You refer to the Space Maid. The dumbest thing ever. SO dumb that they used the atmosphere sucking TOTALLY seriously in The Marvels. That's how DUMB they are at Disney!!!
The guy that was doing the lost the bleeps, sweeps and creeps gag after the jam incident is the same guy that did the funny voices in the Police Academy movies. Great series, should consider watching it.
Mel Brooks contacted George Lucas and asked if he could make this movie. Lucas was completely on board but did request a few changes. He even agreed to let ILM do the special effects.
Actually, ILM only did the chest burster alien. The VFX were done by Apogee. A company started by John Dykstra, who was the VFX Sup. on the original Star Wars. However, George Lucas' company did the Sound Effects and Sound Mixing. The group used to be called Sprockets, before they moved and renamed it Skywalker Sound. This was Gary Rydstrom and Randy Thom's first job as Sound Designers.
The dancing Xenomorph is a reference to the Looney Tunes character Michigan Frog. He is a dancing Frog that only dances for one guy to drive him crazy.
I’m glad Michigan J. Chestburster is putting on a show for everyone there. It would just be mean to also try to drive Kane crazy, because that’s already gotta Hurt.
It took me forever to realize that when President Scroob was in bed with the blonde twins, he was reading a book called "Don't blame me" with Richard Nixon on the cover.
"You idiots! You've captured their stunt doubles!" The turn of the doubles and Stephen Tobolowsky's gasp of surprise is my favorite joke in Spaceballs.
The actor who said "not again" was actor John Hurt from the original Alien film. Also if you pay attention to the space ships out side the dinner you can see the Millennium Falcon.
“WE AIN’T FOUND SHIT!” “Moichendisin, Moichendisen” “They’ve gone to plaid!” Just 3 of the many quotes from this comedy gem that I use at least once every week!🤣🤣
The actress who plays Princess Vespa is Daphne Zuniga. She also stars in the sequel to 1986 horror movie, The Fly. In "The Fly II" (1989), she co-stars with actor Eric Stoltz (of "Mask", and "Pulp Fiction").
Fun fact: the space ball with the pick is Tim Russ who is famous for appearing in another sci-fi franchise as Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager as well as the principal in Icarly.
The gag near the beginning with the President was that he was on Planet Spaceball and he needed to get to the ship "Spaceball One" so he seems all the way there. But then he just walked and it was right there.
all great films, not to mention Robin Hood Men in Tights (which was the last time we had an English actor for a Robin Hood movie, Hugh Jackman's playing him next) and Dracula Dead and Loving it
And it all began in 1967 with "The Producers": th-cam.com/video/HPXHRX8Q2hs/w-d-xo.html (He couldn't use "Springtime For Hitler" as the title back then, unfortunately.;)
I would put Dracula: Dead and Loving it above Young Frankenstein, but I guess i'm weird, Young Frakenstein is my least favorite, hell History of the World Part 1 is higher the YF.
Love Rick Moranis! Do consider checking out 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' (1989) and its sequel 'Honey, I Blew Up the Kid' (1992). They'd make for really fun reactions. 🧡
Never realized the wizard of Oz reference with the temple of yogurt 😂 them all holding hands and small yogurt coming out of an ominous statue is totally the moment Dorothy & the others come across Oz
If you look at them during the Wizard of Oz joke you’ll find something most people miss. Look: Scarecrow: Lone Starr wears mostly different browns Dorthy: the princess D.O.T.- Tin Man And Barf, though a mog, is the cowardly Lion. Yes DOT acted like the Lion for a moment but still.
Fun fact: jam on a radar dish would, in fact, jam radar. Not entirely, but reception would be so wobbly (heh heh) that signals would become indistinguishable
Cool fact: Mel Brooks actually asked if Gorge Lucas would help with the movies effects. And Lucas agreed to let his effects studio work on the movie, but under two conditions. First, Lonestar couldn't look like Han Solo (so Mel dressed him like Indiana Jones instead) and second there could be no Spaceballs merchandise. Lucas didn't want it mistaken for Star Wars merchandise. Mel Brooks agreed and decided it would be a fun gag to make tons of fake merchandise to use in the film even if it would never be real. And the whole thing was made all the funnier as a result.
I love the running gag of every time Dark Helmet talks with his visor down, he sounds like a Black Man. Also, during the "bleeps, sweeps, and creeps" scene, you can see sound effects actor Michael Winslow crack while the console is being trashed.
At the wedding at the end her father says "He didn't take the money he only took $28.50. That is a reference to the movie "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert when Gable is offered a large reward from brining Colbert back to her family, instead of taking the reward all he wants if to be repaid for the money ($28.50) he spent taking care of her throughout the movie.
You may find it hard to believe but Mel Brooks had one of the most dangerous jobs of any soldier in WW2. He was a combat engineer given the task of removing land mines placed by the Nazis. This had a great influence on his future career, which was to make people laugh. He saw so much hatred in the world (Nazi camps) that he felt that the best way to fight hatred was with laughter. I just wish Mel had been right. Seems like hatred for others is still around.
