The Official Blazing Saddles appreciation thread

[blackdogdeek]

Can you believe this movie is from 1974? I still find it hilarious even today. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. here is a sampling of the memorable quotes

One of my favorites:

Bart: You are my guest, and I am your host. What is your pleasure? What do you like to do?
Jim: I don't know... play chess... screw...
Bart: [quickly] Let's play chess.

 

[Josh123]

Where tha white women at?

 

[spidey07]

Bahdges? We don't need no stinking bahdges.

 

[tenthumbs]

scuse me while I whip this out

 

[nakedfrog]

"I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!"

 

[PottedMeat]

Taggart: I got it. I got it.
Hedley Lamarr: You do?
Taggart: We'll work up a "Number 6" on 'em.
Hedley Lamarr: "Number 6"? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one...
Taggart: Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a whampin' and whompin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course.
Hedley Lamarr: You spare the women?
Taggart: NAW. We rape the shit out of them at the Number 6 Dance later on.
Hedley Lamarr: Marvelous.

 

[Phoenix86]

So many lines you could never get away with today...

Taggart: I got it! I know how we can run everyone out of Rock Ridge.
Hedley Lamarr: How?
Taggart: We'll kill the first born male child in every household.
Hedley Lamarr: ...Too Jewish.

 

[Vic]

Sheriff Bart: Good morning ma'am. And isn't it a lovely morning?
Little Old Lady: Up yours, n*gg*r!

Bart: Why would Hedley Lamarr care about where the choo-choo go?
Mongo: Don't know. Mongo only pawn in game of life.

Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Taggart: Gol darnit Mr. Lamarr. You use your tongue prettier'n a twenty dollar whore.

 

[kranky]

It's a great, great movie.

Bart: Need any help?
Jim: Oh.... all I can get.

 

[KeithTalent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...0PtEZE&feature=related

KT

 

[anxi80]

"its twue! its twue!"

 

[Nitemare]

Taggart: Does anybody got a dime?
Cowboys: [Murmuring]
Taggart: Somebody's got to go back and get a shitload of dimes.

Charlie: Yoohoo! You shifty n*ger. They said you was hung!
Sheriff Bart: And they was right!

 

[RightIsWrong]

It got pretty gritty. Then one day I was just walking down the street and I heard a voice from behind me say "Reach for it, Mister". And I spun around and there I was face to face with a six year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and just walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass. So, I limped to the nearest saloon and slipped inside a whiskey bottle and been there ever since.

 

[jonks]

A black president!?!

 

[anxi80]

Originally posted by: RightIsWrong
It got pretty gritty. Then one day I was just walking down the street and I heard a voice from behind me say "Reach for it, Mister". And I spun around and there I was face to face with a six year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and just walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass. So, I limped to the nearest saloon and slipped inside a whiskey bottle and been there ever since.

"a man drinks like that and he dont eat, he is gonna die!"
"when?"

 

[BlackTigers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ_Sqj7JUn8

I laugh at that everytime

 

[kranky]

Another reason this is such a great movie is the subtle humor incorporated even beyond the dialogue.

Like the fact that the name "LePetomane" came from a Frenchman who was a professional farter (really!) in the late 1800's. And the whole Hedy/Hedley thing.

And remember when Mongo rides into town, and the peasant guy says "Mongo! Santa Maria!" before running off? Mongo Santamaria was the name of a famous musician in the mid 1900's.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Bahdges? We don't need no stinking bahdges.

Is actually from Treasure of the Sierra Madre Only funny because they were being handed badges vs. being asked for them. I think most people only giggle because of the sterotypical Mexican accent. I actually saw the former first. Thank god for late night movies.

Anyone moves, and the n**** gets it!
He souns serious. Do what he say! DO WHAT HE SAY! (with a perfect expression mocking Hattie McDaniel). Priceless!!!

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: spidey07
Bahdges? We don't need no stinking bahdges.

Is actually from Treasure of the Sierra Madre Only funny because they were being handed badges vs. being asked for them. I think most people only giggle because of the sterotypical Mexican accent. I actually saw the former first. Thank god for late night movies.

Anyone moves, and the n**** gets it!
He souns serious. Do what he say! DO WHAT HE SAY! (with a perfect expression mocking Hattie McDaniel). Priceless!!!

I think you vastly underestimate how much the whole "badges" routine is known.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Quite possibly.

 

[nanette1985]

De Camp Town Ladies?
What in the wide wide world of sports is a-goin on here?
Tell them I said OW!
Yeah, but I shoot with this hand
You brute, you brute, you viscious brute

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Anyone moves, and the n**** gets it!
He souns serious. Do what he say! DO WHAT HE SAY! (with a perfect expression mocking Hattie McDaniel). Priceless!!!

hahaha...i love Blazing Saddles. That is one of my favorite scenes...when he takes himself hostage.

 

[DaveJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs

Gets me every time...

 

[BoomerD]

The IMDB list missed the best dialogue in the whole movie...

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The whole campfire scene is a classic that'll probably never be redone with as much pizazz.

 

[dennilfloss]

Excuse mewhile I whip this out.