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No merch. George Lucas condition to allow the parody. Probably because Mr. Lucas was burned on his deal in his toys. First deal was only 5 cents per toy.
The guy in the diner was the same acter as in Alien. So that is why he said "Oh, no, Not again" because he was the original first guy with a chest-burster.
According to Mel Brooks, SPACEBALLS was one of his few films that lost money in theaters, but in terms of revenue from VHS and DVD, it's one of his biggest financial successes
It's too bad, because this is a great movie to watch in a packed theater. Especially the very beginning with the huge ship... as the scene goes on, different people throughout the theater will reach their laughter threshold at different times, so you just hear laughs popping up all around you :D
Also the only one where they either haven't watched the original that the parody is based on or they barely know anything about it. Which makes for such an awkward video.
Alien, Spaceballs, Contact, 1984, V for Vendetta, Hellboy, Snowpiercer, The Tigger Movie, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (animated), Watership Down, Frankenstein Unbound, The Storyteller, Hercules, Indiana Jones, Melancholia, Black Cauldron, Merlin, Masters of Science Fiction, Doctor Who: he's a sci-fi/fantasy icon.
One of my all time favourite movies! Rick Moranis ended up costing Mel Brooks "a lot" of money, since the crew (including Brooks) couldn't help but laugh during his scenes, most notably when he first appears on screen and has breathing problems. George Lucas lended the services of his company ILM to shoot some scenes. The escape pod dropping out was actually a (once) deleted scene from A New Hope. He agreed to let Brooks make the movie on the condition that he couldn't make merchandise, hence the running gag throughout the movie. And he didn't want Lone Star to dress like Han, so Brooks chose to dress him like Indiana Jones. Rick Moranis improvised the entire scene where he plays with his dolls, he was sick and had a fever that day and still came up with one of the best scenes. The original title was Planet Moron. Brooks had a bad reaction to the Yogurt make up and got a bad rash around his eyes. The voice Dark Helmet has when his... dark helmet visor is down is inspired by David Prose, the physical actor for Darth Vader in the original trilogy, and how he sounded with the mask on set. You can find footage of it.
i remember when this channel was Holden doing reactions to the MCU with his friends with Jen only making the occasional appearance, and then the channel becoming "My Girlfriend Reacts..." and then "My Wife Reacts..." and now Jen is having her own reaction watches where she gets all the references in a parody like Spaceballs. Jen, may i say, from one headbanger to another, i have always been impressed by your tshirt collection.
The spaceball doing the sound effects was Michael Winslow, of Police Academy fame, well known for his sound effect skill In Star Wars it’s _light_ speed There’s no official Spaceballs merchandise because that was George Lucas’s only condition in the deal for parodying Star Wars. Best case, you can find fan made stuff or get something custom made. I got a custom phone cover. I think Lone Star is like 90% Han and 10% Luke The diner patron who gets chestbursted is John Hurt, who’s character in Alien also got chestbursted, hence him saying “Not again.” There’s actually a second movie in the works with Josh Gad set to star and co produce alongside Mel Brooks
One of the reasons that the merchandising is so prominent in the movie is that when Mel Brooks asked George Lucas if he was okay with a Star Wars parody, George Lucas said, it was okay as long as they didn't try to sell merchandise that might conflict with his merchandising rights to Star Wars.
It’s a choice I’ll always respect. After they grew up, his kids encouraged him to get back into the business more. I guess there’s always being there for your kids, and then there’s _always being there_ for your kids. 😄
Some other Mel Brooks movies I'd recommend checking out include Blazing Saddles (1974) - Spoof of western movies, Young Frankenstein (1974) - Spoof of Universal Frankenstein movies, with references to Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) , and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - Spoof of Robin Hood movies, but the plot is patterned after Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
Mel Brooks is one of the few people who can make literal jokes like "Jam the radar" or "Comb the desert" so hysterical. You guys should check out Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part 1
There was no merchandise for this movie because Mel Brooks made a deal with George Lucas to make this movie but with no merchandise. You should also see High Anxiety which is Mel Brooks parody on classic Hitchcock movies.
@@MrTech226 No "real" merchandise. As in, you can't buy any merch. All of the "merch" you see in the movie are just props for the movie. That's the joke.
Airplane is an absolute must... You think the jokes per minute in Spaceballs is a lot? lol The dancing alien at the end was a nod to the green dancing WB frog in the cartoons. When they first met Yogurt, it was a Wizard of Oz reference too.
Like his other "parody" films, Mel Brooks got in contact with George Lucas about making fun of STAR WARS. Since Lucas was a fan of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and BLAZING SADDLES, he had no issues, except one: "Do NOT do any actual action figures. That's where my actual nest egg money comes from and we don't need actual STAR WARS action figures getting mixed up with yours."
When the alien does his dance routine and sings "Ragtime Gal", it's a reference (and the song is directly taken from) for the Merrie Melodies cartoon One Froggy Evening by Chuck Jones, where Michigan J Frog sings this song while doing a similiar dance like the alien. Also, John Hurt plays himself when the alien bursts out of his chest.
