Animal House - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Animal House or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Animal House

[terry]

The characters of Stork and Hardbar were created to give Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller a reason to be on-set, and had come from different portions of a deleted character named Mountain. Hardbar was named after a real frat brother of Miller's, who masturbated excessively.

[norma]

John Landis sacrificed his heavy beard, and much of his hair to appear in the film as a cafeteria dishwasher who catches Bluto mooching and tries, unsuccessfully, to stop him. The scene was filmed, but despite his personal sacrifices, Landis eventually also sacrificed the scene. (Photos of both his haircut and the cafeteria sequence appear in the book.)

[kristina]

The set of Dean Wormer's office, where Flounder accidentally kills the horse, was an exact copy of the office of the Chancellor of Higher Education for the state of Oregon, in the 1970's.

[jamie]

To get the role of Neidermeyer, Mark Metcalf lied about his ability to ride horses. After he got the role, he immediately took equestrian classes.

[lynn]

John Belushi had to fly back and forth from Oregon to New York twice a week in order to shoot the film while rehearsing and taping Saturday Night Live (1975).

[claude]

Before Donald Sutherland was brought on board, John Belushi was the highest-paid actor in the cast at $40,000.

[eli]

The Delta House actors partied together every night, but John Landis kept John Belushi separated from them by lodging him and his wife, Judith Belushi-Pisano, in a house a few miles from the set. Belushi was a notorious partier, and Landis wanted him to remain sober throughout the shoot. Belushi did host a few parties at the house, but stayed clean because he saw the film as a great career opportunity.

[stephanie]

In the original script, Flounder and Sissy fall asleep during the toga party, another sign that Flounder wasn't cool. (The scene was apparently never shot, but one publicity still photo shows them snoozing on a couch.)

[eli]

The room where the Deltas have their disciplinary trial is most likely a lecture hall in Prince Lucien Campbell Hall on the UO campus.

[ava]

Brother D-Day's motorbike is a Harley-Davidson Sportster.

[elmer]

During the parade, one float is credited to the fraternity/sorority Zeta Tau Beta (ZTB). Co-writer Harold Ramis is an alum of the Alpha Xi chapter of Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) at Washington University.

[veronica]

During the scene where the Delta house are going to put the horse in Wormer's office: Before they get there when Bluto is dressed in black and runs up to the steps and stops, then jumps from side to side, if you watch closely you will see a small, uncredited guest actor... a mouse runs across the middle step, stopping in the middle for a few seconds before continuing on across.

[nina]

Many first-run theatrical releases included shots of a topless Clorette after she unhooks her bra and passes out drunk. Later in the film, she admits that she is "only thirteen". By the time home video became widespread, some American obscenity laws forbade showing minors nude in sexual situations, "actual or depicted". The latter term was meant to describe illicit composite images, but could also be construed to mean acting. The actress was eighteen at the time of filming, but when her character announced her age to be thirteen, a legally problematic situation arose, and as a result, her bare breasts are absent from early home-use copies of the film.

[manuel]

The music playing in Otter's room as he entertains Marion Wormer is an original Elmer Bernstein composition, arranged in a "cocktail lounge" style popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

[bernard]

In the student court scene, a list of Delta Tau Chi members is written on the blackboard. Writer Chris Miller's name is one of those visible. Other names include "Dick Hertz" and "Duane Wayne."