History Film / Spaceballs

** [[Film/{{Alien}} John Hurt]] plays a patron in "Gus's Galaxy Grill" who had [[ChestBurster the special.]] [[AsideGlance He even says]] "OhNoNotAgain"

-->'''Kane:''' [[HereWeGoAgain Oh no. Not again]].

* WeMeetAgain: Mocked when Lone Starr says to Dark Helmet:
-->'''Lone Starr:''' Helmet! At last we meet, for the first time, for the last time.\\
''[whispers to self, repeating the line]'' Yep!

* UnconventionalFoodUsage: To avoid getting detected by Dark Helmet, Lone Starr decides to jam the Spaceballs' radar... by launching a massive jar of raspberry jam that crashes into the radar's dish, blotting it out instantly. [[DontExplainTheJoke He literally jammed the radar, geddit]]?

** President Skroob's name is a SdrawkcabName of director and actor Creator/MelBrooks' last name.

* TooFastToStop: Going suddenly from LudicrousSpeed to a dead stop is too dangerous courtesy of Newton's First Law (as Dark Helmet learns), and just flying that fast causes ''Spaceball One'' to overshoot the Winnebago.

* XenomorphXerox: After experiencing severe stomach upset from ordering the Space Special at Gus' Galaxy Grill, an alien bursts forth from John Hurt's stomach, puts on a cane and top hat, and begins singing and dancing "The Michigan Rag" from ''WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening''. Hurt groans "Not again!" at the sight of this.

* MobDebt: Lone Starr and Barf owe a hundred thousand space bucks to space gangster Pizza the Hutt for unspecified reasons. He calls them to say that he's moving up his deadline to tomorrow, and adds on so many "late charges" that they now owe him a million space bucks.

* MotionParallax: The ships have a "LudicrousSpeed" mode that causes them to travel so fast, that motion parallax gets plaid.

** The can of Perri-Air that Skroob uses turns out to have a second pun beyond the obvious ProductPlacement gag. The stylized "P" on the can also resembles a "D," and Skroob brings the can up to his nose. He's sniffing his Derri-Air ("derrière," which is French for "rear end").
*** Better yet, this is apparently a bilingual pun, as the Hebrew letter for "P" resembles an uppercase "D" in the Roman alphabet. One of the creators of ''Creator/{{Discord}}'', who is also Jewish, pulled a similar gag with the font for their original logo.
** When the heroes start praising Yogurt, as 'Yogurt the wise!" and "Yogurt the incredible." Yogurt shows modesty and says "I'm just ''plain Yogurt''." Plain yogurt is yogurt served without any additional flavors.

%% Except that "father's brother's nephew's cousin" just makes it a DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: One's father's brother's nephew is either oneself or one's brother, and once that's stripped away, you're left with "your cousin's former roommate."

%% Except the film makes clear that Druidia has a shield surrounding the planet - Dark Helmet mentions it at the end of the first scene, the Spaceballs want the code to open it, and as seen when Princess Vespa's spacecraft leaves & when Spaceball One starts sucking the air out, there is a hatch in it to allow entry & exit.

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