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* [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets]]: Mexican and Arab bandits, though the film also takes [[Refuge in Audacity]].
** Blacks and East Asians too, to some degree, but then that's part of the joke.
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** [[Once-Acceptable Targets]]: Gays (and this is hardly the only [[Mel Brooks]] movie for which this is true!). [[Refuge in Audacity]] applies.
* [[Acceptable Political Targets]]: Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: The joke about small town people being idiots. Of course, it's right they're racist but the joke relies on a direct implication between being foolish and living on a small community.
* [[Award Snub]]: Lampshaded. Hedley ''did'' risk that Academy Award nomination after all...
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: [[Up to Eleven|Line? What is this line you speak of?]]
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** There's about 10 seconds of the movie about 9 minutes in. That's about it.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The goddamn title theme.
** They wanted someone
* [[Ear Worm]]: The Theme Tune, Lily Von Sthupps "I'm Tired" and the musical number "The French Mistake"
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: If you don't finish watching ''Blazing Saddles'' with Mongo as your favorite character, then you have no sense of humor.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: From the song "I'm Tired", the line "Let's face it. Everything below the waist is kaput!" is not as amusing since Madeline Kahn passed away from ovarian cancer in 1999.
* [[Genius Bonus]]:
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'''Hedley Lamarr:''' How?
'''Taggart:''' [[wikipedia:Plagues of egypt#10. Death of the Firstborn|We'll kill the first born male child in every household!]]
'''Hedley Lamarr:''' ''[after some consideration]'' Too Jewish. }}
** "Mongo! Santa Maria!" Mongo Santamaria was a famous jazz musician.
** Governor Lepetomane: "[[wikipedia:Le Pétomane|Le Petomane]]" was the stage name of a French entertainer who was famous for being able to fart at will. It's not a coincidence that one of the most famous scenes in this movie is "cowboys farting after eating beans".
** One would have to be a fan of old American movies to get the following:
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** Similarly...
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] ([[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]?): This film got a ''lot'' of quoting online after the election of President [[Barack Obama]].
** Similarly, "MONGO STRAIGHT!" becomes (even more) hilarious when you see Alex Karras in
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Mongo only pawn in game of life.
** [[Botchamania|
** "You said rape twice." "I like rape."
** "'Scuse me while I whip this out."
* [[Vindicated
** Blazing Saddles was ranked #6 on the AFI's "100 Years..." list of the best comedy films in the last 100 years.
* [["Weird Al" Effect]]: Western movies.
** Most of the people the various Johnsons in Rock Ridge are named after. Although Howard Johnson is still pretty well known for hotels.
** Hedy Lamarr and Randolph Scott.
** The whole "Stinking Badges" bit (which itself is a [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]).
*** Which [["Weird Al"
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?]]{{context}}
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