dead 30 years ago today

So by the tender age of 29, **** ****** achieved a powerful trifecta few entertainers ever achieve -starring in the #1 movie , appearing on a #1 rated TV show and holding fast at the top of the music charts.

Who is John Belushi?

Oooo, I was going to go with Freddie Prinz but Belushi seems more likely.

Yup..Johnny..
Blues brothers
Blues brothers
And SNL with the samurai deli...
RIP Bluto

Who couldn't see THAT one coming?

Belushi's Death

Trivia time: What slogan was on the statue of Emil Faber in Animal House? No searching!

I don't even remember there WAS a statue.

Geez, I almost remember it, but darned it I googled it and laughted out loud at its simplicity.

The SNL's "Best of Belushi" aired last weekend here in Canada, and I DVRed it... probably will watch it tomorrow.

Quote: Wizard

Trivia time: What slogan was on the statue of Emil Faber in Animal House? No searching!

Knowledge is good.

I didn't search. I just remember it because I love that movie and have seen it a couple dozen times, although not recently.

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I don't even remember there WAS a statue.

It's only seen once, during the opening scene, when Pinto and Flounder are walking from one frat house to another. If I recall correctly, it's in the transition from the opening credits to the start of the movie.

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Knowledge is good.

Ding ding ding! Very good!

One of the all time great movies. There is actually a two hour show on Biography Channel on the inside of how the movie was made, how the actors were chosen etc...

There is also a two hour special about how Ferris
Bueller's Day Off was made. It was supposed to
be a much darker movie, the Ferris character
had a lot of scenes cut. They left in all the fun
stuff and took out all the downer stuff and its
still a favorite of many people today. I love
the bit part Charlie Sheen had. And of course
Ben Stein is still making money off his 1min role
as the teacher. Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Animal House and Blues Brothers: Talk about a double feature.

He cudda given us 30 more years of Comedy but NooOOOOOooo...

Ahhhhh crap. DJT beat me to it.

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Ahhhhh crap. DJT beat me to it.

Sorry.

Tell you what. I'll give you a new trivia question:

At the end of Animal House, when there is text describing what happens to the main characters...

What happens to Babs, and why is it significant?

Quote: DJTeddyBear

It's only seen once, during the opening scene, when Pinto and Flounder are walking from one frat house to another. If I recall correctly, it's in the transition from the opening credits to the start of the movie.

I'm pretty sure the statue shows up again... at least part of it.







The head from the statue of Faber was turned into a hood ornament on the "Deathmobile"

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What happens to Babs, and why is it significant?

Trying not to stomp on the second opportunity you offered Mosca, I'll just ask is the significance you refer to just that it's the same facility that the film came from?

Quote: Doc

Trying not to stomp on the second opportunity you offered Mosca, I'll just ask is the significance you refer to just that it's the same facility that the film came from?

I don't think so. It may have to do with a discount.


My favorite follow up tag is Niedermeier's, "Killed by his own troops in Vietnam". In director John Landis' segment of the "Twighlight Zone" movie (which was set in Vietnam) filmed a few years later, a soldier character refers to this incident like it actually happened.

Landis ended up in court for allowing too much explosive to be used during a stunt that led to a helicopter crash, killing actor Vic Morrow and two others.

DJ did she end up marrying Senetor Blutarski

Quote: Doc

Trying not to stomp on the second opportunity you offered Mosca, I'll just ask is the significance you refer to just that it's the same facility that the film came from?

Doc -
You are SO close, that I do believe that you know the answer, and are tying to avoid giving it away. Nicely done.

Hook -
Nope. That was Mandy.

I guess I'm not going to get any more guesses.

Babs became a tour guide for Universal Studios.

The significant part is, after all of the closing credits, all Universal movies end with the Universal logo, with the tag line, "When in Hollywood, Visit Universal Studios." After a second or two, an additional word of advice appears, in a handwritten font: "Ask For Babs."

But what is interesting is, the "Ask For Babs" advice is on most, but not all, of the Animal House videos/DVDs.

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But what is interesting is, the "Ask For Babs" advice is on most, but not all, of the Animal House videos/DVDs.

Don't remember whether I ever noticed the "Ask for Babs" note. The DVD that I have includes an extra that is the follow-up interview with each of the principal characters something like twenty years later, showing what has become of their lives. I liked the way they handled the inability to include Belushi's character in the follow-up.

