References by other media to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. In particular, the "stinking badges" line from the film has been paraphrased and (mis)quoted in numerous works.
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Comic Books
- Grandville: "We don't need no stinkin' badgers!"
- In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) Issue 41, the new Daring Do book is called "The Treasure of the Saddle Madre".
- Stray Bullets has a parody of the film in The Treasure of the Hacienda Los Creepers, complete with a cameo from Humphrey Bogart's character.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: In "The Man Who Sold the World", when Null insists on consolidating Maligna's contract through his lawyers, Scul yells, "Lawyers?! We don't need no stinkin' lawyers!!"
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage) has Donatello exclaiming, "Plans?! I don't need no stinking plans!"
- Usagi Yojimbo has "The Treasure of the Mother of Mountains", although the story itself doesn't bear much resemblance to the film's plot.
Fan Works
- The Strange Destiny Of Prince Blueblood: While trying to evacuate every one of Fluttershy's animal companions out of Ponyville, a frustrated Rainbow Dash shouts, "We don't need the stinking badgers!"
Films — Animated
- Down and Dirty Duck: The Mexican Official at one point is picked up by the officer, shown his badge, then exclaims the famous "stinking badges" quote.
Films — Live-Action
- Da 5 Bloods: When mercenaries claiming to be officials from the Vietnamese government demand the Bloods hand over their gold, the Bloods ask to see their badges. The mercenaries respond, "We don't need no stinkin' official badges!"
- In 6 Underground, Three says the "stinking badges" line while breaking into the enemy stronghold and going past the security desk.
- Backdraft: Brian, playing with hand puppets for his nephew, exclaims, "Spinach? We don't need no stinkin' spinach!"
- Blazing Saddles includes a line that is likely the source of the misquotation/paraphrasing popularly known nowadays. Hedley Lamarr gathers all kinds of thugs and deputizes them as his private army. When several Banditos are given their tin stars, their reaction is "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
- In Bubble Boy, when Jimmy offers Slim patches for his motorcycle's flat tire, he responds, "Patches? I could use some stinking patches."
- Elephant Parts has a fake ad where "an authentic Mexican bandito in a Mexican-American restaurant" has the line, "Nachos? We don't need no stinkin' nachos!"
- In the 2021 film Fatherhood, Matt and his daughter say "Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules" several times.
- In the action comedy Gotcha! (1985), Manolo at one point says, "Don't show me your badges. We don't know nothing about no stinking badges."
- The Ninth Configuration: Among the numerous movie quotes from the asylum patients is the "We don't need no stinking badges" line.
- In No Code Of Conduct, Paul Gleason's character says, "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!", then says he was quoting Blazing Saddles.
- Pet Shop: Mr. and Mrs. Zimm have a poor understanding of Earth fads and culture, including misquoting the badges line as "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin badgers."
- In the novelization for Spider-Man, after his attack on the Quest Aerospace testing grounds, Norman exclaims, "B.A.D.G.E.R.? We don't need no steenkeeng B.A.D.G.E.R.!"
- Troop Beverly Hills: "Patches... we don't need no stinking patches!"
- UHF: Raul is asked to take a consignment of badgers and responds, "Badger? Badgers!? We don't need no stinking badgers!"
- The Wild Bunch: Several shout-outs to the film, especially the character of Sykes and the raucous laughter at the film's end.
- Zombie Strippers!: Paco is a walking homage to the bandito leader (along with every other Mexican stereotype) and has a large mustache to match. He twice references the "badges" line, first when he goes, "Badgers? We don't need no steenkin' badgers!", and then when Ian suggests that everyone who's not a zombie should wear a badge of some sort so that they can be distinguished from them, and Paco responds, "Badges? Badges? Yeah, that's a pretty good idea."
Literature
- In Bag of Bones, the narrator describes his denial of having writer's block with, "Writer's block? What writer's block? We don't got no stinking writer's block."
- The Inheritance Cycle: "Barges? We don't want no stinking barges!"
- In It, Richie Tozier repeatedly says in a bad Mexican accent, "Batches? We don't need no steeking batches."
