Chevy Chase was considered for the role of Otter, but it wound up going to the lesser-known Tim Matheson. Kevin Bacon was a waiter in Manhattan when he was hired to play Chip. Stephen Furst, who played Flounder, had been delivering pizzas. A cast was assembled, made up almost completely of unknowns. Miller, Ramis, and Kenney wrote a film treatment that was rejected and ridiculed by Hollywood studios-until at last Universal Pictures agreed to produce the film, with a budget of $3 million. They named it Animal House, in honor of Miller's fraternity at Dartmouth, where the members had been nicknamed after animals. It would be set on a college campus in the 1960s, loosely based on the experiences of Lampoon writers Chris Miller and Harold Ramis and Lampoon editor Doug Kenney. In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, America's most popular humor magazine, decided to make a movie.
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