Adam Sandler's "The Waterboy" is a comedy about a water boy for
a college football team, who turned into a college football star. The main character, Bobby Boucher, is a slow-witted man in his mid-late 20's. He
still lives with his overprotective mother in a Louisiana Bayou, so his
social skills are very lacking. Another character is Henry Winkler, who
starred in Happy Days. He plays another football coach and one of Bouchier's only friends. The movie starts out with Boucher getting fired from his job as
the waterboy of the football team. He tries to get the job of water boy for
his favorite wrestler, Captain Insano, but after failing this and many other
attempts at finding a job, he lands one with a smaller college football team.
While this team is the laughing stock of the community, Boucher is made
fun of at this school just as much as the other. At the new school, the
main perpetrator is the quarterback, who also tries to get everyone
else to join in. One day at practice, Boucher was pushed too far. During the
middle of a play at practice, the quarterback started making fun of Bobby.
With all the anger that had built up, Boucher rushed in and viciously tackled
him. After seeing this, the coach was completely amazed, and offered Bobby a
scholarship. But this wasn't just some money to play ball, this was the
beginning of a whole new world. The only problem was that Bobby's
mother wanted to protect him from college and everything in the real
world because she thought that everyone was the devil. She wouldn't "let her
Bobby play foosball". His coach and everyone else who cared about Bobby
convinced him that what his mother didnn't know couldn't and wouldn't hurt her,
so after much debate, he decided to go behind her back and play anyway.
Right away, Bobby was a success. He used all his built up anger, and when
it was his turn to tackle someone, he diverted this energy and be...