Over Jason Robards in "Julia" (1977)?...As much as I love him and that movie, I think I agree. Gleason's performance is wonderful and really makes this movie work. Comedy isn't as easy as people think. (He also should have won as Minnesota Fats in "The Hustler.")
The Diablo sandwich is a spicy pulled pork sandwich that's often served on a hamburger bun with hot sauce. It was invented in the late 1960s in a Southern restaurant near Atlanta, Georgia. The sandwich became well-known after Jackie Gleason ordered one in the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit
I had one in eastern Tennessee last year. It’s the only way I’ll have a pulled pork sandwhich, just as you said; but I never knew there was specific name for it, I’ve alwys had them like that, but that one in TN last year was the best yet.
Years ago, I took my girlfriend to a seafood restaurant. She asked for hush puppies with her meal. I start chuckling. She asked what was so funny. I said, "we don't got time for that crap!" She laughed right along with me 😂😂
@@joelellis7035 I dated a girl who could quote the Naked Gun. We would watch it and howl with laughter when Leslie Nielson thought his own car was trying to run him over. Ah, what a broad!
If you go to the local Burger King around here, and ask for two chocolate chip cookies ($1.20) and a Medium beverage upcharge ($0.40), you might get close. If that upcharge request works, you might make out like a bandit. If they ask if you want a hamburger, say nine.
Ahhhhh....... I saw this in the Drive-in in 1977. As a 7-year old, I was most likely playing on the swings right in front of the screen while my mom and dad were 100 yards away in the car drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. Me, along with the other 30 kids on the playground, were trusted to just find our way back to the car when we were done. Which we did. What a magical era!!
The Great One(s). Rip to the Bandit crew who have passed. Burt, Jerry, Jackie, and Fred the dog. Frog is still with us. (Edited because I missed one, or two). Mike Henry, who played Junior. One of my favorite exchanges in the Laurel and Hardy pair as follows: " Junior?, Yes Daddy, Why aren't there any bullets in your gun??, It makes it too heavy, Daddy". I know it's coming, but still a good laugh. Rip Mike Henry.
Trivia - if it weren't for 'Star Wars', 'Smokey & the Bandit' would have been the #1 grossing movie of 1977. It beat out 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', and 'Saturday Night Fever'.
My grandfather looked alot like Jackie in this movie...same size too....and when you hear him yelling right before he walks in...that was my grandad too. 🤣🤣
Looked up Diablo sammich and learned it was fictional but some people have suggested recipes. My choice would be brisket, hot links and jalapeños with spicy BBQ sauce. Loved Dr Pepper since 1968! Just had some at Chik Fil A.😊
Their real life romance was blooming here Just three short years later the opposite occurred. Burt and Sally were going through a divorce during filming of the sequel and the on screen tension between them was real. The portrayal of Burt early in the movie as a bloated alcoholic ego''d out has been was accurate of his real life as well.
@@kencummings953 Yeah, it brought the sequel way down that Burt and Sally were breaking up (they never married), but the screenwriters could have written a decent movie for them. instead they spent 20 minutes on a subplot that would take a whole other movie to resolve, and then Pontiac put him in the 301 Turbo T/A, which is also a pretty sad echo of a great car. You can see it can't even do a decent burnout from a dead stop. Meanwhile, wasn't there an idea for a sequel at the end of the first movie, the clam chowder run, or whatever? Years went by and SB-II is a good argument for limiting most sequels to 30 minutes. There's 30 great minutes in SB-II. But it's never going to be a serious movie about alcoholism, so all of that is a waste. There's just a lot of waiting around for the action and laughs. And some overlooked setups. This pregnant elephant is on its way to a Republican convention. Might as well make an abortion joke - Conn and the Burdettes are already at war, and we are so far into bad taste it's no time to pull out. But the good 30 minutes are in there.
@@stevencoates3382 Yep- gallon of gas was .60 cents New house around $80k New Car $6995 Interest rates went thru the roof around 1979 thru the 80s.... A large Pizza delivered to your house about $7 bucks Good times back then- People were different than today
After this movie, we all had CB radios. The best part was picking your handle. We put a base station in the house and had them in every vehicle, it was cell phones before we had any idea what a cell phone was.
Always loved this scene. As a kid of the 70’s & 80’s, I remember places like this. Greasy spoons with real people, pay-phones on the walls, and invariably a cop or two.
If they look anything like the diablo sandwich, Bandit got overcharged. But seriously, the bag obviously weighs next to nothing, like it's stuffed with old newspaper.
