So I Married a Millennial
Married couple and animation voice actors Jeremy Levy (Bumblebee in "Transformers: Cyberverse") and Lauren Levy (Acerola on "Pokemon: Sun and Moon) explore their 13 year generational culture gap, when Jeremy presents the retro movies and tv shows that Lauren missed, but were a staple of his 80's kid upbringing.
So I Married a Millennial
Spaceballs (1987)
🎙️ Episode 4 – Spaceballs: Dad Jokes in Space
Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs gets the Millennial treatment! Jeremy forces Lauren to watch a galaxy-spanning spoof full of dad jokes, chestbursters, Rick Moranis gold, and the most on-the-nose product placement ever. Is Spaceballs actually funny? Or just nostalgic chaos?
[Speaker 1]
Take one. Whenever you're ready.
[Speaker 2]
Jeremy made me watch Spaceballs on this week's episode of So I Married a Millennial. Quicker.
[Speaker 1]
Let's just get one more per se. Take two.
[Speaker 2]
I'm Lauren Levy. This is J.J. Levy on my lap.
[Speaker 1]
Oh, hi, I'm Jeremy Levy. Intro take four.
[Speaker 2]
The So I Married a Millennial podcast where we watch episodes, not episodes.
[Speaker 1]
Cool. Intro take four.
[Speaker 2]
It's five.
[Speaker 1]
Intro take five. This is not just the whole podcast. And we are both millennials on opposite sides
of the spectrum.
[Speaker 2]
Jeremy and I have been going through some classic and not so classic 80s and 90s movies.
[Speaker 1]
We realize there are huge gaps in our culture knowledge of one another. So now we are
making the other watch movies from our childhood. To see if they hold up when you are notdrunk on nostalgia.
Cheers. Cheers. Here we go.
So I'm married a millennial.
[Speaker 2]
Now I'm watching all the things you know. So I'm married a millennial. I'm married a millennial.
[Speaker 1]
They have just announced a sequel to the 1987 Mel Brooks classic Spaceballs.
[Speaker 2]
Timely.
[Speaker 1]
They're doing a Spaceballs 2. It's happening.
[Speaker 2]
Is it going to be called Spaceballs 2? Do we know? Spaceballs more balls.
[Speaker 1]
They might lean into there's a joke in this one. Spaceballs 2 the search for more money. Here
we go.
Spaceballs 1 just called Spaceballs 1987. The Rotten Tomatoes synopsis in a distant galaxy
planet. Spaceball has depleted its air supply leaving its citizens reliant on a product called Perry
air in desperation.
Spaceballs leader President Scroob Mel Brooks orders evil dark helmet Rick Moranis to kidnap
Princess Vespa. Daphne Zuniga of oxygen rich druidia and hold her hostage in exchange for air.
But help arrives for the princess in the form of renegade space pilot Lonesaw.
Bill Pullman and his half man half dog partner barf John Candy. Fifty two percent critics score
not great. Eighty three percent audience score.
That is a that is a very big difference. Yes it is. That's huge on a budget of twenty two point
seven million dollars.
It grossed thirty eight million one hundred nineteen thousand four hundred eighty three. So
actually was not a big hit.[Speaker 2]
No. No I was waiting for you to say like in something something sense that felt like a very
specific number.
[Speaker 1]
Yes the Internet tends to be very specific what it wants to be. So initial thoughts take us
through kind of the plots as you saw it very succinctly just sort of overarching plot thoughts
what hit you what didn't hit you.
[Speaker 2]
OK so we were ripping off Star Wars was sort of my initial. We're going for a Star Wars thing.
But then what sort of surprised me watching this was we were sort of parod parodying a lot of
other movies.
We had Wizard of Oz in there.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah. So this is sort of your your first foray into like the Mel Brooks sphere kind of right. Like
have you seen any other Mel Brooks or Mel Brooks parody movies before this.
[Speaker 2]
Name another one.
[Speaker 1]
The producers.
[Speaker 2]
Oh OK.
