Animal House (1978)

The campus comedy everything else on this list borrows from. The Delta House fraternity at fictional Faber College would rather throw toga parties and pull pranks than pass anything, and John Belushi's Bluto is the patron saint of anyone who has just closed their last textbook. Some of the 1970s humor has aged badly and the women get short shrift, which is worth knowing before you press play with a mixed group. What still lands is the anarchic ensemble energy, the parade finale and the sheer joy of a dean losing every battle to a house full of slackers.