Back in 1984 when I was 12 I went upstairs to use the bathroom at the 20th Century Fox Studios commissary where the actors, directors and executives all eat on property. My family were visiting my grandmother best friend that worked in the main office and also to see Walter Matthau on set of the movie he was filming with Ann Margaret. While I was using the urinal Mel Brooks came up and used the one next to me. When we got down stairs my grandmother introduced us to him. Mel was very nice and even took pictures with the family which he doesn't normally do.
In Beetlejuice (the movie) Lydia says her mom’s “sleeping with Prince Valium”. It only came out a year after this film, but I wonder if that was a reference or just a coincidence. 🤔
People often forget because it doesn't immediately come to mind but when we make a list of brilliant parody movies, we forget to add the SHREK franchise. Shrek is fairytale parody but it still counts for a parody.
Dot Matrix the golden droid on wheels was played by Lorene Yarnell part of the mime team Shields and Yarnell and voiced by comedienne Joan Rivers. Mel Brooks played two parts...President Skroob and the All Powerful Yogurt, Master of The Schwartz. 😮 Colonel Sanders has the KFC mascot Harland Sanders face on his belt buckle as that is what inspired the character's name. "What's the matter Colonel Sanders...chicken?!". 😂
I don't know the full bts just snippets, but I believe one of the first jokes Mel Brooks thought of was the headphone gag. And when he contacted George Lucas, George had two main request that Mel decided to parody in response to. Mel Brooks was not allowed to make or advertise any sort of products for the movie, so Mel decided to make an advertise products for the movie only within the movie. The main character Lone Star was not allowed to be dressed like Han Solo. So Lone Star is dressed like Indiana Jones, a different Harrison Ford character. The scene where Dark Helmet role plays with the dolls was entirely improv'd by Rick Moranis
18:37 Okay, there's actually some fun background here. George Lukas *loved* the script as he was given a copy before the movie was finished so he could okay it. The merchandising company for Star Wars on the other hand, played hardball. Space Balls was not allowed to sell *any merchandise* for like 20 years or something like that. Which is why they had the merchandise scene and...well the company that handled merchandise for Star Wars was The *Schwarz* company.
yeah I think it's a generation thing, Valium's patent expired and so a bunch of generics came out and new drugs that work better where found so it's not as used and when used it's referenced as the name of the active ingredient so they don't know it's a sleeping pill and so they don't get why he's always tired.
Some years back Mel Brooks said in an interview that he wanted to actually do "Spaceballs 2: the search for more money". He even said he still had Dark Helmets helmet, he was just waiting on Rick Moranis to UN-retire from acting. Unfortunately that movie is unlikely, too much time has passed. Two of the stars of the original are dead, & at least one, Rick Moranis is retired from acting, & he has shown no inkling of wanting to come back.
For context of some jokes: - The ship scroll: I've heard it's based on the opening to Alien but not 100% sure. - The green beam he's using on the guy's junk is that he's "crushing his spaceballs" instead of choking his neck. - Pizza the Hut: Pizza Hut (the restaurant) - Spaceballs President: Dat be Mel Brooks himself. - Yogurt: Also Mel.
@@Otokichi786 I will admit, I'm not super familiar with Jaws so I wasn't sure. I mostly assumed "Alien" because of this mostly focusing on space franchise related parodying.
23:30 The "1-2-3-4-5" combination matches the "1-1-1-1" combination that Principal Spoors had on The Cabinet of Confiscation in the Bob's Burgers Season 9, episode 15, "The Fresh Princ-ipal"!;)
18:13 "Wizard of Oz meets Yoda?" Well, they _do_ have the Scarecrow (Lonestar), Dorothy (Princess), the Tin Man (er, woman), and the Cowardly Lion (Man-Dog)!
Since Spielberg didn't want Lonestar to look like Han Solo, Mel had him look like Indiana Jones. And classic Mel, the tongue-in-cheek racial, religious, and sex jokes. LOL
From what I understand, Lucas gave his blessing, so long as there was no merchandising for the movie. Which is why there's that bit about merchandising when they meet Yogurt. That was a little jab at Lucas.
33:39 if you pause right here, it's clearly the stuntman...with kneepads on. I'm guessing there was a more physical fight scene that happened that they cut, though soon after he does a big split jump, so maybe part of it got left in.
The original Star Wars showed everyone why merchandising was so profitable. The reason George Lucas is so rich largely because he negotiated a percentage of Star Wars merchandising profits for himself from the very first movie. Nobody thought it would be that much, but he made a fortune. So by the time Spaceballs was written, movie merchandising was pretty well established.
Lucas didn't negotiate for what percentage he would get. He just asked for the rights, period. The negotiations over percentages happened later, with the licensees. And decades later he would pioneer new depths of screwing movie theater owners on their percentage of ticket sales.
