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We react to Happy Gilmore 2 — the surprise Netflix hit!
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Adam Sandler is back as Happy in Happy Gilmore 2 — and we’re reacting to Netflix’s wild new sequel.
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Erin (00:31):
Hey guys, it's Tanya.
Hi, it's Erin, and welcome toWicked Psychotherapist.
Tanya (00:35):
Yeah, so we have a really fun one today.
Continuing on the Adam Sandlertrain.
we are going to be talking abouta very recent release, happy
Gilmore two that is currentlytrending on Netflix From the
time we're recording this.
it was a really fun one towatch.
I really liked it.
I really enjoyed it.
Erin (00:54):
Yeah,
Tanya (00:54):
I did too.
I thought it was fun.
I found myself laughing out loudway more than I expected, you
know?
I loved Happy Gilmore, but 30years later with a continuation,
you kind of think.
what's gonna happen with thisone?
But it delivered I think.
Yeah.
that was really good.
this will be a spoiler alertbecause this is a fairly new
one.
So if you don't wanna know aboutthis, obviously you probably, if
you see Happy Gilmore two in thetitle, you probably wouldn't
(01:14):
watch it knowing that we'regonna,
Erin (01:15):
we're gonna talk, we're gonna dissect it or just please
pause this.
If you haven't seen HappyGilmore too.
Watch it, then come back.
Tanya (01:23):
Yeah, for sure.
And it's worth it.
It's definitely worth it towatch So, Yeah, so it was, it
was about 30 years later, 1996to now 29 years.
but a lot has changed in happyGilmore's life.
he has four boys and a daughter.
He married, his wife.
We find out very soon into, youknow, he kind of conquered the
golf world.
He won all these.
(01:44):
you know, whatever they'recalled championships.
I don't know.
He has lots of yellow jackets.
He's,
Erin (01:48):
he's lots of jacket's yellow, lots of yellow jackets.
He's happy in grandma's oldhouse
Tanya (01:54):
They like add on additions and things like that.
It's like a piece house
Erin (01:57):
at first I was like, this is a mansion.
but then you realize it'sgrandma's house, which, but
it's, yeah, he's doing well.
So it, it does, it startsreally, it starts really happy
and you're just like, oh, he'sdoing really good.
Tanya (02:09):
Yeah, it's a nice little, jaunt down, oh, this is the
continuation of Happy's life andit's really promising.
And then we get to a scene atsome golf tournament, he tees
off and unfortunately hits hiswife, hard enough to.
Kill her.
Kill her.
Yeah.
And so she's pretty early on.
She dies, because of a stray,ball to the head or whatever.
You know, he teed off and Shewas in the direct path for some
(02:31):
reason.
Erin (02:31):
Yeah, I was wondering like, why would she be sitting,
you know, like standing right atthe.
No one else was there.
Tanya (02:36):
it was very weird, especially knowing the power of
his hits too.
Like the way he hits the balland how hard it's, yeah.
So like 400 miles
Erin (02:42):
per hour
Tanya (02:42):
Yeah.
It was kind of crazy.
I really wasn't expecting that.
I was like, wait a minute.
This seemed like, I can'tremember the name of his wife.
just know Julie Baldwin, theactress, but Virginia.
Virginia.
Virginia.
Yeah.
but.
Yeah, I just thought she wouldbe in a whole movie.
But that kind of played into therest of the plot where we see
that he feels so guilty aboutwhat happens.
He's grief stricken, and startsto, drink and to cope with, with
(03:06):
this, you know, he's got the,kind of no, no other way of
coping because he's just so hurtthat he, he feels so guilty
about it.
doesn't wanna go near golfagain.
So he slowly descends into aspiral.
he's just a single father offive kids, then the bills start
to lapse because I guessVirginia had always taken care
of that.
He's not playing golf as much,so there's no money coming in.
they lose grandma's house.
(03:27):
They, you know, he, he says hejust like, he lost everything.
And that's so sad because it'slike, oh my gosh, that's what
the whole like, happy Gilmore,was trying to save the house and
then he just loses it likewithin like 10 minutes of, of
the movie or hear about it.
Erin (03:40):
I did think at first like that was really sad.
Yeah, it was sad.
And I was thinking, is he goingto try to win grandma's house
again?
But then it's like, no.
They end up in this rundownhouse or apartment.
That looks like either Worcesteror Fall River or something.
Tanya (03:54):
Yeah, it, it's definitely like a Worcester esque house,
but I guess it was filmed in NewJersey, which I guess there's
some crossover there.
Yes.
But, it looks like it.
Yeah.
so he and his daughter, theyoungest one, she's a.
Ballerina, you know, um, kind oflike she's taking classes
through the Boys and Girls Club,but apparently she's so good
that her teacher submits hervideo to some prestigious
school.
(04:14):
Which is gonna cost like$75,000a year.
he doesn't have the money.
He doesn't wanna see her dreamsbroken from that.
Right.
And so that's kind of themotivation as well as.
Losing his grandma's house.
But I think the first primarymotivation is really his kids.
Right.
He's really focused on them.
I guess the boys kind of areliving out in their own, they're
like old enough to kind of livein a house on their own sort of
thing.
Erin (04:33):
I think they said they're all renting an apartment
together.
Some of the boys look reallyyoung, but maybe they just look
young.
some of them look like they'd bethe same age as Vienna, but
they're probably.
Older able to somewhat take careof themselves I would not wanna
see what their apartment lookedlike.
Tanya (04:47):
Yeah, because they're a rowdy bunch.
they're pretty hilarious though.
they're kind of like happy whenhe was younger, but there's four
of'em.
they're really rowdy andsuggestive idiots.
Yeah, let's just say that.
with their humor.
But it honestly made me laughquite a bit.
Um, yeah, it's funny.
And the daughter, Vienna is kindof a little more refined, but
she still joins in on some ofthe family rout us.
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But yeah, so he starts to seethis recognition of oh, there's
something outside of this grief.
Like my daughter, I don't wanther to suffer for this and not
live her dreams.
so that kind of snaps him out ofsaying maybe I need to get some
help.
Also, his daughter is kind of,kind of care, takes him and is
like, you know, you can't bedoing this.
he also.
Has a golf cart incident whereHe's trying to think of
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restarting golf because hehasn't played at this point in
like 10 years.
and he, ends up crashing the,like really crashing the golf
cart Yeah.
Explodes, you know, to the pointwhere it made the news.
Yeah.
And so it's very apparent he'sgot a drinking problem.
Mm-hmm.
And so, yeah, he is, thinking,okay, I gotta get back to golf.
his wife Virginia comes to himin a dream and is like, you're
(05:51):
not meant to be thinking abouthockey.
you gotta think back to golf,you know, and he's like, okay, I
gotta think of this.
Mm-hmm.
he kind of starts to practiceagain.
He starts at the beginnerleagues.
he kind of stinks.
He needs to, you know, he's kindof being shown up by these,
three young kids.
Erin (06:05):
Yeah.
what did his housemate orwhatever garage mate John Daly
is like, you can't, you know,like just start, you can't go do
any worse than just start himfrom the bottom.
you're already at the bottom.
Tanya (06:13):
So just go to a place and practice with
Erin (06:15):
Practice with three kids.
And see what happens.
Tanya (06:18):
Yeah.
And he kind of has to start overagain, in his fifties now.
He was probably in his latetwenties back when, you know,
the original Happy Gilmore was,was film or that was like what
his character was supposed tobe.
Yeah.
'cause he's 50, so he'scompeting with all these young
kids.
and also not having practicedand with all the grief, when
he's playing.
it's a hard road, but even hisdaughter is like, no, you can,
you'll, start to get better andthen a little better and you'll
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be the best again.
You know, he has a lot ofencouragement from His friends
and everything, and I think thatalso we kind of see that setup.
Erin (06:46):
Yeah.
I was gonna say, I think thatkind of spearheads him to think
like, well, maybe I need to getsober.
Well, he kind of was forced to.
Start attending an type of type.
I say type of, because anothercharacter that we saw before,
Hal, who, poor grandma, had tohave Hal as her nurse.
And now how, how is running?
I don't know what, how, whatJudge Hal talked to, but he's
(07:08):
able to run this whole, I thinkit's his brother.
Tanya (07:11):
or family member.
Erin (07:12):
So his brother's a judge and helped him create this
racket of like, you could dowhatever you want.
For these people.
they can wash your car, they canpaint your house, they could do
whatever, read your book thatyou wrote.
And so Adam, um, happy is stuckwith Hal and he's the person
that's kind of ensuring thathe's getting staying sober and
going to the meetings and stuff.
