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 always though this was a reference to surrendering. Not that I know what exactly you were supposed to surrender…
Rebbit!!!
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, …”
Rev’rend!
Work, work, work, work, work, work, work… Hello boys! Did you miss me?
“Isn’t anybody going to help that poor man?”
“'Scuse me while I whip this out.”
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!
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.
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.
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
Bart, Bart Bart!!! They told us you was hung!
And they was right.
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
Amazon lists two tapes 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 which might turn out to not be so special.
“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.
How 'bout Gene Wilder’s voice when he was holding in the smoke: “Say, Bart…” 
Number 6 Dance, dammit!
“That’s where we go ridin’ into town, whompin and a whoopin’ shootin’ everything that moves. Except for the women.”
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
“You use your tongue purtier than a twenty-dollar whore!”
"My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention! "
“Ditto!”