30 Resilient Bits of Trivia About Your Favorite Sports Comedies

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30 Resilient Bits of Trivia About Your Favorite Sports Comedies
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The odds are heavily stacked against them, but these facts about sports comedies just figured out how to get the job done. The training montage is over, the new uniforms have arrived and that bigger, stronger fact batch standing between them and your brain is about to get some serious comeuppance. 

When knowledge and laughs are on the line, nothing can hold these facts down.

The Gopher in Caddyshack

They came up with the gopher in Caddyshack pretty much at the last minute. There was pretty much nothing tying together the scenes in the finished movie, so a producer suggested the gopher, who'd showed up very rarely up to that point. CRACKED.COM

Source: The Wrap

White Men Can’t Jump

Stanley Kubrick WHITE MEN was a fan of JUMP CAN'T and hated The WIZARD of Oz useum CRACKED COM

Space Jam

In Space Jam, Bill Murray says he's friends with the producer, and he was. His explanation for entering the world of toons is that the movie's producer is his friend, and one of Space Jam's producers is Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. CRACKED.COM

Source: IMDB

BASEketball

CRACKED BEST H 4 Peers Beers BASEKETBALL South Park creators create their own sport. BASEketball was a game where any out of shape nobody could be a star, and the psych out portion let Trey Parker & Matt Stone do their hilariously immature thing! It was their own original comedic style which was (clearly) skewered by critics, but adored by fans.

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Bring It On

Rock songs in movies LOST NOUR THE 80 pop TANNE - voz Bring !t On We were going with the song by The Clash that first introduces Cliff, but YouTube has failed us, so we're going with the next best thing instead: Cliff's use of Jimmy Hendrix's FOXY LADY to woo Kirsten Dunst's Torrance. Smooth. CRACKED.COM

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The Bring It On Cinematic Universe

BRING IT ON RUMAN had 5 sequels... and a musical.

Bob Barker

THE PRICE IS RIGHT RATINGS BOOST CRACKED.COM That Bob Barker fight had a huge cultural impact in the mid 90s. Not only did it become comedy legend, Nielsen ratings indicated a significant increase in viewership after Happy Gilmore premiered, particularly in the young viewer demographic.

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s Meet Cute

July on hulu Old Spice WOO wonder MASCAR Talladega NEXTEL. Nights: by like The Ballad July 1 of Ricky Bobby Molly Shannon introduced Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. They hit it off so well that their friendship bled into a working relationship on screen. CRACKED.COM

Source: Mental Floss

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

May on hulu C May e ge 1 SCOME Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber is a big fan of the movie Hoosiers, so he made the uniforms for the Average Joes as close to the basketball team's as possible. CRACKED.COM

Source: IGN

Virginia Venit

MOST PEOPLE KNOW JULIE BOWEN AS CLAIRE DUNPHY ON MODERN FAMILY... AND IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE SHE WAS ALSO THE LOVE INTEREST IN HAPPY GILMORE NEARLY 25

Post-Credits Dodgeball Scene

A credits scene from Dodgeball features a fat, ranting Ben Stiller. RIN CNUNCW So He's speaking for the director. Rawson Marshall Thurber wanted the u

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