Why is it that after having seen this movie a hundred times I still laugh more than these two? Really, I laugh so much at every silly joke. And here the reaction is mostly: that's so silly. Methinks I really do come from another time.
Great reaction! One of the best, if not the best parody movie. My fav Mel Brooks and Rick Moranas movie. This was also the 1st movie I saw Bill Pulman in.
The money people at the set did not want to pay Lucas a decent salary for Star Wars. They thought it was going to be a B- movie, at best. They gave Lucas the merchandising rights as they saw no monetization of the franchise. Lucas quickly became one of the wealthiest, in hollywood due to producers not wanting to fairly pay him. Brooks played off of that in this movie.
When Dark Helmet says, "Only one man would dare give me 'the raspberry' " the term giving someone the raspberry refers to sticking your tongue out and blowing through it. This antiquated term died out in the 70s-80s.
19:46 - This "soul brother" spaceball minion is actor Tim Russ who played one of the best Vulcan characters in the Star Trek universe, 'Lt. Tuvok'. The show was "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995 - 2001). Don't know if you guys also react to vintage shows or not, but if you do, that would be a great one to watch. Voyager was one of the best of the many Star Trek series. It also introduced the first female captain lead, "Captain Kathryn Janeway" played by actress Kate Mulgrew (of "Orange is the New Black").
Wow - that's something I didn't know Voyager was, in my opinion, the second-best Star Trek series - Janeway was superb; clearly an effort to do a female version of the legendary Picard [no comparison of course, but terrific effort] 1. Star Trek Next Generation 2. Star Trek Voyager 3. Star Trek (original)
This is one of my all time favorite Mel Brooks movies. There are so many Sci-Fi references especially Star Wars. Happy Star Wars Day ladies. May The 4th Be With You Always
45:09-46:22: True. Like for the anime Gundam, legitimately half its meta-series franchise was created because of, and based on toy/model merchandising. Come to think about it, now, probably well over a half of all anime exists, purely because of merchandising 😂😂😂
Pluto is both the name of a planet and Mickey Mouse's faithful pet dog. So because of the *bark* (which is both the outer covering of a tree and the noise a dog makes) he jokes they know they were on Pluto.
Not even a minute in and I hear, "is this more unique of a story plot than the newer star wars movies we have seen?" Short answer, yes. Long answer, yyyyyyeeeeeeessss.
36:45 The song that's playing as they walk into the diner sounds interesting. Does anybody know what it is? I already checked my copy of the movie and it had "Good Enough ", so I assume the song was added by the editors to avoid a CRS.
Thanks for reacting to this movie, friends! It's hopelessly silly and obvious most of this time, but it's one of my favourites from my childhood. Your confusion over the "Pluto" joke is understandable if you don't remember the classic Disney characters. Pluto is also the name of Mickey Mouse's dog. That's why the punchline is, "From the bark." Also re: merchadising. One of Lucas' conditions for allowing this parody to be made, and for granting the use of the ILM studio, was that Brooks couldn't sell any merchandise based on "Spaceballs" -- he didn't want any confusion between "Spaceballs" and "Star Wars" toys. So to poke a bit of extra fun at Lucas, the movie was filled with fake merchandise instead.
This was a fun watch. A lot of reason you don’t see a lot of parody films recently is more that many movie franchises will self-parody. Comedy is interested in nearly all of them. Deadpool movies are often a parody of super hero movies. You also have satire. You don’t see many comedy satires, but we do have dark satire. Such as The Boys is a dark satire of the popular super hero genre. Jordan Peele does horror cultural-satire.
His vehicles have killed pedestrians with their faulty AI - he shouldn't be making jokes There is only one sentient being that should be allowed to drive a car - the one behind the wheel
to understand Prince Valium, you need to know that back in the 80's and 90's we had this pill called Valium that people took to help put them to sleep, so the joke is "he's a pill" (as Dot Matrix calls him) and he's always sleepy.
So you might notice the special effects are really good quality... like actual star wars quality, thats because George Lucas gave mel brooks his sfx team with a few terms, one being that no merchandise would be made and sold. And they gl didn't want them to parody han solo. So they parody Indiana Jones and had the running gag showing merch
ILM barely did any work on this movie. Almost every VFX shot was done by Apogee. They had some employees who worked on Star Wars and were in the original ILM building in Van Nuys, but were not connected to Lucasfilm.
16:47 To this day, I will still say "Nice dissolve!" if a movie or tv show has a nice dissolve. Especially if it's a dissolve involving the sun. True story! lol
3:54 Achara: "The princess is so pretty!" The first time I saw Daphne Zuniga was in "The Dorm That Dripped Blood" (which IMDB lists as her first movie role) in 1982, and I thought "She's so pretty." Then she fainted when she discovered the bodies of her murdered parents in their car, and the killer dragged her unconscious into the driveway and backed the car up over her head. Toward the end of the movie, the killer displayed the bodies of his victims including Daphne's character with her crushed head and explained "She may be a little hard to recognize." It wasn't the best 80's B-grade mass murderer horror movie, but it really wasn't bed either.
