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Let’s just say that Caddyshack is one of the funniest movies you’ll ever watch- tee'd off or otherwise!


Caddyshack:

  • The extras on the special edition DVD say that the late, great Rodney Dangerfield was this for the rest of the cast.
    • Chevy Chase tells the story of how, during the first day of filming for the movie, Rodney Dangerfield was getting progressively more concerned that he should quit the part and let someone else do it because he thought he wasn't doing a good enough job. When asked why he would think that, Dangerfield explained that it was because nobody was laughing. (It should be noted that Caddyshack was only Rodney Dangerfield's third film — before then, he mostly worked as a stand-up comedian in front of live audiences). Dangerfield also noticed that not only was the crew not laughing, but they were acting very stiff and strange during his parts and it made him uncomfortable. Chase explained that Dangerfield was giving such a funny performance that the entire cast and crew were doing everything they could not to laugh and ruin the shot.
  • The ridiculous amount of kids in Danny's house at the beginning. By count, there are at least fifteen. Lampshaded by dad:
    Dad: (to a kid at the table) Who are you? What's your name? (to mom) Who is this?
    Mom: That's your nephew!
    Dad: What are we running, a restaurant?
  • Early in the film:
    Ty: You take drugs, Danny?
    Danny: Every day.
    Ty: Good. So what's the problem?
    Danny: I don't know...
    • In the same scene:
    Danny: I'll be working in a lumber yard for the rest of my life.
    Ty: What's wrong with lumber? I own two lumber yards.
    Danny: I notice you don't spend much time there.
    Ty: I'm not sure where they are.
    • The "Be the Ball" scene, with Danny blindfolded and trying to tee off.
    Ty: Just relax. Find your center. Picture the shot. Picture it. Turn off all the sound. Just let it happen. Be the ball. Be the ball, Danny... You're not being the ball, Danny.
    Danny: It's a little difficult with you talking like that.
    Ty: You're right, I'm not talking. Stop talking. I'm not talking now. Be the ball.
  • Smails and Ty in the locker room:
    Smails: What did you shoot today?
    Ty: I don't keep score, Judge.
    Smails: How do you measure yourself with other golfers?
    Ty: By height.
    Smails: You should play with Dr. Beeper and myself. I mean, he's been Club champion for three years running, and I'm no slouch, myself.
    Ty: Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch.
  • Smails tells the bishop a joke about "the Jew, the Catholic and the colored boy who went to heaven", prompting Smoke (who's buffing his shoes) to protest from afar: ""Colored boy?" You son of a bitch, I'll fix you..." and buffs his shoes so hard, sparks fly.
  • The classic Groin Attack bit:
    (Al takes a swing, sending his ball in the air)
    Al: Four!
    (Said golfball nails Judge Smails right in the nuts)
    Al: I shoulda yelled "Two"!
  • Carl's story about being a "looper for the Dalai Lama". Doubly funny because the person he's telling it to, a caddy, is nervous because Carl keeps poking his pitchfork near the caddie's throat as he tells the story.
    Carl: So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? "Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga". So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that going for me, which is nice...
  • The funny moments start around 5 minutes after the film starts and go on until the credits finish rolling, but their high points are whenever Rodney Dangerfield — or his "I'm in the Money" honking car — takes the stage.
  • Al: "This is the worst-looking hat I ever saw! You buy a hat like this, I'll bet you get a free bowl of soup. (he turns and sees Judge Smails wearing the hat) Oh, it looks good on you though." (Al rolls his eyes; Smails discards hat and storms off)
    • "HEY, SMELLS!"
    • "HEY WHITEY! WHERE'S YOUR HAT?!"
  • The physical comedy of the pre-teen tomboy trying to carry a set of golf clubs that are as tall as she is.
  • The chef's reaction upon learning that Al just sent back his meal and called it "low-grade dog food".
    Chef: Dog food?! I'll show HIM dog food!! (grabs meat cleaver)
    • "This meat still has marks where the jockey was hittin' it."
  • Al to a woman at the party: "Hey, baby, I bet you were something before electricity!"
  • After Al bribes the band to play something more upbeat, his dancing is epic.
  • "Dance of the living dead!" And Al's there to toss some money around and liven things right up.
  • Al steals Judge Smails' wife and starts dancing with her:
    Al: You're a lot of woman, you know? You want to make $14 the hard way?
    Smails: You, sir, are no gentleman!
    Al: Yeah, I'm no doorknob, either!
  • Spaulding vomits through the sun roof of Dr. Beeper's fancy car. When Dr. Beeper and his wife leave the party, he sits in his seat while a squish sound effect plays and Mrs. Beeper coughs in disgust.
  • Nanananananaa....dadadadadada.....nananananana....gogogogogogo....dunundundundun...
  • The pool scene. So many highlights:
    • The poor guy who gets his suit pulled off.
    • "You put your suit on!" "You shave your ass!"
    • Danny and D'Annunzio being stunned by Lacey's appearance, prompting a jealous Maggie to clear her throat.
    • The out-of-nowhere choreographed synchronized swimming scene, to "Waltz of the Flowers".
    • The lifeguard falling into the pool after his perch is broken by caddies.
    • Mrs. Smails aghast at the rowdy behavior of the caddies, including a quick shot of a woman in the pool topless.
    • The Baby Ruth in the pool. Man, it looks so much like poop.
    • "DOODIE!!"
    • Carl cleans the pool and finds the offending item. Has a literally knockout punchline, too, for poor Mrs. Smails.
    Carl: (after sniffing the candy bar) It's no big deal! (bites into it; Mrs. Smails faints)
  • Ty (basically Chevy Chase being himself) while Lacey is at his house, and his ridiculous seductive talk.
    • And the back rub. You know, where he slides off her back after applying oil.
    • Don't forget his song.
