Spaceballs (1987) vs. Airplane! (1980): Part 2

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome to the Surely Can't Be Serious Podcast,
<v Speaker 1>discussing and debating the iconic and the forgotten of eighties
<v Speaker 1>and nineties pop culture with your co hosts James D.
<v Speaker 1>Graves and Jason Colbn.
<v Speaker 2>Welcome back for part two of the Shirley You Can't
<v Speaker 2>Be Serious Podcast.
<v Speaker 3>Here's a quick recap in last week's episode, let's just.
<v Speaker 2>Dive in, and so we got to jump right in.
<v Speaker 2>We're going to talk about airplane. Wait, wait before we
<v Speaker 2>get every time to d Yes, good luck all kind.
<v Speaker 3>They used to leave the BCR on recording overnight and
<v Speaker 3>they accidentally recorded Zero Hour and this is we could
<v Speaker 3>really turn this into something funny.
<v Speaker 2>Some of the lines are identical, and they were fascinated
<v Speaker 2>by this weird movie. They decided we're going to buy
<v Speaker 2>the rights to.
<v Speaker 3>The script first.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, absolutely, avoid the trouble, and it couldn't have been
<v Speaker 2>that expensive. One of their first choices for Ted Striker
<v Speaker 2>was David Letterman. They were so excited and he was like,
<v Speaker 2>this is a bad idea. And then when they were down,
<v Speaker 2>they're like, you're right, this was a bad idea. She's
<v Speaker 2>performing that song really well, and that in combination with
<v Speaker 2>the girl who's making the fish face because their ivs
<v Speaker 2>come out. Is brilliant. It is the brilliance of the
<v Speaker 2>comedy of his easy. Almost every line in this thing
<v Speaker 2>is perfect. It's one of the most quotable movies of
<v Speaker 2>all time.
<v Speaker 3>So don't want to help.
<v Speaker 2>So can you imagine delivering to a child actor the
<v Speaker 2>line have you ever seen a grown man naked? With
<v Speaker 2>absolutely sincerity? How do you do that? You've got nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighties PG ratings which feature boobies.
<v Speaker 3>And man, I can tell you a story about the
<v Speaker 3>movies in air.
<v Speaker 2>Those specific movies, those particular Yeah, tell me, tell me
<v Speaker 2>the movie story.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So this was a movie I watched young because
<v Speaker 3>my dad thought it was funny, but he was trying
<v Speaker 3>to keep me from seeing. There's one scene where a
<v Speaker 3>woman is wearing no shirt and shoe just walks directly
<v Speaker 3>front of the camera and then walks off screen. And
<v Speaker 3>that's it, right, right, So basically you have half a
<v Speaker 3>second it's just out of nowhere boobs and then they're gone, right,
<v Speaker 3>And so he was trying to watch this movie with me, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>protect me, protect my eyes from well, you've got to
<v Speaker 3>you've got to know exactly or it's they're there and
<v Speaker 3>then gone and then it's over. Yeah, and it wasn't best.
<v Speaker 3>And so that was my first on screen flash of skin.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah really like the first time you ever saw naked
<v Speaker 2>boobies on TV?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah wow yeah, yeah, nice this especially.
<v Speaker 2>All right, now it's time to jump into Spaceball one
<v Speaker 2>and travel at ludicrous speed, so we can warp ahead
<v Speaker 2>in time to nineteen eighty seven when Spaceballs was released.
<v Speaker 1>Ah.
<v Speaker 2>Some people call me space Alboy.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, some call me the game Grip.
<v Speaker 4>Some people call me marrie'd be of the.
<v Speaker 2>Puppy Spaceballs one of mel Brooks's wonderful parodies that he
<v Speaker 2>has done. But first, let's talk about what was going
<v Speaker 2>on in nineteen eighty seven. Help us remember what what
<v Speaker 2>we were doing, what we were going through back. Then
<v Speaker 2>we'll do our rapid fire again sound again, Yeah, first
<v Speaker 2>or second, I'll go first, Okay, you go first.
<v Speaker 3>So this is just current events from nineteen eighty seven
<v Speaker 3>to kind of give you a place in a moment
<v Speaker 3>in time, right right, So, Ronald Reagan addresses the Iran
<v Speaker 3>contra affair.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, do you remember that? Yes? Yeah, we had the
<v Speaker 2>whole Ali North thing going on. Yep, it was all
<v Speaker 2>very bad. It looked like Reagan either had lied or
<v Speaker 2>didn't know what was going on, and basically said he
<v Speaker 2>didn't know what was going on, right, And people loved
<v Speaker 2>him so much that it didn't matter. They forgave him right.
<v Speaker 2>Also that year, though a little bit later on, to
<v Speaker 2>kind of cement his place in history, he said to
<v Speaker 2>mister Korbachev, tear down this wall. Mister Gorbachev teared down
<v Speaker 2>this wall.
<v Speaker 3>Huge speech and one that sticks with us.
<v Speaker 2>Oh. Absolutely, mister John teared down as well. Two years
<v Speaker 2>later it came down. I don't know if you know this,
<v Speaker 2>but like the speech writer had, you know, had given
<v Speaker 2>him the speech. They kind of talked about it, and
<v Speaker 2>the speech writer thought, you know, that's kind of cliche
<v Speaker 2>and corny. I'm gonna take that out and regularly at
<v Speaker 2>it's like putting that back in. Yep, it was his call.
