National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

[None of his literature students are paying attention]
Jennings: Don't write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring too. He's a little bit long-winded, he doesn't translate very well into our generation, and his jokes are terrible.
[Bell rings, students rise to leave]
Jennings: But that

doesn't relieve you of your responsibility for this material. Now I'm waiting for reports from some of you... Listen, I'm not joking. This is my job!

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Katy: Boon, I think I'm in love with a retard.
Boon: Is he bigger than me?

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Meaner dude: If I was in your shoes, I'd be...
Boon: Leaving! What a good idea.

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Hoover: Kent is a legacy, Otter. His brother was a '59, Fred Dorfman.
Flounder: He said legacies usually get asked to pledge automatically.
Otter: Oh, well, usually. Unless the pledge in question turns out to be a real closet-case.
OtterBoon: Like Fred.

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National Lampoon's Animal House

[Handed his first joint]
Pinto: I won't go schizo, will I?
Jennings: It's a distinct possibility.

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

D-Day: We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even.

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Boon: [Niedermyer is abusing Flounder in ROTC] Vicious mother, isn't he?
Otter: He can't do that to our pledges!
Boon: Only we can do that to our pledges.

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National Lampoon's Animal House

Otter: Hi, Eric Stratton, rush chairman. Damn glad to meet you.
Boon: Hi, that was Eric Stratton, rush chairman. He was damn glad to meet you.

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National Lampoon's Animal House

Boon: [At the bar in the Negro Dexter Lake Club, Boon turns to face the band] Otis, my man!
[Otis pauses singing for a second and peers incredulously at Boon]

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Otter: They kicked us out of school? That makes sense.

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National Lampoon's Animal House

Dean Vernon Wormer: Have you boys seen your grade point averages yet?
[the Deltas are silent]
Dean Vernon Wormer: Well, have you?
Hoover: I have, sir. I know it's a little below par...
Dean Vernon Wormer: It's more than a little below par, Mr. Hoover. IT STINKS! It's the lowest on campus. It's the

lowest in Faber history!

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Otter: Ah, she broke our date.
Boon: Washing her hair?
Otter: Dead mother.

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Dean Vernon Wormer: [after seeing Bluto pop out of a car in a pirate costume]
Dean Vernon Wormer: Oh my God.

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Otter: Mandy, Mandy Pepperidge. I haven't seen you since we...
Mandy Pepperidge: Go away!
Otter: I'm sorry, I can only stay a minute. Can I buy you some lunch? Oh, you got your lunch. Well, how about some milk? Got your milk too. Can I just massage your thighs while you eat?
Mandy Pepperidge: Do I have to

leave?
Otter: Is this any way to treat an intimate friend?

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National Lampoon's Animal House

[after Delta house is closed]
Doug Neidermeyer: How does it feel to be an independent, Schoenstein?
Boon: How does it feel to be an asshole, Neidermeyer?
Doug Neidermeyer: What'd he say?

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National Lampoon's Animal House

Dean Vernon Wormer: Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little shit just like you.

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National Lampoon's Animal House

[at the Dexter Lake Club, a Negroes-only bar, with Otis Day and the Knights playing Shama Lama Ding Dong]
Pinto: What are you majoring in?
Brunella: Primitive cultures.

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Mandy Pepperidge: [Bluto has joined Mandy, Otter, Greg, Chip and Babs at their lunch table and is consuming his food with somewhat sloppy gusto] Greg, can't you...
Otter: No, it's okay, just keep your hands and feet away from his mouth.

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Flounder: What is my Delta Tau Chi name?
Bluto: Dorfman, I've thought long and hard about this. Your Delta Tau Chi name is... Flounder.
Flounder: Flounder?

National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House

Doug Neidermeyer: A Pledge Pin! On your Uniform!