Midweek Mention... Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore

Dan: Gilmore Girls.

Sidey: Happy Gilmore Girls.

Cris: Oh, sorry. I watched this when it came out, but I didn't watch it for this this time. I, I remember parts of it the same, like other stuff that we did, the, the MeMed ones and the, the stuff that, this is another kind of cult.

Reegs: Happy Gilmore.

Dan: Yeah, happy Gilmore. This kind of made Adam Sandler famous.

Cris: No, the water boy.

Sidey: No way, man. This wasn't his first, but this one I think pushed him into like, took him up a notch. But this is my first time watching it It really is.

Reegs: Gosh, I've seen this movie lot.

Sidey: Yeah,

Yeah,

I've seen it one time. I've seen

Reegs: All right.

at

Dan: least.

Cris: Oh, I'm impressed. Yeah. I thought I'm the weird

Dan: Maybe more, maybe four.

Reegs: It's

A collaboration with Dennis Dugan, who ended up doing a lot of the movies with Adam Sandler.

Dan: Well, I think all Adam Sandler's films have been in some way

Sidey: connected Had a rewrite from Judd

Reegs: Did they? Yeah.

Dan: And this follows Adam Sandler, [00:01:00] who's a hockey player.

Sidey: Wannabe.

Dan: Wannabe. Yeah. Not really good enough.

Sidey: old man has taught him how to have a really hard.

Slap shot. Yeah. But not none of the other skills that you need to be able to play ice hockey, like skating,

Reegs: Yeah. When he took, when he says that, 'cause we get like Li Skynyrd and some grainy home footage and that, and he, he says, oh, my father taught me his slap shot.

And we get like grainy home video footage of him twitting a puck into his father's face, like really good. His father was obsessed by hockey. His mother wasn't, she moved to Egypt just to get as far away from hockey as you and then his whole life, hap happy, wanted to be a hockey player and he was, he really idolized this violent thug.

The Tasmanian devil, Teo O'Reilly, he's an enforcer. That's like a real position, isn't it?

Cris: Yes.

Reegs: You just go out to punch people

Cris: pocket. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. You ever been to an ice hockey

Reegs: no I haven't and I can't follow it on tv. It's too fast for me.

Sidey: I have been to game, it's really good. Of all the American sports, it's probably the best one because it is fast paced. There's not one where you can kind of do timeouts like that [00:02:00] really.

And there, there is always fights. Like it's not a cliche there, the. What is it they say? He went to see a fight in a game of ice hockey broke out. It's, yeah, it's like that. So it is one of the bad ones, but like you say, what you just kind of have to tune into the, where the puck is. Yeah. And then just follow it from there.

'cause it is

Reegs: hard, isn't it? 'cause it's such a speedy game. Yeah.

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: Happy's father was killed by a tragic hockey puck to the head accident. So Happy went to live with his grandmother, I think, who greets him, dressed up as Gene Simmons from kiss.

And

Sidey: And you can tell they have a really wholesome, like, nice relationship. Yeah.

Dan: He loves grandma. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. But his dad dying sort of flipped a switch in him and he became like much more aggressive. And he had two junior high school records most time in the penalty box, and the only guy to ever take off his skate and stab someone with,

Sidey: I think.

Yeah. We see him go to trials whatever the like professional outfit is near him and they, I think they say something like, this is like the 10th year in a row. This guy's tried out for us. And again, like they call it for everyone they want to keep [00:03:00] and. Pack him off. And he, this time he just goes after the guy, the

Reegs: He makes some snide remark, doesn't he? The coach. So Gilmore just beats the shit out of him and we've seen him be failed in every other aspect of his life.

He's tried to be a construction

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. He just keeps like

Reegs: tend, he just keeps fucking the, whatever the thing is. The janitor.

Sidey: Does one job.

It is the construction one where he's shooting things with a nail gun. He is shooting cans and one of the shots just goes, like is flying towards, and his boss, who's Richard Keel sticks his head up and just gets like a nail through his skull. Yeah. And you're like, it's fucking yours,

Reegs: Mr. Larson.

So after the hockey tryouts, he goes home and his girlfriend is leaving him because he's basically a bit of an unambitious loser and has shown no, demonstrated no growth. And next morning it gets even worse for him 'cause he gets a call from grandma.

She hasn't paid her taxes in 10 years. So the IRS are repossessing her house. And she, she owes something like 202

Sidey: 270,000 I think. Yeah.