<v Speaker 3>That's awesome. Here's one listen this one. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>why this one sticks with me, but when Jim Baker
<v Speaker 3>resigned from the pt L after admitting to an affair
<v Speaker 3>with Jessica on Well.
<v Speaker 2>It sticks with you because she appeared in some magazines
<v Speaker 2>that she probably looked.
<v Speaker 3>At and the Wild thing video with Sam Kinison.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and all of the other heavy metal rockers of
<v Speaker 2>the time, hair band Galore and her dancing around and.
<v Speaker 3>I thank you move that came in my mind.
<v Speaker 2>I thought I'd say that.
<v Speaker 3>Line she look like a church secretary to I can
<v Speaker 3>see I was hired and never saw.
<v Speaker 2>That one anyway. Yeah, and another on the on the
<v Speaker 2>televangelist thing. Uh, the Supreme Court case of Hustler Magazine
<v Speaker 2>versus Jerry Faultwell happened that year, which is the large
<v Speaker 2>part of the People Versus Very Larry Flint movie that
<v Speaker 2>came out probably ten years later. Another thing that is interesting,
<v Speaker 2>I certainly don't remember it happening, but it was a
<v Speaker 2>shocking event was that the Pennsylvania Treasurer, Bud Dwyer, had
<v Speaker 2>been like convicted of doing these crimes, and he had
<v Speaker 2>proclaimed his innocence the whole time, and he called a
<v Speaker 2>press press conference and then shot himself on live television. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So there's And then again a decade or so later,
<v Speaker 2>the song by Filter comes out, Hey man, I shot
<v Speaker 2>You probably recognize the player here he that is in reference.
<v Speaker 2>A lot of people thought it was Kirk Cobain that
<v Speaker 2>they were talking about. Because it was not too long
<v Speaker 2>after Kirk Cobain's suicide. But actually he was talking about
<v Speaker 2>by Dwyer and that was his Hey man, I shot
<v Speaker 2>was what it was all about. Wow, disturbing that.
<v Speaker 3>That's why I say, all right, how about this one?
<v Speaker 3>This one gets me at the heart. Baby Jessica McClure
<v Speaker 3>falls down the well.
<v Speaker 2>I knew you would have. I knew you would have.
<v Speaker 3>If you've listened to our podcast. And if we're staying
<v Speaker 3>in order, we do.
<v Speaker 2>What Michael Jackson was first, right, yes, so so yes,
<v Speaker 2>you're I remember how moved you were by the man
<v Speaker 2>in the mirror video. Baby Jessica comes out.
<v Speaker 3>That construction worker crying when he pulls it kills me
<v Speaker 3>every time, A baby Jessica, you big softeeth?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so uh Movie news, Platooners least Man TV News.
<v Speaker 2>The first episode of the Simpsons appears on The Tracy
<v Speaker 2>Allman Show.
<v Speaker 1>Oh Tattering Glow is al there ow Yeah, el last
<v Speaker 1>name alcoholic, honey.
<v Speaker 3>Check phone cough araw alcoholic. How about the teenager who
<v Speaker 3>landed the plane who flew it from West Germany and
<v Speaker 3>landed it in Red Square.
<v Speaker 2>I can remember that.
<v Speaker 3>I'm embarrassed the heck out of the Russians.
<v Speaker 2>And then the Music News YouTube releases Joshua Tree, the
<v Speaker 2>best best YouTube album and one of the best albums
<v Speaker 2>in the world in history.
<v Speaker 3>In my opinion, We'll have to get into that later.
<v Speaker 3>That sounds like a good because that same year, def
<v Speaker 3>Lebert releases Hysteria, which is my favorite album.
<v Speaker 2>Fall Time, Well, I mean, you got to pour some
<v Speaker 2>sugar on me. I guess you still remember the first,
<v Speaker 2>my very first high school dance that I went to.
<v Speaker 2>That was the song that like that was in the
<v Speaker 2>whole night led up to that moment. That was the
<v Speaker 2>final song and when they have played it, that place
<v Speaker 2>went nuts.
<v Speaker 3>Right when the game.
<v Speaker 2>For sure. Also in Music News, the very first Rick
<v Speaker 2>roll happens because Rick Astley releases Never Going to Give
<v Speaker 2>You Up.
<v Speaker 3>Also in nineteen eighty seven, the world population reaches five billion.
<v Speaker 3>Is Nothing rolling right past that? Spaceballs released June twenty fourth,
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty seven. Okay, here are the top ten songs
<v Speaker 3>from Casey's Top forty real quick. Okay, all right, Number
<v Speaker 3>ten Just to See Her by Smokey Robinson. Nope, nothing
<v Speaker 3>for You, No Songbird by Kenny g u Maybe You
<v Speaker 3>Keep Me Hanging On by Kim Wilde, Oh for sure. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>how about this one? Number seven on the charts this
<v Speaker 3>week nineteen eighty seven Wanted Dead or Alive?
<v Speaker 4>Almost it?
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, the reason I started playing guitar?
<v Speaker 3>Really?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Absolutely?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, yeah, all right? Number six this week in eighty
<v Speaker 3>seven alone.
<v Speaker 2>By Yeah I can't remember that. That was the one
<v Speaker 2>where in the video she's she's just up and down
<v Speaker 2>the stage with the guitar, and then you kind of
<v Speaker 2>noticed Quidman and she's not really playing here. It's that
<v Speaker 2>guy back in the back that's really playing the guitar. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>check it out.
