Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are so great. I really should get around to seeing The Producers. But the former two have aged great; I loved them when I was 8 (ca. 1989) and I’ve seen them both recently and they hold up great.
I also still laugh like a madman when Mongo decks the horse.
I never saw The Producers until a few years ago, and was in love with it in about two minutes. Zero Mostel is priceless, the premise is golden, and the execution is wonderful. I’d have a hard time picking a favorite among The Producers, Young Fronkensteen and Blazing Saddles.
Bear with me for a moment… last fall, the flodfamily was on vacation in the Netherlands, and we visited Madurodam. This is a sweet little tourist trap, a miniature city featuring buildings and such from all over the country, and in various places there are things that move if you put a coin in a box. Almost all of them require a ten (euro)cent piece. When we came to the first one we wanted to try, we discovered that I was the only one who had any change at all, and all I had was a two-euro coin. But we had passed a change machine…
Yep. I actually got to say “Somebody’s got to go back and get a shitload of dimes!” in real life