🤔 Today's Trivia Question:

Chevy Chase, Ted Knight and Bill Murray star in this '70s film about a golf rivalry at a snooty country club?

Correct Answer: C) Caddyshack

Caddyshack: The Timeless Sports Comedy That Launched a Thousand Laughs

Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy directed by Harold Ramis, marking his directorial debut. The film was written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis, and Douglas Kenney. The star-studded cast includes Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, and Bill Murray, with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray. The plot centers on a young caddie, Danny Noonan, who is vying for a caddie scholarship while becoming embroiled in a feud between a country club founder and a nouveau riche guest. Simultaneously, a greenskeeper uses extreme methods to battle an elusive gopher.

The film significantly boosted Rodney Dangerfield's career, who was previously known for his stand-up comedy. With a domestic box office gross of nearly $40 million, Caddyshack became a cult classic and was hailed by ESPN as "perhaps the funniest sports movie ever made."

The film follows Danny Noonan, a high school student uncertain about his future, who works as a caddie at the exclusive Bushwood Country Club. He usually caddies for the talented golfer and playboy Ty Webb but decides to caddie for the haughty Judge Elihu Smails, hoping to win the club's caddie college scholarship. Meanwhile, the mentally unstable greenskeeper Carl Spackler is on a mission to kill a destructive gopher.

The club is disrupted by the loud and unconventional nouveau riche guest, Al Czervik, whose personality irritates Smails. After an incident where Smails injures an elderly guest, Danny takes the blame to gain favor with Smails. Danny's romantic entanglements include his girlfriend Maggie and Smails's promiscuous niece, Lacey Underall.

Danny wins the Caddie Day golf tournament and is invited to a yacht club event where he is caught with Lacey by Smails. Surprisingly, Smails offers Danny the scholarship in exchange for his silence. The tension between Smails and Czervik culminates in a high-stakes golf match, with Czervik and Webb challenging Smails and his partner. The match is filled with antics and betting escalations, ending with Danny making a critical putt after the course is rocked by Carl's explosives, giving victory to Czervik's team.

Despite the chaos, the film concludes on a comedic note as the gopher emerges unscathed, dancing to "I'm Alright" by Kenny Loggins. A sequel, Caddyshack II, released in 1988, was poorly received and failed at the box office.