Random Movie Trivia - Caddyshack

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Caddyshack

• The noises that the gopher makes come from a dolphin.  In fact, it is the same dolphin that was in the movie Flipper.
• After shooting each day, most of the cast and crew would go out partying.  Eventually, they partied so hard that by the end of production filming was delayed longer and longer each day.
• Caddyshack is only said once throughout the whole movie by caddy manager, Lou (played by Bill Murray's brother, Brian Doyle-Murray).
• Bill Murray improvised the "Cinderella story" sequence from two lines of stage direction. Director Harold Ramis simply asked Murray to emulate a kid announcing his own fantasy sports moment. Murray simply asked for four rows of 'mums and did the scene in one take.
• One of Bill Murray's kids goes to Clemson.  This has nothing to do with this movie, just thought I would throw it in there because Clemson rules!
• Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield's roles were all supposed to be just cameos but because of their improvisational skills, they got a lot more screen time which didn't sit well with Ted Knight (Judge Smails).  Knight is considered a nice man, but he got fed up with their constant shenanigans.  Sadly, this was Ted Knight's last movie.
• The gopher scenes were written and shot after most of the movie was already finished.  Director Harold Ramis wanted a live gopher for the scenes, but obviously that didn't work and they used an animatronic gopher in the end.
• The movie was filmed in Fort Lauderdale but set in Nebraska.  They had many delays during filming because a hurricane hit the area and because of an earthworm infestation.
• The second story of the clubhouse was fake and built only for the film.  It was an empty husk and later torn down.
• The scene where Chevy Chase hits a golf ball into Bill Murray's shack was written only because the two stars did not share a scene together in the movie.  The scene has nothing to do with the plot but is still considered one of the funniest scenes in the movie.
• This is the only movie that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase were in after their infamous feud during their Saturday Night Live days.  Some people expected another confrontation, but both were extremely professional even during their one scene together.
• Bill Murray filmed all of his scenes in six days.
• Cindy Morgan (Lacey Underall) was really nervous about her lovemaking scene, so Michael O"Keefe (Noonan) got the crew to all take their shirts off whiling filming to make her feel more comfortable.
• A big hill was created from scratch for the final scene because the golf course didn't want their course blown up (obviously).  Unfortunately, they used too many explosives and planes flying by the area reported that they saw an explosion and thought another plane had crashed.

"I honestly think this movie would have sucked without Bill Murray's character not being a prominent part of the movie."