In case you missed it, this is the announcement for the Caddyshack 30th Anniversary Blu-ray release contest. And just in case, if you’ve never seen the movie, I should mention that there are spoilers in this post (if it’s even possible to spoil a movie like this).

I wasn’t sure it would happen, but all three of my favorite quotes were identified. And, they were identified by three different people.

That means that we have three automatic winners and the remaining two copies will be awarded by drawing among the other three entries.

Before we get down to business, let’s take a look at my favorite three quotes. I’d be lying if I said it was an easy choice. In fact, when the entries started coming in, some of the guesses were absolute classic quotes from the movie that I easily could have been swayed into picking as my favorites.

Without further ado…

Free Bowl of Soup

Rodney Dangerfield was a king of one-liners and this movie was basically a vehicle for him to deliver a ton of them. It’s difficult to choose the best among them, but the one that really gets me laughing happens when Al Czervik walks into the Bushwood pro shop for the first time and starts buying everything in sight. He sees an awful hat on the counter and says:

Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? <sees Judge Smails wearing the same hat> Oh, it looks good on you though.

What really does it for me is the look he gives as he says, “Oh, it looks good on you though.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve said something to someone and given them that look as a nod to Al Czervik.

Carl Loops for the Dalai Lama

Carl Spackler is one of the greatest comedy characters of all time. I’m a big Bill Murray fan and his work as Carl was some of his best. Carl had so many great lines in this movie, and his riff on the Dalai Lama probably isn’t his most famous. In fact his “cinderella story” quote is the one that made the AFI list of 100 years, 100 movie quotes.

Here’s the exchange between Carl and Angie D’Annunzio

Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas.

Angie D’Annunzio: A looper?

Carl Spackler: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. 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 goin’ for me, which is nice.

How can you not laugh as Carl tells this fantastic tale while standing there holding a pitchfork to Angie D’Annunzio’s neck? I don’t know about you, but as I watch that, there’s always part of me thinking that he might actually be telling the truth.  And of course, for me, the punctuation on the whole thing is the last line.  All that and he finishes with, “So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”

If you’ve ever worked at a golf course, as I have, then you probably knew someone who wasn’t too far from that level of ridiculous.

The Old Billy Baroo

Or is it “Barue”? I have no idea, but I do know that the world of comedy took a big hit the day Ted Knight died. In Caddyshack, his Judge Smails character is an absolute classic. To me, just about everything he says and does in the movie is funny.

Picture the last hole of the match between Smails, the doctor, Al Czervik (with Danny playing for him by then) and Ty Webb. The judge has to make a putt which will force Danny to make his to tie.  The exchange goes something like this:

Spaulding…this calls for the old Billy Baroo…Oh Billy, Billy, Billy…don’t let me down, Billy.

Spaulding presents the old hickory-shafted putter wrapped in a full-length knitted sleeve and Judge Smails proceeds to clutch it tightly and beg it to help him make his putt.

Be honest – is there a serious Caddyshack aficionado out there who has stood over a putt he needed to make at some point in the last 30 years and not recited that line at least once? I know I have done it repeatedly, and I’ll do it again.

It may not be the funniest line that Judge Smails had in the movie, but it’s one of the most memorable to me and one of the ones that lends itself to repeating during an actual match with other Caddyshack fans.

The Winners

Because we had fewer than 5 people guess one of my favorites, those entries that did will win automatically.  They are:

• TP Golf Online wins for guessing the Dalai Lama story.
• Tizzy wins for guessing the free bowl of soup.
• Keith wins for guessing the Old Billy Baroo.

And, since there were 5 copies available, the other two will be awarded by drawing.  I drew names for the runners-up and the other two copies will be awarded to:

• Randy B.
• Josh

Sorry it didn’t work out, Doug, but hang in there and I’m sure I’ll be having some other contests before long.

I’d like to thank Warner Brothers for making this giveaway possible and I’d also like to thank everyone that participated. It was a lot of fun for me.  If you’d like more information about the Caddyshack 30th Anniversary Blu-ray release, please visit the website.

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