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The sorority girls dressing like Jackie Kennedy on the day JFK was shot


Okay, so I admit Animal House is one of the funniest movies of all time. I even admit I'm guiltily grateful to the grandfather of all gross-out movies.

Still, the one scene that has always perplexed me - not only for its extremely bad taste, but also for the fact that no one has ever complained about it - is the final parade scene in which the sorority girls are all dressed like Jackie Kennedy on the day her husband, John Kennedy, president of the United States, was mortally wounded with a shot to the back of the head.

So what's up with that? Didn't anyone notice?

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Did you ever read the National Lampoons from the seventies? Bad taste was the expressed goal!

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It was the 1963 school year but the movie was set towards the end of 1962, so it was almost a year before JFK was killed.

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