Animal House was “Lampoon Presents” and really had nothing to do with the magazine, it was just using their name, and it was a good movie, and it was very successful, and it made Lampoon a lot of money. And I thought, ‘Well, in addition to a Mad movie, there’s nothing wrong with having something like Lampoon did with Animal House. They came up with a script that we didn’t like, and then they came up with a script using our scriptwriters that they didn’t like, but meanwhile they threw this script onto our desk… Although there were many things in it that I thought were offensive and should be removed, generally I liked the script. What happened is that we had a contract with Warner Brothers to put out a Mad movie. In 1983, Mad Magazine editor explained how Up the Academy came about: Up the Academy was Mad Magazine’s answer to National Lampoon’s Animal House. The band of misfit brothers attempt to make the best of their situation with “zany” antics. Macchio played Chooch Bambalazi, one of four boys sent to a strict military academy. Macchio made his movie debut in the teen comedy, Up the Academy.
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