Hey, pal, how about a beer? Hey, put that on my tab. That was quite
a show you put on today, Gilmore. You were the talk of the tournament.
Wow, thanks a lot. Yeah, well, you really crushed that ball off the tee.
I'll tell you what. You know, you'd be something at one. Of those long drive
contests. Yeah, you could probably make a very good living traveling around, hustling at driving
ranges. Thanks, Phil. That's. That's. That's. You know, I know what you're doing right now
and I don't like it. So why don't you just shut your trap before I
put my foot in it? Don't turn your back on
me. Let's get one thing straight. This is Shooter's tour. I've worked hard my
whole life, paid my dues, and now it's Shooter's turn. And Shooter's not about to
let his reign at the top be spoiled by some freak sideshow clown.
Did you just call me a freak? I was on this tour for
one reason. Money. But now I got a new reason. Kicking your ass.
Well, I'd like to see you try.
Let's do it. Hey. I met on a golf course.
Hey. Hey. What is going on here? Huh? Oh, I was just looking
for the other half of this bottle and. Oh, there's some of it right.
There's some right there too. Why don't you just put it down? Yeah, I know.
Just stay out of my way or you'll pay. Listen to
what I say. How about I just go eat some hay? I can
make things out of clay. And lay by the bay. I just may. What do
you say? It's 2 Dads 1
movie. It's the podcast where two middle aged dads sit around and sh.
Shoot the. About the movies of the 80s and 90s. Here are your
hosts, Steve Paulo and Nick Brianna.
Hello everybody. It's 2Dads1Movie. Welcome to
another episode. I'm Steve. And I'm Nick. And today we
are Talking about the 1996 Adam Sandler vehicle,
Happy Gilmore. All right, I'm super excited to talk about Happy Gilmore.
One of the reasons that we're doing Happy Gilmore is that if you are listening,
if today is the day this episode came out, Then guess what?
Two days from now, Happy Gilmore 2 comes out. So you can
listen to our show, maybe rewatch Happy Gilmore if you haven't already reading up leading
up to this, and then get ready for the sequel, which, you know, I'm just
hoping doesn't suck horribly. Yeah, our standards are kind of
low. For sequels, like, for us to not hate them and just, like, stay above
that. Just. Yeah. You know, a little fan service is wonderful. You know,
reference the original material, of course, but give us, like,
something reasonable. Right. Something new. Don't be that Sopranos movie or anything like
that. We will worry about that later, though. Today we're going to talk about the
original. Original. We're going to talk about the hockey player who couldn't skate, who had
to turn to golf. So this was my pick. I'll just real quick, like Happy
Gilmore, I think for Nick. And I talked to this earlier for guys our age,
you know, I was 16 when this came out. You know, in the mid-90s,
teenage boys couldn't not love Adam Sandler. Right. We all watched him on
Saturday Night Live and then, you know, as he broke into the world of film
with Billy Madison and this and Water Boy and, you know, the Wedding Singer.
So many movies, you. The guy really kind of ruled comedy in
the 90s, you know, much the way Will Ferrell would do. So a decade later,
in the early 2000s, Adam, this was his time in so many ways.
And so this was just a movie I watched a ton. I'm sure I saw
it the day it came out opening weekend kind of movie.
Watched it, you know, owned it on. I probably owned this on VHS and on
DVD and then later on digitally and everything and just watched it
a ton. I've probably seen this movie 50 or 60 times, honestly. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. This is a good one. And, you know, we're the same age, we grew
up in the same town. Like, we have the same experience with this.
We probably, at one point, maybe Steve and I grabbed for the same copy of
Happy Gilmore on the Blockbuster shelves. You know, the one on CRO Canyon Road.
Exactly. So,
yeah, I watched this, you know, in high school, college, someone always had it on
vhs. It was a great one to throw in because you could watch, like,
any chunk of this movie and enjoy it, basically. Yeah.
Eminently quotable. I mean, there's so much that comes from this that
if you don't watch it all the time, you realize things that you and
your friends say in everyday life that have just become part of your regular
vocabulary. And you realize, oh, that's from this. Yeah. You know, the way that
we all say this thing originated from this movie. And it was very
influential. I remember I had a streak because I love Billy
Madison. Sure. And I had a time where I thought, you know, oh,
like, Happy, he kind of like, it got worse after Billy
Madison. Okay. Because Billy Madison is so like off the wall and like weirdly dark
in certain areas that I think is very funny. But watching this, I'm like,
this has a lot of it. This is just kind of the, Hey, I want
more people to watch my stuff. Elevation of Billy Madison.
Yeah, this. Yeah. Madison was so absurdist in
its comedy, which is great. I mean, that's. You and I are both Tim Robinson
fans. We love absurdism. But you. This was clearly a
reach for Adam. Not a reach, but like it was an attempt by Sandler to.
To do something a little more mainstream. A little. That would be a little more
popular. Like overall, obviously tying it to a very popular sport and everything.
You know, that, that, that helps. But it's still Adam Sandler and it's still goofy
in the right ways and it's still dark in a few places for sure.
And, you know, it definitely still hits those notes and it feels very authentic.
I think, you know, you have to get a ways through Adam Sandler's career to
get to where he has that bad lull of like, I am absolutely going
to phone in a bunch of bullshit movies like Couples Retreat and stuff
like that. The beginning was very honestly him and I think more recently, very recently
in the films he's done. Yeah, very honestly him in such a different ways.
I mean, you know, uncut gems compared to like Happy. But, you know,
but it's still very honestly him. It's more of his punch truck love, you know,
sort of. Right, right. And so, yeah, but I mean, but you know, let's stick
with. This is early Sandler. This is sort of goofy Sandler. I think he was
30 when he made this movie. And you know, this is.
This is Adam. Such a fun one. Well, you got some facts for us about.
About Happy Gilmore here. I do indeed. So this came out right around Valentine's
Day, actually. As it turns out. February 16, 1996. With a PG13
rating. Happy Gilmore has a running time of 92 minutes.
It was directed by Dennis Dugan, written by the writing team of Tim Herlihy
and Adam Sandler, who wrote a lot of these Sandler vehicles. Very nice. Starring Adam
Sandler, Christopher McDonald and Julie Bowen. Scores Rotten
Tomatoes. The critics give the 63% which I think is fairly respectable. It is a
fresh score. You know, you wouldn't expect super high marks for. For happy Gilmore
on IMDb. A solid 7.0. This is clearly something that fans are fun
enjoy quite a bit. The movie did win an award in the
1996 and by this time they were Calling them the MTV Movie and TV
Awards. Okay. Basically, the successor to the MTV Movie Awards.
This movie won best fight between Adam Sandler and Bob Barker.
Hey. Well deserved. I think this was a good one. Absolutely. On a $12 million
budget, the film took in 41.4, $4 million. The box office for
a 3.4, 3.5x. It's right on that borderline
between was it just a success or was it a blockbuster? You know, and it's
sort of right in that. Right in between those two. And then.
Yeah, like that. Those are the facts. Those are the facts about Happy Gilmore.
Okay, well, yeah, this one. I. I love this intro.
Maybe, Steve, you could take us through how this movie starts off, because right.
This hammers you right away with so much funny stuff.
It really is fantastic. It's so it's basically, it starts off and it's almost,
you know, Super 8 film. It actually, even in the screen, it kind of cuts
piece of the. Of the screen out. So we're not getting the full, you know,
visual effect of. Of like we were in the movie theater, for instance. And it's
a voiceover from Happy, and he's kind of telling us about his childhood while Leonard
Skynyrd's Tuesday Is Gone plays in the background. Fantastic song.
It's an instrumental version. There's no lyrics, but. But, you know, it's this great backstory
telling us all about how much Happy's dad loved hockey and took him
to see hockey and. And taught him how to play hockey, even though he never
quite figured out how to skate. I don't know how anybody could do as much
hockey as Happy obviously did without ever learning to skate, but that's okay.
But, you know, he loved hockey so much, but Happy's dad did that. Happy's mom
left and just left them both. And so then he is. He is alone with
his dad, but his dad keeps taking him to games until one day,
slap shot comes off the ice and goes right at Happy's
dad and. And apparently takes him out. Yeah, it just. It just shows
the shot coming towards him, and then it just goes to after the funeral.
Right, Exactly. It's like. So Happy has to go live with
his grandma, who he was nervous to go see because he never didn't really know
her very well, wasn't really familiar with her, but she makes him feel better by
wearing, he said, he says, dressing up like Gene Simmons,
although it is just the mask with the ridiculously long tongue.
You know, she's not wearing the boots or the. Or the. Get up the cape
or anything else. But, you know, she does try to make him feel at home.
And we get a sense obviously right away that, you know, granny is awesome.
Yeah, Happy's grandma. And so, yeah, so there's that.
And then he gives us a little bit, you know, kind of since then.
Oh, he mentions, of course, playing junior hockey when he was in high school where
he own. He has two records. It doesn't say if they're like state or world
or what, but they're records of penalty minutes. The guy is obviously getting in a
lot of trouble and he's the only guy to ever take off his skate and
try to stab somebody with it, which you kind of. You got to hold on
to what you can. So there's a, there's a scene there where it's showing kind
of a shaggy haired teenage Adam Sandler,
Happy Gilmore, really looking good. And they're, they're getting
in for their team photo for their junior hockey thing. And he
can't skate and he like falls so badly that he knocks the little sign that's
in front of them to like say the name of the team over there.
And the look on his face, like the furious like huffing
and puffing and he's so mad look on his face. And the picture is such.
That's what Adam Sandler does. He does this like cartoonish
anger. So much better than, than everyone. So I really love
that. It's absolutely fantastic. So, so it's a great. Tells us about some jobs that
he's had. You know, basically just he hasn't worked a lot of like legit career
since high school. He's, he's been. And in every one of his jobs
he has something nearby that he can stick between his legs and thrust. Like his
penis. Yeah, I'm not thrust my. Including the nightstick. When he's a security guard.
Right. It's right up to his. You know, this is an HR violation. He puts
right up to his coworker's face. And that's just. I don't care if it's not
actually your, your johnson. That's not good. Not a good idea. But yeah, he's a
janitor, so he uses the mop. He's a construction worker. Uses one of those road
cone things. Security guy who worked at a gas station. And he
sticks the. Yeah, the pump between his legs and sprays it out real
dangerous. Come on, Happy. That's the gasoline. But all those hit very well.
So it's like laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. Before you're into any of the real action
of the movie. Absolutely. And then the last one he says he's worked construction was
sort of lasting. He did. And he shows him sort of like doing a shooting
exhibition for his co workers with the nail gun, knocking beer cans off this ledge
until Mr. Larson, his foreman, walks by. Yes. And of
course, Mr. Larson is played by the wonderful Richard Keel, who played Jaws in the
James Bond film Moonraker and who stands 7 foot 2. So he is
quite a bit. So you know, where they had the cans was actually pretty reasonably
placed. Most human beings are walking by and it's way above their heads. Yeah.