Reegs: And yeah,

Dan: Well then, then he, I think he [00:04:00] finds, a golf tournament, does he that he can win money

Reegs: there's a few things. So first off, he sends Grandma off to a retirement home which is run by Ben Steeler, who,

Sidey: Uncredited.

Reegs: Yeah.

he'll turn out to be mistreating them.

Sidey: He's running a kind of arts and craft

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: He's got this ridiculous handlebar mustache. Like when

Sidey: it's the prototype white Goodman, isn't

Reegs: it? Yeah. When Gilmore leaves, she says, oh, sir, could you tr could I trouble you for a glass of milk?

He's like, you can trouble me for a glass of, of warm glasses. Shut the hell yeah, I've said that so many times. And so, yeah. Grandma's dropped off there, but it's already going bad. And when he goes back to the house, the two removal men who are supposed to be taking away grandma's house are dicking around with this ancient bag of golf clubs that they found outside.

And Gilmore wants them to get on with it, I think, so he can watch a hockey game and they won't. So he's like, right, if I can outdrive you. Will you get back to work? So he sets up this ball and he does this ridiculous hockey style smash, and we see it from the ball's perspective. It goes fucking [00:05:00] 500 yards, maybe it's just ridiculous.

Hits this house and the neighbor comes out. The two removal. Men are absolutely amazed.

Yeah.

Do it again. So as the guy comes out, he does it again. It hits him in the head. Like if I, I'll bet you 20 bucks you do it again. Hits the, his wife

Sidey: from the top floor, she falls out.

Reegs: Yeah. So this gives him basically the idea to start hustling at the driving range.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: You know, is that a thing? Do people

Sidey: Yeah.

well, I mean there are long drive competitions, so yeah. There'll be people that would get suckered into that sort of shit. Yeah,

Reegs: It's at a driving range. Hustling people that he meets Chubbs Peterson, a former pro golf star who lost his

Dan: Carl Weathers

Reegs: Alligator accident,

Sidey: but he, but he managed to gouge out. He alligator his eye at the same time, which he's still got,

Reegs: really bad, like prosthetic arm that's like clearly much longer than the other arm. Yeah.

Dan: and yeah, and he's, he's the golf coach who sees something in happy.

Sidey: He's coaching an old lady at the time, and he is just reading a magazine going [00:06:00] Yeah.

Just like try, you know, he is just not paying attention at all. Yeah. But then he sees,

Reegs: he hears the swing, I think,

Sidey: Yeah. And he is like, this guy could be, could be something. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: He's, but he's brilliant. But with the long shots, obviously, but he's short game shit, isn't it? So

Sidey: he puts, like, he holds it halfway down with one hand.

It's really unconventional, but

Dan: Well, like a hockey stick.

Sidey: Yeah. And he's, he's just got no idea apart from booming it. He's got no other

Dan: no He can get on the green in like one, but he, it would take him 10 to get it from there. And I know that feeling.

Sidey: I think he has to win. 'cause he, his idea then is like, with Chubbs sort of eggs him on is like you could get onto the PJ tour.

Reegs: Yeah. There's the water Bri a local tournament and if you win it, you

Sidey: just need to one, one regional is all you need to do to get on the tour.

Dan: And then he's going, oh, I don't give a fuck. And then he realizes that money could save grandma. So there's his incentive.

Reegs: Even the last place gets money is what he realizes.

So, right. Let's fucking do it. So we're off to the tournament, I think, and the day of the tournament we're introduced to top [00:07:00] pro golfer, money maker, and all round ass hat shooter, mcg mcg.

Dan: shoot mcg Gavin

Reegs: I think he's introduced sending Julie Bowen's p director of PR off to get a Coke for him, like as he arrives.

And he gives a little speech, doesn't he? Rips on the guy who introduces him about spending more time in the sand than David Hasselhoff a joke that it, it's obviously his only joke 'cause he repeats it, I

Sidey: Mm-hmm.

Dan: Yeah, which is a little bit like probably Adam Sanders films after this. That it just kept on doing the same kind of jokes and the same humor because though this was good. The ones after this, I dunno, it just seemed a little bit, he went through a bit of a phase.

Sidey: I think there was a format that worked. And so did quite a

Dan: to a

Reegs: a lot of characters that were very similar

Sidey: Quite the, the angry, the angry type

Reegs: petulant man children that needed to grow up a bit. Yeah.

Dan: But you hear the joke once, it's funny.

You hear it 10 times. It's like less funny.

