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Someone can add these back in, if they find cites...

Cultural context [edit]

The plot is deliberately evocative of fairy tales, as are the scenes on the planet Druidia. Throughout the picture show, the Spaceballs characters regularly break the fourth wall, often to promote their trade, and they are aware that they are making a movie, and the events are not real life. For case, at one point the villains succeed in capturing the main characters' stunt doubles, while at some other accidentally kill one of the filming crew during a fight scene, and even being hit by the photographic camera in a shut up. In fact, in one scene, they pull out the video version of Spaceballs being shown in existent time, equally it is being filmed and temporarily take a look at the scene they're in: "now".

The majority of the scenes and characters are parodies of Star Wars, although the film parodies other movies also, almost notably:

  • Jaws (gigantic shark-similar space ship with Jaws-like music)
  • Indiana Jones, Barf remarks "...this looks like the Temple of Doom!" Lonely Star is also beginning seen dressed in a brown fedora and leather jacket, alluding to Harrison Ford playing both the roles of Han Solo and Indiana Jones in their respective films.
  • Battlestar Galactica villains occasionally use the word "Imperious", this is a reference to the Cylon term "Imperious Leader". Others also argue that Lone Starr dresses like a Colonial Warrior.
  • Superman: The Picture show (musical score)
  • The Law Academy movies (Michael Winslow sound effects; Winslow has a cameo in the film as a Spaceball navigations officer)
  • The Sir David Lean films The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, including their theme music.
  • The Wizard of Oz (first meeting with Yogurt) likewise if you heed closely, in the scene where Yogurt reveals Lonely Starr as a certified prince, when he´southward fading abroad he says "What a earth", a function from the dying words of the Wicked Witch of the w.
  • Planet of the Apes (crashed remains of Spaceball One/Mega Maid equally a reference to the Statue of Liberty ruins)
  • Rambo (Princess Vespa'due south utilize of a blaster gun). This was confirmed when Dot said she rivaled Rambo in bloodbaths.
  • Star Trek The effulgent sequence with the grapheme Snotty (a parody of Scottish character Montgomery "Scotty" Scott) where the president is beamed to the command room with his head on backward so beamed dorsum before the president walks through a door revealing that the room is right adjacent door (besides the Commanderette says "he beamed me twice", it was wonderful, indicating that she and Snotty had sex), and the scene where Lone Starr attempts to knock out a Spaceball by performing (at first, unsuccessfully until the victim told him information technology was where the shoulder meets the neck) the Vulcan neck pinch. Before he is beamed, president Skroob even exclaims: "What the hell, information technology works on Star Expedition!!".
  • Max Headroom
  • Rocky (including its supposed continuation upward to "Rocky Five ... Thousand")
  • 2001: A Infinite Odyssey: The ship Spaceball I has a name similar to the Discovery One ship seen in the film 2001: A Infinite Odyssey. As well, the running gag of the Spaceball drummer is similar to As well sprach Zarathustra, which was used prominently in 2001.
  • Alien, John Hurt reprising his famous decease scene from that film, and even groaning in despair, "Oh no! Not again!"; the chestburster emerges from the victim, shrieks, smiles, and in stereotypical vaudeville style, puts on a straw boater hat with a miniature cane in one mitt, and begins dancing and singing similar Michigan J. Frog, performing Hello! Ma Baby) The length of Spaceball 1 may too exist a reference to the opening of Alien (the Nostromo was a very long transport but Spaceball i was even longer).
  • Dumbo (Yogurt saying to Lone Starr that he doesn't need the ring)
  • Transformers (When Spaceball I is transforming, Barf says "Information technology'due south a Transformer!")
    • The transformation itself is also similar to Unicron's transformation in The Transformers: The Picture, released in 1986. The caput fifty-fifty remains intact floating through space after its destruction.
  • Thunderbirds The Mercedes Benz launching from the Planet Druidia platform.
  • It Happened One Dark The nuptials scene (when walking down the aisle, Princess Vespa is told past her father Rex Roland that Lone Starr forsook the reward for the princess'south return and only asked to exist reimbursed for the cost of the trip) is a parody of the wedding scence from the 1934 Frank Capra picture show.

