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** Cindy Morgan was uncomfortable with doing nude scenes, and while Harold Ramis was willing to change the script, producer Jon Peters told Morgan that her career would be over if she refused. Peters then invited photographers from ''{{Playboy}}'' to the set to photograph her, which angered her greatly, and she, with Ramis' support, again refused to do the scene until the photographers were sent home. In a 2010 interview, Morgan stated that she voluntarily put her career on hold as a result of the experience.

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** Cindy Morgan was uncomfortable with doing nude scenes, and while Harold Ramis was willing to change the script, producer Jon Peters told Morgan that her career would be over if she refused. Peters then invited photographers from ''{{Playboy}}'' ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' to the set to photograph her, which angered her greatly, and she, with Ramis' support, again refused to do the scene until the photographers were sent home. In a 2010 interview, Morgan stated that she voluntarily put her career on hold as a result of the experience.
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* GenderFlip: The part of Joey was originally written for a boy but transportation captain Hank Scelza suggested his granddaughter, Minerva Scelza for the role because she was a tomboy. Minerva improvised the part where she spins around while trying to carry Al Czervik's bag.

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** The theatrical and TV trailers shows some extra shots and deleted scenes. These include:

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** The theatrical and TV trailers shows show some extra shots and deleted scenes. These include:



*** a couple of extra shots of gopher including a scene where he dances in one of his tunnels;
*** Ty and Lacey talking while walking across golf course;
*** an alternate version of scene where Smails gets hit with golf ball in groins;
*** another scene between Ty and Lacey on some boat (some stills and lobby cards also show a part where Ty talks on the phone while Lacey whispers in his ear in the same deleted scene).

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*** a A couple of extra shots of gopher including a scene where he dances in one of his tunnels;
*** Ty and Lacey talking while walking across the golf course;
*** an An alternate version of the scene where Smails gets hit with golf ball in groins;
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*** another Another scene between Ty and Lacey on some boat (some stills and lobby cards also show a part where Ty talks on the phone while Lacey whispers in his ear in the same deleted scene).



* ThrowItIn: A good deal of Creator/BillMurray's dialog was improvised on the set, including his now-classic sportscaster monologue.

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A good deal of Creator/BillMurray's dialog was improvised on the set, including his now-classic sportscaster monologue.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/HaroldRamis has said that he was told that Creator/RodneyDangerfield was interested in doing the second movie. Dangerfield actually was attached, but was displeased with the script (as many turned out to be). With no suitable rewrites, he backed out.

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Creator/HaroldRamis has said that he was told that Creator/RodneyDangerfield was interested in doing the second movie. Dangerfield actually was attached, but was displeased with the script (as many turned out to be). With no suitable rewrites, he backed out.



** Carl Spackler was originally a silent character in the script inspired by Creator/HarpoMarx. But after Murray was cast, Ramis encouraged Murray to speak and improvise.

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** Carl Spackler was originally a silent character in the script inspired by Creator/HarpoMarx.[[Creator/MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]]. But after Murray was cast, Ramis encouraged Murray to speak and improvise.

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* AFIS100Years100Laughs: #71
* AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes:
** #92, "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
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** #7, Sports

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* ActorAllusion: In the scene where the Bishop (played by veteran actor Henry Wilcoxon) is having his best round of golf ever during a thunderstorm, he misses an easy putt, looks skyward and yells "rat farts!", and is immediately struck down by a bolt of lightning. The background music in this scene was from ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', in which Wilcoxon played the part of Pentaur.
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AFIS100Years100Laughs: #71
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** *** #92, "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
* ** AFIS10Top10:
** *** #7, Sports



* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny The legendary scene with Ty and Carl in Ty's "home" was added to the script solely because the writers realized that there wasn't a single scene in the movie that featured Bill Murray and Chevy Chase together and was almost entirely improvised.

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* GenderFlip: The part of Joey was originally written for a boy but transportation captain Hank Scelza suggested his granddaughter, Minerva Scelza for the role because she was a tomboy. Minerva improvised the part where she spins around while trying to carry Al Czervik's bag.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny The legendary scene with Ty and Carl in Ty's "home" was added to the script solely because the writers realized that there wasn't a single scene in the movie that featured Bill Murray Creator/BillMurray and Chevy Chase Creator/ChevyChase together and was almost entirely improvised.improvised.
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** The theatrical and TV trailers shows some extra shots and deleted scenes. These include:
*** Danny almost gets hit by a throwing knife while he is in the kitchen;
*** Danny juggling with golf balls;
*** a couple of extra shots of gopher including a scene where he dances in one of his tunnels;
*** Ty and Lacey talking while walking across golf course;
*** an alternate version of scene where Smails gets hit with golf ball in groins;
*** another scene between Ty and Lacey on some boat (some stills and lobby cards also show a part where Ty talks on the phone while Lacey whispers in his ear in the same deleted scene).



