# We don't need no steeeenk-ing Badges!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874 "2003-10-22T10:42:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/21 "2003-10-24T01:16:09Z")
There’s a film called **Bubble Boy** from 2001 that has a scene between Jake Gyllenhall as Bubble Boy and Danny Trejo as a biker. Bubble Boy is bouncing through a desert when he happens upon a biker who is trying to fix his motorcycle. The biker is ready to cut Bubble Boy when Bubble Boy comes up with some patches. The biker says, “I could use some stinking patches”. Funny stuff, huh? ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/22 "2003-10-24T07:08:34Z")
From the above cited _stinking badges web site_, the earliest attributed use of “badges, we don’t need no stinking badges” was from a _Monkees_ episode airing seven years before _Blazing Saddles_. Admit, you’re all Monkees fans. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/23 "2003-10-24T19:11:25Z")
Maybe Mel Brooks is, too? No, on second thought, if he were, _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ probably would have had Davey Jones wandering through half the picture. Oh, and I’ll second **Ukulele Ike** , _Sierra Madre_ still holds up pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/24 "2003-10-24T20:36:24Z")
Anyone who remembers Blazing Saddles as the source of the quote, rather than The Treasure of Sierra Madre, is a true lightweight when it comes to knowledge of movies. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/25 "2003-10-24T20:57:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Go out and rent _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ right now! Gather your family around and pop a big ol’ bowl of corn! \*\* Sorry, I just bought _Neverwhere_ and the Indiana Jones box set, I’ll be watching those. ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/26 "2003-10-24T21:20:16Z")
An excellent 2-disc special edition of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre has just been released. Go and rent/buy it now! It’s a timeless classic. (Unlike Blazing Saddles. While it’s hilarious, it’s unlikely to resonate with a generation unfamiliar with Hedy Lamarr, Marlene Dietrich or Count Basie.) ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/27 "2003-10-24T21:24:53Z")
Treasure of the Sierra Madre is, among other things, Bogart’s best screen role and my favorite John Huston movie. It’s a must-see. ---
**Author:** ![Oat1957](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Oat1957](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oat1957)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/28 "2003-10-25T02:10:13Z")
Sierra Madre is a great movie and when I think of steenking badges I think of the bandito saying that, not Blazing Saddles. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874/29 "2003-10-25T23:49:01Z")
I heard it first as “Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!” In Weird Al’s UHF. I don’t remember it from Blazing Saddles, or actually I think I kind of remember it from BS but it doesn’t spring to mind quickly. At some point I saw just a clip of the original in Treasure of the Sierra Madre and realized where it came from. I can’t say for sure whether it was before or after I saw BS. When I think of the line I think TotSM rather than BS. I’m not sure why. I also usually remember UHF at the same time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-need-no-steeeenk-ing-badges/208874.md?page=1)