Col. Sanders: "GIVE US THE CODE OR WE'LL GIVE YOUR DAUGHTER BACK HER OLD NOSE!!" The King: "NO NOT THAT!! alright here it is: 1-2-3-4!" Dark Helmet: "ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!! THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING AN IDIOT WOULD PUT ON HIS LUGGAGE!!" The President: "Did you guys get the code?" Col. Sanders: "YES SIR! the code is 1-2-3-4!" The President: "NO THAT'S MY LUGGAGE NUMBER I'M GONNA HAVE TO GO CHANGE IT!!" One of my favorite lines in that movie! 😂
My dad said he recently read an article in which Mel Brooks said that one actor cost him a ton of money. Rick Moranis. He said he had to constantly be yelling cut on the filming because Rick was making everyone laughing so much. But he also said he was the biggest culprit for laughing so much.
Rick Maronis: did movies Made them classic Had to leave Big Chad for leaving No elaboration. I grew up on his movies. And I respect his choice to prioritize his family. And I will b thankful for what he did leave behind.
@@stayfaded69 Indeed. I'm sure most of us feel the same way. Huge props to Rick for putting family first, in an industry where that's almost unheard of. May others follow his example if needed to.
Lucas had one more request. Since Lonestar was based on Han Solo, Lucas asked that Lonestar don't look like Han Solo. So they make Indiana Jones costume instead.
My favorite piece of trivia ever is that allegedly Mel Brooks started work on a sequel called *Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2* 😂 Best. Title. Ever.
@@thespicemelange.1 It could also work because of how long it's been. Implying that the reason we haven't yet gotten Spaceballs 2 even decades later is because they can't find it.
Rick Moranis playing with his dolls is one of the funniest scenes ever. Druish princesses are often attracted to money and power and I have both. Your helmet, it's so ....big!
I always loved how Prince Valium was a clear parody of the Prince Valiant comic strip. I think that's another one of those jokes that will forever be lost to time.
Yeah, that's the pity with a lot of these spoofs, they get dated quite quickly. Airplane! is a good example as well. I've watched a few Spaceballs reactions on YT by younger folks in their mid-20s and the amount of stuff that left them confused is hilarious. One was even so disgusted by Pizza the Hut that they didn't get the joke in the name.
@@lyokianhitchhiker Seth McFarlane, the creator of The Orville has said on many occasions that his show is an homage to Star Trek: The Next Generation. He has had many industry folks working on the show, including Johnathan Frakes directing a few episodes. Actors Tim Russ (Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager) and Robert Picardo (the holographic doctor from the same show) have acted on the show a few times.
I think Minty is thinking more about Puzza the Hut more than Mel Brooks did. I think it was just a play on words with a monster as a cross between Jabba and Pizza. Pizza Margherita is a style of Italian pizza.
Moranis claimed in a 2013 interview that he and Brooks had discussed a potential sequel, with Moranis pitching the title Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II. However, he and Brooks were unable to structure a deal that would allow the project to move forward. In February 2015, Brooks said that he would like to make a sequel to be released after the next Star Wars film and hoped that Moranis would reprise his role. This proposed film, Brooks said, may be called Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. However, in February 2020, Bill Pullman said during an interview with Daily Blast Live, "It's up to Mel. Ask him if he has too much money and that's why he doesn't do it."
@@stayfaded69 I know, it's beyond cringe. Its like Mel Brookstein thinks being associated with the likes of JeffEpstein, MarkZuckerturd, BBNetanyahoo, and KKKarlMarx is something to brag about.
I grew up in the 80’s and when Spaceballs came out, I watched it over and over and over and over and over again lol …. Still one of my all time favorite movies !!!!! May The Schwartz Be With You !!!! ❤
Believe it or not, I had some friends over to my apartment back in the mid-2000s to watch Spaceballs as a group. For this event, I set up a physical "Mr. Rental" panel and had all the Mel Brooks VHS tapes lined up like you see it in the film! To this day, I still own all those VHS tapes! I remember the scene as the Colonel Sanders character (played by actor George Wyner) asks the Corporal to get him the Video Cassette of Spaceballs, The Movie! He then goes to the Mr. Rental panel and begins naming each Mel Brooks film as he points to the VHS cassettes... "The Producers, Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein..."
I wonder if by a co-winky dink, they had an in-universe MGM that gave Dark Helmet an in-ship Mr. Rental which had lots of movies on VHS, including an in-universe copy of Spaceballs?
Until you called that thing inside Pizza the Hut's mouth a chin, I never realized that it was the actor's chin. I always just assumed that it was supposed to be Pizza's tongue, and left it at that.
Probably just as important as the humor of the movie is the genuine heart the movie has, in particular the chemistry between the cast. It really was capturing lightning in a bottle.
Once upon a time I worked for Decipher Games. We had good relations with Lucasfilm due to our Star Wars CCG. Fans had been asking about making a Space Balls CCG, but we knew Lucas' stance on SB merchandising. But one day we took a shot at it and got an OK from George Lucas. After we picked our jaws up off the floor, we turned around and asked Mel Brooks. He said OK. So for one brief shining moment, it looked like Space Balls the Customizable Card Game was going to actually happen. But when we asked Brooks' people for resources, they didn't have anything to give us. No imagery, designs, nothing. Back then with digital encoding getting quality screen caps off of DVD wasn't possible. With heavy hearts we gave up on it. Decipher ultimately failed as a business, and we never had another go at it. I personally thought it could be done, but it didn't happen.
