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What astonishes me about this movie

posted 14 years ago by ckanelevy
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Saw it for the like 100th time last night. What amazes me is how many classic scenes and lines there are. People remember, I suppose, Bluto in the lunchroom (FOOD FIGHT) and watching Mandy on the ladder the most, but so many others: The boys visiting the two frat houses at the beginning, Flounder is shown on the screen when Delta House is accepting pledges with Otter giving his "we were once all losers" speech, Niedermeyer abusing Flounder ("A PLEDGE PIN!!! ON YOUR UNIFORM!!!"), Neidermeyer's line "your all worthless and weak - now drop and give me 20"), getting stoned with Donald Sutherland, Neidermeyer's horse dying in Dean Wormer's office, the toga party with the two contrasting "love scenes" between Otter/Mrs. Wormer and Pinto/Mayor's daughter; Greg Marmalade in 2 scenes with 2 girls both unsuccessfully trying to pleasure him, Otis Day and the Nights, the Delta house hearing with yet another speech from Otter, the Road Trip (best line in the whole movie for me was Otter, about the recently deceased Fawn Liebowitz who died in a kiln explosion: "she was going to make me a pot;" "what's your majo?" - "primitive cultures;" "mind if we dance with your dates?"- ), meeting with Dean Wormer - ("Mr. Blutarski - zero point zero); Bluto's "it's not over" speech ("was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?") Pinto and Mayor's daughter exchanging secrets in the sleeping bag, the parade, the captions at the end - - and I know I'm forgetting alot.

Just an incredible movie from top to bottom. How another thread could compare this to the mediocre (at best) "Van Wilder" is beyond me.

There's also a great humanity about the movie, but that's a different topic.

[–] ta421sbtrhalf 11 years ago

Babs: "Greg, honey, is it supposed to be this soft?"

People on ludes should not drive!

[–] kincaid-5 11 years ago

"The Negroes took our dates!"

"You can take your thumb out of my ass any time now, Carmine."

"Mention extortion again, and I'll have your legs broken."

And, of course, the Faber College motto: "Knowledge Is Good."

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[–] Piperson 10 years ago

"How does it feel to be an independent, Schoenstein?"

"How does it feel to be an a**hole, Neidermeyer?"

[–] rrb 10 years ago

Dozens of worthy citations on this thread. My fave:

Larry: How long have you been working on your novel?

Jennings: 4 1/2 years.

Larry: It must really be good!

Jennings: It's a piece of schit.

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[–] ledzep518 10 years ago

My advice to you, start drinking heavily.

[–] mikey-watts999 10 years ago

Out of the hundreds of great lines, I love the one where Marmalad re-introduces Dorfman to the nerds and calls one of them Jugless instead of Jugdish...hilarious.

[–] mav100000 10 years ago

I'm not going to list out all of the great lines that have already been mentioned here, but a few others not yet mentioned:

"Oh Otter, we're on double-secret probation, whatever that is!"

"Oh SUPER! Then you'll have lots to talk about ah? Yeah!"

"They're taking everything, even the stuff we didn't steal!"

"Hi, that was Eric Stratton, rush chairman, and he was damn glad to meet you."

I'm blanking on others, again that have not been stated previously, but one of my favorite momnents has no dialog: Bluto in the cafeteria getting food.

Cheers mate!

[–] gretakendalljosh 10 years ago

Timeless.
Classic at its best.
Never tired of seeing J Belushi and others in it.

Peace.
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[–] Kewl_Kat 10 years ago

Hehehe, I'm just sitting here cracking up at all of these great, classic lines. A few of my favorites that may or may not have been listed yet...

"Flounder, put your pants back on and wipe the cupcake frosting off your lips."

"Hey man, I get the dog."

"Mom, Dad, this is Larry Kroger... the boy who molested me last month!"

"Where are my underpants and who the hell are you?"

"Can I get you something or are you here to ogle my ass?"

"Whoa, I didn't realize it was THAT big!"

"Freshman 15? More like freshman 45!"

"If at first you don't succeed, pork the dean's wife."

"Delta Tau Chi my black behind!"

"Zero point zero."

"If you think that smells bad, I've got a bunch of things for you to smell."

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[–] jonesmrdl 9 years ago

"face it, you #@(&ed up, you trusted us"

[–] Wakanohana 9 years ago

"And would you get three dates for my friends?"

[–] Snarkier 9 years ago

"...but that could take years, and cost millions of lives" -- I use this all the time at work; almost nobody gets the reference, which saddens me. And it's so often apt.

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[–] Kewl_Kat 9 years ago

Director's cut.

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