What's with all of the kids at the beginning?

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rossml24 — 10 years ago(June 19, 2015 05:06 PM)

Was that supposed to be some kind of joke? They had like 15 kids!!

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Thornspike — 10 years ago(June 24, 2015 10:41 PM)

Danny lived with a large family.

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kjones1067 — 10 years ago(June 30, 2015 07:56 AM)

It was an inside joke from the writer Brian Doyle Murray. He came from a family with a lot of kids, including his brother Bill. They were Irish Catholic and didn't believe in birth control, so they just kept popping out kids.

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rossml24 — 10 years ago(July 07, 2015 07:59 PM)

Thanks! I knew there was a joke or something behind that scene..
Suck it Thornspike. Your answer blows.

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Thornspike — 10 years ago(July 11, 2015 10:17 PM)

That's cool. I had nothing else.

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Son_Of_A_Bitch_Must_Pay — 10 years ago(March 03, 2016 10:12 AM)

yeah but I dont think they were all their kids, cuz the dad asked his wife who the kid was he was siting across the table talking to
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judsonkr — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 08:21 PM)

Oh FFS that was part of the joke.
They had so many kids that he did not know all of their names.
How can you not get that?

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Son_Of_A_Bitch_Must_Pay — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 01:35 PM)

But that wasnt his kid his wife said it was his nephew
Channel Six News, they'll finger anything with a pulse!

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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 9 years ago(September 13, 2016 05:08 PM)

Caddyshack is based on Bill Murray's life growing up. Like Danny, he was a working class kid from a very large family (nine kids!!) who worked as a caddy when he was younger. I don't know if it's up on the web, but in his interview with Howard Stern from a year or two ago he talks about it. It was very surprising to hear, because like everyone else, I just thought the scene in the beginning was just "comedy", but no, it was a parody of Murray's childhood.
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