More lines from Eric 'Otter' Stratton
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Eric 'Otter' Stratton [after the brothers have booed Kent's picture and thrown beer at it]
Now wait a minute! Okay, this guy is a real zero. That's true. Think back to when you were freshmen. Boon, you had a face like a pepperoni pizza, right? And Stork here. Everybody thought that Stork was brain damaged. I myself was so obnoxious the seniors beat me up once a week. So this guy is a total loser? Let me tell you the story of another loser... [everyone starts booing and throwing beer at him]
Scenes with Eric 'Otter' Stratton
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[After the Deltas are expelled]
Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the **** Peace Corps.
You're all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!
You going out tonight, Otter?
Otter Uh-huh.
Otter No, let me give you a hint. She's got a couple of major-league yabos.
Otter No, But you're getting warmer. Let me give you another hint: "Oh God, Oh God, OH GOD!"
Marlene! You're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
Otter Pork?
You're gonna hump her brains out.
Otter Boon, I anticipate a deeply religious experience.
Kent is a legacy, Otter. His brother was a '59, Fred Dorfman.
He said legacies usually get asked to pledge automatically.
Otter Oh, well, usually. Unless the pledge in question turns out to be a real closet-case.
Dress that line. Dress that line, mister! Dress that line, soldier. Mister, hold my mount. [to Kent] You fat, disgusting slob! You're a goddamned disgrace!
[watching from afar]
A vicious mother, isn't he?
Otter He can't do that to our pledges.
Only we can do that to our pledges.
[to Kent]
Redo those buttons! Dress that belt buckle! Straighten that cap! And goddamn it, tuck up those pyjamas! Attention! Eyes front! What's that on your chest, mister?
A pledge pin! On your uniform?
...
Just tell me, mister, what fraternity would pledge a man like you?
Otter [about Niedermeyer]
He can't do that do that to our pledges.
Only we can do that to our pledges.
Otter Mandy, Mandy Pepperidge. I haven't seen you since we...
Mandy Go away!
Otter I'm sorry, I can only stay a minute. Can I buy you some lunch? Oh, you got your lunch. Well, how about some milk? Got your milk too. Can I just massage your thighs while you eat?
Mandy Do I have to leave?
Otter Is this any way to treat an intimate friend?
Otter Bluto! I think you know everybody here.
Mandy Greg, can't you--
Otter Don't worry. Just keep your hands and feet away from his mouth.
Don't you have any respect for yourself?
This is absolutely gross! That boy is a P-I-G, pig!
See if you can guess what I am now. [puts mashed potatoes in his mouth, then squeezes his cheeks, spraying them] I'm a zit. Get it?
All right, you bastard. Let's go, right here!
Well, well, well. Looks like somebody forgot there's a rule against alcoholic beverages in fraternities on probation!
Otter What a tool.
I didn't get that, son, what was that?
Otter Uh, I said, "What a shame that a few bad apples have to spoil a good time for everyone by breaking the rules."
Put a sock in it, son, or else you'll be outta here like shit through a goose.
Otter You guys up for a toga party?
Otter Ah, I think they like the idea, Hoov.
Note: Bluto's "Toga! Toga!" is ranked #80 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Otter Ah, she broke our date.
Otter Dead mother.
Otter Flounder, I am appointing you pledge representative to the social committee.
Gee Otter, thanks. What do I have to do?
Otter It means you have to drive us to the Food King.
Otter [in the supermarket vegetable section]
Mine's bigger than that.
[looks questioningly at him]
Otter My cucumber. It's bigger. I think vegetables can be very sensuous, don't you?
No, vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous.
Otter Right. Sensual. That's what I meant. My name's Eric Stratton. People call me Otter.
My name's Marion. People call me Mrs. Wormer.
Otter Oh, we have a Dean Wormer at Faber.
How interesting. I have a husband named Dean Wormer at Faber. You still want to show me your cucumber?
Otter Mrs. Wormer, I'm so glad you could come.
Cut the crap. Give me a drink.
Otter Point of parliamentary procedure!
Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
Otter Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
I thought you were pre-med.
Otter What's the difference?
Otter Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did. [winks at Dean Wormer] But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but I for one am not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
[Leads the Deltas out of the hearing, all humming the Star-Spangled Banner]
Order!
You've done it this time buster! No more Delta! I'm calling the national office! I'm going to revoke your charter! And if you wiseguys do one more thing, one more, I'm going to kick you out of college! No more fun of any kind!
Otter Evening.
S Shelly
I'm Shelly Dubinsky, Fawn's roommate.
Otter I'm Frank Lymon from Amherst, Fawn's fianc?. Actually, we're engaged to be engaged. What's wrong with everyone here?
S Shelly
Why don't we sit down, Frank? I don't know how to tell you...so l'll just tell you. Fawn's dead.
Otter She's dead? [Laughs] Did she put you up to this? That minx. What a lively sense of humour. [Shelly hands him a newspaper clipping] "Sophomore dies in kiln explosion"? Oh, my God!
S Shelly
I'm terribly sorry, Frank.
Otter I just talked to her last week. She was gonna make a pot for me.
S Shelly
If there's anything I can do....
Otter You're so nice. I really shouldn't impose on you.
S Shelly
No, really. Anything.
Otter I don't think I should be alone tonight. Would you go out with me?
S Shelly
I'll get my coat.
Otter And could you get three dates for my friends?
Otter [Finding themselves in an all-black club]
We are gonna die.
Hey Boon, we're the only white people here.
Hey, quit your blubberin'. When I get through with this baby you won't even recognize it.
Otter Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You **** up - you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it! Maybe we can help.
[crying]
That's easy for you to say! What am I going to tell Fred?
Otter I'll tell you what. We'll tell Fred you were doing a great job taking care of his car, but you parked it out back last night and in the morning, it was gone. We report it to the police, D-Day takes care of the wreck, the insurance company buys your brother a new car.
Otter Hey, it's gotta work better than the truth.
[thrusting six-pack into Flounder's hands]
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Otter Better listen to him, Flounder, he's in pre-med.
[firing up blow-torch]
There you go now, just leave everything to me.
Jesus Christ! What happened? You look grotesque!
Otter Some of the Omegas did a little dance on my face.
Otter It was Greggie and Douggie...and some of the other Hitler youth.
Otter I don't know. They're just animals, I guess.
Hey! What's this lying around shit?
Stork Well, what the hell we s'posed to do, you moron?
War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter Germans?
And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...[pauses to remember the rest of the phrase]... the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! [runs out, alone; then returns]
What the **** happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst! "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this! Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer—
Otter Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
And we're just the guys to do it.
[screaming]
Come outta there, you bastards!
Otter [in falsetto]
Who is it?
You know damn well who it is!
Otter I'm sorry. You'll have to come back later. I'm doing the dishes.
Otter [Otter climbs out of the converted car. Greg is about to attack him.]
Greg! Look at my thumb!
Otter [Greg stares at Otter's thumb, and Otter clobbers him with his other hand.]
Gee, you're dumb.
Otter We need to do something.
Otter You know what we need to do?
We're on "double-secret probation," whatever the hell that is. We can't afford to have a toga party.
Otter You guys up for a toga party?
Otter Ah, I think they like the idea, Hoov.
Otter, please don't do this.
Otter I've got news for you, pal. They're gonna nail us no matter what we do, so we might as well have a good time.
[Otter and Bluto lead the Deltas in a growing chant of "Toga! Toga! Toga!"] Note: the bolded line is ranked #82 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
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