WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:10.560 Welcome, Friends and st Podcasts podcasting show Jackie and Bryan. They're talking about 2 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:33.759 the movie's moving now boast, Welcome to a movie film commentary track. My 3 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:38.799 name is Zachie Hassan and I'm here with Brian Hall. Don't you mean Spaceballs 4 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:50.000 the commentary? Ah, that's better merchandizing. Merchandizing exactly. Oh man, 5 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:53.560 I'm excited. I'm excited to go through Spaceballs with you. This is this 6 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:57.600 is one of those sort of like staples right for the two of us growing 7 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.359 up, and so I'm excited to just kind of kick back and chat our 8 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.719 way through it. This has been one of our most requested commentary tracks, 9 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:12.959 so I'm happy to fulfill the requests of those one point five people who have 10 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:21.000 requested that our most requested. But I'm excited any chance to revisit this movie. 11 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.319 And if I'm not mistaken, this is the first time that you and 12 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.959 I are watching this together. Yeah, huh, I hadn't thought about that, 13 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:30.239 but yeah, this was like a sleepover staple growing up. You know. 14 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.319 It's like, in sort a sort of a weird way, I feel 15 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:38.799 like I share a bond with this movie with everyone. Well, we are 16 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.239 about to watch Spaceballs. There is only one cut, but if you want 17 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.439 to watch along with us, you can go ahead and get that queued up 18 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:57.799 while we take a short portion right now, and we're back and we're ready 19 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.760 to go. Brian, you queued up? I'm allcuted up, all right? 20 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:05.000 So we will hit play on three, and like I said, if 21 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:06.920 you want to watch along with us, you can. If not, hopefully 22 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:10.479 we'll keep it engaging enough to hold your interest. So one, two, 23 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:19.439 three, play, all right? So how about that lion, Brian? 24 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:25.719 Love it? So Spaceballs is owned by Amazon? Now right? What that 25 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.240 means? Right? Which? I mean? That's the thing right these days, 26 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:36.560 everything eventually gets to be owned by everyone at some point, right, 27 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:46.280 just we're all being batted around by massive mega corporations. Everything eventually exchanges hands 28 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:53.199 until it will all be owned by one giant corporation something something dystopian called glub. 29 00:02:53.759 --> 00:03:04.240 I manage glub, All hail Glub. I want a T shirt. 30 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.080 I want a movie film T shirt called all hail globe. Like that'll be 31 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.439 our like, like the lingo of our listeners. You know what I mean? 32 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:16.240 Yes, exactly right? I love that. So are you hearing this 33 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.719 music in your head? As we're watching this on mute. Oh absolutely, 34 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:27.159 sort of Star Wars Marchie but with like lasers like boo give I love this. 35 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.039 I have the soundtrack. I listened to it all the time. Yeah, 36 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.680 it say it's a good score. The theme is a bit of an 37 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:38.199 earworm in my opinion. Totally, totally. I you know, I kind 38 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:44.599 of I appreciate this mixture, the combination here with the text. At the 39 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.680 beginning, you have like the blue letters from Star Wars is you know, 40 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:51.960 a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, but they have used 41 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:58.719 it for the crawl, right, which was yellow in Star Wars. And 42 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:00.680 I mean, look, when you're like eight years old and watching this and 43 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.840 the crawl ends with if you can read this, you don't need glasses. 44 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:11.719 That is the height of comedy, really, right, It's it's this movie. 45 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:15.599 It's funny because because yeah, we were both roughly the same age when 46 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:17.439 we first saw it, and it was it was not only the height of 47 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:20.120 comedy. I don't know about you, but like it was a little risk 48 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:27.319 a Yeah, you're so right. I kind of forgot about that angle of 49 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.360 it because it feels so tame now. But you're so now it's just good, 50 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.199 wholesome fun. But I remember back then, you know, like when 51 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:34.680 when he's looking at his butt, he's like, I'm not told. How 52 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.439 come no one told me my ass was so big? Like woo yeah, 53 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:45.279 so shoddy? Yeah, I mean this is like this was like peak Sleepover 54 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:49.199 movie and you're so right, like because it's it's material that we are interested 55 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:54.560 in, and it's like a funny probably the first parody I ever saw, 56 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.439 and so getting to see a thing I love like riffed on was probably novel. 57 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.720 And then like you said, there's enough like t he kind of humor 58 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.720 to it that feels like, whoa, it's late at night, we're watching 59 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:13.399 this, you know now Now the title and originally this movie was supposed to 60 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:19.319 be called Planet Moron, right right, which cooler has prevailed. Mel Brooks 61 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:24.639 was famously he said it had to have the word space in the title, 62 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:28.000 and and he was racking his brain. I guess they had like a you 63 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.240 know, probably in the writer's room and he spilled something and he goes balls 64 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.879 and then somebody says, how about space balls? Yep, yep, that's 65 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.480 it. If they were to make like the biopic of this, you know, 66 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:43.879 I'd be like, wait, say that again. I said balls space 67 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.560 balls. Yeah, and that's that's how we got the and and it is. 68 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.240 It's a nonsense title. It makes no sense. I remember that as 69 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.160 a kid being like, what is it? It sounds again going to the 70 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.199 sort of t he humor of it all. It just sounds t he issue, 71 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:00.040 you know what I mean. But but it did come into play with 72 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.240 the aesthetic of the movie. I mean, look at the helmets here. 73 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:06.199 You know they're balls. They are big giant balls. That is true. 74 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:10.959 Yeah, which, by the way, before it passes, we have to 75 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:15.639 comment on the ship passing overhead, which is hilarious, right, I mean, 76 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.920 like as a kid again, like it keeps going, the ship is 77 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:24.639 still going. Was absolutely hilarious. And it looks great. It looks like 78 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.560 something out of Alien or Star Wars or something. Well the special effects or 79 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:33.079 by ILM. So George Lucas's own people did it, which I think was 80 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:36.439 a smart play on the part of mel Brooks, who he got George Lucas's 81 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:41.560 permission before making this movie, just to make sure he was okay with its 82 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:46.000 Wise, Yeah, it kind of the weird owl approach, right, Yeah, 83 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.639 why not be in good graces weird Awl for those of who don't know, 84 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.920 he unless the subject of his parody is okay with the parody, he 85 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:57.439 doesn't go ahead with it. And I think I don't know there's like one 86 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.920 or two people who turned him down, right we're now, yeah, And 87 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:04.120 I I feel like I knew that about him, but I think most people 88 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:11.959 learned that that facet of him asking people due to Lady Gaga, right like 89 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.079 where he was like, oh yeah, Lady Gaga was one of the few 90 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.240 people recently who's kind of turned me down. And and then she was like, 91 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:18.639 no, I didn't like that, just never got to me. She's 92 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:20.360 like, I'd love you to do that, and he's like, oh great. 93 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:24.000 And so then there are all these sort of like Yahoo articles and whatever 94 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:30.399 explaining how weird All operates and yeah, it's tasteful or classy, classy there, 95 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:35.360 Yeah, you went over my helmet. Yes, that's so funny. 96 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:43.040 Now I have to admit, like watching this the first time, I don't 97 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:47.600 think I got the humor of the ray beam like shooting in the balls, 98 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:54.040 oh you know what I mean, Like like it was like, oh, 99 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:56.519 I guess he like it hurts, like you know what I mean, I 100 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.399 didn't have that awareness of like, no, that really hurts to get hit 101 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.800 in the balls. I think, I don't know if I knew that exactly. 102 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.439 I just knew like the balls were funny. Yeah, you know, 103 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.600 like he's grabbing his garage like, you know, I think the whole idea 104 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:18.360 of Rick moranis playing Darth Vader. That's freaking genius. It's genius, just 105 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:22.199 genius. And this huge helmet on his head. He looks so ridiculous. 106 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:28.639 It's so funny. Oh, mister coffee. It's like, of course I 107 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.000 always drink coffee before I look at the radar. You know, this is 108 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:39.360 mister coffee. Dude. This character, well George is it George Wiener Winer? 109 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.120 I think it's Winer Winer. He is so funny. I think the 110 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.200 older I get, the more I appreciate how absolutely hilarious he is in this 111 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.320 movie. Well he's a straight man, yeah, but he's so He's still 112 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.559 got this sort of personality you know in delivery that is just so funny, 113 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:03.919 opposite dark helmet. You know, mister coffee. Everybody got that. I 114 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.720 think that all the time. I was about to say, that's like part 115 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:13.720 of my vernacular. Is everybody got that? Yeah, yeah, for people 116 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.759 not watching along, basically explaining the plot of the movie, and then Rick 117 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:22.440 Moranis looks two camera and says, everybody got that, right, I can 118 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:31.600 I can hear all the dialog here hot too hot now with this whole planet 119 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:37.159 Druidio thing. You know what's kind of interesting about this is this is clearly 120 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.919 a riff on Star Wars, but it's also kind of its own thing, 121 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.440 right, I mean that, which is kind of the genius of it, 122 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.720 because it's you know, you have those Friedberg and Seltzer parodies that came in 123 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.919 the last ten fifteen ish years, which are basically just Twilight but a guy, 124 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.759 you know, a guy gets hit in the nuts and then like you 125 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.960 know, fast and furious, but a guy gets hitting the nuts, you 126 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.039 know, And now here here here at the Movie Film Podcast we celebrate a 127 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:13.279 nut hitting comedy. Of course. Let me, however, understood, let's 128 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:15.759 be very clear about that. However, to your point, Yeah, I 129 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:22.279 mean there's an actual story here that plays on the tropes of Star Wars and 130 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.559 associated sci fi stuff, but it's doing its own thing, right, And 131 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:31.279 I think I think that's sort of the post scary movie and on approach to 132 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.720 parody movies, yes, is just like, oh, it's that thing, 133 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.519 but yeah, like you said, vomiting or you know, people or if 134 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.039 she gets hit by a car, like what if? What if she recreates 135 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.399 the scene exactly from this movie, but then it ends with her getting hit 136 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.480 by a car, Like that's kind of the what that became? But I 137 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:54.080 just I I admire that this is so clearly riffing on Star Wars esque things, 138 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.399 but it is also well. Actually George Lucas himself, I guess he 139 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.679 was shown the film and according to Brooks I think on the DVD commentary he 140 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:07.039 was saying that Lucas was like busting a gut laughing and said that even if 141 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.240 you took the Star Wars stuff out of this, like, it's still a 142 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.919 good adventure film, which he took his high praise. I think that's true. 143 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:22.440 And the great thing is that the humor, you can grow up with 144 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.799 the humor, so it allows for I mean, I don't know. I'm 145 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.759 sure this is the case for you that as you've watched this over the last 146 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.759 thirty plus years, you've you've come to appreciate new jokes that you didn't notice 147 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:41.399 before definitely, definitely, Yeah, Prince Prince Balian by the way, that 148 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.919 that's just a funny gag. That's a riff on on Prince Baliant the character. 