First Time Reaction to Spaceballs

[@LowbrowDeluxe]

The merchandising joke was because Brooks actually asked Lucas for permission to do a parody (technically he didn't have to, parody is protected.) Lucas said yes, as long as he didn't do any merchandising that might cut into star wars merchandising.

[@burningfox4974]

I think it was cause he asked to use Star Wars Assets, like the inside of one of the space shuttles and other background sets more specifically.

[@VastDivide]

Lucas also didn't want Spaceballs merch to be confused with Star Wars merch Oh! Lucas also didn't want Brooks to use Han Solo's likeness/costume, so Brooks put Lonestar in the Indiana Jones costume.

[@passingrando6457]

​@@burningfox4974the escape pod footage from the climax of the movie is actual, unused footage from the OT. Lucas _loved_ the idea, even the merchandising restrictions were as much the demands of the Schwartz toy company that handled Star Wars toys.

[@k.o.h3599]

Don't forget Lucad letting Brooks use his special effects studio for the ship exterior models

[@k.o.h3599]

Don't forget Lucad letting Brooks use his special effects studio for the ship exterior models

[@overdrive7349]

"WE AINT FOUND SHIT!" I yelled once at my mom when she asked if I found her earrings. She was not happy lol.

[@Vsmit00]

Back before Tuvok suppressed his emotions.

[@kingscorpion7346]

and you still have your face? my mom would have slapped my face right off my skull!😂

[@killerrosebudiscool]

@@Vsmit00 came here to comment this

[@HorrorGenreLady]

Back then my parents were constantly misplacing stuff and when they asked I said the line however I would say I ain't found spaceballs and my parents would crack up laughing whenever I said that.

[@kingscorpion7346]

@@HorrorGenreLady 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@theoverlordplayz8461]

ah yes, Spaceballs, Star Wars's "Father's Brother's Nephew's Cousin's Former Roommate".

[@GamerEbs1143]

The fans of star wars: "What does that make us?" SpaceBalls: "absolutely nothing!"

[@nathancruz9172]

😂

[@camrn_brian]

Your fathers brothers nephews cousin is just your cousin.

[@VonSnootingham]

@@camrn_brian It could also just be you. Your father's brother is your uncle. Your uncle's nephew could be you, so like you said, your uncle's nephew's cousin could be your cousin. But your uncle's nephew could be your cousin as well. So your cousin's cousin could just be you.

[@ALJ9000]

@@VonSnootingham *brain leaking from head orifices*

[@shinyagumon7015]

They actually asked George Lucas for permission to make this and he even agreed to help them with the special effects through his company ILM, but his one condition was no merchandise so it couldn't confuse little kids. That's why there are so many jokes about it.

[@luckyshot2574]

He also didn't want Lonestar to look like Han Solo, so Mel Brooks made him look like Indiana Jones, since both are played by the same actor^^

[@billbill6094]

There was more than one condition

[@billbill6094]

​@@luckyshot2574 And they're both Lucasfilm films, George Lucas created Indiana too

[@eddied.3426]

I would go for spaceballs merch before star wars merch. Especially that flame thrower

[@marflitts]

@@luckyshot2574 Indiana Jones is played by Harrison Ford. Lone Starr is played by Bill Pullman.

[@wingedbluj1674]

Ok, so they couldn't have Lone Starr dressed as Han Solo, so they just used the outfit of a different character Harrison Ford played: Indiana Jones

[@pakboris2268]

And that's why he is from Ford galaxy 😂

[@pakboris2268]

And that's why he is from Ford galaxy 😂

[@billbill6094]

Also another George Lucas creation.

[@crazboy21]

To think the pizza costume was real pizza and they drip boiling cheese on for the effect. The actor had heat exhaustion on set. One of most difficult scenes in movie history

[@samoorellc5595]

Poor Dom Delouise.