[Speaker 1]
So that was his first. But it wasn't like this as you know you've seen the musical. Yeah it wasn't
like really a like a send up.
It was just sort of a straight weirdo story blazing saddles. Fair enough. I also kind of misplay
that that was before me too.
That was that was more 70s. History of the world. Part one.
Have you heard of this. Also was I believe late 70s. So kind of kind of missed me.But Spaceballs was my foray into Mel Brooks because this hit me right in the childhood. I was
probably six or seven years old.
[Speaker 2]
Right in the child.
[Speaker 1]
Right. And it got me right in the child. Did you think it was fun.
[Speaker 2]
I thought a lot of it actually was funny. I did. I laughed out loud.
I had a good time. I feel like like a lot of other spoofs. There's definitely some of it where I'm like
OK we're going we're going a little far for me.
Pizza The Hut is horrible.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
I know that we were going for a job of the hut thing obviously. Most also you could very it was
not subtle as spoof movies.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
Are not.
[Speaker 1]
It was it was very very dad humor laden.
[Speaker 2]
Yes.
[Speaker 1]
It was very like old borscht belt Jewish. Yes dad humor. Name like a lot of broad stuff.[Speaker 2]
Naming the guy barf barf is a name horrible. I think my biggest complaints. The laser CGI
looked horrible.
And then I noted that multiple times.
[Speaker 1]
OK.
[Speaker 2]
My my complaints laser CGI. Pizza The Hut.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
The name barf. And then at the at the very end the title character. The very Anakin he dude
kissing with his eyes open.
[Speaker 1]
Oh yeah.
[Speaker 2]
Those are my those are my major complaints about the movie.
[Speaker 1]
That's that. Yes that was very we both clocked that we try not to talk about.
[Speaker 2]
No.
[Speaker 1]
The movie while we're watching it. But if something something very disturbing or something
that bears immediate attention happens. We will say that Bill Pullman.
[Speaker 2]
And kiss him with his eyes open. That was that offended me.[Speaker 1]
I remember that.
[Speaker 2]
That man is too sexy to be doing that when I was good.
[Speaker 1]
OK. So your criticism of the effects dove tails into my first piece of trivia.
[Speaker 2]
Tell me.
[Speaker 1]
Let's say.
[Speaker 2]
Tell me.
[Speaker 1]
So this movie came out well after the last Star Wars movie. The last Star Wars movie was Return
of the Jedi. And I believe it was early 80s.
[Speaker 2]
So why did the lasers and this.
[Speaker 1]
So Mel Brooks had been kicking this around for years. And he went to George Lucas. And he
said I want to do a Star Wars like sort of spoofy thing.
George Lucas was a huge fan of Mel Brooks. He actually read the script and he loved it.
[Speaker 2]
Really.
[Speaker 1]
He gave George Lucas his sorry George Lucas gave Mel Brooks his blessing to do the movie. His
only caveat. Well two caveats.One. No merchandise. He couldn't.
There could be no Spaceballs merchandise.
[Speaker 2]
Oh so that's why they keep making the joke.
[Speaker 1]
Yes.
[Speaker 2]
In the movie about merchandise. OK. That's good to know.
[Speaker 1]
No merchandise. He couldn't dress up Lone Star. Allah Han Solo.
He didn't want him looking like Han Solo. Instead Mel Brooks made him look like Indiana Jones.
[Speaker 2]
I said Anakin when I met Han Solo earlier. I'm going to have to kill myself.
[Speaker 1]
No that's OK. I'm sure I'm sure no one in the comments noticed that at all. And no one no one
will drag you.
But here is the third part of that. He also gave him use of his special effects company industrial
lights in magic.
[Speaker 2]
So that's the same special effects.
[Speaker 1]
The same special effects.
[Speaker 2]
Star Wars. Why does it look so bad then. That looks nothing like the lasers in Star Wars.
[Speaker 1]
I can't say that they spent the same amount of time and money on it. Maybe as Star Wars.Actually that's not true.