Mel makes reference to Blazing Saddles during the opening sequence of Spaceballs. That laser sound is (like) an “upgraded” version of the whipcrack sound from the Blazing Saddles opening.
Fun fact: In the TV cut of the film, the "Assholes" scene was also redubbed to tone down the language and replaced with "Morons", undoubtedly a call back to the film's original working title. "I don't believe it. I'm surrounded by Morons."
@@KasumiKenshirou That's a tragedy. It's one of the most memorable scenes in a movie that's packed with memorable scenes. And the fact that a "made for TV dub" already exists...why would they do that? Put the scene back in, dammit!
In the cut I saw, they removed the reference completely. He asks "who made that man a gunner?" Then the officer replies "I did sir, he's my cousin." Then Helmet goes straight to "Keep firing!"
I saw a TV edit once where, after Vespa goes Rambo, they edited Barf to say "Holy Milkbones!" I've only seen that edit once, otherwise they just bleep it out.
I had SPACEBALLS: The Book! I bought it at a Schoolastic Book Fair in the fall of 87 or spring of 88. These were book sales that traveled around to schools to bring books, novelties and school supplies for kids to purchase at their schools. "Jovial Bob" Stine may have cleaned up the jokes and language for this book to be kid friendly for this reason.
I love when people claim that "something that raunchy wouldn't be made now", while weekly TV shows like Family Guy and South Park are far raunchier and still churning away. Brilliant narrative!
"Evil will always triumph, because good…is dumb." One of the best lines ever uttered on film. I figured the thing in his mouth was supposed to be his tongue.
Italy might not have had a Pizza Hutt at the time, but Star Wars Jabba was called Jabba The Hutt just like in the US, so the joke would have made just as much sense.
To clarify, before he got into writing Goosebumps, RL Stine was a humor writer, hence his pen name of “Jovial Bob Stine”. This is also the pen name he used when working on well remembered kids show Eureka’s Castle.
Stine was also responsible for Bananas! magazine and a slew of children's books that included How To Be Funny. His legacy of entertaining our youth makes me smile.
Man, this movie was such a huge part of my childhood. Spaceballs, Legend, Neverending Story, Labyrinth, and Princess Bride are definitely the most watched films of my childhood. Such great memories associated with all of them. I always wished they had done a sequel to Spaceballs.
The version I watched way too many times as a kid was a VHS home-recorded from a TV broadcast. It wasn't until far into adulthood that I watched a proper copy and realized how heavily edited for content and dubbed for "PG" language it was. So I used to quote all these scenes as I remembered them, often receiving "What the hell are you talking about" reactions. For example: "Private Moron, sir." "He's a Moron too, sir." "How many Morons we got in here?" "Yo!" "I'm surrounded by Morons!" Never knew it was actually "Private A**hole" until I was in my twenties. I had no idea about the book, but I imagine the TV edit was similar. The Eighties and Nineties were quite a time to be alive. Great video, dude!
I've seen Spaceballs in theaters 3 times. Before the movie startedonce, one of the employees introduced the movie and asked everyone some questions so they could win some prizes. One of the thing he said was "there havent been any star wars movies since 1987" lol.
In the Blu-Ray release Mel Brooks said that his inspiration for Spaceballs was when he was trying to come up with a title he kept thinking/saying space over and over, trying to think of what would go good with it, and someone yelled out, "Balls!" because they were upset about something completely unrelated.
Mel Brooks commentary while watching the movie was priceless! I loved how he would go off topic as the movie continued. Mel's comment about John Candy of him being a good gentile was awesome, as well as John was always up for any suggestions for his part in the movie. At any rate, WATCH THE MEL BROOKS COMMENTARY ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!!😂😂😂😂
After watching for the 5 millionth time, I finally noticed Tim Russ says, "We ain't found SHIP!" Pay attention next time you watch👍 Idky it took so long for me to realize he was Tuvok too😁
@@gohawks3571 my bad, it just translated to fecal matter in my mind. That is one of my top 5 movie references to spit at people, and now it will be correct and good for the children’s ears that could hear such depravity 💯
Spaceballs the Book was actually sold through one of the school book sales where I live, probably why they tamed down the language. That's how I got my copy and it was the only way I could experience Spaceballs after seeing it in the theater until we got our first VCR a year later.
So that's where it came from. I thought it was a Mandela effect when I rewatched Spaceballs and there was no mention of Dark Helmet being allergic to raspberries. I remember reading the book when I was a kid. You've helped clear up one tiny little mystery in my life. Thank you.