The moving-picture show also satirizes various aspects of 1980s culture, including video rental, fast food, Mr. Coffee, action figures, and merchandising. During a scene in which Dark Helmet and various other crewmates try to locate a re-create of Spaceballs on video (which confuses Dark Helmet, as they are still making the movie at the time), Sandurz passes past video cassettes of several of Brooks's earlier movies (The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the Globe, Part I, and To Exist or Non to Exist) before he finds the video he is looking for. As well, Rocky is mentioned. After the news clip reporting the death of Pizza the Hutt, the reporter says, "Coming up, Pongo'southward review of Rocky Five...1000!" If you heed carefully, you'll hear the reviewer say, "Who says 'When you've seen ane, y'all've seen 'em all'?" just before Barf shuts off the TV.

At the end of the final battle, in the final minute of the self-destruct countdown, Spaceball Ane'due south computer reminds Dark Helmet that in that location is a self-destruct cancellation button. Rushing to the push, he, President Skroob and Colonel Sandurz notice information technology out of order, to which Dark Helmet curses, "Fuck! Even in the futurity, nothing works!"

Ane of the features of Skroob's presidential role was beverage cans filled with air, branded "Perri-air".

Moranis reportedly modeled Nighttime Helmet'due south "mask-down" voice on that of Geoffrey Holder, a popular performer with similar voice intonations to James Earl Jones, the role player who provided Darth Vader's voice in the Star Wars films.

Druidia may be a reference to Druidic culture, and also Jewish civilization. The king's daughter is a "druish princess" (see "Princess Vespa", below). Another Jewish joke is Barf saying the princess doesn't await "Druish" which pokes fun at how Jews from different parts of the world are expected to look by those living there. In the DVD's audio commentary, Mel Brooks indicated that he was both proud and ashamed past that joke, jokingly clarifying that he was ashamed of the homo who wrote it, simply proud of himself for keeping it in the script.

  • May I suggest that this be condensed as well, prior to reinclusion. Maybe something like this:

The plot is deliberately evocative of fairy tales, as are the scenes on the planet Druidia. Throughout the film, the Spaceballs characters regularly break the 4th wall, and many of them are aware that they are making a movie. For instance, in one scene, Colnol Sandurz pulls out the video version of Spaceballs existence shown in existent time, every bit it is existence filmed , for Dark Helmet to view. They fast-forward to temporarily take a look at the scene they're in, in a live activity display. The bulk of the scenes and characters are parodies of Star Wars, although the motion picture parodies other movies also, near notably: Indiana Jones, Battlestar Galactica, The Wizard of Oz, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Transformers." Wolfpeaceful (talk) xvi:00, 25 August 2009 (UTC) [respond]

Whether this is used or non, here is my reasoning behind the condensed/edited version I wrote:

  • I took out "regularly to promote their trade" because they actually break the fourth wall for a variety of reasons. Dark Helmet breaks it early on on in the motion-picture show to "brand sure" the audience understands the plot, when Colnol Sandurz tells him what the plot is from the Spaceball's POV. "Everybody got that?" Barf breaks it in dialogue when they transition from one seen to the sunday over Vega, proverb "Squeamish Dissolve." and so forth.
  • I took out "they" and replaced with "many"; we exercise not know if all of the characters in the Spaceballs pic are enlightened that they are making a picture, we only know that many of them of are.
  • The Winslow reference doesn't count for parody. He merely appears in the moving picture equally a Spaceball's officer and uses vocal sound effects in the same manner as his character did in the Police Acadamy films; but nothing in spaceballs actually parodies Police Acadamy.
  • I took out many of the minor paradoies, such every bit the Rambo, Hedroom, and Alien references. When you lot use the term "nigh notably" information technology implies the major ones. I also took out the musical score references. (Some may exist notable, just I didn't really think it necessary to include them.)
  • I took out all of the lengthy descriptions of each allegorical element. I believed it to be "wordy", and as well unnecessarily detailed.
  • I decided to keep out the paragraph of satarizing 1980's culture. Not considering, information technology isn't truthful, just because the examples given, are not really different from modern culture. E.g. how are these things: video rental, fast food, Mr. Coffee, activity figures, and merchandising any different from mod times? Mr. Java nevertheless makes products, people still rent videos, action figures are yet being fabricated and played with, and of grade merchandising will likely exist washed until the end of time. Wolfpeaceful (talk) 16:00, 25 August 2009 (UTC) [reply]