You're not worried about that. Mr. Larson takes a nail into the
helmet, which we'll get into that later. But he does take a nail into his.
Into his hard hat, which Happy is. Is gets
into a fight and gets hospitalized. And this is all still in the flashback.
Yeah, this is none of this. So we're still. It's spliced together like kind of
home video type. Yeah, exactly. So. So, yeah, but that's. I think that that kind
of brings us up, right? Yeah. This little bit. Yeah, yeah. So really funny intro
and the. The music. It like. It was just the perfect blend because it was
just like kind of the beginning of the wonder years, this nostalgic montage
of home video footage. But every single chunk of it had a joke to it.
It was very funny. And now we're brought to present day and
they're doing tryouts for the local, I don't know, junior semi pro.
Not going to be whatever semi pro because. Because he's now in his 30s.
They even say, is that. Is that Gilmore again? How many times he tried out?
10 is like the 10th time. So, yeah, you know, he's like 30 because he's
been trying out every year since he was like 19 or 20 years old.
So. And I love this moment. There's this moment where he
is. You're not able to ski. The two coaches are talking. They're looking at him,
at the whole team through the glass. And he's not a very good skater.
Oh, yeah. But what a shot, you know, And Happy winds up and just slap
shot so hard that it actually he misses the goal, but it shatters the
glass in front of the coaches and they're just so impressed. But like, obviously,
you know, he doesn't. Not only is he not skate, apparently can't aim very well
either. Right. What I love though is that when they cut back to the coaches,
a tenth of a second later, the glass is back in front of them.
You can see the reflection of the rest of the ice. That's how quick they
replaced. That's very fast. Very fast. Yeah.
So Happy, despite his impressive slap shot and,
you know, demonstrating that he would be the worst teammate. Skater, everything else, you know,
but he doesn't get called. So out of. Out of 28 guys that
audition for this team. 25. Yeah. It looked like maybe three guys
don't get picked. Yeah. So Happy doesn't get in. He's. He's pissed.
And, you know, he's a sad man. So. Yeah, so he's had a bad
day, and he's coming back to his apartment and
kind of crosses paths with his girlfriend in the elevator. And he's just kind
of like, hey, like, I had a really bad day. What's going on? She's like,
nothing. You're a loser. Basically, like, I'm out of here. And.
And she leaves him. So on top of not making the team after his 10th
attempt, when he. I'm sure he thought he was gonna make it. And now his
girlfriend is out of there. And very funny
scene where he's at the intercom talking to the front door as she's walking out,
trying to catch a. Wait, wait, wait, wait. And she hears him, and they're kind
of talking a little back and forth. And he keeps, you know,
apologizing, then getting mad again, and then apologizing for getting mad.
Great scene. Funny. But also for anyone listening, big red flag.
If someone you're in a relationship with is. Is yelling at you and then apologizing
and yelling at you. That is an abusive mentality. Watch out. Yeah, yeah. No,
it's. And. And he has this behavior the whole way, and it just seems to
bother other people later in the movie, which is like.
But he ends up trying to serenade her, and he's singing this song.
The night closes in, and it shows this
little kid standing outside, kind of, like, looking at it. The girlfriend's gone while he's
licking the intercom. Licking the
intercom. That is nasty behavior. Yeah. At least he's just licking the one
that's in his apartment. Not the public one. But that's a rental, though, man.
He doesn't own that place. And then you kind of
see this older Asian woman standing there. And then
there's a knock at his door, and he's like, oh, good, she came back.
Terry came back. And he opens the door and she's standing there,
and he's just kind of like, what?
When he gets up in the morning, I think he Gets a phone call from
his grandmother. He answers the phone. He has to get dressed real quick. He just
throws his boots on real quick and heads out the door. And we're left.
Very funny. Just very quick moment of that same elderly Asian woman from the night
before who's clearly had a shower and is wearing one of his hockey jerseys,
comes out of the kitchen. Hey, you don't want breakfast? So good. And that's
classic Sandler, Billy Madison kind of like goofball humor
where it's just. It's also the joke. Cut. Setup. Yes, Right where you
put the joke right before you cut to the next scene. There's no response to
the joke. The joke is just done and then we've moved on. So do blink.
You might miss it. He goes to his grandmother's house.
He sees that there are these guys like moving her stuff. House.
And he comes to find out after talking to them that grandma is
basically getting booted from her house. Her house is going to go to auction in.
Is it 30 days? No, 90. 90 days. Yeah. Yeah. And because
she owes $270,000 in taxes
to the IRS. To the IRS? Federal income tax. Federal income tax to the
irs. And it says that she hasn't paid her taxes in 10 years.
And he asks, well, grandma, why didn't you pay your taxes? She said, because I
didn't have any money. Right. This is where we got to come in here.
All right, so listener, just so in case you're not aware, my co host,
Nick is a professional tax accountant. Go ahead, Nick.
So look, as much as people would like to tell you otherwise,
you're only assessed income tax when you're earning income. Right.
So it means that if she has this $270,000 in
tax due, then she would have like some multiple of that associated, you know,
of income. And I went through the tax rate tables. Just assuming this went from
like 1985 to 1994 where she wasn't paying her
taxes and figured out like approximately what she would make each year to accrue 27
grand per year. I know there's penalties and interest and all
this stuff. I feel like this guy would have said, plus penalties or anyway,
she would have earned over this ten year period, just shy of a million bucks.
Like $990,000. Over a hundred grand. Almost a hundred grand a year.
Yeah. That's crazy. Living in Connecticut in
the 80s and 90s, right. In a house that grandpa built with his own hand.
She has no mortgage. No mortgage, Property taxes. I don't know what their
Prop 19 type situation is in Connecticut. But even if
it's being reassessed at fair value every year and the house is worth 270 grand
or 300 grand, her property taxes are like 5 or 6 grand a year at
the high end. Yeah. Yeah. So grandma either somehow
managed to work for a startup and only get
stock options every year that she was taxed on under W2
and then the value went to zero the next year and she was, wasn't able
to. Which wouldn't be optional. That would have to be restricted stocking RSUs. Yeah.
Or she has some kind of secret problem. Maybe this
like happy place that we're shown later where she's winning all this money on a
slot machine. The reason he envisions it is because he, all he remembers is his
grandma pumping money into slot machines and nothing coming out. The constant sound of
like the, the, the dials and the slot machine going just haunts his dreams and
it's very conscious for him. That's possible. So I would say that it's.
Forget about the fact that the IRS, A is not going to wait
10 years to act on something like this. B is probably not going to take
your primary residence out from under you. You can always work out a deal with
them. Yeah. So, yeah. I don't, I don't understand how this worked.
If she was earning income in some way she didn't know, like investment income,
there would be underlying assets to sell. She wouldn't have to sell her house.
So. Interesting. I call bullshit on this. I mean, they're only giving her the option
to sell it. They're just repossessing it and then auctioning it themselves. Which is so
weird because she should have a chance to sell it for the.
Give them the proceeds. Exactly. Or, and hopefully for her sake, sell it for
more than. And then have some profit to live off of then.
Right. It's all very strange. Right. So that, that's my little tax aside.
We can, you can stop fast forwarding now. Yeah, exactly. Come back to us,
everybody. But yeah, I, I thank you for that. I did actually wonder about
that and, and thought you would be the right person to ask Nick. So the
other thing I want to mention. So Will Sasso of Mad TV fame is one
of the two movers that is pulling stuff out of grandma's house. Love, Will.
Very funny guy. But when he, when Happy first shows
up, he runs into the house and, and the two movers are trying to carry
a couch and he like jumps. I love that. Right. To keep them from at
which point the other, not Will Sasso, the other mover goes so like, hey,
kid, come on. And I'm like, kid? He's like a receding
hairline to 30 year old. Why are we calling him Kid? There's a couple times
when people in this movie call him kid, and I never noticed it before,
I think because I watched it as a kid originally and it just kind of
always flew past me. Why would you refer to this grown man as kid?
That's super funny. Especially he's not older than those guys. No. Those guys also look
like they're like late 20s to early 30s. Ballpark. Right? It's very strange.
So grandma's gonna have to get moved to a nursing home while
these movers are there, right? She has no money. He has no money. She has
this tax bill. Nobody's got any money. Who's paying for her to live in a
retirement home? They have retirement homes that you can living
off, like Medicare. That. And they suck. I mean, this is
like an accurate. Like, this is like where Abe Simpson is. Good to know,
but scary. Yeah, so they definitely have them. But. And you know
what? It. It wasn't as commoditized back then as it is now,
so it wasn't common that everyone's paying 12 grand a month to live in,
like something that smells like pee. My uncle is in a place that is not
cheap. But. Yeah, no, this is. A lot of my job is. Is helping people
with that stuff. So. Yeah, but she's in this nursing home and it's kind of,
you know, the free one or the cheap one. So it's. It's very shady.
And we get treated to her, I guess the attendant
there, one of the nurses, whatever. Ben Stiller refers to him as an orderly.
But yeah, Ben Stiller plays Hal, the. The evil Hal
El. Which is supposed to be like a. Hell reference, I guess,
because he's like, you're in my world now. And he points to his. Points to
his name tag. Thought maybe it was an Islamophobic thing, like it's halal
or something. But maybe not. It might be, though. So. So happy.
Dr. Grandma at this place is like, hey, tells the orderly, ben Stiller,
I want you to take good care of her. And tries to bribe him with
the dollar bill. Yeah, yeah. And he's like, hey, you know, put that away.
Like, I'm gonna take good care of her for free. And then the second he
leaves, Grandma says to Hal, like, could I trouble you
for a glass of water? And this is one of our best Lines. You could
trouble me for a glass to shut the hell up. You're in
my world now, granny. So good. So good. Yeah. He turns immediately.
The second Happy leaves the room. He is like, just flips on the evil.
For sure. Yep. So then Happy's back at the house, and the movers
are taking a break and hitting some golf balls. Right. Loose. Into a
neighborhood. Right. Which looks like. With Happy's grandpa's clubs. Right.
Because it's the same clubs used later. So, like, they found them in the act
of moving things out of the house or taking it away. Yeah. And decided.
Yeah. To take a break and just hit a ball. And Sasso is the one
to actually hit initially. And I'm terrible at golf.
Every. I want to say this every time I watch a movie or a TV
show or watch golf on tv. As soon as I see the golf course,
I think I was like, God, this looks amazing. This looks like I would love
doing this. You know, we're watching the show stick on Apple TV right now.
And it's about golf as well. And it's just like, oh, my God. And then
every time I get out on a golf course or a driving range or anywhere
besides mini golf, I hate it. I can't swing right.
