# Favorite "Blazing Saddles" scene/line **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851 "2011-08-16T01:23:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/21 "2011-08-16T03:19:51Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > “Somebody’s go to go back and get a shitload of dimes!” That’s still my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/22 "2011-08-16T03:22:48Z")
Hedley Lamarr: [to himself] A sheriff! But law and order is the last thing I want. Wait a minute… maybe I could turn this thing into my advantage. If I could find a sheriff who so offends the citizens of Rock Ridge that his very appearance would drive them out of town. [looks into the camera] But where would I find such a man? [pause] Why am I asking you? It’s just the breaking the 4th wall that I love. Much the same when Korman’s talking about being nominated for the Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/23 "2011-08-16T03:24:30Z")
“Piss on you; I’m workin’ fer _Mel Brooks_!” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/24 "2011-08-16T03:31:22Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > “Piss on you; I’m workin’ fer _Mel Brooks_!” Not the face! ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/25 "2011-08-16T03:32:40Z")
… and methodists! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/26 "2011-08-16T03:50:55Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > … and methodists! Could you repeat that? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/27 "2011-08-16T04:09:14Z")
I was wondering how long it would take before someone mentioned the campfire scene. Oh, and “They said you was hung!” “And they was right!” ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/28 "2011-08-16T04:12:36Z")
“'Scuse me while I whip this out.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/29 "2011-08-16T04:23:30Z")
Sing us a good ol nigger work song! “I get no kicks from champagne…” ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/30 "2011-08-16T04:36:49Z")
Got to be the opening scene, with (can’t remember the actor’s name – my uncle claims he knew him slightly) Lyle dancing around like a Kansas City Faggot (the team, not the sexual preference). “Dock that chink a day’s pay for nappin’ on the job!” “Well, my grandmother was Dutch…Just trying to help you out!” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/31 "2011-08-16T04:59:37Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I wonder how well this movie will hold up in, say, 100 years? In the 38 years since it was released, most of the profanity and sexual inuendo have become mainstream, but the N-word is a giant no-no. Another 100 years and Blazing Saddles will need footnotes. ☹ There are too many funny lines to mention without quoting the whole script, but “No, Mongo straight!” and " … But not the Irish!" are great lines. I lost my wallet while watching Blazing Saddles in the theater. I swear it was during the bean scene because I was laughing so hard. Had to go back to the theater to get my wallet, which was under my seat. I’ve kept my wallet in a front pocket ever since. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/32 "2011-08-16T05:12:48Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Got to be the opening scene, with (can’t remember the actor’s name – my uncle claims he knew him slightly) Lyle dancing around like a Kansas City Faggot (the team, not the sexual preference). [Burton Gilliam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Gilliam) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/33 "2011-08-16T05:13:23Z")
> [@](#): > > You’ve gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land; the common clay of the New West. > > You know… > > …morons. Never fails to crack me up, especially with Gene Wilder’s great delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/34 "2011-08-16T05:24:19Z")
You could just post the script as a great line. One of my favorites, not fully mentioned, is: > [@](#): > > Hedley Lamarr: Sign here. > [Bart reaches for the pen… revealing his black hands] > Jim: [quickly] Why, Rhett! How many times have I told you to wash up after weekly cross burning? > [licks his fingers, then rubs Bart’s hand] [Well, really, Gene turns over Cleavon’s hand] > Jim: See, it’s coming off. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/35 "2011-08-16T05:39:37Z")
Ditto??! You provincial putz. There there, it’s just a man and his horse being hanged. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/36 "2011-08-16T05:54:09Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > In the 38 years since it was released, most of the profanity and sexual inuendo have become mainstream, but the N-word is a giant no-no. The rape jokes are not exactly acceptable these days either. Which I think is why they make me laugh so much. Taggart: I got it! I got it! Hedley Lamarr: You do? Taggart: We’ll work up a Number 6 on ‘em. Hedley Lamarr: [frowns] “Number 6”? I’m afraid I’m not familiar with that one. Taggart: Well, that’s where we go a-ridin’ into town, a-whompin’ and a-whumpin’ every livin’ thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course. Hedley Lamarr: You spare the women? Taggart: Naw, we rape the shit out of them at the Number Six Dance later on. Hedley Lamarr: Marvelous! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/37 "2011-08-16T06:16:21Z")
\*“Depends on how much vitamin E I can get my hands on” “Man them shnitzengrubens will wipe you out!”\* ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/38 "2011-08-16T07:08:12Z")
Everything from the waist down is kaput. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/39 "2011-08-16T07:26:56Z")
Bart: Mornin’, ma’am. And isn’t it a lovely mornin’? Elderly Woman: Up yours, nigger. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/40 "2011-08-16T11:39:03Z")
Count Basie’s orchestra in the middle of a desert. Mel Brooks has explained it something like this: The new sheriff is a negro, so there must be negro music played and the best he could think of was Count Basie. However, it would be very illogical to hear music in the middle of a desert if the orchestra wasn’t there as the gramophone was not yet invented. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851.md?page=3)