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18 minutes ago, BlackNoir said:

Aaaaaand....Mandela'd

I could swear the quote was "Batches, we don't need no stinkin' batches"

It's probably just from being misquoted and parodied so much.
Kinda like how a lie become truth if you repeat it enough.

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2 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Both obviously changed the original to parody it.

There's not really much of a way of knowing, but I do wonder if people were commonly misquoting the line before movies started parodying it.

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52 minutes ago, Sieg67 said:

There's not really much of a way of knowing, but I do wonder if people were commonly misquoting the line before movies started parodying it.

Actually, probably.  The reason the parody is so persistent is because of its more racially stereotypical style of speech and the streamlining of the phrasing and syntax.  The reason a parody plays up racial tropes is the same reason it tends to be readily adopted: people to "remember" a quote based on the appearance of the person.  Black people automatically speak in a staccato slang.  Asians speak in broken, halted English.  And, Mexicans speak in that nasally, vowel-heavy gait.  It's obviously racial profiling, but it has some genesis in archetypes and how they're used to progress a narrative.  These "shortcut" memories of a given line start appearing almost immediately in audiences.

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