Adam Sandler celebrates 25 years of Happy Gilmore by murdering golf ball, making an Adam Sandler noise
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Twenty-five years ago, the world was introduced to famed athlete Happy Gilmore—an ex-hockey player with a knack for driving golf balls really hard and yelling angry adult-baby noises when upset. Now, to mark the date when Gilmore first made himself known to the world, Adam Sandler—and a pair of his character’s enemies—have slipped back into their own roles on social media.
Sandler tweeted a video for the movie’s anniversary yesterday showing him trying out Gilmore’s slapshot swing again. “It’s been 25 years since I’ve done this,” he says, walking away from the camera. “Let’s see what happens.” He dedicates the shot to his nemesis Shooter McGavin, wallops the ball, then returns to say, “You’re dead, Shooter” and make one of those Adam Sandler laughing noises we know so well.
In response, Ben “A Warm Glass Of Shut The Hell Up” Stiller replied to threaten Grandma Gilmore as Hal, the evil nursing home caretaker.
Not to be outdone, Christopher McDonald jumped in with a clip of him demonstrating his putting skills. McDonald, more than Sandler or Stiller, dives right back into the character. He readies his shot in front of a mason jar, announcing, “Drive for show, putt for the dough,” then congratulates himself and repeats his prank invitation to “the 9th green at 9.” (The Subway Twitter account also replied “legendary” to this, but we’re not going to link that; they already got the product placement they paid for a quarter century ago in the movie.)
So far, Carl Weathers hasn’t shown up to cheer us up with a hello from the dearly departed Chubbs, but we won’t hold it against him. It’s probably harder for him to get back into character than the rest of the cast, what with needing to get his hand chomped off by an alligator to rediscover his motivation and all.
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Christopher McDonald is a national treasure.
Yup. And that’s despite being in Grease 2 AND Where The Boys Are 84.
This is Shooter’s tour!
“Nuh-uh. I called it first.”–greatest trolling job, ever.
He’s also great in the music video for Peter Gabriel’s song The Barry Williams Show.
He was great in Superhero Movie—-especially when he got fork-stabbed at the dinner table.
Shooter McGavin is an all-time underrated movie villain. “I had to play off of Frankenstein’s fat foot!”
Wow! I can’t believe it’s already been 9,132 crazy nights!
When I was in high school I told a lot of people that Christopher McDonald and Norm Macdonald (“Dirty Work” co-stars) were brothers. Most of t hem believed me, despite the fact that their names were spelled differently.
That couldn’t have been an Adam Sandler clip. There was no product placement.
25 years! That means I must be … (never mind) years old.This movie is such a delight that even as an avid golfer and a minor pedant I was still able to get past the loose ‘rules’ that factored so greatly in the movie’s ending. 🙂