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I Would Feed My Right Hand to A Gator to Stop Adam Sandler From Making ‘Happy Gilmore 2’

It’s official — Adam Sandler is working on a 28-years-too-late sequel to Happy Gilmore, and I’ll never be happy again.

For a film superstar so synonymous with creatively bankrupt, comically phoned-in “comedies” that still collect nine figures at the box office, it’s shocking that Sandler waited this long to start mining his Golden Age for that sweet, sweet, sequel cash. Sure, Sandler turned Grown Ups, Hotel Transylvania and Murder Mystery into multi-movie paydays, but, let’s be honest, nobody’s going to be quoting the original Grown Ups over a quarter-century after its premiere in the same way amateur golfers today still shout at their left-short birdie putts, “Are you too good for your home?!?!” 

Larry the Bar Fly Had to Die to Make ‘The Simpsons’ Relevant Again

Here’s a fun trivia question: Which popular Simpsons character died in the past week? If you answered “Larry the Barfly,” you are wrong. He was never popular.

In the opening scene of this past Sunday night’s new Simpsons episode, “Cremains of the Day,” Homer, Moe, Lenny and Carl all traded some Twitter-level punchlines about the rise of mobile sports gambling in Moe’s Tavern for a couple minutes before the real inciting incident of the episode reared its barely familiar head. Larry the Barfly, who we now know to be named Larry Dalrymple, died at the barstool where we first found him in the first-ever Simpsons episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” 

After spending the last 34-and-a-half seasons firmly in the background, the Harry Shearer-voiced character slipped out of The Simpsons for good after speaking all of five words in the entire show.

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