That whole era late seventies to early eighties saw the boom of anything with a southern or Texas theme because many Americans who moved north to chase jobs post WW two were relocating back to take advantage of the oil boom, lower cost of living, and milder winter. Dukes would certainly qualify, as would Urban Cowboy, the TV show Dallas, and others.
@kencummings953 Urban Cowboy And Dallas took place in Texas, which is not a Southern state. Urban cowboy is about fake Cowboys. And and Dallas is about oil millionaires or billionaires. I don't see the connection there.
@@oldcountryboy I mentioned Texas in my post. Anything having to do with Texas was trendy at that time. There was even a soap opera named "Texas" for a brief period in the early 1980's. I guess if you want to be technical Texas is a southwestern state but as a lifelong midwesterner it's southern for me.
I think Burt always felt roles like these were okay but he didn't like being type-cast, much like Sean Connery felt doing the Bond films. Both could really do dramatic roles and nail them. Both of them really took their craft seriously.
Burt signed on for this movie because he was close friends with director and stunt coordinator Hal Needham (who may have co-wrote the screenplay as well) it was originally supposed to be a B level movie with Jerry Reed playing the Bandit.
@ So then you probably got $1 a week as an allowance - just enough to get a comic book and a candy bar. Ground beef was about $1.50 a pound, so for the same price as those two burgers, you mom could make a meatloaf and feed the entire family at home and have leftovers for tomorrow's sandwiches.
It was this scene that Burt said Jackie made some changes and Burt said i realized then why he was so good. I still lmao off watching the Honeymooners and he was great in this movie!
2 cheeseburgers and an ice tea. Buck and a half.
I can remember 10 for a buck burgers.
First thing I thought of when I heard it, my have times changed.
Never see that price in 2025
@ Amen brother.
Arbys was 5 bucks for 5 roast beef sandwiches in 98. Taco bell used to be damn near free. Prices have grown way faster than wages.
Jackie Gleason should have won an Academy award for this part😎
BURRRRPPPPPP waddaowe?
ABSOLUTELY! I second that. 👍
100%
Over Jason Robards in "Julia" (1977)?...As much as I love him and that movie, I think I agree. Gleason's performance is wonderful and really makes this movie work. Comedy isn't as easy as people think. (He also should have won as Minnesota Fats in "The Hustler.")
He absolutely should have.
Also, imho, there's no point in watching the/a censored version. Without Gleason's cussing, it's just not as funny
When he met Burt Reynolds, Billy Bob Thornton said "Sir, where I come from 'Smokey and the Bandit' is considered a documentary."
@@robertbeery1084 that's kind of how we felt in our time and place.
This scene was magic & art in motion, RIP to Jackie Gleason & Burt Reynolds
Where's the can I gotta take a squirt
Jackie Gleason looks like he's just having the time of his life all through this movie
exactly. he ad-libbed a LOT during filming...
Really? I think he looks like he's about to have a literal stroke in every scene -- which is what makes him hilarious and wonderful in this role.
He got at least one free Diablo sandwich.
He was made for this role!
You got that right boy!
One of the very few movies to survive the first STAR WARS movie . Best year in movies in a long time . I miss them all .
I was 15 that year- it was a GREAT time to be a teenager...
‘‘Nobody is chasing me boy”
“Nice ass”. Haha.
Sally Field was absolutely adorable. She’s still beautiful at 78. I remember watching The Flying Nun when I was a kid.
With a great butt.😊
Gidget!
@ I Dream of Genie or Bewitched? Ginger or Mary Ann?
@@alanratay4583 Get both is the answer :)
@@alanratay4583 In order: Genie, Ginger, Samantha, Mary Ann.
Cleaning him with his drink 😂
I never noticed that. Just makes the scene even better😆
@jeffsnider6976 me neither 😂
A Dr pepper at that, which is just staining it more. 😂 I think that's the reason Buford shoved his hand away bc it was making it worse.
Much obliged….
The Diablo sandwich is a spicy pulled pork sandwich that's often served on a hamburger bun with hot sauce. It was invented in the late 1960s in a Southern restaurant near Atlanta, Georgia. The sandwich became well-known after Jackie Gleason ordered one in the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit
Going to have to try that.
@@georgelevin6134 my acid reflux wouldn’t like it.
@ I agree. I make pulled pork never ever gave a second thought about hot sauce on it. Sounds good.
It’s great with hot sauce. Get some smoked kind. Delicious.
