History YMMV / Spaceballs

** When Dark Helmet spits out his coffee, going "Too hot!" {{McDonald's}} was sued for [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants exactly that]].

** When Dark Helmet spits out his coffee, going "Too hot!" =={{McDonald's}}== was sued for [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants exactly that]].

** When Dark Helmet spits out his coffee, going "Too hot!" McDonald's was sued for [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants exactly that]].

** The imprisonment of Princess Vespa loosely parodies Leia's captivity in ''A New Hope'', but the overall sequence of events can feel like a direct parody of events in ''The Force Awakens'' which was made later: in both, the female lead is captured by the helmeted evil Force/Schwartz user while the heroes are in the haven of a Force/Schwartz-sensitive mentor figure, and said mentor quickly hands off an laser sword weapon, shown shortly before, to the male lead when the group goes to rescue the female lead.

** Some behind-the-scenes video of ''Franchise/StarWars'' as it was being filmed reveals that David Prowse, Darth Vader's body actor, has a voice very similar to Creator/RickMoranis. Hear Prowse as Vader for yourself [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm9DDxQv8E Here.]]

*** The black Spaceball ''combing'' the desert has been compared to Finn the Stormtroper in the desert of Jakku in the ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' trailer. The same actor went on to play [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tuvok]]. Yes, just ''try'' picturing the stoic Vulcan telling Janeway "we ain't found shit!"

** [[http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Anonymous-Syrian-president-email-password-leaked-hacked,14663.html Only an idiot would have 1-2-3-4-5 as their password!]]
** Lone Starr's line, "Did I miss something? When did we get to Disneyland?", becomes even funnier when [[Franchise/StarWars Lucasfilm]] was bought by {{Creator/Disney}}, and Disneyland would open a ''Star Wars''-themed area in 2019. (However, ''Ride/StarTours'' already opened a few months before ''Spaceballs'' premiered.)
** And speaking of Disney, [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 the cold never bothered Lone Starr]].
** And, of course, when they actually do watch the movie, they end up [[DrosteImage watching themselves watching themselves watching themselves ad infinitum]]. Cue "[[Film/{{Inception}} We have to go deeper!]]" jokes.
** The fact that there is an item used in the film called ''Film/SpaceJam''.
** [[http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/31/business/la-fi-mo-china-canned-air-smog-20130131 Canned air is now a real thing in China.]]
** Lone Starr's [[{{Series/Firefly}} coat has a brownish hue]]... along with [[DeadpanSnarker a few]] [[KnightInSourArmor other]] Mal Reynolds-ish traits.
** The idea of selling flamethrowers as merchandise also became a reality in January 2018, [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/elon-musk-flamethrower thanks to Elon Musk.]]

** One DVD feature allows the viewer to watch the movie at LudicrousSpeed (e.g., sped up beyond comprehension). Movies played 1000% faster have since become a Website/YouTube meme.
** The singing alien parody at the end apparently [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8SzBhjqaQ got a job]] in ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines''.
** Vinnie's robot makeup bears a striking resemblance to [[Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe The Spine]].

** Lone Starr could probably teach [[VideoGame/StarGladiator Hayato Kanzaki]] a thing or two about being a CompositeCharacter of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo.
** The climactic Schwarz battle between Lone Starr and Dark Helmet is even more hilarious in the 2020's now that there's a commercial run by a Dr. Schwarz regarding Erectile Disfunction treatments!
** Vespa [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge going full Rambo]] after she's [[NobodyTouchesTheHair shot in the hair with a laser]] becomes even more amusing when someone sees ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'', as it is highly reminiscent to any of Josuke's [[UnstoppableRage rampages]] whenever [[BerserkButton someone insults his hair]].
** Not quite "instant cassettes" out "before the movie is finished," but the idea of releasing major films into homes and bypassing theaters completely became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic.
** Speaking of which, the Warner Home Video FBI Warning screen at the time is depicted as the one being used by MGM/UA Home Video in-universe. A few years later, MGM/UA would use that warning screen for real on a promotional laser videodisc.
** This isn't the [[WesternAnimation/ReBoot only fiction]] to feature a main character named Dot Matrix.