Most reactors miss this gag: the opening long shot showing the spaceship, the original Alien movie opens much like that. Mel Brooks parodies it by making an even longer ship, so every time you think “now we’ve reached the back”, it just keeps going. And of course the Jaws music. And then the bumper sticker on the back is there to punch the whole thing home.
George Lucas actually gave Mel Brooks permission to use all the Star Wars references he did. His single stipulation was that Mel couldn't actually make merchandise. So they joke about it throughout, but there is ZERO real world merchandise for the film.
He originally didn't but Mel Gibson invited him to an early screening of the movie and Lukas thought it was so funny he gave him the OK to release the movie provided they didn't release any merchandise for Spaceballs
@@Rorujin Leslie Nielsen (don't call him Shirley) did half his career as a serious actor before "Airplane!" (suggestion for a reaction: his SciFi movie "Forbidden Planet" from 1956) All the main characters in Airplane! played their roles seriously and stayed serious actors afterwards, except for Leslie Nielsen who did lots of such funny movies during the second half of his career. "Police Squad (in color)" was a 6-part mini series in the same style, with short 25 min episodes as parody of similar crime series of that time, later followed by the three "Naked Gun" movies. And of course, all movies by and with Mel Brooks are worth a reaction too. my fav is "Young Frankenstein" (1974) with Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman.
The Barf costume had three people to operate it. John Candy himself, a stagehand to run the ears and another to run the tail. As Barf tells the waitress, his tail really does have a mind of its own. Did Brooks need 3 people? No. But the Jabba puppet needed three people, so Brooks couldn't do any less.
The funny thing about the merchandise is that Mel brooks talked to George Lucas to let him know they wanted to parody Star Wars, Lucas agreed on the condition they couldn’t sell merchandise. So that immediately became a joke within the movie and in real life as there really hasn’t been a lot of merch directly associated with it’s release
This movie is really fun. One thing I've noticed in reactions, is that nobody even picks up the joke with the giant hair dryer, after they toss it out, they comment on how light the box is now and how is much better, they just keep carrying the empty box for *no reason*.
There was no sequel to this movie. During a Mel Brooks interview as he was promoting another movie, he made reference to "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2" which also never happened.
Whoever edited this movie for TH-cam left out one of my favorite lines of the movie, possibly because he or she did not understand it. When chasing Lone Star and the others in his Winnibego, Dark Helmet wants to go to ludicrous speed. Colonel Sanderz doesn't want to, so Dark Helmet replies "What's the matter, Colonel Sanderz, chicken?" To understand the joke, one should know about the founder of KFC, then called Kentucky Fried Chicken. The founder was Harland Sanders, known on commercials as Colonel Sanders.
I was 16 the year this movie came out and it is still a favorite of mine. As a kid born in the 70's, I grew up with the movies they parodied with Spaceballs and I loved it. The Planet of the Apes bit was hilarious, but my favorite was the singing Alien. I loved that they even had the same actor from Alien, the late John Hurt. Thank you for reacting to this movie; it brings back a lot of good memories of watching this with my brothers, one of whom is no longer with us.
One of the best things about this film is the merchandising. Brooks was paroding the fact Star Wars made way more money from the merchandise than the film alone. So the film becomes more fun to find all the merch in the film after Yogurt mentions it. As a kid growing up watching this I wanted the Flame Thrower too. Another fun fact, the coloring book is actually a transformers book because you can see the 80's Optimus Prime on the cover.
Can we just appreciate the power of Space Balls. No matter how successful a career Tim Russ has had ever since, that 5 second clip in Space Balls is still what he's remembered for - so far that Space Balls gets top billing over Star Trek on his IMDB page :).
"I've never even heard of [Spaceballs]." Oh, man. You guys are making me feel old. As someone who saw "Star Wars' as a teen, I can tell you that there was a ton of Star Wars-themed merchandise after that movie came out. I don't recall Star Wars toilet paper, but I definitely remember paper plates and napkins. Surely, that is what they're parodying. Also, I love that John Hurt agreed to recreate the scene from "Aliens."
True story: I showed this movie to my son when he was way too young to watch it. One day at soccer, he (7 yrs old ) was surrounded by balls and starts kicking them while yelling out "your an asshole, and your an asshole.. I'm surrounded by assholes" 😂.. I got into sooo much trouble w my wife 😂 😂
My brother saw a wookie once it chased him into taking shelter in my grandma's basement. My brother remained there for days. Later, my grandma said, Joe are you sure the wookie did not just wanna make a friend
the chest burster man is the same actor, John Heard Lucas loved the idea of the spoof, but refused to allow Mel Brooks to release a toy line. thus the product placement. The sound effects, radar operator, is the very talented actor, voice artist, Michael Winslow. Most well known for playing Larvell Jones in the Police Academy movies. The video library shown were all movies made by Mel Brooks. Some of the more recent movies have been Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It King Roland was played by Dick Van Patten (the patrich of the tv series Eight Is Enough) The yawning prince was called Prince Vallium. Vallium bein the drug that can make you drowsy There was a short lived cartoon series with a few of the cast returning. it is unfortunate that we lost John Candy (Barf) There have been some talks of a sequel spear headed by actor Josh Gad
George Lucas was a huge fan of Mel Brooks. When Mel had him read over the script to get his permission/blessing to do it, George loved it but had one caveat, they couldn't sell any toys or merch of the movie. He felt that they looked to close to the Star Wars toys, and didn't want to take away from his toy sales, which is why there were several bits in the movie about merchandise...
