History Film / BlazingSaddles

* {{Prospector}}: Gabby Johnson

** Hedley. Sure, he fawns over Lili but acts very homoerotically toward Le Petomane, doesn't mind getting accidentally groped in the bath and in one scene appears to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic sodomize a figurine of Justice]]. Plus he's [[CampGay camp]] as hell.
*** Seems more like just groping.

* [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores Army Of Rustlers, Cut Throats, Murderers, Bounty Hunters, Desperados, Mugs, Pugs, Thugs, Nitwits, Halfwits, Dimwits, Vipers, Snipers, Con Men, Indian Agents, Mexican Bandits, Muggers, Buggerers, Bushwhackers, Hornswagglers, Horse Thieves, Bull Dykes, Train Robbers, Bank Robbers, Ass-Kickers, Shit-Kickers]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Methodists!!!]]

* [[{{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}} It is pronouned Tro-PAY]]: That's ''Hedley'' Lamarr, '''not''' ''Heddy''.

* TheUnintelligible: Gabby Johnson and his "authentic frontier gibberish."

* WaxingLyrical: Before firing the starting pistol for the attack Rock Ridge, Hedley motivates his army thus:

--> '''Taggart:''' I want you to send a wire to the main office, and tell them I said-" '''*CLANG!*''' Owwww!

** Just before Lili von Schtupp is introduced, you hear a few notes from "[[TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]]".

* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption:

* GoodShepherd [=/=] JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Reverend Johnson can be a bit of a hassle but he's about the only member of the community who at least ''tries'' to defuse the racist townsfolk after Bart makes his entrance. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere He stops the moment he realises their guns will beat his Bible when things get serious]], granted, but at least he tried.

* AttackPatternAlpha: "We're gonna whip up a Number 6 on 'em!", which is that the men ride into town, whomping and woomping every living thing to within an inch of its life, except the women folk (whom they will [[BlackComedyRape rape the shit out of]] at the subsequent Number 6 dance.
** Of course, things didn't go exactly according to plan:

** When people knock on Lili's door, she tends to bud them inside with a [[Cabaret "Wilkommen, Bienvue, Welcome."]]

* FundayPawpetShow: The parody "Blazing Ferrets"

* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: "We will now read from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and... Duck!"

* Creator/MelBrooks: The man, the myth, the legend.
** The Indian chief. ''Woof''.

* OneSceneWonder: The Hangman, who got to reprise his role in ''RobinHoodMenInTights''.

* AttackPatternAlpha: "We're gonna whip up a Number 6 on 'em!", which is that the men ride into town, whomping and woomping every living thing to within an inch of its life, except the women foll (whom they will [[BlackComedyRape rape the shit out of]] at the subsequent Number 6 dance.

* AttackPatternAlpha: "We're gonna whip up a Number 6 on 'em!", which basically boils down to "Ride into town, whomping and woomping every living thing, except the women folk." They [[BlackComedyRape rape the shit out of them]] at the subsequent Number 6 dance.
** We later learn that things didn't go exactly according to plan:
--->'''Reverend:''' I don't have to tell you people what has been happening to our beloved town: Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, women stampeded, and [[ButYouScrewOneGoat cattle]] [[BlackComedyRape raped]].

* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "The French Mistake" rehearsal.

* {{Postmodernism}}

** Bart actually delivers the Candygram, has Mongo sign for it, then walks away as the LooneyTunes theme plays. The box doesn't actually ''explode'' until Mongo opens it. [[BeamMeUpScotty Imitators just yell it as they throw the bomb.]]

* ProsceniumReveal: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in the climax, where the action is somehow "real" even though it's shown to be happening on a Hollywood soundstage — and eventually most of the backlot — during the climactic FinalBattle.

* RhymingList:
-->'''Hedley Lamarr''': I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and Methodists!\\
'''Taggart''': ''[finding pen and paper]'' Could you repeat that, sir?

* ThoseWackyNazis

* [[WhosOnFirst Who's on First]]: "Meeting is adjourned. It is? No, you say that, Governor. What?" [repeat]

** Bart was originally handed the job of Sheriff [[XanatosGambit in order to disgust and offend the residents of Rock Ridge]]. Unfortunately for Hedley, he's far better at the job than he was expecting.

* ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY: That's ''Hedley'' Lamarr, '''not''' ''Heddy''.

** Hedley [=Lamarr=], Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid attending a premiere of the movie ''BlazingSaddles''.

'''''Blazing Saddles''''' is another comedy masterpiece from MelBrooks (with writing help from none other than RichardPryor) which mercilessly spoofs TheWestern.

--> '''Taggart''': Piss on you, I'm workin' for ''MelBrooks''!

** Which is also a bit of a {{Mythology Gag}} considering the side Methodists took over the Slavery issue.

* BlackComedyRape: The rape jokes.

** Bart was originally handed the job of Sheriff [[XanatosGambit in order to disgust and offend the residents of Rock Ridge]]. Unfortunately for Hedley, he's far better at the job than he was expecting.

--> '''The Waco Kid''':What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... '''morons'''.

** Subverted a little when he chokes on the hard candy he's been sucking on.

* [[{{GroinAttack/Film}} Groin Attack]]: Happens to a cowboy, a {{mook}}, a film director and Hedley Lamarr (who's ''shot'' in the groin).

* LargeHam: MelBrooks, of course, with a serious contender in Harvey Korman as Hedy (''Hedley!'').

* MelBrooks: The man, the myth, the legend.

* NWordPrivileges: No way anyone but MelBrooks could have gotten away with half of the jokes in this movie.

* PlungerDetonator: Sheriff Bart tries to use one to detonate the explosives in the fake Rock Ridge and blow up the villains, but it doesn't work. The Waco Kid has to set them off with a shot from his revolver.

* PottyDance: When Taggart gets an idea he gets excited and jumps around. Hedley Lamarr thinks he's doing one of these.

* RoadSignReversal: The re-edited-for-TV version includes a originally-cut scene like this, when Bart and the Waco Kid are being chased by the villains; the duo come to an arrow-sign mounted on a post, smack it so that it starts spinning in circles, and run on. The villains ride up, wait for the sign to finish spinning, and charge off in the indicated direction.

* RhymingList:

--> '''Taggart''': God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

* [[{{ShoutOut/Films}} Shout Out]]: Multiple examples.

* SpringtimeForHitler: Lamarr convinces the governor to appoint a random black man as Rock Ridge's new sheriff, in the hopes that the racist townspeople will be so demoralized that they give up and run off. He certainly wasn't counting on the sheriff actually helping them and winning them over.

--> '''Taggart:''' I want you to send a wire to the main office, and tell them I said-" '''*CLANG!*''' Owwww!

-->"Now, '''[[ColePorter go do that voodoo that you do so well!]]'''"

* ProsceniumReveal: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in the climax, where the action is somehow "real" even though it's shown to be happening on a Hollywood soundstage — and eventually most of the backlot — during the climactic BattleRoyaleWithCheese.

* PieInTheFace: the "Great Pie Fight" near the end. No-one is spared except Hedley Lamarr, who goes into a bathroom and smears {shaving?) cream on his face to make it look like he'd been pied.