So, we have this huge section outlining all the completely obvious references in every graphic symbol's proper name, but not one mention of where the name "spaceballs" comes from? —Preceding unsigned annotate added by 173.eleven.36.169 (talk) xvi:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC) [reply]

I reverted the following since this is already mentioned under the Heros section. The song is called Colonel Bogey March (and at that place is a mention of it being used in Spaceballs on the page for the song in their popular culture department). Wolfhound668 (talk) 15:39, 14 July 2011 (UTC) [reply]

The Dinks
The song that the Dinks are singing during the desert sequence is the theme from "The Span on the River Kwai". The Vocal is "The River Kwai March".[one]

Does this judgement make sense to anyone? "According to Brooks, he initially wanted the graphic symbol'due south proper noun to be "Brooks" spelled backwards. However, this name was not well-liked by Mel Brooks, who inverse it to be like to his backwards proper noun." Pongley (talk) xix:27, 17 April 2012 (UTC) [reply]

I believe what information technology's trying to say is that Brooks initially wanted the character's name to exist "Brooks" spelled backwards (which would be "Skoorb"). But he didn't like the style that looked/sounded, so he inverse it to be something similar to his ain name spelled backwards, i.e. "Skroob". DH85868993 (talk) 21:54, 17 April 2012 (UTC) [reply]

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The electric current text says "with his 'Skroob' being Mel Brooks's last name backwards" which is wrong as previously noted here. Mad about everything (talk) 20:08, xi August 2021 (UTC) [reply]

It's as close to existence backwards as is allowed by the sound combinations of English language (where "oo" in the sense of a high circular vowel 1,two does non really occur before r + a consonant), so therefore the "skroo" beginning has more associations ("Scrooge", "screw"). Backwards spellings volition frequently require adustment to be pronounceable or suitable for inclusion in popular amusement, then there's not much point in being excessively literalistic virtually them (an effect also seen in some people'south responses to the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" song)... AnonMoos (talk) 00:fourteen, 12 August 2021 (UTC) [reply]

Tin can anyone provide a reference for Skroob existence a parody of Star Wars' Chiliad Moff Tarkin? To me he just seems to be an "incompetent politician" stereotype. Noting that the commodity also identifies Sandurz every bit a parody of Tarkin, which I discover more plausible. DH85868993 (talk) 02:22, 18 April 2012 (UTC) [answer]

Concord... AnonMoos (talk) 09:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC) [reply]

This characters and parodies section is a travesty. The section is two,745 words long, far longer than whatever other section, and the great majority of it is unreferenced or very poorly referenced --- 5 references altogether in the whole section, the outset of which is an IMDB trivia page, the second is a sex lexicon, and the concluding 3 all source the proper noun of Brooks'southward lawyer. The section is tagged for OR, but I call up information technology either needs to be deleted altogether or seriously trimmed to remove trivia and unsupported speculation. --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 14:forty, 14 May 2012 (UTC) [reply]