“That is the dumbest dumb thing ever… it’s amazing.” Perfect description of this movie. May the Schwartz be with everybody.
You refer to the Space Maid. The dumbest thing ever. SO dumb that they used the atmosphere sucking TOTALLY seriously in The Marvels. That's how DUMB they are at Disney!!!
“What’s the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken???”
P-Prepare the ship for Ludicrous Speed!!😂
That's my favorite joke in the film.
Everybody knows what KFC is but do people remember Colonel Sanders?
it's like they named him that specifically for that joke making it sound like he made a chicken noise
Also Pizza the Hut (like KFC, a Pepsico company)...
Also, the guy with the Alien chest buster is the same actor in the movie Alien that's why he says, "Not again.."
@@robertcringle4865 John Hurt
@@brianschaffer9220 bullshiiiiiiit 😂
@@brianschaffer9220…John Hurt was the only member of the cast of “Alien” to be in Spaceballs.
@@canislupus6182 it's true it is John Hurt
@@Generalbas1972 Ok Ok, it he's hurt. but what's his last name?
Fun fact, when Dark Helmet says "Why don't we take a 5 minute break", it's exactly 5 minutes into the film before you see the Space Balls again.
I've seen this movie 200 times and I've literally NEVER noticed his eyes are open for the wedding kiss. And now I will never unsee it. Oh, no.
Eh, it doesn't bother me, It's a comedic movie, sorry
The guy that was doing the lost the bleeps, sweeps and creeps gag after the jam incident is the same guy that did the funny voices in the Police Academy movies. Great series, should consider watching it.
Michael Winslow aka the Man with 10,000 sound effects.
Mel Brooks contacted George Lucas and asked if he could make this movie. Lucas was completely on board but did request a few changes. He even agreed to let ILM do the special effects.
Lucas was always pretty cool about Star Wars rip-offs and parodies. He's stated that Hardware Wars is his favorite.
he also requested they do no merchandising which is was lead to the merchandising gag
Among the request was that lone star didn’t look like Han Solo, so Brooks dressed him up as Indiana Jones
Actually, ILM only did the chest burster alien. The VFX were done by Apogee. A company started by John Dykstra, who was the VFX Sup. on the original Star Wars. However, George Lucas' company did the Sound Effects and Sound Mixing. The group used to be called Sprockets, before they moved and renamed it Skywalker Sound. This was Gary Rydstrom and Randy Thom's first job as Sound Designers.
Ironically enough the only franchise they couldn't get into the rip-off was Doctor who
Rick Moranis is an international treasure. ❤
The dancing Xenomorph is a reference to the Looney Tunes character Michigan Frog. He is a dancing Frog that only dances for one guy to drive him crazy.
I’m glad Michigan J. Chestburster is putting on a show for everyone there. It would just be mean to also try to drive Kane crazy, because that’s already gotta Hurt.
Michigan J*** Frog, that middle initial is important
That old cartoon was a low key Twilight Zone episode.
Chuck Jones’ One Froggy Evening (1955) is one of the greatest WB cartoons ever made.
That's gotta 'Hurt'....I get jokes. LOL!
It took me forever to realize that when President Scroob was in bed with the blonde twins, he was reading a book called "Don't blame me" with Richard Nixon on the cover.
bro lmao
"You idiots! You've captured their stunt doubles!"
The turn of the doubles and Stephen Tobolowsky's gasp of surprise is my favorite joke in Spaceballs.
I've seen this movie at least 50 times, and that's probably still my favorite line.
I love how he cues it up with the "excellent stunt" at the beginning.
one of the greatest comedies of all time with the most legendary fourth wall break in history
Mel Brooks is a master but I think Blazing Saddles broke 4th & 5th wall
The actor who said "not again" was actor John Hurt from the original Alien film. Also if you pay attention to the space ships out side the dinner you can see the Millennium Falcon.
“WE AIN’T FOUND SHIT!”
“Moichendisin, Moichendisen”
“They’ve gone to plaid!”
Just 3 of the many quotes from this comedy gem that I use at least once every week!🤣🤣
Spaceballs der FLAME THROWAAHHHHH!!!!!
The guy who says "We ain't found shit!" is Tim Russ, who played the Vulcan Tuvok on "Star Trek: Voyager".
@@csbruce No shit!
The actress who plays Princess Vespa is Daphne Zuniga. She also stars in the sequel to 1986 horror movie, The Fly. In "The Fly II" (1989), she co-stars with actor Eric Stoltz (of "Mask", and "Pulp Fiction").
