What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Mel Brooks was a genius. And the delivery made it even better. Watching them both lose it makes the entire scene.
It also highlights that this type of anti-intellectualism is a cornerstone of the social fabric of our country.
The morons part of the line was unscripted. That's why they laughed like that. I love it was so brilliant that it was kept. Doesn't make it any less true.
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u/BrockSamsonLikesButt 22h ago
That’s what “anti-woke” means. Willfully ignorant. Deliberately destructively stupid. Head in the sand. Dumb.