It Inspired a Terrible TV Spinoff
Following the success of the spinoff show M*A*S*H, TV execs spent the decades of the ’70s and ’80s trying to make spinoffs of every successful comedy movie they could get their hands on. 1979’s ‘Delta House’ was nowhere even remotely close to M*A*S*H. The movie blog The Dissolve explained how Ivan Reitman came back to produce, John Hughes took over the script, and D-Day, Flounder, Hoover, and Dean Wormer all reprised their roles.
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But the trouble was due to network TV in the year 1979, which was way too squeaky clean for anyone’s standards. The result was a very boring Delta House with no real animalistic qualities whatsoever.
Let’s see what the stars of ‘Animal House’ are up to today…