[@weldonwin]

There was apparently a heating coil that ran through the costume to keep the cheese melty and according to legend, the suit almost caught fire at one point

[@chynne33]

​@samoorellc5595 while Dom did the voice, it wasn't him in the costume. It was Rick Lazzarini

[@fireblast133]

Or the fact Mel kept going with the Yogurt role despite apparently being allergic to something in the makeup.

[@nickthedreamer4434]

Fun fact: it's literally just been announced this past week that Mel Brooks and Josh Gad are working on Spaceballs 2 together. The Search For More Money is now preparing for production!!

[@l0sts0ul89]

Maybe its Spaceballs 3: The Finance Returns

[@theCommentDevil]

Shut up really??? 😮😮😮😮 Yesss

[@elleramirez1373]

I hope they use the same kind of recording equipment and effects from the 80’s. It’s just not right without it.

[@Earthenfist]

@@l0sts0ul89 I've heard "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money"

[@lornbaker1083]

Praise be to the schwartz

[@ryangray2544]

They just announced a sequel is in the works a week ago. I’m really hoping they call it spaceballs 2: the search for more money, or we need more money

[@PandezPanda]

How about Spaceballs 3 - the Search for Spaceballs 2! :D

[@D_0_S]

​@@PandezPandaSpaceballs 2: what happened to the money?

[@Otokichi786]

Make way for another sub-par "amazon prime" movie!

[@D_0_S]

@@Otokichi786 I don't know. You ever noticed how it could be Paramount Plus?

[@VonSnootingham]

@@PandezPanda Yes, "The Search for Spaceballs 2" was the proposed sequel that Mell Brooks discussed with Rick Moranis years ago.

[@Oakjet1998]

“When will then be now? SOON!” 37 Years ago today MEL BROOKS released his parody of all SCI fi movies into theaters, SPACEBALLS!!!!!!! One of the most hilarious movies ever made, lol!!!!! Was this a coincidence of you guys releasing this video on the day that Spaceballs premiered in theaters!?!?!? I think not!!! 😂

[@complex2live]

Wait really?

[@Oakjet1998]

@@complex2live Yeah it was released June 24, 1987!!!

[@TheDiazDarkness]

And guess what. We are getting a sequel

[@Oakjet1998]

@@TheDiazDarkness I did hear about that, won’t be as good as the first one! That I know for sure, BUT I am intrigued!

[@TheRatsCast]

My favorite part was already John Hurt with another chest burster. His "Oh no, not again" line is a classic. 😂

[@fireblast133]

To explain to everyone not getting it. John’s the guy who played the original victim of the facehugger and subsequent chestburster in the original Alien movie

[@questmanquery]

Boom had the best straight face. Every time the others talk or blow their nose over a classic joke and he jokes about it, or pretend he doesn’t know that lightsaber mock scene is coming later.

[@thejesseayy]

"Half my personality was formed from Mel Brooks movies" Same here, bro😂

[@Dystopia1111]

It's good to be the king!

[@0okamino]

For me, it’s a quarter Mel Brooks and a quarter ZAZ.

[@jeremytung1632]

It’s THE Star Wars parody. Also fun fact: there was a very early draft of the movie where the entire running time was just the “star destroyer” flying by.

[@jasonhoagland8444]

If any of you guys are Star Trek fans, the guy who says "We ain't found shit!" is the actor who played Tuvok on Star Trek Voyager.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

Tim Russ. Also a terrorist on TNG xd

[@arcticbanana66]

In 1986, the year before "Spaceballs" was released, was the cult classic and infamous flop "Howard the Duck", the first ever live-action movie based on a Marvel property (thus making it the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe). "Howard" was such a disastrous flop that allegedly Mel Brooks announced "Anyone who was in 'Howard' can be in 'Spaceballs'," in an attempt to save the actors' careers.