Mel Brooks! '80s classics! And Daphne Zuniga is breathtakingly beautiful 😍
"WE AINT FOUND SHIT!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Thats Prince Valium ;)
Great reaction you guys! Glad you liked it! :D
Tuvoc's just out here combing the desert. Highly illogical.
It's crazy that scene is one of the biggest laughs in the entire movie and these 2 were quiet as a mouse.
The princes name was "Prince Valium," which is why he was sleepy.
Yes, becourse Valium is also a sleeping pill
Fun fact: the space ball with the pick is Tim Russ who is famous for appearing in another sci-fi franchise as Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager as well as the principal in Icarly.
He was also Knight Captain Kells in Fallout 4 and Zathrian in Dragon Age Origins.
Missed opportunity:
"That asshole shot my hair"
"How'd she know my name?"
36:33 "Oh, it makes sense: Valium's always sleepy." They also called him a "pill" at the very beginning. 🤦♂😝
“You idiots! These are not them! YOU’VE CAPTURED THEIR STUNT DOUBLES!”
🤣🤣🤣
That will never not be funny!
The gag near the beginning with the President was that he was on Planet Spaceball and he needed to get to the ship "Spaceball One" so he seems all the way there. But then he just walked and it was right there.
"I _hate_ guns."
Enemy shoots hair.
"No power in the 'Verse can stop me."
Also the nurse with the plastic surgeon is actress who played the main spaceship captain in STARSHIP TROOPERS
It took my legitimately to this point, from over 17 years of watching and knowing this film to realize this. 😂😂😂
Between Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles they are 3 of my favorite comedies of all time! Mel Brooks is an absolute genius
all great films, not to mention Robin Hood Men in Tights (which was the last time we had an English actor for a Robin Hood movie, Hugh Jackman's playing him next) and Dracula Dead and Loving it
And it all began in 1967 with "The Producers": th-cam.com/video/HPXHRX8Q2hs/w-d-xo.html (He couldn't use "Springtime For Hitler" as the title back then, unfortunately.;)
History of the world - part 1
I would put Dracula: Dead and Loving it above Young Frankenstein, but I guess i'm weird, Young Frakenstein is my least favorite, hell History of the World Part 1 is higher the YF.
Love Rick Moranis! Do consider checking out 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' (1989) and its sequel 'Honey, I Blew Up the Kid' (1992). They'd make for really fun reactions. 🧡
And my blue heaven is a good 1 to
Oh and strange brew 🤣
@@Impeach44 reactors need to do strange brew.... would be fun to watch them try to figure it out lol....
He's also in the first 2 Ghostbusters films, and was Barney Rubble in the 94 live action The Flintstones movie staring John Goodman
also dont forget little shop off horrors as well FEED ME SEAMOR FEED ME!!!!!!
Never realized the wizard of Oz reference with the temple of yogurt 😂 them all holding hands and small yogurt coming out of an ominous statue is totally the moment Dorothy & the others come across Oz
The Schwartz will be with you, always. Yes, even on May the 4th.
If you look at them during the Wizard of Oz joke you’ll find something most people miss. Look:
Scarecrow: Lone Starr wears mostly different browns
Dorthy: the princess
D.O.T.- Tin Man
And Barf, though a mog, is the cowardly Lion.
Yes DOT acted like the Lion for a moment but still.
Me when I go to work: “I knew it, I’m surrounded by a**holes…”
So you are a proctologist??? 🤪🤪🤪
Same here.
Fun fact: jam on a radar dish would, in fact, jam radar. Not entirely, but reception would be so wobbly (heh heh) that signals would become indistinguishable
Cool fact: Mel Brooks actually asked if Gorge Lucas would help with the movies effects. And Lucas agreed to let his effects studio work on the movie, but under two conditions. First, Lonestar couldn't look like Han Solo (so Mel dressed him like Indiana Jones instead) and second there could be no Spaceballs merchandise. Lucas didn't want it mistaken for Star Wars merchandise. Mel Brooks agreed and decided it would be a fun gag to make tons of fake merchandise to use in the film even if it would never be real. And the whole thing was made all the funnier as a result.
I love the running gag of every time Dark Helmet talks with his visor down, he sounds like a Black Man. Also, during the "bleeps, sweeps, and creeps" scene, you can see sound effects actor Michael Winslow crack while the console is being trashed.
I would expect it be difficult to keep a straight face around Rick Moranis improvising.
I especially love that Mel Brooks got John Hurt from the original 1979 Alien movie to do the alien scene in the diner.
At the wedding at the end her father says "He didn't take the money he only took $28.50. That is a reference to the movie "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert when Gable is offered a large reward from brining Colbert back to her family, instead of taking the reward all he wants if to be repaid for the money ($28.50) he spent taking care of her throughout the movie.