(07:32):
So it's like, oh boy.
Tanya (07:34):
Yeah, he is running basically like indentured
servitude, but he's putting itin the frame of, oh, this will
help you to get sober.
And, yeah.
and here's my book.
And any other book that you havelike is, happy, had another book
by, By Chubbs, you know, that hewas reading like the art of golf
And he throws it against thewall.
He is so mad.
But yeah, if you say or dosomething outta line, he's like,
(07:55):
you're gonna wash my car thisweekend.
Yeah.
that's the way to him.
that's the way to feelingbetter, to getting through this,
you know, sobriety.
But really it's just his way ofgetting people to.
be his servants.
he's still awful.
He's still an abusive person ashe was with grandma,
unfortunately.
Yeah.
Back in the day.
Um, but yeah, it's just, it's areal shoddy group.
he calls it Hal's group, likehealing and something, I don't
(08:18):
remember what it stood for.
Yeah.
Acronym, but
Erin (08:21):
it's not aa, um, that's what he said.
Tanya (08:22):
it's kind of like he's trying to base it off that
framework, but it's more justfor his own needs.
And everybody else just kind offalls in line with it.
So he does that and Is kind of,trying to get some help.
But really it's the motivationof like his family and, you
know, his sons are like, youknow, we, we believe in you and
his friends, John Daly, they'reall very supportive of him.
Yeah.
I think that's probably whatgets'em through Not hell's
(08:44):
group, I would say.
Yeah.
And it's,
Erin (08:46):
and even as goofy and irresponsible as the sons seem,
they love their dad so much andall five of them are just so
supportive.
And John Dailey.
Too.
Like he's just everywhere.
You know, it's funny how Adam'salways like, okay, and you guys
take care of John, make surehe's doing, you know, like
whatever.
Sure.
He eats three
Tanya (09:04):
times a day, gets a walk or something as a pet.
And he was also in the originalone too, right?
like John Daly was in theoriginal
Erin (09:13):
I don't know.
He may have been, I don'tremember.
It's funny though, I don't knowanything about golf, but looking
at pictures of John.
It's like this is who he real,like who he's portrayed in.
Abby Gilmer is probably who hereally is.
Like he's probably a crazyhilarious, a crazy funny person.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, he was in the original, Ijust did a quick search and he
was in the first one too.
Oh, okay.
(09:33):
Yeah, I think he kind of letshim live.
Oh, he's happy Gilmore'sbrother.
it says John Dailey is playing.
Happy Gilmore's brother in HappyGilmer too, but I don't think he
is.
I think he just acts like abrother.
Oh, okay.
Because he calls him John Daley.
Tanya (09:45):
uncle John.
Uncle John Daley.
They're always like Uncle JohnDaley.
Yeah.
He's like, he's an entity.
He is like this version ofhimself.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
I thought that was really funny.
And he is just kind of like, youknow, he's this really
supportive person, even thoughhe's kind of.
living off of happy, he provideshappy, a lot of support,
emotional support andeverything.
Yeah.
he's got a lot of good peoplesurrounding him.
(10:07):
I think that's what helps himthrough that.
But then he gets approached bythe guy who I, honestly, The
first time I saw him, I thoughtthat was carrot top.
it is not.
I looked it up and I was like,is that carrot top?
after having a lot of surgery orsomething, who was that?
Who are you thinking?
Was Carrot's the Maxi guy?
Oh yeah.
I was trying to figure out whothat guy was.
I couldn't, he's actually beenin a couple other things.
(10:29):
I don't really recognize him,but I looked him up and I was
like, oh, okay.
He's been in a couple, he's beenaround
Erin (10:35):
before.
Tanya (10:35):
Yeah.
he's pretty like, but I justdidn't know him, it was probably
just the red hair that he hadfirst, you know, and I just was,
you know, I did think he didlook a little too young to be
him, but he definitely is.
Yeah.
And he approaches happy in agrocery store and he's like,
Hey, I'm starting this new golfleague.
it's a whole new thing.
It's fun and, you know, kind ofhas its own rules.
And he is like, you, you're likethe, the, the, you know, spokes
(10:57):
spokesperson for this.
you're in the DNA of my projectbecause you win against all the
rules and everything, so yougotta be a part of this.
And Happy's just not interestedat all?
No, he's just like, no, thatsounds stupid.
That sounds awful.
Like, no thanks.
Yeah.
I don't play golf anymore, butlike, I certainly don't wanna
play it like that, you know?
Yeah.
He's just like not into it.
Yeah.
he's not really quite aboutgoing back to golf at that point
(11:19):
yet, but he's like, if I amgonna go back, it's not gonna be
that way.
Erin (11:23):
yeah.
Well, I don't know if that'swhen he starts thinking too,
it's like, well, that's notreally what golf is because
that's, you know, Virginia, Iknow he ends up talking it
later, but, real golf, was soimportant to his wife.
I think that also is kind oflike, well now I need to get,
get sober and start playing,learning how to play golf again
to beat this guy, beat thisidiot.
Tanya (11:42):
Yeah.
that kind of becomes, anothermotivation.
So he is got all these kind ofmotivations to mm-hmm.
Get through his grief and thenget through, the drinking and
everything.
This guy starts to, form thisleague called the Maxi League or
something it reminds me of doyou remember the X Games Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
Like, where it's really hypedup, it's more about the
excitement of it as opposed tothe sport tradition or the rules
(12:04):
or the sport.
Yeah.
Like it's kind of just, yeah.
And it gave me that same ugh,feeling that I got from ex
sports.
I just don't really.
Like this.
Erin (12:12):
Well it's all like, you see all the, well that's
probably, and also like the RedBull eggs, like there's all
like, people drinking energydrinks and doing this, you know,
like, it's like, all hyped up.
Mm-hmm.
Tanya (12:20):
So,
Erin (12:20):
but yeah, that's, yeah.
Yeah.
It's, I was gonna say that'swhat, when you, when it made me
laugh when all of a sudden, Youknow, like figuring out who's
gonna play and stuff.
And then, Hailey, Joe Osmond islike one of the golfers, like
on, happiest team.
And you just, then you juststart to see him morph into like
this, like almost like avillain.
And it's so funny to see him inthis character, to see him as
(12:42):
the bad person.
Tanya (12:43):
it just,
Erin (12:43):
you know,'cause we have done, you know, we had, we had
him in a, we talked about, thesixth sense when he was just a
little boy.
Mm-hmm.
Tanya (12:50):
Yeah.
he was a sweet, innocent
Erin (12:51):
little boy.
Yeah.
It's fun seeing him.
it's fun seeing him like this.
Tanya (12:55):
Yeah, that was a nice surprise.
And I had a feeling when hefirst appeared, I was like, I
think he's gonna be a doubleagent.
I think he's gonna end up beingfor the maximum, like when he
was wearing,
Erin (13:03):
shorts and he didn't care that he was wearing shorts and
you can't wear shorts.
Tanya (13:07):
And he's kind of flouting the rules and like just his
demeanor and, confidence.
he does admit, he's not, playingfor, the, the traditional golf
team.
I'm, I'm gonna be playing inthe, the Maxi League or
whatever, because, they end upsetting a, a competition, the
Maxi League and the, the regularvanilla golfers as they refer to
him as, yeah.
You know, and saying like, oh,well, We'll show'em who's the
(13:27):
best or whatever, becausethey're trying to kind of form
this new league to Take overand, Maybe eliminate that
league.
but yeah, so they decide, okay,whoever does well in this
weekend I can't remember whatit's called, but like the gold
jacket league or whatever, youknow, just kinda like the
regular traditional league.
I think it's like they had theyellow jacket.
Whoever I top five will compete.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The yellow, yeah.
Yellow jacket tournament winnersor
Erin (13:48):
You can tell we love
Tanya (13:49):
golf.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did not, like, I knew very fewthings from that, and it was
only from, yeah.
I don't know.
Just, I happen to know very few,very few things.
Erin (13:59):
Yeah.
Me too.
I like mini golf.
I don't really.
Understand.
I've never wa, I mean I'vewatched golf.
If it's on for a second, youknow, while I'm changing a
channel and then I quicklychange it.
Tanya (14:09):
Yeah, me too.
I don't think I've ever reallyPGA golf tour winners or
something,
Erin (14:13):
know
Tanya (14:13):
what it's
Erin (14:14):
called.
Tanya (14:14):
Yeah.
Professional golf masters or ita master, whatever.
Is it a master?
Whatever it is.
I dunno, you the masters maybe.
