Gopher Broke ... and Prairie Dogs Too

In the annals of motion picture special effects, you can't get more low tech then the mischievous gopher that terrorizes Bill Murray in Caddyshack.

Little more then a hand puppet (and blissfully, obviously so), the little bugger has become so popular over the years that they even have a toy versionthat dances to Kenny Loggins' "I'm Alright". And considering its meager beginnings, I would have to say that the toy gopher looks exactly like the gopher in the movie. Really, you can't tell them apart.

After all that, I must admit that this is just my meager attempt to connect the Caddyshack gopher to the latest internet video star, the Dramatic Prairie Dog.

Specifically, I wanted to draw your attention to the guys over at Cinematical, who have collected together the various movie-inspired riffs on the "DPG" that have popped up on YouTube since his, well, dramatic debut about a month ago.

So why the gopher? You try finding a movie with a prairie dog in it.

Click here to purchase the Caddyshack Dancing Gopherfrom Amazon.com.
Links via Imdb.com, YouTube.com and Cinematical.com.