Classic College Portrayal...

Animal House: Classic College Portrayal or Inspiration to do Something Dumb? The often considered classic National Lampoon’s movie Animal House is a “raunchy, screwball comedy” about a “motley collection of students” belonging to the Delta fraternity at Faber College back in the early 60’s. The story line has been used over and over: students are drinking, a problem arises, the students drink some more, and then they figure out a way to defeat the …

…on college students is obvious, movies such as Animal House have a large group of followers: people trying to make their own college dwellings animal houses. People who hold at least one toga party every year. People who go out of their way to get belligerently drunk at night and drink all day (much like Bluto). The movie Animal House has definitely changed the way college students live by influencing them to essentially become animals.