Sidey: But we know, 'cause we've seen other stuff that [00:08:00] he is actually better than

Reegs: Exactly. We'll find out. I mean, uncut gems, he was

Dan: uncut. Gems was a gem.

Reegs: So anyway, he tees off and he hits the ball. I think the, he hits it so far that he hits it to the pair we were playing in front of him.

Interrupts their round onto the so he hits it

Sidey: he also, he has a hole in one on a par four. Yeah. Which has probably never been done on tour, I don't think.

Reegs: He tells Chubbs that that was easier. He's like, I might just try and do that next time than the putting

Dan: Yeah. Chubb's going. Yeah, just

Reegs: just do that.

Dan: that. Yeah. He, he makes it the way, the way through. He is in the in contention. He's got this habit of telling the ball to get in its home. That's where

Reegs: just give it a little tap.

Dan: get in, get a little tap, give a little tap. But go home. That's where you live.

Sidey: why won't you go home?

And there's a good check montage. 'cause at one point he sees shooter getting his winners check. You know, there's

Reegs: Well, that's when they actually get on the tour. At this point, he's just going up the leaderboard. But it starts to build, doesn't it? Because like people are impressed by his unorthodoxy. The crowd starts to [00:09:00] move away from shooter to this new guy who's, and it is good, like, 'cause golf is such a stuffy game or was and had, was

Sidey: certainly this time. It really was. It

Reegs: to like people of, to black people and like, you know, women

Sidey: working

Reegs: of stuff. And so here was like a working class guy coming up and tearing it all up. And so it's quite

Dan: Yeah, no, nobody was doing sport movies about. Golf in this style. Yeah. I mean, you had Tin Cup by Costner, but that was like, you know, serious game of golf and everything. Whereas is, this is obviously just a, a piss take the, the way through.

Reegs: So he does eventually after the tap tap taparoo, he does eventually win the tournament by one shot and that's it. He's on the tour. Virginia like introduces herself to him and her interest is purely golf related at this point. She likes his outsider status and

Sidey: well, she's meeting with the, the tour commissioner and he is like, this guy's bad. She's like, no way.

This guy's. Giving us a whole new audience. The ratings are gonna go up and [00:10:00] they're, he's, they're still in the stuffy No, this is not appropriate. This is not what the game of golf is about. Yeah. But they do come round to like, actually the num increasing numbers is good. Yeah. So she's fi but he's like, you need to control him and like keep him on the, on the straight and which is gonna be a challenge.

Reegs: Chubb's once, happy to take six months out to practice on his game. But he can't do that obviously because of grandma. And grandma, like you said, will will learn is that she's been forced to work in a sweatshop, making handit quilts tariffs on quilts, I dunno, from grandmas in sweatshops, higher or lower than China.

I don't

Sidey: Well, in terms about the game, 'cause she's obviously making in America. Yeah. So if you bring your factories to America, no

Reegs: it'll be all right. Yeah.

Sidey: But if she's sending them to China, then there's gonna be a hundred and something. Yeah,

Reegs: So we go to the pro golf tour and you know, he tries to blend in happy, but he's in band t-shirts and jeans and everyone's

Sidey: right.

So he would not be allowed on the course in this attire.

Dan: he is in, he's in hockey shirts a lot of the time as well,

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: No collar. Not on the course.

Reegs: They're all [00:11:00] collegiate types wearing jackets. Mark lies there and he asks him about the yellow jacket he's wearing. He's like, oh, you get one if you win. And he turns to shooter. He is like, oh, where's yours?

Sidey: Such a rip. Yeah. And then he says, meet us on the they say to, they stitch him up, don't they? He new guy on the tour meet us on the ninth green at eight o'clock or whatever it is. Yeah. We'll see you down there. He's like, okay, sounds I'll. I'll see you later.

Reegs: Get dressed, wear something nice. He

Sidey: Yeah. And he, when he gets down there, it's just the time the sprinklers come on and they're all laughing at him

Reegs: buss and Sandler's ready to beat the shit out of him until he is talked down by Julie Bowen.

Yeah, he has to provide his own caddy on the tour. So he hires a homeless dude. He finds like

Sidey: cleaning his windscreen. Yeah.

Reegs: And his f they're playing in pairs, aren't they? And he's playing with Gary Potter. I don't know Gary

Sidey: Is this the guy? He is all spiritual.

Reegs: well he's just of comes across 'cause he complete fucking psycho, doesn't he?

