If you go to watch Mel Brooks’ classic Western spoof Blazing Saddles on HBO Max this weekend, you’ll find something new: An introduction from film scholar and TCM host Jacquline Stewart.
This follows HBO Max’s decision to briefly remove the controversial Oscar winner Gone With the Wind from its offerings, and then to make it available again with its own contextualizing intro, also by Stewart.
In her Blazing Saddles introduction, Stewart describes the plot of the movie and then notes that like Gone With the Wind, “racist language and attitudes pervade the film.”
The only problem: There’s no way to skip the intro with a click of a button.