- Lost Light: When Cross demands identification from an FBI agent, the agent shoots back with the "We don't need no stinking badges" line.
- In the Discworld novel Snuff, after being sworn in as a special constable, Stinky tells Vimes that anyone who gets in his way will find he's their worst nightmare. "A goblin with a badge?" No, says Stinky, "Stinky don't need no badges, fellow po-lees-man! Stinky worst nightmare all by himself."
- In the novelisation of Scarface, Tony Montana watches the movie which is compared thematically with his own destruction in the pursuit of illicit wealth.
- The War Against the Chtorr has the protagonist not wanting any stinkin' badgers (one of the Mechanical Animals used as scouts).
Live-Action TV
- 3rd Rock from the Sun: In "Stuck with Dick", Harry says, "Bagels? Bagels? We don't need no stinkin' bagels!".
- The A-Team: In the episode "There Goes the Neighborhood", Murdock says, "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges".
- The Brady Bunch has an episode titled "The Treasure of Sierra Avenue".
- In Friends "The One with the Baby Shower", the badges line is one of Joey's training questions for the game show Bamboozled.
- Almost every episode title of Gossip Girl (2007) is a play on a movie title, including one called "The Treasure of Serena Madre".
- The Monkees episode "It's a Nice Place to Visit" has Micky delivering the line, "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges".
- The Munsters has an episode called "The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights".
- In one Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, Max paraphrases the "We don't need no stinking badges" line while imitating Gold Hat.
- The New Avengers: In "The Midas Touch", Gambit and Purdey have a casual conversation about who directed The Treasure of the Sierra Madre during a Car Chase.
- The Office (US) "Blood Drive": At the party, Michael says "Relationships? We don’t need no stinkin' relationships!"
- Salute Your Shorts: "The Treasure of Sara Madre" has the gang digging for buried treasure. When Z.Z. finds a junior park ranger's badge, Michael says, "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
- Sledge Hammer!: In "Sledge in Toyland", when the security guard sticks a visitor's badge on Sledge's chest, Sledge tosses it back on the counter saying, "Hey, I don't need no sticking badges."
- The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Sword of Kahless" is a Whole-Plot Reference, with three men setting out to get a treasure, finding it without much difficulty, and then gradually succumbing to greed and infighting as they struggle to bring the treasure back to civilization while being pursued by bandits.
- Two and a Half Men: In a season 7 episode, while high, Berta and Charlie quote movie lines, among them "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!" by Berta.
- Wizards & Warriors: Marko says the line, "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers".
Music
- Big Audio Dynamite's song "Medicine Show" samples the "stinkin' badges" line, along with other quotes sampled from other western films.
- The Minutemen song "Badges" has the line: "We have no badges... we don't need no badges... we don't need no stinking badges".
- The Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers song "Baron to Break" includes the "stinking badges" line in the chorus.
- Ian Brown of The Stone Roses says the song "Fool's Gold" was inspired by the film.
- Van Halen: At the beginning of the song "Big Fat Money", someone asks, "Al, you want a click on this one?", to which Alex responds, "I don't need no stinkin' click!"
Podcasts
- Film Reroll: Pitr, regarding Kevin's ability to edit movie dialogue on the fly: "Adobe Premiere Pro? We don't need no stinking Adobe Premiere Pro!"
Roleplays
- Dino Attack RPG includes this exclamation from Sarah Bishop: "Badges? Badges? We don't have no badges. We don't need no badges. I DON'T HAVE TO SHOW YOU ANY STINKIN' BADGES!"
Theatre
- The Broadway musical American Idiot has St. Jimmy declaring, "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" between the songs "St. Jimmy" and "Give me Novocaine".
Tabletop Games
- Magic: The Gathering has a joke Unhinged set card called "We don't need no stinkin' Merfolk!"
Video Games
- Escape from Monkey Island has "ID? I don't need no stinkin' ID!" as a dialogue option when Guybrush Threepwood is asked for identification by a bartender.
