[SMGFan]

The Sheriff is a **BONG**

[EQAndyBuzz]

It’s twoo, it’s twoo......

[CincyRichieRich]

Yes, but...

Chris Rock would be in it instead and making racist comments about rich white guys, you know, the ones who are the job producers...the hated class...making fun of them is ok and very unifying to the country. Sarc off/

[cripplecreek]

Springtime for Hitler would be too offensive for gays.

[fatnotlazy]

Every time I watch Blazing Saddles, I think the same thing. Today, Mel Brooks would be strung up for such a movie.

One of the best comedies ever, IMHO.

[SueRae]

Mongo LIKE Candy.

[MD Expat in PA]

Hey, where the white women at?

[bray]

Don’t send a horse to find quicksand, you know the price of horses these days, send a nigger.

I watched it in a theater of Blacks in Seattle and every time nigger was said they howled.

Pray for America

[Flick Lives]

Ditto for the movie "Airplane"; one of the funniest comedy movies still, IMHO. Can you imagine the howls of protest from the PC crowd over the scene, "Oh stewardess, I speak jive."

[Yo-Yo]

"The Sheriff is an Afri--DINGGGGG."

[Smokin' Joe]

No surprise. I showed it (Blazing Saddles) to some barely twenty-somethings over a decade ago and they were horrified.

Okay. I didn't 'get' the Rocky Horror Picture Show, either.

That was how much things had changed then, and it is more so now. Indoctrination....

[McGruff]

Funny movie and I agree it couldn’t be made today. Al Sharpton would make a career out of it.

[Feckless]

I work for TxDOT and every month we get a free "Texas Highways" around payday. My buddy and I greet the guy who passes them out with "Pass these out to the boys in lieu of pay".

The only movie funnier than BS is Young Frankenstein.
Brooks is a genius!

[Vince Ferrer]

The most offensive thing about it is the plot. A bunch of ordinary citizens want to establish a town in the west and live their lives in peace, but the corrupt government wants the land for a railroad so they can profit from the land. So they devise plots to steal the land from private citizens, and Sheriff Bart foils them.

If this movie were made today, it would be that the evil white landowners want to selfishly exploit the land, while the good government wants to use eminent domain to build a bullet train for the people.

[bert]

Is ***BONG*** racist code for Amish?

[sauropod]

Mel Brooks is quite correct.

It’s still funnier than h*ll decades later.

[DemforBush]

Interestingly (or not, a buddy of mine and I were discussing this just the other day. We both agreed that Blazing Saddles would never get made today. We also put these films on our short list:

Patton - Probably a lot of griping about the depiction of Arabs in the film.

Better Off Dead - a comedy about a kid who keeps trying to kill himself? I can hear the protests now.

Harold and Maude - similar reasons to BoD

Most of Sam Peckinpah’s flicks - I seriously doubt any of Peckinpah’s greats could be made today in their original form. I know there was a lame remake of Straw Dogs a while back, but I cannot imagine the feminist crowd would sit still for the fact that women don’t get spared from violence in a Peckinpah film. There would be a certain irony there, of course, as Peckinpah never used violence gratuitously in any of his films. Unlike many modern films that are far more violent.

[LiddysFlame]

Beans.

[SengirV]

Too true. I have often used this movie as an example in this very same way.

[Fiji Hill]

A lot of classic movies such as Gone with the Wind couldn't be made today.

[RacerX1128]

“This town is turning into sh-t.”