Caddyshack The Rewatchables
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Caddyshack

Most Rewatchable Scene

Smales kid's nose-picking bet; Ty and Carl together at Carl's place

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  • The category is hard because the movie is made of so many mini scenes.
  • Ty golfing with Danny ("You take drugs, Danny?" "Every day." "Good."), the kuder preference test and "Be the ball" are lights out; seeing Chevy Chase on a golf course in 1980 after his SNL run was a treat, and Danny caddying for Ty could run for an hour.
  • Some scenes, such as the Dalai Lama story, were held for What's Aged the Best, which causes confusion over what to spoil.
  • At the country club dinner Judge Smales's outfit is compared to a train-set locomotive, a Lego figure and a comic-book yacht captain.
  • Dangerfield's character rips off insults within about a minute: the steak with jockey marks, somebody stepped on a duck, and "now I know why tigers eat their young."
  • Ty meeting Lacey shows good chemistry; Spalding drinking half-finished cocktails recalls real teenagers who did that, followed by talk of accidentally drinking something with a cigarette butt in it and Spalding vomiting in the car.
  • The Baby Ruth pool scene is an all-timer that brought the house down in the theater, with nitpicks saved for later.
  • Ty and Lacey's date is five minutes of Fletch-style riffing: no listing for Mr. Wonderful, the Vietnam exchange, the uncle who molests collies, the coked-out "born to love you" song and the massage oil; the only nitpick is where the cocaine was.
  • Chevy crafted a new comic persona, the highest-level asshole you like, with no character interacting in a human way.
  • The Cinderella story is bunched with the bishop asking Carl to carry his bag and insisting on playing through the storm in the best game of his life.
  • The Cinderella speech is said to have been invented on the spot after Ramis pitched the rhythm of announcers at the end of a basketball game and told him to act like a six-year-old.
  • The bishop is Henry Wilcoxon, described as an iconic actor of the 1930s and 40s, a Cecil B. DeMille regular in Mrs. Miniver and The Greatest Show on Earth, in the high-level character-actor zone.
  • His last line was thought to be "rat farts" as lightning strikes, but he appears once more, drunk at the bar declaring there is no God; Carl walking away and dropping the bag is underrated.
  • Ty running into Carl ("cannonball") includes the Briar address exchange and "we have a pool and a pond; pond be good for you."
  • The final pick is the Smales kid picking his nose while the guys bet on it, which has made the speaker laugh from age 10 to 50, especially the double-or-nothing and "he was hungry."
  • The movie has every type of humor; the attendant who cleans shoes and gets mad at Ted Knight runs the action on the nose-picking bet.
  • Dangerfield's arrival with Wang is offered too: the hat on the mannequin that Smales is wearing, "worst-looking hat I ever saw", and "Wang, it's a parking lot."
  • None of the picks involve Danny, Denunzio or Maggie, even though theoretically that is the movie.
  • After wavering between the nose-picking and Ty running into Carl, the second pick is Carl and Ty together in Carl's place, likened to seeing LeBron and Steph teamed up in an all-star game.
  • Murray and Chase are said to have had animosity after a famous backstage fight before Chase hosted SNL, possibly why they initially had no scenes together.