I don't hit the thing. Like, whatever. And I still look better than Will Sasso
taking this shot. Like, he can do an impression of everything except for a golfer.
Oh, my God. It was just the ugliest sort of swing. I mean,
it's just the most. And of course, yeah, it goes. It goes five feet in
front of him. The old joke he did, he didn't get past the ladies tees
right. Kind of thing. And yet he still, you know, when Happy makes fun of
him, goes, oh, you know, if you hit it past. If you hit your ball
past mine, we'll go right back to work. You know, you watch your stupid hockey
game or whatever, and it's like, buddy, you could use a pool cue and hit
it further than that ball went. Like, that wouldn't even be difficult. But of course,
Happy does not use a pool cue. He uses a driver. And he does not
just hit it past Will Sasso's ball. He hits it,
like, 400 yards down the street. Yep. And. And breaks a
window of this house that. Yes. It's like 400 years. And it really is probably
even further than that. Really. The way that the fly cam sort of right.
Follows the. I know it looks like. Looks like a lot further than that,
but that's okay. It's movie Magic. But yeah, he does. One breaks a window.
The, the, the other mover says, oh, man, you.
No, no way. The beginner's luck. No way you could do that again. 20 bucks
you can't do it again. So he does it again and he hits the homeowner
who's come outside the front door looking for like, what happened to his window.
And then he's like, one more time, double or nothing. And this time he hits
the lady who is looking through what had been the shattered window. Yeah. And then
is hit with the golf ball and falls out the window and rolls down her,
her, her roof onto the ground, potentially causing really serious
damage, if not death. So Happy may have killed somebody here. We're not 100.
Sure a great job. This is a good sandler thing of like raising the stakes
in a joke and like making it like dark at the end in like,
you know, more is happening. So, yeah, really funny. And he's like,
okay, like, pay up, let's get back to work. And then he realizes like,
oh, I just made a little cash hitting a golf ball. Let me
see what I can do. Yeah. And he goes to the driving range. Right,
country club or whatever. Yeah. And he's there and he says, all right, step right
up. Come see if you can out drive the amazing golf ball hitter guy.
The golf ball guy.
Whacker is. He says, he does say out drive. So he knows
that it's called like a drive or using a driver. And yet he goes,
golf ball whacker guy. Oh my God. And yeah,
so he, he, you know, hits it and then a few, you know,
spaces down on the driving range from where Happy is,
is, you know, one of our sort of supporting stars of this film.
Kind of the first of the maybe four biggest characters in the movie that we're
being introduced to besides Happy, which is Chubbs. Yes, Chubbs Peterson,
played by the incomparable Carl Weathers.
And he is like coaching or whatever, this woman,
middle aged woman who's doing worse than Will Sasser, frankly, just can't even hit
the ball. And all he's sitting there reading golf die, just going, that's good,
good job, keep going. But he hears,
you know, and he hears that the drive Happy hits. He sees how far
the ball goes and his eyes light up and he's like, oh, boy, this guy's
got something. So when he first stands up, he is keeping
his hands behind his back and he really has to, because this
is the third movie we've watched where someone is missing part of an arm or
Hand or whatever. With the fugitive, with the one armed man. We had army of
Darkness with ash replacement. And now Chubbs Peterson's missing his hand.
But, God, the makeup wardrobe work on him is not good.
His arm is so long that he really. I mean,
you know, to Carl Weathers, there's a credit. He spends most of the time when
he's standing holding his hands behind his back, which is like a fairly natural looking
pose for a guy like him. A guy with a little gravitas to him and
everything. But it's like if he didn't. It's just the times when we see both
his hands and both his arms is that it is ludicrously long. I almost want
to believe, and I don't know if this is true or not. I want to
believe that they looked at the situation of what they were trying to do,
tried a couple times to get it to look as natural as possible, realized that
wasn't possible, and went, all right, make it funny that it's longer. Yes, 100.
Because where he's poking him in the chest, talking to him, it seems like
it's a foot longer than it should be. And I. I would see the same
thing. If they're watching this in the edit bay or whatever, they're like, this is
so funny. Like, it should. It should look as long as possible. Can we make
it longer? You know, like Dennis Dugan's like, I don't think it's long enough.
Let's do it longer. But it really is so crazy long.
Yeah. And so he's talking to Happy and he's like, trying to convince him.
He's like, man, if you work with me, you know, you go, there's this.
There's this tournament tomorrow, the Waterbury Open. If you win it,
you're on the pro tour. It's like, I don't really think that's a thing that
happens, but I don't know golf that well, so maybe. But, you know, you should
do this because you could make the big bucks or whatever. But initially he's like,
I'm not gonna do this. I'm a hockey player. He goes into a batting cage
to just take baseballs off the sternum, which I, you know, it doesn't. There's no
sign that says how fast those balls are going, but they look pretty quick.
This is not like a slow pitch softball cage that would. To break bones.
That. That's not. That's not. You're not taking repeated hits and
you're squaring up like that head to the chest. Yeah. So Happy should be dead.
That should be the second death doesn't happen. But yeah, so. So Chubbs
is trying to convince him, like, hey, man, you've got something special. Nobody can hit
the ball like you can. This is crazy. Like, you should really take advantage of
this. He's like, I'm not a golfer. I gotta wear stupid clothes. And da,
da. Like I'm. I'm a hockey player, you know. And he starts sort
of hitting like empty soda cans.
Yeah, right. To like just practice this hockey play. And Chubbs is gesticulating wildly,
talking to him, at which point Happy rails off a slap shot that hits Chubbs's
hand, unfortunately knocks it off of however it's supposed to be attached
to his missing hand area, to his wrist,
and it flies into the street. To which Chub says, no, no, no, don't worry
about it. That's wood. It's real strong, real sturdy, made of wood. And then the
garbage truck or whatever, the big rig or whatever comes over and just crushes it.
And the way Happy goes to say goodbye to Chubs
and goes to, yes. Missing hand. So funny.
He's like, okay,
so good. So great. Yeah. And so
then Happy agrees, like, all right, well, I'm going to try the Waterbury Open.
And he shows up to it. Yes. And as he's there and he kind of
sees people arriving, he sees this limo go by. This is a part that,
I don't know why always stuck with us, but in college we
had this kind of obsession with Burt Reynolds and mostly like with his bad movies,
like his mid-80s, like low budget, like Heat Stick Malone, like all these
things that he did. Yeah. White Lightning, all this stuff.
And we had to the point where we would have Burt Day.
So we would have like a day where we're doing all Burt Reynolds movies.
But somebody said, well, we can watch Happy Gilmore because the
limo. He's in the limo because Happy Gilmore says, oh, look, that limo
must be Burt Reynolds or something. And the limo, of course,
is the star of the show, kind of the biggest name who's showing up to
this Waterbury open open shooter McGavin, who's like one of the
rising stars or one of the better pro golfers. Yes. The indication here is that
he's. He's somebody who's been on the tour a long time. He's. They refer to
him for the current season or whatever as like the top money earner or whatever
on the tour right now. And. But he. We do learn a little later,
but, you know, he has not won the big tournament yet. Like, he's not won
the pga. That's. They don't call it the pga, the Tour Championship. They're very careful
not to refer to the PGA or the Masters or anything else. Specific locations.
Yeah, there's, there's, there's. There are a couple references. Locations that are clearly incorrect,
but other than that, that. Yeah, so. So Shooter's here. He's there.
I guess it's sort of PR for this because, again, because the winner of
this Waterbury Open tournament gets to join the Tour. I think he's there as sort
of like a. A goodwill ambassador from the pro golfers. He says he
doesn't be my colleague at one person is going to be my co worker.
It's only one of you gets to be my colleague. All of you are now
my friend. He's like, just perfect. Kind of sleaze bag,
like, politician delivery on this stuff. Christopher McDonald is,
first off, just across the board, an underrated comedic actor. Like, I don't
care how much you like Christopher McDonald. You should like him more. Like, there's.
There's that, right? But you hear that? Christopher McDonald's mom. That's right,
Chris. If you want to come on the pods, let me know. Hey, hit it
up, man. The show@2dazzlemov.com that's the number two and the number one. So he,
you know, this role in particular,
he's just so well suited for. You know, there's some times where guys,
you know, and it's not a role they wrote for themselves or anything like that,
but they're just. Just put in something, cast in something where it's just. God,
that is so perfect. And he. Like you said, it's like a. It's a politician
thing. It's sort of this smarmy rich guy thing. It's. It's. There's, like.
You can tell he's got a media coach. You know what I mean? There's this,
like, all this stuff going on, and he plays the role so well and just
the right level of smarmy shitbagness. Right.
It's glorious. It really is wonderful. Shooter is one of the best characters not just
in this movie, but in 90s comedies. Yeah, he's great. And you see him kind
of becoming unhinged, like. Like, he. He's in full control of everything, except for
his reaction to this guy who might be a threat to, like, the attention he's
getting. Yeah, yeah. And, yeah, really, really funny. Yeah.
So we're introduced to the kind of I don't know. She's a coordinator
or, like, a player liaison for the tour or what? She's marketing or public relations,
I think she was. They referred her as, like, the public relations director for the
tour. Yeah. Oh, and this is Julie Bowen, who's Virginia Vennett.
Right, exactly. Which we'll. We'll stop for a second to mention something
about Adam Sandler writing characters that are the love interest for his character
who have the initials VIVI Because Veronica Vaughn was
the love interest in Billy Madison. Vicki Valencourt was the love interest in
the water boy. I'm sure there are more, but, yes, this is Virginia Vennet,
which is kind of a funky last name. You don't see. Vennet. Not a lot
of vents out there. Exactly. Let me see. I think there was at least one
more. Oh, yeah. In Little Nicky, the love interest is Valerie Varin.
And then Hubie, Halloween, it was Violet Valentine, also played by
Bowen. Okay. Yeah. The dude really digs the VV Name
structure for the love interest. Everyone's got to have a thing.
Julie Bowen. This is a very early appearance of hers. I mean, she became like,
a big star with Modern Family after this.
So she's there, and Happy's getting ready,
and he's walking up with his clubs, and this kid comes
up from behind him and grabs his club like, hey, punk, where are you going
with my clubs? Which, like, I get that this kid was like, you know,
he's like an amateur caddy at the club or whatever, but, like, he should know
better than. Yeah, you don't have to do clubs. But, yes, this is his caddy.
The club is assigned a caddy. And. And he's like, oh, okay. Hey, just.
Just, you know, tell me if I'm. Make sure I'm not doing anything stupid.
All right? Just help me out. Like. Like, I can handle the rest of this.
The clubs are old. I'll hold them. Just tell me if I'm doing anything stupid.
So he stands there by the te. And the guy, you know, announcing the.
