Animal House----the movie and its Effects on America:

[rodeodance]

What President Bush Learned From His Mentor, Senator Blutarsky

Posted July 8, 2007 | 08:12 PM (EST)
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As we near the 30-year anniversary of Animal House, a movie that influenced generations of young men as they entered their college years, it is important to now reveal that, while it's impact on college students may not be what it once was, it's influence on America may be greater than we dared realize.
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Bush wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, and he thought it would be easy. But the war met a difficult insurgency, and terrorists used our invasion of Iraq as a tool to recruit new Al Qaeda members into taking on the United States.

Bluto tried to give his fellow frat members a pep talk, and he told them, "It's not over until we say it's over! Who's with me!" He then marched out of the frat house... with no support.

George Bush told Bob Woodward, "I will not withdraw (from Iraq), even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."

It is quite clear, nearly 30 years after Animal House, that the influence of the movie went farther than anyone had a right to expect. President Bush viewed the movie, not as a comedy, but as a lesson in philosophy. And, in that light, don't all of the president's actions make perfect sense?

He's President Blutarsky!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. "Was it over when the Iraqis bombed the Twin Towers? Hell no!"

Otter: "Iraqis?"
Boon: "Forget it, he's rolling."

[Cooley Hurd]

2. .

:rofl::spray:

Good one!:thumbsup:

[Totally Committed]

5. Oh, that made me laugh WAY too hard this early in the morning....

:rofl:

TC

[ixion]

3. I think not...

Bluto would have been BY FAR a better president.

More accurate is that Bush is like one of alphas, for example: Greg Marmalard.

The "Animal House", as it were, actually represented heterogeneous America, IMO.

[EST]

4. Dunno.

I did not see Animal House when it came out and have scrupulously avoided it ever since. What few bits and pieces I have unavoidably been exposed to, over the years, I found boring and inane to the extreme and quite unworthy of my time.
Bush is no more than a craphead megalomaniac with a sub average IQ and he got that way through his own laziness and a selfish, self centered streak that is wider than the Mississippi.

[Clark2008]

10. Would it help to know Babs is a Democrat?

[maxsolomon]

11. geez. why bother responding if you don't care?

here's a recent todd snider lyric that is very appropos:

Artist/Band: Snider Todd
Lyrics for Song: You Got Away With It
Lyrics for Album: The Devil You Know
(A Tale Of Two Fraternity Brothers)

The tale of two brothers...a memoir
Remember that kid we beat up back in college
Me, you, and Thompson out in front of the frat
And that hippie went home crying to his parents
I can't believe you got us out of that
How sweet was that
God we were drunk
Drove around all night after it with that keg in the trunk
And when the cop pulled us over
You talked us out of that, too

You got away with it
You got away
You get away with
The things that you say

I had to quit partying about a year and a half after you did
I don't regret it though, I think it was fun
Besides, it was the 70's
We were a couple of rich kids
And aside from that one hippie
We never really hurt anyone
Well, there's that other thing that I won't even say
As God as my witness I'll take that to my grave
Cause that was an accident
And you did what you had to do

You got away with it
You got away
You get away with
The things that you say
I worry forever
Never for you
You'll get away with it
You always do

You never did tell me what happened with you and your brother down there in Florida
I heard they gave you a hell of a time
Everybody around here was afraid you might lose
I told them not to worry cause I knew you'd be fine
Had me out here to Camp David a few times over the years
I think the first time we were teenagers sneakin' beers
Look at you now you old son of a bitch
You got the run of this place
Unbelievable

You got away with it
You got away
You got away with
The things that you say
I worry forever
Never for you
You'll get away with it
You always do
You'll get away with
This new thing too

[RandomKoolzip]

6. "Animal House" was the first movie I ever saw.

My parents took me to see it when I was three and it had a huge impact on ME, I can tell you that - Belushi was my hero from that day on.

And yet here I am, a long-time Duer, a committed liberal, a guy who donates to good causes, has never consciously oppressed anyone, and does his level best to fight for the underdog. What went wrong with me?

[mitchum]

7. Chris Miller said that his intention with "Animal House" was to mock an archaic...

mindset (frat culture) and was flabbergasted when the movie led to a revival of that mindset.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Never underestimate the fratboy tendencies of the American male...

I re-read my diaries from college recently, and much of the prose was something like this: "C, S, E, and I went out partying last night. Met a bunch of stupid frat jerks. A couple were cute, but they were all assholes." :rofl:

[Vickers]

8. I'd *love* to see Bluto smash Tony Snow's flute...

:P

[churchofreality]

12. Is there anything more gay than a flute?

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[churchofreality]

13. Bush at the UN "it's a zit, get it?" FOOD FIGHT!

[bunkerbuster1]

14. Tony Hendra's chapter on Animal House, in his book

Going Too Far, forever changed my take on that film's importance to this nation.

If I had it handy I'd quote a paragraph or two. But it's really, really worth a look.

[Hippo_Tron]

15. Actually Bush is more like a cross of Blutarsky and Marmaland, President of Omega House

Blutarsky was just stupid. Bush is stupid and evil.

[stimbox]

16. Cheney is Dean Wormer.

:spray:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. I think Cheney's more like Carmine the mayor. When he said 'jump', Wormer said 'how high?'

[abq e streeter]

17. Animal House

Silly subject, but as Jerry Rubin (?) said , when he still at least occasionally made sense: "its gotta be more fun to be in the revolution than out of it"... That said, coming from someone who's seen it so many times , I almost have it memorized , the Omegas are obviously the uptight lily white conservatives (remember during the fraternity rush how they shunted the Jewish kid, the people of color and the disabled guy to the side), and Belushi and the boys are the misfits who won't kowtow to those that think they're better than them, and subvert and undermine their safe little white bread world... Think of the 3 stooges (at this point I'm probably just relating to the males here , although to any female DUers who "get" the stooges----god bless you)---movie after movie had them dealing with snooty rich people and completely destroying their little formal dinner parties etc. ...Remember also, in the "epilogues" at the end, that Marmalard became a member of the Nixon White House...

[Omaha Steve]

19. Marta and I with John Landis & Stephen Furst (photo)

That is my wife Marta in red. You can just see my neck behind hers.



We were at Bruce Crawford's Animal House event. We've known Bruce since his Day the Earth Stood Still event.Check out his pages.

Animal House: http://www.omahafilmevent.com/past/animalhouse1.htm

Main page: http://www.omahafilmevent.com/

I'm in a tux at the Time Machine event: http://www.omahafilmevent.com/past/

[gulliver]

20. Bush is the part of the horse that gets hit by the golf ball.

Sorry, but he's no Delta. Blutarsky would barf on Bush. If Spaulding Smails from Caddyshack got into Omega as a legacy, that would be Bush.

[dflprincess]

21. I can't remember where I heard this, it was quite a while ago,

but Bluto's character was supposedly based on Bush in his college days.