Who can forget Carl’s story-telling about the time he was a looper for the Dali Lama…

“So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one – big hitter, the Lama – long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… Gunga, gunga-galunga.”

Unfortunately, you movie used the 6th take for that scene. The first five were done with Little Jimmy Chicken. A young, sweet, innocent member of a brood that was sheltered from the evils of the world. Home schooled, no TV or fast food. Totally naive and wide-eyed.

He was so excited when he won a contest to have a small part in Caddy Shack, His parents were apoplectic. They did all they could to keep him home but Jimmy could think of nothing else. They relented. Which bring us to this ill-fated scene.

In the first 5 takes, Bill kept stumbling with his lines, while he actually poked Jimmy with the tips of that manure fork (it was a real one from the animal stalls that were used to fake the look of a caddy clubhouse), it continued to puncture the soft feathery skin near Jimmy’s neck.

His fever spiked from his basil temp of 107 to 124 degrees, he swooned so another beginning actor stepped in.

What happened to Jimmy? He later developing tetanus and died.

So laugh as you will about this scene but Jimmy is the one that paid the price.

An undisclosed settlement was reached between the parties of the production company, Bill and Jimmy’s parents. Bill was represented by Judge Smells.

Part of the agreement was that Bill would give Jimmy the ‘total consciousness on his death bed’ the Lama rewarded him as a tip for being his looper. So Jimmy would of ‘had that going for him’.