Appendix:Snowclones/X? We don't need no stinkin' X!

English

Etymology

From a 1927 novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and two films — a 1974 film, Blazing Saddles, which was taken after a 1948 Humphrey Bogart film, which in turn was based on the novel. The original line from the book was "Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don’t need badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges […] ", and it shows up in both movies.

Phrase

X? We don't need no stinkin' X!

1. (snowclone) An emphatic way of saying "we don't need X". X can be any plural or singular noun. "Stinking" can take the form of "steenking" or "steenkin'", in imitation of the Mexican accent in which it was said in the movie.

Statistics

• Frequency: Very frequent (upward of 10 million Google results)

External links

• Discussion of this phrase at Snowclones.org
• Discussion of this phrase at Subjunctivitis
• A list of places in the media (TV, radio, movies, books, newspapers etc.) where this snowclone has been used
• "Stinking badges" at Wikipedia