<v Speaker 3>They blow up the piano in the video too. Number
<v Speaker 3>five Diamonds by Herb Albert. Nope, Janet Jackson on vocals
<v Speaker 3>on that one. Number four into Deep Genesis okay, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Number three I Want to Dance with Somebody who.
<v Speaker 2>Loves Oh yeah, that's my kids still love that song
<v Speaker 2>really even today. Yeah, that's a timeless one right there.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Always by a Lenox Star. Number two, Eh, it's
<v Speaker 3>kind of a makeout song of eighty seven and number
<v Speaker 3>one Head to Toe Lesa's a cult jam.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, so onto Spaceball's the mel Brooks movie of
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty seven, the parodies the Star Wars movies. How
<v Speaker 2>about we do an oversimplified plot.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, super light plot overview. Here we go. So planet
<v Speaker 3>Spaceball has run out of air right and President screwb
<v Speaker 3>played by mel Brooks, gets Dark Helmet. Rick moranis to
<v Speaker 3>force King Roland of Druidia, the guy from at Us,
<v Speaker 3>enough to give him the code of this shield that
<v Speaker 3>protects Druidia's air, by kidnapping his daughter, Princess Vespadephian Zuniga,
<v Speaker 3>right on the day of her arranged wedding to Prince Vallium,
<v Speaker 3>who she runs out on, which is hilarious, and then
<v Speaker 3>he hires smuggler all around bad boy lone Star and
<v Speaker 3>his buddy Barf to rescue her from the Spaceballs by
<v Speaker 3>paying him a million base box. Lone Star, along with
<v Speaker 3>the help of Yogurt, learns to use the schwartz and
<v Speaker 3>then he rescues Princess Vespa. They put all the air
<v Speaker 3>back in Druidia, and he defeats Dark Helmet and President
<v Speaker 3>Screw and they get married because he, as it turns out,
<v Speaker 3>is actually Prince were good. Hey.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks, turns out so you did not mention the actor
<v Speaker 2>who played Prince Vallium. The names on these are great,
<v Speaker 2>by the way, Prince Ballium is always tired, of course.
<v Speaker 2>So the actor who portrayed Prince Vallium was Jim J. Bullock,
<v Speaker 2>who I remember from the Hollywood Squares, no doubt. He
<v Speaker 2>was I think a lifetime member, along with John Rivers
<v Speaker 2>who does the voice for the robot dot Matrix.
<v Speaker 3>Matrix Yep, Jim J. Bullock, who I remembered from Too
<v Speaker 3>Close for Comfort, Oh yeah, as well as Hollywood Squares,
<v Speaker 3>but I mean definitely daytime television Hollywood Squares.
<v Speaker 2>So that's the plot of the movie. Just to touch
<v Speaker 2>on a couple of interesting things. First, trivia question, Prince,
<v Speaker 2>we've already talked about Prince Valium, Princess Vespa. You know
<v Speaker 2>what vesta is? No, okay, So it's a motor scooter, right,
<v Speaker 2>It's an Italian motor scooter. But vespa means wasp in Italian,
<v Speaker 2>which I think I mean as many, yeah, as many
<v Speaker 2>Hebrew jokes as mel Brooks puts in, and he even
<v Speaker 2>said in this particular movie is like, I don't know
<v Speaker 2>that I should have put in so many Jewish jokes
<v Speaker 2>but yes, he's the very very white girl is Princess
<v Speaker 2>Wasp and makes sense.
<v Speaker 3>It's funny she doesn't look jewlish.
<v Speaker 2>And then of course lone star Hans Solo, definitely Han Solo.
<v Speaker 2>Of course you know the loan and Solo and all
<v Speaker 2>of that. And then lastly, mel Brooks, who who directed
<v Speaker 2>and co wrote the movie, plays a couple of characters.
<v Speaker 2>One is Yogurt, yes, which is the playoff of Yoda.
<v Speaker 2>And then the other one you mentioned a couple of
<v Speaker 2>times is President scrub Do you know how we got
<v Speaker 2>screwb Dude, It's it's Brooks backwards.
<v Speaker 3>Brooks s K interesting, Yeah, r ob cool.
<v Speaker 2>So now back to the movie. We have the director
<v Speaker 2>and writer is mel Brooks, who has who did the producers,
<v Speaker 2>who did Blazing Saddles, which is one of the best
<v Speaker 2>comedies of all time. Who did Young Frankenstein's one of
<v Speaker 2>the first movies I ever remember seeing and is brilliant
<v Speaker 2>from beginning to end. I even had a class where
<v Speaker 2>we looked at books made into movies and we looked
<v Speaker 2>at the original Frankenstein versus the book, then the mel
<v Speaker 2>Brooks version Young Frankenstein compared to that movie, and then
<v Speaker 2>the one that had Robert de Niro, which was way
<v Speaker 2>too long. Yeah, but anyway, it's fantastic movie. And then
<v Speaker 2>he goes on for quite a while without much output,
<v Speaker 2>and then boom lo and behold, nineteen eighty seven rolls
<v Speaker 2>around and we get space balls. Yep.
<v Speaker 3>Did you ever watch the TV show Get Smart?
<v Speaker 2>Yes? Wait, the old one, right old one. Yeah, that
<v Speaker 2>was mell Rex. Okay, I didn't know that. So he
<v Speaker 2>directed and wrote. The other writers were Thomas Meehan who
<v Speaker 2>was also a part of the producers and he also
<v Speaker 2>was involved with Hairspray and Annie. You can kind of
<v Speaker 2>see a stage musical theme going on with Thomas Meehan.
