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The Baby Ruth bar was infamously featured in a scene in the movie Caddyshack when, during a pool party, several people not in the pool were fighting over a Baby Ruth bar when it slips in the pool with its wrapper off. Thinking someone had defecated in the pool due to the bar's uncanny resemblance to human feces, everyone makes a mad scramble out of the pool. When Bill Murray's character is cleaning out the pool afterward and recognizes it as a Baby Ruth bar, he takes a bite out of it, much to the disgust of the owners of the country club (Ted Knight and Lois Kibbee), who still believe it to be feces.
Baby Ruth was also used in the American Film The Goonies by Chunk to befriend Sloth and eventually save the day, as well as featuring in the love song "A Rose and a Baby Ruth."
In the movie Hellboy, a Baby Ruth bar is used to lure and mollify the infant Hellboy when he is discovered after the destruction of the Nazi portal.
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