You may find it hard to believe but Mel Brooks had one of the most dangerous jobs of any soldier in WW2. He was a combat engineer given the task of removing land mines placed by the Nazis. This had a great influence on his future career, which was to make people laugh. He saw so much hatred in the world (Nazi camps) that he felt that the best way to fight hatred was with laughter. I just wish Mel had been right. Seems like hatred for others is still around.
It all began in 1967: th-cam.com/video/HPXHRX8Q2hs/w-d-xo.html
"You went OVER my helmet?!"❤😂
May the fun be with you.
Back in 1984 when I was 12 I went upstairs to use the bathroom at the 20th Century Fox Studios commissary where the actors, directors and executives all eat on property. My family were visiting my grandmother best friend that worked in the main office and also to see Walter Matthau on set of the movie he was filming with Ann Margaret. While I was using the urinal Mel Brooks came up and used the one next to me. When we got down stairs my grandmother introduced us to him. Mel was very nice and even took pictures with the family which he doesn't normally do.
You are the only person in the dozens upon dozens of reactions to this movie that picked up on Prince Valium! Finally!!!!
In Beetlejuice (the movie) Lydia says her mom’s “sleeping with Prince Valium”. It only came out a year after this film, but I wonder if that was a reference or just a coincidence. 🤔
One of my all time greatest movies. I don't even care who reacts to this, I see this movie and instant like. EVERYONE needs to see this movie.
Saw a 30 anniversary showing of this in 2017 and mel brooks was there to do a Q&A afterwards. It was amazing.
33:10 I'm glad I'm not the only one who found those noises very funny 😂
People often forget because it doesn't immediately come to mind but when we make a list of brilliant parody movies, we forget to add the SHREK franchise. Shrek is fairytale parody but it still counts for a parody.
Dot Matrix the golden droid on wheels was played by Lorene Yarnell part of the mime team Shields and Yarnell and voiced by comedienne Joan Rivers. Mel Brooks played two parts...President Skroob and the All Powerful Yogurt, Master of The Schwartz. 😮
Colonel Sanders has the KFC mascot Harland Sanders face on his belt buckle as that is what inspired the character's name. "What's the matter Colonel Sanders...chicken?!". 😂
I don't know the full bts just snippets, but I believe one of the first jokes Mel Brooks thought of was the headphone gag. And when he contacted George Lucas, George had two main request that Mel decided to parody in response to.
Mel Brooks was not allowed to make or advertise any sort of products for the movie, so Mel decided to make an advertise products for the movie only within the movie.
The main character Lone Star was not allowed to be dressed like Han Solo. So Lone Star is dressed like Indiana Jones, a different Harrison Ford character.
The scene where Dark Helmet role plays with the dolls was entirely improv'd by Rick Moranis
5:25 I remember Carrie Fisher actually called her Princess Leia hairdo "the hairy earphones" in an interview.
18:37 Okay, there's actually some fun background here. George Lukas *loved* the script as he was given a copy before the movie was finished so he could okay it. The merchandising company for Star Wars on the other hand, played hardball. Space Balls was not allowed to sell *any merchandise* for like 20 years or something like that. Which is why they had the merchandise scene and...well the company that handled merchandise for Star Wars was The *Schwarz* company.
Seen a few reaction to this film and the Prince Valium gag seems to go over everyone's head even Dot Matrix says "i know he's a pill"
To be fair most young folks probably also don't realize that Dot Matrix is a type of computer printer.
@@jasondolph2785Valium is out of favor, too, I guess?
Not just the pill reference but also the Prince Valiant reference.
yeah I think it's a generation thing, Valium's patent expired and so a bunch of generics came out and new drugs that work better where found so it's not as used and when used it's referenced as the name of the active ingredient so they don't know it's a sleeping pill and so they don't get why he's always tired.
@jasondolph2785 it's also a type of screen display. It says "dot matrix" on the old Game Boys
Cool fact the black guy on the pic who DIDNT FIND SH$# is same actor who played Tuvok on Star Trek Voyager and he loves his role
"So now you see that evil will always triumph. [Because] good is dumb".
You should do Robin Hood Men in Tights... Mel Brooks did that one too it's brilliant
"I see your schwartz is as big as mine!"
Some years back Mel Brooks said in an interview that he wanted to actually do "Spaceballs 2: the search for more money". He even said he still had Dark Helmets helmet, he was just waiting on Rick Moranis to UN-retire from acting. Unfortunately that movie is unlikely, too much time has passed. Two of the stars of the original are dead, & at least one, Rick Moranis is retired from acting, & he has shown no inkling of wanting to come back.
Plus if he had the same kind of jokes in it from this, it would cause a shitstorm from certain groups lol
Apparently Moranis is coming back now that his kids are grown, but the other issues still stand.
I watched this movie years before I ever watched a Star Wars movie, and it was still hilarious.
For context of some jokes:
- The ship scroll: I've heard it's based on the opening to Alien but not 100% sure.
- The green beam he's using on the guy's junk is that he's "crushing his spaceballs" instead of choking his neck.