** The second film is this to both Chevy Chase and Harold Ramis; it's telling that every other actor from the first film refused to take part in the sequel after seeing the script.
** The first film for Creator/HaroldRamis, as he had many disagreements with the cast over direction.
* RealLifeRelative: Creator/BillMurray and BrianDoyleMurray.
* ThrowItIn: A good deal of Bill Murray's dialog was improvised on the set, including his now-classic sportscaster monologue.

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** The second film is this to both Chevy Chase Creator/ChevyChase and Harold Ramis; Creator/HaroldRamis; it's telling that every other actor from the first film refused to take part in the sequel after seeing the script.
** The first film for Creator/HaroldRamis, Ramis, as he had many disagreements with the cast over direction.
* RealLifeRelative: Creator/BillMurray and BrianDoyleMurray.
Creator/BrianDoyleMurray.
* ThrowItIn: A good deal of Bill Murray's Creator/BillMurray's dialog was improvised on the set, including his now-classic sportscaster monologue.



** The oil massage scene with Creator/ChevyChase was also completely improvised. When Lacy exclaims "You're crazy!" that was Cindy Morgan's genuine reaction to Chase dousing her with oil.
** Murray improvised the scene with Peter Berkrot in which Carl holds a pitchfork to Angie's throat. According to Bekrot, he was genuinely nervous during that scene because the pitchfork was real.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Harold Ramis has said that he was told that Rodney Dangerfield was interested in doing the second movie. Dangerfield actually was attached, but was displeased with the script (as many turned out to be). With no suitable rewrites, he backed out.
** Also averted. The filmmakers seemed to be asking themselves this when they realized that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase didn't have a scene together. Thankfully, they made one up pretty quickly.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Harold Ramis Creator/HaroldRamis has said that he was told that Rodney Dangerfield Creator/RodneyDangerfield was interested in doing the second movie. Dangerfield actually was attached, but was displeased with the script (as many turned out to be). With no suitable rewrites, he backed out.
** Also averted. The filmmakers seemed to be asking themselves this when they realized that Bill Murray Creator/BillMurray and Chevy Chase Creator/ChevyChase didn't have a scene together. Thankfully, they made one up pretty quickly.quickly.
** Carl Spackler was originally a silent character in the script inspired by Creator/HarpoMarx. But after Murray was cast, Ramis encouraged Murray to speak and improvise.
** Ramis wanted to use Music/PinkFloyd to write music for the film, but couldn't get them.
** Creator/DonRickles was originally considered for Al Czervik.
* WriteWhatYouKnow:
** The movie was inspired by Creator/BrianDoyleMurray's memories working as a caddy at a golf club. His brother Creator/BillMurray and Creator/HaroldRamis also worked as caddies when they were teenagers.
** The scene involving a Baby Ruth candy bar being thrown into the swimming pool was based on a real-life incident at Doyle-Murray's high school.
** The scene in which Al Czervik hits Judge Smails in the genitals with a struck golf ball happened to Ramis on what he said was the second of his two rounds of golf, on a nine-hole public course.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Creator/BrianDoyleMurray based the character of Maggie on a girl he met during his time as a caddy. He also based Danny's family on his own. He has eight siblings, including Creator/BillMurray.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: ''The'' [[SmallNameBigEgo Ted Baxter]] plays Judge Smails.
** That's Yori from TRON as Lacy Underall.
** Maggie is played by Sarah Holcomb, a.k.a. Clorette, the underage girl in ''AnimalHouse''.
** The Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon directed the infamous pool scene.

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* OldShame: The second film is this to both Chevy Chase and Harold Ramis; it's telling that every other actor from the first film refused to take part in the sequel after seeing the script.
** Also the first film for Ramis. See the last example on TroubledProduction.

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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has eight brothers and sisters.
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* ExecutingMeddling: The sole reason for the sequel having been made, as the studio hoped to capitalize on the first film's runaway success and failed miserably.

