8/10 Best teen or college comedies, including Animal House | Gutting the Sacred Cow
By: Kevin Gootee
Tags: Podcasting, Movie Review, Comedy, Movies, Podcast

We’d be shot like the horse was (with blanks) if we left off Animal House

Here’s KI’s picks:

1. American Pie — this movie still makes me laugh…hard. It’s aged perfectly and in this time of PC hyperdrive, it’s even more irreverent.

2. CaddyShack — Yeah, to me this wasn’t about Chevy or Rodney…it was ALL about Danny Noonan…..NOONAN!

3. VanWilder — I laughed so hard when I saw this in the theater I almost threw up. Ryan Reynolds at his Ryan Reynolds-est. If watching a group of guys guzzle eclairs unknowingly filled with bulldog goo doesn’t make you laugh, go to the doctor…you might be dead.

4. Animal House — I don’t need to say anything here.

5. Roadtrip — I’m not sure how often my friends and I quoted this movie, but it definitely caused some girlfriends to leave me. Did I say two fingers? Bette make it three.

6. Superbad — Jonah Hill peaked early with this one. I truly irreverent take on the end of high school and trying to maintain those friendships…oh, and choosing the right name for a fake ID.

7. Porkys — I haven’t seen this one in a looooong time, but I had to include it on my list because I watched it A LOT in my younger years…for obvious reasons.

8. Revenge of the Nerds — Sure, there are some scenes that would be felonies today, but in the 80s, this movie was a bible. A booger filled bible.

9. PCU — I was in college in the 90s, this came out in the 90s and spoke DIRECTLY to me. Everyone wanted to be Piven and we all knew that Gutter was a tool (that was Jon Favreau BTW!)

10. Pitch Perfect — I’m sorry, I’m a sucker for singing… KG, stop rolling your eyes.

KG: Looks like KI had some of the same ones I have except one pick of his that’s very effeminate but hey, he’s on brand for that and also liking Grease.

1. KI put Caddyshack on the list so I’d be remiss if I didn’t as well.

2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off- This should’ve been on KI’s list but he must have been doing his kegel excercises when he added Pitch Perfect. An absolute mainstay on all classic teen/college lists.

3. American Pie-If you don’t find Stiffler funny, we probably don’t have much else in common.

4. Road Trip-See above

5. Eurotrip-Ahh, topless women for no reason. Remember when films were fun and could be watched without a checklist? And oh yeah, one of the catchiest goddamn songs you’ll hear from a film. If I ever meet Matt Damon, I’m telling him that was my favorite role of his.

6. Animal House-the cornerstone of all college comedies.

7. Back to School-Give me Rodney Dangerfield in damn near anything. But his son in the movie was a cunt, a flat out cunt.

8. Van Wilder-KI hit it on the head but he forgot Tara Reid at her pinnacle. But again, he’s too busy singing along with Anna Kendrick. If John Hughes was still alive, she’d be every friend instead of the girlfriend she wanted to be.

9. Weird Science-Just kidding, that film is fucking trash. Stop pretending it’s good, you were brainwashed because it was on a 1.5 year loop on HBO

9. Revenge of the Nerds-If Animal House is a cornerstone, this is another cornerstone.

10. TIE: I love American Pie 2 for many a reason but Jim jerking off with superglue and then getting a trumpet stuck in his ass is Shakespearean. But I can’t forget a classic that most of you would yell at me if I didn’t put on. That’s right, HOUSE PARTY shall not be overlooked. Robin Harris was hilarious, lest we forget.

And before you say what about, I certainly will tell you all that Old School, Breakfast Club, PCU, Mean Girls, Clueless, Fast Times, Can’t Hardly Wait, and Grease were intentionally left off my list because they’re insanely overrated or just viciously unfunny.