149 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:52.360 But but having Jim J. Bullock playing him, which, like Jim 150 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.440 J. Bullock is one of those guys who when I was a kid, 151 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:58.200 I used to watch Too Close for Comfort, which is that sitcom with Ted 152 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.679 Knight. And even as a little kid, I mean, you know, 153 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:03.600 Jim J. Bullock was like flaming right. Even as a kid, I 154 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.440 was like, I don't know what gay is, but I think that's that's 155 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.240 what gay is, right, you know, like right, it's just you 156 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.000 know, so the idea of him playing the husband to be is just this 157 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.679 extra little bit of humor, you know, Oh that's funny. Barf. 158 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:24.919 Can't go wrong with barf. I know, this is interesting. I mean 159 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.519 with John Candy here, I I was reading about how they had thought to 160 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.240 put all this makeup on his face to make him look really dog like, 161 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.080 but they're kind of like chewy full chewy. Yeah, but then they're like, 162 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.399 I guess Brooks was like, why am I paying John Candy? You 163 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.960 know, if I can get someone half the price to just cover their face. 164 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:48.720 So they came up with what I think is like the perfect compromise, 165 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.279 which is just these mechanical ears, like a little patch over his eye like 166 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.559 a tail. It's perfect. And you can imagine now, and this isn't 167 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.759 even a criticism, but you just can imagine now. It's like, well, 168 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.679 the years would becg and probably, but like there's something it looks great, 169 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.960 like just watching his ears emote with his acting and however they're controlling it. 170 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.399 I read somewhere that he had like a thirty pound battery on his back, 171 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.840 yeah, just to get all the little little chotchkeys all over him to 172 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:22.120 do their thing. Yeah, but it looks it looks great. Do we 173 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.399 mention? By the way, I can't remember that Lucas had some stipulations, 174 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:31.519 right, agreeing to let Brooks do this. Yeah, yeah, and no 175 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.399 toys, no toys, no toys, which you can understand. So so 176 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.639 Lucas that right there, to Lucas already knew what how his bread was buttered, 177 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.720 you know what I mean, It's totally totally and so yeah, no 178 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:50.679 no merchandise. And then along those lines with the stipulations, Lone Star couldn't 179 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.360 dress like Hans solo, So Brooks had him dressed like Indiana Jones, which 180 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.039 is kind of perfect. Yeah, I love the jacket khakis. What's funny 181 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.840 too, is they want did like a bigger name to play loan Star. 182 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.080 They were looking at like a Tom Cruise or like a Mel Gibson type, 183 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.600 right, and then uh, and you know, I think Tom Cruise probably 184 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.320 turned it down. He was like, I'm not gonna do that. But 185 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:20.799 when they got Rick Moranis and John Candy, that gave the flexibility of saying, 186 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:26.039 oh, let's just find an unknown to play loan Star. And Bill 187 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.039 Pullman is so good in this, so good, so good. I mean 188 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.440 that's one of those things. I mean, I understand the business of show 189 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:35.720 business and you have to have names and get people in. But sometimes when 190 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.399 the filmmakers are allowed to take risks and cast who they really really want, 191 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.519 you're just like and then it works. You're like, oh, man, 192 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.840 like, yeah, Bill Pullman is so great in this or else Pizza? 193 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:52.000 Yeah, yeah, you comment, what's the happening on screen here? Pizza? 194 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.679 The hut is disgusting looking? Yeah? Yeah, But isn't it such 195 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.399 like a junior high joke? It's like job of the Hut. It's like 196 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:03.039 a to the Hut and he's made a freaking pizza. You know. It's 197 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.559 just well and then on top of that, the pizza is gonna send out 198 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:13.639 for you, right exactly. That's a really funny joke which I totally flew 199 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.000 over my head when I was a kid, totally totally going back to me. 200 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.440 And then you got you the Max Headroom sort of henchmen, yeah, 201 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.120 which like I love the fact when you look at that guy now you're like, 202 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.000 oh, that's just makeup. But I'll tell you, as a kid, 203 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.240 I was like, wow, that looks amazing, you know, I 204 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:33.720 know, it looks pretty good. It holds up really well. By the 205 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:39.240 way, the speaking of Star Wars references the way in which Daphne's an ego 206 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:45.360 with the with the Princess Leia hairdo. Yeah, again, just a great 207 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.639 gag that oh those are yeah, I know that's just headphones. I don't 208 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:54.399 know. Yeah, no, it's good. It's good. It also read 209 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.279 but you know there's a couple of people, you know for a lone Star, 210 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.120 but that they were reach out to James Kahn to play loan Star. 211 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:07.480 I can actually see that. It's me too. I was like, oh, 212 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:10.159 I get it, I get it, I get it. But for 213 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:15.279 the fact that you would need somebody very different to play Vespa exactly, yeah, 214 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.639 because that would be gross right right, right now, Pulman was ultimately 215 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.879 the right choice. I guess they Brooks or his wife had seen him in 216 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.600 a play or something. That's right. Yep, the late and Bancroft, 217 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.919 yep, right, this is this is a joke I didn't get too later. 218 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:37.919 The Perry Air Perry. Yeah. Well, the funny thing to me 219 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:41.679 is how it's in the phone call that he's having is in the context of 220 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:48.320 like he's trying to get some fines reversed like that because he's like, no, 221 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:53.399 no, Spaceball doesn't have an air shortage crisis. Thank you, and 222 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:56.960 thank you also for not reversing those fines. So like, what, what's 223 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:03.080 the conversation that led into that, right right? I know, Yeah, 224 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.279 it's like all the offhanded remarks that you start noticing the more you watch it 225 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:11.240 or the older you get, that's right. But yeah, just having this 226 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:14.839 whole original plot, like not just being like, oh, they're building a 227 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.000 death star, you know, it's like, oh, right, planets running 228 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:18.960 out of air. They're going to steal it from this other plate, you 229 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.720 know, like it's it's kind of cool that they went for something a little 230 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.680 original so they can have i don't know, their own sort of plot and 231 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.880 fun with their plot. But then even this incorporating star Trek, you know, 232 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.039 and beaming and all sorts of other you know, alien later and then 233 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:40.599 Snotty beaming me twice last night, right right, and this, of course 234 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.680 I mean again peak peak comedy, junior high. I'm telling you, man, 235 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:49.599 I mean, I don't get me wrong. What's also interesting is I 236 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:56.079 think at this point Spaceballs is sort of thought of as classic mill Brooks. 237 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.960 But I mean definitely, at the time it came out critically it was not 238 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:07.920 particularly u embraced. Yeah, it's it's one of those weird things. I 239 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:11.039 mean, sometimes you do need time and distance to really appreciate things and also 240 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:15.279 to see where things are headed. And it makes you appreciate where you were, 241 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.960 you know. Yeah, with with satire and parodies kind of going downhill 242 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.240 more closer to recent But yeah, I looked up like Roger Ebert only gave 243 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.559 it two and a half stars, and one of his quotes, he said, 244 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.039 I enjoyed a lot of the movie but I kept thinking I was at 245 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:36.799 a revival. It should have been made several years ago before I appetite for 246 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:41.240 Star Wars satires had been completely exhausted. And I was interesting to me because, 247 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:45.359 yeah, which Star Wars satires? Well that, yeah, I mean 248 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:49.240 maybe the what was the one with the vacuums and or what was that called? 249 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:55.200 Oh likewa Wars? Yeah, nobody, Like I mean that wasn't like 250 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.200 a mainstream thing, was it? No? True, but I have no 251 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.440 idea or maybe just from Sinnel or things like that. But I was like, 252 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.400 oh, Roger, if you only knew what was to come, like 253 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.799 you were about to be buried in it. Well, and I yeah, 254 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:14.240 right, I think for a couple of points, because definitely in eighty seven, 255 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.400 Return of the Jedi was far enough in the past that I was like, 256 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.599 oh, wow, okay, I guess you know, like it was 257 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:25.720 like it seems like it's been a while, you know. Yeah, now, 258 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:27.920 given the passage of time, well, four years is nothing, because 259 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:34.799 Star Wars has remained timeless, and therefore Spaceballs has remained timeless along with it, 260 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:37.680 you know, like it's not like, like, let me put this 261 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:47.039 way, like like hot Shots Part two has aged worse probably than Hot Shots 262 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:52.279 Part one, right because of the Top Gun versus Rainbow exactly, because people 263 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.960 are still watching Top Gun right right, right. But what that movie has 264 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:02.000 going for it, likewise with this one is at the jokes at least are 265 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:07.559 still funny on their face, versus if they had just been sort of riffing 266 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.400 on things that you are expected to remember from a certain movie. That's exactly 267 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.400 it. Yeah, right, how many assholes we got on the ship? 268 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:26.359 Yeah? Yo, surrounded by assholes? I mean it is like borsch Belt 269 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.880 comedy, you know, totally. I remember on TV they changed it to 270 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.960 Moron and I was kind of fascinated because it totally worked. I was like, 271 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:36.200 oh, did they filmed the whole scene again, like just saying moren 272 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:37.839 Oh, well, I guess so, probably right. I know in the 273 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:42.240 in the novelization, I think it was idiots. No, that makes sense. 274 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.359 A novelization, by the way, written by R. L. Stein, 275 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.559 you know, it's funny. I was going to bring that up at 276 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.799 some point. I thought that was fascinating first of all, but I also 277 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.759 I was reading through a bunch of highlights of the book, and uh, 278 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.000 it's just it's just kind of fascinating, like the way they were trying to 279 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:04.519 either appeal to kids or change things for kids. That's right, Yeah, 280 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:10.240 like like you said with the idiots thing. And then also when they're gonna 281 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:15.000 change the princess's nose, they just change it. They were gonna like brand 282 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:19.680 her with like Scrub's name or something. And and then there it's like there's 283 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:23.279 a humorous running gag. Every time Barf scratches himself, one of the other 284 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:30.200 characters asks if he has fleas. That was funny. And then and then 285 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.359 also another one I wrote down was Meg. Yeah, yeah, speaking of 286 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.400 scratching itself. I totally talked right past it. But when when when Scrub 287 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:45.640 like scratches his balls facing backwards, Yeah, gassing up anyway, Sorry, 288 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.240 go ahead, No, I was just gonna say. And then I guess 289 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:52.759 they gave In the book, Mega made a line and she says one line 290 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:57.319 it is, I don't do windows. That's kind of funny. That's actually 291 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:00.480 kind of funny. Yeah, it's good. But I was like, now 292 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.519 I should say I read the novelization as a kid. I had already seen 293 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.400 the movie. Oh you've read it, Oh, okay, I read it, 294 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.960 and after having seen the movie. So I remember the certain of those 295 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:15.599 things that some of the stuff you mentioned I to completely forgotten, but the 296 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:19.200 surrounded by idiots thing, I definitely remember that. And I definitely remember when 297 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.640 Goosebumps became a thing. I was like, Hey, it's the guy who 298 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:27.720 wrote the Spaceballs book. Oh wow, how funny. Good for him? 299 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:33.680 Yeah? Oh man, Yeah, yeah, no, for sure, that's 300 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.759 that was like one of those things growing up in school, you know where 301 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.480 they had the scholastic well, they had the book fairs, but they also 302 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.880 had those I don't know way to call them, like catalogs. They would 303 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:47.000 give you the book the order forms, yeah, the order forms, and 304 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:48.440 it would be like, you know, Indiana, like you were all into 305 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.359 Last Crusade or something, and then they'd have the novelization and you'd order it 306 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:56.960 and anticipate when you'd see that Scholastic box in your teacher's desk and be like, 307 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.359 oh, my, Indiana, Joel's book is in there. I mean 308 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:07.519 that ship like you would uh, you know, give them a check and 309 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:12.799 they would submit it and like two weeks before graduating high school, your packet 310 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.000 would arrive and it would be the greatest thing, you know, I mean, 311 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.319 you place the order in like first grade. It would take forever. 