80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents - CADDYSHACK: Under-All the Golfer and Gopher Jokes, Sexy Still Means Slutty

CADDYSHACK: Under-All the Golfer and Gopher Jokes, Sexy Still Means Slutty

05/10/20 • 42 min

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

In their follow up to Animal House, Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney toned down the misogyny and upped the Slobs vs Slobs comedy. Tara McNamara, Gen X, and Riley Roberts, Gen Z, look at Caddyshack with the modern lens, identifying how it used comedy to chip away at authority and the pompousness of the rich, but also perpetuated stereotypes about women that took a couple of decades to shake.

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