1068
01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:27.680
don't really hear being discussed very much, and it's it's opening up doors to

1069
01:10:28.439 --> 01:10:30.640
some new things. Um, something
is killing the children. I never would

1070
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:34.199
have discovered without dog in Base seventy
seven. So dat's what you're doing,

1071
01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:38.000
ye, And thank you, Scott. And you're a fiefty dollars to hit

1072
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:45.399
your people account right all right?
So Scott, what's coming up for a

1073
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:48.720
film? Buy? And us next? So for a film buy for the

1074
01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:55.680
Mothership. They're getting into Park Chan
Wook's Lady Vengeance to be a very interesting

1075
01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:59.079
episode. I'm looking forward to that
one. Um for us, it's the

1076
01:10:59.479 --> 01:11:01.239
movie I've been looking forward to talking
about since we started this thing, in

1077
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:04.920
my opinion of the greatest movie in
nineteen seventy eight, Richard Donner's Superman.

1078
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:12.079
With a very special guest from the
cast of this iconic movie, Aaron Smolinsky.

1079
01:11:12.239 --> 01:11:14.680
You have to tune in. You
have to hear what he has to

1080
01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:17.880
say. It's inside stories from the
production of this and a lot of the

1081
01:11:17.880 --> 01:11:23.359
other Superman movies. It's a fantastic
conversation. I'm glad we were able to

1082
01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:26.439
have. Definitely check it out.
Don't miss that one because it was a

1083
01:11:26.520 --> 01:11:29.880
great time with him and we look
forward to you all listening to it for

1084
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:32.960
sure. Ye all right, So
for all you listeners out there, if

1085
01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:36.079
you want to answer any of our
questions that we ask today, we would

1086
01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:40.439
love to hear from you. If
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1087
01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:43.439
what's next, or even half suggestions, you can find us at www.

1088
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:46.840
Dot film by podcast dot com.
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1089
01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:53.079
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1090
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:56.359
start rolling again, go out,
watch something new, watch something different,

1091
01:11:56.359 --> 01:12:00.119
and who knows what you will discover
next. Thanks everyone, Thanks everybody's you

1092
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:00.760
know them.