* A golf ball makes a yummy crunchy sound like a giant Rice Krispie when you bite into it.
* The Germans didn't really bomb Pearl Harbor.
* When you peep through the windows of a sorority house, you cannot be seen by women undressing inside, not even when you bang the ladder you stand on against the house to move in for a better look.
* A bullet fired into a bottle from a few feet away will disintegrate upon contact, rather than passing through and injuring fleeing bystanders. This is true, I checked with the Warren Commission.
* Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. However, it doesn't keep Flounder from scoring a really hot toga party date.
* Blacks are fun people as long as you don't wander into one of their bars.
* "Hey Paula" sounds really good on pot.
* A movie that employs lewd sex jokes, celebrates idiocy and acts of random meanness, loosely ties together unrelated comic episodes like a food fight and a vandalized parade with only a vague attempt at a plot, and ruthlessly attacks the upper class will be celebrated as a sine qua non cool classic, even by members of the upper class who would never give a Delta an even break in real life.
* Writing a cool movie theme song ("Animal House") was no ticket to immortality for Stephen Bishop. However, co-starring in the greatest five seconds of John Belushi's movie career was.
* When a devil and an angel fight for your soul, listening to the angel means you are probably gay.
* When wooing the dean's wife to bed, a toga with a tie is an irresistible combination.
* Being a preppy automatically subjects you to numerous sexual deficiencies.
* Jack Daniels can be chugged like Gatorade if you are in a lousy mood and need cheering up.
* Roommates at all-women colleges don't show each other pictures of their boyfriends.
* "Animal House" is a pretty fun way to spend 90-plus minutes despite its limitations, and I find myself watching it more often than I care to admit.
* The Germans didn't really bomb Pearl Harbor.
* When you peep through the windows of a sorority house, you cannot be seen by women undressing inside, not even when you bang the ladder you stand on against the house to move in for a better look.
* A bullet fired into a bottle from a few feet away will disintegrate upon contact, rather than passing through and injuring fleeing bystanders. This is true, I checked with the Warren Commission.
* Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. However, it doesn't keep Flounder from scoring a really hot toga party date.
* Blacks are fun people as long as you don't wander into one of their bars.
* "Hey Paula" sounds really good on pot.
* A movie that employs lewd sex jokes, celebrates idiocy and acts of random meanness, loosely ties together unrelated comic episodes like a food fight and a vandalized parade with only a vague attempt at a plot, and ruthlessly attacks the upper class will be celebrated as a sine qua non cool classic, even by members of the upper class who would never give a Delta an even break in real life.
* Writing a cool movie theme song ("Animal House") was no ticket to immortality for Stephen Bishop. However, co-starring in the greatest five seconds of John Belushi's movie career was.
* When a devil and an angel fight for your soul, listening to the angel means you are probably gay.
* When wooing the dean's wife to bed, a toga with a tie is an irresistible combination.
* Being a preppy automatically subjects you to numerous sexual deficiencies.
* Jack Daniels can be chugged like Gatorade if you are in a lousy mood and need cheering up.
* Roommates at all-women colleges don't show each other pictures of their boyfriends.
* "Animal House" is a pretty fun way to spend 90-plus minutes despite its limitations, and I find myself watching it more often than I care to admit.