<v Speaker 2>And then the third co writer is Ronnie Graham, who
<v Speaker 2>you will recognize from the movie as the priest for
<v Speaker 2>the wedding. Was absolutely hysterical.
<v Speaker 3>He kills it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he kills it.
<v Speaker 3>He's so okay cool. It was his name, Ronnie, Ronnie Graham,
<v Speaker 3>Ronnie Graham. Every line he says is funny. Absolutely, when
<v Speaker 3>they say they say I'm sorry, I'll be sorry, be quiet.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, and then just a little bit of trivia. He
<v Speaker 2>appeared in nineteen eighty in one episode as the ticket
<v Speaker 2>agent of the TV series Angie, which I brought up before,
<v Speaker 2>which starred Robert Hayes from Airpe.
<v Speaker 3>Oh that's right, we did talk about that. Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so he actually was in that movie as.
<v Speaker 3>Well, Angie not in My Wheelhouse.
<v Speaker 2>No, that's okay.
<v Speaker 3>The song Angie by the Rolling Stones in My Wheelhouse.
<v Speaker 2>Oh sure, okay, great song, nothing to do with.
<v Speaker 3>It, all right? Cool?
<v Speaker 2>Okay actress. Okay, So we've got Bill Pullman. This was
<v Speaker 2>not his first major motion picture, but it was his
<v Speaker 2>second major motion picture. His first one was Ruthless People,
<v Speaker 2>which is funny.
<v Speaker 3>I actually haven't seen the movie Anny DeVito and Bette Midler.
<v Speaker 3>That funny.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm familiar with the movie, but and you
<v Speaker 2>so you saw his performance in that one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he kind of plays a moron in that. He's
<v Speaker 3>a he's an inept kidnapper.
<v Speaker 2>It's kind of funny because he's not real. He's kind
<v Speaker 2>of a goofball, you know guy in this one as well,
<v Speaker 2>and then he kind of comes into his own i mean,
<v Speaker 2>independence state. He's the President of the United States, right,
<v Speaker 2>and I think that's more fitting for him than these
<v Speaker 2>kind of goofy.
<v Speaker 3>Roles that he was playing at first, okay, and then
<v Speaker 3>we have the incomparable John Canny. I'm a mog half man,
<v Speaker 3>half dog.
<v Speaker 2>I'm my own best friend. Oh man, Uncle Buck gone
<v Speaker 2>too soon, far too soon. Yes, nineteen ninety four.
<v Speaker 3>I believe died ninety four.
<v Speaker 2>This was a great shame, great shame. But John Candy,
<v Speaker 2>who was in SETV, was in Stripes with Bill Murray,
<v Speaker 2>is in The Great Outdoors with Dan Aykroyd. Just a
<v Speaker 2>comedy I kind of the day, absolutely great.
<v Speaker 3>He plays Tom Hanks' brother in Splash and he's kind
<v Speaker 3>of unappreciated role. And then he's Del Griffith from playing
<v Speaker 3>Trains and Autmobiles.
<v Speaker 1>I never did introduce myself Del Griffith, American like fixture
<v Speaker 1>director of sales Shower Curtain Ring Division.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's a classic.
<v Speaker 3>He's in Home Alone. I mean he's his fingerprints are
<v Speaker 3>all over the Sure.
<v Speaker 2>He was in The Blues Brothers as the cop when
<v Speaker 2>he gets the address to get the addressed to Rickley
<v Speaker 2>Stadium and he's laughing because he's been tricked. I love
<v Speaker 2>him and everything.
<v Speaker 3>He's the security guard at the end of the vacation Mavie.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, sorry, folks, Clark's closed motion. Then we have Rick
<v Speaker 2>moranis also of set V fame, who was in Ghostbusters
<v Speaker 2>and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in My Blue Heaven.
<v Speaker 2>As we mentioned earlier.
<v Speaker 3>Strange Brew.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yes, you gotta love Doug mackenzie Mackenzie Brothers. And
<v Speaker 2>then Daphne's Zanniga plays Princess Vespa, and I think maybe
<v Speaker 2>this is kind of her pinnacle role. She was in
<v Speaker 2>The Sure Thing with That's a good one with John Cusack.
<v Speaker 2>I haven't actually seen that movie if you if you've
<v Speaker 2>seen it, and then she was on Melrose Place for
<v Speaker 2>a while as well.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, she was the girlfriend in The Fly too.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's not one that made my that's that's out
<v Speaker 2>of my wheelhouse. And then just to I've already mentioned
<v Speaker 2>Joan Rivers as the voice of Dot Matrix. And then
<v Speaker 2>I can't I can't let it go without mentioning Michael Winslow,
<v Speaker 2>who is the voice man in all of the Police
<v Speaker 2>Academy movies which we got to hit. I mean, we
<v Speaker 2>should just do like all of Steve Gutenberg's movies in
<v Speaker 2>one episode, I think. But the guy who is just
<v Speaker 2>famous for his ability to do all kinds of sounds
<v Speaker 2>with his.
<v Speaker 3>Mouth, Okay, so a lot of people will get annoyed
<v Speaker 3>at Michael Winslow because they're wrong. But he has a
<v Speaker 3>laugh out loud moment in this movie where he's doing
<v Speaker 3>the I'm with the rainar sir, Well, don't need that
<v Speaker 3>private We're right here now.