[@brucewayne33497]

I absolutely love that the chest burster alien was singing the Hello My Baby Hello my Honey song that Michigan J. Frog sung on the original Looney Tunes tv show so funny

[@Dekumon]

8:29 You know, for years as a kid, I had no idea that this was a parody brand as I'd never seen the real version. As such, I thought the "P" was a stylized "D", making the brand "Derri-air". In my version, Mel Gibson was up here snorting canned ass!

[@stephanniemorin]

That's very funny!

[@brizzo4554]

Fun facts, Lucas actually had his special effects team help with the movie, the escape pod launch scenes where actually unused shots from A New Hope,

[@erikbyrge2024]

3:00 Very Very Big Spaceship! 4:25 Right in the SpaceBalls! 6:38 John Candy the Legend! 7:09 Pizza the Hut! 9:42 Subalert! 10:50 Jammed! 11:54 Too Close Cameraman! 14:13 Wow! 15:07😂😂😂 17:04🤣🤣🤣 19:50 Breaking the Forth Wall! 21:33🚨🚨🚨 24:25 Nice! 26:10 Ouch! 27:22 Gotcha you're! 28:35 Good Nip! 30:33 Stupid! 31:04 Good Geief! 33:17 Smart! 34:23 Holy Crap! 36:29 Suck! 37:34 Oh man! 39:41 Shave cream Death! 40:21 Classic! 41:20 Punch!👊 42:37 Right in the SpaceBalls! 43:43 Have a Nice Day! 45:37 😆😆😆

[@evanrosman9226]

"If You Can Read This, You Don’t Need Glasses."

[@rockowlgamer631]

I'm wearing glasses.

[@Otisboy121]

@@rockowlgamer631same. But Yay!

[@joshuacampbell7493]

Now, watch Rick Moranis again in Ghostbusters. It's a fun series.

[@johnpaullogan1365]

his best work was little shop of horrors

[@Dystopia1111]

Strange Brew! Got to see where he started out.

[@cjg8763]

Who brought the dog? 😆

[@Cri_Jackal]

25:53 actual film has effectively INFINITE resolution, it captures actual light on what is effectively a 1 to 1 scale, your only limitation at that point is what to display it on. Old box TVs couldn't display the entire resolution of film, that was why _theaters_ gained their reputation as the go to for watching movies, a large canvas to project light onto was the only way to truly see the full quality of a movie. The advent of digital video and film upturned all this, it basically set back film quality by several decades, and it's been playing gradual catch-up to what film could already do ever since. The old movie theater experience your grandparents and great-grandparents knew had several times the visual quality of almost every TV or screen you've ever had.

[@promontorium]

1 to 1? You mean photon to photon? Film has a resolution limit, it's the size of the halide crystals, and probably the dead space between has an effect.

[@JETZcorp]

A 4k scan is what you need to pull all the detail out of a 35mm film negative, which was the standard for professional cinema and full-frame photo cameras. But that's to accurately capture the grain structure - native 4k digital is more detailed than 35mm, assuming professional quality equipment. Digital still hasn't caught up to IMAX. Scans could be made, but they don't have cameras to capture that kind of resolution, and editing with those files would be the devil's own job.

[@jacobaderholdt3111]

To clarify, the guy who got chestbursted at the end in the diner was actually in the original Alien, where the same thing happened to him. That's why he says "not again"

[@iandude1]

Another part you guys missed was when Lone Starr was talking about not knowing where he came from. He said “somewhere in the Ford Galaxy”, which in addition to being a real car, was also a play on Harrison Ford, who of course played Han Solo in the Star Wars movies.

[@spikejr3113jr]

24:19 Mel brooks made a deal with George Lucas to make Spaceballs all George Lucas lawyers said was as long as you don’t make merchandise do what ever you want. When the movie was finished filming Mel showed George and George laughed the hardest at the merchandising bit.