The players. Mr. Lafferty is ready to. To tee off. Mr. Gilmore, ple. You know,
now. So he stands there. Get out of the way. Oh,
sorry. Walks over. I love this line. He walks over the caddy and goes,
where were you on that one, dipshit? This is one of those lines that
we say all the time and you don't necessarily think of where it was.
God, it's so perfect. Specifically, where were you on that one,
dipshit? It's really good. His first tee shot. Right.
And. And he really embraces them. Right. Absolutely crushes it.
And It's a par 4. Where normally in golf you're not going to hit the
green on a par four. No, right. Traditionally, like something that's a par three,
250 yards or less, 300 yards or less. You might hit the green.
That's really tough too. And he. So he's unprecedented.
Unprecedented with how hard he's hitting his tee shots.
Absolutely. So this kicks it off, but also at the same time, he cannot
putt. No, he has to try to putt. And yeah, he's on the green.
And one, which like you said for part four is like insane on the green.
And two is. Is really good pro level, right? Yeah. So it's insane
that he's on the green and one and then. But yes, I guess to five
putt, I think to get there. I mean, it's real bad. It's real hard to
watch. And as he's putting, you know, and he's. He's different looking
than all the other golfers. Everyone's wearing the traditional golf outfit. He's got his
Bruins jersey on. And, you know, he's going through his
putt. He misses a putt terribly. One of the guys comments to another one is
this guy kidding. And he's going through and saying like, oh, this is. This is
pathetic. And then finally Happy sinks his putt. And the guy goes,
goes, oh, it's about time, to this other guy. And Happy, like, turns and marches
over to him. He's like, yeah, it was about time, wasn't it? I wanted it
to go in, but it just wouldn't. And he pulls his shirt over his head
and punches him like a hockey fight. Perfect hockey fight move.
Like, they literally. Hockey jerseys have these straps inside in the back that you put
around your belt on your pants to keep people from being able to pull your
jersey over your head like that because it holds your arms down. So, yeah,
he does the classic hockey fight move. Knocks the guy out.
There was a point where he starts putting at one point and obviously
just frustrated is not doing well. And Chubbs calls out time and he goes up
to like, talk to. And I'm like, time, like, what? There's no clock in golf
that calls timeout. Like, I mean, maybe there is like an unspoken clock
of like, how long you can take between. But it's not instantaneous. You can take
time to like, you know, whatever. But he goes. And that's when Chubbs does the
like, come on, baby, you gotta relax. It's all in the hips. It's all
in the hips. And by the end of it, he's literally to going, going.
It's all in the hips. And he's kind of got a little lil to his
voice. And he happy ends
up getting a hole in one on one of the holes, which is on a
par 4. Again, crazy. Something that literally almost never happens. Or maybe it
has never happened, at least as far as anyone who's there has ever seen in
their life. Yeah. There's almost no reaction from the crowd when he gets
this hole in one. And I saw the video this year. There's a cheer,
but not people losing it the way that they would for something like that.
That we get a very good montage as he's kind of advancing in this tournament.
We're showing the leaderboard. Yeah. And House of Pains Jump around is playing as it's
showing his various, like, victories and failures throughout this golf tournament. But it's really
good. And would you say that his name on the board jumps around from top?
Certainly does it. Jumps up and jumps up and then gets down. Is that
right? Okay, just checking. He hits his ball into the pond
and ends up diving in after it. It. And then it's a very funny scene
where he's underneath and he's looking at all the balls to see which one is
his and finds the right one. I don't think that saves you any strokes.
But no, it's still. Visually hitting a water hazard is still a one stroke penalty.
You still take a drop. But hey, you know, that works.
Yeah. So he. He does end up just
barely, like, I think on the final hole is able to win the Waterbury
Open. And. And this is fantastic. And Virginia
Bennett is immediately in love. Basically. She. She's already thinking about the
PR and sort of the marketing campaign around a guy that can hit this far
and shooter a little less excited. Definitely not all that happy with the sort
of, you know, he was expecting a, you know, good amateur who would be
no threat even to the attention of fans. Exactly. To join this. But this is
clearly different. This guy's different. A par hole in one to par four is insane.
You know, it's the kind of thing you just never see. So he's not
as excited. But. But boy, you know, Virginia could not be happier.
That happy. Her job's gonna be interesting now. It seems like. I mean, she's a
young person stuck in this, like, really stuffy world. So it's like, oh, my God,
something finally. Yeah, exactly. And then there's a Post.
Post tournament reception kind of thing. And Happy's walking
around with his trophy. Yeah. And I thought this was funny where
we see Chubb sitting there and he has the most, like, over piled plate
of food there, mountain of fruit. It's all. It's all like strawberries and stuff.
But it makes me think of the great Carl Weathers work later on
in Arrested Development. And like, is this the same. Is he just
like this in real life? So they add this stuff like, you know, oh,
I could take these. I got a fruit salad going, baby. Got it going,
baby. So that made Arrested
Development, made Carl Weathers so enjoyable to watch in every other context
because of that. Because he's like, so deeply funny. And he
lived, like, in our town. He lived pretty close to where we live. Live for
a long time before he passed away. So I. I know a lot of people
who have seen him. I've seen him. Yeah. Just randomly at like, the movie theater
or whatever. So when you think about Carl Weathers, I always immediately think of,
like, obviously Apollo Creed and then. And then I can't remember the character's name or
not, but Predator. Like, those are the two things I, you know, think of.
My old Carl Weathers is like pretty serious roles in pretty
serious movies. Yeah. But you see stuff like this and obviously his Time Under Arrest
development, and it's just like, oh, man, this guy has always been a lot of
fun. Yeah. You know, and it's like, he must have. He played those serious roles
because he's an actor and he's a serious. You know, he can. He's got chops.
He can do it. But man. Seems like, funny. Yeah. He would have been a
lot of fun to hang out with. Clearly. For sure. Give me. Give me prime
Carl Weathers and prime Billy Dee Williams. We're gonna go hang out. Oh, hell,
yeah. That sounds like a time. Absolutely. Easy on
the cold 45. So.
So now we're kind of back showing Grandma's Situation at
the old folks home, and they're all making quilts and Hal
El, Ben Stiller's character, is on the phone with someone obviously saying, you know,
well, you know, this is your order. Well, I could do it for 200 a
pop. We can get 50 more. And then hangs up the phone and says to
all these poor old people that are sewing, he's like, good news, everybody. Arts and
crafts time has been extended by four hours today. This is some handmade
quality shit right here. And he's got like, the old Motorola
Startac. I love that phone. Really good classic mid-90s cell phone.
So grandma's basically like slave labor at a quilt,
you know. Sweatshop. Sweatshop, Exactly. Well, this is obviously why it doesn't cost much money
for her to live there. She's being put to work. Yeah. And then another
poor old lady is just like, oh, my fingers hurt. And he's like, oh,
your fingers hurt? Well, now your back's gonna hurt because you just pulled landscaping duty.
Anybody else's fingers hurt? Didn't think so. Like, he is just. So this is a
really clean Ben Stiller evil character. I feel like. I feel like
years later, he would really dig into the character he played here for
White Goodman in Dodgeball later on. Yeah, it's very much
a similar, like, just shitty person. He is. I mean, he became and
is now, you know, a leading man, but with his sketch beginnings,
like, the Ben Stiller show was a really funny sketch show and stuff. So it's
great to see him in these little roles. He really knocks it out of the
park. Back at the reception, so we have Happy, and he
kind of walks up on some of the pros there. Yeah. Because he's on the
tour. Oh, this is the reception night before the first turnout. Right. He's joining.
Yeah. And he walks up to Shooter and some of the pros, and they're
being, like, pretty cool to him. I think they're a little dismissive. But the other
guys are at least like, yeah, it's just a guy. Well. And the guy,
he's like, hey, I heard you did a whole one in a par four.
That's crazy. They're impressed. At least that part of it is very impressive. Right.
And Shooter, you know, is a little bit shitty to him,
but he says, hey, I'll tell you what. Why don't you meet us on 9pm
at the 9th green? Little secret of the pros. Dress nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I love it, too. Before that, though, because Adam. Happy,
I think very innocently. Right. Because all the other pros that Shooter is talking
to, they're all wearing their gold jackets. Right. And of course, the gold jacket is,
of course, a reference to the green jacket, which is, in the real world,
what you earn by winning. Not the Tour Championship, but the Masters, it's a single
tournament on a private golf course in Georgia, and it's. But it's one of the
biggest tournaments of the golf year. And if you win at the Masters, you get
a green jacket. That's like their thing. Thing. So they obviously, they took that and
they turned it into the Gold jacket and that you get it for winning the
Tour Championship. So that's the thing. So these three other golfers that Shooters talking to
are all wearing their gold jackets. They've obviously won the Tour Championship at some point
in their careers. You know, you win it once, you wear it forever kind of
thing. Right. But he doesn't have his. And so, you know, Happy notices, like all
these guys are. He doesn't know what this gold jacket. He's a hockey fan.
He doesn't know any of this. Yeah. He's like, oh, you're all wearing a gold
jacket. Oh, yeah. You get that for winning the Tour Championship. And. And he goes,
where's yours, Shooter? Funny guy. Yeah.
The way he reacts to that, too, is really good.
Oh, my God. So good. So Happy basically shows
up to this ninth green, and the sprinklers go off on him. He's been pranked,
and he's all pissed. And he tells Victoria, and she's like, yeah, Virginia.
Yeah, Virginia. God damn it. I'll just say Vivi. Vivy.
We can just say Julie Bowen, too. Yeah. But basically,
you know, save it for the golf course. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Well, guess he's like,
hey, have you seen Shooter McGavin? She's like, no, not really. Why? Oh, I gotta
find him so I can kill him. Yeah.
So now we're at day one of the tournament, right?
And Happy. And Happy drives this old beater car. I don't know if it's like
a Dodge Duster or Plymouth Duster or something awful, but it's
something that, during that time, would have been considered just a big piece of crap.
It was probably 25 years old, different colors, paint. And he pulls up
to the tournament, and there's a homeless guy who's, like,
spraying his windshield, like, trying to wash his windshield.
And. And Happy Gilmore is being nice to him. He's like, oh,
here you go. Thanks, man. Gives him a couple bucks. The cops are trying to
haul him away. And he's like, hey, you know, he's just trying to earn some
money. These are country club security guards. These aren't even cops. But,
yes, they harass him and throw him out of there. Yeah. So he goes
up to register, and they say, like, you know, where's your caddy? I don't have
a caddy. I thought you guys would give me one. Oh, for the tour,
you provide your own caddy, right? And then in something that foreshadows the rest of
Adam Sandler's life, he says, says, I got this bum friend
that I'LL give a job to like I do in all my movies. So this
guy is played by the actor. I think it's Alan Covert. Sounds right.
