Caddyshack II and Magic supplied the visual effects for these scenes. Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the original "Caddyshack" with Brian Doyle-Murray and Douglas Kenney, described "Caddyshack II", which he co-wrote with Peter Torokvei, as "terrible." In an interview with The A.V. Club in 1999, Ramis said that, Ramis was later quoted as saying that Dangerfield was the only one who expressed any interest in doing a sequel in the first place. Ted Knight had died two years earlier, Bill Murray was not interested in reprising his role as Carl the greens keeper, and he said Chevy Chase had "already moved on", although
Caddyshack the country club's stodgy co-founder and director of the caddie scholarship program, by caddying for him. Meanwhile, Carl Spackler, a somewhat-unhinged greens-keeper, is entrusted with combating a potentially disastrous gopher infestation. He employs a variety of methods to kill the gopher (e.g. shooting, drowning) without success. Al Czervik, a brash and obnoxious "nouveau riche", begins appearing at the club. Smails is heckled by Czervik as he tees off, causing his shot to go badly wrong. Smails throws his putter in a fit of frustration and accidentally injures another club-member. Danny takes responsibility for the incident, as a ploy to gain