# Badgers? We don't need no steenkin' badgers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2005, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534 "2005-05-12T09:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/1 "2005-05-12T09:55:22Z")
Where did this catchphrase come from? I’ve seen it used on this board and at least one other, and this months copy of the Judge Dredd Megazine 😕 Is it another “all your base are belong to us”? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/2 "2005-05-12T10:05:10Z")
It’s a parody of a quote from _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_: [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/quotes](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/quotes) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/3 "2005-05-12T10:08:02Z")
[Stinking badges home page](http://www.darryl.com/badges/). [The badger transition](http://www.darryl.com/badges/getfuzzy2040678040914.gif). ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/4 "2005-05-12T10:20:04Z")
Squink your link doesn’t attribute a date to that cartoon, but it looks fairly recent. The ‘bagers’ version was used at least as far back as Wierd Al’s “Vidiot” which was late 80s vintage. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/5 "2005-05-12T10:31:40Z")
Cool, no I no longer need to feel left out 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/6 "2005-05-12T11:00:43Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > Squink your link doesn’t attribute a date to that cartoon, but it looks fairly recent. The ‘bagers’ version was used at least as far back as Wierd Al’s “Vidiot” which was late 80s vintage. Er, would that be [UHF](http://imdb.com/title/tt0098546/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9dWhmfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1)? The ‘badges’ line was also parodied in [Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part 1](http://imdb.com/title/tt0082517/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9aGlzdG9yeSBvZiB0aGUgd29ybGR8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=2;ft=20;fm=1). ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/7 "2005-05-12T11:02:24Z")
And in Judge Dredd as “We don’ need no steenkin’ budgies!” ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/8 "2005-05-12T13:58:04Z")
[All Your Base Are Belong to Us](http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/story.shtml) Watch the video 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/9 "2005-05-12T14:26:08Z")
> [@wheelie](#): > > Er, would that be [UHF](http://imdb.com/title/tt0098546/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9dWhmfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1)? > The ‘badges’ line was also parodied in [Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part 1](http://imdb.com/title/tt0082517/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9aGlzdG9yeSBvZiB0aGUgd29ybGR8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=2;ft=20;fm=1). And it was in **Blazing Saddles** as well. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/10 "2005-05-12T15:09:39Z")
> [@wheelie](#): > > Er, would that be [UHF](http://imdb.com/title/tt0098546/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9dWhmfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1)? It was called “The Vidiot from UHF” in some parts of the world, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/11 "2005-05-12T15:14:02Z")
I clicked on this thread hoping it would be a _UHF_ appreciation thread. Oh well. I’m off to make myself a Twinkie-wiener sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/12 "2005-05-12T20:17:09Z")
My first thought was, “people are getting pretty damned tired of ‘badger badger badger…’” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/13 "2005-05-12T20:22:28Z")
“Perhaps, if we were to build a giant wooden badger…” ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/14 "2005-05-12T21:01:34Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > I clicked on this thread hoping it would be a _UHF_ appreciation thread. > > Oh well. I’m off to make myself a Twinkie-wiener sandwich. You’re not the only one. “You took…the box. You get NOTHING! YOU’RE SO STUPID!” ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/15 "2005-05-12T22:58:44Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > And it was in **Blazing Saddles** as well. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/16 "2005-05-13T02:20:45Z")
And we have a friend named Fred Badger. He hears it no end. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/17 "2005-05-13T03:31:23Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > Squink your link doesn’t attribute a date to that cartoon, but it looks fairly recent. The ‘bagers’ version was used at least as far back as Wierd Al’s “Vidiot” which was late 80s vintage. Look closer: 9/14/2004. HTH ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/18 "2005-05-13T03:44:07Z")
I also seem to remember it from a short-lived “sword and sorcery” TV show from the early 80’s which I believe starred Jeff Conaway, but whose name (probably fortunately) escapes me. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/19 "2005-05-13T03:58:08Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > My first thought was, “people are getting pretty damned tired of ‘badger badger badger…’” 😃 _Mushroom, mushroom_ ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534/20 "2005-05-13T05:51:08Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > _Mushroom, mushroom_ [eek](http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badgers/303534.md?page=2)