- The Dead Money DLC in Fallout: New Vegas is a Whole-Plot Reference to the film, starting with a hotel and casino called The Sierra Madre rumored to house a great treasure from the Old World. A small cast of characters including the player are forced to join a plan to extract said treasure, with their grudging cooperation or lack thereof, determines who, if anyone, is left standing with the profits in the end.
- The Flintstones has a Licensed Game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System subtitled The Treasure of Sierra Madrock.
- FTL: Faster Than Light has an achievement called "I don't need no stinkin' upgrades!"
- Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures: There's a bandito who says, "Hey, I don't got to show you no stinking badges!" and barricades himself in his home when you try to talk to him.
- A skill point from Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Bridges!"
- In Sam & Max: Chariots of the Dogs, when asked why the prisoners aren't in cages, Pedro responds, "Cages? We don't got no cages. We don't have to show you any stinking cages."
- In Scarface: The World Is Yours, after acquiring the Oakley Drive-in Theater, Tony tells the manager to have a Bogart week and name-drops the film.
- Them's Fightin' Herds has the Official Badge cosmetic item with the description "You don't need to see our identification."
- A sidequest in Wasteland 2 involves locating a lost treasure on a lost plane. This turns out to be a collection of gold in a plane named "The Sierra Madre".
Web Videos
- Cinematic Excrement: Among the many movie and TV show quotes Smeghead shouts while hitting himself with a copy of The Disaster Artist is the "stinking badges" line.
Western Animation
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues: In "Honesty", during the Frog Prince story, the frog at one point says: "Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!"
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "A Beautiful Mine" is a Whole-Plot Reference to the film and includes Sheen saying to Libby, "I don't think they need no stinkin' badges."
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: In episode "Musta Been a Beautiful Baby", when Scratch and Grounder, disguised as policemen, come to Miss Saccharine's daycare center, this exchange occurs:Miss Saccharine: Can I see your badges?
Scratch: Badges?
Grounder: We don't need no stinking... - Ben 10: Alien Force "Darkstar Rising": Ben says, "We don't need no stinking badges" when Kevin complains about losing his plumber's badge.
- The Cro episode "What That Smell?" has Ogg exclaim, "Bath?! Ogg no want bath! Ogg no need no stinking bath!"
- Darkwing Duck: In "Dry Hard", after being told yet again that he needs a 3/4 pinckney flange, Drake references the film by saying, "I don't need no steenkin' pinckney flange!"
- Go Away, Unicorn!: In "Dig This, Unicorn!", Ollie mentions that cursed buried treasures turn friends into enemies. When Alice and Ollie grow suspicious of what Pixie has in her pockets, Pixie shows them that she has nothing but dirt in her pocket for her cactus that she named Trevor.
- Harvey Street Kids has a season 2 episode titled "Treasure of the Sierra Harvey".
- Looney Tunes: In "Eight-Ball Bunny", Bugs Bunny and a penguin are caught by a South American tribe and put on a pot. They are saved when the natives are scared away by "el bwana", a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Humphrey Bogart as Fred Dobbs.
- The Rugrats (1991) episode "The Gold Rush" is one long homage to the film. Some notable standouts:
- The entire plot of a treasure hunt where all participants turn on each other.
- Chuckie's laughing fit and speech is a baby-fied version of Walter Huston at the end of the film.
- The final shot, where said treasure is lost to the wind and sand.
- The Simpsons:
- At the end of "The Burns Cage", Moe is convinced by "that funny Bogey kid" to search for gold in Mexico, being joined by Willie.
- "Three Men and a Comic Book" is a homage, where Bart, Milhouse, and Martin pool their money together so they can buy the first issue of Radioactive Man, but their greed, jealousy, and paranoia turn them against each other and turn the treasured comic book into shredded paper.
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series: After crushing Jameson's press badge, War Machine quips, "I don't see no stinkin' badge!"
- Taz-Mania: One episode is titled "The Treasure of the Burnt Sienna".
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) "A Better Mousetrap": Michelangelo says, "Chill, bro. We don't need no stinking surface world."
- Viva Piñata: "Badgsicles? We don't need no stinkin' Badgsicles!"
