Happy Gilmore: Difference between revisions

 

Still, this is a movie brimming with hilarity from front to back, and regarded as one of [[Adam Sandler]]'s defining roles.

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: The buildup about the orderly in the nursing home is all for naught, as he isn't seen ever again after the grandma leaves the home. He doesn't even appear in the scene where she leaves.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Happy learns the hard way that Bob Barker is one of these.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Happy has many.

** Happy, after Shooter crashes his dream sequence.

** And Shooter himself, after he loses the tournament. {{spoiler|And while getting the absolute stuffing beaten out of him by angry Happy fans after he stole the gold jacket at the near end.}}

* [[Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game]]: Shooter learns that the "play it where it lies" applies for ''everyone''.

* [[Book Ends]]: The film begins and ends with the opening guitar strains of "Tuesday's Gone" by [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]].

* [[Butt Monkey]]: The towheaded caddy at the invitational is a hapless punching bag for Happy.

* [[Chased by Angry Natives]]: Not the tribesman type, but {{spoiler|Shooter gets this after losing to Happy then, being the sore loser he is, trying to steal his Golden Jacket...right in front of Happy's fans (who happen to include a particularly enraged [[The Spy Who Loved Me|Richard Kiel]]). In this case, he doesn't run fast enough}}.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: But because it only happens in replays of tournaments, [[Cluster Bleep Bomb|they're all bleeped out.]]

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Professional golf events don't take place over the course of one day as Happy's early tournaments do, nor is it common for a player pairing to endure for all four days as the final tournament's pairing does. It isn't likely that Happy and Shooter would've been paired for '''all four days''' of a tournament. However, these aren't PGA tournaments.

{{quote|'''Shooter''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Damn you people, this is]] '''golf!'''}}

** [[Watsonian Versus Doylist|So he could find out about Happy's Grandma's predicament.]]

* [[Funny Background Event]]: While Virginia and the tour commissioner are discussing Happy, [http://youtu.be/8qaAKxJp0EM?t=2m3s Happy can be heard on the TV in the background swearing up a] ([[Cluster Bleep Bomb|bleeped]]-[[This Trope Is Bleep|out]]) storm.

* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: In Happy Gilmore's [[Imagine Spot|"Happy Place"]], Virginia is usually wearing white underwear. But when Shooter invades the dream sequence, her underwear is black.

* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: Semi-averted; they ''do'' mention that one can take a drop with a two-stroke penalty, but neither Shooter nor Happy does (Shooter would be hitting a ball off a patron's ''shoe'', and Happy would be putting over a fallen broadcaster's tower that winds up amazingly like a mini-golf hole).

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Shooter McGavin.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Happy's a pretty nice guy when he's not trying to stab someone with a hockey skate or throwing a guy out of a second-story window.

** [[Ben Stiller]]'s character in the theatrical version. In TV versions, there is an added scene where Happy reveals he knows what the orderly did, and throwing him out of a window as revenge.

** Also Joe Flaherty's character Donald, the fan hired by Shooter to annoy Happy ("Jackass!"). Along with being a [[Jerkass]], he also runs into Happy with his car. He's last seen fleeing the golf course with security in pursuit, but we never find out his fate.

** Happy himself. I mean, he does commit a few assaults during the course of the movie...

*** Although some might say getting beaten up by Bob Barker ends up being his Karma.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Shooter when he tries to buy Happy's grandmother's house and suggests that she become his maid.

* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: {{spoiler|Chubbs, who dies from a combination of fright and a long fall.}}

* [[Metaphorgotten]]:

* [[Running Gag]]: Lee Trevino looking at Happy forlornly and shaking his head.

** A twist later on though.

'''Trevino''': (''interjecting'') [[Grizzly Adams]] ''did'' have a beard. }}

* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: The TV censors can barely keep up with Happy.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: First by Happy to Bob Barker ("The price is ''wrong'', bitch!") then by Bob Barker to Happy ("I think you've had enough...(''punts a downed Happy'') ''Now'' you've had enough...[[Ironic Echo|bitch]]!")

* [[This Loser Is You]]: Virginia argues that Happy is a ratings bonanza for the tour because professional golf needs a "working-class hero" whom ordinary people can look up to.

** That said, the batting cage training was ''enjoyable'' for him so YMMV on the 'from Hell' part.

* [[Troll]]: "You WILL NOT make this putt, jackass!"

* [[Who Needs Overtime]]: Happy elects to take a rather difficult putt to win the tour championship instead of taking a safe two-putt opportunity to force a playoff.

 

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