I had the book. It was a way for my parents to get me reading as a kid who preferd films, loved Star Wars & really enjoyed the Spaceballs movie. Good work mum and dad x
RL Stine is Robert Lawrence Stine Jovial means “cheerful, jolly” Bob is another name for Robert Hence Jovial Bob Stine. Looks like he used that name for fun books. Loved the video
Very much so. He was also Jovial Bob Stine before he ever wrote as R. L. Stine. He helped create a kid's magazine called BANANAS distributed through Scholastic in the 1970's and 1980's wrote a bunch of kids books well. Here in America, even before Goosebumps or Fear Street, Stine was still a huge part of the book fairs that would permeate elementary and middle school libraries .. to promote literacy. I still have a few Jovial Bob Stine books in my collection from when I was young, as I was too old by the time the GB series came out.
You might be able to say that about Robin Hood: Men In Tights (because up until Prince of Thieves and the exception being the Disney movie, not many people saw the Robin Hood movies). But not Spaceballs. As good as it is, it's not Star Wars.
I saw this movie for the first time in middle school band class. it was end of the year so the director just put a movie on and low and behold this masterpiece was presented. I was 12 at the time and I was on the floor. I'm sure now a-days someone would have complained but hearing "assholes" in a movie for the first time was amazing.
Pizza The Hut wouldn't be called Pizza Pepperoni in Italy, as pepperoni means (bell) pepper in Italian. It's only salami in English speaking countries. But yeah, Margarita doesn't make sense either.
The renaming of Pizza the Hut to Pizza Margherita is to play off an actual Italian style of pizza that very popular there. Not quite as pithy, but at least it references something familiar.
I was about to write this quote, glad to see it’s here among the first comments and its impact on others , thanks friend, and thank you Minty for another fun and informative video.
Maybe you could do one on actors doing the same stupid shtick, like Sandler. Or on that stupid turkey song that I will never be able to evacuate from my mind. And yes, you are surrounded by assholes
Great content, keep up the great work. Growing up with the 80’s movie catalogs was a privilege. Can you do a series on John Candy’s movies? The Great Outdoors, Summer Rental..etc, thank you in advance!
Always wondered what happened to Rick moranis. It seemed like he was in a lot of movies and then just all of a sudden at some point you never heard from him again
2:38 How many years had Minty been waiting to drop his silly toilet humor pun that "Brooks was happy for George Lucas to Play with his SpaceBalls"? LMAO
Spaceballs is one of my favorite comedy films. Not only because I love sci-fi films, but because it's truly funny and very well made. I used to have the novelization too. Wasn't as good as the movie but it was amusing. The soundtrack is great, too.
You really have to admit the flow of the movie is perfectly on point. The jokes come in a wave like fashion. Chuckle chuckle laughter Chuckle chuckle laughter Chuckle Chuckle LUDICROUS SPEED GO! And then it goes to storyline to give the audience a few minutes to relax. No joke is objectively funnier than another but a million moments to reference the movie. The main jokes like Ludicrous speed, the combing the Desert and the Schwartz fight are easily some of the most iconic comedic moments of the time… and few have come since to last the test of time.
You’re the best. Seriously. You have been the go to guy for movies I should watch. I’m addicted to movies, watch at least 2 a day. Thanks for a place I can rely on to take me back to these movies!
You know, Minty! Growing up in Canada, I always thought that it was so cool for John Candy to be cast in the role of Barf. It was almost like a furry version of his Johnny LaRue character, from the S.C.T.V. days. Of course, I knew who most of the actors were, but Candy stood out above them all. If he hadn't played it so well, I honestly think that the rest of the movie wouldn't have come across so well.
i always thought that when lonestar used raspberry to jam dark helmet, it was a him sending a message. When dark helmet says "there's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. . ." "giving the raspberry" is slang for sticking your tongue out at someone and blowing to make a sound and bits of spittle fly out. it's a sign of disrespect. There's only 1 guy who would dare disrespect him.
As a grade school kid, I only got to see Spaceballs commercials on TV, and never got to see it in the theater. I don't remember why - I believe because my parents said I was "too young". Back then, it took a very long time after the movie exited the theater to arrive in movie rental shops. Sometimes 6 months to 2 years. Spaceballs, unfortunately, was one of those that took a long time to hit the VHS rental market. I wanted to see it so bad, but the only option was that I saw the novelization in the Scholastic book club order sheets we used to get in school. I distinctly recall ordering Spaceballs: The Book, along with the novelization of Adventures in Babysitting. I don't think I ever actually read the second book, as for me it was pretty much just filler to get the Spaceballs novelization. I read that book at least two or three times, before the movie ever became available to rent. And yea I was quite surprised that idiots became a**holes, among other slight differences. I do recall the book had two instances of a swear word substitution - the word was something along the lines of "fur-sch-lug-in-ger". I likely don't have the spelling quite right, but I really do believe the novelization was really targeted at the younger pre-teen market that was too young to see the movie, but was nevertheless excited by the commercials and marketing. I always believed the differences were just improvised by Jovial Bob, but perhaps not?
"Jovial Bob Stine" was the pen-name R.L. Stine had already released 20 childrens' comedy books under (eg. The Pigs' Book of World Records and The Sick of Being Sick Book) by the time the Spaceballs novelization came out.
To this day, I still remember seeing this film with my mother in the theatres. When she saw Pizza the Hut, she swore that she would never eat pizza again.