<v Speaker 2>What is it?
<v Speaker 1>Now? What is it? I'm having trouble with the radar, sir.
<v Speaker 3>What's wrong with it? I've lost the bleeps. I've lost
<v Speaker 3>the sweeps lost.
<v Speaker 2>That whole scene cracks me up absolutely. So there are
<v Speaker 2>key actors and actresses in this movie. Okay, we wanted
<v Speaker 2>to give a quick shout out to a couple of
<v Speaker 2>people that we love talking to on Twitter. The first
<v Speaker 2>one is Gidget Vaughn LaRue. She is down in Australia. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and she has a podcast that she does with Colonel
<v Speaker 2>Kickhead called The Retro Cinema. I've had the fortune to
<v Speaker 2>listen to some of those episodes and she's got some
<v Speaker 2>good stuff going on. So Gidget von LaRue is at
<v Speaker 2>g I D G I T V O N L
<v Speaker 2>A r U E on Twitter. Thank you very much
<v Speaker 2>for all of your likes and shares and comments.
<v Speaker 3>I love listening to her her voice, so she's got
<v Speaker 3>such great speaking voice and that Australian accent just does
<v Speaker 3>it for me.
<v Speaker 2>Right, what about soundtrack? We got anything on soundtrack?
<v Speaker 3>Hey, you got good enough from Van Halen?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, of fifty fifty right for the diner scene.
<v Speaker 3>The diner scene, Sam Hagar on lead vocals, I'll have
<v Speaker 3>the cleavage you have raised your hands by bon Jovie.
<v Speaker 3>Oh wow, so you've got two big rock albums making
<v Speaker 3>an appearance on this movie.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Absolutely, So I'll go into the special effects real quick.
<v Speaker 2>This is interesting because mel Brooks, before he made the movie,
<v Speaker 2>he sent the script to George Lucas because you know,
<v Speaker 2>obviously he's parodying the Star Wars, the Star Wars trilogy,
<v Speaker 2>and George Lucas was like, this is hilarious. I love it.
<v Speaker 2>Let me know if you need any help. And then
<v Speaker 2>actually Industrial Lights and Magic ended up being a major
<v Speaker 2>finisher for the special effects in the movie.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, cool, Yeah, here's another little tidbit that you may
<v Speaker 3>or may not know. You can see the Millennium falcon
<v Speaker 3>parked at the diner, yes, which was thrown in there
<v Speaker 3>with George Lucas's blessing. So cool.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, absolutely. And then the I'll give it we'll
<v Speaker 2>do a little trivia question on this one. Can you
<v Speaker 2>tell me a modern car that has an aspect of
<v Speaker 2>Spaceballs employed with it?
<v Speaker 3>No?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so Tesla the electric cars.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, are not the rock band.
<v Speaker 2>Not the rock band Tesla, which I love and played
<v Speaker 2>with Frank Cannon.
<v Speaker 3>I know that's really cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and but no Tesla the car. Yes, I guess
<v Speaker 2>Elon Musk was a Spaceballs fan. And so whenever you
<v Speaker 2>whenever you go into high gear and it's like you're
<v Speaker 2>you're turning on the overdrive for the car, you go
<v Speaker 2>into plaid speed, and I think there may be a
<v Speaker 2>ludicrous speed as well.
<v Speaker 3>That is That is cool?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it really is. If you search Tesla and plaid
<v Speaker 2>speed out there, you'll see a test drive where somebody's
<v Speaker 2>doing this and it goes to the car gets up,
<v Speaker 2>it goes fast, but then the screen they have this
<v Speaker 2>giant led screen in the middle, it turns plaid just
<v Speaker 2>like in movie. It's fantastic, not the Ludacros speed. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>what do we know who the composer was on this one?
<v Speaker 1>Uh?
<v Speaker 2>No, okay, let's quitch get so. The composer on this
<v Speaker 2>one was John Morris, who had a few other things,
<v Speaker 2>but is mostly known for being the composer for Melbrooks movies.
<v Speaker 2>He worked with him on the producers Springtime, for Hitler,
<v Speaker 2>Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein. He was actually nominated for a
<v Speaker 2>Grammy for his work on The Elephant Man. But the
<v Speaker 2>only films of mel Brooks that John Morris wasn't on
<v Speaker 2>were Robin Hood, Men in Tights and Dracula Dead and
<v Speaker 2>Loving It, which brings us back to Airplane because it
<v Speaker 2>starred mister Leslie Nielsen. There you go.
<v Speaker 3>That's right. Okay, So I would be mad at myself
<v Speaker 3>if I didn't make at least this comment on the soundtrack. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>if you're like me, the soundtrack of Your Youth is
<v Speaker 3>colored with Looney Tunes. Yeah, there's a scene where the
<v Speaker 3>alien pops out of the dude's chest at the diner
<v Speaker 3>and then proceeds to seeing Hello, my honey.
<v Speaker 1>Hello my baby, Hello my honey, Hello my rack on go.
<v Speaker 4>Baby, my heart's on fire.
<v Speaker 2>So the dude is John Hurt from the movie from
<v Speaker 2>the movie Alien, the one who did the scene originally,
<v Speaker 2>And I think he just thought he was supposed to
<v Speaker 2>do a small cameo part and then had that big scene.
