Who carried more clubs, Smales or Al? Both had two putters and were over the limit; Smales, who thinks he needs every wood, despite the size of Al's bag.
Greatest sports-movie putt: Happy Gilmore or Danny winning the caddy tournament amid "Noonan" taunts on a bumpy green, called incredible; a preference for the final-hole sequence in Tin Cup is also voiced.
Did the movie create the word "Poon Tang"? Unknown, with a case that it did; an Apex Mountain joke about it is spared.
What happened to Rodney Dangerfield after Caddyshack and Back to School? Ladybugs, which was in HBO rotation with Vanessa Shaw called the Cindy Morgan of a generation, plus Rover Dangerfield.
Is it better if the gopher is in Maggie's car when Carl blows it up? Blowing up Maggie is not supported; the compromise is she returns in a sling.
Where does Michael O'Keefe rank among actor-athletes? Legend, with a great swing and a run of The Great Santini, Caddyshack, Split Image and The Slugger's Wife; he should have been in Tin Cup.
Do they still sell Baby Ruth bars? It was Nestle for a time, and many bars of that era faded; one participant is not a chocolate fan.
Why was there never a Caddyshack video game, such as Golden Tee or PGA Tour 93, with Noonan, Denunzio, Smales, Ty or Lou as playable characters?
Michael O'Keefe is at Apex, coming off The Great Santini into the funniest movie of the year; with Tim Hutton he was a young actor to watch before Sean Penn's class eclipsed them.
Dangerfield's Apex is placed in the mid-80s with Back to School, when he became a draw, plus HBO specials breaking Sam Kinnison and Bill Maher; both participants agree.
Ted Knight: career-wise no, since Mary Tyler Moore is his Apex, but retroactively this became his legacy; Too Close for Comfort gets love.
Chevy Chase: no, he got it for Fletch; Bill Murray: no, though his six days of work are pure and golden.
Cocaine is argued as at Apex, before its damage was widely known and while it fueled the film's disjointed creativity; the other participant is uncomfortable placing it on the mountain.
Baby Ruth bars peak with Goonies instead.
Golf is argued for 1980, citing Jack Nicholas winning two majors, Tom Watson the British and a rising star taking the Masters; the Tiger Woods Mike Douglas appearance is checked; the reply is a hesitant "yes, I guess."
Doyle Murray's caddy memories; 11-week 1979 shoot; Carl absent from early drafts; stunt double for Lacey's dive; O'Keefe avoiding golf for 25 years; Denunzio actor dating Cindy Morgan; deleted Carl-Ty scene
Judge Smales's rough week; bare heads on the course; Caddyshack lines at golf tournaments; Denunzio's swing and outfit; the gopher; Maggie; the Baby Ruth Jaws parody; Lou unfazed by explosions; the John Peters story
Judge Smales's week is listed (transcribed as "what stage is the worst"): his course blew up, his boat sank, he nearly killed an old lady, learned about his niece and that Ty's dad never liked him, lost an illegal $80,000 match and was chased by Moose and Rocco.
Golf broadcasters forcing Caddyshack lines into tournaments has aged terribly.
Denunzio's corkscrew golf swing (a Rob Deere comparison, and a Chris Ryan joke) and blouse-like outfit are worse; only Danny swings well, and the outfit looks headed to a Chippendales shift.
The gopher is not funny: liking it was once a disqualifier, it was an attempted fifth comedy style like the Muppets or Gremlins, and the sequel doubled down; the reply jokes that Caddyshack 2 never happened.
Maggie is one of the worst sports-movie characters, with an unexplained Irish accent though actress Sarah Holcomb was American; she is from Animal House and reportedly left acting with mental health problems; the quickly resolved pregnancy subplot was unneeded.
The Baby Ruth bar as a Jaws parody was a great idea in 1980 but is less effective 40 years later.
Lou the Caddymaster stares at Danny's last putt while bombs go off; suggested explanations are Vietnam service or how badly he wanted Smales crushed.
As told on the show, producer John Peters, a former hairdresser said to have inspired Warren Beatty's Shampoo and married Barbara Streisian (as transcribed), arranged a Playboy shoot of Cindy Morgan, threatened her career when she declined, and Ramis cancelled the shoot.
It is said she did not work after that, then noted that she starred in Tron and worked in TV through the 80s and 90s but could have had a much bigger career; it is framed as an early version of a Me Too era story.
"Don't you have homes?"; "The world needs ditch diggers too"; boat christening speech; gas-chamber line; "How about a Fresco"; Billy Baru; "Well, we're waiting"
A special category is introduced for Ted Knight, going chronologically; the disdain of "don't you have homes?" to the poker players kills.
Other Knight moments listed: his reaction to Lacey's joke, "the world needs ditch diggers too", the hamburger exchange with Spalding and the boat christening speech with his shorts too tight.
"I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber" is read as revealing he is a complete asshole and sociopath.
"How about a Fresco" was a running joke in college; it is barely a joke, but every Knight line delivery is the highest level of comedy.
Cradling Billy Baru is insanity.
"Well, we're waiting" is called one of the biggest Twitter memes, the go-to gif whenever someone teases a scoop.
Per the quoted Ramis and Cindy Morgan recollections, Knight was a traditional script-following actor alienated by the improvising, and he was angry at the improvising around him; that real friction works on screen.
A possibly apocryphal story says Rodney did nothing when Ramis yelled action because he did not know it was his cue.
A 2020 equivalent of Knight is sought, perhaps David Hyde Pierce; he was a favorite character on that show, with good connection with Mary.