Brooks was told he could parody Star Wars but he couldn't sell merchandise because it would possibly cut into Star Wars merchandise. The placements in Space Balls was Brooks' sarcastic reaction to that condition.
Something that has really amazed me is, every person I've seen watch this movie has missed the part where the alien busts out of the man's chest and NOBODY mentions that the actor plays Olivander of Olivander's Wands in the Harry Potter franchise.
Glad you guys are doing ok, was worried because no videos for a couple weeks. Hope moving went smoothly and let’s pray the internet works right away 🙏. Thanks for the video, was fun.
That was so fun watching your reaction to this movie .Their was never Spaceballs merch it was just to make fun of many merch Star Wars was selling in the 80’s !!!
Although he hasn't made a sequel for any of his movies, up till now... Mel Brooks, the comedy giant best known for classic films including Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and The Producers, is not averse to revisiting his old material. Last year he produced and starred in the Hulu series History of the World, Part II, a follow-up to his 1981 film History of the World, Part I. Brooks is also producing a “Spaceballs” sequel starring Josh Gad. Brooks and Gad are producing the movie for Amazon MGM Studios based on a screenplay by Gad and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” writers Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez.
This reaction was really fun! I was laughing with both of you. I have seen this movie a million times but never thought of Yogurt's ears looking like the female body part! I loved watching it through your perspective.
Alien next! Or More Mel Brooks movies. Enjoyed seeing Jen laugh so much! Other movies included-Planet of the apes, Wizard of Oz, Alien, Rambo. KFC (Colonel Sanders- chicken)
You should do more Mel Brooks movies : History Of The World Part 1 - Young Frankenstien - Blazing Saddles - The Elephant Man ( which he used a different name ). High Anxiety - Life Stinks
In defense of the Alien scene, the biggest part of that joke was the "Oh no, not again". This is because John Hurt was the same actor from the scene they were making in parody. All the Spaceballs merchandise that is available came along long after the fact. Mel was simply poking fun at George Lucas for his merchandising campaigns with each film.
The dancing ALIEN skit is an homage to the singing frog from WB cartoons. George Lucas loved the idea of this film and even helped out with ILM for the ship models, space shots plus other effects' including the dancing ALIEN. His only condition to making the film was that they couldn't release figurines and other merchandise, as he was worried some people would not be able to tell the difference and would end up buying the wrong thing; so this lead to the merchandising skits that were seen throughout the film. They merged Luke and Han together for Lone Star, and they merged Obi Wan with Yoda for Yogurt; it was the only way to work the story without making it too complex and overcrowded...
Recently Mel Brooks at 98 stated that long-awaited sequel is in development right now. Josh Gad, voice of Olaf of Frozen is working with Mel on the script and starring the sequel plus producing too.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend "Wrongfully Accused" with Leslie Nielsen. Fun thing to do is to try to catch all the movie spoofs and pop culture references of the time, and there's some 50+ of them.
Mel Brooks basically went to George Lucas to get his approval and they agreed on what could and couldn't be done. As others have said, they couldn't actually do any merchandising from this movie, but in typical Mel Brooks fashion, he went out of his way to parody all of the merchandising from the Star Wars franchise. With all of the great movies that came out in 1987, Space Balls ended up only netting about $16 million at the box office. So many more people finally saw it once it was released on VHS and fell in love with the movie.
RE: merchandising. The ONLY merchandise for this movie appeared ONLY in the movie. Lucas loved the spoof idea, giving them free reign with ONE condition...NO movie merchandise would be permitted. Probably why Yogurt needed a 'Spaceballs II (the search for more money)' LOL
8:24 waiting until they catch on the “Prince Valium” 9:17 no it’s a Winnebago. 15:35 leaving the hair dryer behind and carrying an empty case. 18:04 Mel Brooks had to walk on his knees for playing Yogurt. 18:27 this was thrown in cause Lucas’ main stipulation was no merchandise cause he didn’t want any confusion between Star Wars merchandise and Spaceballs. 19:30 Brooks is Jewish so Schwartz makes sense. He loves doing Jewish jokes like Druidia and the princess not looking “Druish”. 20:41 there was a joke recently about a Spaceballs sequel called “Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2” 30:17 still doesn’t look like they caught on to the Prince’s name and the way he’s acting. Prince Valium and he’s always sleepy.