Yeah.

Dan: yeah. Yeah. At some point he's with Chuchu in there. In the 19th tea in the bar.

And I just remember the joke. He goes, I eat shit like you for

Reegs: That's at the end. [00:12:00] It's, that's at the end when they're foreclosing on the house, it's good. So yeah, basically there's a whole montage, like you said, of him progressing through the open, becoming more and more popular.

Winning I. Different

Sidey: Well, he sees she getting that oversized check, doesn't he? Yeah. He goes, well just gimme a check like that and not realizing it's just like a novelty Yeah.

Prize, you know, award thing. He goes, no, you'll get your money in about three weeks. It's like, no, I fucking need it now. Just gimme, I'll take cash. Saying don't work like that. But then, yeah, we do get a montage of him collecting all, and there's just loads of, in his car, these stupid, like massive checks.

Reegs: So he's again, you know, like we said, talk of the town working class hero, just what the game needs, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Dan: Kind of a romance happening between him and

Sidey: Judy.

Dan: Judy.

Reegs: yeah. Oh, well, there's, well, because we're getting right towards the end now. As long as he doesn't place last in the last two tournaments, he'll be all right, really? And and he's nearly got enough money and they go to an ice rink to have like a little kiss. They play endless love.

It's nice

Dan: [00:13:00] endless

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: he tricks isn't he? He says, if you can. Because she says I won't date a golfer. Yeah. That, that's my goal rule. Said why am my hockey player say Yeah.

Reegs: So the penultimate round is a pro celebrity one that he's doing with price Rice. Yeah. Right. Host Bob Barker. And there Happy is repeatedly heckled by a guy.

Sidey: Yeah. pay

Reegs: puts him right off his game, paid for by shooter as we know.

And he shanks one into a lake and Bob Barker gets really pissed off at him.

Sidey: because he'd won it. He'd won it the year before. Yeah.

Reegs: And they end up having a, he gets sucker. He, he gets almost beating the shit out of by Barker. He must be in his seventies

Sidey: at this point. Yeah.

Reegs: Then I think the fight almost ends when Gilmore headbutts him.

He says The price is wrong, bitch. But eventually Barker finishes him off, I think, with a kick to the face. So happy he has been beaten up by a 70-year-old former game show host. So he's given a [00:14:00] $25,000 fine and suspended from the tour for a month, which means he needs to make a lot of money in the last one.

And he's all depressed outside. You think, oh, this is gonna drive the end of the movie. But actually no, it's fine because he, he's having a subway with Virginia and that gets him the idea to just get sponsorship deal for the whole 270,000 dollars free Subways for life. So they go back to the house to buy at grandma's house, but as they turn up, it's been put up for auction and.

It

being

a spiteful prick?

Shoot a bids. Bids for it and buys it. This is where he says, I eat pieces of shit like you for

Dan: Yeah.

You eat shit for

Reegs: you eat pieces of shit for breakfast. No.

Dan: no.

Reegs: Yeah. So knowing he's got improve his short game, he ha he, he goes and finds, chubbs who takes him down the mini golf place, tells him to go in his happy place, which is where Julie Bowen is in dressed in lingerie, holding beers.

Sidey: Yeah. As a mid on a

Reegs: Midget on a unicycle for some reason. Yeah. And yeah, they play, he, he hones his [00:15:00] game from mini golf.

Sidey: It's, it's one particular hole of the mini golf where a tower falls down across the hole and he has to like ricochet it around various obstacles. Yeah. And gets the hole in one. He does

Dan: that That's right up towards the

Reegs: oh, we're near the end of the movie now. Yeah. Because now we go to the final, isn't it? Well, Chubb, stu well, 'cause Right. Chubbs gives him a, like a patented hockey style putter. Yeah. And to thank him in return, he gives him a, the head of the

Sidey: find he finds the alligator with a missing eye. Yeah. By cha and kills it.

Reegs: and he gives it to him in a box. And CHUs is so like. Anguished or like

Sidey: surprised

Reegs: surprise, he falls out of a window and, and dies. So unfortunately, yeah, jobs is gone

Dan: I was, I was watching a, a bit about shooter and he said for reals, like, let me, you know, it's a 30 yard put.

And he goes, let me do it. Like, and he goes, and the director said. Okay, look, you've got seven goes

Reegs: Alright. Did he nail it the first one? No.

