Modern Moments
While the film mostly pays homage to classic Westerns, it also makes infrequent references to modern pop culture staples. Or at least, what was considered modern in the 1970s! For example, when Bart cites “the orange roof on Howard Johnson’s outhouse,” he’s making a subtle reference to the modern restaurant chain, which has a distinctive orange roof on each of its buildings.
Modern Moments
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Secret Scenes
Even though Brooks refused to remove any scenes, he went about it in a sly way. It was entirely his decision whether pieces to remove or keep, but he still received a lot of feedback from WB executives. So the fact was that Brooks lied to the WB, telling them he was going to cut out some of the problematic moments, but then he kept them in!
Secret Scenes
