WI: No "Animal House"

I guess another way of phrasing this is to ask how, if at all, Belushi's substance-abuse patterns changed between the time he was doing Saturday Night Live, and the time he was doing films in Hollywood. My guess is, it would be about the same(I don't imagine 1970s NYC was a puritan backwater), but I really don't know.

Oh, and back to the OP...

Without Animal House, there's no Delta House. (Though I'm sure television will survive the loss.)

Twelve of the Thirteen Episodes of that show are currently on YouTube.
Watch at your own risk.
 
Fun fact: Delta House starred Michelle Pfeiffer, of all people, as a character named...Bombshell. You read that right...Bombshell. Yes, that was the character's name. It's hard to know whether this or Grease 2, in which she also starred, is the one Pfeiffer is more ashamed of starring in; I suspect the latter, since starring in Grease 2 nearly cost her the role of Al Pacino's wife in Scarface (Brian De Palma initially refused to consider her for the role because of Grease 2 (1))...

(1) Which is an interesting WI in and of itself, methinks...
 
Delta House was, of course, yet another example of Lampoon's mid-period pandering to the self-perceived "cool guy" crowd. In his memoirs Father Joe(actually a not-half-bad piece of inspirational writing), Tony Hendra directly blames P.J. O'Rourke for the magazine's decline in that period, saying that he was the one person on staff most willing to make Lampoon into the semi-porn mag that the corporate owners were pushing it to become.
 
Delta House was, of course, yet another example of Lampoon's mid-period pandering to the self-perceived "cool guy" crowd. In his memoirs Father Joe(actually a not-half-bad piece of inspirational writing), Tony Hendra directly blames P.J. O'Rourke for the magazine's decline in that period, saying that he was the one person on staff most willing to make Lampoon into the semi-porn mag that the corporate owners were pushing it to become.

Was PJ on staff when they did their infamous parody of Mad Magazine (Ironically, Mad, while taking some shots at "nerds", also took lots of potshots at "cool guys")?
 
Was PJ on staff when they did their infamous parody of Mad Magazine (Ironically, Mad, while taking some shots at "nerds", also took lots of potshots at "cool guys")?

No, that parody dates from '71, but O'Rourke(according to wiki) joined in '73.

Hendra was referring to the era when O'Rourke was the editor of Lampoon, which I think started in the late 70s or so. As for Mad(and this is something the Lampoon satire seems to be getting at) their shots at youth culture often seemed to reflect the perspective of middle-aged people(which most of the writers were, I think), rather than of youth itself. Mad, for example, used to do jokes about how there wasn't enough discipline in schools, which is not something kids themselves were likely to be complaining about(but their parents probably were). Plus, their anti-drug humour was from more of an outright anti-drugs viewpoint, whereas Lampoon's take on the same topic was from the angle of people who had been close to, and in many cases part of, the drug culture, but could see its absurdities.
 
If Animal House isn't made, Landis doesn't make his part of the Twilight Zone movie, Vic Morrow and two children aren't killed by a crashing helicopter.
 
I'm gonna guess that toga-parties aren't as prominent in the popular imagination as they are now. Though I don't have that many pop-culture memories pre-late 1970s. Did people talk about toga-parties before Animal House?
 
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