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* TroubledProduction: It may now be considered a comedy classic, but it sure had a hell of a time getting there:
** The film was originally supposed to be a simple coming-of-age story about kids working at a golf course, with Danny (Michael O'Keefe) and Tony (Scott Colomby) as the main characters. It slowly morphed into a showcase featuring comedy veterans like RodneyDangerfield, ChevyChase, BillMurray (whose parts were originally supposed to be much smaller), and TedKnight. Much of the dialogue was improvised on the spot, and production was extremely disorganized.
** On the first day of shooting, Hurricane Dave came through, and production had to wait to begin filming until the storm passed and the flooding cleared. The Florida weather proved intense for the cast/crew, who were often unwilling to film, and there were frequent no-shows on set. Sound recording was also frequently ruined by planes flying over the golf course.
** Cindy Morgan was uncomfortable with doing nude scenes, and while Harold Ramis was willing to change the script, producer Jon Peters told Morgan that her career would be over if she refused. Peters then invited photographers from ''{{Playboy}}'' to the set to photograph her, which angered her greatly, and she, with Ramis' support, again refused to do the scene until the photographers were sent home. In a 2010 interview, Morgan stated that she voluntarily put her career on hold as a result of the experience.
** In addition, few co-stars got along. Chevy Chase and Cindy Morgan got into a scuffle, and almost refused to do their scene. Ted Knight, usually an easy person to get along with, got completely fed up of the improvisation and on-set shenanigans, and didn't get on with either his young co-stars or Chase and Dangerfield. Bill Murray, who was only available for six days, also didn't get along with Chevy Chase[[note]] When Chevy hosted ''SNL'' during its second season, he and Murray nearly came to blows just before the show began.[[/note]], and when execs insisted on them having a scene together, everyone in the production feared what would happen, but fortunately the scene turned out beautifully. Also, the cast/crew partied hard every night, getting stoned out of their minds, wrecking the golf carts and ruining the golf course on a regular basis.
** After the filming ended and the rough-cut came in, it was too long, and over two hours had to be cut. This also included key parts of the main plot, and the film made no sense, so more money had to be spent on a mechanical gopher to add extra comic relief and to tie the picture together; as its scenes were shot after principal photography had wrapped with higher quality film stock and on an indoor soundstage, there is a noticeable difference (even on the DVD release) between the picture quality of the gopher scenes and that of the rest of the film.
** The country club at which location filming took place were wary of the damage the explosions in the film's climax would cause to the golf course, so a hill had to be specially constructed and the country club executives invited to an off-site meeting while the explosions were set off without their knowledge. However, the explosions were so powerful that the hill was completely destroyed, and the pilot of a passing flight to Fort Lauderdale mistook them for a plane crash and radioed the airport accordingly.
** The film was not a critical success when it came out, and co-writer/producer Douglas Kenney, who verbally abused reporters while drunk at a press conference for the film, fell thirty feet from a clifftop viewpoint in Hawaii to his death a month later (there is some question as to whether his death was suicide or an accident; in the weeks leading up to his death, he had begun joking about his past suicide attempts, leading friends to urge him to seek professional help).
** To the end of his life, even though the film became better appreciated over time, Creator/HaroldRamis was dissatisfied with his directorial debut. "All I see are compromises and things we could have done better," he told ''GQ'' magazine in the late 2000s. His greatest complaint was that no one in the film other than Michael O'Keefe [[ArtisticLicenseSports was able to swing their golf clubs properly]].
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has eight brothers and sisters

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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has eight brothers and sisterssisters.
* OldShame: The second film is this to both Chevy Chase and Harold Ramis; it's telling that every other actor from the first film refused to take part in the sequel after seeing the script.
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has nine brothers and sisters...plus a cousin!

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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has nine eight brothers and sisters...plus a cousin!sisters
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has nine brothers and sisters...and a cousin.

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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has 13 brothers and sisters...and a cousin.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: ''The'' TedBaxter plays Judge Smails.

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* AFIS100Years100Laughs: #71
* AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes:
** #92, "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
* AFIS10Top10:
** #7, Sports
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** The CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon directed the infamous pool scene.

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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Danny has 13 brothers and sisters...and a cousin.
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** Maggie is played by Sarah Holcomb, a.k.a. Clorette, the underage girl in ''AnimalHouse''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Harold Ramis has said that he was told that Rodney Dangerfield was interested in doing the second movie. Dangerfield actually was attached, but was displeased with the script (as many turned out to be). With no suitable rewrites, he backed out.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Harold Ramis has said that he was told that Rodney Dangerfield was interested in doing the second movie. Dangerfield actually was attached, but was displeased with the script (as many turned out to be). With no suitable rewrites, he backed out.out.
** Also averted. The filmmakers seemed to be asking themselves this when they realized that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase didn't have a scene together. Thankfully, they made one up pretty quickly.
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* ThrowItIn: A good deal of Bill Murray's dialog was improvised on the set, including his now-classic sportscaster monologue.
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** That's Yori from TRON as Lacy Underall.
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* RealLifeRelative: BillMurray and BrianDoyleMurray.

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* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny The legendary scene with Ty and Carl in Ty's "home" was added to the script solely because the writers realized that there wasn't a single scene in the movie that featured Bill Murray and Chevy Chase together and was almost entirely improvised.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Harold Ramis has said that he was told that Rodney Dangerfield was interested in doing the second movie. Dangerfield actually was attached, but was displeased with the script (as many turned out to be). With no suitable rewrites, he backed out.

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