Yeah, you guys get us.
You know, maybe it's not evenlike something real, maybe in
the movie, it's somethingfictionalized.
I don't even know.
But yeah.
And I really
Erin (14:26):
doubt they all sit.
I mean, do you think they allsit having lunch together for
special occasions while wearingtheir yellow jackets?
Do you think that's like a.
Maybe they do.
I don't know.
Tanya (14:34):
I don't know golf culture, but maybe,
Erin (14:36):
and I, I love that.
That's, that's good question.
That real, I real love that hehad real golfers in it I don't
know, golf.
But it seemed like everyone inthat room was like a real
golfer.
Yeah.
Tanya (14:44):
Yeah.
I think they were somebodyfamous.
You just kind of felt like theywere golfers.
Like I know Jack Nicholas was init'cause when he asked for a, a
lemonade, a half lemonade, halfice team, he's like, Arnold
Palmer.
And he's like, no, JackNicholas.
And so they play, for theweekend.
the top five will play againstthe league in the Maxi League.
this Maxi League is founded bythe guy who approached, Happy
before.
he's kind of recruited all thesepeople, into it by now.
(15:07):
And he's just kind offormulating this golf league
that's like no rules, no holdsbar, kind of like maximum
extreme settings.
Like you could be on ice for onehole and then be in, I don't
know, climbing a tree foranother one Just really bizarre,
golf settings, I guess.
so yeah, happy ends up being thetop five.
he's sixth, but he ends up beingthe top five because Billy
(15:28):
Jenkins, which is Hailey JoelOsmond's character, ends up, you
know, saying, oh, I'm actuallyin the Maxi League and I'm gonna
play for them.
Kind of Switching sidesbasically.
And so then Happy gets in.
Yeah.
Happy gets in.
Yeah.
and so then it's kind of likedown to that, right?
It's like, who wins?
Like the traditional, good guysand bad guys, and Happy also
needs money for, His daughterand for all the debt he's in
(15:49):
yeah.
So that's kind of the final,squaring off I guess.
and I think, during this wholetime, the guy who heads the Maxi
Golf League, he, um, he's likeapproaches.
You know, he really, reallywants happy to play.
'cause he is like, you're in theDNA of this.
You're the, you're the, youknow, the reason why I founded
this and Happy keeps saying, no,that's not me.
Virginia would want it to bethis way.
He wants it to stay this way.
(16:11):
at first I was kind of like, oh,why would he not wanna be a part
of that?
But then when you see what itactually is, it doesn't abide by
any set rules and it's, it'sjust ridiculous, weird.
And it's just for likeentertainment value.
Mm-hmm.
And apparently the guy can,like, has apps on or he can
like, change up the, the whole,you know, like the, the kind of
the, you know, whatever.
Hole you're at or whatever, likeyou can kind of change the
(16:32):
terrain and it's like, what arethe rules here?
Then they're just kind ofnon-existent.
Erin (16:36):
I don't know.
Well, it's trying to be set sothat his people can win, you
know?
So
Tanya (16:40):
it's rigged.
Erin (16:41):
It's interesting that.
at the beginning, when we firstsaw Happy Gilmore, he was like,
golf is so stupid.
And now he is protecting it andwants it to, you know?
Okay.
He actually came with the ideaof like, why don't we go against
them and whoever wins, that'sthe type of golf that stays,
because he wanted to honorVirginia so he is dealing with
his grief and working on hisgrief with this.
(17:01):
we see a little transition withhim.
he is now not drinking, he is,working on his grief, realizing
he needs to do this to help hiskids and help his friends with
the golf community.
Tanya (17:11):
Yeah.
you see a change in him becausehe wasn't very.
he kind, he grows to, to have arespect for it and a love for it
because it means something.
It's meaningful he wants to,have something like that, as a
memory To Honor everyone hemeets and his late wife.
Yeah.
Um, and I, and I do love, yeah.
So it, it's that.
Erin (17:29):
Oh, I was gonna say, I do love that that shooter, MC Gavin
is back and I I think it's greatwhen they Have him in the mental
institution and then when, happyand shooter, see each other
again at the graveyard whereeverybody is buried in the same
graveyard.
I love the whole transitionwhere Shooter and happy just,
(17:50):
you know, they're bonding andthey're, it's, you know, like
they had so much hatred for eachother and it's very healing.
for both of them.
Tanya (17:57):
yeah.
Right in front of Bob Barker'sgrave.
And then he, Punches him.
Price is right.
But, it really is.
It's kind of like they team upto protect this, Tradition of
golf because they both kind ofcan agree on that.
And they seem to have a respectfor each other in that.
the whole, you know, adversarialnature of the relationship.
And the first one is, is verymuch, you know, kind of
dissolves, In this one.
(18:18):
that was nice to see.
obviously unrealistic the way alot of things are in these
movies, but, still nice.
but yeah, it definitely, was,just really funny and we're
seeing all these cast ofcharacters along the way.
there's such good surprises forme.
My, honestly, my favorite onewas, the guy who is always
heckling him the heckler orwhatever, and it is played by
Eminem.
That was my absolute favorite tosee.
(18:39):
That was the best.
Erin (18:40):
It's the heckler's son and, I love how ridiculous it is
that.
He dresses exactly like his dadand has the same haircut and
it's Eminem.
So silly Yeah.
It, it's, I loved that.
That was great.
Adam is so smart.
the way his mind works is just,he's so funny.
He's so clever.
And, we talked, we talkedearlier too, and I really like
how he did like an honor forCameron Boyce too.
(19:02):
Just like, you know, like it's areally quick in the, you know,
like what the golf, like when heis going to, You know, like when
he is gonna golf with the threeor four people at like, just
like this, you know, local placeat the beginner watching
beginners.
Yeah.
They're watching a Disney show.
probably like Jesse or somethinglike that, that Cameron was on.
It's just nice.
It's like Adam's, you know, he,he's talked before about how
(19:24):
much he really, loved him andhow much the relationship meant,
getting to know him in thegrownup movies and everything.
So I thought that was reallynice.
Tanya (19:31):
Yeah.
That was a, really nice, tributeto him and he does that quite
often.
And with, you know, people thathe is, he's lost or, or just in
including his friends as he didin this one, in Yeah.
Most of his movies and hisfamily members, his daughters,
his, his wife, his mom, they'reall in it.
And yeah, he does thatfrequently.
Very nice.
Erin (19:49):
And you've mentioned he included Chris Farley's little
brother.
Mm-hmm.
Tanya (19:52):
Yeah, he was in there.
He is part of Hell's Gang.
there's so many little surprisesin there You have to watch it.
if you don't know anything aboutit, it's,
Erin (19:59):
yeah.
Tanya (20:00):
It's really nice.
Erin (20:00):
Yeah, you definitely have to see.
if you have not seen HappyGilmore in a while, you should
watch it just because you'regonna get all the inside jokes
and it's so funny.
they both are really good.
Tanya (20:10):
Yeah.
'cause I, I hadn't watched it,like I didn't watch it right
before, so I did forget some ofthe things, but I kind of
surmised from the way they weretalking about it.
I was like, oh yeah, I think Iremember that from the first
one.
there was also like a couple,appearances from bad Bunny the
his caddy who was prettyhilarious, who kind of seemed,
really innocent, but also waskind of, yeah.
Yeah, I didn't realize that hewas, I thought he was really
(20:31):
funny.
I didn't realize it at firsteither.
And I don't really know hismusic or whatever.
I honestly don't think I reallyknew what he looked like, I know
of him and I was like, oh myGod.
He was really funny.
he was a good addition to that.
he just fit the part.
it was really nice.
He just kind of fit in there.
but he's like the ever loyal.
Caddy, he doesn't know anythingabout golf.
He's like, what's the green?
he doesn't even know what thegreen is.
and also Post Malone was one ofthe commentators they brought
(20:54):
in.
He was just in for a little bitand was like, oh, that sucks.
he didn't really add much to thecommentating, which is, probably
about Right.
that's really not what he does.
But, yeah, funny, I just, therethere's so many good, good
surprises from celebrities, likemm-hmm.
you know, his old gang, hisfriends and family members.
despite all that, it could havebeen, I think, kind of.
Cheesy, but I think he thoughtabout this plot, and it was
(21:15):
actually executed really well.
It was, funny.
Right.
it all comes down to the finalcompetition between, um, uh, you
know, Adam, um, Adam, um, happyGilmore and Billy Jenkins we've
learned that the players in theMaxi League, have this weird
advantage where they're requiredto get this hip ligament snip,
which is absolutely frightening.
