# famous movie quote

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244 "2003-12-01T11:44:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![SeekingTruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SeekingTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeekingTruth)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244/1 "2003-12-01T11:44:53Z")

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This has to be the most oft-quoted line in movies, the bitch of it is I’ve seen it and I can’t remember the original movie.

“Badges?!? We don’t need no stinking badges!”

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**Author:** ![milk\_milk\_lemonade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@milk\_milk\_lemonade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milk_milk_lemonade)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244/2 "2003-12-01T12:01:23Z")

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/)

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244/3 "2003-12-01T12:40:00Z")

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It was also satirized in “Blazing Saddles” [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/).

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244/4 "2003-12-01T12:48:30Z")

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And was parodied in **UHF** : “Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers!”

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**Author:** ![SeekingTruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SeekingTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeekingTruth)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244/5 "2003-12-01T13:03:02Z")

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thanks MML, as I’ve said, I know it’s widely used in other movies

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**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:** [December 1, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244/6 "2003-12-01T13:24:47Z")

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To search for famous movie quotes, go to the IMDb search page:

[http://us.imdb.com/search](http://us.imdb.com/search)

Click on “Browsable Sections” on the left. Put “stinking badges” in the section for words to be searched on. You’ll get a link to _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_.

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**Author:** ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-movie-quote/216244/7 "2003-12-01T14:49:11Z")

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Also discussed here:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194725&highlight=stinkin\*+badges](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194725&highlight=stinkin%2A+badges)