Stinking badges

"Badges?... We don't need no... stinkin' badges!" is one of the most frequently quoted, misquoted and parodied movie quotations in history. In 2005, it was chosen as #36 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.

Origin

The original quotation comes from the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" with Humphrey Bogart. In one of the scenes in the movie a Mexican bandit leader (Gold Hat played by Alfonso Bedoya) is trying to convince Fred C Dobbs (played by Bogart) and company that they are the "Federales".

:"Dobbs:" 'If you're the police where are your badges?':"Gold Hat:" 'Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!'

This in turn was adapted from B Traven's 1927 novel upon which the movie was based:

:"All right," Curtain shouted back. "If you are the police, where are your badges? Let's see them."

:"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, you god-damned "cabrón" and ching' tu madre! Come out from that shit-hole of yours. I have to speak to you."

Quotes and spoofs

* In the 1974 Mel Brooks film "Blazing Saddles", probably the most famous parody of the line is delivered. Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) is interviewing a line of criminals in order to deputise them so that they can terrorize a town. The line is filled with stereotypical criminals, from bikers to robed Klansmen. A group of Mexicans dressed in sombreros and bandoleros step up to him. He speaks to them briefly, hires them and tries to hand them deputy badges: "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
* In an episode of the television series "The A-Team" (c. 1985), Hannibal hatches a plan for the team to dress as cops, but Face observes that they don't have any badges, to which Murdock responds "Badges? We don't need no steeenking badges!"
* "I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges!" is a satirical play by the Chicano playwright Luis Valdez, first published in 1986, that tackles media stereotypes in a sitcom style.
* In an episode of "The Monkees" from 1967, the band members play at being banditos. Michael (El Nesmito) wonders whether they should carry a club card or some badges. Micky (El Dolenzio) replies sneeringly with the line, "Badges? We don't need no steeenking badges!"
* The Minutemen song "Badges" alludes to this line.
* In the "WKRP in Cincinnati" episode "Filthy Pictures" Dr. Johnny Fever is forced by his employer Arthur Carlson to give details of a past arrest, a small event Fever characterizes as an "altercation with 145 Mexican cops." "I asked to see their badges," Fever tells Carlson, "but the guy said 'Badges?....We don't need no stinking badges!'."
* In the Stephen King novel "It", the character Richie Tozier repeatedly says "Batches? We don't need no steenking batches!"
* In the 1984 film "The Brother From Another Planet", two "men in black" (alien bounty hunters) enter the bar where the alien was supposedly found. The bartender, suspicious of their intentions, demands to see some I.D. John Sayles, the director of the movie, delivers the line "Badges? What badges? We don't have to show you any badges."
* In the 1989 Shelley Long film "Troop Beverly Hills", when the troop's achievement patches are taken away, Rosa, the maid of Long's character (played by Shelley Morrison) says, "Patches? We don't need no stinkin' patches!"
* In the 1989 "Weird Al" Yankovic film "UHF", Trinidad Silva, as the host of "Raul's Wild Kingdom" receives a shipment of badgers in error: "Badgers? Badgers?!? BADGERS?!? We don't need no stinking BADGERS!!!"
* In the 1989 Jim Jarmusch film "Mystery Train", a young Japanese tourist obsessed with Carl Perkins and American culture says, "Matches? We don't need no stinking matches!" upon lighting a cigarette with a Zippo lighter.
* In the 1991 Ron Howard film "Backdraft", William Baldwin says "Spinach? We don't need no stinkin' spinach!"
* In the computer game "", Leisure Suit Larry looks at fitness instructor Cavaricchi Vuarnet's badge and remarks: "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.".
* In an episode of the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" (c. 1996), Harry (French Stewart) exclaims, "Bagels? We don't need no stinking bagels!"
* In an episode of "", Detective Lennie Briscoe responds to a woman who asks to see his and his partner's badge with, "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges." When the woman opens the door and asks what he said, he replies "I said yes, yes, of course you need to see our badges."
* In the "Ghost in the Machine" episode of the cartoon "Transformers", Scourge, possessed by Starscream's ghost, is intercepted by a couple of other Decepticons, who ask him for an entry pass. Starscream's ghost materialises and says "Passes? Passes? I don't have to show you no stinking passes!".
* In "Eldest", the second book of the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, Loring the cobbler says "Barges? We don't want no "stinking" barges!"
* On the "X-Men" TV Show Archangel (Stephen Ouimette) exclaims "Cities? They don't need no stinking cities!"
* In the 1985 Anthony Edwards film "Gotcha!" when Jonathan's friend "Carlos", along with his friends 'surrounded' the FBI agents who then proceeded to flash their badges, "Carlos" retorted "Badges...we don't need no stinking badges"
