--- title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Spaceballs Trailer Mashup description: A mashup of the new "Star Wars" teaser trailer with the movie "Spaceballs." canonical: https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-02T17:34:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:15.506Z og:title: The new "Star Wars" trailer gets a "Spaceballs" makeover og:description: A mashup of the new "Star Wars" teaser trailer with the movie "Spaceballs." og:url: https://time.com/3613965/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-spaceballs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt813067461a69d356/69876bdb0b72e359396dc434/space-balls-parody.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1202 og:image:height: 676 og:image:alt: space-balls-parody og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The new "Star Wars" trailer gets a "Spaceballs" makeover twitter:description: A mashup of the new "Star Wars" teaser trailer with the movie "Spaceballs." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt813067461a69d356/69876bdb0b72e359396dc434/space-balls-parody.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The New _Star Wars_ Trailer Gets a _Spaceballs_ Makeover > Sponsored content. 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Dec 2, 2014 5:34 PM UTC  MGM  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 2, 2014 5:34 PM UTC The teaser trailer for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ [came out last week](http://time.com/3609579/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer/), 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) 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. 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