A tie between Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles.

Dark Helmet: Did you see anything?
Colonel Sandurz: No, sir! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again. (Space Balls)

Bart: Hey, where the white women at? (Blazing Saddles)

Haha classic.

Great article and great clip!

Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein; although I don't think there's a Mel Brooks film I wouldn't gladly see again.

Mel's great. My favorite would have to be Life Stinks.

He and Jeffrey Tambor hit that one out of the park.

But Blazing Saddles is definitely at the top of the list.

How many movies think so little of themselves that they spill a fight over to another set?

"Young Frankenstine."

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

Woody Allen had the MOST effect on my writing life and the choices I made but I didn't truly discover him (which, of course, led to discovering Bergman, Fellini, and Goddard) until my teens.

First it was Mel.

Mel Brooks not only had a massive influence over my earliest screenplays but over my entire household...much to the chagrin of my mother. Nothing broke up a family meal worse than the boys of my family quoting Blazing Saddles or High Anxiety ("You're the cocker's daughter?!"). Mel was a damn force of nature. Still is.

There isn't a single Brooks film that doesn't do it for me. (Okay, Dracula: Dead and Loving It was tough to slog through but hey, everyone has a bad day.)

However, to answer Scott's question, the pinnacle Brooks work would have to be The Producers. Possibly one of only five films in history I would deem as PERFECT.

And if you haven't seen The 12 Chairs or Life Stinks lately, give them another look... both are terrific and rather underrated.

Oy, don't get me going on Mel Brooks...