# Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460 "2007-01-02T21:03:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/21 "2007-01-02T23:54:47Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] An associated [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=328356) from about a year ago. [/QUOTE] And its [counterpart](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=368793) from last April. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/22 "2007-01-02T23:57:44Z")
I love both, but I will pick Young Frankenstein as the better. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/23 "2007-01-03T00:12:29Z")
Young Frankenstein, no doubt. “Could be worse. Could be raining.” ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/24 "2007-01-03T01:05:43Z")
I like both movies, but the scene with Peter Boyle as the monster and Gene Hackman as the blind monk was probably the funniest five minutes in film. “Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make espresso!” ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/25 "2007-01-03T01:20:13Z")
BS is the better film. YF always got a “meh” Funny and all, but not all that and cookies too. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/26 "2007-01-03T01:38:21Z")
Young FrANKHenSteen, is the best. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/27 "2007-01-03T01:44:16Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Otto, I’m surprised. Marty Feldman as Igor was worth the price of admission alone! Put me down as a vote for YF. It was hilarious without resorting to the beans around the campfire bit. Blazing Saddles was very very funny but I deduct points for potty humor. [/QUOTE] I agree. Additionally, while in general I think both films are great, I don’t like the way BS breaks the fourth wall at the end; it seems to me to be a failure of plot. I think the same thing about _Monty Python And The Holy Grail_. And YF does seem to work better as a movie, with a much better plot and an ending which stays true to life as represented by the movie. BS:YF::_The Cocoanuts_:_A Night At The Opera_. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/28 "2007-01-03T01:46:08Z")
Young Frankenstein, hands down. As has been mentioned above, there are a lot of great jokes in Blazing Saddles, but it’s not a great story. And the ending is awful; I get _why_ Brooks did it, but I don’t think it’s at all funny, and it kills all the humor before it. Young Frankenstein is a better movie. There aren’t as many great gags, but the humor is more integrated into a story. And just try saying “Blucher” in a crowded room. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/29 "2007-01-03T01:49:59Z")
Since _Blazing Saddles_ is eclipsed by _Rustler’s Rhapsody_ as the greatest Western of all time, and _Young Frankenstein_ isn’t eclipsed by anything as the greatest B-grade monster movie of all time, I have to go with _Young Frankenstein_. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/30 "2007-01-03T01:59:32Z")
I can’t pick. It’s not fair. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/31 "2007-01-03T02:03:04Z")
YF! The good doctor was teaching at _my_ medical school in his first scene! BS is pretty good, though. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/32 "2007-01-03T02:08:43Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] YF! The good doctor was teaching at _my_ medical school in his first scene! [/QUOTE] Sweet! I’ll have to remember that next time I watch it! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/33 "2007-01-03T02:18:25Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Put me down as a vote for YF. It was hilarious without resorting to the beans around the campfire bit. Blazing Saddles was very very funny but I deduct points for potty humor. [/QUOTE] Same, except that I didn’t find BF to be as funny, except in spots. To me at least, potty humor is irritating, not funny. YF was much more consistantly funny, at least for me. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/34 "2007-01-03T02:57:47Z")
_Young Frankenstein_. I’ve got the full-sized poster hanging in my hallway. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/35 "2007-01-03T03:09:33Z")
I know _Young Frankenstein_ has always been the critical favorite but, personally, I’ve always prefered _Blazing Saddles_. I think the thing we can all agree on was that 1974 was a great year for Brooks. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/36 "2007-01-03T03:35:19Z")
I prefered \*Young Frankenstein \* at the time, and still do. I dislike bathroom humor, of which very little could be found in _YF_, and plenty in _BS_. Still, I have to speculate that the quite iconic scene at the campfire would be recognized by more people than any other Mel Brooks movie, which may be why _BS_ gets the nod on the list. Also, there isn’t anything really provocative in _YF_, whereas the whole of _BS_ takes on all sorts of stereotyping and racial issues. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/37 "2007-01-03T04:52:23Z")
I’d give the nod th YF for the reasons mostly named, but it’s not much. IIRC, gene wilder had much more creative imput to YF, and there was so much dispute about that they never worked together again. Our loss if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/38 "2007-01-03T04:57:10Z")
having rewatched BS recently and been bored (so bored, I turned it off), I vote for YF. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/39 "2007-01-03T05:06:57Z")
Someone can recount if they want but I did a quick tally and got; 25 votes for Young Frankenstein 2 for Blazing Saddles and 5 can’t decide between the two ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460/40 "2007-01-03T05:08:54Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Same, except that I didn’t find BF to be as funny, except in spots. To me at least, potty humor is irritating, not funny. YF was much more consistantly funny, at least for me. [/QUOTE] Your boyfriend is only funny in spots? 😕 Well since a buddy of mine was an extra in BS\*, and I have never laughed so hard in my life, I have to go with BS YF is a better made film, I will give you that. “Somebody ride back and get a shitload of dimes!” \*The scene where they are signing up bad guys? You recall the two “bikers” on horses with ape hanger handlebars sprouting out of the front of the saddle? The first guy, the one that has the pony tail is my buddy Skip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-frankenstein-or-blazing-saddles/386460.md?page=3)