Blazing N______
Jay isn't watching Blazing Saddles right now because it isn't "family" entertainment, and the only way for it to be showing at the moment on ABC's Family channel is for it to be cut to ribbons. He's right. Various "shit"s and other words of the four letter sort have been swapped for alternate dialogue, but whenever "nigger" is in the script, the soundtrack goes silent. Jay's point is "what's the point?" and I understand that completely.
Still, watching Gene Wilder lean back and wistfully reminisce "I must have killed more men than Cecile B. Demille" has its charms.
And still further, all I've got to do is walk downstairs and pick the DVD off the shelf to watch the real thing. But for some reason, when I know I'm not really going to be watching closely I don't bother. I probably ought to even so -- I mean if I'm going to miss 10 or 15 minutes of it at a time, I might as well be missing the real thing.