* {{Sequelitis}}: More a case of Follow-Upitis, but Spaceballs: The Animated Series, an adult animated series follow-up to the movie that aired for 13 episodes in 2008. Most of the main cast returned and Mel Brooks not only voices Yogurt and President Skroob, but also executive produced! What could go wrong? Well, try animation that wouldn't look out of place on Newgrounds, the returning cast members not including Bill Pullman, John Candy, or Rick Moranis (though Candy had passed away in 1994), Barf being turned into a walking fart-burp-vomit joke, Dark Helmet being given an unsettling character design and being made short enough to make Creator/RickMoranis look like Shaq by comparison, trying way too hard to appeal to a modern audience by putting characters from a Star Wars parody into episodes that parody Harry Potter, American Idol, Lord of the Rings, and Grand Theft Auto which works as well as stopping a flash flood with a kitchen sponge, humor that would only appeal to those too young to be watching, horrible puns (instead of Darth Maul, we have Outlet Maul), alongside the type of jokes, humor, and parody-style that you'd expect from a Seltzer-berg movie instead of a TV series helmed by one of the biggest comedy legends of all time.

*** And of course, Creator/RickMoranis as a NerdInEvilsHelmet DarthVaderClone is downright ''prescient'' in light of the whiny, emo Anakin shown in the prequel trilogy and whiny deranged Vader fanboy Kylo Ren introduced in the sequel trilogy.

*** Even ''Film/RogueOneAStarWarsStory'' isn't safe, what with the idea of easily opened space-doors being assaulted by a large capital ship.

** The Spaceballs One ship transforming into a giant maid robot becomes this after [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Darth_Vader Transformers made several Darth Vader Transformers]].

*** Even ''Film/RogueOneAStarWarsStory'' isn't safe, what with the idea of easily opened space-doors being assaulted by a large capital ship

** Colonel Sandurz in the French dub is called Colonel Saint-Cyr, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_sp%C3%A9ciale_militaire_de_Saint-Cyr Saint-Cyr]] being a famous French military activity (the equivalent of West Point).

*** ''Spaceballs'' parodies the Mos Eisley Cantina with a stereotypical diner [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]! Come ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', we have an actual 50's-esque diner in the ''Star Wars'' universe with Dex's.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** "God willing, we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money." The closest it ever got was a not-very-well-received cartoon, which only saw a few of the movie's cast reprise their roles. Rumors of another movie did start going around after ''The Force Awakens'', but some of the original actors had already passed away by then.
*** Speaking of the cartoon, one episode deals with an ebola outbreak. Not so funny now that Ebola has made it to the US.

* Colonel Sandurz in the French dub is called Colonel Saint-Cyr, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_sp%C3%A9ciale_militaire_de_Saint-Cyr Saint-Cyr]] being a famous French military activity (the equivalent of West Point).
* A brilliant gem of the French dub, when passing to Ludicrous Speed, Colonel Sandurz suggests Dark Helmet should buckle up. "Buckle up" ("Bouclez-la") in French is often used a way of saying "Shut up", so Dark Helmet replies in kind "No you buckle up!".

*** In the movie, a chance to marry a princess is taken away from the last prence in the galaxy, Valium. In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the Chancellorship of the Republic is taken away from the last member of a political dinasty, Valorum.

* In the movie, a chance to marry a princess is taken away from the last prence in the galaxy, Valium. In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the Chancellorship of the Republic is taken away from the last member of a political dinasty, Valorum.

* {{Sequelitis}}: More a case of Follow-upitis, but Spaceballs: The Animated Series, an adult animated series follow-up to the movie that aired for 13 episodes in 2008. Most of the main cast returned, except for John Candy who had passed away 10+ years previously, Rick Moranis due to his retirement, Bill Pullman for an unkown reason, and Mel Brooks not only voices Yogurt and President Skroob, but also executive produced! What could go wrong? Well, try animation that wouldn't look out of place on Newgrounds, Barf being turned into a walking fart-burp-vomit joke, Dark Helmet being given an unsettling character design and being made short enough to make Creator/RickMoranis look like Shaq by comparison, trying way too hard to appeal to a modern audience by putting characters from a Star Wars parody into episodes that parody Harry Potter, American Idol, Lord of the Rings, and Grand Theft Auto which works as well as stopping a flash flood with a kitchen sponge, humor that would only appeal to those too young to be watching, horrible puns (instead of Darth Maul, we have Outlet Maul), alongside the type of jokes, humor, and parody-style that you'd expect from a Seltzer-berg movie instead of a TV series helmed by one of the biggest comedy legends of all time.

