Sign you've watched too much Blazing Saddles

We give you a laurel and hardy handshake ...

 

A highly underrated line.

 

Work work work work work work ....

 

As a Methodist, I take great pride in this one. Favorite line in the movie.

 

Taxi! Drive me off this picture!

 

Here you go.

Unfortunately, it cuts off the strangled sound Lamarr makes when Taggart drops the ball.

 

Lamarr's other brilliant speech.

"Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade, to stamp out runaway decency in the West! Now you will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost-certain Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor!"

That Harvey Korman wasn't at least nominated for the Oscar was a damned tragedy. Three nods for "The Godfather Part II" - De Niro won the award - plus Jeff Bridges in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" and Fred Fucking Astaire in "The Towering Inferno"?? Shameful.

Then again, I'm still pissed that Paul Newman also didn't get nominated for "Slap Shot."

 

I too, am a Methodist and take great pride in that line.

 

I didn't really think of it this way until I saw this post, but maybe Kevin Kline's Oscar in 1988 for a Fish Called Wanda was a subtle sort of tribute to Korman's performance in Blazing Saddles.

Kline was awesome in that movie, but if you watch his scenes versus Korman's in Blazing Saddles, Kline basically channeled him.

 

Never mind that shit - here comes Mongo!!

 

Seriously, Bubs, good call. I think you're onto something there.

 

A couple years ago, I'm editing a story and start cracking up - the story is about how the residents of a neighborhood don't want a 24-hour store next to them. The neighborhood is named Rock Ridge.

The reporter, in her early 20s and fresh out of college, thought it was really strange I thought it was funny - and thought it was even more strange when three of us - in our 40s and 50s - start reciting lines from the movie (ones that we could repeat out loud).

Ah, youth.