<v Speaker 2>But that is one of my favorite scenes. It's coming
<v Speaker 2>up in a second for me. Okay, one of my
<v Speaker 2>favorite scenes in the movie.
<v Speaker 3>It's hilarious. It's awesome to see the alien again. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>but the guy who's next to him, that's another laugh
<v Speaker 3>outloud moment for me. When he's like one guy's like,
<v Speaker 3>get this guy some one and that guy goes water.
<v Speaker 2>MI get dis massive hypto bismal.
<v Speaker 3>Good times, Sorry, mom, I just kissed.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So the yeah, so the Looney Tunes that you're
<v Speaker 2>referring to is the frog because in this version of
<v Speaker 2>the alien popping out of his chest, which I'll go
<v Speaker 2>ahead and say, we're gonna come on, come up to
<v Speaker 2>five best lines or scenes in just a minute. But
<v Speaker 2>maybe my number one favorite is oh no, not again.
<v Speaker 2>But as he bursts out of his chest, he then
<v Speaker 2>puts on the straw hat and our top hat and
<v Speaker 2>has the cane and starts singing, Hello, my baby, Hello,
<v Speaker 2>my honey, just like the frog from the Looney Tunes cartoons.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, so funny. Okay, we're bouncing around a little bit, sorry, a.
<v Speaker 2>Little bit so we but we've hit soundtrack, we've hit
<v Speaker 2>special effects, we've segued nicely into the five best lines.
<v Speaker 2>I've already said my number one of oh no, not again.
<v Speaker 2>What do you got what's your number one?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, well I didn't really I didn't really rank them.
<v Speaker 3>There's so many. But so I really like the priest
<v Speaker 3>who when he's he's talking and he's like the guy
<v Speaker 3>says I'm sorry, He's like, oh be sorry, we quiet, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>we already talked about that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So number two for me, what is the whole
<v Speaker 2>spiel on when they're watching the VCR tape?
<v Speaker 3>When does this happen in the movie?
<v Speaker 2>Now you're looking at now, sir, Everything that happens now
<v Speaker 2>is happening now?
<v Speaker 3>What happened to then? When just now?
<v Speaker 2>Wear it now?
<v Speaker 1>Now?
<v Speaker 3>Go back to then?
<v Speaker 1>When now? Now?
<v Speaker 3>No, I can't why we missed it? When just now?
<v Speaker 2>When will then be now soon?
<v Speaker 3>Just missed it?
<v Speaker 2>That is one that that that my wife and I
<v Speaker 2>replay quite frequently.
<v Speaker 3>That's a that's a funny one. Yeah, okay, how about
<v Speaker 3>this one? This part cracks me up. When he says,
<v Speaker 3>will you get the introduction of a dark helmet? You
<v Speaker 3>hear the breathing sort of Darth Vader ish, and then
<v Speaker 3>you can tell you, and then he throws open the mask.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, I get breathe in this thing.
<v Speaker 2>Yes. So that's Rick moranis and part of his brilliance.
<v Speaker 2>I think he may have improvised that particular scene. But
<v Speaker 2>one scene that I am sure he improvised is number
<v Speaker 2>three on my list, which is the dolls scene. So
<v Speaker 2>he's playing with the Princess doll and his own doll,
<v Speaker 2>and that scene is completely improvised. It was not scripted
<v Speaker 2>at all. And Rick Moranis is brilliant part.
<v Speaker 3>And that's so funny.
<v Speaker 2>You need it on the Preacher, Sir knocked on my door.
<v Speaker 3>Knocked next time? Yes, sir, did you see anything?
<v Speaker 2>No, sir, I didn't see you playing with your dolls.
<v Speaker 3>Again, good, well, you knock next time.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure I didn't see you playing with your dolls.
<v Speaker 3>I've not seen you play with your dolls. Uh that
<v Speaker 3>you stole that one from me. But so again, the
<v Speaker 3>laugh out loud moment with Michael Winslow when he's talking
<v Speaker 3>into the speaker and he starts, sorry, roll the radar
<v Speaker 3>and he comes up to me and he's like, what's the problem,
<v Speaker 3>and he continues to talk without the microphonet the microphone
<v Speaker 3>down and then he puts it down. He continues to
<v Speaker 3>talk and then he like rips the thing out of
<v Speaker 3>the I haven't rolled the radar, sir. Yes, So that
<v Speaker 3>part cracks me up every time.
<v Speaker 2>Fourth best line in the movie for me. That's the
<v Speaker 2>kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
<v Speaker 3>That's the combination of my life. That's a good one,
<v Speaker 3>all right. How about this one when they're replaying the
<v Speaker 3>stuff on the VCR. Yes, and it comes to the
<v Speaker 3>sudden stop, dark helmet flies through the air and smashes
<v Speaker 3>it and he says, let's get past this part. In fact,
<v Speaker 3>don't ever play this part again.
<v Speaker 2>Good stuff. And then last, I don't know that it's
<v Speaker 2>still funny to me now, but the line that I
<v Speaker 2>remembered forever is calling the desert okay, because when they
<v Speaker 2>were actually coming the desert, I was like, this is hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>But I was thirteen at the time, so man, we.
<v Speaker 3>Ain't okay for me. The number one line, though, has
<v Speaker 3>got to be I see your schwartz as as big
<v Speaker 3>as mine. Yes, you know that that's the That's the
<v Speaker 3>line from the movie, and that's the one that we
<v Speaker 3>repeated to each other all the time at school.
