A Blazing Saddles question

[Tristan]

@BMalion

No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben

I take you’re not from Havana?

[silenus]

A previous thread on the subject.

[phil417]

@Bosstone

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.

Really? What about The Producers? Starring Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder, it was shot in 1968, when movies were much more censored. Nontheless, the movie is wonderfully funny. “Spring time for Hitler & Germany…”

Love, Phil

[BMalion]

@phil417

Really? What about The Producers? Starring Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder, it was shot in 1968, when movies were much more censored. Nontheless, the movie is wonderfully funny. “Spring time for Hitler & Germany…”

Love, Phil

“That’s right, baby when you got it, FLAUNT IT! FLAUNT IT!”

[Bosstone]

@phil417

Really? What about The Producers? Starring Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder, it was shot in 1968, when movies were much more censored. Nontheless, the movie is wonderfully funny. “Spring time for Hitler & Germany…”

Love, Phil

It’s also very much unlike Mel Brooks’ more popular gag movies. Silent Movie and Young Frankenstein wouldn’t need a lot of censoring either, but they don’t get a whole lot of airtime. If it wasn’t for the play and the new movie, The Producers wouldn’t be around that much either.

I’m aware Mel Brooks did more than History of the World, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood, but those are both the most often aired and the most censored, which is really counterproductive.

[Wargamer]

We’ll take the Chinks and the niggers, but we won’t take the Irish!