312 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.640 Yeah, it took Yeah, what felt like forever? I don't even remember 313 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:26.440 in this age now, I don't think kids could even process the joy that 314 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:32.359 you would feel. Yeah, right, there's nothing you Yeah, you're exactly 315 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:38.200 Wait okay, yeah, well then I mean, come on, like jam 316 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:45.000 their radar, shoot a jar a jam this. This is one of my 317 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.759 favorite jokes. You know, it was like, you know, and then 318 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.359 and then when he takes the thing out of his hand and he still does 319 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.839 it, he still does the radar or the convoys. You don't need that, 320 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:06.559 Yeah, say, set out so good. So by this point Michael 321 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:10.400 Winslow had knocked out a couple of them Police Academy movies. Yeah, he 322 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:14.200 must be like, oh set up. This guy's on screen, and that's 323 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:18.119 right. And my thought always is, and I'm sure he's a lovely person, 324 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:22.160 but is he like this all the time? Because it would annoy the 325 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.279 piss out of me. That is so funny that that's what you think. 326 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:29.359 I wait, have we explained him? By the way, For people that 327 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.839 most likely do not know who we're talking about it, Michael Winslow was this 328 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.559 actor who was in as far as I mean, I'm sure he was a 329 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:38.960 stand up, that's my guest. But then he was in the Police Academy 330 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:44.039 movies, and his thing was that he would do these really great sound effects 331 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:47.720 with his mouth. So like in Police Academy, for example, it'd be 332 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:49.039 like, maybe some kids are skateboarding where they shouldn't. Then you'd hear a 333 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:52.880 police siren, but then he would walk up and it would be like, 334 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:56.640 oh, he's making that sound with his mouth and that was his stick, 335 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.599 Like it's Officer Jones again. You know. Yeah, it's it's hard to 336 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.119 explain, I guess, but like you so, and then utilizing him in 337 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:08.279 this movie, he's this like comms person and he's just like making all these 338 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:11.440 sound effects with his noise. Like I have trouble with the radars. It's 339 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:17.000 given the bleeps, the creeps. Man sweet, I'm like, man again, 340 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:19.400 I think in short doses, I'm sure that would be fine. But 341 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:25.119 like if you're sitting next to him at dinner and he's doing that, that 342 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.119 is true. Like if you're yes, if you're like cutting your meat or 343 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:34.160 something like that, and then he's gone or he's like you know, yeah, 344 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:40.559 that would probably get on your nerves Yes, that's funny. I hadn't 345 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:42.680 even worked. I'm just so charmed by him. I hadn't even gotten to 346 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:48.839 the scenario where he's getting on my nerves. But that is that is true 347 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.799 anyway. Oh so yeah, Joan Rivers here, right is what's her name? 348 00:25:56.839 --> 00:26:00.599 Dot matrix? I think dot matrix, which is like a type of 349 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:04.160 printer or the way printers used to print. Right. I love how you're 350 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:08.680 talking as if that's something alien to you, because that's aging me. No, 351 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.680 no, I remember, I mean I had one. I just don't 352 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:15.799 remember what that was, if that was some kind of a printer or something. 353 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:19.359 Everybody that was shick I did where I pretended I didn't remember things that 354 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:26.440 clearly we both remember. Do you know that telephones used to be connected to 355 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:32.079 the wall, Yeah, you from the second some kind of a wire, 356 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:38.759 Yeah, yes, a dot matrix printer it would go and so yeah you 357 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.880 again, that was probably a sound effect that Michael Winslow did, yes in 358 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:47.960 the eighties. Yes, yeah, you did not want to go to a 359 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:55.240 Kinkos with Michael Winslow. Yeah, no, of course I remember that. 360 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:56.400 I couldn't remember if that was the name of a brand or if that was 361 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:02.519 the styles, the style. Imagine that like line by line, dot by 362 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:07.839 dot printing out your pages. I remember being in like community college and like 363 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.200 sweating because I was running late, but I was waiting for my stupid freaking 364 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.960 dot matrix printer to slowly churn out the paper that was due that day. 365 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:21.599 So anyway, yeah, good, you're taking me back. Yeah. I 366 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:26.480 had a keyboarding class freshman year, so exactly thirty years ago, and it 367 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.559 was just all all period. You just hear, you know, people printing 368 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:36.960 their stuff out, driving it slowly, insane yep, yep, you know 369 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.160 this stuff. Knowing that ILM did this, You're like, yeah, no, 370 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:41.440 this looks pretty good. I don't know that, I fully. I 371 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:45.599 mean, it doesn't look quite Star Wars level these special effects here, but 372 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:51.680 it's a lightning team probably yeah, right, Like, but it looks it 373 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:53.200 looks much better than it should. I mean, when you see movies that 374 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:59.319 are even later than this, it looks better than like Flash Gordon, for 375 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:03.079 example, which is basically right somewhat serious, you know. Yeah, but 376 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:06.880 even look at this this shot. This is another thing I appreciate. Look 377 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:10.200 at it, like the lighting here, like this looks kind of like a 378 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:15.119 serious space movie right, where sometimes comedies will overlight things and like, no, 379 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.960 we're having fun, and I kind of like, I think comedies can 380 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.640 be funnier when they look like the thing they're actually trying to be. But 381 00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:23.759 then they're funny in that tone, which, by the way, by the 382 00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.839 way, I just literally just noticed her license plate which is spoiled rotten. 383 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:32.759 Spoiled rotten. Yeah, yeah, never never noticed that before. I had 384 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:37.839 to call it that. That that moment there where he's tells his guard to 385 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.400 wait or whatever, and the guy's like, go, who you know, 386 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:44.720 captain or whatever, and then he just does this silent head turn and just 387 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:47.759 looks at the guard and it slowly puts his head back to the ship. 388 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:56.440 Like that is so funny to me. Yeah, she's not in here. 389 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.480 We're in a bagel. I love out. That's how he makes the connection 390 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:08.720 to Lonster. Right, it comes the Bad Year Blimp. Do people who 391 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.519 even talk about the Good Year Blimp anymore? I don't think so. I 392 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:21.119 I think that is exclusively a reference to pop culture references. Yeah, yeah, 393 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:23.160 Like I mean, there is one out here down the from where I 394 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:26.279 lived, down the four or five. You can see it on the side 395 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.279 of the road. But it's people just don't anymore. It's not a ubiquitous 396 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:36.119 like pop culture reference. Yeah, like you'd have to explain it. Yeah, 397 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.119 yeah, I guess it used to be novel having this blimp over your 398 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:45.240 football game. But now there's like drones that can like recreate an animated American 399 00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.359 flag or something. You know, So it's just like, who cares. 400 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:52.920 We've lost our ability to be amazed. Brian, That's really what it is. 401 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.839 I know. Now, this is a pretty iconic joke here, of 402 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.400 one of many. I did not know what the word ludicrous meant until I 403 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:04.039 watched this movie. This is where I learned it. Yeah, I mean, 404 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:11.000 so stupid, so great, a matter of Colonel Sanders Chicken repair ship 405 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:21.200 close the three Warring circus. But yeah, so instead of going to light 406 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:26.000 speed, it's uh, ludicrous speed. We gotta go past light speed into 407 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:33.279 ridiculous speed and then into ludicrous speed. Yep, buckle this this is so 408 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:41.519 funny. It's like my brains are going into my feet. There was a 409 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:48.720 time when like I had this movie memorized, I mean same right, Like 410 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:55.799 yeah, well, and I mean it's worth mentioning that now we have electric 411 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:59.480 cars, didn't you know didn't have those, I don't think in eighty seven, 412 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:02.880 and now they electric car people making them thought would be funny to actually 413 00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:07.519 give it a setting called ludicrous speed. That's really funny. I actually didn't 414 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.640 know that. Yeah, yeah, and that this is just this is a 415 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:18.119 great joke, like they go past light speed and they go to plaid like 416 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.759 apropo of nothing, you know what I mean. Like it's not like based 417 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:26.839 on anything. It's just like they just go to plaid. You've gone to 418 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:37.799 plaid week ahead stop. I love him the older I think as I became 419 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.200 an adult watch this, he's become my favorite character in the movie. Now. 420 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:48.839 What's funny to me is the the little uh lever here Yes, and 421 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:53.000 it says never use right right, Well, why is it there then? 422 00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:59.000 Right? It's not like use only in case, it's like never use it. 423 00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:06.039 Well, then don't have that thing right here? This is such a 424 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:13.200 This is like Rick moranis in Ghostbusters, like after he's possessed by totally Yeah, 425 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:20.720 yeah, have some otherways like smoke him if you got him, if 426 00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:28.359 you got him. Yeah. Although I feel like they have made Spaceballs figures 427 00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:30.680 since this am I am I wrong? Like I feel like they exist now, 428 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:36.759 I have to imagine. I mean, I can't remember the names where 429 00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:42.359 they There's like these companies like Series seven or Super seven is that Super Super 430 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:47.440 seven? And they make them look like packaging and toys that were released in 431 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:51.519 the eighties, but they're based on all the stuff that we wished we had 432 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:57.359 had growing up, right, Yeah, yeah, so I think those companies, 433 00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:05.480 yeah, capitalizing on all this stuff. Now, Yeah, I'm wondering. 434 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:10.359 You know, it's I I feel like I don't Yeah, I just 435 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:15.440 feel like there's like merch for this stuff kind of now space spaceballs, Like 436 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:21.559 I feel like I saw someone somewhere wearing a Spaceball's the T shirt sure or 437 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.599 something like that, which I'm sure Lucas now is just like whatever, Well, 438 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:27.039 Lucas isn't even in the mix anymore, right, Like that's true. 439 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.720 You know, I wonder if Brooks is Yeah, I'm I'm wondering. Yeah, 440 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:32.480 a good point. But I'm also like, would Disney be more or 441 00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.519 less amenable than George Lucas was? Yeah, that's a that's a good point 442 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:44.039 too. I don't know. This is another thing too, I didn't think 443 00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:45.359 about as a kid, but now our eyes are a little tuned to it. 444 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:50.039 But when you can see model work, oh sure, you know where 445 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.359 that's clearly like a model when a baygo enforced perspective with probably like a sandbox, 446 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:58.720 you know, when they're here. But sort of like with Batman eighty 447 00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:00.640 nine. I mean, growing up, I didn't think about it, but 448 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:05.960 now when the bat wing crashes, it's clearly five that's like a ten inch 449 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:15.239 model that yeah. