Seeing as Spaceballs came out in 1987, it’s 4-10 years after its time. As a parody, it might have actually been more dated than Men in Tights, which is wild.

Spaceballs has always struck me as being EXTREMELY of its time. I’m sure it was the funniest thing ever when it came out because nobody had really spoofed sci-fi, especially Star Wars, before, but it just seems sort of cringe today. 

The scaled-down (read: cheap-looking) version for the series operates similarly: insert cast member or guest star in historical event, then parody TV show or internet phenomenon

Spaceballs is painful. History of the World has the conviction to feed Orson Welles the line, “then came the first homosexual marriage,” while a caveman bonks another caveman with a club. It also has lines like “you can’t Torquemada anything,” and “the servant waits while the master baits.” Sometime around 1980 Mel…

Galileo (Nick Kroll) appears as a Renaissance Try Guy between sketches on TicciTocci

We have cell phones AND a landline. The landline is for telemarketers and doctors offices. We also give it out to loyalty programs etc. so we get next to no spam calls on our cell phones. Our landline screens for spam calls and makes it easy to block numbers that are repeat offenders. If we get a call on our landline,…

Not sure why it was not mentioned, but SAFETY is the biggest reason I can think of to have one. I have 4 kids under the age of 8, the 2 oldest have been taught and understand how and when to dial 9-1-1. That is all they need to do in an emergency. They don’t even need to talk, just pick-up the phone and dial. The…

I have a really cool old fashioned rotary dial phone that is also a combo clock radio. Bought it for the bedroom. Still haven’t used it if anyone is interested...

I thought they did a good job of handling the trickiest element — how do you make a show about caterers in their 50’s when realistically most of these characters would have long since moved out of the service industry? — in that Ron and Roman are the only two people who still work for Party Down in the first episode,…

Dialogue still awesome.

Oh, come on! Billy Crudup as a desperate salesman? What the hell more do you want? How can this not be good?

That’s not what a “bottle” episode is.

I’m the first one to call out an episode, or a whole show for being painfully plodding (Mayfair Witches and The Watchful Eye are two shows that I’m rapidly growing impatient with), but, to me, this episode did not feel like it was ‘dawdling’.

thanks for the six-year-old information.

Is it really a “hack” to use the actual interface for the actual purpose it was designed?

The “hehehehehe” made me laugh out loud.

Exactly. In the context of the show, Bill and Frank had the happiest possible ending: dying on their own terms, in their own bed, at an old age, in eachother’s arms, after one last perfect day together.

Same. Who would have expected that the best episode so far of HBO’s prestige zombie show would have been the one with almost no zombies?

“Arby’s didn’t have free lunch; it was a restaurant.” First legit LOL line of the season.