When I first saw Animal House, in the fall of 1978, I commented to some friends that those of us who were college students during the era represented in the film consider it mostly a documentary -- almost every scene is completely plausible as a real event, considering how things were done in those days. (Maybe not all on the same campus in the same semester.) I have heard it claimed that the writer based the D-Day character on a college friend named Dan Aykroyd -- don't know whether that is true. In the 20-years-later follow-up, the narrator claims that the original was indeed a documentary and that the follow-up is also.

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I commented to some friends that those of us who were college students during the era represented in the film consider it mostly a documentary --

I agree the uptight by the book fraternity was realistic,
but the radical frat was too over the top. I was in college
from 67 to 71 and I never saw anything approaching
that kind of behavior. Maybe in some backwater college
that let anybody go there, but a lot of those guys were
far from college material in 1962. I found it interesting
that American Graffiti also chose 1962 as its year to focus
on. I remember 62 as being pretty uneventful culture
wise. It was basically still the 50's.

Yes, Delta house had far too many animals in one spot. However, I was amazed that some really bright, college-capable guys really did behave as animals. When you get a few together in one house, I think the behavior builds as group-think. I saw a bit of that, but not to the extreme of Delta house.

As I said earlier, I wouldn't expect to see all of that stuff happen in one semester on one campus, but I'm not sure that any individual incident was out of the realm of possibility. Now if you combine all of the things that happened at the parade, that isn't likely a real incident.

I have a friend from high school who got booted out of college for a prank he was involved in. The way I heard it, they killed a chicken, covered my friend in blood and entrails, and carried him into the school infirmary, saying there had been an accident. The nurse got them into a treatment room and rushed off to get a doctor. When she stepped out of the room, all the guys slipped out a window without having given names, ID, details, etc. At least that's the way I heard the story reported that year. I saw him at a high school reunion either 25 or 30 years later and asked him for the straight scoop. All he would say was, "It was just like in Animal House. They told us that we were out of school and that they were notifying our draft boards."

His next major life experience was as a marine in Vietnam. It took him decades of alcoholism and treatment to recover emotionally from his experiences there. He told me a few years ago that he finally got over it by visiting Vietnam again, going to the places where he had fought. While he was walking a trail, he realized that he was being followed, so he waited. It was a girl too young to have been alive during the conflict. She could tell he was upset and asked (in English) what was the problem. He told her he had been there and said, "I can't believe all of the terrible things we did to your people." She touched him on the arm and said, "I forgive you." He told me that moment, gesture, and forgiveness was the point that his recovery started to become real.

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What happens to Babs, and why is it significant?

I'll PM you my answer, but I'm quite sure it is right. I don't want to ruin the fun.

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I'll PM you my answer, but I'm quite sure it is right. I don't want to ruin the fun.

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Tour guide at Universal Studios. They later add "ask for Babs." I heard that for years if you did ask for Babs you got a few bucks off admission. I've always wanted to test that out, but my last time there was before the movie came out.

Sorry to say this, but the significant thing I was looking for was what I already reported. That at the end, they add the "Ask for Babs" to the plug to Visit Universal Studios.

It seems you're suggesting that the "Ask for Babs" part was added afterwards. I clearly remember seeing that in the theater, and being disappointed when it wasn't included the first time I saw it on HBO, and that it isn't on the VHS tape I own. For the record, I HAVE seen it on TV versions recently.

I've never been to Universal Studios. I've always wanted to ask for Babs if I ever go, not so much to see if I get a discount, but more to see if the ticket person had a clue what I was talking about.

I realized something tonight that makes me so excited about it that I want to share it with everyone!

Frank Oz (who does the puppetry for Miss Piggy, Grover, and Yoda) appeared in “Trading Places” with Dan Ackroyd, and he does the opposite of when he appeared with John Belushi in “Blues Brothers.”

In TP, Oz lists each item Ackroyd has when he’s taken into custody. In BB, Oz gives back each item of Belushi’s as he’s released from custody!





I feel like I’ve found the door to a secret room!

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Yes, Delta house had far too many animals in one spot.

If they had one in 62 it would have
been amazing. Because of the uptightness
in the 50's, and the draft, it was very
easy to get kicked out of college in
the 60's. So you did everything you could
to stay in. Not 5 min of Animal House
behavior would have been tolerated in
62. It should have been set closer to 1977.
I was in Jr High in 62, you did not know
it was the 60's without a calendar. Nothing
had changed yet. All the seniors in 62 had
started in the late 50's and they still had
the greasy swept back hair, rolled their
cigs in their shirt sleeve, and wore high
heeled boots. They scared me to death.