(21:35):
When they said that, I was like,ugh.
which increases their drive,their ability To drive law
twist.
Like they can kind of twistaround.
So grossed.
Yeah.
Which is really weird and kindof cheating Super cheating.
It's like a spring.
But yeah, so it comes down tothat.
And of course, the quote unquotegood guys win they had bet right
before with Manatee, he waslike, if I win this, You're
(21:56):
gonna pay for my daughter'sschooling and buy my grandma's
house back and buy Oscar arestaurant and I'm gonna get
your, your specter, your, yourelectric Rolls Royce or
whatever.
Oh yeah.
and he is like, all right.
And he is like, but if not you,you come and join us or whatever
on this league.
So of course there's a lotriding on that So he really has
to defend.
all these traditions and kindof, deal with his grief with
(22:17):
his, his wife and take on kindof this responsibility of
saying, I need to be a parentagain to my kids.
And it really is thehilariousness and all the
surprises are just so great.
I would watch it again,definitely.
I think I wanna watch it again.
just to catch everything.
Erin (22:30):
I
Tanya (22:30):
feel like I
Erin (22:30):
I feel like I missed, some parts of it.
Tanya (22:32):
Yeah, me too.
cause it's so loaded withsurprises and it's really, good,
especially if you're a fan ofthe first one or just Adam's
style of movies.
Which you probably are, ifyou're listening to this.
Overall, I loved it.
I thought it was great.
I thought it was definitelyworth the wait you know, almost
30 years
Erin (22:47):
he has, he has a loyal falling.
If we're, we'll wait for 30years, it's, yeah, it's, yeah.
Pretty funny.
Tanya (22:53):
Mm-hmm.
Erin (22:53):
But I would say that it's definitely, a good one.
I liked it.
Tanya (22:56):
Yeah, definitely was.
Anything else that we're kind ofthere.
There was just so much, it washard to,
Erin (23:01):
yeah, I mean, I really like that because I think guess
in both Happy Gilmores, he, hedoes, you know, he does work
through stuff like,'cause bothof them, he was working through
grief, which is kind ofinteresting because the first
one he's working on his dad diedfrom a hockey.
Oh my gosh.
His dad died from a hockey.
Oh my God.
He killed both his dad and hiswife.
I just realized that.
Tanya (23:21):
Yeah,
Erin (23:22):
because he killed his dad with a hockey stick or the puck.
And then he killed his wifewith, his ball.
Oh my gosh.
That's so sad for him.
That, but he end ups traumatic.
Yeah.
So then he ends up working onhis grief and, it is quite the
journey I think It's prettygreat that he is able to do it
twice,
Tanya (23:39):
And through golf both times.
he has this respect for golf,and also wants to defend its
honor in this one, so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And just learning, what happensto Happy is, Really interesting,
just as a continuation for wherehe is at now we see him as a
grownup, you know, he's not aslike silly and goofy and like
losing his temper as much, buthe, he definitely, you know, he
(24:01):
kind of, I think, has grown upand, and maybe, being a father
of five kids and being marriedfor a while will probably do
that to you.
yeah.
Yeah.
And then having to you on hisown.
Yeah.
You know, he had to do it on hisown for 10 years.
And like having to really kindof, I know he used drinking to
cope, but he was really tryingto figure that out again, Like,
how do I do this?
but I do, remember the originalcaddy that he had that he kind
(24:21):
of choked out, And then he Cameback and he was one of the
players he was competing againstand yeah.
Um.
He was kind of like, neverforgot it and got really, like,
was still like, he was like, oh,I still don't remember that.
And that was a really funnyaddition.
And then he ends up choking outhis own caddy, that was funny.
It was just all good stuff.
Good replay.
Good memories.
Good continuation.
Good people.
Good casting.
(24:42):
Just all around good stuff.
Erin (24:44):
Yeah.
Tanya (24:44):
And characters that couldn't be there, or like maybe
it would be strange or maybethey had passed, like in real
life, they kind of continuedwith sons or family members or,
that type of thing.
Erin (24:53):
Yeah.
And I like how, at first Ithought, I was like, oh, this is
gonna be cheesy.
Having the going back and forthwith the memories.
But it actually worked reallywell.
I thought it was good and I washappy to see, Steve Buscemi and,
and Rob Snyder really quick, youknow, for, but, but yeah, it was
really good.
I recommend watching it if youhave listened through this whole
thing.
If not, we hope you did enjoy iteither way.
Tanya (25:14):
Yeah, it is really good.
it's great that it's on Netflixtoo right now.
So, I think it's time for ourchallenge question.
okay, I wanna preface thisbecause I was thinking about
this I just watched it lastnight, so it's only been a
night.
if you had to choose between thetwo leagues to play in.
The Maxi League or thetraditional PGA league.
(25:35):
Which would you choose, however,let me preface it with a couple
of things.
The Maxi League, you wouldn'thave to do the whole snipping of
your whatever.
Erin (25:42):
that was exactly going in my head.
Okay.
Tanya (25:44):
I was like, she's not gonna, and like, who would,
right.
I guess that's crazy.
People would, but, um.
You know, like without that, andwithout it, it's like competing
with this league, it's just achoice of one.
or the other.
And the guy is not such adominating jerk.
It's just kind of like a way ofplaying with those Criteria.
Erin (26:00):
Well, which one would you choose?
I think I'd pick Maxie League.
because it seems more fun.
What a stupid name,
Tanya (26:06):
so dumb.
Erin (26:06):
I think I would choose that just because it looks like
you're not just standing in theheat for four hours golf is
long, it's 18 holes and thatlooks like it could take a long
time.
Maxi League is only seven holesThe golf carts look really fast
the only thing is just kind ofridiculousness.
like who's gonna be able toshoot over trees, you're going
into the trees and doing allthis craziness.
(26:30):
I think I would probably choosethat because I've only golfed
once in my life and I was sobored I only did a couple holes.
I didn't even finish the wholething.
I was just so bored.
I like mini golf a lot though,so that's also what I'm
thinking.
Maybe it would be kind of, maxiwould be kind of like mini golf
slash fastness and stuff.
What about you?
What would you choose?
Tanya (26:47):
I agree.
I would rather do the Maxi Golfbecause I've never done actual
golfing, it doesn't sound fun tome.
And I think those littlechallenges and everything
without the stipulations that, Iset out I think.
It would be fun.
It'd be kind of excitingactually.
Some of them looked pretty coolto kind of challenge yourself to
be on ice and try it.
That one To slip.
Yeah.
You know, it was kind of, it waskind of silly.
(27:07):
Like some of them might be kindof cool.
Like climbing on the rings overa river.
some ninja mixed in there.
I think that would be fun.
that would be kind of fun.
So yeah.
Survivor warrior, like the.
Yeah.
Like it's kind of, yeah, it's,it's kind of what it reminded me
of.
It was just like, all thesedifferent scenarios are like
kind of different settings and Ithought like, oh, that, that
actually kind of looks fun, butlike you, it just, in the movie,
you don't like all this stuffaround it and the people in it,
(27:29):
In the snipping of the hip, likea men, but yeah.
That's scary.
Yeah.
I would definitely choose thatone, because golf is not.
it doesn't mean much to me and Idon't even know how to do it.
No.
And I don't care to do it.
No.
Erin (27:38):
my dad plays I don't know how many times a week he does
it, but he loves it.
Right now, of course in Floridayou kind of have to find other
sports, or do it super early inthe morning, for me, I know
people love it.
It just doesn't seem very fun tome.
It just a lot of concentration.
And standing around with people,it just doesn't, it just seems,
I don't know, it reminds me oflike baseball, just boring.
(27:59):
I mean, except for baseball, Ithink, I wouldn't mind seeing
those av, is it SavannahBananas?
Those look, they look fun.
Like the guys I know.
Yeah,
Tanya (28:05):
that's kind of like they've got more entertainment
built in there.
Erin (28:08):
I would like that type of baseball.
But golf, mini golf is fun.
But yeah, just regular golf.
Again, unless it was like you'rewatching Adam Sandler or maybe
John Daly.
He seems like he might be fun.
Yeah.
Maybe he would be
Tanya (28:19):
entertaining.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
let us know what you think.
hopefully you get to watch thisor you have watched this
already, but, uh, we thoughtthis is really interesting.
It has some themes like griefand parent child relationships.
Friendships, support, that typeof thing, just a funny, good
movie.
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(28:39):
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Erin (28:42):
And don't forget, stay wicked and keep your mind well.
All right everyone.
Have a great week and we'll talkto you soon.
Tanya (28:49):
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Bye guys.