Spaceballs is amazing. Moranis was hilarious in this movie, but John Candy's Barf was my favorite character. "I"m a Mog, half-man, half-dog. I'm my own best friend."
Enjoyable video, I love Mel Brooks and especially SpaceBalls, but… Please please please do something about the audio quality during your on-camera shots. I can recommend a good cheap microphone for you if you need…
I found it really interesting how so many parts of it were like aspects of Star Wars movies that came out subsequently. It made me wonder if there was collaboration or they just like taking from it.
I had the book as a kid. I got it from my school in one of the quarter annual or monthly or term book fares from Scholastic or Puffin. I also had the books for the movies Willow and Superman IV too.
"These are not them! You've captured their stunt doubles!"
"Ned?!?" 🤜💥 😆
Col. Sanders: "GIVE US THE CODE OR WE'LL GIVE YOUR DAUGHTER BACK HER OLD NOSE!!"
The King: "NO NOT THAT!! alright here it is: 1-2-3-4!"
Dark Helmet: "ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!! THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING AN IDIOT WOULD PUT ON HIS LUGGAGE!!"
The President: "Did you guys get the code?"
Col. Sanders: "YES SIR! the code is 1-2-3-4!"
The President: "NO THAT'S MY LUGGAGE NUMBER I'M GONNA HAVE TO GO CHANGE IT!!"
One of my favorite lines in that movie! 😂
"Fu@# Even in the future nothing works!"
@@jeremybowers3181 "Just what I need: a Druish Princess!"
"There's only one man who would dare give me raspberries: LONESTAR!!"
Mel Brooks has a knack for breaking the 4th wall, does he?
My dad said he recently read an article in which Mel Brooks said that one actor cost him a ton of money. Rick Moranis. He said he had to constantly be yelling cut on the filming because Rick was making everyone laughing so much. But he also said he was the biggest culprit for laughing so much.
Rick Maronis:
did movies
Made them classic
Had to leave
Big Chad for leaving
No elaboration.
I grew up on his movies. And I respect his choice to prioritize his family. And I will b thankful for what he did leave behind.
@@stayfaded69 Indeed. I'm sure most of us feel the same way. Huge props to Rick for putting family first, in an industry where that's almost unheard of. May others follow his example if needed to.
@@vladyvhv9579 he just knew what was most important. Plus royalties weren't bad lol not a force but a welcomed bonus
To be fair, there are far worse things you can splurge your money on than laughter.
Is that also the reason Rick has been absent from the more recent Ghostbusters incarnations? I miss seeing Louis Tully.
Spaceballs and Men in Tights should be required viewing for literally every single person on the planet.
Men in Tights is one of the ONLY musicals I tolerate.
Blazing saddles needs to be seen by everyone, and if they can't laugh, they need to go
Goodbye to the Wife, I'm watching Spaceballs.
Men in Tights only really works for somebody familiar with the Errol Flynn Robin Hood... The main gag is lost on all the adaptations made since.
And tropic thunder should be added to the list
Lucas had one more request. Since Lonestar was based on Han Solo, Lucas asked that Lonestar don't look like Han Solo.
So they make Indiana Jones costume instead.
I don't know about "Robin Hood: Men in tights."
Mel Brooks, the classic troll.
My favorite piece of trivia ever is that allegedly Mel Brooks started work on a sequel called *Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2* 😂
Best. Title. Ever.
You know that could work today seeing all of the backlash from the last three movies of Star wars
@@thespicemelange.1 It could also work because of how long it's been. Implying that the reason we haven't yet gotten Spaceballs 2 even decades later is because they can't find it.
@@gurvmlk All right then I guess we're going to have to draft a script and send it to Mel Brooks
Thankskilling already did it... unfortunately
Followed by SpaceBalls 2: The Ssearch For More Money
Rick Moranis playing with his dolls is one of the funniest scenes ever.
Druish princesses are often attracted to money and power and I have both. Your helmet, it's so ....big!
Crnl Sanders really is the 'cherry on top' in that scene and many others. The chemistry between the two is so good.
"They're action figures, you buffoon!"
I always loved how Prince Valium was a clear parody of the Prince Valiant comic strip. I think that's another one of those jokes that will forever be lost to time.
Indeed. And given the name of a sedative with similar enough sounding name.
@vladyvhv9579 and he kept falling asleep, true to his family name 😅
Yeah, that's the pity with a lot of these spoofs, they get dated quite quickly. Airplane! is a good example as well.
I've watched a few Spaceballs reactions on YT by younger folks in their mid-20s and the amount of stuff that left them confused is hilarious. One was even so disgusted by Pizza the Hut that they didn't get the joke in the name.
Very fitting, because that strip was always **yawn** booorriing...
...read it anyways lol
Such a departure for Jm J. Bullock to play, too. He's always been seen as goofy and upbeat. He did great with this.
"He shot my hair" lol my wife's favorite line 😂
And Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie since The Undiscovered Country.
😊
And The Orville is the best Star Trek TV show since DS9
@@tymmezinniI once heard The Orville was actually a spinoff of Galaxy Quest.
@@lyokianhitchhiker Seth McFarlane, the creator of The Orville has said on many occasions that his show is an homage to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He has had many industry folks working on the show, including Johnathan Frakes directing a few episodes.
