I agree, I think describing it as just one joke gives it criminally short shrift. Korman alone elevates that movie to a classic. It's one of the best comic performances ever, especially in his scenes with Mel Brooks. Not to mention Slim Pickens and Madeline Kahn.

Hedley Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Taggart: God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

[to two members of the KKK]
Jim: Oh boys, lookee what I got heyuh.
Bart: Hey, where the white women at?

Taggart: What do you want me to do, sir?
Hedley Lamarr: I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down.
[Taggart looks for a pen and paper while Hedley talks]
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!
Taggart: [finding pen and paper] Could you repeat that, sir?



Brilliance.

What I mean by one joke is that it's a single topic. Don't get me wrong guys, Blazing Saddles is a close second for me to History of The World, but we had to make a choice and I made mine.

"You are nuts. N-V-T-S, nuts!"

SecondEdition wrote:Hedley Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Taggart: God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

[to two members of the KKK]
Jim: Oh boys, lookee what I got heyuh.
Bart: Hey, where the white women at?

Taggart: What do you want me to do, sir?
Hedley Lamarr: I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down.
[Taggart looks for a pen and paper while Hedley talks]
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!
Taggart: [finding pen and paper] Could you repeat that, sir?



Brilliance.

It has become a tradition for myself and a few fishing buddies of mine to watch this film when we go on our first fishing trip in early March. In the evening, after fishing that day, we sit around in our drunken glory laughing hysterically as we watch this movie.

The Ethiopian Shim-Sham
Count DeMonet
The "Piss Boy"
the Spanish Inquisition

The more I think about it, the more I lean towards History of the World Part I.

Oh, and when they show a line of street vendors in ancient Rome. "Plumbing! Getcher plumbing! Pump the shit right out of your house!"

blazing saddles i think. though i also love history of the world, spaceballs. haven't seen young frankenstein in a long time, like since the 80's. i need to watch it again.

favorite quotes:

blazing saddles:

"Taggrt: Well that's where we go a riding into town. A whomping and a womping. Every living thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the womenfolks, of course.

Lammar: You spare the women?

Taggart: No, we rape the shit out of them at the number six dance later on."

history of the world:

oedipus: (blind, holding out a cup, panhandling) give to oedipus! give to oedipus! give to oedipus!

(josephus (gregory hines) approaches.)

oedipus: (holds out his hand to slap a five) hey, josephus!
josephus: hey, motherfucker!

Marsupialized wrote:None. Corny, unfunny, don't get it.

You should try High Anxiety.

Minotaur029 wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:None. Corny, unfunny, don't get it.

My girlfriend is on board with you on this one.

That's why his last good movie was Spaceballs, but even that is a bit of a stretch. He's unfortunately an outdated comedian, harking back to Vaudeville and Broadway.

That's one of the reasons I really love The Producers. It feels like a Broadway Musical, but it's not a musical. I hate how they ruined it and actually made it a musical. Plus, you simply cannot replace Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. You fucking kidding me?

Dr. Venkman wrote:Oh, and when they show a line of street vendors in ancient Rome. "Plumbing! Getcher plumbing! Pump the shit right out of your house!"

Blazing Saddles is definately my favorite, but History of the World is so fucking retarded that it almost wins this battle.

the line posted above along with the whole "Good to Be the King" skit...so many great corny one-liners.

andyk

"i bet she gives great helmet."

"i see your schwartz is as big as mine."