History Film / MomAndDadSaveTheWorld

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: “Hold it Spengo! That's MY wife you've got there, that's MY planet you're trying to blow up and ''(looking at Afir tied to the Death Ray)'' that's... just some guy I met. But still, I think this whole thing's just gone a little too far!”

* PlanetOfHats: Almost everyone on the ''entire planet of Spengo'' is a flaming idiot, with the exception of General Afir and, to a lesser extent, Spengo himself. King Raff regains his intelligence after being imprisoned "I have reversed the polarity of the Magno-Beam, and will return you to Earth in haste", and General Afir is anything but stupid, though he could be the Only Sane Man.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Dick and Marge, showing slides after their trip, treat taking a pic of ''UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}}'' from their station wagon like they'd passed by the Grand Canyon. Dick thanks Marge for insisting he use the flash.

* BoundAndGagged: Marge, near the end of the film.

* PlanetOfHats: Almost everyone on the ''entire planet of Spengo'' is a flaming idiot, with the exception of General Afir and, to a lesser extent, Spengo himself. King Raff regains his intelligence after being imprisoned "I have reversed the polarity of the Mango-Beam, and will return you to Earth in haste", and General Afir is anything but stupid, though he could be the Only Sane Man.

** IdiotPlot: {{Lampshaded}} because it's explicitly stated that everyone living in the fictional society really is an idiot.

* PlanetOfHats: Almost everyone on the ''entire planet of Spengo'' is a flaming idiot, with the exception of General Afir and, to a lesser extent, Spengo himself.

* BoringVacationSlideshow: At the end of the film, Marge and Dave manage to create a boring slideshow of their vacation even though the vacation featured them being kidnapped by aliens and taken to another world. They treat the slide with a close-up of Saturn like a picture of the Grand Canyon.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Tod seeing Marge.
* MentalPictureProjector. A reference to ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''.

* ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler: After losing the climatic fight to Dick, the Nelsons send Tod into the sewers where his loud crash-landing disturbs the mushroom creatures from their slumber. As Tod laments his defeat, the mushrooms descend upon him. Though he’s last seen screaming in horror as they close in on him, his actual fate is left ambiguous.]]

Emperor Spengo, with General Afir at his side, takes over a small planet at the edge of the galaxy populated entirely by idiots, and renames it after himself. He orders that all the resources of the planet should be engaged to create his "Death Ray Laser". The laser's purpose is to destroy Earth, thus making Spengo the greatest planet in the Universe. When Emperor Spengo looks at exactly where his Laser would strike, he sees Marge Nelson exercising -- and falls in love.

Using his Magnobeam (a giant magnet), he kidnaps Marge and her husband Dick as they are on their way to a 20th-anniversary weekend. He hopes to make Marge his before he blows up the Earth. Dick and Marge get separated on Spengo, Marge is sent to the lap of luxury, waited on by small people with fish or dog heads, while Dick is thrown into a dungeon. Can Dick find his way back to Marge? Can the rightful king of Spengo retake his throne? What the hell were Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon smoking when they wrote this? [[spoiler: Weed. Bales and bales of weed.]] [[spoiler: So it's a Disney movie?]]

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: “Hold it Spengo! That's MY wife you've got there, that's MY planet you're trying to blow up and ''(looking at Afir tied to the Death Ray)'' that's... just some guy I met.”

* PlanetOfHats: Almost everyone on the ''entire planet of Spengo'' is a flaming idiot, with the exception of General Afir and, to a lesser extent, Spengo himself since they came from off-planet to conquer it.

* KillerRabbit: The Lubb-Lubbs, which resemble cute, smiling mushroom like beings. Their actual mouths are huge and sharklike, filled with ''nasty pointy teeth''.
** Also filled with another mouth that is also filled with ''nasty pointy teeth''.
*** They do taste good - at least to the natives - ''with heavy grease''. [[{{Squick}} Yum!]]

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Lubb-Lubbs.

* AdvertisedExtra: Eric Idle's name is prominent on the poster, but he has two brief scenes and six lines in the entire film.

--->'''Marge:''' Todd... are you... insecure? \\

* OnlySaneMan: General Afir through most of the film, even when compared to Dick and Marge.

* PlanetOfHats: Everyone on the ''entire planet of Spengo'' is a flaming idiot.
** The rare example where the society knows it. "I'm the smartest one here, and I'm an idiot."
*** Though even they may be exaggerating. King Raff, when his intelligence is returned to normal, is able to speak in technical terms ("I have reversed the polarity of the Magno-Beam. I will return you to your planet forthwith and in great haste."), and General Afir is anything but stupid, though he could be the OnlySaneMan. Even Spengo himself was clever enough to take over an entire planet, and occasionally speaks in technical terms himself.

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe

* {{Fanservice}}: The entirety of the rebellious people, but especially Kathy Ireland. Not in the least because of her...

* TheGoodChancellor: General Afir.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: The light grenade's effect.

* AffectionateParody: It poses the question: what if Emperor Ming was [[Creator/JonLovitz a short, fat, insecure hopeless loser]] and Flash Gordon was a middle-aged out-of-shape suburbanite EveryMan?

''Mom and Dad Save the World'' is a 1992 film parody of ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' which stars Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/TeriGarr, Creator/JeffreyJones, Creator/EricIdle, Thalmus Rasulala and other actors. Lovitz plays Emperor Tod Spengo, who is the cruel, silly and over-dramatic emperor of the planet named Spengo (which Spengo conquered and renamed after himself). Teri Garr plays Marge Nelson and Jeffrey Jones plays Dick Nelson, her husband.