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1. Wouldn't work today becayse right-wingers don't get satire and think that kind of thing gives them license

Wed Feb 7, 2024, 08:02 AM

Feb 2024

to use racial slurs.

Just like Arch Bunker. Arch uses some milder racial and homophobic slurs, but they didn't get that Arch was the joke.

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Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today [View all] Eugene Feb 2024 OP

"Blazing Saddles" will be airing tonight on AMC from 8pm to 8:07pm. Ray Bruns Feb 2024 #2

Sounds like the Golf Channel "cut" of Caddyshack I saw once. Probatim Feb 2024 #4

One of the greatest movies of all time, IMHO. lastlib Feb 2024 #3

ROFLOL...Lili Von Shtupp: Wednesdays Feb 2024 #8

Satire is dead no_hypocrisy Feb 2024 #6

My Blazing Saddles story- FalloutShelter Feb 2024 #7

On YouTube there are several posts of GenZ reviewers watching the movie Xavier Breath Feb 2024 #9

I just watched it again. byronius Feb 2024 #10

I need to rewatch it. bif Feb 2024 #12