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Erin (00:31):
Hey guys, it's Tanya.
Hi, it's Erin, and welcome toWicked Psychotherapist.
Tanya (00:35):
Yeah, so we have a really fun one today.
Continuing on the Adam Sandlertrain.
we are going to be talking abouta very recent release, happy
Gilmore two that is currentlytrending on Netflix From the
time we're recording this.
it was a really fun one towatch.
I really liked it.
I really enjoyed it.
Erin (00:54):
Yeah,
Tanya (00:54):
I did too.
I thought it was fun.
I found myself laughing out loudway more than I expected, you
know?
I loved Happy Gilmore, but 30years later with a continuation,
you kind of think.
what's gonna happen with thisone?
But it delivered I think.
Yeah.
that was really good.
this will be a spoiler alertbecause this is a fairly new
one.
So if you don't wanna know aboutthis, obviously you probably, if
you see Happy Gilmore two in thetitle, you probably wouldn't
(01:14):
watch it knowing that we'regonna,
Erin (01:15):
we're gonna talk, we're gonna dissect it or just please
pause this.
If you haven't seen HappyGilmore too.
Watch it, then come back.
Tanya (01:23):
Yeah, for sure.
And it's worth it.
It's definitely worth it towatch So, Yeah, so it was, it
was about 30 years later, 1996to now 29 years.
but a lot has changed in happyGilmore's life.
he has four boys and a daughter.
He married, his wife.
We find out very soon into, youknow, he kind of conquered the
golf world.
He won all these.
(01:44):
you know, whatever they'recalled championships.
I don't know.
He has lots of yellow jackets.
He's,
Erin (01:48):
he's lots of jacket's yellow, lots of yellow jackets.
He's happy in grandma's oldhouse
Tanya (01:54):
They like add on additions and things like that.
It's like a piece house
Erin (01:57):
at first I was like, this is a mansion.
but then you realize it'sgrandma's house, which, but
it's, yeah, he's doing well.
So it, it does, it startsreally, it starts really happy
and you're just like, oh, he'sdoing really good.
Tanya (02:09):
Yeah, it's a nice little, jaunt down, oh, this is the
continuation of Happy's life andit's really promising.
And then we get to a scene atsome golf tournament, he tees
off and unfortunately hits hiswife, hard enough to.
Kill her.
Kill her.
Yeah.
And so she's pretty early on.
She dies, because of a stray,ball to the head or whatever.
You know, he teed off and Shewas in the direct path for some
(02:31):
reason.
Erin (02:31):
Yeah, I was wondering like, why would she be sitting,
you know, like standing right atthe.
No one else was there.
Tanya (02:36):
it was very weird, especially knowing the power of
his hits too.
Like the way he hits the balland how hard it's, yeah.
So like 400 miles
Erin (02:42):
per hour
Tanya (02:42):
Yeah.
It was kind of crazy.
I really wasn't expecting that.
I was like, wait a minute.
This seemed like, I can'tremember the name of his wife.
just know Julie Baldwin, theactress, but Virginia.
Virginia.
Virginia.
Yeah.
but.
Yeah, I just thought she wouldbe in a whole movie.
But that kind of played into therest of the plot where we see
that he feels so guilty aboutwhat happens.
He's grief stricken, and startsto, drink and to cope with, with
(03:06):
this, you know, he's got the,kind of no, no other way of
coping because he's just so hurtthat he, he feels so guilty
about it.
doesn't wanna go near golfagain.
So he slowly descends into aspiral.
he's just a single father offive kids, then the bills start
to lapse because I guessVirginia had always taken care
of that.
He's not playing golf as much,so there's no money coming in.
they lose grandma's house.
(03:27):
They, you know, he, he says hejust like, he lost everything.
And that's so sad because it'slike, oh my gosh, that's what
the whole like, happy Gilmore,was trying to save the house and
then he just loses it likewithin like 10 minutes of, of
the movie or hear about it.
Erin (03:40):
I did think at first like that was really sad.
Yeah, it was sad.
And I was thinking, is he goingto try to win grandma's house
again?
But then it's like, no.
They end up in this rundownhouse or apartment.
That looks like either Worcesteror Fall River or something.
Tanya (03:54):
Yeah, it, it's definitely like a Worcester esque house,
but I guess it was filmed in NewJersey, which I guess there's
some crossover there.
Yes.
But, it looks like it.
Yeah.
so he and his daughter, theyoungest one, she's a.
Ballerina, you know, um, kind oflike she's taking classes
through the Boys and Girls Club,but apparently she's so good
that her teacher submits hervideo to some prestigious
school.
(04:14):
Which is gonna cost like$75,000a year.
he doesn't have the money.
He doesn't wanna see her dreamsbroken from that.
Right.
And so that's kind of themotivation as well as.
Losing his grandma's house.
But I think the first primarymotivation is really his kids.
Right.
He's really focused on them.
I guess the boys kind of areliving out in their own, they're
like old enough to kind of livein a house on their own sort of
thing.
Erin (04:33):
I think they said they're all renting an apartment
together.
Some of the boys look reallyyoung, but maybe they just look
young.
some of them look like they'd bethe same age as Vienna, but
they're probably.
Older able to somewhat take careof themselves I would not wanna
see what their apartment lookedlike.
Tanya (04:47):
Yeah, because they're a rowdy bunch.
they're pretty hilarious though.
they're kind of like happy whenhe was younger, but there's four
of'em.
they're really rowdy andsuggestive idiots.
Yeah, let's just say that.
with their humor.
But it honestly made me laughquite a bit.
Um, yeah, it's funny.
And the daughter, Vienna is kindof a little more refined, but
she still joins in on some ofthe family rout us.
(05:08):
But yeah, so he starts to seethis recognition of oh, there's
something outside of this grief.
Like my daughter, I don't wanther to suffer for this and not
live her dreams.
so that kind of snaps him out ofsaying maybe I need to get some
help.
Also, his daughter is kind of,kind of care, takes him and is
like, you know, you can't bedoing this.
he also.
Has a golf cart incident whereHe's trying to think of
(05:30):
restarting golf because hehasn't played at this point in
like 10 years.
and he, ends up crashing the,like really crashing the golf
cart Yeah.
Explodes, you know, to the pointwhere it made the news.
Yeah.
And so it's very apparent he'sgot a drinking problem.
Mm-hmm.
And so, yeah, he is, thinking,okay, I gotta get back to golf.
his wife Virginia comes to himin a dream and is like, you're
(05:51):
not meant to be thinking abouthockey.
you gotta think back to golf,you know, and he's like, okay, I
gotta think of this.
Mm-hmm.
he kind of starts to practiceagain.
He starts at the beginnerleagues.
he kind of stinks.
He needs to, you know, he's kindof being shown up by these,
three young kids.
Erin (06:05):
Yeah.
what did his housemate orwhatever garage mate John Daly
is like, you can't, you know,like just start, you can't go do
any worse than just start himfrom the bottom.
you're already at the bottom.
Tanya (06:13):
So just go to a place and practice with
Erin (06:15):
Practice with three kids.
And see what happens.
Tanya (06:18):
Yeah.
And he kind of has to start overagain, in his fifties now.
He was probably in his latetwenties back when, you know,
the original Happy Gilmore was,was film or that was like what
his character was supposed tobe.
Yeah.
'cause he's 50, so he'scompeting with all these young
kids.
and also not having practicedand with all the grief, when
he's playing.
it's a hard road, but even hisdaughter is like, no, you can,
you'll, start to get better andthen a little better and you'll
(06:40):
be the best again.
You know, he has a lot ofencouragement from His friends
and everything, and I think thatalso we kind of see that setup.
Erin (06:46):
Yeah.
I was gonna say, I think thatkind of spearheads him to think
like, well, maybe I need to getsober.
Well, he kind of was forced to.
Start attending an type of type.
I say type of, because anothercharacter that we saw before,
Hal, who, poor grandma, had tohave Hal as her nurse.
And now how, how is running?
I don't know what, how, whatJudge Hal talked to, but he's
(07:08):
able to run this whole, I thinkit's his brother.
Tanya (07:11):
or family member.
Erin (07:12):
So his brother's a judge and helped him create this
racket of like, you could dowhatever you want.
For these people.
they can wash your car, they canpaint your house, they could do
whatever, read your book thatyou wrote.
And so Adam, um, happy is stuckwith Hal and he's the person
that's kind of ensuring thathe's getting staying sober and
going to the meetings and stuff.
(07:32):
So it's like, oh boy.