Part of George Lucas allowing Mel Brooks to do this movie was they could not sell any merchandise. Hence all the references to it. Lucas even helped with effects from ILM and stock footage4 from the Star wars movies!
what I liked about the chest-buster alien was that it wasn't instantly evil and instead parodied the dancing frog from Looney Tunes. But that's old-school Looney Tunes... there was also some dark stuff hidden in there lol.
I really enjoyed Natalie’s addition for this video. She made some good, and entertaining comments on this video, and that’s the most important thing for a TH-cam reaction
Mel Brooks showed George Lucas a rough cut of the film and asked for his blessing. Lucas agreed on the provision that there would be no effort to license anything from the film. Mel Brooks incorporated that into the script to hilarious results.
All the movies suggested in the comment of the day in this video are comedy legends, I STRONGLY recommend watching them. Yeah, they're older (70's and 80's films) but they're so funny.
Fun fact: NONE of those merchandise were ever on sale, it's all there just for the joke. While striking a deal with Lucas so they wouldn't risk getting sued and one thing Lucas asked was that they not make merch so consumers wouldn't be confused on what's a Star Wars product and what isn't.
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Not only is that scene suppose to be from Alien... it has the exact same actor!
Which is why he say's "Oh no.... not again" 😂
Holden it looks like Jen needs to watch Star War again she didn't get C3PO right multiple times
You guys should watch Dracula Dead and Loving It. Very funny.
No merch. George Lucas condition to allow the parody. Probably because Mr. Lucas was burned on his deal in his toys. First deal was only 5 cents per toy.
Lone Starr is the combination of Luke & Han. He was not allowed to be dressed as Han Solo so they dressed him as Indiana Jones.
Even his name is a combination of theirs Lone (Solo) Starr (Sky/walker).
And they agreed not to sell any merchandise in order to make a movie this close to star wars
… who was also played by Harrison Ford.
The guy in the diner was the same acter as in Alien.
So that is why he said "Oh, no, Not again" because he was the original first guy with a chest-burster.
According to Mel Brooks, SPACEBALLS was one of his few films that lost money in theaters, but in terms of revenue from VHS and DVD, it's one of his biggest financial successes
Moychendising
It's too bad, because this is a great movie to watch in a packed theater. Especially the very beginning with the huge ship... as the scene goes on, different people throughout the theater will reach their laughter threshold at different times, so you just hear laughs popping up all around you :D
@@yehudahecht1520 WHY DOES THIS TRANSLATE TO YOU ARE WET LMAOOOO
@@thepoeticminecart lmao ikr either
This is definitely the only reaction to _Spaceballs_ I've seen where the reactors thought John Candy was female.
Also the only one where they either haven't watched the original that the parody is based on or they barely know anything about it. Which makes for such an awkward video.
I always loved that it's the late great John Hurt reprising his role from Alien in the diner scene 😅
"Oh no, not again..."
He had played Jesus Christ in Brooks' HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART ONE, so he was all too happy to work with Brooks again.
Alien, Spaceballs, Contact, 1984, V for Vendetta, Hellboy, Snowpiercer, The Tigger Movie, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (animated), Watership Down, Frankenstein Unbound, The Storyteller, Hercules, Indiana Jones, Melancholia, Black Cauldron, Merlin, Masters of Science Fiction, Doctor Who: he's a sci-fi/fantasy icon.
One of my all time favourite movies!
Rick Moranis ended up costing Mel Brooks "a lot" of money, since the crew (including Brooks) couldn't help but laugh during his scenes, most notably when he first appears on screen and has breathing problems.
George Lucas lended the services of his company ILM to shoot some scenes. The escape pod dropping out was actually a (once) deleted scene from A New Hope. He agreed to let Brooks make the movie on the condition that he couldn't make merchandise, hence the running gag throughout the movie. And he didn't want Lone Star to dress like Han, so Brooks chose to dress him like Indiana Jones.
Rick Moranis improvised the entire scene where he plays with his dolls, he was sick and had a fever that day and still came up with one of the best scenes.
The original title was Planet Moron.
Brooks had a bad reaction to the Yogurt make up and got a bad rash around his eyes.
The voice Dark Helmet has when his... dark helmet visor is down is inspired by David Prose, the physical actor for Darth Vader in the original trilogy, and how he sounded with the mask on set. You can find footage of it.
Thank you trivia man!
All I ever needed to know I learned from Spaceballs: Evil will always triumph over Good because Good is dumb.
There is No Good And Evil, only power, Both Sides Are Already And Absolutely Meaningless To Anyone.
And you are surrounded by assholes
That is absolutely my FAVORITE line from the movie. (Great delivery by Short.)
Except you learned it backwards. Also it's Good and _Bad_ because Evil is a myth.
"You idiot. You've caught their stunt doubles."
Ah yes, the dynamic duo of WD-40 and CP30 😂 😂
Do you remember the Woman Droid 40 hunting Roger Wilco in "Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation"?
