Blazing Saddles - I used to be known as the Waco Kid
History has taught us that being gunslinger in the American west was hard. If you were good with a gun you probably earned a reputation and other cow punchers with an ego to feed would seek you out to test their skills against yours. It was a risky profession to have, in each encounter on a dusty street in the middle of a frontier town one person lived and the other died. Everyday could entail a literal life and death experience.
The west was indeed wild.
Imagine the life of one such gunslinger who had earned the title The Waco Kid. As you can imagine someone with such a prestigious title would be constantly harassed by piss-ant prairie punks who want to take out The Kid. You would be hearing 'Draw' in your sleep. It had to be kinda rough.
On one ill-fated day The Kid heard the one sentence that he heard just about every day of his life.
'Reach for it mister'
The Kid spun around with guns drawn to find that he was facing an eight year old kid.
That was last straw for one of the west's most famous gunfighters. The Kid threw his guns down and began to walk away.
The little boy took advantage of the situation and shot The Waco Kid right where the sun doesn't shine.
As the legend goes The Waco Kid crawled into a bottle of whiskey never to be seen again.
That is what the legend says, but the truth is The Waco Kid would one day earn redemption when he teamed with an outcast sheriff named Bart to protect the town of Rock Ridge from a crooked politician named Hedley Lamarr, a sexually preoccupied governor named William J Lepetomane and their gang of henchmen who tried to pull the Old Number Six on the slow but generally peaceful townspeople.
Here is the moment when Sheriff Bart realizes that his new partner is indeed the legendary Waco Kid thanks to legendary documentary film maker Mel Brooks:
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