# another Mel Brooks: The Producers thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mel-brooks-the-producers-thread/24695
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 6, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mel-brooks-the-producers-thread/24695 "2000-07-06T02:11:22Z")
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### Author:  [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mel-brooks-the-producers-thread/24695/1 "2000-07-06T02:11:22Z")
I just watched “The Producers” for the very first time last night. I am familiar with the song “Springtime for Hitler” as I believe Dr. Demento used to play it on the radio. The odd thing is, a different stage performance of that song, than the one in “The Producers” movie.
I vividly recall a scene as follows: Mel Brooks dressed as Hitler, with a group of pseudo-Nazi’s, one I believe may have been Harvey Korman. They were inside a “bunker” and there were machine guns and explosions going off in the background, which was a fake battlefield. At the end of the song, a bomb lands on the bunker and blows them all up, in cartoonish fashion. Mel makes a wisecrack and collapses. End of skit. I’m not making this up. I remember it too clearly.
Does anyone recall such a skit, and where it came from? I am thinking Mel may have remade it in “History of the World” but I haven’t it seen it in so long, that I don’t remember anything but the Spanish Inqusition bit. help???
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mel-brooks-the-producers-thread/24695/2 "2000-07-06T02:21:27Z")
I don’t recognize it, but it’s not in _History of the World_.
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mel-brooks-the-producers-thread/24695/3 "2000-07-06T02:27:30Z")
Don’t remember it from The Producers, or History of the World. It rings bells with me, too, but for the life of me I can’t pin it down.
Now this is going to bug me.
(This reply was helpful, huh?)
Veb
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### Author:  [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-mel-brooks-the-producers-thread/24695/4 "2000-07-06T02:31:43Z")
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> Veb \*\*
Actually, yes, now I at least know I am not imagining things!