What's your favorite line from Blazing Saddles?

[red dog 1]

Are there more beans, Mr Taggart?

[Adsos Letter]

1. "I'm not a wabbit!"

[Trajan]

2. Now go do ...

The voodoo ....

That YOU do ...

Soooooo Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!

[valerief]

3. I love the "I Get a Kick Out of You" bit.

That was back when black and white, gay and straight could watch this movie and laugh at the stereotypes and "fearsome words" together (except maybe in the South). Now we have to be afraid of those words again, per the finger waggers, and our lawmakers are working hard to make us afraid of race and sexual orientation again, too. Three steps forward, two steps back.

[Miles Archer]

62. That was one of the first that came to mind for me, too.

What made the satire work, for me, was that Gene Wilder's character was color blind and Cleavon Little's had already encountered the worst of what the world had to offer him, and he was now smart enough to always be one step ahead of it.

It's one smart movie.

[U4ikLefty]

4. Mongo only pawn in game of life.

[Scuba]

5. ^^This^^

[sarge43]

16. "Mongo like candygram." n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

28. +1. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

61. Yep. n/t

[flying rabbit]

6. Somebody go back to town

and get a shitload of dimes.

[Wounded Bear]

7. I kind of like... "you know, morons"

[hobbit709]

15. Beat me to it

[MrScorpio]

71. My fave!

[Brother Buzz]

8. Picking just one is like picking my favorite Beatles song

They're all good

[malthaussen]

25. It's twoo, it's twoo

(and that's one of them)

-- Mal

[Brother Buzz]

29. LOL

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. "Excuse me while I whip this out" n/t

[Initech]

10. "Somebody go back and get us a shitload of dimes!"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

33. "Now what'll that asshole think of next?"

[kairos12]

40. Used that line for years when I didn't have enough change at a vending machine.

[The Second Stone]

11. Ah work for Mel Brooks!!!

Bam!

[Lochloosa]

12. Impossible request.

[red dog 1]

13. You mean because there are so many great lines from Blazing Saddles?

[Lochloosa]

20. So many I've forgotten them all.

[red dog 1]

32. Then perhaps it's time for you to see it again?

(I've probably seen it at least 30 times)

[Lochloosa]

42. You might be right

[sarge43]

14. "Go do that voodoo that you do soooooo well." n/t

[hack89]

17. "You use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore." nt

[red dog 1]

34. Good one!

[lastlib]

18. All of 'em!

[IDemo]

19. "Now who can argue with that?"

In response to frontier gibberish.

[jmowreader]

21. LePetomane Thruway? Now what'll that asshole think of next?

[Paulie]

22. It's trwwuuuu it's trwwuuuu

[NobodyHere]

38. "You're sucking on my elbow"

[Doc_Technical]

23. "Son, you're on your own." What Deists think God said after Creation.

[mucifer]

24. Lazem Gayen!! They are darker than we are.

[malthaussen]

26. I can't pick a favorite line...

... but I remember when O.J. Simpson was being pursued by the police, and held a gun to his head threatening to kill himself... and I immediately flashed on Sheriff Bart's escape from the enraged crowd at Rock Ridge. Art imitating life, or prefiguring it, or something.

-- Mal

[red dog 1]

35. I wonder if O.J. got that idea from Blazing Saddles?

(Good observation, btw)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

48. They never charged Al Cowlings with aiding and abetting the escape of a suspect.

Money talks. I remember the slow speed chase with the white Bronco.

[red dog 1]

49. I remember that too

I've never before seen a "slow speed chase"

and you're right about Al Cowlings..He should have been charged with Aiding & Abetting.

[Smarmie Doofus]

27. "Mongo only pawn in game of life." n/t

[red dog 1]

36. "Don't shoot Mongo, it'll only make him mad!"

[Smarmie Doofus]

43. "Mongo ain't exactly a 'who'; he's more of a 'what'." nt

[mainer]

30. Madeline Kahn's song about men:

"They're always coming and going, and going and coming ... and always too soon."

