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ifeelpin Mar 30, 2026 +36

Mel Brooks wrote the song on the radio called 'If You Love Me Baby, Tell Me Loud.' https://youtu.be/jWTzsnIPI2U High Anxiety (1977) is a fantastic parody of Hitchcock movies, starring Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman. Highly recommended. Edit: >Before its release, Brooks held a private screening for Hitchcock and feared the worst when Hitchcock did not react while watching and ultimately left without saying a word. Days later, Hitchcock would send Brooks a case of wine and a note of his approval >After viewing the film himself, Alfred Hitchcock sent Brooks a case of six magnums of 1961 Château Haut-Brion wine with a note that read, "A small token of my pleasure, have no anxiety about this."

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Dull-Branch4073 Mar 30, 2026 +11

Odd coincidence. My wife and I watched High Anxiety for the first time in years last night. Cloris Leachman’s character is brilliant.

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michal_hanu_la Mar 30, 2026 +2

> Cloris Leachman Neigh!

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Seagoon_Memoirs Mar 30, 2026 +24

I love this movie. apparently Cloris Leachman invented her character without telling anyone, just turned up on the set like that 🫨

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SGTBrutus Mar 30, 2026 +7

Best villian ever.

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Seagoon_Memoirs Mar 30, 2026 +4

No fruitcup!

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piercedmfootonaspike Mar 30, 2026 +12

I have a structured settlement and I need cash now...

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Marcysdad Mar 30, 2026 +6

He can't read or write music, btw. So he used to hum the melodies for his songs on a tape recorder so it could be transcribed into musical notes

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DoctorEnn Mar 30, 2026 +4

The song lasts *juuuuuuuust* long enough to make sure he’s dead.

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Dead-O_Comics Mar 30, 2026 +4

Imagine if he'd heard Dubstep... I bet it'd be like that scene from Scanners

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bones_boy Mar 30, 2026 +3

This scene was low-key scary to me as a 10 year old when I saw this first time. Don’t know why.

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Calamity-Gin Mar 31, 2026 +5

10 year olds can take things surprisingly literally at times. There’s a Pink Panther movie where the villain tortures someone by putting on a metal gauntlet and running the tips of the metal fingers down a chalk board. When I was 10, I legit thought it was honest-to-God torture, and was horrified.

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CatProgrammer Mar 31, 2026 +2

Are you saying [chalkboard scraping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkboard_scraping) *isn't* torture?

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Calamity-Gin Mar 31, 2026 +2

Oh, it is. It’s just not usually employed in the same level as a car battery and pair of clamps.

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_PinkSiren Mar 30, 2026 +5

The timing, the music, the chaos, pure genius.

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karlboom Mar 31, 2026 +2

"Those who are tardy... get no fruit cup."

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[deleted] Mar 30, 2026 +2

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Bubba_Jones44 Mar 30, 2026 +1

I didn’t know rock n roll made ketchup come outta your ears. Gotta remember that next time Wendy’s shorts me.

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lonestarr357 Mar 31, 2026 +1

That scene freaked me out as a kid. It still kinda does.

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SingerOk7358 Mar 30, 2026 -28

Stop this spoiler tendency

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Active-Coconut-8961 Mar 30, 2026 +11

It's not reasonable to put a spoiler warning on a film that's been out for decades. Also: a good movie shouldnt be ruined for you just because you know what happens in it. If that was the case rewatching films wouldn't be a thing.

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warzone_afro Mar 30, 2026 +10

its been out for 50 years

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SingerOk7358 Mar 30, 2026 -21

It's not possibile to have seen all movies filmed in the last 50 years. You can avoid all this with a flair 'SPOILER' then it's up to you if open the post/image or not

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warzone_afro Mar 30, 2026 +5

its possible to see all the good ones

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United-Amoeba-8460 Mar 30, 2026 +2

Wait til he finds out about Luke’s dad.

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d_bb_d Mar 31, 2026 +2

Or that Palpatine returned...somehow.

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Dr Wentworth's death scene from Mel Brooks' High Anxiety. Mel Brooks wrote the song on the radio.

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