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Why is Spaceballs specifically numbered Chapter XI?

Good answer by @sanpaco and it may be partially true, but according to Mel Brooks himself, there is a different reason. I was on holiday in Australia in 1997, when I happened to watch part of a live ...
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Did Spaceballs have to get permission for Pizza the Hutt

A brand like Pizza Hut can be trademarked but not copyrighted. Copyrights allow the author (or owner of the copyright) to retain exclusive rights to use the work or significant portions of it. ...
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Why is Spaceballs specifically numbered Chapter XI?

Theory #1: It is a joke about chapter eleven bankruptcy The only thing I can think of that is specifically related to the number 11 is possibly some kind of obscure joke about Chapter Eleven ...
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How did they make Yogurt so short?

I always thought it was part of the joke that he's obviously walking on his knees. In the DVD commentary, Mel Brooks talks about how difficult it was playing the Yogurt character. The gold-colored ...
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What does the "they've gone to plaid" joke mean?

It is very simple: If you move faster than light the stars appear as stripes. What would the next step after stripes be? Why plaid, of course....
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What are all the films in Colonel Sandurz's collection?

Well, all these movies are previous works of Mel Brooks. As we have already identified Rocky I to XIV and Friday the 13th. Others are Top Rack Spaceballs To be or Not to Be High Anxiety Mel Brooks ...
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Which Star Wars character is Vinnie a parody of?

If I were forced (pun intended) to relate him to a Star Wars character, I'd actually have to go with Bib Fortuna, Jabba's Twi'lek "assistant". Obviously not because of his physical appearance, but ...
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What are all the films in Colonel Sandurz's collection?

The full list appears to be: Bottom Shelf Friday the 13th (I-XIV) Rocky (I-XIV) A joke about the seeming never-ending sequels Middle Shelf Then the top shelves appear to be multiple copies of ...
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The Ring of the Schwartz -- is it actually useless?

It’s clear the Schwartz ring is not required to make “phenomena” happen, as Yogurt says so himself. But it does assist in focusing or amplifying this power. Why say this? From the various scenes of ...
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Did Mega Maid's last scene correctly show the setting of the vacuum switch?

Yes. There is a scene set earlier that shows the control. With the switch in the middle, the Vacu-Suck was "off". When the switch was moved down, or away from the hand it was set to "on&...
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Why did they choose a Winnebago to represent Eagle 5?

This could be a nod to the fact, that the Millenium Falcon was a piece of junk. So Mel Brooks made his own version of a piece of junk.
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Which Star Wars character is Vinnie a parody of?

None. There is no Jabba the Hutt accomplice that even remotely resembles him. If anything, you might say he took the place of Boba Fett, as Boba was a bounty hunter. But really, the character of ...
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What does the "they've gone to plaid" joke mean?

There's several things it plays off of 2001: A Space Odyssey This movie is iconic and the ending of the movie involves David Bowman (the only surviving crew member of the ill-fated Discovery) boarding ...
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