I'm basically just going straight into trivia.
[Speaker 2]
I love it. I honestly I almost looked up the trivia for this one because I found myself very curious
after we watched last night. But I wanted I wanted to save it.
So honestly go go with the trivia.
[Speaker 1]
This movie cost twenty two point seven million dollars which was the most expensive movie Mel
Brooks had ever made. I believe if I'm wrong. Let me know in the comments.
Certainly more than his first movie the producers which cost one million to make. But it's very
different settings. But Star Wars A New Hope the first Star Wars movie cost eleven million
dollars to make.
It cost half the amount of money that this I mean maybe inflation the lasers to look like that. It
was 10 years earlier. So maybe inflation or something or that's very surprising.
So even though I have seen this a million times I probably have not seen it for a while. And
some some of the jokes I had. I feel like every time you watch this movie you will catch another
joke.
No matter I believe that how many times I believe that you watch this movie. And even in the
opening crawl I never realized this probably because I didn't know what it meant. But it's the
first thing instead of like chapter four for A New Hope he calls this chapter chapter eleven.
Which is yeah. I was like that's that's funny. That's a good bit.
It's good that you don't. You look like this.
[Speaker 2]
Well Chapter 11 like bankruptcy.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. OK. I'm sorry.
I didn't I didn't find that like laugh out loud. But I was like we're going with the Star Wars thingbecause it always has a chapter.
[Speaker 1]
But yeah that was.
[Speaker 2]
So I'm sorry. I guess I didn't give that the do that it deserved.
[Speaker 1]
I mean it gets the do that it gets. I have noticed that like I have noticed printed on a T-shirt gets
the do that it gets. I did notice that I I did not laugh out loud as much as I remember laughing
out loud.
And I you know maybe I've I've just sort of outgrown that kind of humor. But I do love it like the
humor is all over the place from naming John Candy barf to making a Kafka joke. Yeah.
At the end there was levels to this shit for sure. The ship he says engage metamorphosis and
Rick Moranis says ready Kafka. And I'm like we're everywhere.
But then we also have.
[Speaker 2]
And yeah we have like the Prince whose name is Valium. So he's sleepy like we really mostly
were in the like low tier of a pretty base humor. But you're right.
Some of it was was a little more elevated sort of woven throughout. Can you answer me. And
the answer is probably just because it's funny.
Why is the opening shot of the ship. Why does it go on for so long. Like so long.
Is that just because it's funny because it keeps going.
[Speaker 1]
Because it's funny.
[Speaker 2]
My God.
[Speaker 1]
I actually I have a note here. I had I have to wonder how long they were in the editing room like
the exact number of seconds that it becomes funny.[Speaker 2]
And I got to be honest. It lost me. I think it went too long.
I mean hot hot take. No that's right. There were multiple times where I was like.
OK. Surely now we're. I get it.
It's funny. It's still going. It's funny.
It's still going. And then it kept going again.
[Speaker 1]
I mean I think that is the idea is that like it is constantly defying expectations. And you're just
like oh my God. And the sheer ballsiness of being like.
Every time balls every time Rick Moranis was giving Lord Farquaad respectfully because Rick
Moranis is a king.
[Speaker 2]
I love him.
[Speaker 1]
So you want to talk about your personal connection to Rick Moranis or will you be disinherited.
[Speaker 2]
No I actually I don't know that my parents have figured out how to listen to the podcast. I've
sent them the link if you guys finally figured it out. Welcome to the channel.
No there's not really a full thing but just like my young version of my dad looked very much like
a young Rick Moranis which my dad kind of resented because he was like he's a dwee. But it
was kind of like yeah dad but like you're a dweeb. And like Rick Moranis is a legend.
You both are.
[Speaker 1]
All of this is true. I've seen pictures.
[Speaker 2]
It's uncanny.
[Speaker 1]He looked like Rick Moranis.
[Speaker 2]
It's uncanny. I don't know why we're fighting against this. Lean in Jim.