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, just uh there their 450 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.800 love story too, you know, like how it's it's different. It's it's 451 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:22.079 like Leiah and Han and they're sparring, but it's it's different, it's well 452 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:27.679 and it's playing on those tropes. Yeah. Daphne is an ego by the 453 00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:31.079 way, it was like twenty five when she did this. Wow, she 454 00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:37.039 would go on to be on Melrose Place. Yeah, and she's in the 455 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:39.079 Fly two, which is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Fly 456 00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:43.360 too, I've never seen that. Yeah, that's the one with Eric Stoltz. 457 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:50.039 Oh really yeah, yeah, how many years after the gold Bloom one? 458 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.679 That gold Bloom I think was eighty six and Fly two was I want 459 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:59.199 to say eighty eight. Wow, Okay, so not not that far. 460 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:04.760 Yeah, but it's it's it's pretty bad, yeah, eighty nine. Eighty 461 00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:08.199 nine says three years later. Yeah, I'm curious how old Bill Pullman was 462 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:13.440 in this though. Yeah, I don't know, maybe like thirty early thirties 463 00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:17.599 or something. Yeah, probably it looks like mid thirties probably. Yeah, 464 00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:24.679 let's see fifty fifty three he was born, so yeah, about thirty four. 465 00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:30.039 They all right, hey, you're right, we're we're both right. 466 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:36.000 When you're right, you're right. We just on a related tangent. A 467 00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:40.480 couple of weeks ago, my kids watched Independence Day two uh their own, 468 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:46.440 despite my protestations. I was like, hey, I'm not telling you how 469 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:50.440 to live your life, but I don't normally tell you I hate movies. 470 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.760 I hate that movie. Really, wait, what do they think? They? 471 00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:59.360 Well, my second one he was kind of like, well, in 472 00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:01.320 for a penny for a pound, so he he didn't tap out. My 473 00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:05.800 my older one he was like I'm done, you know, oh really yeah? 474 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:08.519 Yeah, they and they, but they they watched the part where Bill 475 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:13.159 Pullman sacrifices himself, and they were essentially like, what kind of freaking bullshit 476 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:19.679 is that? They were like so mad at that. Yeah, when you 477 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.679 don't get Will Smith you gotta come up with something big, that's right. 478 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:30.360 I remember thinking this giant hair dryer was hilarious as a kid. Wait, 479 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:34.159 going back, I was quoting bar for earlier when he's like, when you're 480 00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.599 right, you're right, and you you're always right. And just for the 481 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:39.679 personal record, I have to say I worked this job at a restaurant and 482 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:44.280 one of the servers said that once and I was like, wait, what 483 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.360 is that from? And she was like, I don't know, And it 484 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:52.119 drove us crazy and we I remember going to every single employee in the restaurant 485 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:53.519 and saying it and being like, wait, what is that from? It 486 00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:57.639 was driving us crazy, and we were thinking it was from Aladdin. I 487 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.119 remember we thought it was like a Yago saying that are or something, and 488 00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:05.400 then eventually we figured out that it's nope, Barfin spaceballs. How long did 489 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:07.239 that take to eventually get there? I don't remember, but I remember it 490 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:14.320 being like a day long affair. Dude, this right here, This whole 491 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:22.599 sequence when they when they watch the video h so funny. I this hilarious 492 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:28.000 too. By the way, him slurping the coffee through his home. I 493 00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:32.239 think this is one of the greatest movie gags of all time. Oh, 494 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:38.000 it's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. It's original, and it is mel Brooks 495 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:44.559 movies by the way, right, But it's like it's perfectly mined and executed, 496 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:47.119 you know what I mean, Like they take full advantage of this concept 497 00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:54.880 and it's execution. The timing is perfection. Yeah, people not watching along. 498 00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:59.920 This is when they're trying to figure out where the heroes went the villains, 499 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:01.280 and so they're like, well, let's just watch the movie and find 500 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:05.840 out it's Yeah, but we're in the middle of the movie, like, 501 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:08.079 oh no, it's this brand new thing. You know, you watched the 502 00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:10.920 movie before it's finished. And so they put in Spaceballs the movie and they 503 00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.679 fast forward through the film that we are watching and show us things we just 504 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:22.280 saw. It's brilliant, and then dark helmet, you know, crashing and 505 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:27.599 fast forward this. In fact, never play this again again. I mean, 506 00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.920 this is a look on his face. But that is hilarious enough. 507 00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:36.960 But then they catch up to the movie. So you're watching now, we're 508 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:42.079 watching now and the way now now yeah is moving his hands now now? 509 00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:51.559 Now you know, oh my gosh, oh yeah. Every single time this 510 00:38:51.639 --> 00:39:02.519 cracks me up. It's even even moves his hands now now okay, just 511 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:12.920 now, yeah, what happened to then? I missed it? Just h 512 00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:16.280 this. I truly like if I had to make like a top ten comedy 513 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.559 gags of all time, I really feel like this could belong there. No, 514 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:30.639 I would co sign that. Yeah, oh so funny. Uh sorry 515 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:35.760 for everybody listening to this. Just hey, you just us watch or you're 516 00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:43.239 listening to us watch Spaceballs. You know what you signed up exactly? Oh 517 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:51.880 man, just coming down for that scene. Sorry. I kind of love 518 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:55.239 this, uh sort of old school clearly a stage kind of reminds me of 519 00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:59.400 Three Amigos in a way, right, oh sure, you know, like 520 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:04.119 outside i'd starry sky setting. It's kind of I kind of like it. 521 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.760 Yeah, I mean it's a it's a obviously a sound stage, but we 522 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:22.280 buy it. Yeah. Yeah, I love the I don't I know that 523 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.679 I can quite name what they're riffing on here specifically, but the way that 524 00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:30.320 they start talking, the the yeah, nah, never was like kind of 525 00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:34.280 you know, like lovey dovey, old school romantic kind of lester play. 526 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.599 It's kind of fun. It feels like something. I'm sure Brooks. It's 527 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.679 probably like movies he grew up with and is loving to riff on. Well, 528 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:45.400 and and you know, I think that kind of like Blazing Saddles, 529 00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:53.239 which is very much as send up of the entirety of the Western genre, 530 00:40:53.920 --> 00:41:00.559 right, I think this one is a little bit more narrowly focused. And 531 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:06.599 so when we think about like what critics out that at the time didn't like, 532 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.559 maybe maybe it's that like the expectation, like because even even like Young 533 00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:16.639 Frankenstein, which is pretty clearly a parody of universal horror movies, it's it's 534 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:22.280 the it's the style of humor slightly different. Yeah, sure, right, 535 00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:27.480 yeah, this is on the spectrum. This is maybe a little bit raunchier. 536 00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:32.599 H even again it's like pretty wholesome. Yeah, totally the benefit of 537 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:39.719 thirty six years of Behindsight, right right right? You know that is kind 538 00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:43.519 of interesting, right. You don't see as many PG movies these days. 539 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:46.079 I was surprised to see that across the Spider Verse was PG. I was 540 00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:49.079 like, oh, well, you just don't see that, you know, 541 00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:54.400 you just kind of expect everything to be basically PG thirteen. Yeah. Unfortunately, 542 00:41:54.559 --> 00:42:00.679 PG is thought of as sort of a box office killer, right right, 543 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.800 Whereas in the eighties. Whatever we think of PG thirteen, that's kind 544 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:09.119 of what PG was then, you know, that's right, And this is 545 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:12.880 one of those yeah, go ahead. Sorry. I was like, maybe 546 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:15.840 maybe it was better that way. I don't know. Yeah, it's kind 547 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:17.000 of like nice to have, like a I don't know, it's like I 548 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:22.719 said, I think just everything just feels kind of lumped into that PG thirteen 549 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:24.480 thing. But this is one of the few PG movies from the eighties it 550 00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:29.960 actually has the effort in it, yeah right, which is like kind of 551 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:31.760 a weird, anomalish sort of thing, you know, Like I guess I 552 00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:35.679 look, it was in the trivia I was looking at where it's Katy Shack 553 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:42.400 two Beetlejuice Big in this movie. It's a very specific fraternity. Yeah. 554 00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.360 Yeah. By the way, as a kid, I definitely didn't get the 555 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:49.760 virgin alarm. Nope, not at all. Yeah, I was just gonna 556 00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:52.000 bring that up. Yeah. Ye. Did we mention Joan Rivers? I 557 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:59.320 can't remember we did, although we didn't talk about how she was brought in 558 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:05.400 late in the game. The original the original plan was for the actress who 559 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:08.159 was doing the mime for Dot Matrix. She was gonna do the voice Lorraine 560 00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:15.760 Yarnell, and for whatever reason, mel Brooks reached out to to Joan Rivers. 561 00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:22.599 I don't know why exactly. I would assume to sort of because because 562 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:24.920 I mean she was so well known, she had such a distinctive voice and 563 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:30.039 such a specific comedic sensibility. Maybe just to add a little extra humor, 564 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:35.880 right right, I mean obviously she's great, you know, Yeah, I 565 00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:38.519 mean but like even like Dom DeLuise, he has his voice cameo as Pizza 566 00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:45.079 of the Hut and stuff like that. So speaking of like, you know, 567 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:46.920 jokes, like as a kid, I probably found very funny the whole 568 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:54.440 you know, water water and matrix being like oil oil, And I'm sure 569 00:43:54.440 --> 00:44:00.239 I didn't get when they did that cross fade to the sun and then John 570 00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:06.960 Canny's like nice dissolve. Yeah, definitely that's as a grown up. Now. 571 00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:14.760 Yeah, we were talking about sequels earlier. This is my thirty five 572 00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:20.119 minute later transition, but I guess Rick Mandis had said that he had spoken 573 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:24.000 with mel Brooks about a potential sequel and they were pitching the title Spaceballs three 574 00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:29.639 the Search for Spaceballs two. That's pretty funny. I was like, that's 575 00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:35.400 good, that's good. I'm glad they didn't do a sequel, you know, 576 00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:38.360 And I think I can easily imagine a scenario where they would have and 577 00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:42.320 the next one would have been kind of a hot shots thing where it takes 578 00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:47.639 aim at a different yeah, right, right, But but I think it's 579 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:51.840 best left as a one and done. And I think that's borne out by 580 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:57.039 the fact that there was this animated series, yes, right, which was 581 00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:02.159 just freaking awful, kind of weird, right because it I don't have a 582 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.599 huge memory of it, the specifics of it, but I just remember it 583 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.000 felt like real, like sort of t and a humor and kind of like 584 00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.800 lowbrow kind of stuff, and it doesn't feel very Brooksy, I mean brooksy, 585 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.119 like it's such an I don't know why I keep repeating this stupid thing 586 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:19.840 that I'm saying, but like t he like he kind of like cheeky humor, 587 00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:23.199 you know, he doesn't go for the full like body raunchy