- Pizza the Hut: Pizza Hut (the restaurant)
- Spaceballs President: Dat be Mel Brooks himself.
- Yogurt: Also Mel.
"The ship scroll": You didn't recognize John Williams' "Lurking Shark" theme from "Jaws" (1975)?
@@Otokichi786 I will admit, I'm not super familiar with Jaws so I wasn't sure. I mostly assumed "Alien" because of this mostly focusing on space franchise related parodying.
23:30 The "1-2-3-4-5" combination matches the "1-1-1-1" combination that Principal Spoors had on The Cabinet of Confiscation in the Bob's Burgers Season 9, episode 15, "The Fresh Princ-ipal"!;)
18:13 "Wizard of Oz meets Yoda?" Well, they _do_ have the Scarecrow (Lonestar), Dorothy (Princess), the Tin Man (er, woman), and the Cowardly Lion (Man-Dog)!
Also if I remember right that scene was filmed on the same sound stage as wizard of oz
Since Spielberg didn't want Lonestar to look like Han Solo, Mel had him look like Indiana Jones. And classic Mel, the tongue-in-cheek racial, religious, and sex jokes. LOL
One of the other stipulations was no merchandizing beyond a home video release. Hence all the weird jokes about merchandise....
Spielberg Not George Lucas ?
@@michaelpytel3280 I've heard both, but when I mentioned Lucas, everyone corrected me.
the GREATEST line ever !! ... that's all we needed - a Druish princess !! ... that's funny - she doesn't look Druish !!
don't forget the one by the dinks: "Dink dink, dink, dink, dink dink dink dink dink"
keep Firing A$$ holes😅😅😅
From what I understand, Lucas gave his blessing, so long as there was no merchandising for the movie. Which is why there's that bit about merchandising when they meet Yogurt. That was a little jab at Lucas.
He also specified that Lone Star couldn't use Han Solo's costuming so Brooks costumed him as Indiana Jones.
Drinking game:
Take a drink every time they show SpaceBalls-the product.
33:39 if you pause right here, it's clearly the stuntman...with kneepads on. I'm guessing there was a more physical fight scene that happened that they cut, though soon after he does a big split jump, so maybe part of it got left in.
The original Star Wars showed everyone why merchandising was so profitable. The reason George Lucas is so rich largely because he negotiated a percentage of Star Wars merchandising profits for himself from the very first movie. Nobody thought it would be that much, but he made a fortune. So by the time Spaceballs was written, movie merchandising was pretty well established.
Lucas didn't negotiate for what percentage he would get. He just asked for the rights, period. The negotiations over percentages happened later, with the licensees.
And decades later he would pioneer new depths of screwing movie theater owners on their percentage of ticket sales.
In the beginning the space ship is the shape of a shark and the music immitates Jaws intro. A Big ass shark.
Why is it that after having seen this movie a hundred times I still laugh more than these two? Really, I laugh so much at every silly joke. And here the reaction is mostly: that's so silly. Methinks I really do come from another time.
Great reaction! One of the best, if not the best parody movie. My fav Mel Brooks and Rick Moranas movie. This was also the 1st movie I saw Bill Pulman in.
The alien singing in the diner at the end is a reference to the very famous Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon episode "One Froggy Evening."
The money people at the set did not want to pay Lucas a decent salary for Star Wars. They thought it was going to be a B- movie, at best. They gave Lucas the merchandising rights as they saw no monetization of the franchise. Lucas quickly became one of the wealthiest, in hollywood due to producers not wanting to fairly pay him. Brooks played off of that in this movie.
"when will then be now?"
"soon"
Such a weirdly quotable line
When Dark Helmet says, "Only one man would dare give me 'the raspberry' " the term giving someone the raspberry refers to sticking your tongue out and blowing through it. This antiquated term died out in the 70s-80s.
Spaceballs was great and funny as hell, we need more movies like this.
The actor combing the desert with the pick who says "We ain't found $hit" is Tim Russ who would go on to play Lt. Tuvok on "Star Trek Voyager".
19:46 - This "soul brother" spaceball minion is actor Tim Russ who played one of the best Vulcan characters in the Star Trek universe, 'Lt. Tuvok'. The show was "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995 - 2001). Don't know if you guys also react to vintage shows or not, but if you do, that would be a great one to watch. Voyager was one of the best of the many Star Trek series. It also introduced the first female captain lead, "Captain Kathryn Janeway" played by actress Kate Mulgrew (of "Orange is the New Black").
Wow - that's something I didn't know
Voyager was, in my opinion, the second-best Star Trek series - Janeway was superb; clearly an effort to do a female version of the legendary Picard [no comparison of course, but terrific effort]
1. Star Trek Next Generation
2. Star Trek Voyager
3. Star Trek (original)
@@jazzx251 - Right on! I also loved Deep Space Nine. Lots of great characters on that show. Captain Benjamin Sisko was amazing!