Lean in. He is so good in this. He's the highlight of this movie for me.
[Speaker 1]
I get it.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
And a lot of these ideas were apparently his own.
[Speaker 2]
Really?
[Speaker 1]
So it was it was his idea to change his voice when he puts the helmet on like when he when he
brought the helmet down and he talked to him like a like a James Earl Jones.
[Speaker 2]
Yes.
[Speaker 1]
And affected like a weird sort of African accent as well.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. But it sounded absolutely nothing like him when the helmet was down which made the
juxtaposition when it wasn't even funnier.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah. That that was him.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.[Speaker 1]
The scene where he is playing with action figures.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. That was really good.
[Speaker 1]
That was apparently not in the script. And somehow these action figures were brought to the
set. And Mel Brooks had the idea of shooting this scene with Darth Darth helmet.
Darth helmet. Dark helmet playing with these dolls. And there was no script.
And he just told Rick Moranis to play with these dolls. And the entire thing is completely
improvised.
[Speaker 2]
I mean I think of him of like Honey I Shrunk the Kids and mostly things like that. But Flubber.
[Speaker 1]
Mm hmm.
[Speaker 2]
Oh love Flubber.
[Speaker 1]
Who's in Flubber?
[Speaker 2]
It's the lead in Flubber.
[Speaker 1]
That was Robin Williams man. Oh shoot.
[Speaker 2]
I know the difference between the two of them.
[Speaker 1]
Wow.[Speaker 2]
I know the difference between the two of them.
[Speaker 1]
You know they say they say a man dies twice. Second time when they don't remember you were
the lead in Flubber.
[Speaker 2]
No I love Flubber too. That's so bad.
[Speaker 1]
It's okay.
[Speaker 2]
That's okay.
[Speaker 1]
We will forgive you. Also sorry I feel like this bear is mentioning. It's 103 degrees.
[Speaker 2]
Thank you honey.
[Speaker 1]
Way to defend me. In New York City. I'm watching both of us.
I feel.
[Speaker 2]
I know.
[Speaker 1]
I'm feeling so glistening.
[Speaker 2]
I know. I think we're just dewy.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.[Speaker 2]
And shining. Yeah we're dewy and shining. Not at all dehydrated.
[Speaker 1]
No.
[Speaker 2]
And melting. And our brain just will fry.
[Speaker 1]
I also feel very dehydrated. I'm like I feel very dehydrated. Give me that water please.
This has become about survival. It's like you and I in the desert but we're recording a podcast.
[Speaker 2]
Nobody works harder.
[Speaker 1]
This is the work. That's good. Is that lemon?
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
That's good. That's very good. Thank you for keeping us alive.
[Speaker 2]
This episode brought to you by water. One of my one of my other favorite bits when the ship is
transforming.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
And I was like it's a transformer. And then it actually they said it's a transformer. I was like not
that that was particularly high comedy that could not have been gotten there but I did get it
before they said it and I felt very proud of myself.[Speaker 1]
There is actually transformers in this movie. So if you so in the scene with yogurt Mel Brooks
playing yogurt.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
My chin dies and my chin dies and he's showing all the merchandise. There is a Spaceballs
lunchbox that is actually eight. If you look closely that's just a Transformers lunchbox with the
Spaceballs logo on it.
But you see Optimus Prime on it.
[Speaker 2]
Oh I did not clock that.
[Speaker 1]
And there is another like a calendar. There's something else which is also just Transformers
with the. With the Spaceballs logo on it.
[Speaker 2]
We reference Star Trek. We reference Transformers Star Wars. Obviously we're referencing a lot
of a lot of projects.
A lot of different fandoms all represented in this an aliens reference. That was you know
something I actually could have had had longer. The alien popping out of his chest and the
doing his.
Hello my baby. Hello my. That was in addition to Rick Moranis that got me so good that I was I
was really I was really cracking up at that file that under.
[Speaker 1]
And I think actually we know you're going to disagree with me. No. Oh I'm not going to
disagree with you.
