[SamAdams76]

"Blazing Saddles" was one of the first movies I saw in a theater that wasn't G rated. I think I was 12 or 13 and I went there with my friends because we heard all sorts of nasty things about it (so we just had to go see it for ourselves).

I also went in there cold (it was the middle of February!) and I'll never forget the non-stop laughter. We had to go see the movie a second time because we missed half the jokes, due to all the noise and laughter in the theater. The only other movie that came close to non-stop laughter like this was "Airplane" that came out about five years later. That's probably another movie that could never be made today.

[cripplecreek]

One of the guys I grew up with was built like Mongo.

We were on a softball team together and the coach pulled him out of the game for some reason or another. He came walking back to the dugout and looked at me and said “Mongo just pawn in great game of life”.

[gundog]

When I was 11, a new concept in home entertainment was tested in about a dozen US cities of varying demographics. It was called StarChannel, here, and cable TV, generically. I watched Blazing Saddles and a lot of other first run movies to my hearts content in those days.