“We don’t need no stinking badges” — origins, uses & variations…

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THE ORIGINAL 1948 MOVIE LINES:

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” 
       Alfonso Bedoya, as the Mexican bandit “Gold Hat”
       In the classic film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was released in the U.S. on January 7, 1948               
       Contrary to what many people think, the famous quote about “stinking badges” in the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is not “We don’t need no stinking badges!” That’s a comic paraphrase of the words spoken in the film.
       The movie’s famous lines are from a tense scene in which three American gold prospectors, played by Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt, are confronted by a group of heavily-armed Mexicans in a remote area of Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains. The character who is the leader of the Mexicans, called “Gold Hat” in the credits, is played by Alfonso Bedoya.
       He tells the prospectors: “We are federales. You know, the mounted police.”
       Bogart says skeptically: “If you’re the police, where are your badges?”
       Bedoya sneeringly responds: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” 
       In the 1927 book by B. Traven that inspired the film, Gold Hat’s answer is: “Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don’t need badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabron and ching’ tu madre.”
       You can read more background about the famed “no badges” line in another TDIQ post at this link.

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THE MONKEES’ 1967 VERSION:

“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”
       Mickey Dolenz 
       In a 1967 episode of The Monkees TV show (Season 2, Episode 1)
       “We don’t need no stinking badges!” was made world famous when it was used in the 1974 Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles. But that was not the first use.
      In the Monkees episode “It’s A Nice Place To Visit,” originally aired on September 11, 1967, Mickey and two of his Monkees bandmates, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith, dress up as Mexican bandits to save their singer Davy Jones from a “real” Mexican bandit. Before they leave to find Davy, Michael Nesmith says: “Wait a minute, don’t you think maybe we oughtta take something out with us, like a club card or some badges?”
      Mickey replies with a heavy Mexican accent: “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”

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THE MORE FAMOUS 1974 BLAZING SADDLES USE:

“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” 
       Rick Garcia, playing a Mexican bandit 
       In the movie Blazing Saddles, which was released in the U.S. on February 7, 1974
       This is the use that popularized those famed words and made it common for people to say “we don’t need no stinking [whatever]” as a joking comment about almost anything. The lines come in a scene in which the corrupt State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr, played by Harvey Korman, gives a sheriff’s badge to one of his Mexican bandit henchmen, played by Rick Garcia. Hedley says: “Be ready to attack Rock Ridge at noon tomorrow. Here’s your badge.”
       Garcia throws the badge away and sneers: “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”

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THE 1989 BADGERS VARIATION:

“Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers.”  
       Trinidad Silva, playing TV show host Raul Hernandez
       In the 1989 “Weird Al” Yankovic movie UHF 
       The character Raul Hernandez is the host of a low-budget show about animals called “Raul’s Wild Kingdom” in this gonzo movie. During one scene, a truck pulls up outside his house to deliver some new animals. The driver reads Raul a list of the animals in the shipment — which include three badgers.
       Bogart says skeptically: Raul responds with an homage to the Monkees/Blazing Saddles quote by saying: “Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers.”

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THE BIBLICAL BADGERS VERSION:

“BADGERS? BADGERS? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING BADGERS.”
       Noah
       In a cartoon about Noah and the ark by Alex Barker, on his Cake or Death site

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LUCINDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARD LIMOS:

“I don’t have catering, I don’t have limousines. I’ve got Buick 6! I don’t need no stinking limo!”
       Lucinda Williams
       American rock, blues and country music singer and songwriter 
       A funny comment she made in a January 2017 interview about her latest concert tour. Her backup band includes three musicians who play together under the name “Buick 6.” They are bass player David Sutton, drummer Butch Norton and guitarist Stuart Mathis.

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LASSIE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD LEASHES:

“We Don’t Need No Stinkin Leashes!”
      The slogan on a T-shirt I bought on Amazon, which features an image of dog dressed like Alfonso Bedoya’s Mexican bandit “Gold Hat” in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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