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Babs and Otter..

posted 12 years ago by robzilla_73
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What's the back story there?? a casual hookup? did Otter get Babs sprung on him then he left her, causing her to side with Marmalard and Co. out of spite? i'm wondering because i'm currently in a similar situation...

[–] aliensatemybuick 12 years ago

Otter got it on with Mandy, not Babs. But whatever.

[–] ngobleus 12 years ago

Well, I think the whole point of Babs 'confessing' to Greg about a supposed affair between Mandy and Otter was just her trying to get Greg all to herself. She did give me the impression of a woman who would do that (even to a good friend).

[–] robzilla_73 10 years ago

No. Babs & Otter hooked up.remeber in th cafeteria where Otter says : Is this any way to treat an intimate friend?? And Babs says something like " it wasn't that good."

[–] MurphAndTheMagicTones 10 years ago

No, it was Mandy. Babs was the other one, who told Marmalard Mandy was having an affair with Otter and later asked him "Honey, is it supposed to be this soft?"

Mandy told him "it wasn't that great." Babs was the one to say Bluto was "a P-I-G pig!"

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[–] sugar_glazed 10 years ago

Otter slept with Mandy. She is the one who wanted nothing to do with him after, yet he kept bothering her.

[–] tallkennj 9 years ago

Disagree. Remember this was 1962 before "Women's Lib". Most women who went to college at that time... most, not all... didn't go for the education or to improve their future career prospects. Rather, it was a kind of "finishing school" that hopefully ended with finding the perfect husband who would make a good living and allow her to stay at home and make/raise babies.

Mandy probably had a fling with Otter as a freshman and/or sophomore, and I bet they both really dug each other. However, as she got older, she decided that she wanted a guy who was a suitable husband and Otter.... even though she had a lot of fun with him and was probably well matched with him... simply wasn't what she'd decided as a little girl she wanted for a husband. On the other hand, Greg Marmalard, in spite of being a complete douche, was, on paper, the perfect future husband. He presumably came from a wealthy family and had all the right connections and belonged to the right frat, and generally had all the traits a women who was "checking boxes" would dream of in a husband. As a result, she dumped Otter and started dating Greg, even though, deep down, I suspect she continued to yearn for Otter and the passion they had... and I believe Otter knew she still yearned for him, hence the interaction in the cafeteria.

Otter, on the other hand, was probably heartbroken after his breakup with Mandy, and that is what turned him into a the guy we see in Animal House who dated lots of women but never got serious about any of them.

[–] Techto (1075) a year ago

Agreed. Although Mandy had harsh words for him, it was clearly a bit of an act. She often smiled at Otter’s antics as if amused and I figured it was Otter rather than Greg that she was thinking of in the scene when Bluto was watching her undress.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

Mandy definitely seems like the type to marry for status, not romance.

I don't think she was really all that into Otter, either, though. She really didn't seem that impressed with. him, and shuts him down cold when he hits on her in the cafeteria. He was a chronic womanizer too, so I can see why she wouldn't want anything to do with him besides money.