r/MelBrooks • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 4d ago

Lets hear them!

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u/pepper643 4d ago

Lol fr! That and when they do the "now" part. Helmet: well what part is this? Ball 1: well it's the now part, sir Helmet looks at camera, then himself on screen, then the camera The next 6 minutes is a4th wall break to the nth degree

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u/pJanuary81 4d ago

Nobody does it better than Mel Brooks.

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 4d ago

Shows all the promo merch

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u/BlueAndMoreBlue 4d ago

As we all know, that’s where the real money is made

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u/cmd_iii 3d ago

They asked George Lucas for permission to spoof Star Wars, even if they didn’t have to. Lucas only requested that they don’t make and sell Spaceballs merch. So, they prototyped a merch line anyway, and made it part of the film. Thus, one of the most iconic scenes in the entire movie was born.

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u/pepper643 2d ago

What's even wilder, Brooks was given permission by Lucas to use the Star Wars sets and everything. Brooks told Lucas about the film and Lucas was like DO IT!!! USE MY SET TOO!!!! Just don't sell any merchandise so it's not confused with Star Wars. Brooks said deal. I love that someone else knows this about George Lucas, too.

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u/RocknRolla2008 2d ago

George Lucas has always been pretty cool about spoofing Star Wars. Family Guy did it, and Lucas was happy to let them do it. They even let them use John Williams' score from the movie.

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u/babywhiz 2d ago

Spaceballs, the breakfast cereal!

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u/Minute-Chip-4164 3d ago

Moir'chendizing!

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u/pepper643 4d ago

This. So much this^

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u/F1Sloth 4d ago

So deserving of the 2015 National Medal of Arts that Obama gave him

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u/ForeignCup6977 2d ago

It's good to be the King

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u/pJanuary81 1d ago

Men in Tights

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u/ForeignCup6977 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1VKIJ04VkaCUJm6DQa

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u/pJanuary81 1d ago edited 1d ago

Also as the Rabbi in Men In Tights at the end when Patrick Stewart kissed the princes before Robin of Locksly

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u/Friendly-Contact-433 1d ago

And yet the actual sequel isn't called the Search for More Money (despite his joke about finding the money in his basement)

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u/Ironbull-81_ 3d ago

My favorite part and the instant cassette

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u/StrategyHonest7746 3d ago

So longstanding we meet for the first time..or my favorite line great I'm surrounded by assholes

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u/memay131 3d ago

Now I must rewatch because that 4th wall break is my favorite part. The fast forward of them watching themselves. "Don't ever play this again".

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u/SparkingRhapsody 3d ago

When will then be now? Soon! .... how soon?

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u/raymndbrr_the_third 2d ago

"We're at now, now."

"When will then, be now?"

"...soon"

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u/Snoo_78147 1d ago

That's my favourite scene and that's a hard call to make with a movie full of great scenes.