Tanya (07:34):
Yeah, he is running basically like indentured
servitude, but he's putting itin the frame of, oh, this will
help you to get sober.
And, yeah.
and here's my book.
And any other book that you havelike is, happy, had another book
by, By Chubbs, you know, that hewas reading like the art of golf
And he throws it against thewall.
He is so mad.
But yeah, if you say or dosomething outta line, he's like,
(07:55):
you're gonna wash my car thisweekend.
Yeah.
that's the way to him.
that's the way to feelingbetter, to getting through this,
you know, sobriety.
But really it's just his way ofgetting people to.
be his servants.
he's still awful.
He's still an abusive person ashe was with grandma,
unfortunately.
Yeah.
Back in the day.
Um, but yeah, it's just, it's areal shoddy group.
he calls it Hal's group, likehealing and something, I don't
(08:18):
remember what it stood for.
Yeah.
Acronym, but
Erin (08:21):
it's not aa, um, that's what he said.
Tanya (08:22):
it's kind of like he's trying to base it off that
framework, but it's more justfor his own needs.
And everybody else just kind offalls in line with it.
So he does that and Is kind of,trying to get some help.
But really it's the motivationof like his family and, you
know, his sons are like, youknow, we, we believe in you and
his friends, John Daly, they'reall very supportive of him.
Yeah.
I think that's probably whatgets'em through Not hell's
(08:44):
group, I would say.
Yeah.
And it's,
Erin (08:46):
and even as goofy and irresponsible as the sons seem,
they love their dad so much andall five of them are just so
supportive.
And John Dailey.
Too.
Like he's just everywhere.
You know, it's funny how Adam'salways like, okay, and you guys
take care of John, make surehe's doing, you know, like
whatever.
Sure.
He eats three
Tanya (09:04):
times a day, gets a walk or something as a pet.
And he was also in the originalone too, right?
like John Daly was in theoriginal
Erin (09:13):
I don't know.
He may have been, I don'tremember.
It's funny though, I don't knowanything about golf, but looking
at pictures of John.
It's like this is who he real,like who he's portrayed in.
Abby Gilmer is probably who hereally is.
Like he's probably a crazyhilarious, a crazy funny person.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, he was in the original, Ijust did a quick search and he
was in the first one too.
Oh, okay.
(09:33):
Yeah, I think he kind of letshim live.
Oh, he's happy Gilmore'sbrother.
it says John Dailey is playing.
Happy Gilmore's brother in HappyGilmer too, but I don't think he
is.
I think he just acts like abrother.
Oh, okay.
Because he calls him John Daley.
Tanya (09:45):
uncle John.
Uncle John Daley.
They're always like Uncle JohnDaley.
Yeah.
He's like, he's an entity.
He is like this version ofhimself.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
I thought that was really funny.
And he is just kind of like, youknow, he's this really
supportive person, even thoughhe's kind of.
living off of happy, he provideshappy, a lot of support,
emotional support andeverything.
Yeah.
he's got a lot of good peoplesurrounding him.
(10:07):
I think that's what helps himthrough that.
But then he gets approached bythe guy who I, honestly, The
first time I saw him, I thoughtthat was carrot top.
it is not.
I looked it up and I was like,is that carrot top?
after having a lot of surgery orsomething, who was that?
Who are you thinking?
Was Carrot's the Maxi guy?
Oh yeah.
I was trying to figure out whothat guy was.
I couldn't, he's actually beenin a couple other things.
(10:29):
I don't really recognize him,but I looked him up and I was
like, oh, okay.
He's been in a couple, he's beenaround
Erin (10:35):
before.
Tanya (10:35):
Yeah.
he's pretty like, but I justdidn't know him, it was probably
just the red hair that he hadfirst, you know, and I just was,
you know, I did think he didlook a little too young to be
him, but he definitely is.
Yeah.
And he approaches happy in agrocery store and he's like,
Hey, I'm starting this new golfleague.
it's a whole new thing.
It's fun and, you know, kind ofhas its own rules.
And he is like, you, you're likethe, the, the, you know, spokes
(10:57):
spokesperson for this.
you're in the DNA of my projectbecause you win against all the
rules and everything, so yougotta be a part of this.
And Happy's just not interestedat all?
No, he's just like, no, thatsounds stupid.
That sounds awful.
Like, no thanks.
Yeah.
I don't play golf anymore, butlike, I certainly don't wanna
play it like that, you know?
Yeah.
He's just like not into it.
Yeah.
he's not really quite aboutgoing back to golf at that point
(11:19):
yet, but he's like, if I amgonna go back, it's not gonna be
that way.
Erin (11:23):
yeah.
Well, I don't know if that'swhen he starts thinking too,
it's like, well, that's notreally what golf is because
that's, you know, Virginia, Iknow he ends up talking it
later, but, real golf, was soimportant to his wife.
I think that also is kind oflike, well now I need to get,
get sober and start playing,learning how to play golf again
to beat this guy, beat thisidiot.
Tanya (11:42):
Yeah.
that kind of becomes, anothermotivation.
So he is got all these kind ofmotivations to mm-hmm.
Get through his grief and thenget through, the drinking and
everything.
This guy starts to, form thisleague called the Maxi League or
something it reminds me of doyou remember the X Games Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
Like, where it's really hypedup, it's more about the
excitement of it as opposed tothe sport tradition or the rules
(12:04):
or the sport.
Yeah.
Like it's kind of just, yeah.
And it gave me that same ugh,feeling that I got from ex
sports.
I just don't really.
Like this.
Erin (12:12):
Well it's all like, you see all the, well that's
probably, and also like the RedBull eggs, like there's all
like, people drinking energydrinks and doing this, you know,
like, it's like, all hyped up.
Mm-hmm.
Tanya (12:20):
So,
Erin (12:20):
but yeah, that's, yeah.
Yeah.
It's, I was gonna say that'swhat, when you, when it made me
laugh when all of a sudden, Youknow, like figuring out who's
gonna play and stuff.
And then, Hailey, Joe Osmond islike one of the golfers, like
on, happiest team.
And you just, then you juststart to see him morph into like
this, like almost like avillain.
And it's so funny to see him inthis character, to see him as
(12:42):
the bad person.
Tanya (12:43):
it just,
Erin (12:43):
you know,'cause we have done, you know, we had, we had
him in a, we talked about, thesixth sense when he was just a
little boy.
Mm-hmm.
Tanya (12:50):
Yeah.
he was a sweet, innocent
Erin (12:51):
little boy.
Yeah.
It's fun seeing him.
it's fun seeing him like this.
Tanya (12:55):
Yeah, that was a nice surprise.
And I had a feeling when hefirst appeared, I was like, I
think he's gonna be a doubleagent.
I think he's gonna end up beingfor the maximum, like when he
was wearing,
Erin (13:03):
shorts and he didn't care that he was wearing shorts and
you can't wear shorts.
Tanya (13:07):
And he's kind of flouting the rules and like just his
demeanor and, confidence.
he does admit, he's not, playingfor, the, the traditional golf
team.
I'm, I'm gonna be playing inthe, the Maxi League or
whatever, because, they end upsetting a, a competition, the
Maxi League and the, the regularvanilla golfers as they refer to
him as, yeah.
You know, and saying like, oh,well, We'll show'em who's the
(13:27):
best or whatever, becausethey're trying to kind of form
this new league to Take overand, Maybe eliminate that
league.
but yeah, so they decide, okay,whoever does well in this
weekend I can't remember whatit's called, but like the gold
jacket league or whatever, youknow, just kinda like the
regular traditional league.
I think it's like they had theyellow jacket.
Whoever I top five will compete.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The yellow, yeah.
Yellow jacket tournament winnersor
Erin (13:48):
You can tell we love
Tanya (13:49):
golf.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did not, like, I knew very fewthings from that, and it was
only from, yeah.
I don't know.
Just, I happen to know very few,very few things.
Erin (13:59):
Yeah.
Me too.
I like mini golf.
I don't really.
Understand.
I've never wa, I mean I'vewatched golf.
If it's on for a second, youknow, while I'm changing a
channel and then I quicklychange it.
Tanya (14:09):
Yeah, me too.
I don't think I've ever reallyPGA golf tour winners or
something,
Erin (14:13):
know
Tanya (14:13):
what it's
Erin (14:14):
called.
Tanya (14:14):
Yeah.
Professional golf masters or ita master, whatever.
Is it a master?
Whatever it is.
I dunno, you the masters maybe.
Yeah, you guys get us.
You know, maybe it's not evenlike something real, maybe in
the movie, it's somethingfictionalized.
I don't even know.