<v Speaker 2>What does that make us? Absolutely nothing.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's funny how Rick moranis every time he's
<v Speaker 3>got his helmet up and he's like he sort of
<v Speaker 3>talks like he's like, well, what what happened? You know,
<v Speaker 3>he's but every time he puts his helmet down, he's
<v Speaker 3>like room store. You know, his voice changes.
<v Speaker 2>So there here's an interesting bit of trivia. Do you
<v Speaker 2>remember what happens when he goes to he goes to
<v Speaker 2>the control station and he's about to like the it's
<v Speaker 2>the destroyer or whatever that he's and they're like, no,
<v Speaker 2>that's the coffee machine. You remember that?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So mel Brooks was notorious for not allowing anyone
<v Speaker 2>to have coffee cups on his sets because just as
<v Speaker 2>a month or so ago, we learned sometimes those things
<v Speaker 2>slip into scenes like they did in Game of Thrones
<v Speaker 2>one of the final episodes. And so the bit then
<v Speaker 2>for this movie is Rick moranis is walking around for
<v Speaker 2>a third of the movie with a styrofoam coffee cup
<v Speaker 2>in his hand because he goes to the coffee machine first.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I always have my coffee, went, Yes.
<v Speaker 2>I always have coffee when I watch radar.
<v Speaker 3>You know that. Of course I do, sir.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody knows that. Okay, all right, so you get it, yep.
<v Speaker 2>And we've hit our actors. So now we're on to
<v Speaker 2>six degrees of Kevin Bacon. You want to give it
<v Speaker 2>a shot, I've already done Rick moranis you're not allowed
<v Speaker 2>to use him?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, if I can't is Rick Marass. I'm gonna go
<v Speaker 3>the John Candy route. Okay, good, let's go John Camp.
<v Speaker 3>I'll skip stripe since I could go John Candy, Bill Murray,
<v Speaker 3>Bill Murray goes. Yeah, all right, so let's go John
<v Speaker 3>Candy and Tom Hanks and splash. Okay, Tom, there, Paula
<v Speaker 3>thirteen boom, look as you go.
<v Speaker 2>Two movies. I'm not even gonna try to compete with you.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, Oh that was so good.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even know.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't yeah me, Yeah, that was perfect.
<v Speaker 2>I was over here going like, okay, how do I
<v Speaker 2>get to John lyth Gal? Yeah? Yeah, you're like Tom Hanks.
<v Speaker 2>Dang it, you're so good.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you.
<v Speaker 2>All right, So let's talk about the movie.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, babe, God.
<v Speaker 2>I gotta say, in a large part this movie did
<v Speaker 2>not work up for me. I'll movie watching Okay, it's
<v Speaker 2>been twenty years probably since I've seen it, and whenever
<v Speaker 2>the especially whenever we see Bill Pullman's character for the
<v Speaker 2>first time, the hamming is almost like bad stage acting,
<v Speaker 2>community theater stuff, and I just I was kind of like,
<v Speaker 2>let down.
<v Speaker 3>Let down he's talking about when he's like Marv.
<v Speaker 2>Right when he yeah, when they're when they're trying to
<v Speaker 2>negotiate with Pizza the hut.
<v Speaker 3>Oh Okay, Okay, So yeah, I was.
<v Speaker 2>I was disappointed at that part. Now, the movie is
<v Speaker 2>still great. N't get me wrong, it's a classic. It's
<v Speaker 2>it's always going to be a classic. But I was
<v Speaker 2>surprised on the rewatching that I was like, this is
<v Speaker 2>not this is not as good as I remember it being.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Okay, so here's I got a couple of problems
<v Speaker 3>with that.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Bill Pullman, in my opinion, is not good looking enough
<v Speaker 3>to pull off the hero.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>He's also I didn't buy him as the president and independency.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah I'm not, you're not. I'm not. He's kind of
<v Speaker 3>in between on everything. He's a little too goofy and
<v Speaker 3>a little not funny enough.
<v Speaker 2>Huh.
<v Speaker 3>So I'm not a big Bill Pullman fan. I also
<v Speaker 3>thought that mel Brooks's parts in This President's Scrub, and yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we're kind of the least funny characters in the movie.
<v Speaker 3>I love John Candy, I love Rick moranis in.
<v Speaker 2>This Absolutely those two guys are the movie.
<v Speaker 3>I think. I think John Rivers is funny. I think
<v Speaker 3>Daphne zu Nigga is good as the princess. Right, But
<v Speaker 3>I if you would have said give me more barf
<v Speaker 3>and give me more dark helmet, I'm I'm totally important.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely totally agree. There are some classic lines, and I mean,
<v Speaker 2>you can't. We're criticizing something that is iconic, so don't. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's right, we still love it. Yeah I would. I
<v Speaker 2>would watch it again with the kids. Absolutely, but it's uh,
<v Speaker 2>it's not It's not what I remember it being. So
<v Speaker 2>here's a trivia thing. You know, we talked about lights
<v Speaker 2>and magic being involved with it. You remember the scene
<v Speaker 2>when they're when they've hit the self destruct button, yes,
<v Speaker 2>and then like that's the the F bomb comes out there,
<v Speaker 2>which is just a shocker. I watched Beetlejuice the other
<v Speaker 2>day with the kids. It's just I was just like,
<v Speaker 2>how did I not remember that? No kidding, So these
<v Speaker 2>are These are a couple of rare like Airplane was
<v Speaker 2>the rare PG movie that had boobies. These are Those
<v Speaker 2>two were a couple of the rare PG movies that
<v Speaker 2>had the f bomb in them. Right. But anyway, they're
<v Speaker 2>all escaping in the escape pods, right yep. So there's
<v Speaker 2>one scene it's really it's still like a flash, but
<v Speaker 2>you see the escape pod shooting out and you're like, wow,
<v Speaker 2>they did a really good job with that. Well, it
<v Speaker 2>turns out that was actually a deleted scene from one
<v Speaker 2>of the original Star Wars movies.
