--- title: Every Adam Sandler Movie Is Connected: Video description: YouTuber Shawn Kohne posted a video explaining the "Sandlerverse," a theory that explores the details that link almost every Sandler movie. canonical: https://time.com/4199893/every-adam-sandler-movie-connected/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-29T17:43:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:27.702Z og:title: Here's How Almost Every Adam Sandler Movie Is Connected og:description: From 'Billy Madison' to '50 First Dates' og:url: https://time.com/4199893/every-adam-sandler-movie-connected/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Almost Every Adam Sandler Movie Is Connected twitter:description: From 'Billy Madison' to '50 First Dates' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How Almost Every Adam Sandler Movie Is Connected > Sponsored content. 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However, what you might not have realized is the extent to which the films in the 49-year-old actor’s cinematic universe are connected. Luckily, YouTube user [Shawn Kohne](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy%5FA3UIA3JeZ-jJYqPHh3CA) recently posted a video explaining the “Sandlerverse,” a theory that explores the details that link almost every Sandler movie in one way or another. From the often reoccurring, “You can do it!,” guy to the popular children’s book _The Puppy Who Lost His_ Way, Kohne points out a plethora of Easter eggs that can be found throughout Sandler’s body of work. **Read More:** [This Adam Sandler Movie Has Inspired a Method of Dementia Care](http://time.com/3828172/adam-sandler-movie-dementia/) The YouTuber [told Mashable](http://mashable.com/2016/01/28/comedian-adam-sandler-the-sandlerverse/?utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm%5Fcid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed#I2zMnrYsHsqT) that he first noticed a tie-in between _50 First Dates_ and _Tommy Boy_. “After that it was just the process of literally watching EVERY Sandler and Happy Madison Production looking for connections,” he said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4199893/every-adam-sandler-movie-connected/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4199893/every-adam-sandler-movie-connected/"},"headline":"Here's How Almost Every Adam Sandler Movie Is Connected","datePublished":"2016-01-29T17:43:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:27.702Z","description":"From Billy Madison to 50 First Dates","url":"https://time.com/4199893/every-adam-sandler-movie-connected/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Actors","Adam Sandler"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4199893/every-adam-sandler-movie-connected/","name":"Here's How Almost Every Adam Sandler Movie Is Connected"}}]}] ```