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Question: The line "Badges? We don't need no steenking badges!" has been parodied in at least two other movies: Weird Al Yankovic's UHF and Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles. But where did the line originally come from?


Answer: Although the original line is popularly remembered (and parodied) as "We don't need no stinking badges," it's actually "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" It comes from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), and it's a response to fortune hunter Humphrey Bogart's demand that the Mexican bandit who claims he and his companions are police officers prove it by showing their badges.

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