“Hello, I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations. And this is my counterpart R2-D2. And this is my cousin WD-40.”
It's a shame Jen didn't recognize that the actor with the alien coming out of his chest was the same actor from the movie Alien.
RIP John Hurt.
seeing Jen react to Blazing Saddles would be hysterical. Need that!
There was a sequel planned, it was supposed to be named spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2
8:36 “I wanna say WD-40” 😂😂😂
"we've been using that a lot"... And the fumes are getting to you? 😂
She may be interested in a movie called Spy Hard.
Ah yes, WD40 the Woman Droid hunting Roger Wilco in "Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation.";)
“WE AIN’T FOUND SHIT” 😂
That's the guy that played Tuvok on Star Trek Voyager!
@@carlbrucefroehlich3986 Tim Russ
@@carlbrucefroehlich3986 I always knew there was something up with Tuvok...
@@carlbrucefroehlich3986 And Tim Russ laments that, even though he spent 7 years playing Tuvok, he's best known by many for those four words.
In the dinner scene, the guy who has the alien burst out of his chest, is the same actor who was the first to die in the movie alien the same way.
“I think she’s supposed to be a dog”…well, you’re half right!!
He’s his own best friend.
More like a quarter. He instead of she and half dog.
@@platinumspider7859 exactly what I was thinking!
i remember when this channel was Holden doing reactions to the MCU with his friends with Jen only making the occasional appearance, and then the channel becoming "My Girlfriend Reacts..." and then "My Wife Reacts..." and now Jen is having her own reaction watches where she gets all the references in a parody like Spaceballs.
Jen, may i say, from one headbanger to another, i have always been impressed by your tshirt collection.
The spaceball doing the sound effects was Michael Winslow, of Police Academy fame, well known for his sound effect skill
In Star Wars it’s _light_ speed
There’s no official Spaceballs merchandise because that was George Lucas’s only condition in the deal for parodying Star Wars. Best case, you can find fan made stuff or get something custom made. I got a custom phone cover.
I think Lone Star is like 90% Han and 10% Luke
The diner patron who gets chestbursted is John Hurt, who’s character in Alien also got chestbursted, hence him saying “Not again.”
There’s actually a second movie in the works with Josh Gad set to star and co produce alongside Mel Brooks
One of the reasons that the merchandising is so prominent in the movie is that when Mel Brooks asked George Lucas if he was okay with a Star Wars parody, George Lucas said, it was okay as long as they didn't try to sell merchandise that might conflict with his merchandising rights to Star Wars.
I will never hold it against Rick Moranis for leaving the business for his family. He gave us so many amazing memories already 👻🚫
It’s a choice I’ll always respect. After they grew up, his kids encouraged him to get back into the business more. I guess there’s always being there for your kids, and then there’s _always being there_ for your kids. 😄
It was reported that Rick is or has returning to actor because his kids are older.
@@MrTech226He did a Mint Mobile ad for Ryan Reynolds.
To those who thought Jabba was disgusting, I give you *Pizza the Hut!*
Some other Mel Brooks movies I'd recommend checking out include Blazing Saddles (1974) - Spoof of western movies, Young Frankenstein (1974) - Spoof of Universal Frankenstein movies, with references to Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) , and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - Spoof of Robin Hood movies, but the plot is patterned after Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
Mel Brooks is one of the few people who can make literal jokes like "Jam the radar" or "Comb the desert" so hysterical. You guys should check out Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part 1
There was no merchandise for this movie because Mel Brooks made a deal with George Lucas to make this movie but with no merchandise. You should also see High Anxiety which is Mel Brooks parody on classic Hitchcock movies.
Mel as Yogurt displayed merchandise in the movie.
@@MrTech226 No "real" merchandise. As in, you can't buy any merch. All of the "merch" you see in the movie are just props for the movie. That's the joke.
@@R3_dacted0 Thanks to shameless online stores, I own a "Space Balls The T-Shirt" T-Shirt 😁
Airplane is an absolute must... You think the jokes per minute in Spaceballs is a lot? lol The dancing alien at the end was a nod to the green dancing WB frog in the cartoons. When they first met Yogurt, it was a Wizard of Oz reference too.
Like his other "parody" films, Mel Brooks got in contact with George Lucas about making fun of STAR WARS.
Since Lucas was a fan of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and BLAZING SADDLES, he had no issues, except one:
"Do NOT do any actual action figures. That's where my actual nest egg money comes from and we don't need actual STAR WARS action figures getting mixed up with yours."
When the alien does his dance routine and sings "Ragtime Gal", it's a reference (and the song is directly taken from) for the Merrie Melodies cartoon One Froggy Evening by Chuck Jones, where Michigan J Frog sings this song while doing a similiar dance like the alien.
Also, John Hurt plays himself when the alien bursts out of his chest.
"Not again..."
Vespa singing 'nobody knows' is still my favorite part of this movie.