[@anthonydean1743]

Rick Moranis was in the horror/comedy musical Little shop of Horrors the year before Spaceballs. He was also in Ghostbusters 1&2, Honey I Shrunk the Kids Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Honey We Shrunk Ourselves, and Little Giants with Ed O'Neal from the Married with Children series & Modern Family.

[@philgoad5587]

They never made any of the merch. The deal that Brooks made with George Lucas was he could parody the film, but he couldn't sell any merch for it.

[@rockowlgamer631]

LAME

[@SpookyBibi24]

I had this on VHS and I had fast forwarded over the long ship shot so many times that you couldn't watch it on normal speed anymore, the tape was actually damaged. 😄

[@djmagichat1721]

19:58 This is hands-down my favorite gag in all of cinema. I memorized the back-and-forth they have, and whenever it comes up everyone is laughing. I adore this movie, but this bit? Nothing else comes close, IMO.

[@Wulfen0]

My 2 little favorite bits that often get overlooked: 1. When asking, "How many assholes we got on this ship?" The only one who doesn't stand is the guy who replaced the guy who got Schwartz'd in the balls. 2. When the camera pushes in to Dark Helmet in the jammed radar scene and hits him, he subtly pushes Col. Sandurz out of the way of the camera.

[@r.f.switch5847]

One of the funniest, most quotable parodies of all time. I really should watch this again.

[@jfernandez7098]

It’s funny that the theme of the spaceballs only plays when they’re about to die due to sheer incompetence when the song is about how menacing they’re supposed to be

[@HeraclesN-fp1bw]

SPACEBALLS !!! One of the top funniest movies Mel Brooks created, so lets go to Ludicrous Speed with fun facts: - This was originally going to be called “The Planet Moron” - The studio wanted Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise to play the role of Lone Starr which Bill Pullman ironically never saw Star Wars before making the movie - While the movie made a huge joke about merchandising it funny when Mel Brooks ask if he can do a parody of Star Wars to George Lucas he said yes but that they can’t do any merchandising - The man making of those noises is Michael Winslow famous for the Police Academy franchise & is just one of my favorite scenes in the movie - The black man with the comb (first funny scene) who said “We ain’t found Shit !” Is Tim Russ who would later play Tuvok in Star Trek plus Rob Paulsen was in that scene as well - At the ending was an Alien parody scene of the chest bursting which funny is that they got John Hurt to be in this scene because he was in the original movie which is why he says “Not Again” - There was a animated series which was not that good

[@stephanniemorin]

We don't talk about the animated series... But, REALLY?! ROB PAULSEN?!

[@complex2live]

Wait, there was a series?

[@HeraclesN-fp1bw]

@@stephanniemorinYes I heard it from himself mentioning it in a video

[@weldonwin]

At the front of the Spaceball-1 Bridge set, there was a massive green-screen for the compositing shots. As a prank, Mel Brookes issued the cast and crew with yellow tinted glasses and told them to not look at the screen without them on, because otherwise it would drive them mad

[@lornbaker1083]

The animated series felt like one of those NFT cartoons before N.F.T cartoons were even a thing. That's saying quite a lot about the quality of the animation and the effort that they put into it.Ergo none whatsoever

[@FallenOne669]

I can't believe it took me this many years to see the White House dome on top of President Scroob's office building.

[@Raged_Consumer]

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.

[@willbeonekenobi]

Just a little bit of extra trivia, the shot of the escape pod leaving is actually the very first shot that was completed by ILM but George had rejected it and then they had redone it. It's the redo that is in Star Wars.

[@crazboy21]

Yeah boom. I had the same reaction when I heard who's Mel Brooks

[@The_Movie_Minute]

27:57 funny story it’s just recently been announced that Josh Gad A.K.A. Olaf, and Mel Brooks are working on a sequel

[@duckslapper12]

Okay, Ruff not knowing anything about Mel Brooks is a grave sin. REMEDY THIS!!!!

