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Happy 50th Birthday Blazing Saddles!
Warner Brothers | February 7, 1974 | Mel Brooks

Posted on 02/07/2024 5:44:40 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain

Released on this date in 1974.



TOPICS: Humor; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blazingsaddles; comedy; melbrooks; movies
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To: dfwgator

Gotta love those lines.


41 posted on 02/07/2024 7:24:18 AM PST by Migraine
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To: FLT-bird

***like this or Monty Python’s Life of Brian***

OH! Stan wants to become a woman named Loretta and have babies! Smelling salts FAST!


42 posted on 02/07/2024 7:24:41 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BipolarBob

Paraphrasing....

And your qualifications sir?

Murder, rape, bank robbery, horse thieving, general mayhem and rape.

You said rape twice!

I like rape!

Ok. Good man. Your hired.


43 posted on 02/07/2024 7:26:19 AM PST by saleman
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“...quote you Byron and Shelley then jump on your belly and bust your balloon”.

That one never got clipped out for TV. Did they just not get it?


44 posted on 02/07/2024 7:28:34 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I wonder if they put a trigger warning for movies like THE EMPEROR JONES(1933).

I first saw WONDER BAR(1934) where Al Jolson goes to heaven in black face and wins all the medals from the Emperor Jones in a dice game. I decided to look for Emperor Jones to get background on that skit.


45 posted on 02/07/2024 7:33:04 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ciaphas Cain

46 posted on 02/07/2024 7:37:52 AM PST by SC DOC (A)
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To: SC DOC

“Sorry about the ‘Up Yours N____’”


47 posted on 02/07/2024 7:39:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Pre PC movie days could never be released now days.


48 posted on 02/07/2024 7:43:08 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I saw it when I was around 12. Not sure exactly but it was sometime in the GWB years. Needed a lot of help from the folks, with the cultural references. In all I didn’t find it a classic of American comedy.
Yet I enjoyed Mad Mad World and the various Leslie Nielsen comedies (again with boomer interpreters on hand).
Since then I’ve seen Mel Brooks’ other achievements. I guess I just don’t get Mel Brooks. Didn’t care for YF at all. :(


49 posted on 02/07/2024 7:58:24 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Buttons12

There’s one reference I still don’t get.

When Harvey Korman says, “Ah yes, the Doctor Gillespie Killings.”

No clue.


50 posted on 02/07/2024 8:00:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Don’t ask me. I think Gillespie was the name of Dr. Kildare’s mentor but don’t quote me. :)


51 posted on 02/07/2024 8:02:41 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Mr. Mojo

What in the wide world of sports is going on here?

What in the wide world of sports is a goin on here.

There, fixed it, to the best of my memory. Slim is at rest now.


52 posted on 02/07/2024 8:03:47 AM PST by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: Phinneous

“Please baby, I am not from Havana.”


53 posted on 02/07/2024 8:07:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wita

You provincial putz!


54 posted on 02/07/2024 8:08:11 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“Hast du gesehen in deine Leben? Dey darker den us....WOOF!”


55 posted on 02/07/2024 8:08:28 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

56 posted on 02/07/2024 8:09:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

57 posted on 02/07/2024 8:11:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Migraine
Howard Johnson: “Nietzsche said, “Out of chaos comes order.”

Oh, blow it out your ***, Howard ...


58 posted on 02/07/2024 8:14:46 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Isn’t it funny how what was hilarious and completely insane satire in our childhoods is now considered reality by some?

The reality of course is that its still completely insane.


59 posted on 02/07/2024 8:35:29 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: dfwgator

Great line!


60 posted on 02/07/2024 8:42:46 AM PST by Migraine
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