** Once again with the French dub, the pun regarding the radar being jammed is replaced with the radar being "en pleine déconfiture" ("in full déconfiture"), with "déconfiture" meaning utterly failing or collapsing, while also sounding identical to "des confitures", meaning "some/several jams".

* TearJerker:
** Lone Starr and Vespa share a heart-to-heart in the desert. Vespa admits that, even if they make it back to her kingdom, she'll be forced to marry someone she doesn't love. Lone Starr sympathizes and tells her that his parents left him to be raised by monks, so he doesn't know who he is. He shows her his OrphansPlotTrinket, a necklace with writing no one can read, and says it's the only thing his family left with him.
** The scene where King Roland says goodbye to a picture of his daughter as he suffocates is played surprisingly straight.
** After Lone Starr and Barf return Vespa to her kingdom and stop Dark Helmet's plot, they are both in HeroicBSOD. Lone Starr loves Vespa but can't marry her since he's a space ruffian, while Vespa believes he just rescued her for the money. Her dad then tells her Lone Starr refused the reward he demanded as compensation for her rescue, took a smaller amount for gas and food, and asked him not to tell the princess of his change of heart. Vespa has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone expression for having judged Lone Starr so poorly.
** Happy tears at the end: Lone Starr finds out from Yoghurt that he is a prince, and uses liquid Schwartz to turn his ship around and go to marry Vespa. He dresses in a nice suit, interrupts the ceremony, and tells her of his royal status. When the priest agrees to marry them and rushes through the vows, they both look teary-eyed before going for TheBigDamnKiss.

* VindicatedByHistory: When the movie was released in 1987, it underperformed at the box office and received mixed reviews, even being named Worst Picture at the 1987 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards; common criticisms included being deemed inferior to Mel Brooks' earlier works and ''Star Wars'' no longer being culturally relevant enough to work as a parody (''Spaceballs'' primarily spoofs ''Film/ANewHope'', which was released a decade prior; following ''ReturnOfTheJedi'''s 1983 release there was little new ''Star Wars'' content released until ''[[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Heir to the Empire]]'' was published in 1991). Over the decades, though, ''Spaceballs'' came to be regarded far more warmly, especially given ''Star Wars''' return to the limelight and long-lasting impact on pop culture. Particularly following the Sequel Trilogy's release (which resulted in many aspects of ''Spaceballs'' becoming HilariousInHindsight), the movie is now seen as a CultClassic.

** Yogurt says that, "God willing, we'll all meet again in ''Spaceballs 2: Da Soich for More Money''". And they do indeed meet again...in ''Spaceballs: The Animated Series''.

*** Some have noted similarities with several elements of the sequel trilogy, including villains Kylo Ren and Dark Helmet. Both wear masks that they periodically remove, both talk to inanimate objects when alone, both prone to whiney outbursts, etc. The connection becomes even more hilarious after a big plot twist of ''Film/TheLastJedi''. [[spoiler:Dark Helmet, in an anticlimactic subversion of the "I am your father" twist, revealed that he was Lone Starr's "father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate," which essentially meant their relationship was "Absolutely nothing." Kylo Ren would similarly dismiss any belief (including fan speculation) that Rey had any special relation to the other main characters by revealing that her parents too were absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.]] '''[[UpToEleven On top of that]]''', with ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', we have [[spoiler:the revelation that Lone Starr is the long-lost son of royal parents paralleling the revelation that Rey is [[RetCon actually]] the long-lost granddaughter of the former Emperor of the galaxy.]]

*** At 60 km from wingtip to wingtip, the First Order flagship ''Supremacy'' in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' may actually be ''bigger'' than the ludicrously-oversized ''Spaceball One.''

** "They've gone to plaid!" (and the idea of "LudicrousSpeed" in general)

** '''SPACEBALLS''' THE _______

** "We ain't found [[PrecisionFStrike SHIT]]!