Golf is hot with Stick at Apple TV+ and Happy Gilmore 2 in theaters.
Forty-five years ago, it was the backdrop for Harold Ramis' farce Caddyshack that starred SNL stalwarts Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. Two years earlier, Ramis co-wrote National Lampoon's Animal House. Caddyshack is No. 22 on our list of greatest stoner movies.
A light-hearted comedy about saving a local golf course from real-estate speculators, Caddyshack famously features Murray as befuddled course greenskeeper Carl Spackler, who likes to get stoned on his own strain of marijuana. "This is a cross of Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent and Northern California Sinsemilla," Carl tells Ty (Chevy Chase) before he sparks up a "big Bob Marley joint." "The amazing stuff about this is that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejesus-belt that night on this stuff. I've got pounds of this stuff." Carl likes to top it off with a swig of cheap white wine, what he calls a "Cannonball."
Spackler preceded Spicoli, Sean Penn's classic stoner from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, by two years.
Caddyshack, hyped as "The Snobs Against The Slobs," grossed $40 million at the box office and spurred a sequel eight years later.
The Cast: Where Are They Now
• Bill Murray (Carl) – Following Caddyshack and Stripes (1981), he's gone on to have a stellar acting career, earning a Best Actor Oscar nom in 2004 for Lost in Translation.
• Chevy Chase (Ty) – He followed with lead roles in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Fletch (1985), Three Amigos (1986) and Caddyshack II (1988).
• Ted Knight (Judge Smalls) – He appeared as Ted Baxter in 165 episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1970-1977. He died in 1986 at 62.
• Rodney Dangerfield (Al) – The stand-up comic also appeared in Easy Money (1983), Back to School (1986) and Natural Born Killers (1994). He died in 2004 at 82.
• Michael O'Keefe (Danny) – Just prior to Caddyshack, his breakout performance in The Great Santini (1979) received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nom.
• Sarah Holcombe (Maggie) – She only appeared in four films, including Animal House, in which she plays grade schooler Clorette.
• Cindy Morgan (Lacey) – Ty's love interest in Caddyshack, she also appeared in Tron (1982) and Tron 2.0 (2003). She died in at 72 1986.
• Brian Doyle-Murray – Bill's older brother co-wrote Caddyshack, Club Paradise (1986) and Caddyshack II.
• Harold Ramis – He either wrote, directed or acted in Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, Vacation, Ghostbusters (1984), Club Paradise, Ghostbusters II (1989) and Groundhog Day (1993). He died in 2014 at 69.
MORE CLASSIC STONER COMEDIES
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
• Up in Smoke (1978)
• Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)
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