# Umm, wait... what? Caddy shack is how old? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 8, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464 "2020-10-08T03:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/1 "2020-10-08T03:36:12Z")
The movie Caddyshack is old. How old? I just found out, randomly, that Caddyshack was released before Porky’s. Mind blown. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/2 "2020-10-08T03:40:30Z")
I’m over 50. I tried to sneak in to Caddyshack because I wasn’t old enough to buy a ticket for it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/3 "2020-10-08T03:40:44Z")
40 years ago. When I was a kid in the 60s a 40 year old movie wasn’t a talkie. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/4 "2020-10-08T04:52:04Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I just found out, randomly, that Caddyshack was released before Porky’s. Seriously? Mind blown, indeed. Based on where we were living when I saw it, it was probably 86 or 87, and I thought it was newish (as new as theatrically released movies shown on TV ever are). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/5 "2020-10-08T13:01:39Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I’m over 50. I tried to sneak in to Caddyshack because I wasn’t old enough to buy a ticket for it. I’m 54 and definitely saw it in the theater. Was it rated R? I was just thinking the other day about movies I saw when I was a kid that must have been rated R, yet I saw them without parental guidance. Maybe the rules in your town were stricter(?) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/6 "2020-10-08T21:27:45Z")
I remember seeing a trailer for “Caddyshack” when I saw “Animal House” in the theater. Which would have been '79 or '80? So yeah, that sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/7 "2020-10-09T01:41:06Z")
Young girl ,Sarah Holcomb, who was in Animal House (mayor’s daughter) and Caddyshack (waitress at country club) never made another movie. The story is she got hooked on drugs and decided the best way to stay clean was to leave the movie industry . ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/8 "2020-10-09T03:56:43Z")
Is 1980 supposed to be a long time ago? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/9 "2020-10-09T04:18:05Z")
I was 3 years old in 1980. I remember almost the entire 1980s quite vividly, and I admit even to me it doesn’t feel like that long ago but still, 40 years is a relatively long time, if measuring in units of human lifetimes. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/10 "2020-10-09T04:20:10Z")
\<1 human lifetime doesn’t seem like much of a unit. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/11 "2020-10-12T00:24:36Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Is 1980 supposed to be a long time ago? For dinosaur stuff, probably not. Age of sequoias, nope. Contemporary American comedy movies? Yes, that’s a while. And don’t dismiss human lifetimes as a yardstick of ‘a long time’ technology-wise. My grandfather was born before the first passenger air flight. Before he died he flew from Texas to visit me in California in 3 hours. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/12 "2020-10-12T01:23:09Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > And don’t dismiss human lifetimes as a yardstick of ‘a long time’ technology-wise. My grandfather was born before the first passenger air flight. Before he died he flew from Texas to visit me in California in 3 hours. I wasn’t dismissing a human lifetime as a yardstick, I was venerating it. The American Revolution seems an impossibly long time ago, right? Yet [we have photographs of revolutionary war veterans.](https://www.phillyvoice.com/photos-a-rare-view-of-revolutionary-war-veterans/) 1980 doesn’t seem that impossibly long to me on that scale; it’s quite recent. I voted in the 1980 elections. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-wait-what-caddy-shack-is-how-old/922464/13 "2020-10-12T03:03:16Z")
Sadly, from her Wikipedia article: > [@](#): > > Today, Holcomb, who suffered from schizophrenia, lives a quiet, reclusive life under an assumed name somewhere in Connecticut but good for her in getting out of the industry. I saw it the year I graduated from college. I was dating a Catholic girl at the time, and felt bad for her because of some of the digs about her faith from the Lutheran bishop. The Lutheran versus Catholic animosity was something I was very aware of at the time.