But yeah.
And I really
Erin (14:26):
doubt they all sit.
I mean, do you think they allsit having lunch together for
special occasions while wearingtheir yellow jackets?
Do you think that's like a.
Maybe they do.
I don't know.
Tanya (14:34):
I don't know golf culture, but maybe,
Erin (14:36):
and I, I love that.
That's, that's good question.
That real, I real love that hehad real golfers in it I don't
know, golf.
But it seemed like everyone inthat room was like a real
golfer.
Yeah.
Tanya (14:44):
Yeah.
I think they were somebodyfamous.
You just kind of felt like theywere golfers.
Like I know Jack Nicholas was init'cause when he asked for a, a
lemonade, a half lemonade, halfice team, he's like, Arnold
Palmer.
And he's like, no, JackNicholas.
And so they play, for theweekend.
the top five will play againstthe league in the Maxi League.
this Maxi League is founded bythe guy who approached, Happy
before.
he's kind of recruited all thesepeople, into it by now.
(15:07):
And he's just kind offormulating this golf league
that's like no rules, no holdsbar, kind of like maximum
extreme settings.
Like you could be on ice for onehole and then be in, I don't
know, climbing a tree foranother one Just really bizarre,
golf settings, I guess.
so yeah, happy ends up being thetop five.
he's sixth, but he ends up beingthe top five because Billy
(15:28):
Jenkins, which is Hailey JoelOsmond's character, ends up, you
know, saying, oh, I'm actuallyin the Maxi League and I'm gonna
play for them.
Kind of Switching sidesbasically.
And so then Happy gets in.
Yeah.
Happy gets in.
Yeah.
and so then it's kind of likedown to that, right?
It's like, who wins?
Like the traditional, good guysand bad guys, and Happy also
needs money for, His daughterand for all the debt he's in
(15:49):
yeah.
So that's kind of the final,squaring off I guess.
and I think, during this wholetime, the guy who heads the Maxi
Golf League, he, um, he's likeapproaches.
You know, he really, reallywants happy to play.
'cause he is like, you're in theDNA of this.
You're the, you're the, youknow, the reason why I founded
this and Happy keeps saying, no,that's not me.
Virginia would want it to bethis way.
He wants it to stay this way.
(16:11):
at first I was kind of like, oh,why would he not wanna be a part
of that?
But then when you see what itactually is, it doesn't abide by
any set rules and it's, it'sjust ridiculous, weird.
And it's just for likeentertainment value.
Mm-hmm.
And apparently the guy can,like, has apps on or he can
like, change up the, the whole,you know, like the, the kind of
the, you know, whatever.
Hole you're at or whatever, likeyou can kind of change the
(16:32):
terrain and it's like, what arethe rules here?
Then they're just kind ofnon-existent.
Erin (16:36):
I don't know.
Well, it's trying to be set sothat his people can win, you
know?
So
Tanya (16:40):
it's rigged.
Erin (16:41):
It's interesting that.
at the beginning, when we firstsaw Happy Gilmore, he was like,
golf is so stupid.
And now he is protecting it andwants it to, you know?
Okay.
He actually came with the ideaof like, why don't we go against
them and whoever wins, that'sthe type of golf that stays,
because he wanted to honorVirginia so he is dealing with
his grief and working on hisgrief with this.
(17:01):
we see a little transition withhim.
he is now not drinking, he is,working on his grief, realizing
he needs to do this to help hiskids and help his friends with
the golf community.
Tanya (17:11):
Yeah.
you see a change in him becausehe wasn't very.
he kind, he grows to, to have arespect for it and a love for it
because it means something.
It's meaningful he wants to,have something like that, as a
memory To Honor everyone hemeets and his late wife.
Yeah.
Um, and I, and I do love, yeah.
So it, it's that.
Erin (17:29):
Oh, I was gonna say, I do love that that shooter, MC Gavin
is back and I I think it's greatwhen they Have him in the mental
institution and then when, happyand shooter, see each other
again at the graveyard whereeverybody is buried in the same
graveyard.
I love the whole transitionwhere Shooter and happy just,
(17:50):
you know, they're bonding andthey're, it's, you know, like
they had so much hatred for eachother and it's very healing.
for both of them.
Tanya (17:57):
yeah.
Right in front of Bob Barker'sgrave.
And then he, Punches him.
Price is right.
But, it really is.
It's kind of like they team upto protect this, Tradition of
golf because they both kind ofcan agree on that.
And they seem to have a respectfor each other in that.
the whole, you know, adversarialnature of the relationship.
And the first one is, is verymuch, you know, kind of
dissolves, In this one.
(18:18):
that was nice to see.
obviously unrealistic the way alot of things are in these
movies, but, still nice.
but yeah, it definitely, was,just really funny and we're
seeing all these cast ofcharacters along the way.
there's such good surprises forme.
My, honestly, my favorite onewas, the guy who is always
heckling him the heckler orwhatever, and it is played by
Eminem.
That was my absolute favorite tosee.
(18:39):
That was the best.
Erin (18:40):
It's the heckler's son and, I love how ridiculous it is
that.
He dresses exactly like his dadand has the same haircut and
it's Eminem.
So silly Yeah.
It, it's, I loved that.
That was great.
Adam is so smart.
the way his mind works is just,he's so funny.
He's so clever.
And, we talked, we talkedearlier too, and I really like
how he did like an honor forCameron Boyce too.
(19:02):
Just like, you know, like it's areally quick in the, you know,
like what the golf, like when heis going to, You know, like when
he is gonna golf with the threeor four people at like, just
like this, you know, local placeat the beginner watching
beginners.
Yeah.
They're watching a Disney show.
probably like Jesse or somethinglike that, that Cameron was on.
It's just nice.
It's like Adam's, you know, he,he's talked before about how
(19:24):
much he really, loved him andhow much the relationship meant,
getting to know him in thegrownup movies and everything.
So I thought that was reallynice.
Tanya (19:31):
Yeah.
That was a, really nice, tributeto him and he does that quite
often.
And with, you know, people thathe is, he's lost or, or just in
including his friends as he didin this one, in Yeah.
Most of his movies and hisfamily members, his daughters,
his, his wife, his mom, they'reall in it.
And yeah, he does thatfrequently.
Very nice.
Erin (19:49):
And you've mentioned he included Chris Farley's little
brother.
Mm-hmm.
Tanya (19:52):
Yeah, he was in there.
He is part of Hell's Gang.
there's so many little surprisesin there You have to watch it.
if you don't know anything aboutit, it's,
Erin (19:59):
yeah.
Tanya (20:00):
It's really nice.
Erin (20:00):
Yeah, you definitely have to see.
if you have not seen HappyGilmore in a while, you should
watch it just because you'regonna get all the inside jokes
and it's so funny.
they both are really good.
Tanya (20:10):
Yeah.
'cause I, I hadn't watched it,like I didn't watch it right
before, so I did forget some ofthe things, but I kind of
surmised from the way they weretalking about it.
I was like, oh yeah, I think Iremember that from the first
one.
there was also like a couple,appearances from bad Bunny the
his caddy who was prettyhilarious, who kind of seemed,
really innocent, but also waskind of, yeah.
Yeah, I didn't realize that hewas, I thought he was really
(20:31):
funny.
I didn't realize it at firsteither.
And I don't really know hismusic or whatever.
I honestly don't think I reallyknew what he looked like, I know
of him and I was like, oh myGod.
He was really funny.
he was a good addition to that.
he just fit the part.
it was really nice.
He just kind of fit in there.
but he's like the ever loyal.
Caddy, he doesn't know anythingabout golf.
He's like, what's the green?
he doesn't even know what thegreen is.
and also Post Malone was one ofthe commentators they brought
(20:54):
in.
He was just in for a little bitand was like, oh, that sucks.
he didn't really add much to thecommentating, which is, probably
about Right.
that's really not what he does.
But, yeah, funny, I just, therethere's so many good, good
surprises from celebrities, likemm-hmm.
you know, his old gang, hisfriends and family members.
despite all that, it could havebeen, I think, kind of.
Cheesy, but I think he thoughtabout this plot, and it was
(21:15):
actually executed really well.
It was, funny.
Right.
it all comes down to the finalcompetition between, um, uh, you
know, Adam, um, Adam, um, happyGilmore and Billy Jenkins we've
learned that the players in theMaxi League, have this weird
advantage where they're requiredto get this hip ligament snip,
which is absolutely frightening.
(21:35):
When they said that, I was like,ugh.
which increases their drive,their ability To drive law
twist.
Like they can kind of twistaround.
So grossed.
