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Animal House

Comedy

Directed by John Landis

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. From TMDB

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Animal House is a 1978 comedy film, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Karen Allen and Tom Hulce.

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    In the credits of Animal House (1978) it says Douglas C. Neidermeyer was killed in Vietnam by his own troops. In Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) during the “Time Out” segment, a soldier says, “I told you guys we shouldn’t have shot Lieutenant Neidermeyer.”

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  • Classic Rock Junky AKA Todd James @tjsbam.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    March 5, 1982 Actor and singer John Belushi died from an overdose of cocaine and heroin. Belushi played Joliet 'Jake' Blues in The Blues Brothers and also appeared in the film Animal House. #ClassicRock #RockNRoll #MusicSky #BluesBrothers youtu.be/m1M5Tc7eLCo?...

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  • George Hahn @georgehahn.comBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    Tonight’s movie: ANIMAL HOUSE (1978), directed by John Landis

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  • Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2024

    “It wasn’t just Sutherland’s tall, lean frame, gregarious energy and convincing performances as smart guys that made him attractive. (Remember his caddish professor in Animal House?) It was the way he looked at his leading ladies: mesmerized, moonstruck.” www.vulture.com/article/reme...

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  • Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2025

    Another cultural document of this is a movie I saw in the theater and adored and we all ended up memorizing scenes and lines and memes: “Animal House.”

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  • willmenaker.bsky.social @willmenaker.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    I had the opposite parental movie controls, which led to me seeing raunchy movies like Animal House, Police Academy, and Rising Sun at a very young age, while my dad would tell me about awesome movies like T2 and Pulp Fiction while also saying "you can't see this because of the violence."

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  • Richard Gilliam @richardgilliam.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    I've seen films like "National Lampoon's Animal House" that were censored in their Netflix version where the theatrical version was available on DVD. Not only are DVD players inexpensive, the physical media copy at the local library is likely to be the full version of the film (and have extras!)

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  • Monica @softtail65.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2025

    Donald Sutherland and John Belushi at a party at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York, July 27, 1978, after the premiere of the movie, 'National Lampoon's Animal House.' Photo-Carlos Rene Perez

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  • alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    i reply with unsolicited advice to obvious joke skeets. i go to comedy shows and take notes so i can hand the comedian a short essay on how they wouldn't gwt depressed if the had exercise, sunshine, and proper diet. i put on thw movie Animal House and say "Good study habits are important!"

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  • ROCK! @rocksolver.rocksBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    By 1980 I had already absorbed the foundation of films that would color my entire life moving forward: Star Wars, Animal House, Superman, Flash Gordon, The Jerk, The Muppet Movie, Blues Brothers, and Empire Strikes Back

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  • Austin Shinn @untitleduser.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    This is the movie you recommend to your dad when he wants something like Animal House and your friend who really loves weird experimental cinema and wants to see technique played with.

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  • James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    You'd think the individuals behind Doug Kenney's Wiki would know what he looked like (photo of him & Hoffman, L to R, below). He's Stork in Animal House and Will Forte was made up to look like him in a 2018 movie about the early days of National Lampoon. Anyway it's a fun mistake and I support it.

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  • Trëy @quiksnowboard7.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    #FilmHistory ⛳️💥🐿️ On this day, 1980, CADDYSHACK was released! The film marked the directorial debut of Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Brian Doyle-Murray. Ramis, who had also co-written National Lampoon’s Animal House, pitched the idea to the studio as: “Animal House on a golf course.”

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  • Catherine 🌷 @catebridget.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    the 80s and early 90s were the heyday of “media understanding who Young Republicans are.” everything from Animal House to Naked Gun to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie made jokes at YR expense. even the Scooby Doo live action movie was all about that. late 90s and early 00s erased media’s memory

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    Post a 70s movie that starts with the letter N 🎥 ‘National Lampoon’s Animal House’ (1978) 🖤

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  • James_Hollaman @jameshollaman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    The poster for H.O.T.S. (1979) bore an intentional resemblance to the one created for "National Lampoon's Animal House", released the previous year, in hopes of attracting the same film-going audience. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

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  • Gribeau @gribeau.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    It’s quoting a joke from the movie Animal House.

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  • Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    Publicity photo of John Belushi as “Bluto” in/for the movie, NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978).

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  • Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2025

    That’s why I would, after the airplane romp, faithfully recreate the mashed potato gag from the popular film, Animal House.