I had one in eastern Tennessee last year. It’s the only way I’ll have a pulled pork sandwhich, just as you said; but I never knew there was specific name for it, I’ve alwys had them like that, but that one in TN last year was the best yet.
Years ago, I took my girlfriend to a seafood restaurant. She asked for hush puppies with her meal. I start chuckling. She asked what was so funny. I said, "we don't got time for that crap!" She laughed right along with me 😂😂
😂
That’s a keeper …get a ring on her finger
Some hush puppies daddy
You should have put a ring on her finger for that!
@@joelellis7035 I dated a girl who could quote the Naked Gun. We would watch it and howl with laughter when Leslie Nielson thought his own car was trying to run him over. Ah, what a broad!
You want sumten , Hush puppies daddy we got no time for that crap 😂😂😂😂lmao this whole scene !
😂
“Nice azz”. Best part of the movie.
Thank ya nice lady. The best. I've said that since I seen the movie in 1977.
Best scene.
Jackie Gleason reminds me so much of my grandfather. I miss him so much 🥺
RIP
Amen RIP 🙏
Was he chasing them beer bandits?
I like how Junior gets nothing because he asked for the wrong thing.
outstanding comment
@ricardocastillo5485 thx 😄
Young Sally Fields was very, very hot
It's Sally Field.
Sally in her seventies is no slouch either
I wish I could pay a $1.50 for two cheeseburgers and an iced tea.
And get paid $2.00 an hour like they did in 1976...
Don't be greedy. The ice tea is close enough to that price.
If you go to the local Burger King around here, and ask for two chocolate chip cookies ($1.20) and a Medium beverage upcharge ($0.40), you might get close. If that upcharge request works, you might make out like a bandit. If they ask if you want a hamburger, say nine.
Just go back to 1976.
You could in 1977. Lol🤣🤣🤣
"you want sumpin?.... we ain got no time fo tha' crap!" 😅😅 love Buford T Justice
😂😂😂
Ahhhhh....... I saw this in the Drive-in in 1977.
As a 7-year old, I was most likely playing on the swings right in front of the screen while my mom and dad were 100 yards away in the car drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.
Me, along with the other 30 kids on the playground, were trusted to just find our way back to the car when we were done. Which we did.
What a magical era!!
Great fun movie,burt being Burt.
Jackie Geason, comedic genius. R.I.P. to The Great One!
I can watch Smokey and the bandit hundred times and never Will get tired rest in peace . Jackie Gleason makes the best sheriff he had me rolling
Jackie Gleason owned that role and stole every scene he was in. His comic timing and physical humor are amazing.
The Great One(s). Rip to the Bandit crew who have passed. Burt, Jerry, Jackie, and Fred the dog. Frog is still with us.
(Edited because I missed one, or two). Mike Henry, who played Junior. One of my favorite exchanges in the Laurel and Hardy pair as follows:
" Junior?,
Yes Daddy,
Why aren't there any bullets in your gun??,
It makes it too heavy, Daddy".
I know it's coming, but still a good laugh. Rip Mike Henry.
Paul Williams (Little Enos) is still alive.
BEST. MOVIE.EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a beautiful time
Don’t feel forget Junior who was played by Mike Henry who passed away in 2021.
@CasinoMan2005 Damn, I missed a biggie
Burt Reynolds, one of the greatest actors of all time and I love smokey and the bandit movies, very entertaining.
Apparently this sequence was not in the original script. It was completely Jackie Gleason’s idea! Bravo Jackie!
Pure cinematic gold Mr Gleason.
Watched this with my Gen-Z son last year and he's still saying "thank you nice lady" when my wife hands him things.
Trivia - if it weren't for 'Star Wars', 'Smokey & the Bandit' would have been the #1 grossing movie of 1977. It beat out 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', and 'Saturday Night Fever'.
My grandfather looked alot like Jackie in this movie...same size too....and when you hear him yelling right before he walks in...that was my grandad too. 🤣🤣
The old timers we got to see were a diff bread
Her face when he tells her shes going the wrong way. "OH! 🥴"
Jackie Gleason was a once-off treasure.
My favorite guys, Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason!
Great movie, one of the all time greats.
Great actors, great insults, nothing is like this nowadays ☹️
@@michaellowe5980 hell, you couldn't do anything close to that without somebody getting their damn nose out of joint!