Actors Tim Russ (Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager) and Robert Picardo (the holographic doctor from the same show) have acted on the show a few times.
@@SpaceWizardCosplay yeah, but weren’t the Krill a reference to Galaxy Quest?
Pizza the Hut has always reminded me of the thing that Chet was turned into in Weird Science
True, True... maybe with a touch of The Incredible Melting Man?????
I'm so glad I'm not the only one!
That's disgusting, Wyatt!
That's Chet, Gary.
I think Minty is thinking more about Puzza the Hut more than Mel Brooks did. I think it was just a play on words with a monster as a cross between Jabba and Pizza. Pizza Margherita is a style of Italian pizza.
Good call! I see that now
Moranis claimed in a 2013 interview that he and Brooks had discussed a potential sequel, with Moranis pitching the title Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II. However, he and Brooks were unable to structure a deal that would allow the project to move forward. In February 2015, Brooks said that he would like to make a sequel to be released after the next Star Wars film and hoped that Moranis would reprise his role. This proposed film, Brooks said, may be called Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. However, in February 2020, Bill Pullman said during an interview with Daily Blast Live, "It's up to Mel. Ask him if he has too much money and that's why he doesn't do it."
May The Schwartz Be With You.
".............and I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Let's see how well you can handle it"!
This movie is one of my favorites
We not doing this for some money...... We doing
For a shit load of money
Lol the Jewish references. I didn't know I was circumcized til I saw Men in Tights lol I asked what that was
Oh the Schwarts is with me. The question is, are YOU with the Schwartz?
@@stayfaded69 I know, it's beyond cringe. Its like Mel Brookstein thinks being associated with the likes of JeffEpstein, MarkZuckerturd, BBNetanyahoo, and KKKarlMarx is something to brag about.
I grew up in the 80’s and when Spaceballs came out, I watched it over and over and over and over and over again lol …. Still one of my all time favorite movies !!!!! May The Schwartz Be With You !!!! ❤
And also with you
Same
One of my very favorites.
❤️ John Candy. Gone to soon.
Soon Valley in Pakistan?
Hear hear! 👍🐶👍
I would've loved to have an Uncle Buck.
Yeah😔 Esp since now he has so many people who love & respect him. He didn't receive enough respect while here😭
If only you knew of the power of merchandising.
"Spaceballs the flamethrower! The kids love this."
I know that I really wanted one as a kid!
@LadyOnikara , I'm long past childhood and I still want one.
I still want one as well.
I wanted one, but my parents got me some off-brand flamethrower instead
Don't forget Space Balls the Toilet paper.
Barf is goodest of boys. RIP John Candy 😢
Believe it or not, I had some friends over to my apartment back in the mid-2000s to watch Spaceballs as a group. For this event, I set up a physical "Mr. Rental" panel and had all the Mel Brooks VHS tapes lined up like you see it in the film! To this day, I still own all those VHS tapes! I remember the scene as the Colonel Sanders character (played by actor George Wyner) asks the Corporal to get him the Video Cassette of Spaceballs, The Movie! He then goes to the Mr. Rental panel and begins naming each Mel Brooks film as he points to the VHS cassettes... "The Producers, Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein..."
I wonder if by a co-winky dink, they had an in-universe MGM that gave Dark Helmet an in-ship Mr. Rental which had lots of movies on VHS, including an in-universe copy of Spaceballs?
Until you called that thing inside Pizza the Hut's mouth a chin, I never realized that it was the actor's chin. I always just assumed that it was supposed to be Pizza's tongue, and left it at that.
Lol I just posted and deleted the same. Been watching this movie for 30something yrs....
Glad I'm not the only one.
I'm pretty sure he has a prosthetic on his chin to resemble a tongue.
@@BboyFlimsy Still, it's very clearly his chin upon realizing that.
Probably just as important as the humor of the movie is the genuine heart the movie has, in particular the chemistry between the cast. It really was capturing lightning in a bottle.
Col. Sandurz explanation of here & now will always be my favorite hilarious scene
"What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken??" 😅
Daphne Zuniga was a beautiful choice for this film.
Joan Rivers was the perfect voice for Dot Matrix. RIP funny lady 🕊️
Once upon a time I worked for Decipher Games. We had good relations with Lucasfilm due to our Star Wars CCG. Fans had been asking about making a Space Balls CCG, but we knew Lucas' stance on SB merchandising. But one day we took a shot at it and got an OK from George Lucas. After we picked our jaws up off the floor, we turned around and asked Mel Brooks. He said OK. So for one brief shining moment, it looked like Space Balls the Customizable Card Game was going to actually happen. But when we asked Brooks' people for resources, they didn't have anything to give us. No imagery, designs, nothing. Back then with digital encoding getting quality screen caps off of DVD wasn't possible. With heavy hearts we gave up on it. Decipher ultimately failed as a business, and we never had another go at it. I personally thought it could be done, but it didn't happen.
This and blazing saddles are still on my top 5 list of greatest movies
What about History of the World part one?
Mel makes reference to Blazing Saddles during the opening sequence of Spaceballs. That laser sound is (like) an “upgraded” version of the whipcrack sound from the Blazing Saddles opening.
