Stinking badges
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"We ain't got no badges" is probably one of the most frequently quoted, misquoted and parodied movie quotations in history.
Origin
The original quotation comes from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart. One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is where a Mexican bandit leader (Gold Hat, played by Alfonso Bedoya) is trying to convince Fred C. Dobbs (played by Bogart) and company that they are the Federales.
- Dobbs: "If you're the police, where are your badges?"
- Gold Hat: "Badges!? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!!"
The line by Gold Hat was chosen recently as #36 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
Quotes and spoofs
- In an episode of The Monkees from 1967, the band members play at being banditos. Michael (El Nesmito) wonders whether they should carry a club card or some badges. Micky (El Dolenzio) replies sneeringly with the line, "Badges? We don't need no steeenking badges!"
- In the 1974 Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles, probably the most famous parody of the line is delivered. Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) is interviewing a line of criminals in order to deputise them so that they can terrorize a town. The line is filled with stereotypical criminals, from bikers to robed Klansmen. A group of Mexicans dressed in sombreros and bandoleros step up to him. He speaks to them briefly, hires them and tries to hand them deputy badges: "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
- In the Steven King novel It, the character Richie Tozier repeatedly says "Batches? We don't need no steenking batches!"
- In the 1984 film The Brother From Another Planet, two "men in black" (alien bounty hunters) enter the bar where the alien was supposedly found. The bartender, suspicious of their intentions, demands to see some I.D. John Sayles, the director of the movie, delivers the line, "Badges? What badges? We don't have to show you any badges."
- In an episode of the television series The A-Team (c. 1985), the team are hired to protect a female rock and roll singer and Hannibal hatches a plan for them to dress as cops.
- Face: "But we don't have any badges."
- Murdock: "Badges? We don't need no steeenking badges!"
- In the 1989 Shelley Long film Troop Beverly Hills, when the troop's achievement patches are taken away, Rosa, the maid of Long's character (played by Shelley Morrison) says, "Patches? We don't need no stinkin' patches!"
- In the 1989 "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF, the host of Raul's Wild Kingdom receives a shipment of certain animals in error: "Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!"
- In an episode of the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (c. 1996), Harry (French Stewart) exclaims, "Bagels? We don't need no stinking bagels!"
- In the 2001 film Bubble Boy, a big biker says, "Patches? I don't need no stinking patches!"
- In the web comic Real Life, in reference to the Flash video Badger Badger Badger, Greg Dean says, "Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!" (This is possibly also a reference to the UHF film parody, as Greg Dean is an acknowledged fan of "Weird Al" Yankovic)
- In an episode of the newest Law and Order franchise, Trial by Jury, Detective Lennie Briscoe responds to a woman who asks to see his and his partner's badge with, "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
- In the 1989 Jim Jarmusch film, a young Japanese tourist obsessed with Carl Perkins and American culture says, "Matches? We don't need no stinking matches!" upon lighting a cigarette with a Zippo lighter.
External link
- Stinking Badges Home Page (http://www.darryl.com/badges/index.shtml)