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Film: Amazon Women On The Moon

Spiritual Successor to The Kentucky Fried Movie, directed in 1987 by John Landis, Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, and Robert K Weiss. Basically a bigger budget version of KFM. This time, the sketches are centered around a cheesy 1950s sci-fi movie called, of course, Amazon Women On The Moon, which appears to largely be inspired by Queen Of Outer Space.

Tropes used in the film:

As Himself: A bunch of comedians (such as Henny Youngman) playing themselves at the funeral roast.
- Plus BB King as the spokesman for Blacks without Soul.
The Cameo: Forrest J. Ackerman as the President of the (forty-eight!) United States.
Deliberate Values Dissonance
Digital Piracy Is Evil: Video Pirates, as shown as seafaring buccaneers raiding an MCA Home Video ship for all its videos and laser discs. They sit down to watch a movie and see the standard anti-piracy FBI warning, and the head pirate sneers, "Oh, I'm so scared!"
Disaster Dominoes: Arsenio Hall's unfortunate character in the opening segment.
For Science!: The attitude of the clinic director in the "Reefer Madness" parody.
The Fun in Funeral/Last Disrespects
The Stinger: A parody of Reefer Madness warning about "Social Diseases", with Carrie Fisher.
Invisible Streaker: Spoofed on the "Son of the Invisible Man" sketch, where the title character only thinks he's invisible.
Jack the Ripper: The truth is finally revealed: it was The Loch Ness Monster!
Lady Land: The eponymous Amazons.
Prop Recycling: The spacesuits, the animatronic Nessie.
Show Within a Show: A number of them, most notably the title feature they keep trying to show.
Soul Brotha: Parodied with the singer Don "No Soul" Simmons.
Trapped in TV Land: Murray gets sucked into the TV and wanders in and out of scenes trying to find his way out.
Umpteenth Customer: A boy who goes to a drug store to buy condoms (discreetly) for his date not only wins a prize...but becomes their spokesman, much to his horror.
Artistic License - Physics: Done deliberately as part of the parody of 50's sci-fi.