If Mel Brooks can be credited (and blamed) for tarnishing the silver screen with flatulence, the creators of Animal House must therefore be held responsible for all the teen "gross-out" comedies to follow. As is often the case, however, Animal House is vastly better than the majority of its successors — a fresh emission, rather than a stale one. The final sequence, which reveals the later fates of all the film's characters ("Senator and Mrs. John Blutarsky"!), is enough to send anyone into "double-secret" spasms of laughter.