That's how I feel about Young Frankenstein
"You are so talented. And they are so dumb!"
"I flunked flank!"
"Did you make a yummy sound?"
Lol, I can't choose a favorite 😁
Hearing Minty say "May the Schwartz bee with you." Was something I didn't know I needed in my life!!! Epic!!!❤❤❤
Spaceballs?
Well shit, there goes the planet.
The whole casting was just PERFECT and something like this might or will never happen again during my Lifetime.
Fun fact: In the TV cut of the film, the "Assholes" scene was also redubbed to tone down the language and replaced with "Morons", undoubtedly a call back to the film's original working title.
"I don't believe it. I'm surrounded by Morons."
Like Carface on All Dogs Go to Heaven
Yup, I can confirm. That's how the OLD TV edit handled it. For some reason when it's on TV now, they just completely remove that scene entirely.
@@KasumiKenshirou That's a tragedy. It's one of the most memorable scenes in a movie that's packed with memorable scenes. And the fact that a "made for TV dub" already exists...why would they do that? Put the scene back in, dammit!
In the cut I saw, they removed the reference completely. He asks "who made that man a gunner?" Then the officer replies "I did sir, he's my cousin." Then Helmet goes straight to "Keep firing!"
I saw a TV edit once where, after Vespa goes Rambo, they edited Barf to say "Holy Milkbones!"
I've only seen that edit once, otherwise they just bleep it out.
I had SPACEBALLS: The Book! I bought it at a Schoolastic Book Fair in the fall of 87 or spring of 88. These were book sales that traveled around to schools to bring books, novelties and school supplies for kids to purchase at their schools. "Jovial Bob" Stine may have cleaned up the jokes and language for this book to be kid friendly for this reason.
I'm pretty sure I still have the book sitting on my bookshelf!
"for George Lucas to play with his Spaceballs..." 🤣
I love when people claim that "something that raunchy wouldn't be made now", while weekly TV shows like Family Guy and South Park are far raunchier and still churning away. Brilliant narrative!
"Evil will always triumph, because good…is dumb."
One of the best lines ever uttered on film.
I figured the thing in his mouth was supposed to be his tongue.
Italy might not have had a Pizza Hutt at the time, but Star Wars Jabba was called Jabba The Hutt just like in the US, so the joke would have made just as much sense.
Fun fact Gene Wilder wrote Young Frankenstein and came to Mel Brooks to get it made. Initially Mel B didn't want to make YF but Gene W convinced him.
To clarify, before he got into writing Goosebumps, RL Stine was a humor writer, hence his pen name of “Jovial Bob Stine”. This is also the pen name he used when working on well remembered kids show Eureka’s Castle.
Wow I read all the early goosebumps as they came out and watched eurekas castle , that’s really cool to see the connections here
Stine was also responsible for Bananas! magazine and a slew of children's books that included How To Be Funny. His legacy of entertaining our youth makes me smile.
Man, this movie was such a huge part of my childhood. Spaceballs, Legend, Neverending Story, Labyrinth, and Princess Bride are definitely the most watched films of my childhood. Such great memories associated with all of them. I always wished they had done a sequel to Spaceballs.
Classics. "The last unicorn dies TONIGHT! There shall never be another dawn!"
Great list almost the same as mine. Minus Willow.
And The Dark Crystal
The version I watched way too many times as a kid was a VHS home-recorded from a TV broadcast. It wasn't until far into adulthood that I watched a proper copy and realized how heavily edited for content and dubbed for "PG" language it was. So I used to quote all these scenes as I remembered them, often receiving "What the hell are you talking about" reactions.
For example:
"Private Moron, sir."
"He's a Moron too, sir."
"How many Morons we got in here?"
"Yo!"
"I'm surrounded by Morons!"
Never knew it was actually "Private A**hole" until I was in my twenties. I had no idea about the book, but I imagine the TV edit was similar. The Eighties and Nineties were quite a time to be alive.
Great video, dude!
14:20 "Spaceballs is the best Stars Wars movie since 1983."
I'm with you, couldn't agree more!
I've seen Spaceballs in theaters 3 times. Before the movie startedonce, one of the employees introduced the movie and asked everyone some questions so they could win some prizes. One of the thing he said was "there havent been any star wars movies since 1987" lol.
Spaceballs is the best Stars Wars movie period. The original put me to sleep.
“Lucas plays with his spaceballs”😅😅😅Damn Minty.You did it again😂
In the Blu-Ray release Mel Brooks said that his inspiration for Spaceballs was when he was trying to come up with a title he kept thinking/saying space over and over, trying to think of what would go good with it, and someone yelled out, "Balls!" because they were upset about something completely unrelated.
Mel Brooks commentary while watching the movie was priceless! I loved how he would go off topic as the movie continued. Mel's comment about John Candy of him being a good gentile was awesome, as well as John was always up for any suggestions for his part in the movie. At any rate, WATCH THE MEL BROOKS COMMENTARY ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!!😂😂😂😂
COMB THE DESERT. We ain’t found shit, ship actually😬
Maybe you're being too literal...
