Stinking badges

History

In popular culture

Comics

• In one issue of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Archie comics, the Malignoid drones Scul and Bean meet with the nihilistic industrian Null to discuss the contract between him and the Malignoid queen Maligna. When Null insists on consolidating the contract through his lawyers, either Scul or Bean yells out: "Lawyers?! We don't need no stinkin' lawyers!!"
• In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series from Image Comics, Donatello paraphrases a variation of that sentence whilst using his cyborg systems to restore a stripped-down aircar.

  Film

• In Mel Brooks's Western Blazing Saddles, the line was delivered as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
• In Charles Swenson's animated film Down and Dirty Duck, a stereotypical Mexican mouse character, wearing a sombrero and a bandolier, speaks the line as "I don't want your stinkin' badges!"
• In the film The Ninth Configuration, when the asylum patients are quoting lines from movies, one quotes "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
• In the sketch-comedy film Elephant Parts, one of the fake ad sequences portrays "an authentic Mexican bandito in a Mexican-American restaurant," whose sole line is "Nachos? We don't need no stinkin' nachos!"
• In the movie Gotcha!, the character Manolo says "Don't show me your badges; we don't know nothing about no stinking badges."
• The movie Troop Beverly Hills contains the line "We don't need no stinkin' patches."
• In the "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF, when animal show host Raul is asked to take a consignment of badgers, he says "Badgers? Badgers?! We don't need no stinking badgers!"
• In the film Flashback, as the hooker is undressing the FBI agent, she discards his badge saying "We don't need no stinkin' badges."
• In the film No Code of Conduct Paul Gleason's character says in a bad Mexican accent "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!", then goes on to sheepishly mention that he was quoting from the 1974 film Blazing Saddles.
• In the film Bubble Boy, when Jimmy offers Danny Trejo's character Slim patches for his motorcycle's flat tire he responds, "Patches? I could use some stinking patches."
• In the film Zombie Strippers, when Paco is told to obtain some wild animals to dispose of the bodies, he says, "Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers."
• In Spike Lee's American war drama film Da 5 Bloods, when Desroche's gunmen first try to dispossess the Bloods of the recovered gold bars, the leader of the gunmen tells Paul, "We don't need no stinking official badges."

  Games

• The trading card game ' makes reference to a card that was to be included in the joke Unhinged set called, "We don't need no stinkin' Merfolk!"
• The game FTL: Faster Than Light includes an achievement called, "I don't need no stinkin' upgrades!"
• The game Ground Zero Texas Dialog from actor Danny Trejo. "Badges, We don't need no stinking badges"
• In the adventure game Escape from Monkey Island, the main protagonist Guybrush Threepwood is given a dialogue option, when asked for ID by the bartender, "ID? I don't need no stinkin' ID!"
• In the first-person shooter Duke Nukem Forever, the main protagonist says "Keycard? I don't need no fucking keycards!" when he faces a door which requires a keycard to be opened.
• In the game ', the main protagonist has the line of dialogue, "Badges? Ve don' need no steenkin' badges!" to Cavaricchi, the aerobics instructor.

  Literature

• In the Stephen King novel It, character Richie Tozier repeatedly says, in a poor imitation of a Mexican accent, "Batches? We don't need no steeking batches."
• In the Stephen King novel Bag of Bones the narrator describes his denial of having writer's block by saying to the reader "Writer's block? What writer's block? We don't got no stinking writer's block."
• The Luis Valdez play I Don't Have to Show You No Stinkin' Badges draws its title from this quote, and makes a specific reference to Sierra Madre.
• In Eldest, the second novel in Christopher Paolini's The Inheritance Cycle series, a cobbler named Loring eschews the use of barges as a means of human transportation, saying, "Barges? We don't want no stinking barges."
• In William S. Burroughs' report on the 1968 Democratic Convention for Esquire magazine, Burroughs has a cop demand to see the permit of the candidate's entourage. The response is: "Permits? We don't have any permits. We don't have to show you any stinking permits. You are talking suh to the future President of America."

