I am watching "Blazing Saddles" and...

[TreasonousBastard]

after 40 years it's still the silliest, most ridiculous, insane, hilarious sendup of, well, damn near everything.

And, yes, farts are still funny. Funnier, even, than midgets walking large dogs or Gucci saddlebags.

"These people are the common clay of the New West. You know... morons."

[Turbineguy]

1. Mel Brooks was

prescient to the Tea Party.

[trof]

2. I bet he loved 'Idiocracy'.

[Trajan]

3. The Waco Kid

"But I shoot with this hand ..."

So many classic one liners ... Harvey Korman and Slim Pickens are amazing ...

[underpants]

22. Are we awake?

We're not sure. Are we black?
Yes we are
Then we're awake ...but very puzzled.



WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS IS A-GOING ON AROUND HERE? <-- I still say that one.

[Trajan]

23. LOL ... Classic

I use two quotes regularly:

1) We've got to protect our phony baloney jobs!

2) Now go do the voodoo that YOU do so well!

Hilarious, for all time ....

[Initech]

4. Candygram for Mongo! Candygram for Mongo!

Mongo like candy!

[sarge43]

5. Oh no, don't shoot him. That will only make him mad

[Initech]

7. Does anyone have a dime? Somebody go back and get a shitload of dimes!!!

[sarge43]

11. Now go do that voodoo that you do so wellllllll n/t

[lastlib]

9. my favorite: "Mongo only *pawn* in game of life."

and, of course, this:

. . . . . . .

. . . . . . .

. . . . . . .

[Initech]

12. That's classic frontier gibberish!

Damn it, now I want to watch Blazing Saddles!

[mackerel]

6. My mind is a raging torrent,

flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

[HeiressofBickworth]

8. It's Twooo! It's twooo!

Still one of the best movies ever.

[malthaussen]

16. They had to cut the follow-up line to that.

Even in that movie, "Pardon me, ma'am, you're sucking on my arm" was considered too raunchy.

-- Mal

[GoneOffShore]

10. Unfortunately there is no way Brooks could make that movie today.

Too many 'micro-aggressions', no 'trigger warnings', flatulence, words that might offend, stereotypes and schwanztes.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. The Anti-Schnitzengruben League would shut the production down.

[Initech]

20. Mel himself said that on his most recent HBO special.

Although given the content of some of the crazier movies that are made now, is some of the content in Blazing Saddles really *THAT* offensive when you think about it?

[GoneOffShore]

24. Some of the word police find everything 'offensive'.

[underpants]

21. 1974 -released the same year as "Young Frankenstein"

Mel was in the wheelhouse, as they say, back then.

[UTUSN]

14. Mell, Ann BANCROFT, and Madeline KAHN are the most fanTAStic humans!1

[font size=5]“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”[/font]


*******QUOTE*******

http://www.leoslyrics.com/mel-brooks/the-inquisition-lyrics/#7Ajbci1EQRCkMoT9.99
[font size=5] The Inquisition[/font]
Artist: Mel Brooks Lyrics
Album: Miscellaneous Album Lyrics

The Inquisition (What a show)
The Inquisition (Here we go)
We know you’re wishing that we’d go away
But the Inquisition’s here and it’s here to stay

********UNQUOTE********

[UTUSN]

15. Here's the magnificent Ms BANCROFT:

[malthaussen]

17. I always thought Burton Gilliam consciously patterned his character off Slim

In fact, the first time I saw it, I thought Gilliam might be Slim's son. And Slim's middle name was Burton, too. It must have been a trip for Gilliam to be in a film with such a legendary character actor.

-- Mal

[progressoid]

18. Randolph Scott!!

Just saw a movie on TCM with Randolph Scott and the first thing I thought of was Blazing Saddles.

[sarge43]

19. "Is that a 10 gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show?"