"Galaxy Quest" (1999)
"Johnny English" (2003)
"The Pink Panther" (1963 original) + "A Shot in the Dark" (1964) sequel
"Evolution" (2001)
"Airplane" (1980)
"Animal House" (1978)
Most reactors miss this gag: the opening long shot showing the spaceship, the original Alien movie opens much like that. Mel Brooks parodies it by making an even longer ship, so every time you think “now we’ve reached the back”, it just keeps going. And of course the Jaws music. And then the bumper sticker on the back is there to punch the whole thing home.
Why go to Alien when New Hope starts the same way. Y'know, the movie we're spoofing here.
George Lucas actually gave Mel Brooks permission to use all the Star Wars references he did. His single stipulation was that Mel couldn't actually make merchandise. So they joke about it throughout, but there is ZERO real world merchandise for the film.
He originally didn't but Mel Gibson invited him to an early screening of the movie and Lukas thought it was so funny he gave him the OK to release the movie provided they didn't release any merchandise for Spaceballs
They should have revisited that deal and cut Lucas in on the action.
"I bet she gives great helmet" I was mid-bite and almost died for that joke, that was incredible
“Police Squad” is a tv series which became the “Naked Gun” series.
Naked Gun and Lieslie Nielsen were such huge parts of my childhood...
@@Rorujin Nice Beaver .
@@michaelpytel3280 Thanks, I had it stuffed.
@@Rorujin Leslie Nielsen (don't call him Shirley) did half his career as a serious actor before "Airplane!" (suggestion for a reaction: his SciFi movie "Forbidden Planet" from 1956) All the main characters in Airplane! played their roles seriously and stayed serious actors afterwards, except for Leslie Nielsen who did lots of such funny movies during the second half of his career. "Police Squad (in color)" was a 6-part mini series in the same style, with short 25 min episodes as parody of similar crime series of that time, later followed by the three "Naked Gun" movies.
And of course, all movies by and with Mel Brooks are worth a reaction too. my fav is "Young Frankenstein" (1974) with Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman.
The Barf costume had three people to operate it. John Candy himself, a stagehand to run the ears and another to run the tail. As Barf tells the waitress, his tail really does have a mind of its own. Did Brooks need 3 people? No. But the Jabba puppet needed three people, so Brooks couldn't do any less.
The funny thing about the merchandise is that Mel brooks talked to George Lucas to let him know they wanted to parody Star Wars, Lucas agreed on the condition they couldn’t sell merchandise. So that immediately became a joke within the movie and in real life as there really hasn’t been a lot of merch directly associated with it’s release
Love how *Jen* Yawns right before when they're introduced to *"Prince Valium"* (like the drug which is why he's always yawning)
This movie is really fun.
One thing I've noticed in reactions, is that nobody even picks up the joke with the giant hair dryer, after they toss it out, they comment on how light the box is now and how is much better, they just keep carrying the empty box for *no reason*.
yea i love that part and no one ever notices
Of course the keep it after all it is a matched set.
There was no sequel to this movie.
During a Mel Brooks interview as he was promoting another movie, he made reference to "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2" which also never happened.
Whoever edited this movie for TH-cam left out one of my favorite lines of the movie, possibly because he or she did not understand it.
When chasing Lone Star and the others in his Winnibego, Dark Helmet wants to go to ludicrous speed. Colonel Sanderz doesn't want to, so Dark Helmet replies "What's the matter, Colonel Sanderz, chicken?"
To understand the joke, one should know about the founder of KFC, then called Kentucky Fried Chicken. The founder was Harland Sanders, known on commercials as Colonel Sanders.
That ‘dog’ is the legendary John Candy!
Correction: He's a mawg. Half man, half dog. He's his own best friend.
I was 16 the year this movie came out and it is still a favorite of mine. As a kid born in the 70's, I grew up with the movies they parodied with Spaceballs and I loved it. The Planet of the Apes bit was hilarious, but my favorite was the singing Alien. I loved that they even had the same actor from Alien, the late John Hurt. Thank you for reacting to this movie; it brings back a lot of good memories of watching this with my brothers, one of whom is no longer with us.
You: "I don't do so well with older movies." Me: "Ok, bye."
One of the best things about this film is the merchandising. Brooks was paroding the fact Star Wars made way more money from the merchandise than the film alone. So the film becomes more fun to find all the merch in the film after Yogurt mentions it. As a kid growing up watching this I wanted the Flame Thrower too.
Another fun fact, the coloring book is actually a transformers book because you can see the 80's Optimus Prime on the cover.
still the only film (as far as I know) to advance the plot by watching a copy of the movie as it's being filmed. Incredible
Thank goodness for instant cassettes!
Can we just appreciate the power of Space Balls. No matter how successful a career Tim Russ has had ever since, that 5 second clip in Space Balls is still what he's remembered for - so far that Space Balls gets top billing over Star Trek on his IMDB page :).
Mel Brooks is now working on part 2. The dancing alien is a reference to a dancing frog cartoon. All Mel Brooks movies are mandatory watching.