[@Sophie-mv7bd]

Honestly this such a good dumb movie to just laugh at and enjoy

[@MrFloyd-jf6fh]

So you mentioned that film quality "wasn't as good back then", but that's actually a misconception. 35mm film stock has roughly the same clarity today as it did when it first came out. What made them look bad was that home releases were limited to things like VHS, or standard definition broadcast signals. In these modern releases, they simply go back and re-scan the original film reels, but instead of transferring it to something like VHS, transfer it to a digital file that can store a lot more quality.

[@joshuaholiday254]

My personal favorite Mel Brooks movie is “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”. Robin Hood is played by Cary Elwes and it’s amazing

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

Mel said recently he wants to work on a sequel finally. I can't wait! I imagine it will be based on the new Star Wars movies.

[@willbeonekenobi]

It was announced a week or so ago that him and Josh Gad are working on the sequel.

[@weldonwin]

If it is not in fact called "The Search For More Money" I will be deeply disappointed

[@iandude1]

Brooks also said that by having Michael Winslow do all of the sound effects in the movie, it saved him a lot of money.

[@FallenOne669]

I am convinced that without Spaceballs, we wouldn't have Deadpool.

[@weldonwin]

Be more accurate to say, if there was no Mel Brookes there would be no Deadpool, since this was just one in a long series of movies like this

[@schizzo8959]

What a weird thing to write. Deadpool is not a spoof, like Mel Brooks and his movies.

[@weldonwin]

@@schizzo8959 I think it's more the comparison to the self-deprecating and self-aware style of humour associated with Deadpool

[@andersonjoshua18]

The scene with the dolls happened because Rick Moranis was messing around between shots and Mel Brooks decided to film it.

[@Bancheis]

The reason the films look so good is because the camera qualities are ALWAYS ahead of the technology for our ability to store media in a transferable format. So the old 35mm film roughly had a digital resolution equivalent to approximately 5.6K - a digital image size of about 5,600 × 3,620 pixels. Hence why it is so transferrable now to Blu-ray.

[@bidwell13]

27:51 there was rumors of a sequel recently called “Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2”.

[@DiegoKawasaka]

this is the type of movie you will never get tired of and can rematch it as many times as possible and you still lugh your ass off xD

[@Darth_atrocious]

YALL WATCHING A GEMMMM

[@crimsonknight7011]

The “alien” guy was the amazing John Hurt. You might know him as the High Chancellor in V for Vendetta, or as the guy that sold Harry Potter his wand.

[@rpgrage7711]

This movie is one of those movies where its so bad its good imo and so many hilarious lines "i see your schwartz is as big as mine" that killed me when i was younger

[@anthonydean1743]

Their was a couple of people in the movie that where In various Star Trek series like the Monitor lady playing different aliens in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and the Guy who said "We ain't found Shit" was a main character in the Star Trek Voyager series.

[@OtisMcNuttIII]

Robin Hood: Men in Tights is a must watch as is Young Frankenstein.

[@OtisMcNuttIII]

They actually couldn't sell merchandise based on Spaceballs. It was part of a deal with Lucasfilm to settle a lawsuit against Mel Brooks. However after that deal did lapse several years ago and now merchandise is available. I have a model of the Eagle 5 Winnebago produced a few years ago.

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

Spaceballs Sequel in the Works With Josh Gad Starring, Mel Brooks Producing. This was just announced a week ago too. Robin Hood: Men in Tights is my favorite Mel Brooks movie by far.

[@zem7127]

I started chanting "SUCK" with you guys and and my girlfriend walked in and yelled "NO!" then left. Worth it.

[@Shippou011]

John Candy died 4 days before I was born, and honestly I think that's where everything started going downhill for me.

[@thewerewolff7248]

If I’m recalling correctly The movie was allowed to use Lucas film’s / ILM’s sound effect library as long as they didn’t make any merchandise of the film. So they decided as a joke to have a bunch of fake merch in movie you can’t buy in real life

[@hendyallen5993]

They added the Mr. Coffee and the foam cup because people on set kept leaving their cups around and they ended up in the shots. Rather than re shooting, they just made coffee a thing in the Ballviers.

