History Film / Spaceballs

%%* FairytaleWeddingDress

** Lone Starr and Dark Helmet square off with their "Schwartz" lightsabers suggestively held at crotch height. Dark Helmet remarks "Hmm... I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Now let's see how well you... handle it!" Made even better when they both glance down to check.

** Also, after King Roland gives Dark Helmet and President Skroob the combination to his planet's air shield therefore preventing Princess Vespa from having to be given back her once ugly nose by the plastic surgeon, Dark Helmet dismisses the surgeon by telling him: You can go back to the golf course now and work on your [[BilingualBonus "putts."]]

* FlippingTheBird: Done by Barf to the guards at the prison to get their attention. (So he and Lone Star can beat them up.)

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A bunch of Spaceballs merchandise is Franchise/{{Transformers}} merchandise with Spaceballs stickers on them, which might just seem like a a convenient and logical choice when adapting actual merchandise from one of the most well-known merchandise driven franchises ever for a joke about merchandising, but then later ''Spaceball One'' transforms into Mega-Maid, which is the linchpin device for the Spaceballs to steal all of Druidia's air.

* DigitalDestruction: When watching the original, non-anamorphic DVD on TVs with huge amounts of overscan, the scene where Dark Helmet threatens to restore Vespa's old nose became cropped so strongly, viewers can't see the crooked tip of her old nose. The anamorphic Collector's Edition DVD fixed this, but might prove harder to find than the original release, which MGM has repackaged a number of times.

* DigitalDestruction: On original, non-anamorphic DVD, the scene where Dark Helmet threatens to restore Vespa's old nose became cropped so strongly, viewers can't see the crooked tip of her old nose. The Collector's Edition DVD fixed this, but might prove harder to find than the original release, which MGM has repackaged a number of times.
* DisposableFiance: Vespa dumps Valium for Lone Starr. Not that they were all that attached to begin with

* OutlandishDeviceSetting: Lone Star has just put his Space Winnebago into "hyperactive" in a bid to escape the eponymous Space Balls. Dark Helmet orders pursuit. Col. Sanders tells them to prepare for light speed. Helmet says that light speed is too slow, and they're going to have to take the ship to '''''Ludicrous Speed'''''. The ship passes Lone Star and keeps going.
--> '''Lone Star:''' They must've overshot us by a week-and-a-half!

* ObviousStuntDouble: An InUniverse / BreakingTheFourthWall example when the Spaceballs capture the heroes' stunt doubles. Princess Vespa's is a man.

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* DrosteImage: The "Now" scene.

* MoneyDearBoy: InUniverse.
-->'''Lone Starr:''' We're not doing this for money!\\
''[quizzical look from Barf]''\\
'''Lone Starr:''' We're doing this for a ''[[PrecisionFStrike shitload]]'' of money!

%%* NitroBoost: Liquid Schwartz.

* OhCrap: Everyone in the bridge of the ''Spaceball One'' when [[ButtMonkey Dark]] [[TheDragon Helmet]] orders the ship to go to LudicrousSpeed.

* PrecisionFStrike: This occurs a few times in the movie, by Lone Starr, the Spaceball on radar duty, and Dark Helmet, in that order.

%%* StandardEstablishingSpaceshipShot: Parodied, see OverlyLongGag.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The SpareToTheThrone often ''was'' sent to a monastery in RealLife.

* ArbitraryMaximumRange: Especially the scene when the ''Spaceball One'' is chasing Princess Vespa's car.

* ClothingDamage: The hem of Vespa's wedding dress gets increasingly torn and ragged during her trek through the desert, [[ShesGotLegs baring quite a bit of her legs]] by the movie's climax.

* ShesGotLegs: Princess Vespa spends most of the desert displaying this due to the condition of her dress.

** The alien creature bursting from the chest of Creator/JohnHurt (causing him to lament, "Not again!") and then performing a song-and-dance number is a combined reference to ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening''.

* HumanAliens: It's implied that the Spaceballs aren't human, but they're pretty much indistinguishable from humans, at least in (external) appearance.

* BeepingComputers: Parodied: the technician notices that the radar is not working because he's lost the beeps, the sweeps, and the creeps; and he demonstrates these noises.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Lone Starr.

* LudicrousSpeed: The {{Trope Namer|s}}, when Helmet says that they can't catch Lone Starr going at light speed. They need to go to ludicrous speed. [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample Oddly enough, it's actually an aversion]]: the only harm that really comes out of it is the ''Spaceball One'' overshooting Lone Starr by a minimum of several hours in non-Ludicrous Speed travel time, and Dark Helmet taking some AmusingInjuries from crashing into a bridge console when the ''Spaceball One'' decelerates.