He's been in a bunch of his stuff. He was the main character in Grandma's
Boy. Right. So he gave him a little star turn in that. Right.
And he's not that in demand outside of
the Sandler verse. So I would say that it's a bit of a, you know,
whatever nepotism with friends is. But he's probably his best though,
I think was probably as the limo driver in the Wedding Singer. That was a
good role. He was better in that. Yeah. But it's kind of funny where it's
like Sandler hires this guy off the street to do a job that maybe he's
not qualified for and very telling the rest of his stuff.
So I just wanted to point that out. I thought that was very funny.
Yeah. So he gets out to the first. So he goes back and he gets
the bum that he found basically and brings him on to be his caddy.
And he's paired up with Kevin Nealon.
I don't even know the character's name, but it's Kevin Nealon. I love Kevin Nealon.
And he is clear. Clearly this like woo woo,
vibes, crystals, dippy kind of guy
or whatever he talks about. You gotta harness the energy, block the bad.
Harness energy, block bad. It's cyclical.
It's cyclical. It's like a circle. It's like a. It's like a merry go round.
It goes around and round and up and down. And it's just like he sounds
like with Tony Robbins, you know? Yeah. Just trying to be like a soft spoken.
Oh my God. So funny. But like just. Yeah. He's so different from Happy,
like completely. The exact opposite personality. And then Happy goes to tee off the
first time and I think it cut showing like the TV broadcast of him.
And I think he misses. He just misses the swing. Just doesn't even
hit the ball. And he's swearing and it's being bleeped out and he's throwing all
over. He's losing his mind on the first swing of the first tournament. And now
it's televised like the day before. Whatever. The week before when he played the Waterbury
Open, like that was not on tv, so it didn't matter. Now it's televised,
so it's a problem. I'll also say if they didn't bleep that and the many
other scenes where they show us Happy through a monitor where he's being bleeped.
This would have been a rated R movie. Yeah, right, Totally. Never would have allowed
all that language in a pg 13. Or would. Had made up swear words.
Yeah. Rasa Frassa. So right after his tirade,
the. The camera kind of pans to like a very astonished.
I think it's fuzzy seller. No, Lee Trevino. Lee Trevino. Okay. I was like,
it's one of those shows up. Yes. Several times in the movie. Yeah. So it's
kind of funny that it keeps going back. You remember Lee Trevino because he was
always in the La Victoria salsa commercials back in the 80s. That's the.
Okay. As in Victoria Vennett Virginia. But yeah,
it's one of those. There's just a. Great. So there's a bunch of
stuff that happens with. With. With Happy and trying to,
you know, kind of keep his temper under control
and when he actually does well or he does or whatever. And there's a point
where he. He sinks a great putt and then, you know, starts riding his
golf cart, his golf club around, you know, as if it were like a hobby
horse. And I love Kevin Nealon's character. Goes doing the bull dance. Feeling the flow.
Yeah, Working it, working it. Like, it's just so good. And then.
And doing the bull dance feel absolutely something that I've repeated numerous
times in my life. Anytime it gets remotely like somebody's celebrating something.
Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Good one to pop out is doing the bull
dance. Feeling the flow. Very nice. So in
this tournament, and you know, the reason obviously he's doing all this is he's trying
to raise money to keep his grandmother's house. Right. And he's told before
the tournament by Virginia that, you know, oh, the winner of this tournament makes,
you know, x hundred thousand dollars. She's like, what do you make if you get
dead lashes? He's like, 2500 bucks. Great. It's awesome. So,
you know, it's showing his progress through the tournament and mostly a struggle and he
ends up dead last in the tournament. Yeah. And. And so it's at
the end of the tournament and Shooter is being, you know, feted by the media.
He won. He's got the big check for 216 grand or whatever it is.
And Happy's like, hey, where's my check? And the guy is like, oh, we don't
have him here. You know, we'll mail him out next week. No, no, no,
no. I need it now. That guy got a check. Give me one of those
big ones. I Don't care. And it's like, I don't think you can take those
to a bank. No. And actually deposit them. But that's okay. He got,
you know, his, his. He gets his $2,400 or whatever it is. Check.
And I want to see him signing. Endorsing the back of those checks where
he has to sign his name super big. You use one of those huge Sharpies,
a big flat tip to it, you know. And then shooters
being asked. So, yeah, this is where. Shooters getting continually upset about Happy
because he won this tournament. Right. He's the hot shit in the golf world.
He's the best golfer out there. There. And he's being asked, did you see what
Happy Gilmore. You see, he got a hole in one on a par four.
Quite a long, long ball. And he's like, yeah. Where'd he finish? Dead last.
Like, he's so annoyed at being asked these questions. I didn't get a chance to
watch him. I was too busy winning. Yeah. And. And saying something like
that where it's like, nobody will like you more after you say something
like that. And he just doesn't have these instincts like when he. When someone
gets in his head, he starts losing it. So. So Shooter's
pissed, and he wants Happy off the tour because Happy is being. Been fighting and
throwing around and swearing. They're like, this is inappropriate behavior for us.
Yeah. And so we cut to later that evening, I guess, right? And it's,
you know, whatever hotel all the golfers are staying at. It's the bar,
right? Is that. Yes, we're at. And. And Shooters there already. He's having
a drink. Happy walks in, he looks to get a beer, and Shooter's like,
oh, you know, put that on my tab, you know, and he's like, oh,
it was quite a. Quite a display out there. You know, you could probably make
a very good living. Those long ball tournaments or maybe going around, you know,
it's a different. Different golf clubs and, you know, hustling people for long drives.
And Happy, I love great delivery man. So he goes, I know what you're doing
right now, and I don't like it. And they're. And they're going at each other
and he ends up, like, smashing the beer. Bottle on the right. He's like,
yo, I'm gonna kick your ass. I'd like to see a try. Okay. And he
smashes the bottle. Another great line too, because then Virginia shows up like, what are
you doing? He's like, oh, I'm looking for the other half. Of this bottle.
Oh, there's some of it right there. Some of it's there. You should put that
down. Yeah, I know. Like, yes, but. Yeah, but this is
clearly what is ramping up the, you know, rivalry between Shooter and Happy.
Yeah. And it's really important for us to not just recognize that, like, look,
Happy's just there to earn money. Happy does not give a crap if he wins
tournaments or if he does well in the thing. He does not care about any
of that. He just wants to win as much money as he can to save
his grandma's house. And so really, Shooter is kind of like inventing this
rivalry where it does not exist. Like, he really could just ignore Happy.
Well, he's not on winning tournaments. He's not trying to get any of this attention
that he's getting either. No, totally. He's just being himself. He's being a normal guy.
And Virginia tells him. She's like, look, you could stay on the tour. I.
I advocated for you, but no more swearing, no more fighting. You gotta. You keep
your shit together. So then we're shown the
next tournament, and I think Gilmore is up to hit. And somebody
in the crowd calls out to him and recognizes Mr. Gilmore. Yeah, it's our buddy,
Mr. Larson. Mr. Larson, our 7 foot 2 boss,
who now has a nail just in his head, not in his helmet for a
moment. Let's talk about that. We saw at the beginning, in the little flashback sequence
from the beginning, that he took the nail gun shot through the hard hat.
So I guess you could cut the heart with the right kind of tools.
You could cut the hard hat off the head to leave the nail, I guess,
because he says the nail comes out next week, which is, like, funny.
I don't know how long it's been, but we saw that sequence with the construction
thing, like, in a flashback sequence. So it had been some amount of time,
and he'd obviously recovered from the hospitalization he was put into. Right. By Mr.
Larson beating his ass over it. And yet here we are, potentially months
or more later, and that nail is still there.
And so he's just living that Phineas Gage lifestyle. But he
has forgiven Happy. He is a. Okay. And he's here to
cheer him on, which is super. So, basically, in so many ways,
Mr. Larson is the biggest person in this movie. It's true.
He's the bigger person in every way. Yeah. And he's being
cool. He is happy for him. And it's one of those, like, oh, he's actually
a pretty nice guy, like, type thing. And then he's got a rowdy crowd
there. He's got. They make. I think the announcers say that it's a very economically
diverse crowd or something, which I think is really funny. I want to mention,
too, I love when sports movies do this. They got a real golf. Verne Lundqvist
is a real golf announcer playing himself. And I love when that happens with,
like, you know. You know, like somebody like Tom Brennaman or Bob Costas or whoever
it might be. I love when they involve real announcers or anchors or
whoever for that sport in a sports movie. It makes it work so much better.
It makes it feel like it's really going on. So hearing Vern Lundqvist's voice,
you know, because I definitely, at that time, you know, I was never a huge
golf fan, but in the 90s, I would watch the Masters. I would watch the
US Open. You know, I would just watch some of these stuff on the weekends
or whatever, when. During golf season, which is most of the year, frankly. And,
you know, you'd hear Vern Lundquist all the time. It was like the standard.
He was kind of the voice of golf at the time. So it was really
cool to have him in this movie playing himself and. And doing stuff like,
who the hell is Happy Gilmore? It hits a lot harder
when it's like a real anchor saying stuff like that. And then Sandler learned this
later by just putting Dan Patrick in all of his movies. That's right.
So, yeah, so he's out there. He's got his rowdy crowd. They got cut off
jeans. He's signing racks. He's like, you know,
he's having a good old time. And he ends up hitting the ball into
the pond at one point, and it looks like it goes into an alligator.
Just chomps down, basically. Oh, boy. And Happy, because he's a
hockey player, he dives in right after it. Well, it's first he notices, right,
the alligator's missing an eye. Oh, that's right. He chooses that before he jumps in.
Hook the eye from the gator. I think we mentioned that actually, earlier. But when
he tells Happy how he lost his hand. The gator bit it off, but I
took that bastard's eye. And he's carrying around with him. And so he's. He realizes,
oh, this is the gator that took Chubbs's hand. Yeah, yeah. So he kills
the gator, basically. He, like, chokes it to death, I guess. Sort of what happens.
He elbows it right squarely on the top of the head. Good goofy Sandler.
Stuff, though. Wonderful. He's beating up a rubber. A clearly rubber alligator.
Yeah. So he ends up killing the gator.
And now we're kind of taken to, you know,
advance the romance of this film here. Exactly.
And he takes. Takes Virginia
on a date. Yeah. To the skating rink. And they have the whole thing
to. Themselves, which apparently they're back in Waterbury, I guess. Yeah. He knows the Zamboni.
The Zamboni driver. Because he gets there and it's like, hey, pal, can we have
the ice? You know, whatever. And he's like, for Happy Gilmore, anything. It's like,
why does this guy. Oh, Happy. Like, why does he even. Yeah. I don't know.
We don't know any of the backstory with the guy. But the song Endless Love
begins to play. Yes. And. And Virginia looks and was like, I thought. I didn't.