sort of 588 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:29.599 stuff. So it just it didn't feel like connected. Yeah, and that's 589 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:31.920 doubly weird because mel Brooks was in it, daphnews an ego was in it, 590 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:37.880 Jo was in it, So I mean there was definitely connective tissue, 591 00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:43.960 right, just the style of humor didn't didn't fit. Oh and Dom Delawiz 592 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.320 also was in it, so wow, I didn't realize how how old the 593 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:52.679 show is. It's actually like fifteen years ago. I have to comment real 594 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:54.760 quick on that that ship that's hovering there, you can clearly see the mirror 595 00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.159 beneath it to you know, reflect the same. I mean, it's a 596 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:05.760 good old school trick, little little nod to Star Wars yep, the original, 597 00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:08.639 the land speed or Effect. Yeah, going back real quick to the 598 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:14.280 animated show. I think I've said this's on the show many many episodes ago, 599 00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:20.239 but our pals Shawn Coyle and I pitched a TV show to the network 600 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.039 that was developing Spaceball. So I think it's called G four G four yep, 601 00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:28.400 yep. And it was the only meeting that we ever took where someone 602 00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:31.079 was literally looking at their phone while we spoke to them and going uh huh 603 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:37.960 huh. And I was like like the stereotype of something, you know what 604 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.960 I mean, like of like a network executive. And I remember thinking like 605 00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:49.800 really, like this is really happening, Like yeah, but they they man 606 00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:53.719 four, Well, it sounds like nothing of value was lost. It like 607 00:46:53.920 --> 00:47:00.320 I'm thinking, but uh so, anyway, the jaw was sort of already 608 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:01.519 here. I mean, there's sort of this riff on the jawas kind of 609 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:05.840 the Munchkins from Wizards of Oz. Right, it's like sort of this hybrid 610 00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:07.280 thing. And then now this is straight up Wizard of Oz, right, 611 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:12.639 them arm arm approaching sort of like the Wizard at the end of our middle 612 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:20.280 Wizard of Oz. And the fact of that the Dinks that they're singing the 613 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:25.480 Bridge on the River choae music that was totally passed me by when I was 614 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:29.280 a kid. Oh, totally. Yeah. Actually, it's so funny. 615 00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:30.519 I'm just so used to I don't even think about it, like that's yeah 616 00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:38.960 Brooks. I have to admit, as as a kid, it didn't even 617 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:43.960 occur to me that he's just on his knees. Yeah, right, right 618 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:45.039 right, I'm like, no, he's just short. And I was like 619 00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:50.079 amazed, he's like short there, and he's like tall there, what's going 620 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:52.800 on here? Magic? Yeah, He's just he's just on his knees. 621 00:47:53.760 --> 00:48:00.559 Yeah, it's so simple. That makeup is actually pretty good, I think. 622 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:05.440 So. Yeah, Now, was this the first Mel Brooks movie that 623 00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:12.000 you ever saw? Almost certainly, Yeah, yeah. I mean I'm guessing 624 00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:16.519 I was like eight or nine or something, so probably like this feels like 625 00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:21.880 sleeping over to friend's house, going to the video store, you know, 626 00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:25.599 picking Spaceballs for the fourth time. Like that's kind of my memory of watching 627 00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:30.159 this movie as a kid, So I'm sure it's probably the beginning of that. 628 00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:36.000 Yeah you uh yeah, oh, without a doubt. Yeah, but 629 00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:43.559 like I knew the name mel Brooks. Yeah yeah, this is great now 630 00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:47.400 this but you can see that there's like a on the coloring book right there, 631 00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.920 there's Optimist Prime. Yes, you know, they just they just took 632 00:48:53.039 --> 00:49:00.360 random existing stuff and just threw a Spaceball's logo on it. Hilarious with you, 633 00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:09.039 yeah, playing with their grow goo No, yes, you're right. 634 00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:14.440 The flames, I remember that cracking me up as a kid. Baseball is 635 00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:20.960 the flame Thrower. Kids love this one. There's a little little scandalous. 636 00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:23.480 I remember watching this as a kid and it being awkward that my parents were 637 00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:30.480 in the room, right right, But it is very it's like cheeky, 638 00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:37.159 you know, that's right. Yeah, it's like just this side of Benny 639 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.400 Hill. Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh my gosh, what a 640 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:46.639 great chokes combing The desert. Well, what's great. It's it's like levels 641 00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:51.239 of great because it's funny enough that they're combing and then you've got the black 642 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:55.199 guy who's combing it with the afro pick right, exactly right. And it's 643 00:49:55.239 --> 00:50:00.840 funny too because it's like the ace comb. It's not just like ah comb, 644 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.920 it's like they look like oversized, Like honey, I blew up the 645 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.920 kid, you know, like took these real combs that you used to have 646 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:10.519 in your pocket. You know. There's yeah, there's a lot of layers 647 00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:17.239 of this. We found shit. It's good. I love too how the 648 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:21.320 movie like sort of like hangs there for a second because they know you're laughing, 649 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:24.559 right, we gotta give you a second. This this right here though 650 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:37.400 when when he's it's like a right, right, more more right. I 651 00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:42.639 was just clearing my throat. So if this is another thing too, where 652 00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:44.880 like I wonder if I were to make a Star Wars parody, if I 653 00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.800 would be you know, too faithful to the original material and trying to riff 654 00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.599 on certain things. But I love that it's like always got this medallion and 655 00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:55.000 he doesn't know what it means, and you know, find out has something 656 00:50:55.079 --> 00:50:59.000 to do with this lineage, like all this original stuff is pretty good. 657 00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:02.920 But that's the funny thing is that mel Brooks said he wanted to be as 658 00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:08.320 close as possible to Star Wars, right, And I mean, I guess 659 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:12.440 it just sort of depends on perspective, because I mean in many ways he 660 00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:15.360 is, you know, right, like that's I think he was smart enough 661 00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:20.800 to I mean he's he's mel Brooks. He's got story sense. Yeah, 662 00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:25.079 yeah, so he knows he knew how to create a story within this framework. 663 00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:30.039 That hit because you know, if we say that Star Wars is you 664 00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:32.840 know, power of myth and archetypes and blah blah blah, well he's just 665 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:37.599 mel Brooks is touching on those same archetypes. He's just doing it with kind 666 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.880 of a you know, with with a raised eyebrow. Yeah yeah, and 667 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:46.920 sort of the Star Wars setting slash characters. That's right, you know this 668 00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:57.199 this is such a good character jokes, Daisy. Yeah, but that that 669 00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:05.039 big flat yeah right, I had read too that. I guess this was 670 00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:08.800 the highest budget mel Brooks ever had, about twenty two twenty five million. 671 00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:15.079 Yeah, and in comparison to that, like the movie did okay, But 672 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:20.920 I don't know because it made It made thirty eight million, right, which 673 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.800 I don't know if in nineteen eighty seven dollars that's considered like a hit in 674 00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:29.559 a Yeah, things have changed so much, Whereas now you know, you 675 00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:31.599 look at a budget, it's more than just a budget. You have to 676 00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:35.599 make back. It's like you know, marketing, which is like, you 677 00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:37.480 know, double the budget and that's right. So I don't I don't know 678 00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:45.320 how that with the I mean, it looked like that it opened in uh 679 00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:57.000 second place. I think, yeah, that's right, Like like the movie 680 00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:02.559 Dragnet did better, wow, which you know what I mean, Like like 681 00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:08.519 look at this twenty million budget for Dragnet and it made sixty six and a 682 00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:15.039 half. Wow. Wow. So Dragnett was an unquestionable hit. Now do 683 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:17.800 you think the adults in that day and age, and I am even saying 684 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:22.719 like young adults, like they knew what Dragnett was and so that was sort 685 00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:27.800 of hitting them in the fields. Whereas this was like we had to sort 686 00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:30.719 of wait for this on VHS because the Star Wars generation was maybe a little 687 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.559 too young to go to the theater for this. And then that's how like 688 00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:37.960 in video and beyond it became in dear to us. That is a great 689 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:43.280 question. I think that let's say, Dragnet eighty seven, right, so 690 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:52.519 the TV show what probably ran until the early seventies, I think probably right, 691 00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:54.960 so, and it was been in rerun, so it was well known 692 00:53:55.039 --> 00:54:02.039 and the movie was like a parody. So yeah, I would assume that 693 00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:07.079 would have played differently. Yeah, because the whole I mean, dragon, 694 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:10.159 it's not a good movie, but the whole bit, the entire stick of 695 00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:15.599 the movie Dragnet is here's Dan Ackroyd doing like a spot on Jack Web impression, 696 00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:19.760 right, right, So the only way that works is if you have 697 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:25.880 knowledge of Jack Web and the original to compare it with, right, Whereas 698 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:31.599 yeah, I mean in comparison, this one just did okay. Yeah, 699 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:38.000 but I'm sure like it's it's post theatrical life has been you know, exceeded. 700 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:39.880 That's a completely different story. I mean, I mean, who talks 701 00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:45.800 about the Dragnet movie now? Right now? It feels like when that comes 702 00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:47.239 up and that's a dump on that movie. I've never actually never seen it, 703 00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:51.920 but it's a piece of shit. Brian, I don't will not have 704 00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:54.559 you defending Dragnet. I was gonna say, the only thing I think people 705 00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:59.159 remember now is that rap video? The rap video, well, Dragnet. 706 00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:00.559 For me, first time I ever saw Tom Hanks was in dragging It, 707 00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:06.119 so oh really, I bet for me it was probably Joe versus the Volcano, 708 00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:09.320 which was after right, it was like nineteen nine, eighty nine or 709 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:15.920 something, Yeah, or maybe Big I don't know anyway anyway, Spaceballs, 710 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:19.519 Yeah, but yeah, this whole ring component. Actually, I kind of 711 00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:24.079 remember as a kid not digging the ring thing because it didn't feel Star Wars 712 00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:29.679 e to me interesting, Like I kind of wanted lightsabers, and like the 713 00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:31.280 ring would just look like something you could get at the Dennis's office out of 714 00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:37.000 the treasure chest in a crackerjack box. Yeah yeah, well yeah, yeah, 715 00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:40.760 Well meet again in space Balls too, the Search for More Money. 716 00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:46.559 That's a funny joke. Yeah, it's good. I was reading that the 717 00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:52.280 makeup gave him mel Brooks a rash, which sounds I believe it. I 718 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:53.679 feel like I was getting a rash just looking at him in that makeup. 719 00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:00.760 Yeah. Yeah, oh this right here, the yeah dark helmet playing with 720 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:07.079 his dolls do look pretty good too. By the way, I'll bet you 721 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:10.199 if you were to go on like Etsy or something. You could find these 722 00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:16.280 dolls totally totally right, Like, even if they're not official, I'm sure 723 00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:22.159 they exist. Yeah yeah, yeah, but no, like I remember as 724 00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:27.079 a kid cracking up at this, Oh my god, I was rolling yeah 725 00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:29.760 yeah, yeah, and then the guy interrupting him, like, you know, 726 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:32.800 I could see you're playing with their dolls again, Yeah, exactly. 