# Mis-Remembering 'Blazing Saddles' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830 "2011-12-30T14:38:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [December 31, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/41 "2011-12-31T20:07:17Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > ::nonchalantly raises rope to slow down rowdy cowpokes:: And that was after your clever application of red paint. I salute you, sir! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/42 "2011-12-31T20:58:31Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > That’s because you grew up. When I was between the ages of 10 and 14 Blazing Saddles was the absolute greatest movie ever. It had sex, fart jokes, taboo words, etc. I think it was written to appeal to adolescent boys. > When I was a teen and Spaceballs came out I thought it was the stupidest movie ever. It was later replaced by Men in Tights. > (Young Frankenstein is still awesome though) Mel Brooks has been living his movie career in reverse. In general, his movies have gotten progressively worse since his first. Initially the quality loss was minimal (if at all. YMMV). Then they started getting worse and worse until now he produces nothing but shit (film-wise.). ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/43 "2011-12-31T21:09:01Z")
> [@Theophane](#): > > Blazing Saddles has to be one of the funniest movies ever. Remember the scene where Sheriff Bart rides into town for the first time with the Welcoming Commitee and all the townspeople? That must be how Barack Obama felt after his transition team had finished moving him into the White House. That must be Obama’s everyday. Yeh, the poor guy…took all of DC by surprise when he showed up on Inauguration Eve. In DC. After 3 months had passed since he won the election. He only had 20 plus million people vote for him…he must feel very, very alone… hh ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/44 "2012-01-01T01:06:09Z")
“Somebody ride back to town and get a shitloada dimes!” ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/45 "2012-01-01T02:39:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Mel Brooks has been living his movie career in reverse. In general, his movies have gotten progressively worse since his first. Initially the quality loss was minimal (if at all. YMMV). Then they started getting worse and worse until now he produces nothing but shit (film-wise.). Reverse is the normal gear for most directors’ careers. They do their greatest work in their youth and middle age then it’s slowly downhill. (There are exceptions, of course). ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/46 "2012-01-01T03:39:37Z")
Does that mean that Joe Biden is The Waco Kid? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/47 "2012-01-01T04:06:55Z")
_WAS_ The Kid. Well, it got so that every ticked-off prairie Senator who thought he could spell C-SPAN would fly into DCA to try out the Delaware Kid. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/48 "2012-01-01T04:22:51Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Remember it? I own the DVD! Still fun - though obviously made for TV. The portrayal of Slade going to psychotherapy was a hoot! BTW, it also starred Henry Gibson of Laugh-In fame, and Pamela Austin from the original Twilight Zone episode where the homely girl gets plastic surgery because everyone does in her society. > > There were a lot of parody Westerns in the 70s. Anyone else remember “Support Your Local Sheriff” and “Support Your Local Gunfighter”? “My daughter is a nice girl, but pooberty hit her hard.” ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/49 "2012-01-02T15:49:31Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Speaking of hilarious spoof Westerns anyone remember a TV movie from the 70s called _Evil Roy Slade_? Very very funny with virtuoso comedy performances by John Astin as Slade and Dick Shawn as Marshal Bing Bell (the guy who played Hitler in _The Producers_.) Paraphrase: Evil Roy pointing a gun at a cello player… Get that big fiddle out from between your legs and up under your chin where it belongs… there are women present. Going back even further… anyone remember Cat Ballou? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/50 "2012-01-02T16:04:23Z")
_ **Clay Boone:** We can’t hold up the train. **Cat:** Why not? **Clay Boone:** Lots of reasons. **Cat:** Name 'em. **Clay Boone:** We’re rustlers, not train robbers. **Cat:** Well, if people didn’t try something new, there wouldn’t be hardly any progress at all._ Lee Marvin was right in sharing his Oscar with the horse. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/51 "2012-01-04T15:40:54Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830/52 "2012-01-04T20:19:34Z")
I was watching an old Mission: Impossible episode where Barbara Bain tries singing in a German accent. God it was bad. Mrs. Cad said that it sounded like Madeline Kahn singing in Blazing Saddles so now I have to watch it again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-remembering-blazing-saddles/607830.md?page=2)