<v Speaker 3>Star Wars had his fingerprints on this, which was pretty cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I mean, to have the blessing of the person
<v Speaker 2>you're parodying, you can't beat that. And and like said,
<v Speaker 2>mel Brooks is iconic and brilliant and blazing Saddles and
<v Speaker 2>you Frankenstein are some of my favorites. Spaceballs is going
<v Speaker 2>to be lower on the totem pole compared to those movies.
<v Speaker 3>I would say this is the third best mel Brooks movie.
<v Speaker 2>I haven't seen the producers, but yeah, I was not
<v Speaker 2>a big fan of History of the World or the
<v Speaker 2>producer or.
<v Speaker 3>Dracula didn't let me. Never even saw that one I
<v Speaker 3>go blazing saddles Young Frankenstein Spaceballs.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'd be on board with. Oh, but High Anxiety
<v Speaker 2>I almost forgot, so yeah, you got to watch Anxiety.
<v Speaker 2>So High Anxiety was mel Brooks's parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies,
<v Speaker 2>and that was the one I watched over and over
<v Speaker 2>his kid, that one solid I will it's been again
<v Speaker 2>a couple of decades since I've seen it. I would
<v Speaker 2>rewatch it again and said I'd have to decide between
<v Speaker 2>it and Spaceballs. Okay, but this kind of what goes
<v Speaker 2>on with Spaceballs that I think is the key to
<v Speaker 2>the difference between Spaceballs and Airplane for my final judgment here,
<v Speaker 2>which we're moving into. Yes, is what I talked about
<v Speaker 2>before they had the guys an Airplane that were all
<v Speaker 2>serious actors delivering serious stuff even though it was hysterical.
<v Speaker 2>And the conflict between this very serious delivery from these
<v Speaker 2>very serious actors and the hysterical language and stuff going
<v Speaker 2>on in the movie was what made it so funny.
<v Speaker 2>With Spaceballs, You've got some comedy geniuses here, but you
<v Speaker 2>got some people that were really kind of hamming it
<v Speaker 2>up a little bit, especially Yeah, Bill Wolman, is. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>they're playing for comedy, a lot of it. Colonel Sanders
<v Speaker 2>is a great guy. He was on Hill Street Blues.
<v Speaker 2>He was a serious actor, but you could tell he
<v Speaker 2>wasn't playing serious role. He was kind of hamming it up.
<v Speaker 3>What's the matter, Colonel Sanders Chicken. Yeah, this movie is
<v Speaker 3>great and it's a lot of fun. And as a
<v Speaker 3>Star Wars fan, I'm a big Star Wars guy. It's
<v Speaker 3>fun to see you know, your favorites poked fun at
<v Speaker 3>and I love it. It's funny. There are some laugh out
<v Speaker 3>loud parts, but not like Airplane Nope, not for me.
<v Speaker 2>No.
<v Speaker 3>Rick Morans and John Candy knock it out.
<v Speaker 2>Of the park though. Absolutely.
<v Speaker 3>Rick Moranas in particular was brilliant through this whole movie. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>I'll tell you another scene that I like that we
<v Speaker 3>kind of we haven't really talked about. Yeah, is when
<v Speaker 3>they're fighting with their schwartz and they slash a TV
<v Speaker 3>like a cameraman. Yes, and he's like, that's it breaks
<v Speaker 3>the fourth wall, and.
<v Speaker 2>Well, and that's exactly the same scene you know I
<v Speaker 2>talked about earlier. They have the scene where like they're
<v Speaker 2>jumping through the closing doors and then it turns out
<v Speaker 2>they've captured their stunt senda, which is again that kind
<v Speaker 2>of breaking of the fourth but that same scene where
<v Speaker 2>they're fighting and Lone Star goes over and does some
<v Speaker 2>kind of acrobatic You when you watch that in high definition, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's not Bill Pullman at all. You see his face
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, oh, there's that stunt double again.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he does some weak stuff to transition on that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Okay, so I think we've reached the end of
<v Speaker 2>our show.
<v Speaker 3>Final judgment, Love Spaceballs, love Airplane, Airplane.
<v Speaker 2>More definitely Airplane is the winner on this one battle
<v Speaker 2>of parodies. Airplane wins. Condolences and respect to Spaceballs winner Airplane. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So thank you guys. If you've listened all the way
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<v Speaker 2>Very good. We love to hear your comments. Have we
<v Speaker 2>completely missed it is? Spaceball is a better movie in
<v Speaker 2>your opinion? I know a lot of people out there
<v Speaker 2>who believe that it is.
<v Speaker 3>Well, let's hear from you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, come at it. Tell us what you think. We'd
<v Speaker 2>love to hear it.
<v Speaker 3>Give us something great, and maybe we'll mention you on
<v Speaker 3>our next podcast.
<v Speaker 2>Jason, it's been fun again.
<v Speaker 3>Good see man, it's fun.
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