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What's the matter with kids' movies today? There are too damn many of them, that's what, and they are all about the same damn thing. Since 1978, when National Lampoon's Animal House revived the teenpix genre, rites of passage have become Kabuki rituals: popping zits, snapping towels in the locker room, dancing in the streets, ogling the girls in the shower, getting crazy drunk and tearing up the strip in a "borrowed" Porsche and grossing out Mom and Dad. Sentient adults must unite to cry: Enough already! The glandular convulsions of adolescence are just not interesting...
...Lampoon tends to make repeated oblations to the humor deities of past generations," says Theodore P. Friend...
...Because writing comedy is now a viable career, and there's need for people to write funny stuff there's a danger of the Lampoon becoming a prevent processional kind of place...
...There aren't as many places people can go to support themselves as prose writers, magazines aren't doing so well," says O' Brien. "The National Lampoon used to be an alternative, but now it's an obscene farce. The demand now is for people who can write a funny script or fill a half an hour...
...Brien adds, "Many of us, recent grads too, would love to continue writing prose comedy, but there's no market for it. The Lampoon is giving us the opportunity to do something we might not be able to do later...