# Blazing Saddles Question - Mongo **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022 "2012-07-02T19:28:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/21 "2012-07-03T03:34:21Z")
“Izzat a ten-gallon hat, or are you chust enchoying the show…?” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/22 "2012-07-03T08:31:18Z")
Wasn’t there some bizarre sequence in the T.V. version where a newlywed Mongo is asked to raise the son of an old football buddy who has died? I could swear I remember seeing that on T.V. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/23 "2012-07-03T11:35:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Mongo seen things Sheriff Bart not believe. > Choo-choos on fire near the quicksand bog. > Mongo watch glow worms in dark near phony turnpike gate. > All those moments lost in my brain, like rain in tears. > Time to punch. …a horse. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/24 "2012-07-03T12:41:52Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Mongo seen things Sheriff Bart not believe. > Choo-choos on fire near the quicksand bog. > Mongo watch glow worms in dark near phony turnpike gate. > All those moments lost in my brain, like rain in tears. > Time to punch. You use your tongue prettier than a ten-dollar whore. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/25 "2012-07-04T02:00:09Z")
…Let’s play chess. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/26 "2012-07-04T02:17:21Z")
Do people still get the pun that gives Mongo his name? To refresh memories, when he shows up in town, someone says, “Mongo! Santa Maria!” ---
**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:** [July 4, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/27 "2012-07-04T02:33:54Z")
Post #12. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/28 "2012-07-04T03:11:12Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Do people still get the pun that gives Mongo his name? > > To refresh memories, when he shows up in town, someone says, “Mongo! Santa Maria!” For those of us that are a little slow, could you explain? ---
**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:** [July 4, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/29 "2012-07-04T03:17:11Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > For those of us that are a little slow, could you explain? “Mon Gosan Tama-Reo” was a popular Japanese cartoon series that was broadcast in the United States in the last sixties. If you give me ten minutes, you can verify this on Wikipedia. Or you could check [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_Santamar%C3%ADa). ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/30 "2012-07-04T03:49:50Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Yask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Yask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yask)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/31 "2012-07-04T04:38:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > “Mon Gosan Tama-Reo” was a popular Japanese cartoon series that was broadcast in the United States in the last sixties. > > If you give me ten minutes, you can verify this on Wikipedia. > > Or you could check [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_Santamar%C3%ADa). I was half-whooshed. About to write a wassyoutalkinbout Willis and drop a couple [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbE7jf_Hp5w) links when I thought I should chekc out Nemo’s link to make sure there wasn’t an alternate explanation. Good one. Rick, click the Youtube link here (promise it’s about as opposite a RickRoll as you can get). ---
**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:** [July 4, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/32 "2012-07-04T16:07:35Z")
On a trivia note, that was probably a Richard Pryor joke. Pryor was one of the writers for the _Blazing Saddles_ script. Mel Brooks later said that Pryor loved Mongo and wrote almost all of the Mongo jokes. And Pryor was well known as a fan of Japanese cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/33 "2012-07-04T16:17:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > On a trivia note, that was probably a Richard Pryor joke. Pryor was one of the writers for the _Blazing Saddles_ script. Mel Brooks later said that Pryor loved Mongo and wrote almost all of the Mongo jokes. > > And Pryor was well known as a fan of Japanese cartoons. That guy was on fire! ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/34 "2012-07-04T16:38:23Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Blazing Runner would be an interesting movie. “Look at my hand.” (holds up hand) “Steady as a rock.” (pulls out other hand, which is twisted into a claw) “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a gunslinger.” “You’re reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl.” “Deckard, I’m not a weplicant. I need some west.” ---
**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:** [July 4, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/35 "2012-07-04T18:45:55Z")
“They don’t advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer. Methodist.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/36 "2012-07-04T18:48:09Z")
“Howard Johnson is right! We don’t want no Skin Job as our sheriff!” ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/37 "2012-07-04T21:39:00Z")
You guys have got to stop tempting me. I just wanted to do Roy’s last speech. I am seriously tempted to do the dressing room scene but with Sheriff Bart and Lili. E.g., “Are you ver veal?” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/38 "2012-07-04T22:08:40Z")
Sheriff Black Deckard, after Gabby Johnson’s unintelligible speech: “I knew the lingo. Every good cop did.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/39 "2012-07-04T22:14:11Z")
Sheriff Black Deckard voiceover: “All I needed was 24 hours. I had to persuade the townspeople to give me 24 hours.” * * * Sheriff Black Deckard: “Just give me twenty-four hours to come up with a brilliant idea to save our town. Just twenty-four hours, that’s all I ask.” Townspeople: [in unison] “No!” Sheriff Black Deckard: “You’d do it for Ridley Scott.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles-question-mongo/627022/40 "2012-07-04T22:24:08Z")
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