# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/121 "2011-08-23T03:12:43Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > According to IMDB the line, which WAS cut from the film, was “You’re sucking on my elbow.” IIRC it was on a TV edit. I’ve not read the book so I don’t know how else I could have come across it. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/122 "2011-08-23T03:16:51Z")
> [@Moirai](#): > > There are so many opportunities during a conversation to say “Never mind that shit, here comes Mongo!” > > My brother and I can have conversations that last an hour or more, made up solely of lines from Blazing Saddles. 🆒 Heh. A friend and I were leaving a movie theater in a rural town, and we passed some skanky lady yelling something unintelligible across the parking lot. He turned to me, smiled, and said, “That’s genuine frontier gibberish!” I damn near peed myself. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/123 "2011-08-23T05:06:59Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > You shrugged at me? Sei nicht meshugge! Loes ihm gehen! [Maxwell Smart]Missed it by THAT MUCH.[/Maxwell Smart] FTR, Don Adams, in his later years, went Roman Catholic, supporting my belief that Reformed Jews and Catholics aren’t that far apart, if you spend more time eating Danish and drinking coffee than you do on theology. And it turns out he was FIL to our own Jim Beaver. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/124 "2011-08-24T03:34:35Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > [Maxwell Smart]Missed it by THAT MUCH.[/MaxwellSmart] What are you talking about, Don Adams? (Yeah, I’m not an old geezer but I know who he was!) I didn’t want to use the character map for an umlaut, so I improvised. FWIW, I was wrong – I had a dream a few nights ago about the Yiddisher chief and, he didn’t say, “take” – it might have been “got to walk,” or maybe “cop a walk,” but I don’t have time to put the sound through a processor to figure out exactly which. At any rate, I was wrong about that one. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/125 "2011-08-24T04:00:30Z")
Yes, comedy god, Yiddisher comedian, and Roman Catholic, Don Adams. Back in the day parents in Mixed Marriages had to commit to how the kids were raised. Don was raised Catholic. > **[Don Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Adams)** > > Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (1967–1969). Adams also provided the voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (196... ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/126 "2011-08-24T13:23:35Z")
Taggart: “Whew, that was lucky! Damn near lost a $400 hand cart!” ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/127 "2011-08-24T16:01:55Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Farting and punching horses will never go out of style. Sex also won’t go out of style. The Hedy Lamar jokes and Yiddish-speaking Indians already need explanation. There’s enough visual humor that the movie will always be funny, but a lot of the dialog and punchlines will be met with a big “Huh?” > > It’s entirelyt possible in 100 years that Alex Karras and Madeline Kahn will be celebrated for their performances, while Wilder, Little and Korman are largely overlooked. The jokes where the humor is based on the attempts by a hetero-male to avoid showing non-hetero behaviors or non macho feelings might seem a little odd. I don’t know if we’ll (well, you, because I’ll be long dead) have to explain those jokes to 2074 audiences. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/128 "2011-08-24T16:22:11Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Yes, _THE_ Richard Pryor was one of the writers. I always imagined he hand crafted each and every N-word in the script, like the master artisan he was. Mel Brooks said recently that Pryor scripted Mongo. Interesting! And he was originally meant to be Bart, but he kind of screwed himself out of that. I have to say, even though Wilder and Pryor were in so much together, I have a hard time seeing Pryor as Bart. Cleavon Little just pulled it off so well. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/129 "2011-08-25T02:19:19Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > I have to say, even though Wilder and Pryor were in so much together, I have a hard time seeing Pryor as Bart. Cleavon Little just pulled it off so well. Pryor probably would’ve been a great Bart, but it is hard to see anyone else than Cleavon Little now. He nailed it. ---
**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 25, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/130 "2011-08-25T03:13:40Z")
> [@](#): > > And he was originally meant to be Bart, but he kind of screwed himself out of that. How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/131 "2011-08-25T04:19:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > How’s that? That was when he was heavy into drugs and alcohol, so apparently he made a real ass of himself on set. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/132 "2011-09-06T01:52:06Z")
(jesus-crosses self that i will not impute zombie-hood to a great actor and a great movie) Burton Gilliam sighting. Watching Telefon again two nights ago (excellent late-late-night movie – it was about 4 am when I rolled over the machine) and I saw that squinty-eyed little bastard in one (I believe it was just one) scene. Had to watch through the credits to make sure. He had a good agent, or must have! Two great movies. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/133 "2011-09-06T02:09:28Z")
"Work, work, work! Work, work, work! Oh, hello boys… (what’s the rest of the stuff he says to the titties, I forgot?). And I don’t know if the film’s writers got it wrong, but it should have been “Hast Du gesehen in _deinem_ Leben??” Not seinen(m). Seinen (m) means “his”. “Deinem” means “your”. Don’t know the correct Yiddish, but what you’d like to say is: “Have you ever in your life seen (such as this)…” Ihr Yiddische, please correct me if I’m wrong. 🙂 Thanks Der Quas’ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/134 "2011-09-06T02:37:48Z")
Bear in mind that all the German grammar rules change on Tuesdays. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/135 "2011-09-06T02:43:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Bear in mind that all the German grammar rules change on Tuesdays. The rules for Fizzbin are based on German grammar? ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/136 "2011-09-06T02:54:18Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > And I don’t know if the film’s writers got it wrong, but it should have been “Hast Du gesehen in _deinem_ Leben??” Not seinen(m). Seinen (m) means “his”. “Deinem” means “your”. Don’t know the correct Yiddish, but what you’d like to say is: “Have you ever in your life seen (such as this)…” > > Ihr Yiddische, please correct me if I’m wrong. 🙂 > > Thanks > > Der Quas’ My take is that Brooks is of a generation which didn’t speak Yiddish but only heard some elders speak it – and if I know my Jews right, the old cats weren’t too busy teaching young kids some of that verkakte language. I agree that a lot of the language is not 100%, but just for “flavor.” Analogy might be the “old statesman of letters” Harold Bloom doesn’t know shit about Greek or even Latin or anything much besides “English,” but it doesn’t stop him from writing books about blah blah blah. He does say “zeit nicht meshugge” – you can hear the stop, but he might have just had a cold or some allergies that day. Yiddish is an exacting language, with it’s own set of rules, not to mention not written in the Roman alphabet – I think it’s better to say that Brooks really didn’t know, and just amalgamated a little German with the way he heard some of his relatives speak. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/137 "2011-09-06T02:54:36Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > "Work, work, work! Work, work, work! Oh, hello boys… (what’s the rest of the stuff he says to the titties, I forgot?) IIRC, “Hello boys! Did you miss me?” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/138 "2011-09-06T03:00:49Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > The rules for Fizzbin are based on German grammar? [Something like that.](http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html#x1) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/139 "2011-09-06T03:03:27Z")
“Verkakte”!!! I love it! And an excellent explanation, **Jaledin** , thank you! **Plant** and **pat** : Well, it’s almost Tuesday here!~ 🙂 Thanks **kunilou** , that was it! 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-blazing-saddles-scene-line/592851/140 "2011-09-06T03:09:31Z")
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