Experience gratuitous... Ckruschke -- 04:05, 15 May 2012‎ User:Ckruschke
However, it doesn't seem to exist useful to eliminate all mention of the facts that there are obvious parodies of a number of Star Wars characters, that John Injure reprised his Conflicting "chestburster" scene, etc. -- this was actually the main reason why the movie was made... AnonMoos (talk) 02:28, 16 May 2012 (UTC) [reply]
Perchance so, but that section is overrun with cruft. --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 02:51, 16 May 2012 (UTC) [respond]

I don't know...doesm't information technology seem a little redundant to telephone call this flick a "one-act parody"? Walex03. Talking, working, friending. xiii:40, 2 July 2012 (UTC) [reply]

I don't really have a problem with information technology. You lot can take a comedy moving picture that isn't a parody. Hot Shots, Naked Gun, and Infinite Balls all take parody equally major elements of the moving picture, while other one-act movies do not lean as heavily or at all on making fun of popular civilisation or other movies. Ckruschke (talk) 17:48, two July 2012 (UTC)Ckruschke [answer]
I think he ways that many comedy films are non parodies, simply name 1 parody that isn't a one-act. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.242.219.182 (talk) 21:38, 15 July 2012 (UTC) [reply]
Agree. If you feel the genre needs to be changed, feel free to be assuming and go alee. Ckruschke (talk) xviii:l, 17 September 2012 (UTC)Ckruschke [reply]
Washed 67.242.172.224 (talk) 23:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC) [reply]

Here is my theory about the origin of The Schwartz:

Mayhap Mel Brooks derived it from his own forename. While his full forename Melvin has Scottish/Latin roots and means "bad settlement", the short class "Mel" is also used as an abridgement for the feminine forename Melanie which is derived from the Greek adjective "melan" (neuter atypical class). And "melan" ways "schwarz" in German.

In the 16th century, there lived the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon who was built-in equally Philipp Schwartzerdt ("black globe") and who changed his surname into the Greek form "Melanchthon" later. Then Mel Brooks possibly went the reverse way and translated the proper name "Mel" from ancient Greek back into German.

Furthermore there is a chemic substance "mercury chloride" that is also called "Kalomel" which means "schönes Schwarz" ("cute blackness"). In pure grade information technology'due south a transparent colorless substance, only when irradiated with light, a chemical reaction occurs and the substance turns black - therefore it'due south chosen Kalomel. Strawberry No15 (talk) 16:06, 19 July 2012 (UTC) [respond]

