Tagline: "A chemical reaction got him some action!"
Plot: Hopelessly horny chicken-farmer Pondo Sinatra (played by Matthew Causey) arrives at a ritzy eastern university looking for women, but his relentless rube-ery keeps him on the outs until—one hour into a 75-minute movie—he discovers a chemical formula that makes him sexually irresistible.
Key scenes: Before the Jekyll/Hyde turn, the bulk of The Party Animal follows a string of "Now, this will get you laid, Pondo!" shenanigans. Like when he walks into a black fraternity and walks back out with an afro-pick lodged in his forehead. Or when he dresses up as a woman and tries to get the sorority I Phelta Thi to play strip poker. Or when he slips his elegant date a pill that makes her fart uncontrollably.
Can easily be distinguished by: The overacting ingénues, the narration by the college's black janitor ("Pondo was awkward, even for a white boy"), and the string of space-filler montages of girls posing around campus.
Sign that it was made in 1984: The remarkably hip soundtrack features no less than three Buzzcocks songs, including, naturally, "Why Can't I Touch It?" (but not, curiously, "Orgasm Addict").
Timeless message: When our hero becomes a sexual dynamo, he tires of the constant attention from women. "I'm like King Midas," he sighs. "Everything I touch turns to poontang."
Memorable quotes: The narrator informs us at the outset that "Pondo only had one thing on his mind: He had a hard-on." Later in the movie, one of his would-be conquests turns down his offer of champagne, moaning, "I can do without the sham… just give me the pain!" But The Party Animal's best exchange comes when Pondo tells the school nurse that he has "a problem with my pecker." Nurse: "Your what?" "My hooter." "Okay, how long have you had this problem with your member?" "My what?"
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