Speaking of off-the-cuff references, there was one joke in Spaceballs that I never got until a couple of years (and about 30 watchings) after I first saw the film...
PostPosted:Wed Feb 13, 2002 12:42 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Right near the end, after the "swordfight" between Dark Helmet and Lonestar ending with Helmet setting off the self-destruct mechanism, you see a shot of the bridge with President Scroob and Colonel Sanders. The alarm is going off and Scroob says "What's going on? Where the hell are we, Paris?". I never really got that until I paid attention to the alarm sound. It sounds EXACTLY like a Paris cop car that you hear in movies all the time (Ronin is an example that comes right to mind).</div>