But I think now we need to have a segment on every episode called things that traumatized
Jeremy as a child.
[Speaker 2]Oh well had you seen alien. No in that. OK.
When you saw.
[Speaker 1]
Honestly I don't think I got that reference until I was like in my late teens.
[Speaker 2]
I don't like scary also in general.
[Speaker 1]
I did not actually watch alien for a very long time for someone who saw critters to weird science
and Teen Wolf and all these babies when I was a line at alien.
[Speaker 2]
You were like noble that I didn't see.
[Speaker 1]
I don't think I saw aliens. I was in my like 20s.
[Speaker 2]
I did not clock which you told me that it's the same guy that that happens to John Hurt. I did not
clock that it was the same. I thought it was funny already and the fact that it was the same guy.
And he goes not again.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah. So apparently he knew that he was making a cameo. But he didn't know what he was
doing until he showed up to set.
And then he I think even he even told Mel Brooks that like you know you don't even pay me.
This is fun. Like I'll do a cameo like this is fun.
And then when he saw what it was he was like oh shit I should ask for some money. He's like
damn.
[Speaker 2]
I'm going to. I'm thinking about that alien doing his little baby.
[Speaker 1]Hello my honey. Hello my ragtime girl.
[Speaker 2]
I'm thinking of we should put a clip and we can find it of that little dude because I think that in
Rick Moranis makes this movie worth a watch for me. That's it. No.
[Speaker 1]
You were on the fence to like the last five minutes and you're like all right. I'm in this movie.
There's a 10 second clip of an alien doing hello my baby.
Hello my honey. Did I stutter if any if any if any studio execs are out there trying to figure out
what's going to track. This is what you're up against.
[Speaker 2]
But I had a good time. I laughed. I had a good time.
And I laughed in a way where clearly it was it was meant to be a comedy. Whereas like
mannequin or the first one.
[Speaker 1]
Weird science.
[Speaker 2]
Weird science are like sort of absurdist but not always super funny. And this I was like this is
funny. This is supposed to be funny.
I'm having a good time.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
It was you heard the same way some of those are absurd but more grounded in humor.
[Speaker 1]
I think now that you have seen this movie you this is one of the most quoted movies of all time.
[Speaker 2]
And I feel like I've heard people reference this before and been like oh that's a thing I should
watch.[Speaker 1]
I have realized how often I say you know we've gone to plaid. Whenever like whenever
something goes off the rails whenever like whenever something goes off the rails I'm just like
we've gone to plaid.
[Speaker 2]
I yeah I didn't track that that's where this is from.
[Speaker 1]
But I think that you are now going to find you're like oh I recognize that quote people quote
this movie all of the time. This one you said that you know you you liked Teen Wolf because it
felt more like a movie. Of the Mel Brooks movies that are like this that are like send ups that are
like parodies.
I feel like this one actually has the most plots and character development.
[Speaker 2]
That's that's totally valid. I mean I can't compare to other ones.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah but I was I was surprised by that. I was surprised. I was thinking about the scene of Lone
Star and the princess coming together and I was like for the most part they really play this this
scene straight.
It's not super jokey until the Virgin Alarm goes off. The videotape bits is is so classic. Do you
remember the videotape it when they're trying to find them so they play.
This is now now.
[Speaker 2]
Oh yeah. And they're yes. And they're fast forwarding and then yes.
[Speaker 1]
I think is a stroke of genius.
[Speaker 2]
It was funny.
[Speaker 1]It was apparently the thing Mel Brooks was most proud of in this movie. Whenever people ask
like what he liked about this movie he was like I think that's one of the funniest things I've ever
done. All of there's a lot of meta humor.
It is pretty deft. I almost I compare it to like Deadpool the Deadpool movies because both
Deadpool and Spaceballs both movies are very good at playing the metagame at stepping out
of the movie and making fun of the movie but somehow swerving back into the movie in a way
that we are back in and we are still bought in and we still care about what happens and the
characters which is like not super easy to do.
