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."
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Dark Helmet: What's wrong with you? Fire across her nose, not up it!
[The gunman turns around and is cross-eyed]
Gunman: Sorry, sir. I'm doing my best.
Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunman?
Cross-eyed gunman 2: I did, sir. He's my cousin.
Dark Helmet: Who is that?
Col. Sanders: He's an asshole, sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that, who is he?
Col. Sanders: That's his name, "Asshole". Major Asshole.
Dark Helmet: What about him?
Col. Sanders: He's an asshole too, sir.
Dark Helmet: How many assholes we got on this ship, anyhow?
Everyone on the ship: Yo, sir!
Dark Helmet: I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes.
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Directed by Mel Brooks, starring Mel Brooks, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Joan Rivers (add more)
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."
Brooks used the same sound studio that they used in the Wizard of Oz for the scene where Barf, Lonestar, Vespa, and Dot are walking to see Yogurt.
When Dark Helmet and Colonel Sanders are fast-forwarding through the movie, only scenes with Dark Helmet are shown.
The 'out of order' ticket on the 'cancel self destruct' button is signed by Albiez. Peter Albiez was the Special Effect Supervisor of the movie.
President Skroob's name is an anagram of Mel Brooks' last name.
On the DVD case, Barf's eye patch is different from where it is the rest of the movie.
The Millenium Falcon (from Star Wars, one of the movies spoofed) can be seen parked outside the space cafe Lone Starr and Barf stop at.
When Lone Starr and Dark Helmet engage in their Schwartz battle, Dark Helmet accidentally "kills" one of the film's crewmen. As he falls, the crewman lets out a Wilhelm scream.
When the commander is searching for "Spaceballs" in Mr. Rental, all of the movies shown are Mel Brooks' previous films
When the four main characters are walking in the temple of Yogurt, Barf says that it looked like the Temple of Doom, and Dot says that it looked nothing like the Temple Beth Israel. If you look closely it's actually a combination of both.
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