[@0okamino]

I love the commitment to the first visual joke of the movie. The Spaceball 1 model used for that shot was 17’ long. The shot goes for a little less than 2 minutes (considerably longer than the Star Destroyer flyover at the beginning of Episode IV, but fairly shorter than the intro of _Alien)._

[@outcastalphagaming2512]

I absolutely love every second of this movie! So many quotes and parodies in one movie it's ridiculous!

[@PresidentScrooge]

28:03 - Mel Brooks just gave Rick Moranis the puppets and essentially told him "to whatever". So this entire thing was improvised.

[@tofersiefken]

My favorite Mel Brooks movie is Young Frankenstein (1974) starring Gene Wilder, roughly based on Mary Shelley's novel as well as several classic Frankenstein movies.

[@collinschoenfelder677]

that was gorge Lucas's one request from this film was no merchandising

[@cornbreaddla]

They just announced space balls 2 starting josh gad and produced by Mel brooks

[@procow2274]

Funny enough both candy and moranis had cartoon shows staring them. Rick with gravedale high and john with camp candy.

[@isaiahbaker7475]

The Spaceballs all look like Funko Pops. And one of my favorite quotes is, “Funny she doesn’t look Druish.” Also the spaceship at the beginning is the Metallica of spaceships

[@embran8486]

Dark Helmet somewhat same ring as Emperor Ming from Flash Gordon.

[@ShadowDemon_4]

Fun fact: During the merchandise scene if you look closely at the Spaceballs comic book you can see it's just a Transformers comic with Optimus Prime on the cover. Either this was an intended hint at the later scene we would get with the Spaceballs 1 ship or they just forgot to cover the transformers on it. Considering all the intended nods to other movies and media it could be either.

[@0okamino]

Yeah, didn’t you know that Megamaid is Megatron’s sister?

[@soflyedits322]

random science / cinema fact - in the 20th century film was made to capture moving images with silver halide crystals that would chemically react to light as it moved through the camera. digital cameras were created to be less expensive and were used more and more in the later half of the 20th century and early into the 21st century. it took a while but 4k is the closest we've ever come to replicating film quality resolution. that's why digital cinematography from the 80s, 90s to early 00s looks so pixelated. silver halide crystals were essentially 4k resolution and that's why old films shot on film are able to restored in 4k bluray with crystal clear clarity.

[@jimwatson1013]

On the whole "Old movies on blu ray looks so good!" Thing is film as in the film reels a camera recorded onto was HD quality but the broadcasting equipment it was shown on after was never HD. Projectors were closer to that quality, but not quit. So fast forward to modern Blu ray yes there is "clean up" to be done but if you have masters of the original film and it is kept well. Then you can HD release it. I am horrifically simplifying it but basically old Movie Cameras did record such High quality.

[@thehouseofcrisis87]

Fun Fact, the model for Space Ball One was seventeen feet long as they wanted it to be a ridiculously big as possible.

[@moorish-mellow9285]

"Its snowing on mt fuji" i saw that quick game grumps reference

[@Mecht]

"good luck going around that ship," but they fly in 3 dimensions.. just go up, ruff

[@johnbowersox738]

One thing about any Mel Brooks movies are that whatever you think is about to happen , you're wrong.

[@MrWhatdafuBOOM]

You might recognize Mel Brooks' voice as well. He also voiced Bigweld in Robots.

[@DomBomb223]

Perfect timing for this reaction, since they announced that there's finally going to be a Spaceballs 2

[@Creationator-ws6np]

This movie is better than Star Wars 7-9, hands down.

[@nicktechnubyte1184]

Almost anything is better than modern day disney woke pandering star wars

[@DTLions26]

Absolute factuality good sir.

[@FallenOne669]

And 1-6.