This is a date. I thought that we were just here as friends. He goes,
why friends listen to Endless Love in the dark.
Real quick. On. On ice skating. So, you know, Happy Gilmore
never figured out how to ice skate. And it seems like over the years you
can kind of learn it. You know, you can learn other stuff. My son learned
how to ice skate in six months. Yeah. You know, so I. We went at
Thanksgiving. We were in Tahoe, and there's one of those, like, temporary ice rinks outside.
My niece, who is four years old, went out ice skating for
the first time, and she. Normally, it's hard to get her to do stuff because
she's four years old, but she was excited. And we get her skates on her
and everything, and she does not want to skate. But they have these things you
sit on that the parents push so it looks like a whale, and they sit
on it and there's handles on the back so you can skate and push your
kid around and stuff. She had a blast. Nice. My brother said a couple weeks
later there was an older kid talking to her about ice skating. And they were
like, oh, I've never been ice skating before. And my niece says, oh, it's easy.
You just sit on a whale.
Nice. So little ice skating interjection. Okay,
so Happy in Virginia on their date here, listening to Endless Love in the dark.
And I love to. We get a clip. They do kiss, actually. No,
that's right. He bets her. You know, here you make one shot. If you,
if you miss, you have to kiss me or whatever. And she, she. She hits
it and he says, talk about your. All time backfires.
Yeah. But she very, very sweetly says that you. She didn't See it go in
because she wanted to kiss him. So. So they do kiss and at which point
it's got the. In the background, it's the two of them skating, kissing. And the
Zamboni driver is in the foreground of the shot lip syncing to Endless Love.
Like both parts of it, both parts of the duet. And, and with so much
verve and, and just like he does it so passionately.
It's one of my favorite moments of him. That's like a Sandler ism. It's just
having a. Just a. A weirdo character do something like
that. And it, it's just so funny. It's sort of like Steve Buscemi putting
the lipstick on when he's got the kill list. And Billy Madison, dude, that's a
perfect example. Yes. So now he's onto
the next tournament, which is a Pro Am where he's being matched up with.
Or not a Pro Am Pro Am where he's being matched
up with the celebrity and he's matched up with the great Bob Barker. The great
Bob Barker. The late great Bob Barker. Now. But yes, absolutely. And I mentioned
at the beginning of the episode that there will be a fight leader that won
an award between these two. I mean, this is like, this is an important scene.
Yeah. Movie Also important because for the first time
Happy is getting heckled and SCTV alum
and guy who's been in a hundred movies during this era as a small part,
Joe Flaherty. The dad from Freaks and Geeks. Yeah, I mean,
it's like one of the great. It's just been in a million so. Good.
Exactly. He's been in. And again and almost anything that included anybody
who had anything to do with sctv. So like anything, you know, Harold Ramis was
involved in a. Rick Moranis was involved in, or John Candy was involved in.
They all. You know, it's like you ended up having Joe Flaherty in somewhere.
Right. I mean, it was sort of like he was maybe the. You know,
he's sort of like when Sandler puts all his friends in. This guy was in
everything. But. Yeah, but he's basically just like, you know, he's talking through the backswing,
calling him jackass and all this stuff. And here's the thing. I know that in
the, in the world of this movie, Happy has attracted
a very, you know, an audience new to golf.
Right. And you know, they have these Quiet please placards they raise up in the
sky. But he keeps saying when he goes to. To. To. To golf, he.
He wants people to Cheer and stuff. So he's. He amps up the crowd.
I get all that. But if this guy was just yelling in his backswing and
calling him jackass, he would have been removed. Yeah. Like, there's just absolutely no reason
that they would have just allowed him to continue to do that. So the whole
premise of the sequence is a little weak in that, you know,
Barker continues to get mad at Happy Gilmore screwing up, but Happy's only
screwing up because Joe Flaherty keeps yelling jackass at him. You know, and it's like,
shitty. I'll also mention the other problem with this scene, in my opinion, is that
they say this is in San Francisco. Now, there is a golf
course. The Olympic Club has hosted the US Open. It's a major golf course in
San Francisco. But, like, there's nowhere anywhere near San
Francisco that looks anything like this. It was shot. I thought it was, like.
Right. But I almost thought it was, like, we're calling Carmel
San Francisco because we don't. If it was clearly an ocean beyond them and
not like a lake with mountains beyond it, you could have pulled off, like,
yeah, pebble beach kind of concept. But no, they just said San Francisco. And then
it's like. Like, I don't care. You might not even have been to San Francisco.
You can tell. This doesn't look. This isn't the ocean. Like, I mean, that's.
It's not on the coast. It's like some lake somewhere. It didn't. Yeah, it didn't
make that much sense. And then the fact that Happy has a
car, that beater car, which is full of the giant checks from the tournaments,
which leads you to believe he's driving himself across the country.
That's. That's the Goodwill hunting car. Going from Connecticut
to San Francisco to drive. Drive to the tournament and back and all this stuff.
Crazy. Yeah. So him and. Him and Bob Barker. Yeah,
he's screwing up. Bob Barker's getting mad. One other thing I wanted to point out,
this, like, media storm around him. We're now maybe, I don't know, a month or
two into his golf career. Yeah. No sponsorships
yet. Yeah. No nothing. Nobody's reached out to him. Yeah, like, that. That's. That's unrealistic.
He definitely have, like, a, you know,
bluechew.com. he'd be one of those guys, you know?
Yes, exactly. You got to figure Larry Flint was reaching out to him.
Be like, this is my kind of. Guy, you know, it just. Just advertise Hustler
for me. Like, put it on a Hat. So. So him
and Bob Barker. Bob Barker's finally had it. And. And Happy's
had it with Bob Barker talking shit to him. And they have an excellent fight
scene. Right. And. And which, you know, spawns the famous line,
the price is wrong, bitch. Like, I do love too
that Happy at the beginning mistakes Bob Barker for the host of let's Make a
Deal. I think he's like, it's actually right. Happy. But yep. So they fight
and Bob Barker beats Happy's ass. Like, ends up headbutting him in the
face. Like, Happy loses that. He's really funny in that scene. Bob Barker's.
He does a great job. Absolutely. So knowing that Bob Barker has passed.
Yes. In the sequel, we going to get a fight with Drew Carey?
Are we going to get a fight with some other, like, host. Game show host?
I'm kind of hoping for, like, who would be a fun one. Because it's
got to be how we met. No, it's got to be Howie Mandel. Get me
Howie Mandel from. From dealer. No deal. I want that. I want that battle.
And then he has two fake Chubbs hands because he's afraid to touch anything in
real life. So it's Howie Mandel with like five foot long arms.
I don't know how that man has. As two very, very bald men. I have
no idea how Howie Mandel has no stubble on his head whatsoever. He must have
had a laser hair, like, removal all over his scalp because that dude is the
smoothest. That's smoother than. Than Kojak. He just gets dipped like a Maker's Mark bottle
and like, like somehow gets a coating that his hair doesn't grow.
Oh, my God. So that's it. Like the tournament. They're pissed off.
Like, Happy just got in a fight with this old man who's like a big
star and everything. And they have a meeting to talk about
him getting kicked off the Tour. And I just want to point out that Happy
shows up in like, the exact Bill Belichick sweatshirt to that meeting.
Why is Shooter there? Why would Shooter be in attendance at
Happy's disciplinary hearing or whatever that was. Right. It makes sense that Virginia's there because
she's pr, so like, you know, she's going to have to like, draft a statement
or whatever about Hip getting kicked off. Yeah. And then obviously the name Bill.
Bill Doug. That's his name. Right. The president of the Tour. Like, he's doing the
disciplining. There is no reason Shooter should be there,
but basically Shooter's hoping they're going to kick him off completely. What they end up
doing is they find him 25 grand, which sucks. He's trying to build up this
money. Right. And then suspend him for a month. And both men,
both Happy and Shooter, are totally pissed off at this because Happy's like, I got
to keep earning money from my grandma's house. And Shooter's like, you got to kick
him off. Off. Yeah. But that's when Doug recognizes or, you know, points out our
ratings are higher than they've ever been. We're attracting youthful sponsors, whatever.
And this is when I want to mention golf really was hurting for that kind
of thing at the time this movie came out. But just six months after this
movie was released, Tiger woods would make his professional PGA Tour
debut in Milwaukee. Wow. And from that point on, change the face of
golf basically as we know it. Right. So very interesting that this movie comes out
and then less than, you know, basically half a year later, golf does get the
kind of complete facelift and, you know, youthful movement
that it was looking for when a 20 year old tiger woods really hits the
scene. Yeah. So very cool that that happened so close. But yeah. But basically
the upshot of it is Happy suspended. He's not gonna be able to play in
any more tournaments for a month. Yep. And he. And he's having cash.
But Virginia, very smart, realized marketing lady.
We need to find a company that doesn't have a problem with
problematic spokespeople.
Did not expect the Jared Fogel. He ends up.
He ends up. He ends up on a Subway commercial. So when they're first
talking about it, he's like, oh, man, my life sucks. All I have in my
life is this delicious foot long meat, cheese. What? And then
it cuts to him in the Subway commercial, which is. It's a perfect way.
And I think realistic. I think he would have got a sponsorship way earlier,
but I think, I think that's like a realistic way to kind of like resolve
this issue of him being suspended and fined. And it's the right, like, level of
sponsorship. Right. Subway is a national chain, but they're not like McDonald's or anything like
that. They're not huge, you know, so it kind of makes sense. I want to
stop for just a second. Did you eat a lot of subway in the 90s?
Like, was that a thing for you or not? I. Here and there. Yeah.
Like late 90s when I worked at. Yeah, it was across the street from work.
Yeah. There was one real near our high school. There was, there was one in
the next. The next little Strip mall over from our high school. And I went
a lot, lot. I loved Subway. And I. And I watching this movie,
I was so nostalgic for the triangle cut out of the
bread. Right? They. They used to do that thing where they would cut the,
like, little top off, pull it off, put all the meat in and put the
bread back on. Now, you know, in for the last 20 years, probably they just
in half, like, whatever. But there was that. And I even remember, like in.
In high school at this time, my Subway order was a foot long
cold cut combo with mayo, olives, lettuce, salt and pepper.
And that was it. That was what I would get every time. It never
failed. It was perfect. And it had that little triangle cut bread. And it's like,
oh, man, if you loved subway in the 90s, that. That way to cut the
bread was such a huge part of it. It was. Yeah, it's like they figured
out how kids like their grilled cheese to be cut diagonally and applied it to
adults. They nailed it. Perfect. So he has
this. This sponsorship, and now he thinks, like, okay, Now I have 270 grand.
This is great. We got enough money. Grandma's house being auctioned off. Off. Let's go.
Well, no, he doesn't. No, he thinks they can just go and give the money.
