The film opens with a parody of the Star Wars opening crawl, ending with "If you can read this, you don't need glasses" in tiny letters.
On Planet Druidia, Princess Vespa - a parody of Princess Leia - is about to marry the boring and narcoleptic Prince Valium, whose name is a pun on the comic strip Prince Valiant. Prince Valium is the last prince in the galaxy, so they have to marry despite his characteristics. Vespa runs off from the altar with her droid-of-honor, Dot Matrix, a parody of C-3PO and escapes into space.
Planet Spaceball has foolishly wasted all of its air and is desperate to find more. President Skroob (an anagram of "Brooks", pun on "screwball", and parody of Emperor Palpatine), played by Mel Brooks, and his top military leader, Dark Helmet (a parody of Darth Vader), along with his aide Colonel Sandurz (a pun on the creator/mascot for Kentucky Fried Chicken: Colonel Sanders, as well a parody of Imperial Officers like Veers, Tarkin, and Piett), devise a plan to kidnap Princess Vespa and extort Planet Druidia into giving all of its air to the Spaceballs. If they do not comply, they will reverse Vespa's rhinoplasty, thus restoring her hooked nose.
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On Planet Druidia, Princess Vespa - a parody of Princess Leia - is about to marry the boring and narcoleptic Prince Valium, whose name is a pun on the comic strip Prince Valiant. Prince Valium is the last prince in the galaxy, so they have to marry despite his characteristics. Vespa runs off from the altar with her droid-of-honor, Dot Matrix, a parody of C-3PO and escapes into space.
Planet Spaceball has foolishly wasted all of its air and is desperate to find more. President Skroob (an anagram of "Brooks", pun on "screwball", and parody of Emperor Palpatine), played by Mel Brooks, and his top military leader, Dark Helmet (a parody of Darth Vader), along with his aide Colonel Sandurz (a pun on the creator/mascot for Kentucky Fried Chicken: Colonel Sanders, as well a parody of Imperial Officers like Veers, Tarkin, and Piett), devise a plan to kidnap Princess Vespa and extort Planet Druidia into giving all of its air to the Spaceballs. If they do not comply, they will reverse Vespa's rhinoplasty, thus restoring her hooked nose.