Spaceballs/Funny
- When Lone Starr was trained by Yogurt on how to use the Schwartz. He practices by lifting the colossal Yogurt statue. Barf, amazed at this, asks Lone Starr how he did that, which distracted him and made him accidentally drop the statue on his buddy's foot, causing the Mawg to start yelping in pain. Yogurt then takes the ring he gave Lone Star to use to train with and lifts the statue to free Barf. The Mawg's foot was completely flattened.
Lone Starr: Sorry, Barf! |
- "FOOLED YOU!"
- During Lone Starr and Dark Helmet's duel:
Dark Helmet: So Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because Good Is Dumb. |
- Or, from earlier in the same scene:
Dark Helmet: Before you die, there is something you should know about us, Lone Starr. I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. |
- Even better: depends on how many siblings Lone Starr's father had, Lone Starr and Dark Helmet could actually be former roommates.
- While watching Spaceballs: The Movie:
They fast-forward past the stuff you've seen before in the movie. Dark Helmet has a bamboozled look on his face as he watches. And after seeing himself crash into the control panel earlier... |
- Plus, when they're getting the movie, they go over to a rack containing every previous Mel Brooks movie, and Rocky I through Rocky XIV.
- Which sets up a subtle Brick Joke that pays off right after Pizza the Hutt's death is announced on the news. "Coming up next, Pongo's review of Rocky Five... Thousand."
- Plus, when they're getting the movie, they go over to a rack containing every previous Mel Brooks movie, and Rocky I through Rocky XIV.
- And towards the start of the film, where Dark Helmet meets the extended Asshole family:
Dark Helmet: How many Assholes we got on this ship, anyway?! |
- The 'Keep Firing' bumped it from amusing to Crowning Moment of Funny.
- "Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck!"
- "It's Mega-Maid! She's gone from suck to blow!"
- The diner scene near the end. A chestburster suddenly, for want of a better phrase, bursts out of the chest of a patron at the diner (played by John Hurt), and proceeds to do the "Hello my baby, hello my honey" Michigan J. Frog rag. As he exits stage-right, Lone Starr and Barf have only one response:
Lone Starr and Barf: (quickly stand up) Check, Please!! |
- The bumper sticker encompassing the tail end of Spaceball I, which reads "We Brake For Nobody"
- The one on the tail end of the Eagle 5, which reads "I [heart] Uranus"
- The license plate on the front of Vespa's Mercedes, which reads "Spoil'd Rott'n"
- The entire Ludicrous Speed segment. The whole thing.
Colonel Sandurz: Prepare ship for light speed! |
- The Radar Officer who makes his own sound effects:
Radar Technician: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhit! (taps his helmet, making beeps. Talks into the communicator in a high static voice) Sir? |
- It's funnier since: A, the Radar Technician is played by Michael Winslow, the king of making sound effects; and B, the look Dark Helmet had on his face while saying the last line above.
- Maybe I'm just imagining it but on the last "I'm having trouble with the radar sir." line that Michael Winslow says in his normal voice, he seems to be having trouble keeping a straight face. The man makes it through countless Police Academy films and it's this one scene he almost corpses on? That cracks me up.
- You're not imagining it. Listen to him say "I'm having trouble with the radar, sir" in his normal voice. You can hear him almost laugh. Watch here.
- Dark Helmet playing with his Spaceballs: The Action Figures playset.
Dark Helmet: (using a deep voice) So Princess Vespa, at last, I have you in my clutches, to have my way with you, the way I want to. (in higher-pitched, feminine voice) No please leave me alone! (deep voice) NO! You are mine! (imitates Lone Starr) Not so fast, Helmet! (Helmet voice) Lone Starr! (Lone Starr voice) Yes, it's me. I'm here to save my girlfriend. Hi honey! (Helmet voice) Now, you are going to die! (makes shooting noises, Lone Starr voice) Ahhh...ahhh! (imitates Barf) Hey! whadja do to my friend? (Helmet voice) The same thing I'm going do to you big boy! (makes shooting noises at "Barf") And you too! ("shoots Dot") Now Princess Vespa, at last we are alone. (Vespa voice) Oh, no! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! Leave me alone! And yet,...I find you strangely attractive. (Helmet voice) Of course you do. Druish princesses are often attracted to money and power, and I have both, and you know it. (Vespa voice) NO! Leave me alone! (Helmet voice) NO! Kiss me!! (in Vespa voice, makes smooching noises with the Dark Helmet and Princess Vespa figures) OH..ohh.....oh your helmet is sooo big. |
- An interesting note about this scene: Mel Brooks wasn't the one who wrote this part of the movie, but rather Rick Moranis himself, who plays Helmet in the movie, that improvised this scene. They just handed him a handful of action figures and told him to go nuts.
- "You idiots! These are not them! YOU'VE CAPTURED THEIR STUNT DOUBLES!"
- Dark Helmet ordering his men to 'comb the desert', which, of course, they take to mean literally.
- We ain't found shit!
- Making that funnier? That's the fellow who went on to play Tuvok!
- We ain't found shit!
- "I'm not shooting this thing! I hate guns!"
- Followed by Princess Vespa's Berserk Button : "My hair! He SHOT MY HAIR!"*cocking gun* "Son of a BITCH!"
Vespa: How was that? |
- "'Out of Order'?! FUCK! Even in the future, nothing works!!"
- The entire "beaming" sequence.
"Why didn't anybody tell me my ass was so big!?" |
- "Raspberry... there's only one man who would DARE give me the raspberry..."
- LONE STARR! *bonk*
- The way Colonel Sandurz blatantly sees the camera approach and backs off...
- The gang trying to escape Spaceball City. One of the stocktroopers shoots at the handle of Eagle 5's side door.
Vespa: Open the door! |
- None of the characters ever point it out, but the stuff in the back of the Winnebago includes a large gray fire hydrant labeled "MAWG'S ROOM".
- A definite Too Dumb to Live moment, when Lonestar tries to knock out a Spaceball guard.
Guard: What the hell are you doing? |
- This editor considers the "moichendizing" scene the funniest, hitting the high point when Yogurt pulls out "Spaceballs, the flamethrower."
- Don't you mean "Spacebawls, da Flametrowah"?
- "I see your Schwarz is as big as mine".
They both look down |
- The sequence where Dark Helmet embarrasses himself and everyone else is too terrified to contradict him:
Dark Helmet: You call this a radar machine?! |
- "Funny. She doesn't look Druish".
- Dot Matrix' "Virgin Alarm" activating just as Lone Star and Vespa kiss. (To Lone Star)"It's programmed to go off before you do!"
- In Spaceball City when Barf and Lone Star are Dressing as the Enemy they find the guards in the hallway in their underwear.
Guard 1: HEY!!! THOSE ARE THE GUYS WHO STOLE OUR UNIFORMS!! |
- Dark Helmet slurping coffee with his mask down.
- Dark Helmet's entrance. It starts out as something akin to a homage to Darth Vader, with Helmet walking past the terrified technicians, with cuts to their freak'd out faces. Through it all, we hear the heavy sound of him breathing. Once Helmet gets close enough to the camera, his breath becomes raspy, and he flips up his scary visor, showing Rick Moranis' face. Mood Whiplash at its finest.
Dark Helmet: I can't breathe in this thing! |
- "To join... Princess Vespa and Prince Valium, in the bonds of holy- MOLY!!"
- This dialogue:
Vespa: I'm gonna tell him off, once and for all. |