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Blazing Saddles: "The sheriff is a ..." (Original Post)
sadbear
Mar 2012
OP
You need to have a context for that kind of a post.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)3. It was cutting edge humor ,and the joke was on
WASPy Racism ,a fairly new concept then.
You need context?
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)2. 1974 ,My wife and I were in 11th grade.
and the oxegen in our lungs were frozen ,at the preagnant pause the first time Harvey Korman said " The sheriff is a " .
mulsh
(2,959 posts)4. Being from Oakland, CA I was always amused that the name of the town is Rockridge.
Even more so when I realized that co-writer Richard Pryor was living in the area when he wrote the script.
(Rockridge is a fairly affluent area in Oakland, I lived in that neighborhood for over 20 years>
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)5. This is the first thing I thought of when I saw Santorum's video.
I texted my brother and he said it was for him too. Of course we did grow up watching Blazing Saddles over and over again on VHS.
Initech
(100,076 posts)7. I thought the same thing too.
Quixote1818
(28,936 posts)8. Blazing Saddles pointed out a lot of different types of racism
from how the Blacks, Chinese, Mexicans, Women and even the Irish were treated.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)9. Horses?!
Horses?! Why, you dummy, we can't risk any horses! Go send a couple of ...