"I've never even heard of [Spaceballs]." Oh, man. You guys are making me feel old. As someone who saw "Star Wars' as a teen, I can tell you that there was a ton of Star Wars-themed merchandise after that movie came out. I don't recall Star Wars toilet paper, but I definitely remember paper plates and napkins. Surely, that is what they're parodying. Also, I love that John Hurt agreed to recreate the scene from "Aliens."
True story: I showed this movie to my son when he was way too young to watch it. One day at soccer, he (7 yrs old ) was surrounded by balls and starts kicking them while yelling out "your an asshole, and your an asshole.. I'm surrounded by assholes" 😂.. I got into sooo much trouble w my wife 😂 😂
Blazing saddles should also be on that list of must watch.
My brother saw a wookie once it chased him into taking shelter in my grandma's basement. My brother remained there for days. Later, my grandma said, Joe are you sure the wookie did not just wanna make a friend
the chest burster man is the same actor, John Heard
Lucas loved the idea of the spoof, but refused to allow Mel Brooks to release a toy line. thus the product placement.
The sound effects, radar operator, is the very talented actor, voice artist, Michael Winslow. Most well known for playing Larvell Jones in the Police Academy movies.
The video library shown were all movies made by Mel Brooks. Some of the more recent movies have been Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It
King Roland was played by Dick Van Patten (the patrich of the tv series Eight Is Enough)
The yawning prince was called Prince Vallium. Vallium bein the drug that can make you drowsy
There was a short lived cartoon series with a few of the cast returning.
it is unfortunate that we lost John Candy (Barf)
There have been some talks of a sequel spear headed by actor Josh Gad
"We're doing it for a SHITLOAD of money!!"
Favorite line.
That guy having the alien pop out of him near the end was actually the actor that played in Alien, hence the "Oh, no, not again!"
7:30 You've seen the Force-choke, theat is the shwartz-nut crush.
George Lucas was a huge fan of Mel Brooks. When Mel had him read over the script to get his permission/blessing to do it, George loved it but had one caveat, they couldn't sell any toys or merch of the movie. He felt that they looked to close to the Star Wars toys, and didn't want to take away from his toy sales, which is why there were several bits in the movie about merchandise...
Yeah Lucas made all the Star Wars merchandise money due to a smart deal he made with the movie studio to direct Star Wars at a discount rate.
Brooks was told he could parody Star Wars but he couldn't sell merchandise because it would possibly cut into Star Wars merchandise. The placements in Space Balls was Brooks' sarcastic reaction to that condition.
May The Schwartz Be With You!
Something that has really amazed me is, every person I've seen watch this movie has missed the part where the alien busts out of the man's chest and NOBODY mentions that the actor plays Olivander of Olivander's Wands in the Harry Potter franchise.
" This Is Spinal Tap " is a must watch !!!
Glad you guys are doing ok, was worried because no videos for a couple weeks. Hope moving went smoothly and let’s pray the internet works right away 🙏. Thanks for the video, was fun.
That was so fun watching your reaction to this movie .Their was never Spaceballs merch it was just to make fun of many merch Star Wars was selling in the 80’s !!!
One of my all time favorite comedies. Glad you enjoyed it!😂😂😂😂
The actor who plated Dr. Shlotkin is Sandy Helberg. His sin is Simon Helberg, who played Howard Wolowitz, on "The Big Bang Theory".
Although he hasn't made a sequel for any of his movies, up till now...
Mel Brooks, the comedy giant best known for classic films including Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and The Producers, is not averse to revisiting his old material. Last year he produced and starred in the Hulu series History of the World, Part II, a follow-up to his 1981 film History of the World, Part I.
Brooks is also producing a “Spaceballs” sequel starring Josh Gad. Brooks and Gad are producing the movie for Amazon MGM Studios based on a screenplay by Gad and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” writers Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez.
Mel Brooks is a genius regarding parody and it is an award having your movie made fun off by him.
This reaction was really fun! I was laughing with both of you. I have seen this movie a million times but never thought of Yogurt's ears looking like the female body part! I loved watching it through your perspective.
Alien next! Or More Mel Brooks movies. Enjoyed seeing Jen laugh so much! Other movies included-Planet of the apes, Wizard of Oz, Alien, Rambo. KFC (Colonel Sanders- chicken)
Police Squad was actually a TV show that had only six episode before it was cancelled.. It led the the Naked Gun trilogy, which is hilarious.
You should do more Mel Brooks movies : History Of The World Part 1 - Young Frankenstien - Blazing Saddles - The Elephant Man ( which he used a different name ). High Anxiety - Life Stinks
In defense of the Alien scene, the biggest part of that joke was the "Oh no, not again". This is because John Hurt was the same actor from the scene they were making in parody.
All the Spaceballs merchandise that is available came along long after the fact. Mel was simply poking fun at George Lucas for his merchandising campaigns with each film.
The deal they made with George Lucas was they could never make any merchandise.
