** There were at least four styles of comedy in the movie. You had Bill Murray's absurdist, Rodney Dangerfield's nightclub one-liners, Chevy Chase's snark and Ted Knight's sitcom rage.
** Chase's golf pro never keeps score and then there was that priest declaring that there is no God.
** The infamous pool evacuation scene -- a Baby Ruth candy bar lands in the water and gets mistaken for something else -- was inspired by an actual prank that had been played while the Murray brothers attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette.
** The scene, shot four years after the release of "Jaws" and borrowing John Williams' iconic score, is remarkably faithful to Steven Spielberg's staging of the shark attack in :Jaws." Ramis keeps the camera at the waterline, waves swamping the lens, and then the stampede out of the water is ugly and out of focus at times.
** In case you haven't tested the theory, Baby Ruths do not float in water.
** Early in the film, the head caddy wrangler threatens his unruly charges that if they don't straighten up they will be replaced with cheaper, less-mouthy golf carts. Indian Hill Country Club still uses caddies.
--DaCootMurray
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