'Caddyshack' / 'Happy Gilmore' / 'Tin Cup' and the Frozen-In-Time Golf Comedy [Be Reel Podcast]
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It's slobs vs. snobs, divas vs. duffers, and Be Reel vs. the bygone bubble of American golf comedies. "Caddyshack" turns 40 this week, which gives us a great excuse to talk about this frozen-in-time genre: when class conflict could allegedly be solved with a 400-foot slapshot ("Happy Gilmore") and any old folkloric failure could tear through the US Open ("Tin Cup"). These leisurely sports comedies are long on charm, light on logic, and were all clearly made in a time before Tiger Woods. Let's tee off.

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