* In an episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer Simpson becomes a food critic, Marge Simpson warns him that the typewriter he is using has a faulty E key. Homer replies, "We don't need no stinkin' E!"
* In an episode of the 1990s Nickelodeon show "Salute Your Shorts", appropriately titled "The Treasure of Sarah Madre," Z.Z. finds a Junior Park Ranger's Badge while the kids are digging for treasure. She shows it to Michael, who replies, "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
* In a fourth-season episode of "Farscape", when the Scarran emperor asks John Crichton how he obtained the codes to a secret chamber, Crichton affects a Mexican accent and responds, "Codes? We didn't need no stinkin' codes!"
* In an episode of "", the main characters are being chased by self-appointed "asteroid inspectors," and when one of the characters asks to see their badges, the "inspectors" shoot at them wildly. The character Sheen remarks, "I don't think they need no stinking badges."
* In an episode of Perfect Strangers (TV series) titled 'Tooth or Consequences', cousins Balki and Larry are overexposed to Nitrous Oxide and Larry exclaims "We don't need no stinking dentist!" as he hatches a plan to fix his own missing filling.
* In the kids TV show Viva Pinata, Paulie the Pretztail says "We don't need no stinking BADGESICLES!!!"
* In the 2007 BCS National Championship after University of Florida linebacker Earl Everett loses his helmet then continues the play to make the tackle, the announcer says "Helmets, we don't need no stinkin' helmets."
* In an episode of "Friends", Ross, Chandler and Joey are playing a game-show type quiz, and one of the questions asked was, "Which movie is this famous quote from?", before speaking the famous quote. Chandler managed to answer the question correctly, and was also awarded a bonus for speaking the name of the movie backwards.
* In the 1987 film Born in East L.A., Cheech Marin says "I don't need no stinkin' green card."
*In an episode of Raw Is War in 2001, Stone Cold Steve Austin was doing a backstage skit with Kurt Angle. Kurt Angle had brought badges in response to Steve Austin bringing himself, Vince McMahon, and Kurt Angle cowboy hats the week before. In response, Austin says, "Badges? You got us badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" and throws it to the side.
* At the beginning of Big Fat Money, you can hear someone from the sound booth ask Alex Van Halen, "Al, do you want a click on that?" Alex replies, "I don't need no stinking click!"
* At the beginning of Adam Curry's Daily Source Code podcast, an announcer with a Mexican accent is often heard saying "Transmitters! We don't need no Stinkin Transmitters!"
* In the computer game The Curse of Monkey Island there was a tombstone that said "Mouthwash? We don't need no stinking Mouthwash."
* In the movie "From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangmans Daughter" Orlando Jones tries to trade a brush for a drink, to which the bartender replied: "We don't need no stinking brushes."
* In the song "Julian H. Cope" from the album Jehovahkill, Julian Cope sings "Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
* In the song "The Good, the Bad & the Skinnee" from the album SuperMercado!, the 2 Skinnee J's chant the line "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
*"Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!" (from Zombie Strippers)
* In the 1995 action movie Bad Boys (1995 film) Mike Lowrey offers a scared convenience store clerk to show him his badge, to what the clerk answers: "Badges!? You want badges, motherbitch!? I give you badges! Here! 99 cent each, I sell you some."
* In the novel Black and Blue by Ian Rankin, upon arrival of an Indian takeaway at the police station, one of the officers comments, "Bhajis, we don' need no steenking bhajis".
* In the 2007 comedy National Lampoon's Bag Boy, a Mexican store owner rejects a young man seeking a bagging job with the line "Baggers?! We don't need no stinking baggers!"
* In the video game Escape From Monkey Island, upon being asked for identification before he can be sold alcohol, Guybrush replies "ID? I don't need no stinkin' ID!"
* In an episode of The Batman (TV series), Joker considers putting on make-up before reconsidering and exlaiming "Make-up?! Joker don´t need no stinking make-up!"
* In the episode "Carnage", of , J. Jonah Jameson tries to unmask Spider-Man, but is stopped by War Machine. Jameson pulls out a badge and claims it gives him the right to unmask Spider-Man, whereupon War Machine takes the badge and crushes it with his hand, replying, "I don't see no stinkin' badge."
* A song by Big Audio Dynamite "Medicine Show" samples the line "I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!."
* In the film Bubble Boy, the main character runs into a motorist, played by Danny Trejo. The bubble boy asks if the motorist needs some patches, to which he responds "Patches?! I could use some stinkin' patches!"

External links

* [http://www.darryl.com/badges/index.shtml Stinking Badges Home Page]
* [http://www.godcast.org/categories/behindTheScenes/2005/01/09.html#a141 "Transmitters? We don't need no stinkin' transmitters!" MP3 (public domain)]