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1	* ActingForTwo: Creator/MelBrooks has five roles in the movie. Moses, Comicus, Torquemada, King Louis XVI, and Jacques the Garcon de Piss.
2	* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/JohnHurt did this movie because he had just gotten through doing two dramatic films, and said that he wanted to have some fun and do a comedy.
3	* BeamMeUpScotty: "It's good to be the King!" is often misquoted without the 'the' in shout-outs by other works.
4	* CaliforniaDoubling: The French Revolution scenes were filmed in England, because Creator/MelBrooks wanted to avoid a language barrier.
5	* TheCastShowoff: Being played by legendary tap dancer Gregory Hines, Josephus of course escapes the gallows by distracting the executioners with a soft-shoe number.
6	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
7	** In Croatia, the film was called ''The Funny Side of History''.
8	** In Sweden, the film was called "Det våras för världshistorien del 1", "Springtime for the History of the World Part I"
9	** In Portugal, the film was called ''A Crazy History of the World''.
10	* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Mel Brooks is credited as writer, producer, director, star and songwriter (for "The Inquisition" and "Jews In Space").
11	* DeletedScene: In an interview with Creator/GeneSiskel, Creator/MelBrooks revealed that he'd filmed a brief scene that made light of the notorious Three Mile Island incident. "I had a father and a mother made up to look like half a dog and half a cat as a result of a nuclear meltdown," Brooks told Siskel. When test audiences reacted poorly, this bit was removed. However, at least one journalist managed to see an extended cut which contained the footage.
12	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: According to Creator/MelBrooks, one scene was removed that referred to the Three Mile Island accident.
13	-->I had a father and a mother made up to look like half a dog and half a cat as a result of a nuclear meltdown. But the audience was seriously chilled and didn't laugh, so I left it out.
14	* IronyAsSheIsCast: The vestal virgins in Caesar's Palace in "The Roman Empire" segment were all Magazine/{{Playboy}} playmates.Hugh Hefner appears as the pipe-smoking entrepreneur talking about his invention, the "centerfold".
15	* PropRecycling: As mentioned in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBDVIvFUDIo this video]], the background behind the tailgunners in the "Jews in Space" sequence came from the V'ger set of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''.
16	* ReferencedBy: The card game [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine_(game) Guillotine]], set during the French Revolution, features one character called the Piss Boy, almost certainly in reference to this movie.
17	* UncreditedRole: Creator/BeaArthur as a dole office unemployment clerk in "The Roman Empire" segment.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** The role of Josephus was written with Creator/RichardPryor in mind, but he was unable to accept due to his infamous freebasing accident in 1980. [[Film/BlazingSaddles Not the first time circumstances cheated him out of the lead in a Mel Brooks jaunt.]]
20	** The role of Count de Monet was originally meant for Creator/JohnCleese, but he was unavailable.
21	** Creator/UrsulaAndress turned down a role.
22	* YouLookFamiliar:
23	** Creator/MelBrooks plays roles in every time period. The finale implies that the Roman and French Revolution characters are the same guy by different names... somehow. Mel '''is''' a 2000-Year-Old Man, after all.
24	** Rudy de Luca who plays Captain Mucus, can also briefly be seen in Prehistoric Man segment. He's the caveman that [[spoiler: [[DeathAsComedy gets accidentally killed by a thrown spear]]]].
25	** Also Ronny Graham does double duty as Oedipus and a tortured Jew who relays his unfortunate experience of [[spoiler: being anally tortured with a red hot poker]].

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