The singing alien at the end of the movie is a reference to a Buggs Bunny skit called the singing frog.
Tesla adopted ludicrous speed from this movie.
7:39 And then he says, “I’m surrounded by a-holes!” Lol
This is one of my all time favorite Mel Brooks movies. There are so many Sci-Fi references especially Star Wars. Happy Star Wars Day ladies. May The 4th Be With You Always
45:09-46:22: True. Like for the anime Gundam, legitimately half its meta-series franchise was created because of, and based on toy/model merchandising. Come to think about it, now, probably well over a half of all anime exists, purely because of merchandising 😂😂😂
When they show the shot of the diner parking lot, you can see the Millennium Falcon parked there.
*Prince Valium* is yawning because his name is *"Valium"*
He’s such a pill.
Pluto is both the name of a planet and Mickey Mouse's faithful pet dog. So because of the *bark* (which is both the outer covering of a tree and the noise a dog makes) he jokes they know they were on Pluto.
Pizza the hutt was played by the same actor as the flamboyant director in blazzing saddles, "NOT IN THE FACE!".
Dom deluise
@@Impeach44 Dom o7
and fun fact his son played Penhall in 21 Jumpstreet with a very young Johnny Depp
What a great John Morris score.
Comb the desert is classic
I am writing this to help out these ladies and this video and this channel with the algorithm 🥰
11:57 The ludicrous mode in Teslas was directly inspired by this scene
Did anyone else notice that the actress who played Nurse Gretchen was the same person who played Captain Deladier in Starship Troopers?
Not even a minute in and I hear, "is this more unique of a story plot than the newer star wars movies we have seen?"
Short answer, yes.
Long answer, yyyyyyeeeeeeessss.
36:45 The song that's playing as they walk into the diner sounds interesting. Does anybody know what it is? I already checked my copy of the movie and it had "Good Enough ", so I assume the song was added by the editors to avoid a CRS.
2:10 Fun fact. Funko Pop got the ideas for the products from this movie.
I found out the other day the actor that said ""we ain't found S...." is actually Tuvok from Star Trek. Obviously before he was Tuvok.
Thanks for reacting to this movie, friends! It's hopelessly silly and obvious most of this time, but it's one of my favourites from my childhood.
Your confusion over the "Pluto" joke is understandable if you don't remember the classic Disney characters. Pluto is also the name of Mickey Mouse's dog. That's why the punchline is, "From the bark."
Also re: merchadising. One of Lucas' conditions for allowing this parody to be made, and for granting the use of the ILM studio, was that Brooks couldn't sell any merchandise based on "Spaceballs" -- he didn't want any confusion between "Spaceballs" and "Star Wars" toys. So to poke a bit of extra fun at Lucas, the movie was filled with fake merchandise instead.
This was a fun watch. A lot of reason you don’t see a lot of parody films recently is more that many movie franchises will self-parody. Comedy is interested in nearly all of them. Deadpool movies are often a parody of super hero movies. You also have satire. You don’t see many comedy satires, but we do have dark satire. Such as The Boys is a dark satire of the popular super hero genre. Jordan Peele does horror cultural-satire.
I love that it's both of you 🙌🏽 such a great funny movie
I love the reference to the wizard of oz as the opening to yogurt
Ludacris speed and Tesla Plaid is Elon Musk's homage to Space Balls.
His vehicles have killed pedestrians with their faulty AI - he shouldn't be making jokes
There is only one sentient being that should be allowed to drive a car - the one behind the wheel
to understand Prince Valium, you need to know that back in the 80's and 90's we had this pill called Valium that people took to help put them to sleep, so the joke is "he's a pill" (as Dot Matrix calls him) and he's always sleepy.
So you might notice the special effects are really good quality... like actual star wars quality, thats because George Lucas gave mel brooks his sfx team with a few terms, one being that no merchandise would be made and sold. And they gl didn't want them to parody han solo. So they parody Indiana Jones and had the running gag showing merch
ILM barely did any work on this movie. Almost every VFX shot was done by Apogee. They had some employees who worked on Star Wars and were in the original ILM building in Van Nuys, but were not connected to Lucasfilm.
16:47 To this day, I will still say "Nice dissolve!" if a movie or tv show has a nice dissolve. Especially if it's a dissolve involving the sun. True story! lol
3:54 Achara: "The princess is so pretty!" The first time I saw Daphne Zuniga was in "The Dorm That Dripped Blood" (which IMDB lists as her first movie role) in 1982, and I thought "She's so pretty." Then she fainted when she discovered the bodies of her murdered parents in their car, and the killer dragged her unconscious into the driveway and backed the car up over her head. Toward the end of the movie, the killer displayed the bodies of his victims including Daphne's character with her crushed head and explained "She may be a little hard to recognize." It wasn't the best 80's B-grade mass murderer horror movie, but it really wasn't bed either.