Trivia / Life Stinks

• Box Office Bomb: Cost: $13 million. Box office: $4,102,526.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Mel Brooks considers his performance in the film to be the best of his career.
• Creator Killer: After decades of being the comedy king of Hollywood, the failure of both this film and Spaceballs, which had come out four years prior, spelled the end of Mel Brooks' film career. After his new next two met similar diminishing returns, he retired to move onto musical theater.

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