You lot should go directly to the source: The Greek word μελας (stem μελαν-) means "blackness, dark". However, if there's no reliably-sourced indication of a connection between the Schwartz and μελαν, then it can't be included on the article... AnonMoos (talk) xvi:17, 19 July 2012 (UTC) [reply]
I recollect yous might be over-analysing it; my guess is that Brooks just picked a "Jewish-sounding" word (name) that sounds like "Forcefulness". I have no evidence to back that upwardly, but that's my judge. DH85868993 (talk) 01:21, 20 July 2012 (UTC) [reply]
I call back it is quite obvious that he didn't just choice any "Jewish-sounding" discussion (why would he desire to selection a "Jewish-sounding" give-and-take in the first place?), only rather ane that sounded (to him) like a euphemism for "Schwantz" - meaning tail in German or Yiddish, itself a euphemism for penis in Yiddish and German language speaking circles. This immune him to use this innocent-sound word (what, don't blame me, information technology's simply a Jewish-sounding word) while making all sorts of seemingly-innocent phallic references ;-) 46.121.71.138 (talk) 09:53, 29 November 2015 (UTC) [reply]
By the way, according to [1], when the picture show was translated into German, they didn't go along the discussion "Schwartz", and instead replaced it by "Saft" ("juice"). Amusing. 46.121.71.138 (talk) 09:56, 29 November 2015 (UTC) [reply]
Well, possibly anybody can ask Mr Brooks or someone of the Spaceballs staff in an upcoming interview whether my theory applies :-)
Strawberry No15 (talk) 13:42, 20 July 2012 (UTC) [answer]
Also much focus here on German, simply that'south non Mel Brooks'south style. I recollect it should be shvarts, Yiddish for 'blackness'. He uses Yiddish in several of his movies, but I don't recall him ever using German. 71.171.89.xc (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:33, 12 October 2014 (UTC) [reply]
Yes. See Mazur, Eric Michael (2011). Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. ABC-CLIO. p. 93. ISBN978-0-313-33072-8. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC) [reply]
The focus of my theory is non on German, just on ancient Greek. If you supersede the noun "German language" by the substantive "Yiddish" in my entire text, the content of my theory essentially remains the same. (To prevent a misunderstanding, I'd similar to brand you aware of the fact that in the phrase "German reformer" German is an adjective, not a substantive and therefore hasn't to be replaced).
Strawberry No15 (talk) 20:31, ten November 2014 (UTC) [reply]
I more thought:
If I alter some characteristics of the above-mentioned substance Kalomel, information technology is actually quite similar to outer space: Outer infinite itself is transparent and colorless and looks black if I don't look in the management of a lite source.
In the finish Mel Brooks mayhap just looked on outer space and thought: "Hey, information technology is blackness (= schwartz). Then let'south include this word in my picture show."
Past the style, if you're interested in a "logical" explanation of the fundamental forces in the Spaceballs Universe, you lot might like this (German) essay about the Duckburg Universe: https://web.archive.org/web/20180604133551/http://www.quakpiep.de/Quantenchronodynamik.htm
Strawberry No15 (talk) nineteen:25, 12 November 2014 (UTC) [answer]
Strawberry No15 (talk) 19:18, 23 June 2019 (UTC) [reply]

Anyone desire to help me with a bit of data. With almost every article I've read, there is ordinarily a argument most how there were before (and sometimes better) Star Wars parodies before Spaceballs. I've been trying to find these names so I can further some piece of work I'm doing. The only thing I've establish was Hardware Wars, which while a parody, is more short film, which is not full length and does non argue confronting Spaceballs. — Preceding unsigned annotate added by 50.50.85.200 (talk) 21:46, 21 March 2013 (UTC) [answer]

Don't think there was any pre-1987 full-scale movie. Perhaps there were Television set comedy skits. AnonMoos (talk) 23:52, 21 March 2013 (UTC) [reply]
In that location are MANY movies that came out that had SciFi themes similar to Star Wars trying to bank on the Star Wars craze (many of them beingness awful, B-movies that no one remembers), only none of them were done as either direct or implied parodies to the moving picture. Hardware Wars comes to heed, but nix else. I can call back of pretty good parodies on Saturday Night Live, the Ballad Burnett Show, The Tonight Show, and other places, but these were obviously bit sketches. Ckruschke (talk) 18:36, 22 March 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke [reply]

Hey, guys, I added "In popular culture" the first one was: "In Monsters vs. Aliens, Gallaxhar, said 'Oh, Spaceballs!' during the finish of the film." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dewy60 (talk • contribs) 20:thirty, 7 June 2013 (UTC) [respond]

To me, the purple palace - including the mountain groundwork - looks very much like a Disney version of Neuschwanstein Castle. --Hodsha (talk) 21:03, 29 June 2014 (UTC) [respond]

Think it'southward mainly supposed to convey the idea of a fairytale princedom. Specific influences would probably demand a source to be included on the article... AnonMoos (talk) 19:58, 23 July 2014 (UTC) [reply]

It's been a while since I watched this pic, merely I recall hearing that the movie upkeep was a fluke, like an extra zero was added or something and it wasn't supposed to cost near equally much originally. For all I know, that was a line in the motion picture (I can't call up) but anyway, that'southward what I remember. Does anyone else know about that or remember? Google isn't helping me find anything about that Au tu mn Wi nd 23:26, viii November 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fall Wind (talk • contribs)

