I always found it crazy when this would play on network television, they would not censor any instance of the N-word, but would completely remove the campfire fart scene.
Curious, in contrast I remember when they aired A Fish Called Wanda (that was a long time ago), they censored John Cleese’s response to one of Otto’s inarticulate verbal insult streams: “How very interesting… you’re a true vulgarian, aren’t you?”
…so as to not offend… people from Bulgaria, I guess? They might confuse the V with a B, then write strongly worded letters to the head of network programming?
I always found it crazy when this would play on network television, they would not censor any instance of the N-word, but would completely remove the campfire fart scene.
Fun fact, that scene was the first audible fart joke in film, so it being censored originally makes a little sense.
It’s entirely possible that the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles is the straw that broke Hollywood’s fetish for westerns.
If so, Mel Brooks did the world a great service.
Curious, in contrast I remember when they aired A Fish Called Wanda (that was a long time ago), they censored John Cleese’s response to one of Otto’s inarticulate verbal insult streams:
“How very interesting… you’re a true vulgarian, aren’t you?”
…so as to not offend… people from Bulgaria, I guess? They might confuse the V with a B, then write strongly worded letters to the head of network programming?
Vulgarian sound like “vulva.” It was probably that weak similarity to dirty, evil sex that got the line cut.