727 00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:45.400 Rick maranis man. He It's like it's such a shame the way he just 728 00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:49.480 disappeared, you know, I mean, when we know the family reasons and 729 00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:52.559 this and that that he stepped away from the industry, but it's like such 730 00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:57.960 a consistent source of comedy gold. Yeah. He was one of those guys 731 00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:01.719 that didn't matter what the movie was, you certainly loved him, you know. 732 00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:05.320 And that's right, He's just one of those guys into this day. 733 00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:08.119 I think he's he's very A whole generation is very, very endeared to him 734 00:57:08.159 --> 00:57:12.519 and misses him and wishes he would come back for sure. Well, and 735 00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:17.320 and I think that his career has outlasted our generation. Like I think that 736 00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:22.920 between Spaceballs and Ghostbusters and even Honey I shrunk the kid. You have, 737 00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:29.320 you know, people who've grown up in the thirty years since who who love 738 00:57:29.559 --> 00:57:32.000 Rick Moranus. Yeah, yeah, which is great, and I hope he 739 00:57:32.079 --> 00:57:36.559 knows that. You know, you want you want those people to just know 740 00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:40.440 how much they mean to the people grow up with him. It's a funny 741 00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:45.480 joke too. The screen the toilet. You know you never use this one. 742 00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:53.559 She looks a camera. I am a sucker for breaking the fourth wall 743 00:57:54.840 --> 00:57:58.000 when it's done the right way. When it's done the right way, I 744 00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:04.679 think the peak breaking the fourth wall is trading places when oh sure, explaining 745 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:08.559 pork whatever you know, as a Eddie Murphy and like a blt sandwich and 746 00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:12.679 they're totally talking down to him, and Eddie Murphy just looks straight at camera 747 00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:15.000 and then it just cuts away like it's that's that's my favorite one. But 748 00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:22.199 yeah, there's Brenda Strong as the nurse. Wait. I don't know Brenda 749 00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:31.280 Strong from you know in Seinfeld she was the braw less wonder Brenda Strong is. 750 00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:37.440 She was the narrator of Desperate Housewives. Oh really, oh wait, 751 00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:42.039 okay, okay, okay, Like you know, in the first episode she 752 00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:45.719 kills herself, her character and then she ghost is like narrating the whole series. 753 00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:46.719 So that was her. She's been in a bunch of stuff. Yeah. 754 00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:51.480 Anyway, that's rue. That was like a very early two thousands thing, 755 00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:53.239 wasn't it like sort of like American Beauty too, Like, Hi, 756 00:58:53.800 --> 00:58:58.199 I'm dead now, but I'm gonna tell you about my life in suburbias. 757 00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:04.639 Does feel like that? Yeah? Uh? Oh. Dick Van Patton, 758 00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:07.719 by the way, I didn't mention him at all. Uh. He was, 759 00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:13.440 of course well known for Just The Ten of Us. No, not 760 00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:15.880 so no, sorry, eight is enough? Which one just the Ten of 761 00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:20.519 Us was the later one? Oh eight is enough? Maybe eight is enough? 762 00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:24.119 Yeah, yeah, which I have to imagine that title comes from his 763 00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:37.800 wife telling him to climb off of her eight is enough. Yeah, I 764 00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:52.679 don't know that's right, that's right, because that was definitely my thought with 765 00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:54.719 just the Ten of Us. I'm like, dude, leave her alone. 766 00:59:57.079 --> 01:00:05.840 My god, did get a hobby is enough place? Dick Van Patton must 767 01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:10.480 have been some kind of a sexual dynamo for his wife to just keep popping 768 01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:15.079 kids out for him. Jeez, Louise, that's hilarious. But anyway, 769 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:21.119 Dick Page, he's also he's the the the abbot in Robin Hadman and Tights. 770 01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:23.840 Oh right yeah yeah. Wait. By the way, I love this 771 01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:28.840 joke. The combination, same combination on my luggage. Yeah, yeah, 772 01:00:29.119 --> 01:00:31.559 sounds like something an idiot would have for his luggage. That the same yeah, 773 01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:38.119 combination of my luggage. I love it. You know, that's why 774 01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:42.719 we we were way past the joke, but I did want to point out 775 01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:45.199 the whole beaming thing and how he's like this time I'll walk and then it's 776 01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:50.880 like the next remote right right exactly. Yeah, that's really funny. Yeah. 777 01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:59.840 Yeah, that's like a good riff on the storm Cheoper outfits here there, 778 01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:05.000 I think so. Yeah. I love too that the two guys are 779 01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:09.480 like perfectly. They have the physique like Barla John Candy physique and a Bill 780 01:01:09.519 --> 01:01:13.079 Pullman physique. Yeah. I'm gonna be honest, I didn't even think about 781 01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:25.079 it. He's so right, you're in the rest for illegal parking a giant 782 01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:32.639 key. So funny. Yeah, that's it's like kind of a cool evokes 783 01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:36.880 Stormtroopers, but it's kind of it's cool own design. I like it covers 784 01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:46.079 the eyes. Yeah. Yeah. I was reading somewhere that they used you 785 01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:51.119 know, blue screen on this movie, but at the time, like people 786 01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:53.559 were worried that it could hurt your eyes. So in between takes, cast 787 01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:59.960 and crew were wearing sunglasses. Wait, blue screen? Yeah is that funny? 788 01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:04.800 But I mean blue screens have been around, right, I mean I 789 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:07.840 don't know. I mean, yeah, that's just something I read what you 790 01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:10.239 can imagine in the early days when it's like you don't know, you're just 791 01:02:10.360 --> 01:02:15.880 like, I don't know, Like it's pretty striking. This. I have 792 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:19.199 to say that nobody knows things like that. This was the movie that introduced 793 01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:22.639 me to that as the thing that you sing when you're stuck in prison. 794 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:27.000 Totally, totally, so I make sure to whenever I'm in prison, I 795 01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:30.920 make sure to sing that song. Right. And it's funny like hearing her 796 01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:39.880 deep voice and it's good kid, jim See, it's perfect, just like 797 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:53.239 Star Wars enough to evoke I forgot too, Like it's funny because it started 798 01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:57.000 kicking in my head even though it hasn't happened yet that there's actually like a 799 01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:00.920 theme that plays during the action in this space deals. Yeah that's right, 800 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:14.239 do do do do? Like? Yeah? This is like so like old 801 01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:16.440 school and it's like a guy in his underwear, like here's boxer shorts. 802 01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:22.440 You know, he just had his uniform ticket from him, right, but 803 01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:25.960 even when you think about it, even like the lasers, they all like, 804 01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:30.039 it looks correct, it looks great. Yeah, you know, like 805 01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:36.880 that stuff that if you're it's weird, how like you have to sort of 806 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:39.599 buy the reality of this world, even though it is a satirical world. 807 01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:46.119 Ryan. So the fact that they did go to ilm to do the effects 808 01:03:46.199 --> 01:03:51.320 like that, that ended up paying dividends, I think in terms of the 809 01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:57.800 movie being perceived as as more credible, if that makes any sense. That's 810 01:03:57.800 --> 01:03:59.920 a good joke right here, by the way, I was just gonna say 811 01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:03.920 laser beams and linking to the exactly it gets so like looney Tunes. But 812 01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:06.280 what's funny is what I was saying earlier, where it's like the lighting, 813 01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:09.920 like they didn't overlight it, like sometimes you see comedies and it's just so 814 01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:12.960 bright. It's like, hey, comedy, like just trying to lighten the 815 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:16.519 moody. But this is filmed and lit like you know, like an action 816 01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:20.119 film. And so when you get that ridiculous joke of the lasers going through 817 01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:25.320 those tubes, like it's funnier because you're seeing that in a setting where that 818 01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:29.480 shouldn't. By the way, this this right here this is iconic, iconic. 819 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:38.840 Oh and what's his name there? Yeah, it's it's it's the the 820 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:48.719 groundog day guy. Oh dude, I can't believe this is what's what's his 821 01:04:48.840 --> 01:04:55.519 name? I know I could say ed Ryerson, but like that's Tablowski Tobalowski. 822 01:04:55.960 --> 01:04:59.440 There you go, Stephen Tobalowski. Yes, you captured their stunt doubles. 823 01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:05.960 Great joke. It's like a princess best buzz, like so good. 824 01:05:10.199 --> 01:05:12.800 Can you just see them in the room writing that. It's like, well, 825 01:05:12.840 --> 01:05:14.840 they capture them, like how do they get out? It's like they 826 01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:25.960 captured their stunt doubles, you know. Like great joke. With apologies to 827 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:30.079 Stephen Tobolski. I know he's gonna listen to this with just a single tear 828 01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:36.199 rolling down his cheek. This is funny. I remember thinking this was funny 829 01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:45.679 too, her sort of going on Swartz nigger and everyone's flying away, don't 830 01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:58.719 mess with their hair. Yep. So this was This movie came out in 831 01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:04.000 in July of or rather June of eighty seven, and eighty seven was packed. 832 01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:08.920 Really eighty seven's kind of yeah, tell me, tell me, I 833 01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:10.960 can never I can always be like, oh eighty eight. Yeah, this 834 01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:14.039 eighty nine this, but I can't think of eighty seven besides like three minute 835 01:06:14.079 --> 01:06:17.199 a Baby eight. Wow, I wouldn't have thought of that, to be 836 01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:20.639 honest. Eighty seven just just off the top of my well, there's Dragnet, 837 01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:26.239 Brian, I think we've established that. But RoboCop was that summer, 838 01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:33.679 The Intouchables was that summer. Superman four, Masters of the Universe. There's 839 01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:36.760 more, but those are the one, yeah, weirdly, the other one 840 01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:40.599 I think of his Secret of My Success another one where it's like, I 841 01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:42.760 don't know why, that's the one that comes to my head. But yeah, 842 01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:46.559 right, La Bambo was that summer? Okay, Okay, I definitely 843 01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:50.440 remember that good year. And of course Jaws the Revenge. Can't forget, 844 01:06:50.960 --> 01:06:59.519 I can't forget, right right right? Yeah. Interesting when I look at 845 01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:04.880 like the top box office hits for summer of eighty seven, number one was 846 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:11.239 Beverly Hills Cop to Beverly Hills Cop Two, which made one hundred and fifty 847 01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:15.000 three million dollars in nineteen eighty seven dollars, and wow, that is bananas, 848 01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:23.360 and then Spaceballs is way down at number fourteen. Okay, just underneath 849 01:07:23.519 --> 01:07:30.719 Brian, the Secret of My Success Hey there you go. Yeah. Wow, 850 01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:33.719 kind of an interesting actually, Like I'm just I'm looking at this list 851 01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:39.239 and it's like preda all Predator was that summer else? I do, of 852 01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:43.679 course, right? Uh, snow White was re released Full Metal Jacket. 853 01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:47.079 I definitely remember that too, The Living Daylights. I think I can't remember 854 01:07:47.079 --> 01:07:53.719 if I mentioned Rock San Revenge of the Nerds too. Wow, what a 855 01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:57.239 weird lost Boys, Harry and the Henderson's. Wow. This is making sense 856 01:07:57.239 --> 01:07:59.280 to me though, because a lot of the movies you're saying that are now 857 01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:02.280 staples from me, Predator and all that RoboCop and all that. I was 858 01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:05.199 too young for those movies at the time, so I don't think I equate 859 01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:12.320 them with that moment like they I equated later or something. By the way, 860 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.039 we got a COFKA joke in there, right, because the Mega made 861 01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:21.920 metamorphosis, Yes, definitely. Oh yeah, what you didn't Brian when you 862 01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:27.319 were eight? But yes, I remember thinking this was hilarious. I guess 863 01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:29.960 you do get a little bit of a death Star here, its own version 864 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:35.479 of it, right, the spaceballs the ship turns into Mega made. Look 865 01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:39.319 at how proud he was after that when he looked away from the Timpani player. 866 01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:43.119 I'm serious. I think he might be the secret MVP of this movie. 867 01:08:44.119 --> 01:08:47.520 He is so good. I think a lot of the jokes land because 868 01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:53.640 of his delivery. Absolutely, yes, yeah, yep. Now they're gonna 869 01:08:53.640 --> 01:08:56.359 suck all the air out of you idiot. That's a good plot. You 870 01:08:56.399 --> 01:08:58.600 know, let's get this bubble around it, which seemed like, oh, 871 01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:01.680 that's you know, like a lot. But then Rogue one did it right, 872 01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:05.880 put a whole shield around the planet. Ah, yeah, there there 873 01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:10.720 you go. Maybe maybe that's they got their inspiration from this. Yeah. 874 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:17.399 I don't know if that was intentional, but when they're sucking all this stuff 875 01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:23.199 of the mountain, it sort of looked like the Paramount Mountain. Oh yeah, 876 01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:30.039 I can't imagine that was my design. Yeah, it's like a funny 877 01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:34.199 idea. Just as big handheld vacuum cleaner taking it expand, the bag is 878 01:09:34.239 --> 01:09:47.439 expanding with all the oxygen from the planet. That's pretty good. It's I 879 01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:50.600 mean, going back to what we were saying earlier, Like, I know 880 01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:55.520 mel Brooks was like disappointed that that, you know, the big names he 881 01:09:55.640 --> 01:10:00.640 wanted didn't do this movie, but like who else, you know, Bill 882 01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:08.840 puls he offered it to Tom Hanks, and Tom Hanks did Dragnet instead, 883 01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:14.039 So although I can kind of picture Tom Hanks like eighties Tom Hanks, I 884 01:10:14.119 --> 01:10:17.479 can see it. It would be different, though the characterization would be very 885 01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:21.399 like because I think, I think what works with Pullman is that he has 886 01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:27.760 leading man like classic sort of action hero looks, you know what I mean? 887 01:10:28.239 --> 01:10:30.600 No, you know, I I think you're right, you're right, 888 01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:32.960 because he is funny. He does the comedy well, but yeah he is 889 01:10:33.159 --> 01:10:38.439 like leading man forward, you know, like in roguish and handsome, and 890 01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:43.119 so you kind of got the best of everything with him, right because because 891 01:10:43.159 --> 01:10:45.960 Tom Hanks, especially at that time, was like the goofy guy, like 892 01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:48.399 that's what he was known as. Yeah, you're right, you're right. 