[red dog 1]

37. I'd forgotten how funny that song was.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. We've got to protect our phony baloney jobs, Gentlemen!

[name not needed]

39. "Well to tell a family secret, my Grandmother was Dutch."

[Iggo]

41. "I didn't get a harumph outa that guy."

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

57. That is mine too,

[LoveMyCali]

58. make that three

[lastlib]

44. "Hey where are all the white women??"

"And now for my next impression: Jesse Owens!"

"Badges??!? We don't need no stinkin' BADGES!!"

[red dog 1]

50. Great line!

[REPUguy]

45. Matthew, Mark, Luke and... Duck

[DawgHouse]

46. This is funny

[Contrary1]

47. Has to be this unforgettable line...

“I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.”

Gabby Johnson

[red dog 1]

51. Good 'ol Gabby Johnson!

Wasn't everybody in Rockridge named Johnson?

[malthaussen]

52. Yep.

Including Howard with his ice cream parlor (One flavor!).
Unless you were around no later than the 70's or early 80's. that joke will make no sense.

-- Mal

[red dog 1]

53. I was around.

Wasn't Gabby Johnson the one who shouted: "The sheriff is a N****" "..?

[A HERETIC I AM]

65. "The Sheriff is near"

...yup...that's what he yelled from the top of the building.

[kentauros]

66. "Now who can argue with that?"

Authentic Frontier Gibberish

"Our town is turning into shit!"

"Sheriff murdered. Crops burned. Stores looted. People stampeded... and cattle raped. Now the time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving."

[Contrary1]

68. Doesn't matter how many times I watch that scene...

I still chuckle like it's the first.

[Hotler]

54. "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with.....

rivulets of throughts, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."

"Gal-darnit, Mr Lamar, you use your tongue purttier than a twenty-dollar whore."

[lpbk2713]

55. Work! Work! Work! Work! ... Hello boys. Ya miss me?

Mel Brooks cracks me up.

[progressoid]

56. "What a nice guy."

[Nac Mac Feegle]

59. Not mentioned yet:

Qualifications?

Stampeding cattle.

That's not much of a crime.

Through the Vatican?

Kinky... Sign here.

[red dog 1]

60. Good one!

Another good one from that scene:


Qualifications?

Rape, murder, arson and rape.

You said rape twice!

I like rape!

(Laughs) Sign him up!

[pokerfan]

63. Not yet mentioned...

Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

[red dog 1]

64. LOL

[kentauros]

67. Some of the best breaking of the fourth wall, too:

Hedley Lamarr: (to himself) A sheriff! But law and order is the last thing I want. Wait a minute... maybe I could turn this thing into my advantage. If I could find a sheriff who so offends the citizens of Rock Ridge that his very appearance would drive them out of town.

(looks into the camera)

Hedley Lamarr: But where would I find such a man?

(pause)

Hedley Lamarr: Why am I asking you?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bart: Ooh, baby, you are so talented!

(looks into the camera)

Bart: And they are so *dumb*!

[Kennah]

69. Are we black?

[Kennah]

70. You're sucking on my elbow

Actually, that was never in the movie, and it was the only line Mel Brooks cut from the movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/trivia

[red dog 1]

73. Interesting tidbit...thanks

[clarice]

72. A little off topic but.......

I remember reading an interview with Mel Brooks long ago...
anyway, Mel was jumping around the room spouting jokes and acting like a kid,
so the interviewer asks Mel, " Why do you act so crazy?"

Mel says, quite seriously, " You know, I've often thought that when Death comes around and is looking for someone to take,
He will take one look at me and say "This guy is too much trouble, I think I'll take that quiet depressed guy instead."

Now, I've always been interested in Philosophy and have read pretty widely on the subject.. but I think
that Mel hit it right on the head.

[WolverineDG]

74. Where the white women at?

Kills me everytime.