Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, who is referred to ( and also refers to himself ) as " The Dude ".

The Dude receives a message from the Big Lebowski's daughter, Maude, who admits to hiring the criminals who knocked him unconscious.

The Dude is greeted by Maude Lebowski, who seduces him.

He gave an empty briefcase to The Dude ( who would be the fall guy on whom he pinned the theft ), and was content to let the kidnappers kill Bunny.

The affair apparently over, The Dude and his bowling teammates are suddenly confronted by the nihilists, who have set The Dude's car on fire.

* Jeff Bridges as Jeff " The Dude " Lebowski, a single, unemployed slacker living in Venice, California, who enjoys marijuana, White Russians, and bowling.

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front ( The Dude tells Maude Lebowski during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven, who were members of the SLF ).

* Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn, a wealthy pornographer and loan shark, who lives in Malibu, and employs the two thugs who assault The Dude at the beginning of the film.

" The Dude was also partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline ( now a member of the faculty at USC's School of Cinematic Arts ), a Vietnam War veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a little rug that " tied the room together.

Among Annie's patrons are Dave the Dude, a gambling gangster who believes her apples bring him good luck, and his henchman Happy McGuire.

In the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, sheriff's deputy Dude ( Dean Martin ), who has acquired the contemptuous nickname " Borrachón ", enters a saloon to get a drink.

With two men holding Dude upright, Joe begins punching him, then shoots and kills an unarmed bystander who tries to intervene.

Wheeler and Chance also discuss Dude ; about three years earlier Dude was a top-notch gunman until he " met a girl on the stage " who was no good and they left together.

" Chance and Dude flush out the shooter, who escapes into Nathan's saloon.

To suggest Dude is a drunk who needs a drink, one patron throws a silver dollar into a spittoon.

Dude then gets retribution on the patron who threw the dollar coin in the spittoon by making him go get it.

Dude knocks Joe out and Stumpy ( who followed them over after being told to stay behind ) finds some dynamite in one of Wheeler's wagons, and throws it at the building Burdette's men are in.

Taylor includes in the mural Quanah Parker at Roaring Springs, Judge Henry H. Campbell in his dugout prior to the establishment of the Matador Ranch, Dude Barton, an honoree of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, and Shannon Davidson, a long-distance rider who won a Hollywood movie contract.

Occasionally he travels back to his birthplace of California to commune with " Old Surfer Dude ", an elderly man who preaches the virtues of the surfer lifestyle in a style reminiscent of both a kung fu master and Yoda.

He graduated from The Taft School along with The Dude of Life, who helped pen such Phish compositions as " Suzy Greenberg ", " Run Like An Antelope ", " Slave to the Traffic Light ", and " Dinner and a Movie ".

Dude Hennick: An old friend of Pat's, an ace pilot who helps the heroes out.

In Rio Bravo, Chance is surrounded by allies-a deputy recovering from alcoholism ( Dude ), a young untried gunfighter ( Colorado ), an limping " crippled " old man ( Stumpy ), a Mexican innkeeper ( Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez ), his wife ( Estelita Rodriguez ), and an attractive young woman ( Feathers ) — and repeatedly turns down aid from anyone he doesn't think is capable of helping him, though in the final shootout they come to help him anyway.

If the book does get signed, the Dude remarks to Coleman that he really loved him in Facts of Life ( a spinoff sitcom which Coleman cameoed in ).

In a DVD commentary track, Parker said of Struthers, " Dude, you're really setting yourself up if you're going to be that fat and go on the air talking about children.

He responded by saying " Dude, that's really rude.

It was organized by film theory professor Dr. Ted Hovet and involved advertisements of the Dude saying the Bowling Alley really ties the campus together ( it was in danger of closing ).

After hearing what The Dude and Walter know, the nihilists demand all the money in their pockets.

* 1998 – The Big Lebowski, a film by Joel and Ethan Coen features Jeff Bridges as " The Dude " (" or His Dudeness, or Duder, or, you know, El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing "), an aging hippie / beach bum, who turns ' dude ' into a philosophy.

In the first dream sequence, the Dude gets knocked out and you see stars and they all coalesce into the overhead nightscape of L. A.

Also known as The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, the organization has ordained over 130, 000 " Dudeist Priests " all over the world via its website.

Dude is standing guard and confiscating all guns before entering town, and Nathan agrees to turn in their guns until they leave.

* 1883 – Political cartoon of Chester A. Arthur pictures the refined, well-dressed President, with the caption, " According to your cloth you've cut your coat, O Dude of all the White House residents ; We trust that will help you with the vote, When next we go nominating Presidents.

The town features many cars but they are all " useless exploding props ", according to Dude, and cannot be driven, although they can be blown up and sent flying into the air.

In most ( but not all ) cases, once an enemy NPC is engaged by another NPC, he / she temporarily forgets about attacking the Postal Dude.

Homer ends up annoying all of Springfield with his " Happy Dude " scam, and soon enough Chief Wiggum catches him.

They all are characters from The Galloping Ghost, where Wendy and Rita work at the Fuddy Dude Ranch and Nugget Nose is a gold-obsessed ghost who's jealous about the girls.

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The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications including the periodicals Dude, The Evening Standard, Lilliput, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Future, New Worlds, Startling Stories, Astounding, Fantasy, King's College Review, Satellite, Amazing Stories, London Evening News, Infinity Science Fiction and Ten Story Fantasy as well as the anthologies Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1 edited by Frederik Pohl and Time to Come edited by August Derleth.

He constantly references Vietnam in conversations, much to the annoyance of The Dude.

Dude and Chance patrol the town, when Carlos stops the sheriff, saying Wheeler was talking too much about Chance needing help.

Dude and Stumpy exchange angry words, then Chance tells Dude they've been " pampering him too much " and to get some sleep.