Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie he is not taken onto the hockey team. After he is hustling at the driving range he goes to toughen up. As he is toughening up, Chubbs unplugs the machine. The kid tries it, but he never plugged it back in and the machine still manages to work. (00:15:10)
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Christopher McDonald, Carl Weathers, Julie Bowen, Richard Kiel
Shooter pars the last hole, so Happy needs a birdie. Just as he's about to putt, a tower that Shooter's friend ran into falls and blocks the path of Happy's ball, but the rules say Happy has to play the ball as it lies. The tower's construction makes it similar to the "Impossible Hole" that Chubbs taught him at, so Happy hits the ball into the tower and wins. Shooter tries to steal the gold jacket, but the crowed chases him and he gets the crap beaten out of him. Happy gets his grandma's house back.
Monty
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Suggested correction: The kid plugged it in off-camera.
Shooter McGavin: I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
Happy Gilmore: You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
Trivia: The evil man at the nursing home is played by Ben Stiller, then a rising star, in an uncredited role.
Question: In the movie, when you see Happy's dream (happy place) for the second time, you see Shooter "eat" Grandma's tongue, however, in the TV version, that part is cut out, why? There's nothing bad about that part.
Answer: I tried to find if a specific reason was given, but couldn't. However, movie studios provide the edited version of films for television and airlines. Removing this scene (or this scene and whatever else was cut) probably would have given "Happy Gilmore" an MPAA rating of "PG", making it more suitable to broadcast. (Of course, this is 90's MPAA standards, and if "Happy Gilmore" was released today, it might get a "PG" rating and not "PG-13.) Additionally, scenes are also cut for time, so the version that was broadcast might have been for time and not content. Studios will also include deleted scenes (often not available on home release versions) into the broadcast version to ensure the film is long enough if too many scenes have to be cut.
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