Yeah.
Which is really weird and kindof cheating Super cheating.
It's like a spring.
But yeah, so it comes down tothat.
And of course, the quote unquotegood guys win they had bet right
before with Manatee, he waslike, if I win this, You're
(21:56):
gonna pay for my daughter'sschooling and buy my grandma's
house back and buy Oscar arestaurant and I'm gonna get
your, your specter, your, yourelectric Rolls Royce or
whatever.
Oh yeah.
and he is like, all right.
And he is like, but if not you,you come and join us or whatever
on this league.
So of course there's a lotriding on that So he really has
to defend.
all these traditions and kindof, deal with his grief with
(22:17):
his, his wife and take on kindof this responsibility of
saying, I need to be a parentagain to my kids.
And it really is thehilariousness and all the
surprises are just so great.
I would watch it again,definitely.
I think I wanna watch it again.
just to catch everything.
Erin (22:30):
I
Tanya (22:30):
feel like I
Erin (22:30):
I feel like I missed, some parts of it.
Tanya (22:32):
Yeah, me too.
cause it's so loaded withsurprises and it's really, good,
especially if you're a fan ofthe first one or just Adam's
style of movies.
Which you probably are, ifyou're listening to this.
Overall, I loved it.
I thought it was great.
I thought it was definitelyworth the wait you know, almost
30 years
Erin (22:47):
he has, he has a loyal falling.
If we're, we'll wait for 30years, it's, yeah, it's, yeah.
Pretty funny.
Tanya (22:53):
Mm-hmm.
Erin (22:53):
But I would say that it's definitely, a good one.
I liked it.
Tanya (22:56):
Yeah, definitely was.
Anything else that we're kind ofthere.
There was just so much, it washard to,
Erin (23:01):
yeah, I mean, I really like that because I think guess
in both Happy Gilmores, he, hedoes, you know, he does work
through stuff like,'cause bothof them, he was working through
grief, which is kind ofinteresting because the first
one he's working on his dad diedfrom a hockey.
Oh my gosh.
His dad died from a hockey.
Oh my God.
He killed both his dad and hiswife.
I just realized that.
Tanya (23:21):
Yeah,
Erin (23:22):
because he killed his dad with a hockey stick or the puck.
And then he killed his wifewith, his ball.
Oh my gosh.
That's so sad for him.
That, but he end ups traumatic.
Yeah.
So then he ends up working onhis grief and, it is quite the
journey I think It's prettygreat that he is able to do it
twice,
Tanya (23:39):
And through golf both times.
he has this respect for golf,and also wants to defend its
honor in this one, so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And just learning, what happensto Happy is, Really interesting,
just as a continuation for wherehe is at now we see him as a
grownup, you know, he's not aslike silly and goofy and like
losing his temper as much, buthe, he definitely, you know, he
(24:01):
kind of, I think, has grown upand, and maybe, being a father
of five kids and being marriedfor a while will probably do
that to you.
yeah.
Yeah.
And then having to you on hisown.
Yeah.
You know, he had to do it on hisown for 10 years.
And like having to really kindof, I know he used drinking to
cope, but he was really tryingto figure that out again, Like,
how do I do this?
but I do, remember the originalcaddy that he had that he kind
(24:21):
of choked out, And then he Cameback and he was one of the
players he was competing againstand yeah.
Um.
He was kind of like, neverforgot it and got really, like,
was still like, he was like, oh,I still don't remember that.
And that was a really funnyaddition.
And then he ends up choking outhis own caddy, that was funny.
It was just all good stuff.
Good replay.
Good memories.
Good continuation.
Good people.
Good casting.
(24:42):
Just all around good stuff.
Erin (24:44):
Yeah.
Tanya (24:44):
And characters that couldn't be there, or like maybe
it would be strange or maybethey had passed, like in real
life, they kind of continuedwith sons or family members or,
that type of thing.
Erin (24:53):
Yeah.
And I like how, at first Ithought, I was like, oh, this is
gonna be cheesy.
Having the going back and forthwith the memories.
But it actually worked reallywell.
I thought it was good and I washappy to see, Steve Buscemi and,
and Rob Snyder really quick, youknow, for, but, but yeah, it was
really good.
I recommend watching it if youhave listened through this whole
thing.
If not, we hope you did enjoy iteither way.
Tanya (25:14):
Yeah, it is really good.
it's great that it's on Netflixtoo right now.
So, I think it's time for ourchallenge question.
okay, I wanna preface thisbecause I was thinking about
this I just watched it lastnight, so it's only been a
night.
if you had to choose between thetwo leagues to play in.
The Maxi League or thetraditional PGA league.
(25:35):
Which would you choose, however,let me preface it with a couple
of things.
The Maxi League, you wouldn'thave to do the whole snipping of
your whatever.
Erin (25:42):
that was exactly going in my head.
Okay.
Tanya (25:44):
I was like, she's not gonna, and like, who would,
right.
I guess that's crazy.
People would, but, um.
You know, like without that, andwithout it, it's like competing
with this league, it's just achoice of one.
or the other.
And the guy is not such adominating jerk.
It's just kind of like a way ofplaying with those Criteria.
Erin (26:00):
Well, which one would you choose?
I think I'd pick Maxie League.
because it seems more fun.
What a stupid name,
Tanya (26:06):
so dumb.
Erin (26:06):
I think I would choose that just because it looks like
you're not just standing in theheat for four hours golf is
long, it's 18 holes and thatlooks like it could take a long
time.
Maxi League is only seven holesThe golf carts look really fast
the only thing is just kind ofridiculousness.
like who's gonna be able toshoot over trees, you're going
into the trees and doing allthis craziness.
(26:30):
I think I would probably choosethat because I've only golfed
once in my life and I was sobored I only did a couple holes.
I didn't even finish the wholething.
I was just so bored.
I like mini golf a lot though,so that's also what I'm
thinking.
Maybe it would be kind of, maxiwould be kind of like mini golf
slash fastness and stuff.
What about you?
What would you choose?
Tanya (26:47):
I agree.
I would rather do the Maxi Golfbecause I've never done actual
golfing, it doesn't sound fun tome.
And I think those littlechallenges and everything
without the stipulations that, Iset out I think.
It would be fun.
It'd be kind of excitingactually.
Some of them looked pretty coolto kind of challenge yourself to
be on ice and try it.
That one To slip.
Yeah.
You know, it was kind of, it waskind of silly.
(27:07):
Like some of them might be kindof cool.
Like climbing on the rings overa river.
some ninja mixed in there.
I think that would be fun.
that would be kind of fun.
So yeah.
Survivor warrior, like the.
Yeah.
Like it's kind of, yeah, it's,it's kind of what it reminded me
of.
It was just like, all thesedifferent scenarios are like
kind of different settings and Ithought like, oh, that, that
actually kind of looks fun, butlike you, it just, in the movie,
you don't like all this stuffaround it and the people in it,
(27:29):
In the snipping of the hip, likea men, but yeah.
That's scary.
Yeah.
I would definitely choose thatone, because golf is not.
it doesn't mean much to me and Idon't even know how to do it.
No.
And I don't care to do it.
No.
Erin (27:38):
my dad plays I don't know how many times a week he does
it, but he loves it.
Right now, of course in Floridayou kind of have to find other
sports, or do it super early inthe morning, for me, I know
people love it.
It just doesn't seem very fun tome.
It just a lot of concentration.
And standing around with people,it just doesn't, it just seems,
I don't know, it reminds me oflike baseball, just boring.
(27:59):
I mean, except for baseball, Ithink, I wouldn't mind seeing
those av, is it SavannahBananas?
Those look, they look fun.
Like the guys I know.
Yeah,
Tanya (28:05):
that's kind of like they've got more entertainment
built in there.
Erin (28:08):
I would like that type of baseball.
But golf, mini golf is fun.
But yeah, just regular golf.
Again, unless it was like you'rewatching Adam Sandler or maybe
John Daly.
He seems like he might be fun.
Yeah.
Maybe he would be
Tanya (28:19):
entertaining.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
let us know what you think.
hopefully you get to watch thisor you have watched this
already, but, uh, we thoughtthis is really interesting.
It has some themes like griefand parent child relationships.
Friendships, support, that typeof thing, just a funny, good
movie.
don't forget to follow us on allthe socials, even YouTube.
(28:39):
leave us a review, tell afriend.
We appreciate it.
Erin (28:42):
And don't forget, stay wicked and keep your mind well.
All right everyone.
Have a great week and we'll talkto you soon.
Tanya (28:49):
Bye.
Bye guys.
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