One of my Father's favorite movies, he even twice bought and restored his 79 Camaro. I think now about this movie today
It's a Firebird Trans AM
Looked up Diablo sammich and learned it was fictional but some people have suggested recipes. My choice would be brisket, hot links and jalapeños with spicy BBQ sauce. Loved Dr Pepper since 1968! Just had some at Chik Fil A.😊
Sally....what a doll!!
"Are you chasing somebody? Is somebody chasing you?" 🤣
Sally Field..such a beauty. ❤❤❤❤
Watched this movie so many times .Thx for sharing Part ,so good!👍
there are whole threads on the Internet, debating what exactly a Diablo sandwich is
if ya live in NC its a bbq sammige...
It's a essentially just a spicy Sloppy Joe.
I had my wife make some for me for my birthday last year….of course with a Dr Pepper on the side 😂
Sheriff's diablo sandwich looks extra soggy.
@@paullatina7413 Hope you didn't tell her to make it snappy!😃
One of the best scenes in movie history. And' funniest.
Even today..I'd pay for an officer's diablo sammich and Dr Pepper!
Daamn right. Mighty tasty.
Burts chemistry with Fields is palpable here. His charactor acting usually supersedes everything, but with Sally it's his sincerity.
You said that classy. I am going to go the other route. It's because like Keaton and Pfeiffer during Batman, they were boning.
He actually was in love with that pixie
It's Field. Not Fields.
Their real life romance was blooming here
Just three short years later the opposite occurred. Burt and Sally were going through a divorce during filming of the sequel and the on screen tension between them was real. The portrayal of Burt early in the movie as a bloated alcoholic ego''d out has been was accurate of his real life as well.
@@kencummings953 Yeah, it brought the sequel way down that Burt and Sally were breaking up (they never married), but the screenwriters could have written a decent movie for them. instead they spent 20 minutes on a subplot that would take a whole other movie to resolve, and then Pontiac put him in the 301 Turbo T/A, which is also a pretty sad echo of a great car. You can see it can't even do a decent burnout from a dead stop. Meanwhile, wasn't there an idea for a sequel at the end of the first movie, the clam chowder run, or whatever? Years went by and SB-II is a good argument for limiting most sequels to 30 minutes. There's 30 great minutes in SB-II. But it's never going to be a serious movie about alcoholism, so all of that is a waste. There's just a lot of waiting around for the action and laughs. And some overlooked setups. This pregnant elephant is on its way to a Republican convention. Might as well make an abortion joke - Conn and the Burdettes are already at war, and we are so far into bad taste it's no time to pull out. But the good 30 minutes are in there.
$1.50 for TWO cheeseburgers AND an ICE TEA?! God damn 😮😮😮
Gotta remember the timeline- in"77 minimum wage was $2.60 an hour. So Today 2 cheeseburgers and a n ice tea about $9 bucks.
@StayingBack71 I get that. But! It's still amazing things like food were so affordable.
@@stevencoates3382 Yep- gallon of gas was .60 cents
New house around $80k
New Car $6995
Interest rates went thru the roof around 1979 thru the 80s....
A large Pizza delivered to your house about $7 bucks
Good times back then- People were different than today
Burt Reynolds should have worn safety glasses before talking to him.
Make it fast I’m in a GODDAMN hurry lmao 😂😂
Jackie, one of the best!
Pow! Right in the bandit 😅
I wished they remained together they were perfect for each other
My dad and I used to watch this movie together. Good memories.
Sally Field is stunning. My goodness. What a beauty.
Now I don’t know what a diablo sandwich is but I think I want one now.
Hush puppies daddy 😂😂
We got no time for that CRAP!
After this movie, we all had CB radios. The best part was picking your handle. We put a base station in the house and had them in every vehicle, it was cell phones before we had any idea what a cell phone was.
Now you pick a Social Media 'handle.'
BTW, CB culture is closer to SM than it is to using a cell phone, even with phone message groups.
😂😂 Can you drive a forktruck?...
I can drive any forking thing! 😅😅
Always loved this scene. As a kid of the 70’s & 80’s, I remember places like this. Greasy spoons with real people, pay-phones on the walls, and invariably a cop or two.
1:50 for two cheese burgers.
Very different time and a heck of a lot better world too…
Much better times then
And a glass of iced tea. Would love that price today.
When wages were $2 an hour...
If they look anything like the diablo sandwich, Bandit got overcharged. But seriously, the bag obviously weighs next to nothing, like it's stuffed with old newspaper.
This film did win an Oscar for Best Sound Mixing and also for Best Best Boy🎬🎬
J.G...
BRILLIANT!