...or, more than to the betoken, something like Brooks asked for a rediculous budget non expecting to become it, but it was approved... Au tu mn Wi nd 23:thirty, 8 November 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Autumn Wind (talk • contribs)
He didn't say anything about that on the DVD commentary. He just said that he was glad to take a chance to piece of work at MGM back when it was a existent studio, and not just a box on a corporate holdings diagram... AnonMoos (talk) 05:03, fourteen November 2014 (UTC) [answer]

I personally don't take anything to add together right now as information technology's been a long time since I've seen either film and I'm not on a position to remark, merely I did desire to say: @Bellagio99:, in your latest edit, I would warn against making such comments over again, every bit it comes beyond every bit condescending, presumptuous, and some other describing word I tin't call back correct now and can be taken as WP:UNCIVIL. Since I've opened this upwardly, maybe a discussion is warranted at this point? Pinging @Masem:, @DH85868993: equally reverting editors. ~Thank you, Ten Ton Parasol 14:27, 28 August 2016 (UTC) ~Cheers, Ten Ton Parasol 14:27, 28 August 2016 (UTC) [reply]

While the scene is a clear parody of Planet of the Apes (and tin likely exist sourced), at that place's no indication that where they crashed is a "planet of the apes" planet. All nosotros see is a handful of sentient apes run into them and complain. It's interpretation for that, and the approach to include it is more than what ane would practice at TV tropes which is non appropriate hither. --ThouASEM (t) xiv:47, 28 Baronial 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Masem is correct; at that place'southward no indication that where they crashed is a "planet of the apes" planet. @Bellagio99: if y'all had written "...its Planet of the Apes-like ape population", then I wouldn't have reverted. But that'south not what you wrote. DH85868993 (talk) 22:08, 28 August 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Making the change now, and apologies for my momentary incivility. Bellagio99 (talk) 21:24, 29 August 2016 (UTC)Belllagio99 [answer]

Your modify is just fine, thank you for understanding. --One thousandASEM (t) 21:44, 29 Baronial 2016 (UTC) [reply]

I don't know if it fits into the Space Balls parody section, but Spaceball I's "Ludicrous Speed" has inspired a homage of its own. Tesla Model S features "ludicrous speed" equally one of its transmission options. Bellagio99 (talk) fifteen:17, 13 September 2016 (UTC) [answer]

A third-political party RS should remark that the Tesla ludicrous speed is a reference to Spaceballs. ~Thanks, 10 Ton Parasol 15:44, xiii September 2016 (UTC) [answer]
Out of date in Wikislang: What's an "RS"? Bellagio99 (talk) 16:33, 13 September 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Oh! Sorry, I thought I linked it, reliable source because the folio is located at WP:RS. ~Thanks, Ten Ton Parasol 16:37, 13 September 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Thank you. Done! Encounter text. Back to 'real work' Bellagio99 (talk) eighteen:52, 13 September 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Along with the air, the giant vacuum likewise sucks upwardly snowfall from the planet and also uproots the planet'due south trees — Preceding unsigned comment added past 98.114.190.21 (talk) 00:23, 2 Jan 2017 (UTC) [reply]

Yes, that happens, merely per WP:Not#PLOT, we desire to keep this summary concise, and that'southward a very small visual detail that does not affect the plot, so its not advisable to add. --MASEM (t) 06:47, 2 January 2017 (UTC) [reply]
No kidding. Why is someone so obsessed with adding that throwaway joke? Bkatcher (talk) 14:54, 2 Jan 2017 (UTC) [reply]

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Are all these hatnotes actually necessary? Is anyone going to search for those terms looking for annihilation other than this picture? I could be wrong, of course, but it seems giddy. --- The Old Jacobite The '45 13:xl, 2 September 2018 (UTC) [reply]

I desire to raise these spellings for discussion because I don't know how to best approach it within Wikipedia's guidelines. As has been raised several times, the portmanteau for man-dog would intuitively exist 'mog', not 'mawg'. However, the only authoritative evidence I can find is within the flick itself, where a wall on the Winnebago has a sign reading: "Mawg on Board". I cannot find any similar reference to "mog" inside the film. However, one could speculate that the signage is itself a joke suggesting that mogs are so poor at spelling that they misspelled their own species.