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  • SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    I just watched Animal House the first time in years. Boy, you couldn't film that nowadays. John Belushi is dead.

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  • kenjaminsol.bsky.social @kenjaminsol.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    Also, I’m flashing back to the movie Animal House when Otter represented the fraternity during their “double secret probation” hearing. “I for one, am not going to sit here and listen to you insult the United States of America!”

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  • Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2024

    I rewatched the National Lampoon doc, which is free on Tubi. Great doc, but every time the part with director John Landis comes on, I get pissed off. Landis directed ANIMAL HOUSE, the smash Lampoon film that, sadly, destroyed the magazine. Landis is a real POS. Three people died because of him.

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  • Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2026

    During Oscar week, we had a very special visit. John Landis joined us this weekend as a TFH Guru, sharing stories and insight that captured what this week is all about. From Animal House to An American Werewolf in London, Landis has shaped filmmakers and film fans alike. A true honor.

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  • 𝙲𝙰𝙿𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙳 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙰𝙷 @capecodpostaah.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2025

    Tonight’s Film Selection🍿🎥🎬: My favorite John Landis film. (Yeah, even over Animal House) Dunne, Naughton & Jenny (been in love with her since Logan’s Run) Agutter all knocked it outta the park! #TonightsFilmSelection

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  • WILLIAM😎 @williamstlucia.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2026

    THEY ARE SO NON SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR JOB.. JUST A BUNCH OF FRAT BOYS IN THE MOVIE ANIMAL HOUSE🤬

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  • Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2025

    All the Dems should do like the movie Animal House and just start coughing "BLOWJOB!"

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  • Jen d’Arc @jenonymous.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    “Maybe if I make myself look like one of the nerds from an Animal House movie, everybody will forget I am also a child abuser.”

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  • The Emperor's New Podcast @podcasttenp.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    Muppet a Rated R movie: Animal House

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  • illy bocean 🏝️ @illybocean.boontavista.comBluesky · Mar 25, 2025

    this was in reference to National Lampoon's Movie Madness, their second movie after Animal House. Diane Lane! Christopher Lloyd! Leonard Maltin described it as an "incredibly idiotic parody", "each [segment] worse than the next."

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  • Richard A @richardthunderbay.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    Hegseth is a real life version of Douglas Neidermeyer from the movie Animal House. It's a bit surprising that Hegseth didn't share the same fate while he served.

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  • Bryan Thomas @munkiman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    Happy Birthday to actor Bruce McGill, born July 11, 1950, in San Antonio, Texas! The versatile character actor is widely recognized for his roles as "Daniel Simpson 'D-Day' Day" in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Jack Dalton in the TV series MacGyver (1985–1992). More: alt text

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  • Northwest Larry @northwestlarry.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    #JulyYouAreASong Song from a drive-in movie Shout! - Otis Day & The Knights The last drive in movie I remember going to was National Lampoon’s Animal House. Here’s a fun song/scene. youtu.be/MG7KCOO76Wc?...

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  • Jane You Ignorant Slut @janeknowsshit.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2024

    I was an extra in a made for TV movie with Tim Matheson who was in Animal House with Kevin Bacon so my degree is 2.

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  • Lady Iris @ladyiris5.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    #NovemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 11/2: Cheerleader in a movie Animal House Directed by John Landis

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  • James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    It is egregious that a screening of ANIMAL HOUSE (1978) isn't one of the events celebrating the University of Oregon's Erb Memorial Union's 75th anniversary. The Daily Emerald couldn't even mention that the comedy film's famous "food fight" scene took place in "the fishbowl" of the EMU 😭

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  • Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.comBluesky · Jun 21, 2024

    M*A*S*H isn't a great movie but I would argue that it is a much better version of Animal House

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  • Wayne P @pinetop37.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    Doug Neidermeyer vibes from Animal House (the movie)

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  • murraymichaelj.bsky.social @murraymichaelj.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2025

    If the movie didn’t end with an Animal House-type montage that tells you exactly what each character did in the years following the film, it must be ambiguous.

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  • Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    Baobab.x: #Canada #Tariffs "You fucked up... you trusted us!" 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House. vt.tiktok.com/ZSVXavmPL/

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  • Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.comBluesky · Feb 24, 2024

    The "am I out of touch meme" but it's just the author of this 2021 textbook aimed at undergrads that mentions the film Animal House as if it were an obvious reference to the reader

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  • K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2024

    A Life In Film comes back for 1978: I grapple with Animal House and how comedy works keithpille.com/a-life-in-fi...

