We don't need no stinking.... whatever!

I've always been a fan of the Blazing Saddles line "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" Classic Mel Brooks Humor (is his humor "classic??"). It's especially funny (at least to me), if you're familiar with the original scene from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Here's a site that did all the leg work to let me to find the myriad references to the reference: Stinking Badges Home Page.

What's funny about this is that the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre lines were parodied in Blazing Saddles, but the "original" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre lines are even different than the truly original lines from the book.

Does that make these references parodies of a parody of a variation on the original?

Good fun.