The dancing ALIEN skit is an homage to the singing frog from WB cartoons. George Lucas loved the idea of this film and even helped out with ILM for the ship models, space shots plus other effects' including the dancing ALIEN. His only condition to making the film was that they couldn't release figurines and other merchandise, as he was worried some people would not be able to tell the difference and would end up buying the wrong thing; so this lead to the merchandising skits that were seen throughout the film. They merged Luke and Han together for Lone Star, and they merged Obi Wan with Yoda for Yogurt; it was the only way to work the story without making it too complex and overcrowded...
Spaceballs 2 is in the works now!
My wife and I love this movie it's hilarious and yes we've seen all the star wars movies
I grew up watching this movie as a kid so many times and the Ludicrous Speed scene cracked us up!😂
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Mel Brooks at 98 stated that long-awaited sequel is in development right now. Josh Gad, voice of Olaf of Frozen is working with Mel on the script and starring the sequel plus producing too.
Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance. 🖖🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
It's one of my favorite quotes from any film.
Spaceballs will always be a 10/10! There's no official merchandise for the movie because of the agreement with LucasFilms at the time.
Yeah that’s why the Yogurt gift shop full of Space Balls merch is so funny. It’s the only place in the galaxy you could buy Space Balls stuff
George Lucas only gave his permission for the parady if Brooks didn't sell merchandise
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend "Wrongfully Accused" with Leslie Nielsen.
Fun thing to do is to try to catch all the movie spoofs and pop culture references of the time, and there's some 50+ of them.
My favorite SpaceBalls reaction yet. You two ladies were such a PERFECT joy to watch 😍
Mel Brooks basically went to George Lucas to get his approval and they agreed on what could and couldn't be done. As others have said, they couldn't actually do any merchandising from this movie, but in typical Mel Brooks fashion, he went out of his way to parody all of the merchandising from the Star Wars franchise. With all of the great movies that came out in 1987, Space Balls ended up only netting about $16 million at the box office. So many more people finally saw it once it was released on VHS and fell in love with the movie.
RE: merchandising. The ONLY merchandise for this movie appeared ONLY in the movie. Lucas loved the spoof idea, giving them free reign with ONE condition...NO movie merchandise would be permitted. Probably why Yogurt needed a 'Spaceballs II (the search for more money)' LOL
8:24 waiting until they catch on the “Prince Valium” 9:17 no it’s a Winnebago. 15:35 leaving the hair dryer behind and carrying an empty case. 18:04 Mel Brooks had to walk on his knees for playing Yogurt. 18:27 this was thrown in cause Lucas’ main stipulation was no merchandise cause he didn’t want any confusion between Star Wars merchandise and Spaceballs. 19:30 Brooks is Jewish so Schwartz makes sense. He loves doing Jewish jokes like Druidia and the princess not looking “Druish”. 20:41 there was a joke recently about a Spaceballs sequel called “Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2” 30:17 still doesn’t look like they caught on to the Prince’s name and the way he’s acting. Prince Valium and he’s always sleepy.
Another good parody is Galaxyquest, the unofficial Star Trek movie ;)
Try Mel Brooks Dracula Dead and Lovin It, awesome 😎
Sorry but "She's gone from suck to blow" is probably the greatest innuendo in cinema history lol
This is one of my all time favorites. So happy to see you watch it!
Love these reactions with Natalie. Glad she's back
A Spaceballs sequel was announced only two months ago to be in development. Josh Gad is going to star and produce it alongside Mel Brooks.
Part of George Lucas allowing Mel Brooks to do this movie was they could not sell any merchandise. Hence all the references to it. Lucas even helped with effects from ILM and stock footage4 from the Star wars movies!
what I liked about the chest-buster alien was that it wasn't instantly evil and instead parodied the dancing frog from Looney Tunes. But that's old-school Looney Tunes... there was also some dark stuff hidden in there lol.
I really enjoyed Natalie’s addition for this video. She made some good, and entertaining comments on this video, and that’s the most important thing for a TH-cam reaction
Mel Brooks showed George Lucas a rough cut of the film and asked for his blessing. Lucas agreed on the provision that there would be no effort to license anything from the film. Mel Brooks incorporated that into the script to hilarious results.
All the movies suggested in the comment of the day in this video are comedy legends, I STRONGLY recommend watching them. Yeah, they're older (70's and 80's films) but they're so funny.
Fun fact: NONE of those merchandise were ever on sale, it's all there just for the joke. While striking a deal with Lucas so they wouldn't risk getting sued and one thing Lucas asked was that they not make merch so consumers wouldn't be confused on what's a Star Wars product and what isn't.
Well, there never was a _Star Wars: The Flamethrower,_ so Lucas should have let him release that one.
It's not spoof of JUST star wars, there is also references to lot of other sci-fi movies and series, like planet of the apes, alien, and star trek.
Lucas asked mell brooks that Lone Star didn't dress like Han Solo, so they dressed him like indiana jones xD genius