893 01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:57.479 He would have been a little more comedian ish because because Pullman is essentially doing 894 01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:06.680 a riff on Hanslo but funny here, yeah, yeah, right. Going 895 01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:13.640 into the year, Oh boy, this is like a random thing I had 896 01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:16.600 written down and before I forget, but I guess mel Brooks for Yogurt wanted 897 01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:21.680 Jean Wilder. I can see that me too. I was like, oh, 898 01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:28.159 I can picture that, he can picture his sort of that unique sort 899 01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:30.840 of soft delivery he had with like a little bit in his eye. Did 900 01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:36.199 Gene Wilder just not want to do it? No? His quote Brooks's quote 901 01:11:36.239 --> 01:11:41.399 was if Jean Wilder hadn't abandoned me to do his own movies. So I 902 01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:43.600 think it's kind of like, oh, you know, of course, good 903 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:46.960 for him, but I miss I miss my friend. Gotcha, Yeah, 904 01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:55.119 I can leave. This sounds good, doesn't it. That's yeah, I 905 01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:58.560 mean well, and not just that, I mean this is we talk about 906 01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:02.800 how how how strenuously it sticks to Star Wars. I mean, it's doing 907 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:08.319 something totally different at this point. Yep, this is the Death Star trench 908 01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:12.600 run or whatever, you know, right, but going along with what we 909 01:12:12.640 --> 01:12:16.760 were saying earlier too, where it looks like the movies it's trying to be 910 01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:19.960 versus a comedy. I mean, like, I think something that's helped is 911 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:24.039 that the visual effects too, don't take you out of the movie. They 912 01:12:24.119 --> 01:12:26.800 look so good that you're just like, okay, like you know what I 913 01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.039 mean, Like you're kind of helps you to get invested in the actual plot 914 01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:35.479 of it instead of that feeling silly too. You know, it's interesting because 915 01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:42.520 because it does feel like this was kind of I mean, mel Brooks stuck 916 01:12:42.600 --> 01:12:46.239 around, he made he made more movies after this, But like this style 917 01:12:46.479 --> 01:12:55.199 of humor which was probably deemed you know, kind of you know, it 918 01:12:55.760 --> 01:13:00.039 was rebellious at the time, but it almost felt a little outdated when compared 919 01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:05.239 with sort of the naked Gun style just like a year later. Sure, 920 01:13:05.760 --> 01:13:10.680 sure, right, because because like now we sort of put this in the 921 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:14.399 same column as the Naked Gun, but their their approaches are very different. 922 01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:18.760 Yeah, definitely, right, And and I think and and then arguably Naked 923 01:13:18.840 --> 01:13:23.119 Gun, which you know, hotshots, is part of that same thing that 924 01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:27.279 then led to sort of this this vein of comedy, which now we end 925 01:13:27.399 --> 01:13:32.520 up with a Freeberg and Seltzer and that whatever those guys do. Yeah, 926 01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:36.279 And you know, I was just listening to a screenwriting podcast the other day 927 01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:40.800 and Paul Fiek was on it, and they were talking about like movies like 928 01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:42.960 Spy and they're like, you know, like a parody of Bond films, 929 01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:45.680 because well, I want to point out that it's not a parody, you 930 01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:46.840 know, it's like I like Bond movies and I want to make a type 931 01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:50.359 of Bond movie. And he was basically saying that like parody to him was 932 01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:53.920 almost like a dirty word, and I was like, oh, how sad, 933 01:13:54.279 --> 01:13:59.600 Like good parodies are fantastic, you know, right, yeah, but 934 01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:04.159 I mean I think to that point, yeah, like is Austin Powers a 935 01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:09.079 parody of James Bond? Like is this just about the terminology we're using? 936 01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:12.439 Yeah, maybe that's the It was sort of like Christopher guess how he doesn't 937 01:14:12.439 --> 01:14:15.239 like the word mockumentary, you know, so like maybe it's like I don't 938 01:14:15.239 --> 01:14:21.359 want to reduce airplane, naked Guns, spaceballs to just one word, right, 939 01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:26.079 whatever that style is. I do miss the good version of it, 940 01:14:27.479 --> 01:14:29.920 right, you know yeah, I mean well to that point, like Airplane 941 01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:33.479 was before this, yes, and that's one of the funniest movies ever made. 942 01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:40.000 But it's not a mel Brooks style movie, right right, you know? 943 01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:43.840 Yeah, but but there there's there you could say there are similarities, 944 01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:46.720 you know, and like, yeah, situational sort of things that happen in 945 01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:51.119 like a serious setting and riffing on a movie. I mean Airplane is like 946 01:14:51.119 --> 01:14:56.520 a riff on whatever that old movie is. Yeah, at the zero hour, 947 01:14:56.560 --> 01:14:59.640 I think, yeah, yeah, but you're but but but different styles 948 01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:01.239 and different voices for sure, you know, Like I just I just wish 949 01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:05.479 we we kind of had geniuses that were still speaking that language. I think 950 01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:09.960 that would be that's Oh, by the way, this the whole bit with 951 01:15:10.119 --> 01:15:14.359 how you have to put the ring in front of your dong totally missed me 952 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.479 when I was a kid. Yeah, no, no me. I mean 953 01:15:16.520 --> 01:15:19.520 I knew it was funny because they were doing it, but I don't think 954 01:15:19.560 --> 01:15:23.720 I really thought about it, you know, like, yeah, I mean 955 01:15:23.840 --> 01:15:28.520 it. I was completely clueless. I had no idea what made that funny 956 01:15:28.640 --> 01:15:42.960 until right these this good sabor effects yep, killing you can hear the music. 957 01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:49.399 Yeah, he did it, So, I mean, that's that's funny. 958 01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:54.039 I was just watching something the other day where they're pointing at a crew 959 01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:56.600 member. Oh I was. I think we were talking about Wayens World two, 960 01:15:57.399 --> 01:15:59.319 you know, and they switched the actor out and then like a crew 961 01:15:59.359 --> 01:16:01.600 member comes into the movie. But yeah, those sort of jokes always get 962 01:16:01.640 --> 01:16:15.239 me. It's just hilarious. I got my shorts twisted. It's good because 963 01:16:15.399 --> 01:16:20.000 mel Brooks after this, Like I'm trying to think about what are like the 964 01:16:20.039 --> 01:16:23.479 big movies he did after this, I mean, men in Tights, But 965 01:16:23.640 --> 01:16:26.880 that was I feel like there's something in between this and Men in Tights. 966 01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:32.199 Right, he did some movie Life Stinks or something, right, which I 967 01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:36.039 don't know that I've seen, but I don't think it's a riff on anything 968 01:16:36.119 --> 01:16:45.560 like, it's just a okay and then yeah, Robin Hood, like yeah, 969 01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:51.199 Robin Hood is another example. Life Stinks was nineteen ninety one, okay, 970 01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:55.880 and then Men in Tights was nineteen eighty three. Men in Tights, 971 01:16:55.960 --> 01:16:59.000 I know for a fact, was not particularly well regarded when it came out. 972 01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:01.359 Yeah, it's one of those things with the age where you appreciate how 973 01:17:01.399 --> 01:17:05.079 good we had it. I think I find it hilarious. Yeah, you 974 01:17:05.119 --> 01:17:08.079 know what I mean for others. I loved it when it came out. 975 01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:12.680 Yeah, right, But I mean that's it's kind of the same thing with 976 01:17:12.840 --> 01:17:15.239 Spaceballs though, right, like where it's is it just that now that people 977 01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:19.359 like. My point is I haven't seen some kind of effort to reclaim you 978 01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:23.640 know, Dracula dead and loving it. Nobody's staying their neck out for that 979 01:17:23.720 --> 01:17:30.319 one. Right. Yeah. This this, this like totally cracked hup as 980 01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:34.439 a kid here there. Oh, I can't believe you bought it, man, 981 01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:42.399 you want it back? Whoop? This is the best line of all 982 01:17:42.520 --> 01:17:48.960 time because good is dumb. Now you see why evil will always triumph because 983 01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:53.680 good is dumb. This is hilarious too, by the way, where he's 984 01:17:53.720 --> 01:17:57.199 just doing the flips and everything. That's that's really funny too. There's a 985 01:17:57.319 --> 01:18:00.199 date dated reference, too bad. This isn't the Wide World of Sports, 986 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:06.039 right, that's like pre ESPN. It must have been, right, you 987 01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:10.399 know, where you like, maybe for an hour on Saturday, there'd be 988 01:18:10.399 --> 01:18:13.960 a sports recap show called The Wide World of Sports. Now we got a 989 01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:24.600 whole network, or five of them. There's a few. Yeah, say 990 01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:29.359 good bye to your two best friends. That's another funny one. I don't 991 01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:33.039 know if I got that really well. Now like caught it. You're two 992 01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:44.720 best friends. Thank you for pressing the self destruct button. This is where 993 01:18:44.760 --> 01:18:48.359 the song kicks in, right, that's right? Yeah, well, how 994 01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:51.640 are we Paris that that joke? I think I say that all the time. 995 01:18:54.439 --> 01:19:00.840 That's specific siren, You know, that's really funny. That's one of 996 01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:04.600 those jokes too, where it's like it's irreversible, like my raincoat. Like 997 01:19:05.680 --> 01:19:09.840 that's one of those jokes where if I will laugh and someone will be like, 998 01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:11.880 why are you laughing at that? And I'll be like, I don't 999 01:19:12.079 --> 01:19:16.079 know, like it sounds funny, like like my raincoat, Like it's just 1000 01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:21.039 he's so sincere and saying it like I don't even know if it is that 1001 01:19:21.119 --> 01:19:28.359 funny on its face, but it's hilarious the execution. And then there's this 1002 01:19:28.479 --> 01:19:30.039 whole world going on on the ship. It's so big. You have these 1003 01:19:30.079 --> 01:19:38.319 people from the circus and tumblers and people running around in a panic. Oh 1004 01:19:38.399 --> 01:19:41.439 man, by the way, the oh yeah, go ahead, you go 1005 01:19:41.560 --> 01:19:45.079 first. I was just real quick, like I was. I was thinking 1006 01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:49.920 about how Robin Hood men in tights, you know, Bill Pullman and carry 1007 01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:56.199 always kind of doing something similar. Yeah. Yeah, they sort of have 1008 01:19:56.319 --> 01:19:59.000 to react to everything happening around them, and I think that's what makes them 1009 01:19:59.039 --> 01:20:02.039 funny here, you know. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about this. 1010 01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:09.359 The pods and the those now those pods sequences, the eject those are actually 1011 01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:13.239 from Star Wars. They weren't used. Oh that's cool. They look great, 1012 01:20:13.399 --> 01:20:15.239 I mean obviously. Yeah, that's why it's like they were just sitting 1013 01:20:15.279 --> 01:20:19.439 in a drawer like that right there. That's you know, from the beginning 1014 01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:23.760 of Star Wars. That blends right in. Yeah, i'd read the way 1015 01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:28.279 they did that was they just the camera had the camera like facing down towards 1016 01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:30.239 the ground and they just dropped the things through the shoot. But you know, 1017 01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:34.279 with the lighting and the perspective, it looks like they're being propelled out. 1018 01:20:35.159 --> 01:20:43.720 That's brilliant. Yeah, I remember that line being edited on television because 1019 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:45.079 I think I had this recorded off of TV, so I have that sort 1020 01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:49.279 of unique experience with certain movies where I know the TV version. Yeah, 1021 01:20:51.119 --> 01:20:56.479 this is so definitely kind of fair trying to put his paws together like a 1022 01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:10.560 seat fill. That joke's evergreen, Zachie, that joke's always funny. I 1023 01:21:10.680 --> 01:21:14.479 love the way that they go to the three seven staircases here too. Yeah, 1024 01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:19.760 cancelation. But so this woman who's doing the self destruct count down voice, 1025 01:21:19.840 --> 01:21:25.479 she's the script supervisor, Julie pitt Cannon. I worked with her get 1026 01:21:25.520 --> 01:21:29.159 out of here. Yeah, And someone told me one day even yeah, 1027 01:21:29.199 --> 01:21:31.039 even the future. In other words, I just don't want to talk to 1028 01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:33.239 word. This is so funny, Like I just love that. This is 1029 01:21:33.279 --> 01:21:35.479 like the stuff that cracks you up when people hold each other like that, 1030 01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:42.520 like sort of three Stooges style on that she misses seven Just kidding, Yeah, 1031 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:46.159 just kidding. Yeah, But anyway, I worked on a movie called 1032 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:49.159 Lucky You and she was a script supervisor and someone pointed out, yeah, 1033 01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:53.199 she's the voice at the end of Spaceballs because she worked on that. So 1034 01:21:53.279 --> 01:21:55.479 I went up to her and I was talking to her about it was really 1035 01:21:56.119 --> 01:22:00.439 surreal. That's so random, like just just she was there. So they 1036 01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:04.039 had her do it. I guess maybe she did it on set being the 1037 01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:08.199 script supervisor and they're like, hey, that voice is perfect. Yeah, 1038 01:22:08.439 --> 01:22:16.640 wow, good explosion too. By the way, well they they put those 1039 01:22:16.680 --> 01:22:23.880 money into the special effects. So you wait, Okay, had you seen 1040 01:22:23.960 --> 01:22:30.199 Planet of the Apes yet? So I had not seen the movie, but 1041 01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:35.680 I knew of it and I knew how it ended. However, yeah, 1042 01:22:35.720 --> 01:22:42.920 I definitely did not see the movie until probably at least two years after I 1043 01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:48.399 watched this. Yeah this right here, the he got trapped in his limo, 1044 01:22:48.520 --> 01:23:02.640 he ate himself to death. Pizza that ate himself to death? Oh 1045 01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:10.199 yeah, yeah, I remember this being really funny. Yeah, had five 1046 01:23:10.279 --> 01:23:15.560 happened yet? No? That's yeah, that's because Rocky five was nineteen ninety 1047 01:23:15.159 --> 01:23:18.720 mm hmm okay, so that would have been next. Yeah. Yeah, 1048 01:23:18.800 --> 01:23:30.920 yeah, it's funny. That's a pretty good Matt painting. I was about 1049 01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:33.680 to say, I was like, hey, that looks like planet what's a 1050 01:23:33.960 --> 01:23:40.319 planet alder On like we see in the Yeah, the prequels. Yeah, 1051 01:23:40.399 --> 01:23:43.560 I mean it's probably the thing I've repeated myself most on this, but I'm 1052 01:23:44.319 --> 01:23:48.520 as I'm studying this movie watching it, like I'm just appreciating the visual effect 1053 01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:51.880 or special effects like I never I guess I didn't really thought about them until 1054 01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:56.359 now, But it's they really go a long way and selling the film in 1055 01:23:56.479 --> 01:24:00.159 the comedy. Well it it it good gets to what we've been talking about 1056 01:24:00.159 --> 01:24:04.239 a lot, which is sort of the ramshackle, thrown together nature of some 1057 01:24:04.319 --> 01:24:09.159 of these parodies that are made these days. You know. Yeah, so 1058 01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:11.680 like, oh, it's not the Hunger by Did you see the Millennium Falcon? 