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Caddyshack (1980)
In Harold Ramis' much-loved golf comedy with many
quotable lines of dialogue:
- the dancing gopher in the opening (and closing)
credits sequence, to the tune of Kenny Loggins' song: "I'm
Alright"
- the memorable characters associated with the Bushwood
Country Club, including its lunatic groundskeeper Carl Spackler (Bill
Murray), with his fixation about destroying an intrusive gopher:
("I have to laugh, because I've often asked myself. My foe,
my enemy, is an animal, and in order to conquer him, I have to think
like an animal. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta
get inside this dude's pelt and crawl around for a few days")
Crazed Groundskeeper Carl Spackler
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- his boss Sandy's request - misinterpreted: "I
want you to kill every golfer on the course" - with Carl's
reply: "Check me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the
golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key." Sandy
clarified: "Gophers, ya great git! Not golfers! The little
brown furry rodents!"
- Spackler's threat to the animal as he planted dynamite
in the gopher's hole: ("Anybody home? Uh, hello, Mr. Gopher.
Yeah, it's me, Mr. Squirrel. Yeah, hi. Uh, just a harmless squirrel,
not a plastic explosive or anything, nothing to be worried about.
I'm just here to make your last hours on earth as peaceful as possible...In
the words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher.' This is gonna
be sweet")
- speech-impaired, wacky Carl Spackler's recounting,
to another incredulous caddy, of how he once caddied for the Dalai
Lama in Tibet: ("So we finish 18, and he's gonna stiff me. And
I say: 'Hey, Lama! Hey, how about a little somethin', you know, for
the effort, you know.' And he says: 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money,
but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.'
So I got that goin' for me, which is nice")
- also, Spackler's "It's In the Hole!" Cinderella
story when he pretended to be an announcer and player, imagining
himself at Augusta in a championship Masters golf game, while he
was actually practicing teeing off on rows of planted flowers: ("The
crowd is standing on its feet here at Augusta, the normally reserved
Augusta crowd, going wild, for this young Cinderella. He's come outta
nowhere. He's got about 350 yards left. He's gonna hit about a 5-iron,
I expect, don't you think? He's got a beautiful backswing -- that's
-- oh, he got all of that one! He's gotta be pleased with that. The
crowd is just on its feet here. He's the Cinderella boy, uh -- tears
in his eyes I guess, as he lines up this last shot, he's got about
195 yards left. And he's got about a -- it looks like he's got about
an 8-iron. This crowd has gone deathly silent, the Cinderella story,
outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper and now, about to become the
Masters champion. It looks like a mirac- it's in the hole! It's in
the hole!")
- the advice given by blindfolded golfer Ty Webb (Chevy
Chase) to caddy Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe): ("I'm going
to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that
makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with
it. Stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball!")
Lacy Underall (Cindy Morgan)
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- one of the golfers - elitist Judge Elihu Smails
(Ted Knight), one of the club's co-founders, accompanied by his
sex-loving, bra-less young blonde niece Lacy Underall (Cindy Morgan),
who was judged by ogling males as "Madonna with meatballs";
Ty's awkwardly-delivered pick-up line to Lacy: ("What brings
you to this nape of the woods, neck of the wape. How come you're
here?"); and also Lacy's sex scene with Danny
- the scene of the performance of a Busby Berkeley-style
water ballet by golf caddies in the pool - and the scatological moment
that a floating "Baby Ruth" candy bar thrown into the pool
("Doodie!") sent swimmers screaming from the water in a Jaws-inspired
panic - and the shock and fainting caused when Spackler (after the
pool was "scrubbed, sterilized and disinfected") ate the
brown object and claimed: ("There it is! It's no big deal!")
- the boorish, nouveau-riche, brash wisecracking loudmouth
Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield in his feature film debut) and his
many one-liners: ("Oh, this is the worst lookin' hat I ever
saw. You buy a hat like this, I betcha get a free bowl of soup, huh?
Oh, it looks good on you though!", or "Hey, you wanna make
$14 dollars the hard way?", or after farting at the table during
dinner: "Oh, (did) somebody step on a duck?", and his words
to an older white-haired lady: "Oh, this is your wife, huh?
A lovely lady. Hey baby, you're alright. You musta been somethin'
before electricity," and "The last time I saw a mouth like
that, it had a hook in it"), and his curtain-closing invitation: "Hey
everybody, we're all gonna get laid!"
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"It's in the Hole!"
Blindfolded Golfer Ty Webb
Gross Pool Incident
Wisecracking Loudmouth Al Czervik
(Rodney Dangerfield)
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