B.R... Absolutely BEAUTIFUL.
I MISS THE DAYS AND THE TALENTS.
GOD BLESS
Most underrated actor of all time.
The most famous Stetson Open Road ever worn on film!
Two burgers and a ice tea 2025
$18.76
a burger costs 20 bucks where i live
🤣more than that
If you’re lucky.
And they'll get the order wrong as a bonus
Go to 5 guys and you'll spend close to $50 for that.
He was called The Great One for good reason.
This movie is a guilty pleasure.
What a classic clip thank you.
Where can you go TODAY,And order hushpuppies? lol
One of the greatest movies of all time.
And I think it might have inspired.One of the greatest t v shows the dukes of hazard
That whole era late seventies to early eighties saw the boom of anything with a southern or Texas theme because many Americans who moved north to chase jobs post WW two were relocating back to take advantage of the oil boom, lower cost of living, and milder winter. Dukes would certainly qualify, as would Urban Cowboy, the TV show Dallas, and others.
@kencummings953 Urban Cowboy And Dallas took place in Texas, which is not a Southern state. Urban cowboy is about fake Cowboys.
And and Dallas is about oil millionaires or billionaires.
I don't see the connection there.
@kencummings953 People didn't move to the South. The North, yes.
But it was mostly black people.
@@oldcountryboy I mentioned Texas in my post. Anything having to do with Texas was trendy at that time. There was even a soap opera named
"Texas" for a brief period in the early 1980's.
I guess if you want to be technical Texas is a southwestern state but as a lifelong midwesterner it's southern for me.
@kencummings953 It is definitely not a Southern state.
Bank robbin is baby shit along side what this dude’s been doin. 😂😂
2 burgers, a beer, and a tea.
$1.50
A favorite movie for me.
Many people have done this kind of character, by my God, Jackie Gleason nailed it.
Wow!!! Outstanding picture quality!!!!
Great movie wasnt long enough writ
Great stuff back in the day ! Loved the movies of Bandit ...... best comedy Reynolds did.
Sheriff: "What's ya name, boy?" "Why, that would be Ferguson, Turd Ferguson. It's funny."
This was a very funny scene with Jackie Gleason at his best! When I think if Jackie Gleason, I remember him most as Sheriff , Buford T. Justice!
Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice is what made this movie so fun to watch.
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I think Burt always felt roles like these were okay but he didn't like being type-cast, much like Sean Connery felt doing the Bond films. Both could really do dramatic roles and nail them. Both of them really took their craft seriously.
Burt was up for Bond after Connery too! I think he told them it needed to be a British guy
Burt signed on for this movie because he was close friends with director and stunt coordinator Hal Needham (who may have co-wrote the screenplay as well) it was originally supposed to be a B level movie with Jerry Reed playing the Bandit.
The way he’s eating that, you can just tell he’s keeping a heart attack suppressed
Great movie !
A classic!
Good old times when Burt was number one box office in the world.Seems like time flies with the speed of light.
$1.50 for 2 cheeseburgers and a sweet tea. My times have changed.
What's that run at a McDonald's? $20?
$1.50 for 2 cheeseburgers an ice tea. I miss those days.
Do you also miss the $2/hr wages of the time?
@kindabluejazz I was a child back then.
@ So then you probably got $1 a week as an allowance - just enough to get a comic book and a candy bar. Ground beef was about $1.50 a pound, so for the same price as those two burgers, you mom could make a meatloaf and feed the entire family at home and have leftovers for tomorrow's sandwiches.
I laughed soon as gleason came in starting yelling for a diablo omg
How the hell did Burt Reynolds keep a straight face?
It took me all these years to realize that the Bandit was wiping the sandwich stain with Dr. Pepper. :-)
"Make it snappy; I'm in a G** d*** hurry!" 🤣My favorite scene.
Great scene
Jackie made this movie; great scene, perfect acting.
“You sounded alot taller on the radio.
Now we can watch Jackie Gleason while he eats
Jackie Gleason, the one and only
Jackie Gleason. World class actor.
Sallie Field was such a babe in her youth. Amazing actress as well.
Buck fiddy for 2 burgers?!?! What a deal!
Don't forget the iced tea.😅
@ RIGHT!?!?
It was this scene that Burt said Jackie made some changes and Burt said i realized then why he was so good. I still lmao off watching the Honeymooners and he was great in this movie!
Check him out in “the toy” with Richard prior. Historical
When my mother was young? She looked exactly like Sally Field!