      I was born, to love you/I was born, to lick your face/I was born, to rub you/But you were born to rub me first...
    • This exchange:
    Lacey: You're crazy!
    Ty: That's what they said about Son of Sam.
  • Al taking the controls of his giant cabin cruiser and rampaging all around the bay trying to get his boat to Smails. He's an absolute font of One Liners in this scene:
    • Blowing by Smails the first time around, "Hey, SMAILS! My dinghy is bigger then your whole boat!"
    • (after nearly getting run over by a Grumman Super Goose taking off) "I almost got head from Amelia Earhart!"
    • (Running into a jet ski formation) "What's this, Hell's Angels?!"
    • The moment when a tiny boat is utterly annihilated when Al's towering boat barrels through. The guy in the tiny boat just barely makes it out in time.
    • And of course, the classic, "Hey, you scratched my anchor!"
    • Smail's wife attempting to christen the sloop; she smacks the bottle against the bow, and the bowsprit breaks off. Evidently the Judge must've cheapened out on the wood...
  • Danny has sex with Lacey Underall, and Judge Smails comes home to find them half naked. He goes ballistic, trying to hit Danny with a golf club. At one point, Danny locks himself in the bathroom, where Smails' wife is taking a shower. Startled at first, his wife quickly gives him a seductive look.
    Mrs. Smails: Elihu? Could you come and loofah my stretch marks?
    Danny: (makes some sort of coughing sound)
    • And while that is going on, Smails is slowly hacking through the door, with the golf club.
    • After this, Judge Smails, who continues to chase Danny, inadvertently pushes a butler at a stair railing, causing him to drop the tea that he's holding, where it falls in front of four elderly guests, who are unfazed by this.
    Guest: That must be the tea.
  • The bishop's (near-)perfect game of golf, all the while extolling the virtues of his faith. Until he botches the final putt.
    Bishop: OH, RAT FARTS! [Is promptly struck by lightning]
    • Let's not forget to mention that he's playing in pouring rain, which only gets more intense as they go. At times it looks like a hurricane. The fact that Carl encouraged the bishop to keep playing because he didn't think the "hard stuff" would be coming for a while, only makes it funnier.
    • The next time we see the bishop, despite only maybe one day passing, he already has a Beard of Sorrow.
    • And let's not forget the Actor Allusion in the music: since the actor playing the Bishop was also in The Ten Commandments (1956), music from the main theme by Elmer Bernstein plays under his epic game. Which makes it even funnier still.
  • After the incident with Lacey, Judge Smails asks to see Danny in his office. But the two can't quite see each other because a giant desk lamp is in their way. After repeatedly trying to peer around the lamp, Smails just knocks the lamp off his desk.
  • The petulant way Danny says "Yes, I DO!" to Maggie's insistence that he doesn't care about her, turning their argument into a childish Nuh-uh/Yeah-huh pissing match.
  • The legendary scene between Carl and Ty Note , which occurs because Ty accidentally hits a golf ball through Carl's shed. Ty clearly wants to be out of there as quickly as possible but Carl doesn't get the hint, wanting to smoke dope and drink with him.
    Carl: (handing Ty alcohol after reacting badly to the pot) Cannonball it!
  • "Your honor, your honor."
  • The club's staff betting on whether Judge Smails' nephew picks his nose, and then they bet on if he eats it.
  • The epic feud against the gopher, which reaches an explosive peak at the end.
    • Two words: FREEZE GOPHER!
    • At every face-off, it's clear that the gopher has the advantage of working brain cells.
    • Carl sings “The Ballad of the Green Berets” while setting up the detonator, and naturally yells “Fore!” before pushing it.
  • Smails, to Danny on the final putt: "WELL? We're waiting!"
  • The way Lou Loomis keeps staring attentively at Danny's rim-of-the-hole ball, never glancing up or even changing expression, as the rest of Bushwood is getting blown to smithereens all around him is amusing, albeit in a vastly more understated way than the rest of the film's humor.
    • The fact that despite the explosions were knocking spectators off their feet, yet it took the fourth round of explosives for the ball to fall off the rim and into the hole.
  • After Al wins his bet against Smails, he cheerfully tells him to pay up. Smails refuses, and Al motions to a pair of goons standing nearby:
    Al Hey, Moose, Rocko! Help the Judge find his checkbook, will ya?
    • This becomes funnier when you realize his goons are named after Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose.
  • The final line of the movie, delivered by Dangerfield of course: "HEY, EVERYBODY! WE'RE ALL GONNA GET LAID!"
    • Followed by much rejoicing.
  • Danny gets into a scuffle with Tony's younger brother Angie that destroys the caddy shack gumball machine. An irate Lou grabs Angie and lifts him up against the rule board.
    Lou: What's that sign say?!
    Angie: (reading the line directly in his view) No bare feet.
    Lou: (lifts Angie higher) What's that sign say?!
    Angie: No fighting.

Caddyshack II:

  • Really, anything involving Chevy Chase in the sequel (probably the only good thing about it).
  • "The Peter Blunt system" also gets a pass, featuring an over-the-top Randy Quaid spewing an increasingly funny threat.
    You see, I don't go in for lawsuits and motions or any of the legal stuff. No, no, you see what happens is, uh, I find out where you live and then I come to your house, see? And I beat down your door with a fucking baseball bat! And, then I make a bonfire with the Chipendale, maybe roast that Golden Retriever, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, then eat it! And then I'm coming upstairs, junior, and I'm gonna grab you by your Brooks Bros. P.J.s, and then I'm gonna take your brand new B.M.W., and cram it up your tight ass! Do we have an understanding?
  • The transformation of the Country Club into an amusement park. Which really should have been a clue to find a new relaxation spot.

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