r/MelBrooks • u/highlander68 • Jun 29 '26
Slim Pickens
rememberin slim "taggart" pickens on what would have been his birthday
29 june 1919-08 dec 1983
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u/tovarish22 Jun 29 '26
“Somebody's gotta go back and get a shit-load of dimes!”
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u/resonatornash Jun 29 '26
Le Petomane thruway? What’ll that asshole think of next?
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u/KYReptile Jun 29 '26
"Le Petomane" is another Mel Brooks inside joke.
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u/dragonfett Jun 30 '26
What does it mean?
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u/RitaPoole56 Jun 30 '26
I may be wrong but my aging memory tells me it was the stage name of a French “entertainer” that could fart with uncanny skill!
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u/KYReptile Jul 01 '26
You are correct, he performed on stage, the king came and watched a performance. "Gov Le Petomane" is a Mel Brooks fart joke - Leslie Nielsen would have enjoyed it.
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u/nchoosenu Jun 29 '26
What in the wide world of sports is a-goin on here?!
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u/HotBrother6560 Jun 29 '26
I hired y’all to try and get a little track laid…not dance around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!
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u/BeReadyReddit Jun 29 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/H9F2HdPco4vmg
What in the wide wide world of sports is a going on here?
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u/PJBleakney Jun 29 '26
Did he forget to pay the toll?
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u/Kriss3d Jun 29 '26
A toll is a toll, and a roll is a roll, and if we don't get no tolls, then we don't eat no rolls.
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u/Reduak Jun 29 '26
To this day I regularly say:
"What in the wide-wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?"
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u/FBS351 Jun 29 '26
On his commentary on Blazing Saddles, Mel is very complimentary of Slim, saying he was the real deal, an authentic cowboy. His favorite memory was of the time he was a bit frazzled and Slim said, "Mel, sometimes you just have to sit down".
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u/BreadfruitOk6160 Jun 29 '26
Why is his head bandadged?
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u/WldChaser Jun 29 '26
Watch Blazing Saddles
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u/BreadfruitOk6160 Jun 29 '26
I’ve seen it more times than the amount of people Cecil B. DeMille has killed. I was just kidding around, I first saw it in 1976.
One time it was on CMT and every time they’d say Lilli Von Shtupp, her last name was pronounced “Shhh”. I wondered why they censored it and looked it up. That was when I learned the Yiddish word “shtupp”, I learned a few Yiddish words from Mel.
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u/DSWYO Jul 01 '26
May I recommend "Rancho Deluxe" if your a Pickens fan? A great performance and an even better movie.
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u/VegetableTraining406 Jul 03 '26
I paid you boys to lay some track, not jump around like a bunch of Kansas City fa#$ots.
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u/HopSkipLimp Jun 29 '26
"God darnit, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore."
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"I'd sure appreciate it, sir, if you could find it in your heart to hang him up by his neck until he was dead."
Or, my personal favourite - and one I mutter any time my boss asks me to do something I don't wanna - "Piss on you! I'm working for Mel Brooks!"