Dan: No, he said he, he put it around the [00:16:00] rim. It was the fifth one though. Oh. So that's for real that he's, he's got that in. And, and then his reaction and everything because all the, he said all the, the cast are betting around, and everyone, they're gonna make it.

He's not gonna make it

Sidey: and everything.

Nice.

Dan: And then he's like, it was for real that he came out and all that, all the shooter stuff. 'cause all he knew. Was that he had the name shooter, right? So all the, the kind of guns was, was him. And he goes like, choke on that. I'm me. You know, like that. I'm me.

Reegs: nearly the embodiment of Who do you think you,

Dan: yeah. Who do you think you are? I am. And he nailed that one in for, for reels.

Reegs: So in the final round now after all this Happy's paired with shooter, wouldn't you know it, for the tour championship at stake? And he takes an early lead. So shooter hires the heckler to run him over

Sidey: in a Yeah. In a Volkswagen Beatle. Yeah.

Reegs: Which he does quite well to walk off considering what a violent

Sidey: yeah, it does [00:17:00] cause a massive crash of a tower that is reminiscent.

In many ways of the crazy golf.

Reegs: And there'd been a thing about, he'd made him play it where it lied off of Mr.

Sidey: Ks. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: earlier. So, you know, what's his job shoot, it does the same here. And wouldn't you know it,

Sidey: He gets up and down for park.

Reegs: He ki But it's like one of those kind of like things that used to see YouTube videos of a Rub Goldberg or Heath Robinson machine chip it into a thing and it

Sidey: runs That's right. Yeah.

Reegs: and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Oh hey, all that stuff.

Dan: The, the crowd are kind of looking left, looking right, looking left, looking right as it zigzags through this almost domino kind of style. And

Reegs: his part for the win

Dan: win. And he sinks it for the win.

Reegs: And then I think it finishes with shooter. He's absolutely enraged. He tries to grab the yellow jacket

Dan: and run off

Reegs: chased by a mob

Sidey: including Mr. Las. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah. And then we conclude with Happy. I think on, is he on a rooftop? He's looking in the [00:18:00] sky. And there's Chubbs and the Alligator and Abraham Lincoln for some reason in the sky. Thankfully Chubbs have made peace with the alligator at

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

That's, that's on the rooftop of Grandma's house. 'cause they've got that back. Everything's yeah. Happy days.

Dan: And of course happy Gilmore Two's coming out in the summer.

Sidey: June. Yeah,

Reegs: yeah, yeah. I watched the trailer for it straight after it looks okay as well. Well, so what do you've never seen this, I obviously clearly really like this movie. You like it if you've seen it multiple times?

Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah, I really liked it. It was good. It's good fun. It's, well, you know, it is what it is.

It's just like daft. Funny over the top, like ludicrous.

Reegs: This is the Citizen Kane I think of, of Adam Sandler movies though it is like right up there with

Dan: well, hidden Gems was fantastic as well, but it's a completely different,

Reegs: That was a Saaf Brothers

Sidey: different vibe to this.

Dan: A completely different vibe.

Reegs: stable that they made lots of these type

Dan: Well, they, he did. Was it Billy Madison? I

Sidey: haven't seen that one. I've seen the water boy seeing this [00:19:00] one.

Reegs: But things like grownups. Grownups too. I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.

Sidey: I've seen what's wanna do like wedding singer. I really like. That's genuinely

Reegs: I like the water boy. It is fucking funny to

Cris: me. Yeah, I like that.

Dan: that. I think this is his best one.

Reegs: I think this is his best as well. Yeah.

Cris: I actually quite like the Zohan as well.

Reegs: Breach

Sidey: don't mess

Reegs: screaming at us like you fucking morons.

Or maybe we're just sell outs.

We just like the

Sidey: the popular

Reegs: the

Cris: I don't like, I don't like all of them, but I did, I did like the Water boy. That was the first one I've ever

Sidey: What's the one, Mr. Deeds? Oh, we, I couldn't even finish that one. It's dreadful. But this is fun. This is good fun.

Reegs: It is good fun. Yeah. I also, he did, he went through a great phase with Drew Barrymore.

Yeah. 51st dates was nice

Sidey: When anything is, that's like bonafide good.

Yeah. Yeah, that's really good.

Reegs: Strong, strong recommend

Sidey: list, a great numbers and all that stuff. And it is a bonafide strong

Dan: Yeah. Happy to see it.

Reegs: And I always like seeing stuffy people getting it stuck up to them, so

Sidey: so

yeah. Nice.

Dan: Shoot up.