1059 01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:14.319 Yeah, I was going to point that out. Yeah, outside the 1060 01:24:14.399 --> 01:24:17.159 diner you can see the millennium falcon. That's right. But when yeah, 1061 01:24:17.159 --> 01:24:19.199 when you do like, hey, we're not doing the hunger Games, We're 1062 01:24:19.199 --> 01:24:24.800 doing the starving games. Get it, You're like, oh boy, you're 1063 01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:28.039 in for some rough sledding over the next ninety minutes. You know. Right 1064 01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:34.199 now, now this joke right here with with John Hurt. I think what 1065 01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:41.239 makes it extra funny to me is that they cast Oh I guess we haven't 1066 01:24:41.239 --> 01:24:44.680 got gotten there yet, but like they cast people who look like the Nostromo 1067 01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:48.199 crew, right, And it's one of those things where you're kind of like, 1068 01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:51.840 is that like you know, you can kind of right there in the 1069 01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:56.600 back you kind of see you know what I mean, Like they set up 1070 01:24:56.640 --> 01:25:00.760 the joke, well, yes, yeah, and especially because your eyes are 1071 01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:05.880 trained on Hurt, that's right, you know, so they look everyone's surrounding 1072 01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:14.560 him resembles see now now this I had seen Alien by this time. See 1073 01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:17.520 I probably hadn't. I probably was just like, what is happening? Yeah, 1074 01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:20.239 I was gonna ask, like to me, I got the joke, 1075 01:25:20.279 --> 01:25:24.159 and I thought it was hilarious because I was like, that's the guy from 1076 01:25:24.239 --> 01:25:28.399 Alien, like I knew that. I definitely didn't know that. Yeah, 1077 01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:30.560 but I didn't even know what they were riffing on. Like I just this 1078 01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:34.439 was another speaking of like sort of cheeky humor when you're a kid and feeling 1079 01:25:34.479 --> 01:25:39.119 like, oh, I'm saying something I shouldn't like. This sort of wrote 1080 01:25:39.159 --> 01:25:41.520 that line a little bit for me too, where I was like I'm watching 1081 01:25:41.600 --> 01:25:45.920 a comedy, but this is like making like this is scaring me, you 1082 01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:46.760 know what I mean. So I was like, but but like you were 1083 01:25:46.800 --> 01:25:51.399 still sort of fascinated and intrigued by it. And then it gets so silly 1084 01:25:51.439 --> 01:25:55.199 with the Aliens singing. I'm like, I'm horrified, but he is making 1085 01:25:55.279 --> 01:26:00.119 me laugh, you know, Like it was like a weird sensation. So 1086 01:26:00.319 --> 01:26:05.479 at this point you had no idea of what Alien was. No, okay, 1087 01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:09.760 no, so then when you watched Alien, because you didn't watch Alien 1088 01:26:09.880 --> 01:26:13.520 until a while later. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I became aware 1089 01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:16.119 of the moment, Okay, you know at some point, but yeah, 1090 01:26:16.119 --> 01:26:19.760 I didn't see Alien until much later. Like I feel like we saw it 1091 01:26:19.840 --> 01:26:23.920 together in like two thousand and three. Yeah, yeah, in the theater. 1092 01:26:24.079 --> 01:26:27.359 Yeah, but i'd seen Aliens weirdly, I'd seen that one already, 1093 01:26:27.439 --> 01:26:31.279 like I saw Older. So when you got an Alien, when you got 1094 01:26:31.359 --> 01:26:34.680 to that scene when John Hurt has that, were you like, oh, 1095 01:26:35.960 --> 01:26:40.199 that's the same, it's him, you know, Like did you connect those 1096 01:26:40.239 --> 01:26:43.760 dots or did you already know? I'm certain I was aware of the moment 1097 01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:46.199 already, but I don't think I probably didn't even put it together that they 1098 01:26:46.239 --> 01:26:50.399 got the actual actor. Okay, and by the way, this is one 1099 01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:55.640 of those things. I don't know if they fixed it later or letterboxing or 1100 01:26:56.000 --> 01:27:00.720 but with the little alien going down the counter used to be able to see 1101 01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:01.920 the track, do you remember that. Yeah, that's right, kind of 1102 01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:06.439 like Pewe's Big Adventure where you could see the chain going through the oh right, 1103 01:27:06.760 --> 01:27:10.800 the thing at the bottom of his bike. But they've since fixed that. 1104 01:27:15.800 --> 01:27:18.479 But yeah, now it's good, good joke. Now I get it 1105 01:27:27.319 --> 01:27:29.840 turned down the money, but you see, it's still kind of a folk 1106 01:27:29.920 --> 01:27:30.960 Star Wars with Han and the money, you know what I mean, Like, 1107 01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:45.479 yeah, the fortune cookie. I forgot about the cookie. By the 1108 01:27:45.520 --> 01:27:48.640 way, I should say that that the whole joke about barf being like chewy 1109 01:27:49.079 --> 01:27:54.079 barf, Like I never made that connection until much later. Oh wow, 1110 01:27:54.159 --> 01:27:59.079 I not till now. For me, it's what you do because barf it's 1111 01:27:59.079 --> 01:28:01.119 such like a gross word thing. But when I see barf from like, 1112 01:28:01.199 --> 01:28:09.359 oh, barf, like I complete, yeah exactly. But yeah, but 1113 01:28:09.479 --> 01:28:13.199 yeah, this this whole sort of you know, him having to be a 1114 01:28:13.239 --> 01:28:17.640 prince so he can marry the princess. I'm a prince. I'm an honesty, 1115 01:28:17.680 --> 01:28:27.720 goodness, prince or whatever. He says, Yeah, I forget about 1116 01:28:27.720 --> 01:28:33.239 the other fuel thing, and it doesn't he do, like though, Yeah, 1117 01:28:34.319 --> 01:28:40.920 what world be with you? Like the witch? Right? Yeah, 1118 01:28:41.560 --> 01:28:46.680 what a world? What a world? Yeah, which Judge dooone does too 1119 01:28:46.760 --> 01:28:51.319 when he melts, he says, what a world. He says he's doing 1120 01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:55.840 the Yeah, like the witch thing, I know he's doing on a world 1121 01:28:55.880 --> 01:29:08.079 I didn't realize. He says that. That's yeah, I'm pretty sure that's 1122 01:29:08.119 --> 01:29:12.720 getting through the John Candy also like, I mean, gosh, we've we've 1123 01:29:12.760 --> 01:29:15.039 talked about him and yeah, I'm going talked about him. We have talked 1124 01:29:15.039 --> 01:29:17.960 about him very much in this. Yeah, I mean, uh, it's 1125 01:29:18.760 --> 01:29:24.199 he makes it look so effortless, right, Yes, it doesn't have to 1126 01:29:24.279 --> 01:29:26.560 do a ton, but you can always count on him to get you to 1127 01:29:26.680 --> 01:29:29.760 laugh. You know. Man, he's just one of those guys effortless, 1128 01:29:29.920 --> 01:29:34.199 that is exactly it. Yep, just his his chuckles, you know, 1129 01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:38.359 like kind of he's a guy who's a twinkle in his eye, you know, 1130 01:29:38.520 --> 01:29:43.479 just you cannot help but love him, that's right. So yeah, 1131 01:29:43.960 --> 01:29:46.319 scag. Like. The great thing about this is that at the time it 1132 01:29:46.479 --> 01:29:51.439 was relatively current because the original Planet of the Apes was only nineteen years old 1133 01:29:51.479 --> 01:29:58.560 at that time. Whoa right, like it was it wasn't that old, 1134 01:29:58.760 --> 01:30:03.079 you know. Wow? What was that two thousand and four to today? 1135 01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:10.960 M yeah, wow crazy? Right, yeah, so it was it was 1136 01:30:11.640 --> 01:30:15.920 within people's frame of reference. Definitely for me at the time I saw this 1137 01:30:15.239 --> 01:30:21.640 movie like I hadn't seen because my first when I watched The Planet Planet of 1138 01:30:21.680 --> 01:30:26.359 Apes the film for the first time, I had watched the cartoon show that 1139 01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:30.720 was my entree and I saw that like Fall of eighty seven, So I 1140 01:30:30.880 --> 01:30:35.880 probably saw this and then shortly after I saw the cartoon h that's my my 1141 01:30:36.079 --> 01:30:41.239 recollection. So either way, the end of the movie of Planet Apes would 1142 01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:46.279 have been ruined for me by this, right right, yeah? I man, 1143 01:30:46.359 --> 01:30:49.000 I wish I could remember if I got it or not. I don't 1144 01:30:49.039 --> 01:30:51.960 know. It was just funny because it was so like, oh, they 1145 01:30:53.039 --> 01:30:56.439 landed on a planet of apes and they aren't happy to see them. But 1146 01:30:56.560 --> 01:30:59.039 I feel like you would have at least heard a Planet of the Apes. 1147 01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:03.720 Likely, it's likely, I don't know. The makeup looks pretty good though, 1148 01:31:03.800 --> 01:31:09.159 right, I think so, it's it's it's in the same vein as 1149 01:31:09.319 --> 01:31:13.560 as some of the later films. Yeah right, Holy moly. Yeah, 1150 01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:18.760 it's kind of funny too that they go with this sort of old fairy tale 1151 01:31:18.840 --> 01:31:21.279 look too, right, Yeah, with all the people in the like, 1152 01:31:21.319 --> 01:31:25.760 it doesn't look very space like. No, in this chapel, it's probably 1153 01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:29.560 cheaper to figure you know what. You're totally right, they'd have to create 1154 01:31:29.600 --> 01:31:32.760 all the costumes. I did all these costumes from about it from the storage 1155 01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:40.239 locker. Yeah, well that's really funny if you got to have a space 1156 01:31:40.279 --> 01:31:45.000 looking groom, and this is apparently what they came up with, right space 1157 01:31:45.079 --> 01:31:55.600 Elvis. Wait, we totally I'm just looking at Candy and I heard it 1158 01:31:55.840 --> 01:31:58.520 in my head. We passed this right, like I'm a mog, half 1159 01:31:58.560 --> 01:32:01.960 man, half dog, my own that I'm my own best friend. Yeah, 1160 01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:05.800 I love this here par follow you, Yes, that's right, that's 1161 01:32:05.880 --> 01:32:19.479 right part follow you, follow you so great. Yeah. I feel like 1162 01:32:19.560 --> 01:32:21.520 this was kind of a thing for a while too, like a trope with 1163 01:32:21.680 --> 01:32:26.960 like the officiant at a wedding getting kind of short tempered and be like all 1164 01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:28.520 right, all right, all right, let's just get we gonna do this 1165 01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:31.119 thing or not. You I feel like you're doing from this right, maybe 1166 01:32:31.239 --> 01:32:34.720 yeah, I guess I think this originated the trope. Yeah, but it's 1167 01:32:34.760 --> 01:32:36.720 like it was like a thing you saw, all right, I feel like 1168 01:32:36.840 --> 01:32:50.039 familiar with that. Sure, sure, goodbye virginal lamps. That it the 1169 01:32:50.399 --> 01:33:00.479 end? Wow? Wait, what's his bumper sticker? It said, does 1170 01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:04.279 I break for nobody? Or something that's on the space Ball ship? That's 1171 01:33:04.319 --> 01:33:09.159 it on this. I didn't pay attention to the the bumper stickers on Spaceball 1172 01:33:09.239 --> 01:33:13.920 one. Yeah. Yeah, well there you go. So what's the verdict, 1173 01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:19.159 my friend on Spaceballs? I mean, it's it's a classic. I 1174 01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:23.680 will always be endeared to this, but you know, the nostalgia and everything, 1175 01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:26.319 But like I, to my mind, this still holds up. I 1176 01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:30.520 think this would still make if your kids were to have a sleepover having seen 1177 01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:33.520 Star Wars watched this together, I can imagine them giggling through this whole thing. 1178 01:33:34.600 --> 01:33:40.039 That's I think a lot of the humor is timeless, some of it 1179 01:33:40.319 --> 01:33:44.800 is rooted in in that era. But even even the stuff that is sort 1180 01:33:44.840 --> 01:33:48.399 of temporarily locked down, I think there's enough around the joke to make you 1181 01:33:48.560 --> 01:33:55.359 laugh at the execution. Yeah. Uh, and that certainly that was my 1182 01:33:55.479 --> 01:33:59.880 experience because I watched this not aware of the lot of the pop culture references, 1183 01:34:00.039 --> 01:34:02.600 but right it it made me chuckle, made me chuckle, then made 1184 01:34:02.600 --> 01:34:05.520 me chuckle now yep, even watching it with the sound off, I mean, 1185 01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:09.720 just cracks me out so many And that's the thing too. Sometimes you 1186 01:34:09.760 --> 01:34:13.079 watch a comedy and you're sort of waiting for like that one set piece gag. 1187 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:15.600 You know, you kind of chuckle throughout, but like, I feel 1188 01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:20.279 like this has several iconic, big, big gags and then there's all this 1189 01:34:20.399 --> 01:34:24.720 funny pattern in between that still you know, makes you giggle. So I 1190 01:34:25.079 --> 01:34:29.359 think your pound for pound, it's a really solid comedy. I think that 1191 01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:35.479 it is certainly a throwback to a style of movie humor who don't really see 1192 01:34:35.560 --> 01:34:41.920 very much of anymore, which is a shame because because I think the fact 1193 01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:45.600 that it can still make you chuckle so many decades out, you know, 1194 01:34:45.720 --> 01:34:48.840 that says something about what mel Brooks was able to achieve and sort of his 1195 01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:59.640 his just innate skill at finding the joke, finding the laugh. I think 1196 01:34:59.640 --> 01:35:01.399 that's something makes this movie hold up. You know, I would love to 1197 01:35:01.439 --> 01:35:06.359 see deleted scenes. Oh yeah, I don't. I don't have the DVD 1198 01:35:06.479 --> 01:35:12.359 or anything, but I'm curious if there are any. The only other thing 1199 01:35:12.399 --> 01:35:15.760 I'll mention is I'm at the I'm on the Wikipedia page and it talks about 1200 01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:20.880 John Hurt's cameo and it says he's parodying his character Gilbert Caine's death in the 1201 01:35:20.920 --> 01:35:26.760 film Alien, and I'm like Gilbert. His first name is Gilbert. I 1202 01:35:27.000 --> 01:35:30.720 think I ever knew that. Yea, So there's an Actually, there's your 1203 01:35:30.760 --> 01:35:35.319 bonus trivia there. Yeah, with that. If you have any thoughts about 1204 01:35:35.319 --> 01:35:41.079 Spaceballs or our commentary track for Spaceballs, please let us know your thoughts. 1205 01:35:41.159 --> 01:35:44.159 You can email us at Movie Film podcast at gmail dot com. You can 1206 01:35:44.199 --> 01:35:47.439 also hit like on our Facebook page Facebook dot com slash Movie Film Podcasts and 1207 01:35:47.960 --> 01:35:53.520 message us there. 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This has 1217 01:36:31.520 --> 01:36:36.720 been our movie film commentary for Spaceballs. Thank you everyone for listening and we 1218 01:36:36.760 --> 01:37:03.000 will catch you next time. My Steve face, don't mess around the Stay 1219 01:37:03.079 --> 01:37:26.760 Small, don't last face, don't mess around Stasball, don't watch the Stay Small