In the first conversation between Hedley Lamarr and Boris the executioner, Boris says that he’s currently working on “a doozy” and indicates the grey-bearded man in a wheelchair he’s about to hang. Hedley says “Oh yes, the Doctor Gillespie killings.”
Huh?
Look for the reference under Satires.
Dr. Killpatient! That makes so much more sense now! :smack:
Okay, so Dr Gillespie was a character on the Dr Kildare TV show and movies. How is that a punchline to a joke about a guy in a wheelchair getting hung?
The two links I posted were the first two hits from Google for “doctor gillespie killings”.
I couldn’t pothibly anther this quethtion before Monday!
Okay, now I get it. Thanks.
I have another question: How can anyone sit through this movie. It was on the other night and I tried (really I did) to watch it and like it, but I gave up after about 30 minutes. Aren’t comedy movies supposed to be funny?
You watched it on TV, so they edited out all the offensive words and sounds, and snipped out bits to make it shorter. Believe me, it’s really funny until they do that. Damn them to hell!
It never ceases to amaze me that anyone tries to show Mel Brooks movies on TV. Half the jokes are vulgar or profanity-laden, and when you cut them out all you get is a mildly boring film. Or worst case, a confusing one, especially when they leave in the entire run-up to a joke and then chop the punchline.
If they censor all the occurrences of the N word in Blazing Saddles, the movie would be incomprehensible: a central plot point is, as several characters say, “The sheriff is a n—.”
Obviously, you have a twisted sense of humor, but so do we all. Maybe yours is twisted in the opposite direction?
I believe the edit carried by ABC Family is just that. I know they censored “faggots”.
At least they’re leaving in the fart noises these days. Comedy Gold!
It really pisses me off when the Waco Kid says, “Shot me in the…youknow.” Lamest “fix” ever.
You know what Pharmboy, I think it’s people hanging on to their fond memories of it as a kid. When I saw Mel Brooks movies as a 12 year-old I thought they were the funniest, most brilliant, taboo movies I ever saw. Fart jokes, dirty words, sex jokes, etc. We would constanly quote them in grade school.
Watching them now I find them unfunny and wonder how adults ever found them to be funny. They almost seem like they were written for grade school boys.
Kind of like the Star Wars phenomena. People don’t like to admit to themselves that Star Wars to an adult is actually a pretty crappy movie since they loved it to death when they were seven.
What?
He said the sheriff is near!
I don’t know that I can go along with this. This movie got much funnier to me as an adult than it was when I was younger. Not that Mel Brooks is known for subtle humor, but there were things I understood better as I got older. I think this movie is comic genius.
Granted, I don’t find the campfire scene nearly as funny now as I used to when I was younger. On the other hand, there are few greater joys in adult life then having my wife randomly quip to me, “They said you was hung!” 
Or some people have retained the ability to enjoy Mel Brooks movies. I still find Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Space Balls, History of the World and Get Smart quite funny. BS has held up pretty well when it is uncut.
What movies do you consider funny now as you are passing judgment on others?