National Lampoon's Animal House, released in 1978, is the definitive college comedy that introduced the world to the chaos of Delta House. In this iconic scene, the perpetually frustrated Dean Vernon Wormer, portrayed by John Vernon, informs the clean-cut Greg Marmalard (James Daughton) that the unruly fraternity has been placed on 'Double Secret Probation.' This status is entirely fabricated by the Dean to ensure the students don't even know they are being watched, adding a layer of bureaucratic absurdity to his villainy. In internet culture, this clip is the gold standard for representing overbearing authority figures or the invention of increasingly ridiculous rules. It is frequently used when a person feels they are being scrutinized for minor infractions or when a situation escalates from a normal warning to an unnecessarily high-stakes punishment. It perfectly captures the feeling of being 'in trouble' for something totally arbitrary. Example caption ideas: 'When you take a 16-minute break instead of 15,' 'My parents after they find one unwashed dish in the sink,' 'The HOA when your grass is 0.5 inches too long.'