One of my fav bits of Spaceballs trivia is Tim Russ in that "combing the desert" scene. He went on to play Tuvok on ST Voyager!
@@forcewielder2000 that’s funny, she doesn’t look drewish
After watching for the 5 millionth time, I finally noticed Tim Russ says, "We ain't found SHIP!" Pay attention next time you watch👍 Idky it took so long for me to realize he was Tuvok too😁
@@gohawks3571 my bad, it just translated to fecal matter in my mind. That is one of my top 5 movie references to spit at people, and now it will be correct and good for the children’s ears that could hear such depravity 💯
Spaceballs the Book was actually sold through one of the school book sales where I live, probably why they tamed down the language. That's how I got my copy and it was the only way I could experience Spaceballs after seeing it in the theater until we got our first VCR a year later.
Nurse Gretchen was also in Starship Troopers. The actress (Brenda Strong) played the captain of the ship that Carmen (Denise Richards) pilots.
So that's where it came from. I thought it was a Mandela effect when I rewatched Spaceballs and there was no mention of Dark Helmet being allergic to raspberries. I remember reading the book when I was a kid. You've helped clear up one tiny little mystery in my life. Thank you.
So glad about the cast we actually got for this movie.
I had the book. It was a way for my parents to get me reading as a kid who preferd films, loved Star Wars & really enjoyed the Spaceballs movie. Good work mum and dad x
This is an all-time classic.
RL Stine is Robert Lawrence Stine
Jovial means “cheerful, jolly”
Bob is another name for Robert
Hence Jovial Bob Stine. Looks like he used that name for fun books.
Loved the video
I kind of assumed it was a space pun as Jovial is jolly and the outer planets are the Jovian planets or giant gas/ise planets.
Very much so. He was also Jovial Bob Stine before he ever wrote as R. L. Stine. He helped create a kid's magazine called BANANAS distributed through Scholastic in the 1970's and 1980's wrote a bunch of kids books well. Here in America, even before Goosebumps or Fear Street, Stine was still a huge part of the book fairs that would permeate elementary and middle school libraries .. to promote literacy. I still have a few Jovial Bob Stine books in my collection from when I was young, as I was too old by the time the GB series came out.
One of the spoofs that are almost better then the original movie^^
No. Just, no.
Too far bro.
That is almost better not are almost better.
Well it's definitely my favorite Star Wars movie. But I don't like Star Wars.
You might be able to say that about Robin Hood: Men In Tights (because up until Prince of Thieves and the exception being the Disney movie, not many people saw the Robin Hood movies). But not Spaceballs. As good as it is, it's not Star Wars.
May the Swartz be with you 😎
I have a copy of that book. Megamaid said, "I don't do windows."
_Pizza the Hut_ was one crazy acid trip 🤣💀
YOGURT!
"One million space bucks, we can pay off pizza the hutt."
Or else pizza… is gonna send out for you
I still love the movie. I remember watching it in the theater when I was a kid.
Give me paw! 😅
"Barf, we're not just doing this for money. We're doing it for a $h*tload of money!"
@@ladyv5655 "yeah, your right. And when your right, your right, and you your always right."
I saw this movie for the first time in middle school band class. it was end of the year so the director just put a movie on and low and behold this masterpiece was presented. I was 12 at the time and I was on the floor. I'm sure now a-days someone would have complained but hearing "assholes" in a movie for the first time was amazing.
"Out of order? FUCK! Even in the future nothin' works!"
Pizza The Hut wouldn't be called Pizza Pepperoni in Italy, as pepperoni means (bell) pepper in Italian. It's only salami in English speaking countries.
But yeah, Margarita doesn't make sense either.
The renaming of Pizza the Hut to Pizza Margherita is to play off an actual Italian style of pizza that very popular there. Not quite as pithy, but at least it references something familiar.
Dark Helmet--''Umm, HE did it''.
Lonestar: "WHAT?" (fight resumes)
It's my industrial strength hairdryer, AND I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT!!!!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Minty, you da MAN!!!
I'm a mog.
Half man half dog.
I'm my home best friend.
Best freaking line ever
I was about to write this quote, glad to see it’s here among the first comments and its impact on others , thanks friend, and thank you Minty for another fun and informative video.
"I'm my OWN best friend"
"stop looking up my can"
The scene where they're watching the vs tape of the movie while they're in the movie is fantastic
maybe you could do a video on Tommy Boy or some of the other Chris Farley movies
Little Nicky!!!
Maybe you could do one on actors doing the same stupid shtick, like Sandler. Or on that stupid turkey song that I will never be able to evacuate from my mind. And yes, you are surrounded by assholes
Daphne Zuniga was smoking hot, I also liked her in the Fly sequel.
Great content, keep up the great work. Growing up with the 80’s movie catalogs was a privilege. Can you do a series on John Candy’s movies? The Great Outdoors, Summer Rental..etc, thank you in advance!
I believe Jovial Bob Stine used to write for Mad Magazine. I had no idea he was also R. L. Stine!
May the Schwartz be with you, Minty.
Always wondered what happened to Rick moranis. It seemed like he was in a lot of movies and then just all of a sudden at some point you never heard from him again
He retired to be a father.