  Music

• The song "Badges" by Minutemen quoted the line as: "We have no badges... we don't need no badges... we don't need no stinking badges".
• The song "Medicine Show" by Big Audio Dynamite sampled the quote by Alfonso Bedoya from the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The song prominently featured quotes sampled from other westerns as well, including several by or making reference to the Eli Wallach character Tuco from the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This association — as well as the similarity of voice and accent employed by both actors in their respective bandito roles — reinforces the common misconception that Wallach delivered the famous line.
• Julian Cope's semi-eponymous song "Julian H Cope" from his album Jehovahkill featured the line: "Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! So sissified, civilised, I want to be a savage".
• The 2 Skinnee J's song "The Good, the Bad, and The Skinnee" from the album SuperMercado! features the line "Badges, we don't need no stinking badges" sung as a refrain five times in a row.
• At the beginning of the song "Big Fat Money" off the album Balance by Van Halen, someone asked, "Al, you want a click on this one?" to which Alex Van Halen replied, "I don't need no stinkin' click!"
• The New York-based jamband moe. often uses the line humorously during a pause in their song "Mexico" when playing it live.
• The Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers song "Barons to Break," from the album Native Heart, includes the line in the chorus.

  Television

• A Team there goes the neighborhood season 4 episode 10. Murdock when shown the town watch fake badges says " Badges we don't need no stinkin badges"
• In the episode "It's a Nice Place to Visit" of The Monkees, Micky Dolenz misquoted the line as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges".
• In the episode "Filthy Pictures" of WKRP In Cincinnati, Johnny Fever is telling a story "I said show me some badges, and the guys says, Badges! uh, we don't need no stinking badges"
• In a 1983 episode of Wizards and Warriors, the character Marko delivers a spoof of the line as "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers".
• In the episode "Sledge in Toyland" of Sledge Hammer!, Sledge and his partner arrive at the office of the murdered toy tycoon and the security guard sticks a visitor's badge on his chest. Sledge throws it on the counter saying: "Heeeey, I don't need no sticking badges."
• In the episode "Darkstar Rising" of ', when Kevin is lamenting the loss of his plumber's badge, Ben says, "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
• In a 2014 episode of ', Kade Burns says, "Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers."
• In an episode of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Michelangelo intones, "Chill, bro — we don't need no stinking surface world."
• In the Salute Your Shorts episode "The Treasure of Sarah Madre", the gang is digging for buried treasure, and Z.Z. finds a junior park ranger's badge, about which Michael states, "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
• In the Friends Season 8 episode "The One with the Baby Shower", the quote is mentioned as one of Joey's training questions for the show Bamboozled.
• In the "A Beautiful Mine" episode of , Sheen says, "Uh, Libby, I don't think they need no stinkin badges."
• In the "Stuck with Dick" episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Harry says "Bagels? Bagels? We don't need no stinkin' bagels!".
• In the "Ghost in the Machine," episode 82, season 3 of The Transformers, the Ghost of Starscream accosts two Decepticon guards by saying, "Passes? Passes? I don't have to show you no stinking passes!"
• In the TV movie Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!, when asked to see some identification badges, the leader of a group of live action video game players responded with "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
• In the episode "Musta Been a Beautiful Baby" of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Scratch and Grounder masquerade as police officers from the "Department of Lost Kids", and when asked for their badges, reply "Badges? We don't need no stinking—" before being cut off and thrown out.
• In the episode "Gumby with a Pokey" of Two and a Half Men, Berta and Charlie are quoting movies while high, and Berta says the line "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" using a popsicle as a mustache.
• In the episode "Blood Drive" of The Office, Michael is talking at a Valentine's Day singles party and says "Relationships? We don’t need no stinkin’ relationships!"

  Theatre

• In the Broadway production of American Idiot, between the songs "St. Jimmy" and "Give me Novocaine" the character, St. Jimmy, proclaims that "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" before Johnny and Whatsername initiate an intimate moment in the center stage bed.