Caddyshack The Rewatchables
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Caddyshack

What’s Aged the Best?

Dangerfield's golf bag; the fake names; Lacey Underall; Lacey's yellow 450S; Bushwood T-shirts; Billy Baru; "Noonan!"; Carl washing golf balls; Elahue Smales; the Kenny Loggins theme; "Ooh, my arm, it's broken"; Smales's golf outfits; the Dalai Lama story

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  • The golf bag of Dangerfield's character had a phone, a stereo, a quarter keg, a putter with an electronic tracking device and a contraption that shot all the clubs into the air.
  • Asked about his golf-bag preference, he prefers little bags out of respect for caddies, using a big bag only with a cart. — Bill Simmons
  • Caddying one summer was worse than building bathroom partitions in public schools: hot, painful, rude members and selfish heavy bags.
  • Caddying ropes in kids with tips and the outdoors; 20 of the 25 worst moments of one participant's life came while caddying, except mid-80s Tuesday mornings carrying putters for the women; be nice to waiters and caddies.
  • The fake names: Mitch Comstein, Lacey Underall, Dr. Bieber, Al Servic, Carl Lipbaum and Chuck Schick; Dr. Beeper has a lot of screen time and feels like an unfinished SNL character.
  • Lacey Underall is great; the actress followed a Sybil Shepard-like model-and-commercials playbook and was a real newcomer.
  • Lacey's yellow 450S is great, though a convertible would have been the final piece.
  • The Bushwood C.C. T-shirts were wished for 18 years ago in writing.
  • Billy Baru, a special putter for big situations, is loved; the talk turns to naming clubs and a participant's named pool cues from playing pool for money.
  • "Noonan!" became so embedded in culture that it is surprising to see in the movie; the tactic works in horse, but anyone who talked through a putt would get hit.
  • Carl washing his golf balls and the Mrs. Crane monologue remain hilarious, though his interest in the women is weird and offensive.
  • Carl is probably in jail after blowing up the golf course.
  • "Elahue, will you come here and look for my stretch mark" kills, and Elahue Smales is an incredible comedy-writer name.
  • Kenny Loggins, with Top Gun, Footloose and this theme, is argued as bigger than Harold Faltermeyer among 80s movie music figures; the theme still whips ass.
  • "Ooh, my arm, it's broken" became a running joke, along with Beeper's possible fractured ulna.
  • Judge Smales's golf outfits, including a pink shirt and plaid pants, evoke late-70s Jack Nicholas and are something Joe House would wear now; the deep four-button polos are instantly dated.
  • The Dalai Lama story may be the funniest scene in movie history, colliding goofball material with Zen thinking yet legible to a six-year-old; "I got that going for me" is now part of the lexicon.
  • He is holding a real pitchfork, and the kid in that scene is said to be visibly terrified of being impaled.