[Speaker 2]
No.
[Speaker 1]
The shaving can thing also freaked me out when I was a kid at the end.
[Speaker 2]
They're going in his eyes and mouth.
[Speaker 1]
I was like that seemed I was like oh he oh he killed that man with shaving cream.
[Speaker 2]
I think he killed him.
[Speaker 1]
I think he's felt dead to me.
[Speaker 2]
I was like upon watching as an adult you still were like that man is gone.
[Speaker 1]
I don't like it. That seemed like mean. I'd rather him just like run him through.
Just do the noble thing. We're back to the 80s and the theme songs.
[Speaker 2]
One million percent I was very into the theme and I was very into it when it I realized like when
it started I was like oh I know where we're going. This has got to be the theme like it was such abuild. I was like oh this must be a theme song.
This is an 80s movie. We're building to something. This must be a theme song.
And I was right. And it was a bop. It was a bop.
100 percent. 80s the time of bops. Truly.
I said I think every I think we should bring back theme songs like that where it says the name of
the movie. It makes me laugh and I love it.
[Speaker 1]
I'm a big fan of that Hollywood producers. I hope you're taking notes. This is the only focus
group you need.
[Speaker 2]
I like when things are cute. Like I love me some baby Yoda.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
But I also like when things are not job of the hut ugly or pizza the hut.
[Speaker 1]
Yeah.
[Speaker 2]
But like the little alien. I like that. And I love theme songs so.
[Speaker 1]
Bring back the bops.
[Speaker 2]
Bring back the bops.
[Speaker 1]
Bring back the bops do it. Yeah. I thought it was.
It was an interesting choice. You know they opened the movie with the with the Star Wars asktheme or it's all like you know it's very orchestrated and it's very big. And they could have laid
that under the final scene.
But they played the spaceballs theme and that.
[Speaker 2]
And it was in a great build and it helped it build. It was perfect. I love the placement of where it
is.
[Speaker 1]
It was so pandemonium with clowns running around and a guy in a bear suit. And I thought it
was. Here we go.
We're doing trivia. Love it. It's trivia time.
Whoo. It's trivia clock. Period.
Trivia-tastic.
[Speaker 2]
I wish you would quit while you're ahead. I'm just going to read the trivia.
[Speaker 1]
Here we go.
[Speaker 2]
Tell me thanks.
[Speaker 1]
As we mentioned earlier. In June twenty twenty five Amazon MGM Studios announced that a
spaceballs sequel will be released released also released theatrically by MGM in twenty twenty
seven. Ron Howard.
Brian Grazer. Jeff Brody who I'm going to pretend I also know. Yeah.
So do you want to know the alleged plot of this movie because I think there is an aspect of this
that you are going to really enjoy.
[Speaker 2]
Also is there a trailer out or anything.
[Speaker 1]No. Yes. There is a teaser trailer.
[Speaker 2]
OK. Because I didn't watch it because I wanted to discuss.
[Speaker 1]
There is a there is a teaser trailer that looks like the opening crawl of this movie like the words
that also goes on very long. So I don't know your thoughts on that. It goes on for a very long
time.
[Speaker 2]
I love that.
[Speaker 1]
Which basically runs down every single sequel that has transpired in the last thirty seven years.
[Speaker 2]
That's good. That's good.
[Speaker 1]
And then finally says but never has there been a space ball sequel until now is very very funny.
[Speaker 2]
Well done. Well done marketing team. Who's so who's the well tell me the plot.
What's the suspected plot.
[Speaker 1]
Lewis Pullman Bill Pullman's real life son will star as Starburst the son of Lone Star and Vespa
and Kiki Palmer as a character named Destiny.
[Speaker 2]
No you're kidding.
[Speaker 1]
And Josh Gad will be in it as well.
[Speaker 2]Wait I love all of those people.
[Speaker 1]
Mel Brooks will be reprising the role of Yogurt.
[Speaker 2]
Hell yeah.
