Up the Academy
Up the Academy is an American teen comedy film released in 1980, with a plot about the outrageous antics of a group of misfits at a military school.
The movie was an attempt to cash in on the phenomenal and unexpected success of National Lampoons Animal House, which was also a movie made by a comedy magazine about a group of misfits at college. In 1983, Mad publisher Bill Gaines explained the genesis of his magazines involvement in the film to the Comics JournalWhat happened is that we had a contract with Warner Brothers to put out a Mad movie. Its like four years old now. They came up with a script that we didnt like, and then they came up with a script using our scriptwriters that they didnt like, but meanwhile they threw this script onto our desk... Although there were many things in it that I thought were offensive and should be removed, generally I liked the script. And I thought, Well, in addition to a Mad movie, theres nothing wrong with having something like Lampoon did with Animal House. Animal House was Lampoon Presents and really had nothing to do with the magazine, it was just using their name, and it was a good movie, and it was very successful, and it made Lampoon a lot of money. I guess. So we were going to do the same thing. Mad Magazine Completely Disassociates Itself from Up the Academy. But that was too long for them, they cant think in that many words. They put the damn thing out without all the deletions they had promised to make, which means theyre liars. Im talking about one of my sister companies laughter... And there we were connected with it, and there wasnt much we could do about it. I paid Warner Brothersgrand to take Mads name off for television. So for 30,000 we got out of being associated with it on Home Box Office. It wont say Mad Magazine Presents and Alfred E. Neuman wont be in it. And it was well worth 30,000. laughter ........
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