Epic Win: “Spaceballs”
Submitted by C Rother
I love this movie. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Star Wars series too, but seeing the franchise get the Mel Brooks treatment is awesome (if any of you young whippersnappers don’t know Brooks’ work, get these on your Netflix queue: “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles.” You’re welcome.). George Lucas apparently thought so as well, since he gave his approval to the script. Maybe Mr. Lucas should have hired him to write “Revenge of the Sith.” Just sayin’.
“Spaceballs” has so many great moments it’s hard to pick a favorite, but I’m going to. LUDICROUS SPEED AHEAD!!!
“What’s the matter, Colonel Sanders, chicken?” That line never gets old.
Gotta love Mel Brooks! Awesome Spoof!
“Prepare to post!”
“Preparing to post!”
“Post!”
“Posting now, sir!”
:p
Mel Brooks is classic spoof! People complain about “how moronic his movies are” but I think it’s classic goofball comedy we need in our lives.
Thank you Mel for all the laughs you give us.
“Why are you always preparing? Just go!”
“Just go”
*thunk*
One of my favorite movies ever! Ya know, a long with all of his other movies
I HATED this movie. It was just moronic.
Now, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie or Young Frankenstein, classics!
I have to agree with you on this one. I can’t believe it’s a cartoon now.
The cartoon is scary stupid sometimes. And yet, I can’t stop watching it!!
I absolutely LOVE Silent Movie! Oh and History of the World Part I!
When I saw this post I thought it was an epic FAIL.
Spaceballs was the ‘disaster movie’ in the 80’s.
Don’t forget Robin Hood Men In Tights. I love Mel Brooks movies. I like the scene where they are watching themselves on tape and confuse themselves. That confusion, I feel that several times everyday lol.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now, you’re looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.
How do we go back to then?
We can’t go back. We’re in now now.
When will then be now?
Soon!
Why don’t we take a 5 minute break? Smoke if you got em!
Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
“Say Goodbye to you two best friends. And I DON’T mean your friends in the Winnebago!”
(then I lean over and whisper to my dad “But wait. Dad, there are 3 friends in the Winnebago. What does he mean? Psst! Dad!)
Dad’s laughing too hard to reply.
Ohhhh…your helmet is soooo big…
Aw man. A classic!! Every time my wife says I drive to fast, all I can think about is LUDICROUS SPEED!!!
One of the greatest movie lines EVER!
Just what we need… a Druish princess…
Funny.. she doesn’t look Druish…
Helmet: Did you see anything??
Sanders: No, sir! I didn’t see you playing with your dolls again!
See also…
Screwb: I told you never to call me on this wall! This is an unlisted wall!
rick moranis is the best man on earth!!
There are just so many things to love about this movie:
Vespa’s headphones.
“12345? That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”
“Yogurt! I hate Yogurt! Even with strawberries.”
All the bits of merchandising in the film; Spaceballs the sheet gets a chuckle out of me most of the time.
Michael Winslow’s intercom voice and Dark Helmet’s reaction to it.
“Go past this part. In fact, never watch this again.”
Dark Helmet and the hot coffee.
I think I’m going to watch Spaceballs now. Be back in about an hour and a half.
May the Schwartz be with you!
im surpised no one brought up one of my favorit lines…i knew it im surroned by assholes XD i love that whole scene
Seriously, my favorite movie of all time. I knew you guys would post the lines. No other movie has lines like this!
Once when we were kids, we were riding bikes, and we passed a neighbor’s house whose curtains were open and they were watching Spaceballs. We actually stopped our bikes, stood on the sidewalk, each took a character, and recited the lines while the movie was playing for over an hour. It wasn’t until they flew out of Mega Maid’s ear that the lady realized we were watching and shut the curtains.
The Huz hates watching this with me, because I repeat all of the lines. I’m worse that a Monty Python fan!
Hail, Skroob! Salute!
Allison, you could be me! This is also my all time favorite movie ever, and MY huz hates watching it with me, too. I’m so obnoxious.
*looks like I’m going to flip you off, then simply waves*
“F$ck! Even in the future nothing works!”
Aaaaahahahahahahahaha!
I <3 Mel Brooks
this post gave me the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps
There is not much greater than this film.
This is one of the earliest movies I remember watching on BETA that was taped off HBO. I now own it on DVD and watch it religiously at least once a month. Mel Brooks, I want to be in your family.
“I can see that your Schwartz is as big as mine….”
I was waiting for someone to say that one.
I was pretty young when this movie came out, and I remember my dad would borrow it from the library and we’d all watch it, and my mother would walk in at some inoppurtune time, and declair that we were not allowed to get it again because it was “inappropriate” (even though as a kid, I didn’t get half the jokes anyway). We’d return it to the library, but about six months later repeat the process. Until we got a DVD player and it was one of the first DVD’s my dad purchased. Lol.
Love it.
Same thing with my mom, im only 14, but i havent seen the movie in 2 years because of a few inappropriate lines
Just watched this one the other night. Got to love it. Epic win indeed!
Who the %$#& voted this down? The day will come when there will be a reckoning, my friends…
Wow. I just watched this movie two days ago! My brother in law is in the navy now, and when he describes what he’s going to be doing, he says he’s gonna be on a submarine, with headphones on, listening to the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps. (Sonar technician)
My husband and I LOVE this movie! Whenever we’ve had a particularly hard week, we’ll just have a Mel Brooks movie night. We feel much better after that.
