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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox book If You Don't Buy This Book, We'll Kill This Dog: Life, Laughs, Love, and Death at National Lampoon is an American book that was published in 1994. It is a history based on the author Matty Simmons' involvement with National Lampoon magazine and its various spin-offs, including the film Animal House. (The title of the book is a reference to an infamous 1973 National Lampoon cover featuring a dog looking worriedly at the muzzle of a revolver pressed to its head, with the caption: "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog".)[1]

Dating back to National Lampoon's debut in 1970, Simmons was the chairman of Twenty First Century Communications, Inc., of which the original National Lampoon, Inc. was created as a subsidiary company. From 1976 to 1977, Simmons was the publisher of the magazine, and from 1978 for a period of time, he was the publishing director.[2] Simmons's film credits included being the producer of National Lampoon's Animal House and the National Lampoon's Vacation film series.[3]

The book "covers National Lampoon's turbulent editorial periods of fluctuating staff and private vendettas, its haphazard film projects..., its recurrent controversy — from libel suits by Walt Disney and Liza Minnelli to advertising and newsstand boycotts spurred by guardians of public morality — and finally its disastrous takeover in the late '80s by a group led by one of the actors from Animal House."[4]

In a contemporaneous review, Publishers Weekly referred to the book as a "chatty, anecdotal account," writing: Шаблон:Blockquote

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