In my 2011 TVWW interview with Mel Brooks (which can be found HERE), he revealed that he’s been working, slowly but enthusiastically, on turning this 1974 comic Western into his next movie-to-Broadway musical. And the scene he described, with glee, was the campfire scene with the beans. Watch the movie again – and imagine having front-row seats for a musical version. As my dad used to sing, “Beans, beans, the musical fruit / the more you eat, the more you toot…” (Miss you, dad.)