Airplane. Didn’t even need to ponder on it.
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As was already mentioned, you can create polls in CS.
Moving thread from IMHO to CS.
"Where all the white ladies at?" is perhaps the funniest single line in movie history. It’s either that or “Well, nobody’s perfect” from Some Like It Hot.
I have to give this battle to Blazing Saddles because just thinking about moments like the one I mentioned make me smile.
“But where would I find a man like that?”
(pause)
“What am I looking at you for?”
They are both great. Both in my top 10 comedies. I give Blazing Saddles the slight edge. I actually think Airplane! has aged more as so many of the references mean nothing to younger people. I know my kids prefer BS to Airplane!
I think it is really close though.
Oh, as to Some Like it Hot, I’m still confused by why it is so well regarded. Though it seems to be a generational thing. Now Arsenic and Old Lace is timeless, Some Like it Hot is really dated.
I’ve always thought it was a sendup of Dietrich in Stage Fright (1950 Hitchcock) where she sang “The Laziest Gal in Town.” Her voice was like 2 octaves higher in Blue Angel.
Which takes nothing away from your point about the scene, which is for me the highlight of the movie.
I went with Young Doct…, wait, no, Blazing Sandals since YDF isn’t in the poll. Reasons put forth above; social commentary, it’s got musical numbers!. I’ll watch any of the three on late night TV if I can’t sleep.
Personal rank:
- Y D F
- Blazing Saddles
- Airplane
Nowadays I’m still able to sit through Airplane! in it’s entirety. Can’t say the same for Blazing Saddles. Saddles has some classic lines and scenes but there’s a lot of filler that’s just not funny. Harvey Korman just ain’t that funny. The finale of the chase through the Hollywood sets ain’t funny.
In a way it’s a lot like Caddyshack. Classic memorable scenes and lines but quite a slog to sit through these days.
Bite your tongue! Harvey is what holds the whole thing together. Every minute on screen is gold.
What movie are you talking about with the initials Y D F? :dubious:
It’s a close call, but I gotta go with Blazing Saddles.
Blazing Saddles, by a mile. I find Airplane! unwatchable anymore.
He’s putting a “Dr.” in Young Frankenstein.
I agree with this post 100%
Aye; I know that and you know that, but he doesn’t seem to know that. Hence my gentle and good-humored reminder, trying to allow him a chance to call out his own mistake in a similarly good-natured manner.
It’s BS all the way - right up until the closing scene. I get it’s a send-up of movie cliches, but for me that just is a real damper on what went before.
I think others have it right. BS has the higher, more surreal moments (because you can almost convince yourself you are watching a real movie) - Airplane is just straight vaudeville, and never stops. Both great.
Sure it is. like riding off into the sunset to a horse trailer and a limo is funny as hell.
If I had to pick, which I did, it’s Blazing Saddles. Both are great, though I think BS has deeper humor behind it. (Despite the farting scenes and all that.)
I was never a big fan of Blazing Saddles, even at its release. I get that it’s funny in a sophomoric way, but even as a sophomore I thought the jokes obvious and tiring. LOL in parts, yes, but overall it doesn’t do much for me. It may be the pacing.
But I acknowledge…even celebrate…that Blazing Saddles was made with love and care by a great many people who knew that what they were making was special.
Airplane!, on the other hand, was a film where really only Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker knew what what was going on, or had the vision of how these straight-delivered lines would come together. And like most other ZAZ films, I laughed heartily the first half-dozen viewings. Even now, I’ll stop and watch their films on TV if I run across them, and smile frequently even though I know all the dialogue.
On the tangent of Young Frankenstein: it isn’t a laugh-out-loud film for me EXCEPT for the scene with Frankenstein at the [uncredited surprise actor]'s hermit hut. I think I may have pulled something internally. Even now, I know what’s coming, but it is still one of my top-3* funniest film moments ever. But: not that I don’t find the rest of the film dull or unfunny; I love the whole thing, but it isn’t a “laugher” for me, but rather I appreciate the love and care that went into its making.
- YF’s monster dance scene also nearly killed me the first time I saw it
All the above and no one commented on me spelling “Saddles” as “Sandals” the first mention. I did that on purpose; nothing from the peanut gallery. Subtlety is dead.
I can’t help it if the original title should have been, “Young Dr. Fronkensteen*.” 
*one of the quotable lines from the film if that’s too obscure.