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Dark Helmet: Before you die there is something you should know about us, Lone Star.

Lone Starr: What?

Dark Helmet: I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

Lone Starr: What's that make us?

Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become.

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When Yogurt comes out of his statue the camera zooms in and the door starts to close, but when the camera zooms out the door starts back and closes again. See more...

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King Roland tells Lone Starr and Barf that Spaceball I was near the Jupiter II system. Jupiter II was the name of the spaceship from the TV series "Lost in Space." See more...

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Spaceballs (1987) - 28 corrections

Directed by Mel Brooks, starring Mel Brooks, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Joan Rivers (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-fi

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Spaceball-1 is using a blue tractor beam to bring in Vespa's car, but when Barf opens the roof to rescue the girls, the blue light is nowhere to be seen. [The blue light is only an aiming device for the tractor beam. Anyone who knows anything about charged particles that make up tractor beams knows that they are invisible. Once the target is locked on they aiming light is no longer needed.]
Edit Corrected by Brandovibe
When Dark Helmet is talking about coffee and radar, one of the men working on the ship grabs himself before everyone else. [That particular crew member had his nuts crushed by dark helmet prior to this, knows how much it hurt and was extra worried about it. It's intentional.]
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When Lone Starr and Barf watch Spaceball 1 fly away in the desert, the glare on them is red but when you see the engines of Spaceball 1, they are blue. [This is obviously due to afterburners. They are on initally to fly away (afterburner flames are red) and then once uo to speed they switch to a normal burn, blue flame that doesnt protrude out of the back of the engine as much, just like on jet fighters.]
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At the speed at which Vespa's car is being pulled into Spaceball-1 by the tractor beam, they would have already been captured before Lone Starr and Barf could have gotten to them. [This is kind of a joke. We even see a similar occurrence later in the movie when the heroes (or their stunt doubles) dive through a slowly closing door which then conveniently closes rapidly after they go through.]
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When Barf opens the roof of Vespa's car, the stars behind them are not moving considering the car is being tractor beamed in. [Do the stars seem to move as you drive down the road at night? They're far enough away that they seem stationary from that perspective.]
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When Lone Starr and Barf rescue Vespa and Dot early in the film, Barf descends down a ladder to the roof of the Mercedes. The door opens up, he introduces himself, etc. and then he, Vespa, and Dot climb up the ladder with Vespa's luggage. This entire scene is completely impossible because both Vespa (human) and Barf (half dog, half human) would not be able to survive in outer space without an astronaut-type suit. The average temperature in outer space is approximately -455 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, space is a near vaccuum, so there would be no air to breathe. Thus, Barf would've never been able to make it out of the Winnebago to rescue Vespa and Dot alive. [In this parody of the Star Wars films it is logical to assume that Lone Starr's Winnebago has shields that it can extend around Vespa's ship. Force fields are used extensively in the Star Wars saga to maintain an oxygen atmosphere in areas that are open to space.]
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When Dark Helmet is threatening to reverse Princess Vespa's nose job, he introduces the plastic surgeon as "Dr. Phillip Schlotkin." However, when he holds up the "before" picture of Princess Vespa, it says the doctor's name is "Dr. Irving Schlotkin." [These are two different Doctors. Irving Schlotkin is the doctor who performed the first surgery. Phillip Schlotkin is reversing the surgery.]
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In the scene where Lone Starr is fighting Dark Helmet, when Dark Helmet strikes the camera guy, his mask comes up. In the next shot, it is back down. [It only flys up a bit,not the whole way,but on the downstroke you can see it going back down.]
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After Spaceball1 takes the air from Druidia, King Roland falls on his desk. Later, when the air is back, he is on a different part of the desk. [When he collapsed from lack of oxygen, Roland did not necessarily pass out completely. If he retained just a little bit of consciousness before blacking out, it is possible he could have moved.]
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Right after the soldiers in their underwear say, "Hey, those are the guys that stole our uniforms," the shot switches back to Lone Starr and other characters. Look closely at Princess Vespa. Her hair has completely changed, and it looks like she's wearing a very bad wig. [That's because it isn't her, it's her stunt double. This is a lead-up to the "You've captured their stunt doubles!" joke.]
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After Dark Helmet has stolen Lone Starr's ring of the Schwartz and dropped it down in the grill, Lone Starr is wearing it again after he gets into his Starship. [In the previous scene Lone Starr had learned that he could use the Schwartz without the use of the ring, so he could have easily just used the Schwartz to get the ring back up from the grill before he went back to his ship.]
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Watch Dot's legs at the wedding, when she says, "I was so excited, I couldn't hold my oil!" If you look underneath her, you will see some lines, the track for her to slide on or a mark where she's supposed to be. [The floor is made of tiles and the lines and marks are part of that design. It appears that Dot rolls freely on skates, and the only mark I saw near where she was standing when saying her line was a part of the tile design.]
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Some six minutes before the end, Dark Helmet accidentally hits one of the crew members with his lightsaber. Viewing the accidental blow in slow motion, you can see that the crew member is injured before he's struck by the lightsaber. [If you had to use slow-mo to see it, it's not a mistake, according to the rules of the site.]
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When Barf is bringing the bags for princess Vespa from her car to the Winnebago, the trunk would not have fit through the entrance hole of the Winnebago. [Barf wouldn't have been able to carry it the way he was, but it looks like it could have fit through if he put it through first or pulled it through after.]
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In the "Mr. DVD" Menu wait till a cow flies by. When the cow is in the crosshairs press the play button. [This is not an Easter Egg. The same thing happens when you press Enter whether the cow is in the crosshairs or not.]
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When the cast member is struck by the lightsaber he falls to the ground and is left there. Later when they are fighting he is gone. [The other crew members could have moved him to see if they could help him and give him medical treatment.]
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When Lone Star and Barf are carrying Princess Vespa and Dot Matrix respectively in the desert, just after Lone Star and Vespa collapse in the sand, they fall with their faces looking at opposite sides. And seconds after, when the small guys come to help, Vespa's head is looking at the same direction than Lone Star. This couldn't be possible if she was unconscious. [We do not know how much time passes before the little "dinks" arrives at the scene. After Lone Star falls, the movie cuts and we are shown the little guys walking through the desert. It is entirely possible that more time than the second shown on screen passed, and if Vespa regained some consciousness or semi-consciousness in this time, she could have turned her head.]
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In the beginning story narrative, there are four paragraphs, double space. But when they are fast-forwarding through it later, there is only one paragraph. There is also a Sub-Title underneath the "Chapter Eleven." There is also no double spacing, and the "If you can read this you don't need glasses," shows up before the rest is almost all the way up. [It's being fast-forwarded. It only seems like there's less text and that the final line appears much faster.]
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When Lone Starr drops the blow drier on the desert, the plug and some of the cord stays in the suitcase. But when it shows it on the ground later, the whole cord and the plug are on the ground right next to it. [The second shot of the drier comes after a cut, where the characters have picked up the luggage again and walked for ten meters. When they did this, which is not shown on camera, they freed the cord from the suitcase.]
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Right after rescuing the princess, they show a radar screen and Lone Starr says that Spaceball 1 is headed toward them. According to the radar screen, it was almost on top of him. Even a leader says in a few shots later that he was a minute away. [Colonel Sanders said "In less than a minute, Lone Star will be ours". Obviously he included the time needed to pull the Eagle 5 with the laser beam and then place it on the ship's dock.]
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