--- description: A mashup of the new "Star Wars" teaser trailer with the movie "Spaceballs." title: The new "Star Wars" trailer gets a "Spaceballs" makeover image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt813067461a69d356/69876bdb0b72e359396dc434/space-balls-parody.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The New _Star Wars_ Trailer Gets a _Spaceballs_ Makeover ## Video: Watch a Supercut Trailer of All The Star Wars Episodes So Far [Watch (HLS stream): Watch a Supercut Trailer of All The Star Wars Episodes So Far](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iwaGdW9s.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2014-11-26. Episodes VII_  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 2, 2014 5:34 PM CUT  MGM  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 2, 2014 5:34 PM CUT The teaser trailer for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ [came out last week](http://time.com/3609579/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer/ "undefined"), but the movie itself doesn’t hit theaters for a year. So what’s a fan to do in the meantime? Reminisce about the brilliance of Mel Brooks’ 1987 spoof _Spaceballs_, for one thing. [Film Geekery](https://www.youtube.com/user/filmgeekery/feed "undefined") mashed up the audio from the new trailer with scenes from _Spaceballs_, imagining what the new movie would look like with Barf, Yogurt, Dark Helmet and that little dancing alien that wears a top hat. It’s a pleasing throwback to peak Brooksian humor and the power of the Schwartz. A year is a long time for anticipation to build between teaser and premiere. In the event the _The Force Awakens_ doesn’t meet those burgeoning expectations, at least there’s always Mel Brooks to fall back on. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/"},"headline":"The New Star Wars Trailer Gets a Spaceballs Makeover","datePublished":"2014-12-02T17:34:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:56.760Z","description":"\"The Schwartz Awakens\"","url":"https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Star Wars topic","Movie trailers","Trailers","mashups","Horror Movies","star wars: the force awakens"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt813067461a69d356/69876bdb0b72e359396dc434/space-balls-parody.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt813067461a69d356/69876bdb0b72e359396dc434/space-balls-parody.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"space-balls-parody","caption":"","creditText":"MGM","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/","name":"The New Star Wars Trailer Gets a Spaceballs Makeover"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch a Supercut Trailer of All The Star Wars Episodes So Far","description":"Episodes VII","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/iwaGdW9s/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-11-26T19:34:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iwaGdW9s.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```