He thinks that they're just. That's. That's a done deal. He's gonna pay it and
have the house. But they arrive and they're like, what are all these people doing
here? And the IRS guy, who's played by Triumph
the insult, Robert Smigel. That's right. That's. He.
He's like, oh, you know, we're actually having an auction, so, yeah, you definitely have
an opportunity. Very exciting. And he's like, okay,
okay, well, then maybe this is good. Maybe we'll get it from less than this
and it'll help out. And immediately the bidding gets, you know, up into the 300,000
out of hand real fast. And someone wins for 350,000 and it's
shooter. And he turns around, and I love that he says,
real estate speculation has always been a hobby of mine.
Well. But he immediately offers the house to Happy. He says, just quit the tour.
You can have the house. I'll give it to you. Just. Just quit the tour.
And. And this is the thing. The movie should be over right now. Yeah,
it should be over right now because Grandma, like. Because basically Virginia convinces
Happy to not take that deal off the bat because she says something
like, don't you think your grandma Wants you. Wants to see her grandson succeed.
And I'm thinking to myself, from her house, she wants the house.
Like, I'm sure she wants to have her home back. Yeah.
Virginia. Like, what are you thinking here? But for whatever reason,
Happy agrees and basically says to shoot her. Like, hey, hey, look, we got one
more tournament, the Tour Championship. That's it. You know, if. If I beat you,
I get the house. And, like, I don't know what else. Whatever. But if you
beat me, you get the house. Whatever. It was, like, it's like, dumb, but whatever.
Fact of the matter is now the. The Tour Championship winner, you know,
is. Is who gets the house is basically what we're adding stakes. Before Happy
can go do this last tournament, he realizes he needs some help
with his game, right? So he goes back to Chubs. Yeah. Oh,
real quick. Shooter does make the comment,
I eat little pieces of, like, you for breakfast. Is like, you eat pieces
of for breakfast. Which I. I love that it's
such a dumb thing. Here's the thing. That's not even the funniest part of that
sequence. Because again, Christopher McDonald, you should like him more than you do. Because when
he turns back around the way he goes, no. Yeah.
So it's like the most perfect delivery of a single word, like,
ever. It's so good. And it stuck so well that it, like.
I mean, this is mentioned in Jesus Walks.
Y' all eat pieces of shit. What's the basis?
Like, he. It really. It really made it
here. It's. It's a classic. It's an unforgettable line. Yeah.
So Chub. So he needs some practice on his game, and he's got to hook
up with Chubs again. Right? And the putting is, like, always been the worst part.
Obviously. He can get on any green in one shot. Yeah. He doesn't need a
short, short game. He doesn't need a wedge game. He doesn't need chipping. He just
needs to get on the green with this first shot and then putt. So Chubbs
takes him to happy land mini golf course. That is
diabolical. Like, these are the absolute most insane
mini golf little holes I've ever seen in my life. It's like if they made
a video game that was like, hell. Mini golf. Like, the hardest possible. These are
basically. Most of these are physically impossible. There's like a golf. There's a clown that
he beats up at one point that just, like, clearly the teeth are like,
like, motion activated. So as the ball totally.
It just goes out. And then when it does Go in, it spits the ball
back out. Like, how's that? How are you ever. No, doesn't work like that.
Right? Yeah. You're gonna die, clown.
Yeah. So they're at the thing. Love Leechrovino shows back up. He is also practicing
his putting at Happy Land, which is great because Leno is wonderful. But he.
They go to this, like, thing where he tells Chubs is like, you can't get
angry. Angry. Right. Golf is all about being mellow. You gotta find your happy
place. Go to your happy place, just conscious. So he kind of daydreams for
a minute before, like, the most difficult sort of mini golf hole. And he sees
Virginia, and she's wearing lingerie and carrying two pitchers of beer on,
like, a chaise lounge. And then Grandma is,
you know, wearing very nice clothes and, like, doing a slot machine and winning a
ton of change. Whatever. Then for some reason, there's a little person with a hobby
horse wearing, you know, chaps and spanking his butt, tipping. His hat, walking around.
Very strange. But that's okay. And so he finds his happy place and makes the
crazy putt. And then they go back to Happy's apartment. Yes,
they have gifts, right? And they do have gifts for each other. And so Chubs.
Chubs gives Happy the least regulation putter that I've ever seen in
my life. He gives him a putter that looks like a
hockey stick. Yeah. He claims it's his putter he used to use, but modified.
Okay, how. What? It's like, so I guess just the. The shaft to a
blacksmith. What. What do you do like. But yeah, so it's got the big,
wide. I don't know how regulation stuff works. It's got the big, wide hockey
stick blade to it. But, you know, it's obviously going to make Happy a little
more comfortable trying to putt with this thing, which, you know, maybe,
you know, Chubs, in your next life, bring that
out before the practice round so that he could practice with the fancy putter.
Right. Instead of a mini golf putter. But yeah, but then Happy has
a gift for Chubbs, too, which is in, you know, in a. A wicker basket
or something, like, with a blanket over it, as if he's been using it like
either a footstool or a coffee table. But inside is the
head of the alligator that he killed that got Chubbs's hand. You know that alligator
that got your hand? Well, I got his head. And he reviews it. And Chubbs,
obviously is terrified. Freaks out. Oh, backs out and falls
out the window. Yeah. And can we talk for a second about the. The fact
that that window is definitely not up to code? Like, why would you have the
sill of that window be just 6 inches off the ground?
That's a. Yeah, that's a defenestration risk for sure.
I think we should probably. Maybe. Maybe after this, if we're done recording, I'm gonna
go back and watch the beginning and see if. In the scene where the old
lady is making breakfast, if that window is visible anywhere. Okay.
Because I can't imagine that's actually there anymore. Yeah, that. That's not a safe window.
It's, like, halfway between a sliding door and a window. But it does allow Chubs
to fall out the window. And then again, an immediate cut to.
To the guy being dead. Like. Yeah. His picture
with the flowers and stuff. And the hand. Yeah.
His wooden hand is, like, on a. Pedestal casket
or whatever. Yeah. And. And Shooter McGavin. Because this is all kind of set up
at the site of the tournament, right? Shooter tells Pappy's
like, I think I'm gonna play in honor of Chuck. Just to just dedicate my
play today and to Chubb's memory. Hey, I'm playing for Chubbs. You know, I called
it first, like. And I forget what brought this up, but where
Shooter says, yeah, and Grizzly Adams had a beard. And then Lee Trevino.
Grizzly Adams did have a beard. Because the joke. The way you use that phrase,
right, is like, well, did Grizzly. It's like. It's like, you know, does the Pope
wear a hat? Like, you know, it's like, does Grizzly Adams have a beard?
Yes, of course he does. That's why he's called Grizzly Adams. Anyway,
we basically now are coming into our final tournament. We've got Shooter
and we've got Happy. And they're. Are they paired? They're paired. They're paired
up together at the beginning, which is odd. Like, it makes sense that they're paired
up for rounds 2, 3, 4. Because you do that by ranking. But to have
them paired up at the beginning initially doesn't make any sense. Because especially for the
Tour Championship, that should be based on, like, world ranking at the time. And there's
no way Shooter should be number one. We're getting no reason to think he's not.
There's no way. Happy's the second close. Yeah, he's missed a month. He hasn't played
in a month because of suspension. So it's weird that they're paired up. But whatever,
we're gonna let that go. It does make sense as they move on though,
the fact that the two of them are the tour, are the leaders in the
tournament. They. They would be paired in future rounds. Right. But yeah, so. Oh,
we have kind of a montage here. And this I thought was kind of also
funny to point out we have a Subway spokesperson
in subway logo gear participating in a montage as Gary Glitters
Rock and Roll Part two plays. So this is a, this is a double whoopsie
daisy. Oh, in hindsight, man, all you needed.
Was to have a TV on in the background with a jello pudding pop commercial.
Seriously. Oh, the trifecta
of horrificness. Okay, so we have some back
and forth here. And Shooter has once again paid the
jackass. Paid this guy again. And I like this guy's suggestion to
Shooter. Like, Shooter, you want to hang out, you want to go to Red Lobster.
You want to go to the Sizzler? Sizzler nearby. I love these things that he's
suggesting. Shooter. I thought we were going to be friends. I thought we were going
to be friends. And he comes in and he hits. He drives
a Volkswagen Bug onto the course and hits Happy Gilmore car.
Yeah. And Happy is like definitely shaken up. Definitely mess. And it goes
crashing into this like TV camera tower. Tower. Yeah.
And then they just leave it there. And that's like, all right, well, here we
are. Nobody does it. They. They take the. Leave it where. Play it where it
lies. A little too seriously. I think on that case, they probably should have tried
to repair that tower. Yeah. Or take it down or something. And yeah. The fact
that Happy is given and you know, the doctor comes over and is like,
okay, well just stay off your feet for a couple days. And he's like,
no, no, I gotta play. What do I know? I'm just a doctor. Yeah,
I love that. And how do you get a car onto
the course like that? That can't be easy. You know, and, and, and to.
It's just, you know, it's one of those movie magic. But like, plus they have
a 90 degree rule and he wouldn't have been able to be allowed to drive
it. It's just strange that that that would even happen. But, but his
shoulders messed up, right? So he's kind of lost his powers. He is Teen Wolf
who's been turned back into Michael J. Fox. He is, you know, every. What of
these things. Rocky, where he has to fight left handed. Rookie of the year.
When. When the kid can't throw the fast. Pitch anymore, he has to go straight
EFIs. For every pitch. Exactly. But yeah. So now.
Now our hero has lost his powers in addition to already kind of being an
underdog, and he's got a. You know, he's got to figure out what's going on,
and he's kind of losing it. And, you know,
grandma is there for support, which. Why hasn't she been of
every one. Of them presented to him for a second. Well, it's like, it's clear
thing. Like, look who showed up. It's Grandma. It's like, why. I mean, I guess
anything nearby she should have been going to. Right. I mean, he would have
hotel and stuff paid for him. I mean, he could bring her around everywhere if
he wanted to. Yeah. Very strange. But she. She's not allowed to talk about how
bad that retirement home is, so he thinks that she's living it up. That's a
great time. Yeah. Helen would kill her. But grandma just says, yeah, I just want
you to be happy. Right. Like, and then he's like, great, you know, good news.
That's his name. Yeah. And there's this one random
crowd member, and I don't know why this line is kept in or if it
was some kind of a cameo, but there's a guy who says, happy, the gold
jacket's yours. Shooter's gonna choke. And it's just the most poorly delivered line I've ever
seen. I don't know why it's in there. Unless it's like Alan Covert's friend.
Right. We've talked in last week's episode, we talked a little bit
about actors making choices versus just sort of. Sort of saying words. Yeah.
That was a man just saying words. There was no choice being made there.
