# Blazing Saddles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850 "2004-01-05T18:14:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/21 "2004-01-06T14:42:16Z")
My favorite edit is the beeping of Shtupp, a fun little yiddish work for fucking. And yet there is a scene that takes place in front of a huge poster for Lily von Shtupp. I guess they assumed we couldn’t read? ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/22 "2004-01-06T14:49:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Telemark \* > \*\*My favorite edit is the beeping of Shtupp, a fun little yiddish work for fucking. And yet there is a scene that takes place in front of a huge poster for Lily von Shtupp. I guess they assumed we couldn’t read? \*\* Ah, yes, Lily! “You Teutonic twat!” Another usually-bleeped line. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/23 "2004-01-06T14:59:12Z")
And TV also edits out the “It’s twue, it’s twue, it’s TWUE!” scene. I once saw the mvoie on AFKN, the US military TV channel in South Korea, and the censors had removed all the cursewords, the uses of the N-word, and just about every bit of humor in the film. I could not figure out why the military thought that soldiers of all people would be offended by that. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/24 "2004-01-06T15:14:59Z")
Also the hymn gets edited. I saw it on TV once as: _Now is a time of great decision Are we to stay or up and quit? There’s no avoiding this conclusion: Our town is turning into…_ (Dead silence.) Because of course if they don’t let you hear the word, you’ll never know what it is, right? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/25 "2004-01-06T15:37:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by malaka \* > \*\*I saw it once where the fart scene was IN, but the fart noise was edited out. The scene made no sense whatsoever. \*\* Ah yes, the silent but deadly _cut._ ---
**Author:** ![Zach\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ed655f/32.png) [@Zach\_Lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zach_Lee)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/26 "2004-01-06T15:46:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TERRA Rising \* > \*\*I loved this movie. Especially the bean scene! > > Too bad that fire didn’t flare up after every fart! \*\* I recently saw an edited version on broadcast tv, where they edited that scene with horse whinnies rather than farts. But, they left in the old woman saying “Up yours, n-----r” I’ve spent the rest of the time trying to imagine a community where people could use the racial term freely, but farts were beyond the pale. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/27 "2004-01-06T16:27:12Z")
Blazing Saddles also has the distinction of being Alex Karras’ lowbrow movie debut as Mongo (“Mongo only pawn in game of life”). I intended to start a thread on this: what exactly _is_ “the French mistake”? And did Brooks make up the phrase? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/28 "2004-01-06T16:36:24Z")
“Awwww…Mongo straight!” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/29 "2004-01-06T16:59:25Z")
“You spare the women?” “Hell NO! We rape the shit out of em’ at the Number 9 dance!” * * * “A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with this stuff!” ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/30 "2004-01-06T17:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > \*\*“You spare the women?” > > “Hell NO! We rape the shit out of em’ at the Number 9 dance!” > > * * * > > “A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with this stuff!” \*\* That’s another part that got edited out in the tv version that I saw. Boy, they sure cut out a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/31 "2004-01-06T17:06:57Z")
Why even show a cheerfully offensive comedy if you’re going to cut it? Makes me want to say, “Piss on you – I’m workin’ for Mel Brooks!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/32 "2004-01-06T17:46:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flodnak \* > \*\*Also the hymn gets edited. I saw it on TV once as: > > _Now is a time of great decision > Are we to stay or up and quit? > There’s no avoiding this conclusion: > Our town is turning into…_ (Dead silence.) > > Because of course if they don’t let you hear the word, you’ll never know what it is, right? 😛 \*\* Now, the first time I saw this movie was a mangled televised verion. It left in “nigger”, cut the farting scene, and during this song, the final word was drowned out by the sound of a bellowing cow. For some reason, I find the cow change somewhat funnier than the original (and it showed a touch more imagination than just killing the sound entirely). When I heard the uncut version years later, it seemed flat and anticlimactic. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/33 "2004-01-06T18:35:06Z")
Interesting…I usually hear that final word drowned out with a loud piano chord. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/34 "2004-01-06T18:52:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*I once saw the mvoie on AFKN, the US military TV channel in South Korea, and the censors had removed all the cursewords, the uses of the N-word, and just about every bit of humor in the film. \*\* Sounds like the hevily edited (moreso than usual) version that’s shown on the Family Channel. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/35 "2004-01-06T19:51:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*Sounds like the hevily edited (moreso than usual) version that’s shown on the Family Channel. \*\* The Family Channel is notorious for editing movies and tv shows so much that they completely change the story. One example that comes to mind is [Hardcastle and McCormick](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085029/). I remember an episode where at the very end it’s revealed that McCormick did indeed get it on with the girl of the week, but that’s when it aired for the very first time on primetime television. But when The Family Channel got a hold of this series, they edited that part out at the very end so that it looked like McCormick did NOT bed her, most likely because the Family Channel did not want to promote any premarital sex. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/36 "2004-01-06T20:29:59Z")
Thanks to this movie I cannot think of the Vatican without also thinking of cattle stampeding … Mungo like candy! ---
**Author:** ![beefymeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/37 "2004-01-06T20:50:54Z")
Howard Johnson is right!! (authentic frontier gibberish) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/38 "2004-01-06T20:52:57Z")
" Take it easy baby, I am not from Havana!" 😃 ---
**Author:** ![\_xiao\_wenti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b782af/32.png) [@\_xiao\_wenti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_xiao_wenti)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/39 "2004-01-06T20:58:22Z")
Blazing Saddles has the distinction of being the first R-rated movie I saw (If it came out in 74, I was 10). BTW it was with my parents. MB is at times a genius. I even will laugh at SpaceBalls a bit/ ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/40 "2004-01-06T22:50:33Z")
I remember watching it on rented video for the first time, and being utterly confused. I had seen it before on broadcast TV, and the TV version had extra jokes inserted into it. The “capturing Mungo” sequence in particular was a lot longer. After the candygram: Mungo tries to play a “Draw!” game against a cowboy mannequin. They are supposed to draw on the count of three. At two, a cannon pops out of the mannequin and fires. Cut to Bart, hiding behind a corner, saying, “Three.” Sheriff Bart stands beside a well, advertising it as where the Spanish Armada was sunk. “Dive for authentic Spanish doubloons!” “Mungo like balloons!” Bart mans the air pump while Mungo (in full diving suit) goes in the well. All of a sudden, Bart says, “Whoops. Time for my lunch break.” He walks off. A sign appears next to Mungo in the well. “For more air, insert 25 cents” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850.md?page=3)