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Earth car manufacturer names make no sense


This all happened.. 'Once upon a time warp' - whatever THAT means .. so how the heck are there so many Earth references?

How can the spaceship be 'Mercedez'? (And why would it take off so vertically, when a more horizontal lift-off would be so much faster, easier, organic, reliable and require less thrust and power, etc. etc.. I guess they mimic the Never A Straight Answer nazí organization somehow, even though even they originally planned the rockets to lift off more horizontally and more gradually build up altitude)

Even the name 'Winnebago' is originally old Earth indian language, that then some corporation took as their own when they started manufacturing motor homes. On Earth.

How ON EARTH (ok, maybe this pun won't work, because they're far from Earth.. but have all these Earth names somehow anyway) can they call a spacefaring 'motor home' a 'Winnebago', when Druidia couldn't have had identical history to Earth (from the looks of things as well)?

None of these things make any sense! They should not have called it 'Winnebago', and the luxury 'car' should not have had Mercedez-Benz logo on it, and they should not have called it Mercedez, if they wanted to make sense.

I probably have to disclaim that I know it's a comedy, but they should not have put that title card about 'Once upon a time warp' in there, or it just creates confusion and things that make no sense.

Perhaps they could've had some kind of explanation, where a long time ago, some scouts visited the planet Earth and then warped in time and started naming things in Druidia and Spaceball (hard to know if this is the name of people, the planet, the city, the society, the government or what the..)

The movie, however, offers no such explanation, so these things make no sense.

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I've determined that your posts are an experiment by someone using an AI bot as what is posted above clearly does not realise that this movie is a spoof, a parody, one big joke, incorporating many things from our world into a setting of outer space and drawing heavily from Star Wars, with some references to Star Trek, Alien, Planet of the Apes and so on.

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nah , he's just really like that.
It takes a special kind of nitpickyness twinned with an ability to ignore parody or storytelling or artistic licence that AI just isnt capable of yet .

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It takes a special kind of nitpickyness twinned with an ability to ignore parody or storytelling or artistic licence ...


There's a word that describes that - autistic. Notice there's not a scintilla of humor about his "doesn't make sense" posts?

Guaranteed he's well on the spectrum.

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It's a Mel Brooks comedy that pokes fun at Star Wars, and has a lot of gags and references to the American pop culture of the time. It's not meant to completely make sense, which is part of where the jokes come from.

You're taking this movie way too seriously.

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Just go with it and enjoy. It’s a very silly, fun movie, no need to overthink it.

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