Quoted from CraZ4Pin:The bowling alley was simply a backdrop setting in the movie ... versus being a central theme like in a movie like Kingpin for example. So not sure how crazy I am about it yet (again ... YET.)
I'll set aside for the moment the blasphemy that you just brought up a movie by the fourteen year old childmind Farrelly brothers and compared it with a movie by the genius Cohen bothers. But, do you really think that, in a Cohen brothers movie, something as repetitious and ubiquitous in setting, dialog and plot as bowling and that alley are "simply a backdrop"? Haha.
Pretty much nothing "simply" happens in a Cohen brothers movie, least of all given so much screen time!