Who saw it in 1974? What did you think then?
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MissMargoChanning — 10 years ago(August 29, 2015 03:38 PM)
I was there in 1974. Having grown up watching all of the tv westerns, not to mention the movies, I can honestly say that I found this refreshing at the ripe old age of 18.
I'm serious! This was like nothing my friends and I had never seen before.
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drystyx — 10 years ago(September 29, 2015 04:58 PM)
I saw it in 1974, and it was just as hilarious then as now.
If there's any difference, I think I didn't join the loud laughter at the fart scene and at Madeline's scenes. The fart scene is funnier to me now, but back in the day, everyone else thought it was one of the best scenes. I just thought it was juvenile, and since I was juvenile, I wanted to be above it.
I thought the governor's secretary was much better looking than the plain heroine, and was disappointed she wasn't the love interest for the Wako Kid.
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whosit — 10 years ago(February 21, 2016 01:52 AM)
As I'm a huge fan of Mel (although I am on a diet) my desire to see this resulted in my cutting out of High Skool early the that day. This was a afternoon showing (I believe it was on a Wednesday) and there were more people in my head than filling the seats. I must've looked even crazier than usual for laughing loudly without being part of a large audience. Can't recall exactly but I stayed for one or two more showings that day.
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ath-11 — 10 years ago(March 24, 2016 05:49 PM)
I saw it '74. It my first R-rated movie and by the time I saw it, many of my high school classmates had already seen it and had quoted the best lines. It was still funny when I saw it though.
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ronniehrubin — 9 years ago(May 05, 2016 03:40 PM)
desierra2003- I saw this in the movie theater as well in 1974. I'm 60 now and can tell without a doubt this is still one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I can also tell you I had to walk (run) to the bathroom during the farting scene as I was laughing so hard I almost threw up my popcorn! True story! Anyway, this movie, along with Airplane, are my 2 favorite comedies of all time!
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waydekillmeyer — 9 years ago(June 03, 2016 04:44 AM)
I saw it in the theater in '74 and laughed so hard I thought I would never catch my breath. The entire theater was that way. I didn't see such another uproarious response to a movie until a few years later when Animal House came out. A true comedy classic that still makes me laugh.
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Mattfinbell — 9 years ago(June 12, 2016 06:58 PM)
I loved it
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And I know Prior & Murphy were from a different era of comedians as well, but if there really is no place for the "N" word anymore, then there really is no place for the "N" word anymore. It needs to stop being used by everyone, especially blacks.
yes it does but they continue it all the time
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dannieboy20906 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 07:51 PM)
I was a nearly less than new 21-year-old airman in language school at the Presidio of Monterey in 1976. Having heard of the controversy over the profanity and racial insensitivity, I had avoided the movie when it first came out. But I went to see it when it played on a double bill in the big theater downtown. I laughed my butt off and it has stayed funny for me ever since. No matter how many times I watch it, it is still funny. I don't remember what the other movie on the double bill was.
The whole point of the movie, its source of humor, is openly displaying all of the intolerance that looked under the surface of our society. We have progressed wonderfully since then, but as in modern Germany where it is illegal to display a swastika, even to ridicule the Nazis of WW2, we are so embarrassed at how we were that we can no longer laugh at it. We have lost something in the process of improving things and it shows at the decay in racial relations.
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coldturkey30 — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 04:41 PM)
I took my 5 year old son to see it when it came out . I had no idea it was going to be a comedy- I had NO idea other than I thought we were going to see a Western movie. BOY were we surprised, and rolled with laughter through the whole show. He's 48 now and still laughs when I bring it up. You can guess his Favorite scene ?? The campfire beans of course !!!!!