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  • [Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    If you know anything about college fraternities and still love the film Animal House your pledge name is dogshit

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  • Support Democracy @supportdemocracy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2025

    Trump, J.D Vance and the entire Cabinet reminds me of the movie “Animal House.”

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  • Follow the Minnesota 1st @smullins3000.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    That bastion of wokeness, the movie "Animal House", openly acknowledges that it is not OK to have sex with an unconscious partner, even if you think she was saying yes.

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  • allfrightner @allflicker.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    #LastFourWatched #filmsky there are ideas in this world that are worth giving your life for - like Animal House meets Fury Road Gerritt Graham gives some great zombie physicality Poirot investigates the idle rich in a sunny Soviet mystery adaptation witchy 70’s tv movie casts a too comfy spell

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  • Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2026

    Fantastic Four number one basically reinvented superhero comics. I’d say Animal House did it with film comedies.

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  • Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    She's always been right leaning, but when did Megan start chugging the Maghat Kool-Aid like she was Belushi in the Animal House movie

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  • AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2024

    #RIP Donald Sutherland, Star of ‘MASH,’ ‘Klute,’ ‘Animal House,’ and ‘The Dirty Dozen,’ Dies at 88 variety.com/2024/film/ne...

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    TRIVIA: Mark Metcalf's character in 'The Stupids' is Colonel Neidermeyer, the character he played in 'National Lampoon's Animal House', despite the epilogue of that movie stating that Neidermeyer was killed by his own troops in Vietnam. (IMDB) 🖤

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    On this day (16th July) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980) and Goin’ South (1978) as ‘One Wild and Crazy Belushi Triple’.

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  • ⛈️(bobby bag) @firstnamebob.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #MovieSky 3/3 the National Anthem in a movie Animal House (1978) Director: John Landis at the end of their school court appearance the Deltas stage a walkout while humming the national anthem youtu.be/ROxvT8KKdFw?...

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  • Cindy Noel @cindyn67.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    #NowWatching the classic, Animal House. I love this movie so much and just got the blu ray edition!! 😃😃👍🏼 #MutantFam #FilmSky

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  • Felonious D.J.T. @feloniousdjt.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2025

    I Gave My Love a Cherry - Stephen Bishop (in the movie "Animal House")

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  • SPAM (from Daniel Gamboa) @danielgamboa820.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2026

    Animal House Shout #Movie #Comedy #Music #College #Fraternity @pattyger.bsky.social @leadcoalition.bsky.social @docmurphydog.bsky.social @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social @hondos.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @tntnle.bsky.social @gezzer3115.bsky.social @annmb48.bsky.social @bandroll.bsky.social

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  • All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.comBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    Then, in 1978 and 1980 respectively, Landis directed Animal House and The Blues Brothers. Both were huge hits. Suddenly, Landis was red hot and was approached by producers Jon Peters and Peter Gruber. They got PolyGram Pictures involved to finance the film. 4/39

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  • Marty Wombacher @martywombacher.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2025

    Tomorrow is the 47th anniversary of the release of the groundbreaking comedy movie, Animal House! In honor of this, I have online links to articles and one to a Bluto Blutarski eyebrow raising gif! tinyurl.com/yc6z23r6 #MBIP #AnimalHouse #JohnBelushi

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  • Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    A form of government where we are ruled exclusively by men who thought Dean Vernon Wormer was the hero of the movie Animal House

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  • liberators.bsky.social @liberators.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    Bessent is like one of the characters connected with the college in the film Animal House! Just a douche bag!

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Remembering the underrated Verna Bloom, versatile film and TV actress, on her 88th birthday, famous for her roles in MEDIUM COOL, STREETS SCENES 1970, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, ANIMAL HOUSE, AFTER HOURS, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, SARAH T. - PORTRAIT OF A TEEN ALCOHOLIC, PLAYING FOR TIME, and more.

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  • Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.orgBluesky · Apr 4, 2026

    In 1978, John Landis asked Elmer Bernstein to score a new film he was directing. Landis grew up near the Bernsteins, and knew him through his kids. So Bernstein was happy to accept the assignment to score the movie ANIMAL HOUSE (1978), beginning a new chapter in his career. 10/13 #filmsky

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