# A Blazing Saddles question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996 "2008-08-06T03:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/41 "2008-08-07T20:53:50Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] Golly, you use your tongue prettier’n a twenty dollar whore. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] Some lines were just made for Slim Pickens. Can’t find the exact quote from “Electric Horseman” but it went something like this: “I’m going to Reno to get me one of them hookers who can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.” A classic Picken’s line. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/42 "2008-08-07T21:00:39Z")
Too bad it was said by Willie Nelson. 😃 “I’m gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.” ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/43 "2008-08-07T21:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter. [/QUOTE] I’m just thankful that the participants in this thread got to experience some authentic plains jibberish! ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/44 "2008-08-07T21:16:35Z")
[QUOTE=usar\_jag] I’m just thankful that the participants in this thread got to experience some authentic plains jibberish! [/QUOTE] That’s FRONTIER jibberish, mister. And now for my next impression: Jesse Owens! ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/45 "2008-08-07T21:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] 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. [/QUOTE] Yes. Young Frankenstein is the only one I can still stand to watch. I was 12 or so for History of the World and thought it was amazing, but by the time Space Balls rolled along I just didn’t get it. Monty Python is still funny, Brooks just seems sad now. I never did understand Blazing Saddles tho. [QUOTE=Hampshire] 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. [/QUOTE] Infidel! Heretic! ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/46 "2008-08-07T21:33:40Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] Mongo only pawn in game of life. ☹ [/QUOTE] And for you jazz musicians out there; Scared Mexican Man: “Mongo! Santa Maria!” ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/47 "2008-08-08T01:22:31Z")
What’n the wide wide world of sports is’a goin’ on here!? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/48 "2008-08-08T02:25:36Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] What’n the wide wide world of sports is’a goin’ on here!? [/QUOTE] I dunno, but tell 'em I said OW! ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/49 "2008-08-08T02:43:12Z")
Tell them 'I said OW!" Got it! ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/50 "2008-08-08T02:50:05Z")
The two best Mel Brooks films are “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles”, and in both cases he had strong co-writers - Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Each brought something unique to the film, and (I believe) restrained Brooks’ tendency to play the tummler. I love both, but I don’t have to be the slightest bit embarrassed by my love of “Young Frankenstein”. It’s a great movie, and did something only great satire can accomplish - revealing a deep truth about the original; why would a man need to create life? Because he wanted to be a mother. “This is a good boy! This is a mother’s angel!” ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/51 "2008-08-08T03:01:35Z")
These are the kind of non sequiturs that can derail a thread. We’ve gotta protect our phoney-baloney jobs, gentlemen, we must do something about this immediately! ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/52 "2008-08-08T03:24:34Z")
Sheriff Bart: “Are we awake?” Waco Kid: “We’re not sure. Are we…black?” Sheriff Bart: “Yes, we are.” Waco Kid: “Then we’re awake, but we’re very puzzled.” ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/53 "2008-08-08T03:32:47Z")
**Reverend Johnson:** Order, order. Goddamnit, I said “order”. \*\*Howard Johnson: \*\*Y’know, Nietzsche says: “Out of chaos comes order.” \*\*Olson Johnson: \*\*Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/54 "2008-08-08T04:03:19Z")
Gaffa Johnson’s right. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/55 "2008-08-08T05:14:26Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Too bad it was said by Willie Nelson. 😃 “I’m gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.” [/QUOTE] Hey, I said it was meant for Pickens. Not my fault they cast the movie wrong 😉 Note to self, don’t eat the worm. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/56 "2008-08-08T11:07:56Z")
Little Nemo Johnson is right about Gaffa Johnson being right! ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/57 "2008-08-08T13:47:54Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Yes. Young Frankenstein is the only one I can still stand to watch. I was 12 or so for History of the World and thought it was amazing, but by the time Space Balls rolled along I just didn’t get it. [/QUOTE] I thought Space Balls was sort of hit-and-miss. I did, however, roll off my chair at the Alien/Michigan J. Frog bit at the end. That just caught me completely by surprise. RR ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/58 "2008-08-08T14:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=gaffa] The two best Mel Brooks films are “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles”, and in both cases he had strong co-writers - Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. [/QUOTE] Without Richard Pryor, we never would have had Mongo. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/59 "2008-08-08T14:39:39Z")
No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996/60 "2008-08-08T14:42:36Z")
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. One other gag for you to expalin. What is the joke in the portait in Heddley’s office of the bride and groom facing backwards? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blazing-saddles-question/458996.md?page=4)