# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/41 "2004-01-07T00:28:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > A serious answer. The farther back in time you go, the _less_ outcry you hear about this word, rather than the greater. Blacks simply had next to no social, cultural, or political power back then. And let’s not forget that there were movies released during that same time period that used the word in the title - _The Legend of N---- Charley_ - 1972, _The Soul of N---- Charley_, 1973, _Boss N----_, 1974. > [@](#): > > I intended to start a thread on this: what exactly is “the French mistake”? And did Brooks make up the phrase? I always though this was a reference to surrendering. Not that I know what exactly you were supposed to surrender… ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/42 "2004-01-07T00:55:34Z")
Rebbit!!! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/43 "2004-01-07T02:22:32Z")
Did y’all know that _Blazing Saddles_ is actually about geology? It says so right there at the beginning of the theme song: “Erode a blazing saddle, …” ---
**Author:** ![thermalribbon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/44 "2004-01-07T02:32:14Z")
Rev’rend! ---
**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:** [January 7, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/45 "2004-01-07T03:30:12Z")
Work, work, work, work, work, work, work… Hello boys! Did you miss me? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/46 "2004-01-07T04:09:21Z")
“Isn’t anybody going to help that poor man?” ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/47 "2004-01-07T04:18:11Z")
“'Scuse me while I whip this out.” ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/48 "2004-01-07T04:34:21Z")
I’ve decided to launch an attack that will reduce Rock Ridge to ashes…I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the West. Take this down: I want rustlers, cut-throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nit-wits, half-wits, dim-wits, vipers, snipers, con-men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bush-whackers, horn-swagglers, horse-thieves, bull-dykes, train-robbers, bank-robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and Methodists! ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/49 "2004-01-07T05:48:13Z")
Take a letter to the Governor and tell him I said…OW! “The new sheriff is a _BONG_” “He said the new sheriff is near.” “`Scuze me, while I whip this out” Funniest movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/50 "2004-01-07T06:04:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*Funniest movie ever. \*\* What really sold it for me the first time I saw it was the montage of Bart riding over the plains to this swinging, jazzy tune. And then he runs into Count Basie (and his orchestra) in the middle of the desert. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/51 "2004-01-07T06:20:20Z")
If I’m allowed to get back on-topic for a moment… I think that level of “N-word” usage still occurs occasionally… see any Quentin Tarantino movie…Timmy ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/52 "2004-01-07T06:41:14Z")
Bart, Bart Bart!!! They told us you was hung! And they was right. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/53 "2004-01-07T15:06:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RobuSensei \* > \*\*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” \*\* Yep, I remember this too. I thought the cannon gag was the funniest of all the Mongo vs. Bart bits they did and I can’t believe it is not in the vhs release. I have not seen the DVD yet, so I’m not sure if they have it back in or not. MeanJoe ---
**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 7, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/54 "2004-01-07T20:26:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MeanJoe \* > \*\*I thought the cannon gag was the funniest of all the Mongo vs. Bart bits they did and I can’t believe it is not in the vhs release. > > I have not seen the DVD yet, so I’m not sure if they have it back in or not.\*\* Amazon lists [two](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056WT6/qid=1073506730/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2369161-7712945?v=glance&s=video) [tapes](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005BCO8/qid=1073506730/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-2369161-7712945?v=glance&s=video) released this past September and says they have “rare or unseen footage”. Could mean something else entirely of course, likewise with the [special edition DVD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305842450/qid=1073506948/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-2369161-7712945?v=glance&s=dvd) which might turn out to not be so special. ---
**Author:** ![2planka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a8b319/32.png) [@2planka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2planka)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/55 "2004-01-07T20:40:36Z")
“A man drink like that, that man is going to die. You must like to do something. So tell me, what is it you like to do?” “Oh, I dunno… play chess… screw…” “How 'bout we play chess then.” Just let my 17 year old nephew borrow the dvd… first time he saw it uncut. Thought I was gonna have to call the medics for him. ---
**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 7, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/56 "2004-01-07T20:51:18Z")
How 'bout Gene Wilder’s voice when he was holding in the smoke: “Say, Bart…” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/57 "2004-01-07T23:11:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > \*\*“You spare the women?” > > “Hell NO! We rape the shit out of em’ at the Number 9 dance!” > > \*\* Number 6 Dance, dammit! “That’s where we go ridin’ into town, whompin and a whoopin’ shootin’ everything that moves. Except for the women.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/58 "2004-01-08T00:01:20Z")
And on that note… “Qualifications?” “Rape, murder, arson and rape.” “You said rape twice.” “I _like_ rape!” All these and many more at [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/quotes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/quotes) ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/59 "2004-01-08T00:06:56Z")
“You use your tongue purtier than a twenty-dollar whore!” ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blazing-saddles/222850/60 "2004-01-08T06:06:51Z")
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