His wife got cancer and they both agreed to give their kids a normal childhood
A movie I will stop and watch every time I am channel surfing.
2:38 How many years had Minty been waiting to drop his silly toilet humor pun that "Brooks was happy for George Lucas to Play with his SpaceBalls"? LMAO
Just met Bill Pullman over the weekend he is such a fun person to meet. I also performed part of the Independence Day speech for him..
Good job Minty on the videos lately, Your absolutely killing it, love these kind of videos.
Spaceballs is one of my favorite comedy films. Not only because I love sci-fi films, but because it's truly funny and very well made. I used to have the novelization too. Wasn't as good as the movie but it was amusing. The soundtrack is great, too.
You've gone to plaid with this one, Minty! TYVM!!
You always have great vids. Thank you buddy
I always thought pizza the hut was just named after Jabba the hut
You really have to admit the flow of the movie is perfectly on point.
The jokes come in a wave like fashion.
Chuckle chuckle laughter
Chuckle chuckle laughter
Chuckle Chuckle LUDICROUS SPEED GO!
And then it goes to storyline to give the audience a few minutes to relax.
No joke is objectively funnier than another but a million moments to reference the movie.
The main jokes like Ludicrous speed, the combing the Desert and the Schwartz fight are easily some of the most iconic comedic moments of the time… and few have come since to last the test of time.
You’re the best. Seriously. You have been the go to guy for movies I should watch. I’m addicted to movies, watch at least 2 a day. Thanks for a place I can rely on to take me back to these movies!
You know, Minty! Growing up in Canada, I always thought that it was so cool for John Candy to be cast in the role of Barf. It was almost like a furry version of his Johnny LaRue character, from the S.C.T.V. days.
Of course, I knew who most of the actors were, but Candy stood out above them all. If he hadn't played it so well, I honestly think that the rest of the movie wouldn't have come across so well.
Great Video, as usual, Minty. Keep Em Coming
One of my all time favourite movies. Thank you.
i always thought that when lonestar used raspberry to jam dark helmet, it was a him sending a message.
When dark helmet says "there's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. . ."
"giving the raspberry" is slang for sticking your tongue out at someone and blowing to make a sound and bits of spittle fly out.
it's a sign of disrespect. There's only 1 guy who would dare disrespect him.
As a grade school kid, I only got to see Spaceballs commercials on TV, and never got to see it in the theater. I don't remember why - I believe because my parents said I was "too young". Back then, it took a very long time after the movie exited the theater to arrive in movie rental shops. Sometimes 6 months to 2 years. Spaceballs, unfortunately, was one of those that took a long time to hit the VHS rental market. I wanted to see it so bad, but the only option was that I saw the novelization in the Scholastic book club order sheets we used to get in school. I distinctly recall ordering Spaceballs: The Book, along with the novelization of Adventures in Babysitting. I don't think I ever actually read the second book, as for me it was pretty much just filler to get the Spaceballs novelization. I read that book at least two or three times, before the movie ever became available to rent. And yea I was quite surprised that idiots became a**holes, among other slight differences. I do recall the book had two instances of a swear word substitution - the word was something along the lines of "fur-sch-lug-in-ger". I likely don't have the spelling quite right, but I really do believe the novelization was really targeted at the younger pre-teen market that was too young to see the movie, but was nevertheless excited by the commercials and marketing. I always believed the differences were just improvised by Jovial Bob, but perhaps not?
"Jovial Bob Stine" was the pen-name R.L. Stine had already released 20 childrens' comedy books under (eg. The Pigs' Book of World Records and The Sick of Being Sick Book) by the time the Spaceballs novelization came out.
From what I'm hearing I'm glad we got the version we got.
A brilliant comedy from the 80!s 🎥……. Comb the desert scene just so funny 😆
Another Minty video! And one of my favorite movies, too. You're spoiling us, Sir Mintington! 😮
To this day, I still remember seeing this film with my mother in the theatres. When she saw Pizza the Hut, she swore that she would never eat pizza again.
Spaceballs is amazing. Moranis was hilarious in this movie, but John Candy's Barf was my favorite character.
"I"m a Mog, half-man, half-dog. I'm my own best friend."
Funny… she doesn’t look Druish
Oh. She looks druish. Really druish.
Enjoyable video, I love Mel Brooks and especially SpaceBalls, but… Please please please do something about the audio quality during your on-camera shots. I can recommend a good cheap microphone for you if you need…
One of my favorites back in the day and one of Mel Brooks funniest. Well made minty.
"May the Schwartz be with you."
“May we meet again in Space Balls 2. The Search for more money” lol 😆
A minty fresh video for my morning evacuation!
10:12 whoa! I never realized this. I always thought the whole “last prince in the galaxy” thing was because had rejected all the suitors. Nice!
One of the greatest movies of the 80's and best spoof movie.
I found it really interesting how so many parts of it were like aspects of Star Wars movies that came out subsequently. It made me wonder if there was collaboration or they just like taking from it.
Great inside information into the SpaceBalls that never was. I love the one we have.
I had the book as a kid. I got it from my school in one of the quarter annual or monthly or term book fares from Scholastic or Puffin. I also had the books for the movies Willow and Superman IV too.