[Speaker 1]
And Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis are returning. Everyone's returning except for John Candy
because he died. Oh OK.
Sorry. RIP. Also did not star in Flubber.
So if we're I just want to get out in front of that one. Right here.
[Speaker 2]
Right now.
[Speaker 1]
So that is the plot. So I know you like Bill Pullman's son because we saw the Thunderbolts
together and he was shirtless for a second and you covered my eyes. So I know you'll be excited
about this one.
And I am excited about getting back into the gym.
[Speaker 2]
You're perfect. And I love you.
[Speaker 1]
Thank you.
[Speaker 2]
And also two things can be true at once. Lewis Pullman really really digging him.
[Speaker 1]
Along with Caddyshack 2, Beetlejuice and Big, this movie is notable for containing Fuck in a
movie rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America during the early years of the PG-
13 rating. Interestingly the original video label erroneously states that this movie was rated PG-
13.[Speaker 2]
Oh.
[Speaker 1]
Whoops. Whoops. The Millennium Falcon from Star Wars makes a cameo in this movie.
Can you remember? Can you recall where? It's very very subtle.
You wouldn't know unless you were looking for it.
[Speaker 2]
I was not looking for it.
[Speaker 1]
Great. I shall inform you. At the diner scene at the end in the parking lot there are a bunch of
spaceships parked and one of those spaceships is the Millennium Falcon.
Also, the pod sequence, the escape sequence, some of those shots was gifted to Mel Brooks
from George Lucas because it was an unused sequence in Star Wars. It was something they
shot in Star Wars and never used it and he just gave it to George Lucas.
[Speaker 2]
That was very kind.
[Speaker 1]
Original castings.
[Speaker 2]
Ah.
[Speaker 1]
Uh, Steve Martin was the original choice for Colonel Sanders. He would have been great.
[Speaker 2]
Oh, he would have been so good.
[Speaker 1]
He would have been great.[Speaker 2]
What did he do it?
[Speaker 1]
Rick Moranis and Steve Martin.
[Speaker 2]
What did he do it?
[Speaker 1]
I don't know. We can call him. Uh, Steve.
If you're watching.
[Speaker 2]
Call us.
[Speaker 1]
If you are one of the 47 people who will ultimately watch this, call us.
[Speaker 2]
We have questions. Call us both doing call us.
[Speaker 1]
Can we start, uh, get Steve Martin to watch this and answer our questions campaign? I'm going
to start a change dot org.
[Speaker 2]
Okay.
[Speaker 1]
Um, Mel Brooks tried to get either Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks for the role of Lone Star.
[Speaker 2]
You know, we love a vision.
[Speaker 1]
I mean, I guess stranger things about, I mean, Tom, Tom Cruise was, was in, uh, what was the,the Ben Stiller movie, Tropic Thunder.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah.
[Speaker 1]
He's done stuff like this before. Uh, James Khan was the original choice to play Lone Star. You
know, James, you know, James Gunn, but he's dad from, I was going to say the Godfather and I
was like, no, no, no, no, no, your audience buddies, buddy's dad, buddy's dad from out.
Unfortunately, he was struggling with addiction issues at the time, uh, then unknown, Bill
Pullman won the role, uh, as Khan was deemed too expensive to ensure, but hey, good on Bill
Pullman. He was great.
[Speaker 2]
Yeah. He was really great.
[Speaker 1]
I, uh, I really, I really enjoyed him. Brought some, he was funny, brought some, some gravitas
as well. Uh, reception at the time of the film's release, Roger Ebert of the Chicago sun tines
gave the film 2.5 stars out of four and remarked, I enjoyed a lot of the movie, but I kept
thinking I was at a revival. It should have been made several years ago before our appetite for
Star Wars satires had been completely exhausted. Fair enough. Gene Sisko of the Chicago
Tribune gave the film three out of four stars saying that there were just enough funny visual
gags to recommend this wildly uneven film variety said that the film was a misguided parody
and not very.
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