10 Best Movie Characters Who Appear In Only One Scene

7. Bob Barker - Happy Gilmore

Pulp Fiction
Universal Pictures

Playing an amped-up, ass-kicking version of himself in 1996's Happy Gilmore, Bob Barker completely devoured the scenery in front of him and utterly stole the show in the Adam Sandler golf vehicle.

As manchild hockey player-turned-manchild golf pro, Happy finds himself having to play on a pro-am golf tournament with The Price is Right host Barker as his partner. All starts well, but then Gilmore's game goes to sh*t after he's mercilessly heckled by a hired hand of Shooter McGavin.

With a steel will to win, Barker doesn't take too kindly to Happy's horrendous form causing the duo to come rock bottom in the tournament. After a few snide back-and-forths between the two, Happy snaps and lays out Bob, only for Barker to fire back and put down his loudmouth opponent.

Even when the younger, stronger Happy Gilmore gets the better of Bob Barker, the legendary TV figure rises up like WWE's Undertaker to lay a further beatdown on the hapless Happy and leave him lying.

So memorable was this scene and this incarnation of Bob Barker, the rivalry between Happy and Barker was revisited nearly 20 years later in 2015 as part of Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars event to raise money for autism.

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