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I hate to ‘jack threads (https://www.customerssuck.com/board/...rider-question), so I there are some questions I have about National Lampoon's Animal House (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0), specifically, attempted test cheating. (Yes. I’ll be the first to admit that I may be over-analyzing a screwball comedy).
In that sequence, Kevin Bacon (Chip Dillard) pulled a mimeograph template for a Psych exam from the garbage and substituted a different one, which we later learn was created to make the Deltas all fail.
John Belushi (Bluto) and Bruce McGill (D-Day) later pour through the building’s garbage for that mimeograph with Kevin Bacon and James Daughton(Greg Malmalard) looking on from an alcove in that basement, that later was smoking a pipe.
In the test taking scene, we see the Deltas and Omegas smirking among themselves but for different reasons. James Widdoes (Robert Hoover) would later announce to Delta that after comparing notes all of their answers were wrong.
Some questions/observations I had:
In that sequence, Kevin Bacon (Chip Dillard) pulled a mimeograph template for a Psych exam from the garbage and substituted a different one, which we later learn was created to make the Deltas all fail.
John Belushi (Bluto) and Bruce McGill (D-Day) later pour through the building’s garbage for that mimeograph with Kevin Bacon and James Daughton(Greg Malmalard) looking on from an alcove in that basement, that later was smoking a pipe.
In the test taking scene, we see the Deltas and Omegas smirking among themselves but for different reasons. James Widdoes (Robert Hoover) would later announce to Delta that after comparing notes all of their answers were wrong.
Some questions/observations I had:
- What did the Omegas do with the original mimeograph? Did they use that unfair advantage or destroy it? I find the former so easy to believe as they are Omega Theta Pi not Alpha Phi Omega (https://apo.org/about-us/). I also find it even easier to believe that the dean would look the other way at cheating on their part.
- As mentioned earlier, Daughton was smoking a pipe in the same room within 20 feet (6m- estimating from the actors' sizes) as Belushi and McGill without the latter two noticing. Was smoking so ubiquitous in 1962, when the movie is set, that someone could smoke a pipe (the most odorous of all smoking devices) that close unnoticed?
- How did none of the Deltas notice differences between the purloined exams and the real McCoy?Did none of them go to the class to have an idea what to expect? Also why didn’t either fraternity have an exam file with all the typical exam questions?
- Did anyone notice the large number of seniors in a 101 class? What’s up with that? Are they all taking that as a grade point average booster? If that’s a required class why not more students there like Donald Sutherland’s English lit lecture?
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