Minister: What’s your name?
Barf: Barf.
Minister: Your full name?
Barf: Barf-olemew!
Classic!
never has then been a movie i have quoted more.
dink, dink . . . dink, dink, dink, dink . . dink . . dink . . . . .
That’s one of my ringtones.
Oh no, no no no….It’s not what I want; It’s what HE wants.
-Seen on the bumper of a Winnebago somewhere near the sands of Vega
“I (heart) Uranus”
This is the most epicest movie of all
“it’s mega-maid! she’s gone from suck to blow!” i’ve got the whole movie memorized. my husband can’t watch it with me, i just recite the whole thing… my husband gets revenge reciting all of “aliens” tho…
That doesn’t take much. “We’re all gonna DIE, man!” just about covers 80 percent of the plot.
you forgot just before that. “suck,Suck,SUck,SUCK!”
“What’ll it be?”
“I’ll have the cleavage. I mean… the special.”
When Barf ordered the cleavage, I thought he said “cleivitch”. I asked my mother, given that I was only 9 or so at the time, what was “clevitch”.
She responded, “just watch the movie.” Mel Brooks, I have grown up with you.
“say goodbye to your 2 best friends and i don’t mean the guys in the winnegbago!”
” Mega maid has gone from suck to blow!”
classic lines in that movie awesome movie , laugh my ass off everytime i see it , i even own it on dvd
“Why didn’t someone tell me my ass was this big!?”
3,2,1, have a nice day… thank you……
Yes, on of the greatest movies ever made. I really have to get it on DVD.
It’s one of those movies that you can’t watch on tv because they cut EVERYTHING out, even the slightest sexual pun, it’s horrible really.
Beam me!!
Heh, the band always uses this line when something breaks down.
I have already done my parental Duty, Spaceballs has to be one of the kids favorite movies, and Ludicrous Speed their favorite scene!!!!
I always laugh at a particular joke, but only because it seems I’m the only one that’s ever gotten it…
“Prepare for metamorphosis….ready, Kafka?”
Anyone else get it??
I got it once I googled what it was lol. I had no idea who he was, but now it makes sense.
I got this joke, but not until 800+ times and yeeeears after I first watched it as a kid.
Same here… It took me until well into college (English major) before I put two and two together. There are tons of these little one-liner jokes in all Mel Brooks movies, and I feel special when I get them the first time around.
Which is why this is something that many of us 80s babies watched when we were kids and laughed our asses off, and can still watch and appreciate as adults. Try watching a marathon of Looney Tunes, too.
Soldier “What the HELL are you doing?
Lone Star “The Vulcan neck pinch?”
Soldier “No, no idiot. It’s down here where the neck meets the shoulder.”
Lone Star “You mean here?”
Soldier ‘YEEEEEEAAHHHH” *collapses
One of the best movies ever! I quote this all the time. My roommate and I used to joke in college about the merchandising. Penn State the Salsa, Penn State the blanket, Penn State the Flame Thrower (the kids love this one)… Epic WIN!
Yay! The winningest win sofar on this blog!
Favorite line:
“When will then be now”?
— comeon you know the answer
“Soon!”
My favorite quote from the movie isn’t from the movie; it’s from an interview Mel Brooks gave on a morning talk show. When asked about a sequel, he said there wasn’t one planned but “if we do, it’ll be called ‘Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money.’”
thats actually in the movie. when Lonestar and Barf leave Vega, Lonestar asks Yogurt if they’ll ever see each other again. yogurt replies thusly “who knows? god willing, we’ll all meet again in spaceballs 2: the search for more money.” I think what you are refering to is the interview that nobody can seem to find where he says they won’t make a sequel, but a third movie titled spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2. basically the same thing as the whole history of the world part 2 rumor
There’s a Navy reference in that scene: Darth Helmet calling Col Sanders a ‘petty excuse for an officer’. Petty Officers are the Naval equivalent to NCO’s in the other services.
Hahahahahahaaaa, love that one!
Also,
“COME BACK HERE YOU FAT BEARDED BITCH!”
I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Which makes us what?
Nothing – which is what you are about to become.
*cue famous Winnebago friends line*
and…
Dark Helmet: How many assholes have we got on this ship, anyhow?
Entire Bridge Crew: Yo!
Dark Helmet: I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes! Keep firing, assholes!
Masterpiece!!!!
Sadly, this was one of the last Mel Brooks movies that was more enjoyable to watch than a chainsaw vasectomy.
They’ve gone to plaid!
gotta love the bumper sticker!
“we brake for nobody”
and i love ” u went over my helmet?!”
I still say that when people don’t fill me in on stuff.
“What? We’re going OUT for dinner tonight? You went over my HELMET!?”
Most people don’t get it. Hubs just rolls his eyes.
“Barf, puke, whatever. Where’s my money?”
“They shot my hair! Son of a bitch’
*proceeds to blast Spaceballs*
“That was pretty good for a girl”
“That was pretty good for a Rambo!”
“Mhuckit, humecht, mhecht–”
“You can read it!?’
“No, I’m just clearing my throat.”
I love all mel brooks movies: Blazing saddles,History of the world part I, Young Frankensten,and many others even though most were made before I was born
I loved the “We’re combing the desert!” line. Ok, gotta go watch this movie now…
I so agree, that was for me the funniest joke in the movie.
“they must have secret hyperdrives!”
“and what have we got on this thing a cuisinart?”
funny movie, but history of the world was much much better.