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Mel Brooks Returning as Yogurt in Spaceballs Sequel

I hope it is as good as the original, but I doubt it will be. I hope it is at least close. I think too much time has passed.
I still re-watch it every once in a while. As far as I am concerned, I the original is still funny.
 
Shows you how different people's tastes are. I found Blazing Saddles to be painfully unfunny (and the failed TV pilot is even worse). And in regards to Young Frankenstein -- I had to abandon that film twenty minutes in -- painfully slow and unfunny.

Spaceballs? I can't watch that every year. Good stuff. The other films could only hope to be as funny.
 
Owain Taggart said:
Wait, there was a Blazing Saddles TV pilot??
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It's utterly godawful, directed by Robert Butler, who also directed The Cage ten years prior. Black Bart is a masterclass in making every wrong decision when adapting a movie for television. I'm surprised all those involved allowed it to be put on the special edition DVD and blu-ray sets of Blazing Saddles because of how embarrassingly bad it is.
 
Firebird said:
It's utterly godawful, directed by Robert Butler, who also directed The Cage ten years prior. Black Bart is a masterclass in making every wrong decision when adapting a movie for television. I'm surprised all those involved allowed it to be put on the special edition DVD and blu-ray sets of Blazing Saddles because of how embarrassingly bad it is.
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I have the Special Edition DVD. I watched the pilot once. Woof!
A waste of the talent involved.
 
Firebird said:
It's utterly godawful, directed by Robert Butler, who also directed The Cage ten years prior. Black Bart is a masterclass in making every wrong decision when adapting a movie for television. I'm surprised all those involved allowed it to be put on the special edition DVD and blu-ray sets of Blazing Saddles because of how embarrassingly bad it is.
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Well, that's interesting. Was it an episodic series? I ask because the serialized format wasn't at all common back then, and If it were remade these days, which would be very difficult just due to the humor, it would likely be done as a serialized TV series On the other hand, maybe it's something that just doesn't translate well to a TV series in general. And there was also a Spaceball cartoon series that didn't last very long.

Toril Toran said:
I hope it is as good as the original, but I doubt it will be. I hope it is at least close. I think too much time has passed.
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I sense a fermented yogurt joke potential... :lol:
 
Firebird said:
No way of knowing for sure since the pilot was never picked up for series from a network, but it would've likely been episodic just like every other network sitcom of the era.
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Oh right, I forgot it never went past the pilot. Well, not everything works with a sitcom format. Even dramas. One local drama was serialized, but only with 30 min episodes which made the flow super awkward, especially given there were only 8 episodes per season.
 
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