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Animal House 1978

With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 26 May 2026 · 26,498 feet

The claim

35:45 – 38:31

… have fixed it though But that's in a category Coming up Okay great And then the closing credits Which I think this movie Probably invented Well it's certainly Apex Mountain For Z-Want and Neo Title cards Yeah what Nobody did this Before this movie I have no idea And I feel like Everybody's ripped it off Since There's so many good ones The Marmalade Became a rude Nixon White House aide It was raped in prison In 1974 Otter became a Gynecologist Beverly Hills Senator and Mrs. John Putarski Yeah Just like fucking Home runs all over I like that D-Day's Whereabouts were unknown too Yeah What do you have For most …

The whole segment, as transcribed

Set piece Blue shit just climbs On top of a building For no reason I could have I could have fixed it though But that's in a category Coming up Okay great And then the closing credits Which I think this movie Probably invented Well it's certainly Apex Mountain For Z-Want and Neo Title cards Yeah what Nobody did this Before this movie I have no idea And I feel like Everybody's ripped it off Since There's so many good ones The Marmalade Became a rude Nixon White House aide It was raped in prison In 1974 Otter became a Gynecologist Beverly Hills Senator and Mrs. John Putarski Yeah Just like fucking Home runs all over I like that D-Day's Whereabouts were unknown too Yeah What do you have For most rewatchable? The most rewatchable scene For me is The Toga Party With Shout Yeah I agree That's just the most Fun to watch What's the most 1978 slash 1963 thing About this movie? I think we have to go With 1978 Well I just had The prominence Of National Lampoon As a comedy brand As like an umbrella That like was Doing all this Different stuff And was launching All these careers I have a Smoking pot In a dark room As a secret Clandestine event And that you Are afraid you might Get schizophrenia Yeah It's like Oh try that I had that And then Pinto's girl Revealing that she's 13 is just Insane Yes It was insane In 1978 It's out of control Like When that's It's fucking Crazy Bill Go 16 or 17 Yeah Maybe it's still Borderline insane Yeah But 13 She's like I'm 13 And he still Goes for it He's just like No he doesn't We don't seem to do anything But he asks He has to get Oh because he has to Get married to her first Right And she's like Hey mom and dad This is the guy That molested me Yeah I think doing In 1978 Obviously nobody In the room Or no notes Or edits Were like Hey make her older 13's crazy Yes The when would I have Died award I would have killed myself After that girl Said I was 13 Yeah 13 Also she I mean The real actress Was probably like 20 I just Let's hope I don't know I don't know if they thought 13 was funny Or I honestly It would be funny If she says she's 13 It's just insane I can't even begin to imagine Yeah It is the craziest thing In this movie Because old school Basically does Old school Which ripped off Multiple parts of this movie Yes But they do the Old school is almost a remake Yeah But they do the same thing With Luke Wilson When he's with Alasha Kuthbert And it turns out She's in high school It's crazy I mean this girl Is lying topless In this movie And then an hour later She's 13 It's just It's just nuts I don't understand it Yeah She was 20 The actress It's just

75:26 – 78:12

… sent Ned A note saying Animal House Is fucking funny White people are crazy And ended up staying Does this movie Really Hit the gamut Of weird things to touch Apex Mountain Belushi Yes Yeah Tim Matheson I'm gonna say yes Felt like The world was his oyster After this movie Yes Cafeteria scenes Is he also in 1941 With Belushi Is Matheson in that I think he is Cafeteria scenes It's been some great Cafeteria scenes Yeah Dining hall scenes But this is probably Up there This is the best Food fight I've ever seen Yeah I think it Narrowly Edges Just one of the guys They make Greg Tolan Greg didn't like that It just …

The whole segment, as transcribed

Big argument Back and forth They sent the movie To Richard Pryor And he sent Ned A note saying Animal House Is fucking funny White people are crazy And ended up staying Does this movie Really Hit the gamut Of weird things to touch Apex Mountain Belushi Yes Yeah Tim Matheson I'm gonna say yes Felt like The world was his oyster After this movie Yes Cafeteria scenes Is he also in 1941 With Belushi Is Matheson in that I think he is Cafeteria scenes It's been some great Cafeteria scenes Yeah Dining hall scenes But this is probably Up there This is the best Food fight I've ever seen Yeah I think it Narrowly Edges Just one of the guys They make Greg Tolan Greg didn't like that It just beats it out Yeah Barely John Landis I think Trading Places Personally Yep I agree Handjobs Why is it soft? I kind of want to Google Greatest movie Handjobs But I'm a little Worried this is Yeah don't do that Steven First Yeah definitely Definitely And goes on to play Dorfman again Multiple times Yeah Peter Rygard No But I can't Off the top of my head Think of what It is Maybe I think it was Animal House for years But now I think It's Sopranos Okay He dates the Russian hooker And then Tony beats The shit out of him Delancey and Local Hero Are the two that I remember Yeah College movies I'm going to say yes Togo parties yes Do you have a second Favorite college movie? Old school Do you have a third favorite? Road Trip I think Road Trip's excellent I really like that movie I think Everybody Wants Some Is like way up there For me now It's getting there It's aging really nicely Were you ever a PCU fan? Never really I never really loved Piven Okay Yeah You've only watched His television series Nine times Lloyd Lloyd Cruise or Hanks? Hanks I think Hanks I think Hanks could do Otter Scorsese or Spielberg? This is really tough Neither of them obviously It's two different Entirely different films I think it's definitely Spielberg He basically tries to do this In 1941 Okay Right? Scorsese would be like There's cocaine There's all kinds of shit Yeah It's like when Belushi's on the ladder He's just like staring He's sucked at it Yeah Picking nits I have a few Um Does Dean Wormer really need to go Digging into the school's constitution To find a reason to expel

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
John Belushi24,690 ftThe Blues Brothers, 1980, by 3,918 feet.
Tom Hulce20,510 ftAmadeus, 1984, by 2,139 feet.
Karen Allen20,760 ftStarman, 1984, by 2,763 feet.
Kevin Bacon23,210 ftStir of Echoes, 1999, by 5,546 feet.
Peter Riegert18,880 ftLocal Hero, 1983, by 1,242 feet.

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