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• Bill Murray improvised the "Cinderella story" sequence from two lines of stage direction. Director Harold Ramis simply asked Murray to emulate a kid announcing his own fantasy sports moment. Murray simply asked for four rows of 'mums and did the scene in one take.
  
  
• Cindy Morgan (Lacy Underall) has said that the oil massage scene with Chevy Chase was also completely improvised. When Lacy exclaims "You're crazy!" that was Morgan's genuine reaction to Chase dousing her with oil.
  
  
• The noise the Gopher makes are actually vocalized by a dolphin, and the dolphin sound effects used are the same ones that were used for "Flipper" (1964).
  
  
• The character of Lou, played by the film's co-writer Brian Doyle-Murray, is the only one to actually say the word "caddyshack".
  
  
• According to Scott Colomby on the DVD extras, he only took up smoking after playing the part of cigarette-puffing Tony.
  
  
• The movie was inspired by writer and co-star Brian Doyle-Murray's memories working as a caddy at a golf club. His brother Bill Murray and director Harold Ramis also worked as caddies when they were teenagers.
  
  
• The reason the scenes of Mr. Gopher's underground world look better than the rest of the film is because they were filmed on a sound-stage with better quality film stock and cameras rather than on location like the majority of the film.
  
  
• The song being played by the musical horn on Al Czervik's Rolls Royce is "We're In The Money"
  
  
• The movie's line "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!" was voted as the #92 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
  
  
• Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
  
  
• 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 Cecil B. DeMille's classic The Ten Commandments (1956), in which Wilcoxon played the part of Pentaur.
  
  
• The movie's line "So I got that going for me, which is nice." was voted as the #49 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
  
  
• The rowdy, improvisational atmosphere around the filming, created by Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield, didn't sit well with all the members of the cast. Ted Knight, widely regarded as a very nice man, got fed up with the constant shenanigans. Initially, Murray's, Chase's, and Dangerfield's roles were to be cameo appearances. But their deft improvising caused their roles to be expanded much to the chagrin of Scott Colomby and some of the other cast members whose roles were reduced as a result.
  
  
• Unsurprisingly, the movie is a huge favorite among golfers and golf fans. Tiger Woods so adores the movie, he played Carl Spackler in an American Express commercial that included references to many of the movie's most famous scenes.
  
  
• Harold Ramis based the character of Carl Spackler on a slightly deranged police officer who was a shell-shocked war veteran.
  
  
• The gopher sequences were written and filmed after most of the movie was shot. Originally, director Harold Ramis wanted to cast a live animal to play the gopher. When that did not work out, the animatronic gopher and its tunnels were built by John Dykstra.
  
  
• According to 'Harold Ramis (I)' on the DVD Commentary, he claims that he wanted to score the movie to Pink Floyd music but the studio wouldn't allow him to do that.
  
  
• Ranked #7 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sports" in June 2008.
  
  
• The song Rodney Dangerfield plays on the radio attached to his golf bag is "Anyway You Want It" by Journey.
  
  
• The scene where Carl and Ty are talking in Carl's "house" was almost entirely improvised between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase.
  
  
• Rodney Dangerfield hired singer and golfer Don Cherry to teach him to golf for this film. Don was a regular headliner in Las Vegas and lived near Dangerfield. In addition to his singing, Don was a very well know professional Golfer.
  
  
• The song played on the radio attached to Al Czervik's golf bag (during the actual filming of the movie) was "My Sharona".
  
  
• While the movie was filmed in Ft Lauderdale, FL the country club was supposed to be located in Nebraska. In preparation for filming certain scenes they spent many days spraypainting the grass blue around the clubhouse.
  
  
• The second story of the clubhouse was fake, it was only added for the movie and was empty inside.
  
  
• Chevy Chase's character Ty, makes several references to owning or working in a "lumber yard". Co-writer Brian Doyle-Murray's father worked in a lumber yard.
  
  
• The famous scene that begins when Ty Webb's golf ball crashes into Carl Spackler's ramshackle house was not in the original script. It was added by director Harold Ramis after realizing that two of his biggest stars, Chevy Chase and Bill Murray (who did not get along due to a feud dating back to their days on Saturday Night Live), did not have a scene together. The three met for lunch and wrote the scene together. Although the scene has nothing to do with the plot, it is widely regarded as the funniest in the movie. This is the only time that Chase and Murray have appeared in a movie together.
  
  
• Ted Knight's final movie.
  
  

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