Matt Littman, The Huffington Post, July 8, 2007
When I was 10, my Uncle, God bless him, decided he was going to take me to the movies. He wasn’t a film buff, but he knew his nephew loved the movies. And so, charged with babysitting me, and wanting to make me happy, he scanned the movie listings, and came upon what certainly sounded like the perfect film for a child to see: a cute-sounding movie about animals who live in a house.
My uncle did not notice that the film was rated “R”, and this oversight of a letter still brings a smile to my face, for when the movie at the Herricks Theater in Long Island was not about bears and lions living in a home; it was Animal House, the great, raunchy, very adult comedy.
By the way, this is the same Uncle who took my cousin to see Porky’s because he thought it was a movie about pigs. You can see why my Uncle Mickey is my favorite uncle.
As we near the 30-year anniversary of Animal House, a movie that influenced generations of young men as they entered their college years, it is important to now reveal that, while it’s impact on college students may not be what it once was, it’s influence on America may be greater than we dared realize.
For at the end of what, to my taste (which haven’t evolved much since I was 10) may be the funniest movie ever, there are closing credits that give us updates on the characters in the film. The updates on the characters evoke chuckles, but one in particular provoked audiences to laugh out loud: It turns out that, ironically, wild frat boy “Bluto” Blutarsky went on to become Senator Blutarksy.
So, what would have become of Senator Blutarsky had he been alive today? Would his ambition have stopped at the Capitol steps, or was he meant to go onto greater achievements? Well, the answer is actually quite obvious: