"Stinkin' badges" is a paraphrase of a line of dialogue from the 1948 film '' The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. That line was in turn derived from dialogue in the 1927 novel of the same name, which was the basis for the film. In 2005, the full quote from the film was chosen as #36 on the

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list, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. The shorter, better-known version of the quote was first heard in the 1967 episode of the TV series ''

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'' "It's a Nice Place to Visit". It was also included in the 1974

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film '' Blazing Saddles'', and has since been included in many other films and television shows.

History

The original version of the line appeared in B. Traven's novel ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' (1927): The line was popularized by

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's 1948 film adaptation of the novel, which was altered from its content in the novel to meet the

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regulations severely limiting profanity in film. In one scene, a Mexican bandit leader named "Gold Hat" (portrayed by Alfonso Bedoya) tries to convince Fred C. Dobbs (

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) that he and his company are ''

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'':

Appearances in media

Film

* In ''The Dirties'', the characters

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and Owen make a student film in which they play cops and constantly make pop culture references. In one scene, their teacher playing the police chief shouts, "That's it, give me your badges!", and Matt responds "Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"

Comics

*In one issue of the ''

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, the Malignoid drones Scul and Bean meet with the nihilistic industrian Null to discuss the contract between him and the Malignoid queen Maligna. When Null insists on consolidating the contract through his lawyers, either Scul or Bean yells out: "Lawyers?! We don't need no stinkin' lawyers!!" *In the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''series from

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paraphrases a variation of that sentence ("Plans?! I don't need no stinking plans!") whilst using his cyborg systems to restore a stripped-down aircar.

Games

* In the game '' Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!'' (1993), the main protagonist has the line of dialogue, "Badges? Ve don' need no steenkin' badges!" to Cavaricchi, the aerobics instructor.

Literature

* The Luis Valdez play ''I Don't Have to Show You No Stinkin' Badges'' (1987) draws its title from this quote, and makes a specific reference to ''Sierra Madre''. * In ''

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'' (2005), the second novel in

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series, a cobbler named Loring eschews the use of barges as a means of human transportation, saying, "Barges? We don't want no stinking barges." * In William S. Burroughs' report on the 1968 Democratic Convention for ''Esquire'' magazine, Burroughs has a cop demand to see the permit of the candidate's entourage. The response is: "Permits? We don't have any permits. We don't have to show you any stinking permits. You are talking suh to the future President of America."

References

External links

* {{YouTube, id=4OcM23Hbs5U, title=No Stinking Badges English phrases Quotations from film Badges 1940s neologisms