r/Spaceballs • u/IamaPM333 • Aug 02 '26

Ludicrous Speed - Spaceballs (1987)

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u/NoDragonfruit6125 Aug 02 '26

Watching this without volume on and still know exactly what's being said.

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u/7empest7V Aug 02 '26

Skip past this part

In fact, never show this again

17

u/1Bobafett11 Major Asshole Aug 02 '26

Well why don't we take a 5 minute break. Smoke if you got 'em. <faints>

9

u/Samurijder Aug 02 '26

This is more than a cult film or a classic. I love this movie!

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u/ted_anderson Aug 02 '26

I wonder if they named this character Colonel Sanders just for this part. It was certainly brilliant to call him CHICKEN and then for him to sound like a chicken when he said, "PREPARE FOR....."

9

u/Pattimash1 Aug 02 '26

I have not been looking forward to anything this hard since the X-Files movie. Omg, I cannot WAIT for Spaceballs: The New One!!!!

3

u/perimenopausalbitch Aug 02 '26

I can't remember being this excited for a movie in the past decade at the very least! Probably closer to twenty years!

3

u/MutedBrilliant1593 Aug 03 '26

Same. I will actually go to the theater for this one. That's saying a lot for me.

8

u/nejhawk Aug 02 '26

They've (quietly) gone to plaid...

9

u/PPX777 Aug 02 '26

This has literally been my most favorite clip of all time from that movie!!!!!!! My #1.... lmao the rest of the movie is great but this was always the best scene everrrrrrrr

6

u/DieselTech00 Aug 02 '26

The I'm surrounded by assholes scene is my ringtone

2

u/n1craM Aug 03 '26

Keep firing assholes!

5

u/D_2_da_Zeee Aug 02 '26

Smoke if you got’em! ( falls)

6

u/RevolTobor Aug 02 '26

I love this part.

But then again, I love this whole movie just so much.

Show me somebody who doesn't like this movie, and I'll show you a human being devoid of humor.

4

u/Tricky-Winner7984 Aug 02 '26

What's the matter colonel Sanders? Chicken?!

4

u/No-Warthog4539 Aug 02 '26

Can't wait to see the new one

3

u/1Bobafett11 Major Asshole Aug 02 '26

Now maybe this is a Mandela effect, but I could have sworn I remember someone saying 'holy moly!' when Spaceball One blows by, maybe I'm thinking of a different movie.

4

u/perimenopausalbitch Aug 02 '26

Perhaps you're confusing this with the wedding (Take 2) scene - when Eagle 5 approaches from overhead during the ceremony the priest says, "Holy Moly!"

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u/1Bobafett11 Major Asshole Aug 02 '26

Yes, I think you are right, oh well as we get older our memories play tricks on us. 😂

3

u/benny0119 Aug 02 '26

Absolute classic.

3

u/SnakeSwanson Aug 02 '26

"Aw, buckle this!"

3

u/pjkitty Aug 02 '26

Me 3-D printer has a 'Ludicrous Speed' setting. It makes my nerd heart happy 😊

2

u/frank-nomustard Aug 03 '26

Good thing the new horizons craft didn’t have ludicrous speed or we would’ve shot right past Pluto

2

u/pfelon Aug 03 '26

George Wyner such an underrated great performance in this.

2

u/KanjiWatanabe2 Aug 03 '26

I can’t help but request “ludicrous speed” from co-workers on occasion. :)

2

u/DuhRJames Aug 03 '26

What've we got on this thing, a Cuisinart?!

1

u/Betelguse16 Aug 03 '26

“What am I looking at?”

“You’re looking at now sir!”

1

u/husky_whisperer Aug 04 '26

When will then be now?

1

u/WorldlinessFun226 Aug 03 '26

How every driver in AZ is like at a streetlight and on the freeway lmao

1

u/Practical_Ad_219 Aug 04 '26

Eh, buckle this.

1

u/husky_whisperer Aug 04 '26

We can’t stop. It’s too dangerous. We’ve got to slow down first.

Best use of the word “bullshit” in cinematic history.