Supposed copies of the screenplay tin can be establish in both forms, 'mawg' and 'mog'.

Every bit for secondary sources, I tin can find contradictions within websites and no consensus amid them. For case, Looper write 'mog' in their 21 July 2020 article, but then write 'mawg' in their 25 June 2021 article. A cursory Google search indicates that 'mog' is more frequent than 'mawg', but that may only indicate the intuitiveness of the portmanteau'south spelling rather than its definiteness.

What do people recall is the correct arroyo hither? Primary testify indicates the official spelling according to the moving-picture show's creators is 'mawg', and plenty of secondary sources do spell it this way, but I cannot find clear, administrative, written confirmation that it is 'mawg' rather than 'mog'. --Scuoise (talk) 20:45, 30 July 2021 (UTC) [reply]

In some dialects of English they would be pronounced the same: See Cot-caught merger. It's possible that those making the movie were less concerned with such spelling inconsistency than y'all are... AnonMoos (talk) 21:39, xxx July 2021 (UTC) [answer]
I agree that the pronunciation would exist the aforementioned for most people. I'm raising the topic with respect to which spelling ought to be used within the article, since at that place have been several reversions from 'mawg' to 'mog'. The question here isn't how to pronounce the give-and-take, but rather which should be considered the correct spelling based on the sources available. If there are going to be edits back and forth, nosotros should achieve some consensus on the spelling. --Scuoise (talk) 21:47, thirty July 2021 (UTC) [reply]
The just real canon source for the moving picture is the film itself, and as yous said the give-and-take 'mawg' is used repeatedly. I'm personally in favor of sticking with 'mawg', but I'm open to further discussion if in that location are other points to exist made. Hans404 (talk) 23:sixteen, six October 2021 (UTC) [reply]
I agree. If the film said 'Mawg', all other sources take a back seat. Bkatcher (talk) 02:06, seven Oct 2021 (UTC) [respond]
I don't accept a strong preference either way, only I note that the commodity currently contains "mawg" in one place and "mog" in another - which may explain why people keep editing it (i.east. to make the commodity internally consistent). DH85868993 (talk) 23:15, vii October 2021 (UTC) [reply]
Proficient catch! I've aligned both instances to 'mawg' for now, as that seems to be the style near of u.s. are leaning, but we tin certainly give it a fleck more fourth dimension in case there's more discussion to be had. Hans404 (talk) 00:38, 8 October 2021 (UTC) [reply]

Having only watched the 1930s Clark Gable film by Frank Capra, while Infinite Balls is a parody of Star Wars, information technology is clearly a remake of It Happened One Nighttime.

The scene where Clark Gable demands $39.60 from Claudette Colbert'south begetter for his effort rather than the $10,000 reward reminded me of something, and I realized information technology was the scene where Dick Van Patten tells Daphne that Bill Pullman just wanted money for gas and tolls. The entire Lonestar/Princess storyline dynamic is lifted from the Gable/Colbert story, except she's a JAP rather than a WASP debutant.

It's a remake in the same style that Airplane! was a spoof of Airdrome but was a remake of Zero Hr. Things can exist two things. Why did Brooks never cop to it? 2600:6C50:A7F:832E:61D7:76C5:DE84:2143 (talk) 06:25, 29 Jan 2022 (UTC) [reply]

Is at that place annihilation else similar between the two films, other then that i scene? They obviously parodied a lot of movies: Alien, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, to proper noun a few. Bkatcher (talk) 00:52, 30 January 2022 (UTC) [reply]

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