That was not good acting. Shoot is going to choke. Gold jackets. Yo,
Happy. Like, it's just very strange. Yeah. So that there may be some good reason
that person's there that neither of us are aware of. Yeah. I will accept that
as a possibility. But yeah. So we get. We're getting through to close to the
end of. Of the tournament, to the, I think the final hole. They're actually tied,
I believe. And so Happy, he tees off
first and gets all the way to the green. That's great. So now Shooter's got
to go. But Shooter ends up shanking the ball and kind of getting out into
the rough. And where the ball actually lands is on the foot of
Mr. Larson. Yeah, he's back. And he has a wonderful shirt on that
says, guns don't kill people. I kill people. Great. And so
he's got to Play the ball off of the foot, which, again,
I get the idea that you. You play it where it lies, but I have
to feel like this is some kind of interference where they would have at least
just told the man, just move your foot. And wherever the ball drops,
you'll have to. He'll have to play from there. But you just move your foot,
sir. Right. But no, he has to hit it off of his foot. And he
does in a way that clearly, to shooters credit, doesn't hit the man's.
It doesn't hit Mr. Larson's foot. He clearly doesn't hurt him. It was. He's able
to do it. And so he, like, three putts or sort of whatever it's like,
basically gets to the point where he took three. He took four
shots to get into the hole. So as long as. As Happy does in two,
more or less because he's already on the green, he'll be fine. But as Happy
walks up ready to take his. His putt, the TV tower that
two guys are now trying to climb in order to get a better view of
things that was hit by Joe Flaherty's character earlier, falls down and
right in between where Happy's ball is and where the cup is. So now it's
like, what's he supposed to do? And so Virginia runs over, and he's like,
oh, look, we'll get this cleaned up. You'll. You'll finish tomorrow. Like, don't worry about
it. And Shooter's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I had to hit
the ball off of Frankenstein's fat foot over there. He's got to play it where
it lies. And Doug the President Tour agrees with him, which is like. Of all
the, like, dumb golf decision, you know, I don't know. This is like,
this would just. This would never happen more than all the other stuff that would
never happen. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like, this is so egregiously like.
No, like, you. You clear the damn green and you let them
play the game. Like, it's so silly. But luckily he had that crazy
mini golf experience with Chub, and there was. Like, turned into the exact
last hole. So he kind of looks and goes, oh, I could go there.
He kind of looks around. He goes, no, I'll just beat him now. Which is
a great line as well. Yeah. But, yeah, so he ends up. He ends up
hitting the ball. It, like, bounces off the hood of the car and then up
onto, like, the part of the TV tower and rolls down. I Love it.
To get a. Normally it's in movies when people are watching tennis matches where the
audience is looking. Yes to right, to left, right. But they do that as they're
watching the ball go down. And of course, course, you know, the last pipe or
whatever the ball goes through is aimed at, right at the cup and there it
goes. And so he gets it in and one and wins. Really good. Oh,
and so, yeah, so he wins and grandma's gonna get
her house and Happy, you know, is gonna win the jacket. Yeah,
he's got his gold jacket. But Shooter, that's my jacket,
I'm taking it. So he grabs it, runs away. You know,
Mr. Larson's, I believe that's Mr. Gilmore's jacket.
I don't know if you were paying attention to this, but something that I noticed
throughout the movie is Mr. Larson, I mean that actor, you don't become
7:2 generally without, without a lot of like associated health problems,
pituitary issues and things. Yeah. And he clearly has no mobility.
So every time they're showing him supposed to do something, he's like discreetly leaning
on something. And then even the running, it's just him doing this. He was like
he had pulled on. A card or something. I think even just they were moving
the camera towards him as he just like. Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, it was kind of sad to be like a man. I mean this
guy probably couldn't beat up Shooter McGavin in real life. Right. Because they, they,
they went and had him yelling after him while they're showing
a crowd running after Shooter. But then you hear Shooter off screen getting beat up
ostensibly by Mr. Larson, who we haven't even seen run by. So it's
like. But apparently he got to himself cuz. He'S not running with the crowd.
His running scene is fully independent. Exactly. So yeah, it's just interesting
noticing stuff like that where you have like a limited guy, but really funny.
And he said something earlier about, you know, oh, if Happy gets it in this
many putts, like he's going to win. And she was like, oh great,
you can count. He's like, and you can count on me to meet you in
the parking lot after the tournament. Oh,
so funny. So yeah, so Happy wins and then that's
it. We're kind of like, Tuesday's gone, right? We go back to Lynyrd
Skynyrd. And there's a funny thing I'll say this about. So Julie Bowen at
the end of Virginia vended at the end of this movie, they all get out
of the car. It's the Caddy and Grandma and Happy and Virgin Virginia. I'll get
out of the car at Grandma's house or going back to Grandma's house. He's got,
like, champagne or something. Right, Right. What Julie Bowen is wearing in this
scene, to me looks like a nightgown or lingerie or. She does not
look like an outdoor daytime outfit. It's very silky and very short.
And it's like, what a weird costume choice to have her wear
this at this point. But, like, whatever. It's all good. She looks great in it.
Obviously. Yeah. But, yeah, so that's it. Oh, and they look into the.
The heavens above the heavens house, and it's Chubs and alligator and
Abraham Lincoln, which I always. I always. In my
head. Canon was just a. That was a Return of the Jedi reference. Right.
To see Obi Wan and Yoda at the end, I feel like that's sort of
the reference he was making. Yeah, I don't know that for sure. But that's in
my head. But, yeah, but, yeah, that's it. We. We finished the movie with the
same song. We started it with great, great bookends of Tuesday's Gone, and that's.
That's Happy Gilmore. Yeah. Really good. Very cool. Very fun.
Should I. Wait, who's reviewing first? You go for it. Okay.
So, yeah, again, always like this one. A couple things
to bring up. The music in this film
by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. Right. I didn't notice too
much about the music in the movie because when I saw that name, I was
like, oh, that's interesting. That's notable. And, like, that didn't come up too much.
And then Julie Bowen, I talked about earlier,
is, like, one of the best comedic actors, actresses we have. I think it's
fantastic. Claire Dunphy in Modern Family is. She's so
funny. And it's not like. It's just well written. Like, she is great.
She is excellent. And she has nothing to do in this
movie. No, she is strictly just. She. She might as well be saying,
happy, the cool jacket's yours. You're just gonna choke. Like,
yeah. I mean, the movie needed a lot. They had more for her, and I
like her, and I'm glad things worked out for later. But, man,
this was so much fun. The jokes were very good. Just so much good Sandler
stuff and a lot of cameos that were excellent. The sports action looked
good. Yeah. I'm giving this a four out of five. I still really, really enjoyed
it. And. Yeah. What'd you think? Of this one. Yeah, it's funny. I actually.
I don't think I liked it as much as I remember liking it. Like,
it was definitely a situation where I don't know that all the jokes hold up
for me. It was a ton of fun. I totally enjoyed the movie,
don't get me wrong. But it was, like, definitely parts of it where I.
When I kind of look back and I'm trying to be a little intellectually consistent
with the different, you know, ratings that we're giving the films
that we're watching, I actually looked back and went. I'm afraid to do that.
Yeah. So I went back and it looks like, what, do I give other movies
for this? Or whatever. And I felt, in some ways, not. Not that I felt
the movies are the same, but I felt very similar to our first film.
We talked about Groundhog Day, where it was like, this is still a really good
movie, but I don't. I remembered liking it better than I liked it watching it.
Yeah. And so similarly to Groundhog Day, I'm giving a three and a half out
of five, and it's still a very good movie. I'm not. I'm not trying to
downplay it, but Happy Gilmore gets a three and a half. For me,
you know, it was still fun, but it just, like, I remember it being this
sort of, like, tour de force that it didn't quite live up to in my
head. And I think maybe part of it was, yeah, Julie Bowen is woefully underutilized.
You know, Christopher McDonald tries to make up for that as much as he can
because he's funnier than Adam Sandler in this movie. Yeah. When he first turned,
when the first time he meets Mr. Larson. And. Oh, my God. And Mr.
Larson. Yeah. Is like, you know, like, are you going to try to hit the
green from here, Shooter? He goes, that's not possible, sir, but I beg to differ.
Happy Gilmore did that not. Not an hour ago. And he goes, well, and he
turns around and he just turns what he was going to say into, oh,
my God, it's just perfect delivery. Love, Christopher McDonald.
But, yeah, I'm a three and a half on Happy Gilmore. I enjoyed it.
I will watch it again. It's still a lot of fun. But, yeah, that's.
That's where I sit with this one. So I think what makes us a seven
and a half out of 10. Which is about fair. Very good. Hey. For a
comedy from that age, you know, because comedy. Comedy tends to not age well.
Yeah. Generally. And then the nature of comedies really changed in kind
of the early 2000s when we got hit with like the Apatow wave of stuff.
Right. So compared to something like a wanderluster. I love you,
man. Like, there aren't as many, like, Laugh out Loud, really. But for
its time, this was. This was incredible. So, yeah, seven and a half. That's pretty
good. I like it. Very cool. All right, Nick, this was my next time.
Yeah. What are we watching next week? Okay, well, we've done a couple funny ones
in a row and I think we're going to stay in the zone. Also something
that has a sequel upcoming. Ooh. Okay. And this is a movie that I think
we're going to release the episode for this around when the sequel comes out.
Nice. We're going back to 1988, I believe,
and we've got some people we haven't seen so far.
We've got Leslie Nielsen. Oh, yes. We've got
little known actor named O.J. simpson. I don't know if we heard of. He's very
funny in this. We got Priscilla Presley. We got a
lot of goofy stuff. So many good gags. We're gonna watch the Naked Gun.
Perfect. And we have the sequel coming up. So it'll be exciting to kind of
to go through this before we have the new one, which you and I both
talked off the pod. Like, we're very optimistic about because of the people involved.
Yeah, I think, I think that. So it's very funny when you look at,
you know, looking back at this movie. I've seen this movie many, many, many times.
Love the Naked Gun. Obviously it was a. A movie adaptation of
the TV series the Police Squad. Police Squad, Right. Which is only around for like
one season. Very short lived, really hard to find. Yeah. Only on dvd.
Right. So. But I always love. Because, you know, Leslie Nielsen, I know he went
gray early like Steve Martin, but he looks so old compared to like
Priscilla Presley in this movie. And so the Frank Drebin character being so much like
the character being so much younger than the actor seemed. They really lean
into that in the new version with like a 70 something year old Liam Neeson
playing. Playing the 50ish, maybe character of Frank Drebins.
Yeah, yeah. Grandson, I believe out his son. I don't know how. We'll see how
it goes, but yeah. In the meantime, before that comes out and we can enjoy
that, we will watch Naked Gun. And I'm super excited about that. That's gonna be
great. All right. Very cool. Okay, well, this has been Happy
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