[@Creationator-ws6np]

@@nicktechnubyte1184 Amen, brother

[@seekerofnothingness]

Lucas allowed Brooks to make the movie, but one condition was that they wouldn't sell any merchandise

[@alejandrotuazon4831]

This is required viewing after watching most of the 80's scifi :) Please continue on with more Mel Brooks!

[@anumeon]

Fun fact.. The Pizza the Hut suit was made from real pizza. The actor inside suffered some really bad burns because of the heat.

[@BreneRHD]

The line take 5 after coming out of ludicrous speed if you look at the time stamp of the next scene it is actually 5 minutes later

[@renokru7443]

I often listen to the Spaceballs song because jokes aside, its a fucking cool song

[@GrimGriefer5]

You guys haven't seen alien? You gotta watch it its a certified classic

[@nathanielreik6617]

At a comic con I bought a poster someone made of Dark Helmet that had the quote "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." The whole sequence will the dolls was improvised by Rick Moranis. Mel Brooks came up with the idea of something like it while filming and he gave the figures to Rick and told him to do whatever he wanted. There was a cameo of the Millennium Falcon at the diner. Also Mel Brooks has discussed on and off about the possibility of a sequel for years but never committed to doing one...until earlier this month! There was an announcement that Spaceballs 2 was in development by Amazon with Josh Gad set to star and help produce alongside Mel Brooks. So hopefully it will be decent (and hopefully it will indeed be called "The Search for more Money").

[@amandaritzau2602]

John Candy as barf and Uncle Buck are my two all-time favorite characters in anything

[@jesuss.s.6285]

I recommend watching robin Hood Men in Tights another mel brooks classic

[@Plasmagon99]

Apparently they're making a Spaceballs 2 now.

[@Hanmacx]

I hope they name it "in search for money"

[@krzysztofszuda6644]

LET`S GOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I NEVER THOUGH YOU WOULD ACTUALLY WATCH THIS MOVIE!

[@DavidRichardson153]

In the documentary that covers Mel Brooks' life and his works, which covers it chronologically, when it came to Spaceballs, Mel said that not only was it his first movie based on sci-fi, even with its focus on Star Wars (technically, Frankenstein is sci-fi, but not too many people outside of literary snobs recognize it as such), but it was the first movie he made that did not receive rave reviews from critics. At first, he was concerned that he did not quite get it right with sci-fi. Before long, though, he was having dinner at a friend's place, and his friend's little kid was already perfectly quoting the movie. From that dinner experience, he figured that he had simply tapped into a different audience with the movie and took that as a success.

[@DrknssRules1]

This is genuinely my favorite movie of all time. A few months back my theater played this as part of like a "rewind" performance and I was like "Oh, we gotta go." All my friends also happen to love this movie and they were like "Fuck yeah we do!"

[@Cosmos6745]

I absolutely love this movie. My dad showed me this when I was like 9 and ever since then I watch it at least 15 times a year.

[@wmason1961]

He doesn't look like Stewie, Stewie looks like him. And tries to use his voice.

[@gracegaert]

You mentioned Star Treck: Next Gen. Now you have to watch it.

[@chillwill2918]

I actually saw someone with a SpaceBalls shirt very recently.

[@stevensprunger3422]

So happy you guys appreciated this I saw when it came out in theaters way back when and I’m 70 years old can you imagine that?

[@DiegoKawasaka]

btw the puppet scenes was 100% improvised , mel brooks just gave him the puppets and said do something funny xD

[@AFO3310]

I'm sure it's been mentioned in the comments somewhere; the xenomorph scene in the diner has the actual actor from Alien reprising his role. That's why he said "not again" lol.

[@roarinfireball]

Me, and my friend Alex watched this when we were 13. The two scenes that killed is with laughter was the opening scene with the enlarged ship panorama, and the Ludicrous Speed scene.

[@randycarter2001]

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.