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You use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.
— Blazing Saddles • 1974
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is a villain's pompous speech punctured by his own idiot sidekick: Lamarr's rhapsody has been so ornate that Taggart can only admire it in the plain terms he knows. That gap between Lamarr's polish and Taggart's bluntness is the film's usual joke, and the line is a crude, affectionate way to say that someone is silver-tongued. It sits among Blazing Saddles' most-quoted exchanges.
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In context
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In Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, the scheming attorney general Hedley Lamarr has sent the giant Mongo to kill the new black sheriff, Bart, and Bart has disposed of him with a candygram. Back in Lamarr's office, Lamarr's henchman Taggart can only wonder how it went wrong, and Lamarr orders him to be still while he composes a plan in grand, flowery language. Taggart answers with a country compliment on his boss's speech, prefacing it with "Gol darn it, Mr. Lamarr". Lamarr seizes on a new idea: when the beast fails, call in beauty. The seductress Lili Von Shtupp is next.
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- Blazing Saddles script, Springfield! Springfield!scene after the Mongo candygramReference checked
- Wikipedia: Blazing Saddles, plotPlotReference checked
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