Nah. Jan Smithers was always just simply more pretty than Loni Anderson. Loni was all tarted up and at the time we were supposed to believe that bleach blonde hair was synonymous with sexy. Jan Smithers is a beautiful woman.
C’mon, both Smithers and Anderson were Hollywood pretty, which is to say absolutely gorgeous knockouts. Same with Mary Ann and Ginger. You may prefer one over the other, but to say any of them were not gorgeous is just silly.
From what I recall about TV at that time, whenever a pretty girl referenced the number 2, it was an innuendo about breasts.
My first VHS deck cost $1500. Blank VHS tapes were $25.
Probably. I remember thinking “Uh… we have two VCR’s… what’s so funny about having two VCR’s?”
Anyway, you’re likely right.
<<Proud member of Team Bailey>>
There’s some crazy talk going on in this thread. I get Marry Ann over Ginger, nut Bailey over Jenifer? :dubious:
That’s just crazy talk.
Another vote for Bailey (and Mary Ann). AFAIC, beautiful, shy, and demure beats hot, slinky, and cock-teasing any day! 
Well, it’s not as if I’d turn down a roll in the hay with 1970’s Loni Anderson! But in a bizarro universe where I would have my choice between the two ladies… Bailey’s personality wins over Jennifer’s, hands-down.
(Says a guy who hasn’t seen an episode in 25 years…)
I don’t remember if it came before or after that episode, but there’s another episode where Kramer is wearing an eye patch. Someone says he looks like a pirate and he replies, “Well I wanna be a pirate!”
I think it was just his childish petulance. At least, that’s what was funny to me.
'That night at dinner, Kramer tells Elaine and Jerry that Leslie is a clothing designer and has designed a new puffy shirt “like the pirates used to wear.” ’
Jerry’s line is a reference to something Kramer said earlier in the episode.
The other episode (mentioned by FordTaurus) with Kramer’s line about wanting to be a pirate actually aired 2 seasons after the Puffy Shirt episode.
Spaceballs…love the movie, laugh really hard throughout the whole thing, especially the Light Speed is too slow scene…
“Prepare for Light Speed”
“No Light Speed is too slow”
“Too Slow”
“Yes, Go straight to Ludicrous speed”
However…The typical Star Wars star stretching occurs, and then the outside goes to a plaid scenario. Once they are in Ludicrous speed, they overshoot the Winnebago and Barf says “They’ve gone to Plaid”. I assume it is a joke based on “faster than light speed”…or something to that effect…but is there something else to it, or it is just a dud of a joke in an otherwise great scene?
Ironically, and trivially, Loni Anderson was a teacher.
This was my first guess. Back then, an answer of “two” from certain women would have elicited laughter.
There isn’t a lot to get. It is just making fun of the typical ‘going to warp speed’ scene in other sci-fi movies. Those usually show a light distortion pattern forming as they speed up. Mere light speed isn’t enough in this case. Only ludicrous speed will do and they need a visual pattern associated with it. They chose plaid simply because plaid is one of the more inherently funny color patterns in the same way a duck is an inherently funny animal.
This is something I noticed going all the way back to “Tiny Toons”. Whenever somebody imitates Jerry Lewis they’ll say something like “yadda, yadda…FLAVEN” is this a specific reference to something Jerry actually said or just a silly made up word that sounds like something he might say?
I think the “I have several” variant is the only way the joke is really funny. Back around 1980, I’d’ve committed numerous intolerable acts for just one VCR!
Warp speed is just warp speed. I’m not a trekkie, so don’t know the conversion to get light speed.
Plaid speed is warp speed plus weft speed. As stated in the movie, this is ludicruos.
A couple of links to wikipedia that might help - Warp and weft - Wikipedia - Twill - Wikipedia
By the way, this is a guess. I don’t know what the writer was thinking.
That’s clever, but I’m pretty sure there’s nothing to explain here. They don’t mention the word warp, so there’s no room for a pun, and I struggle to imagine Mel Brooks making a weaving joke anyway. The plaid coloring is just a silly take on the visual effects you see when spaceships go to light speed in sci-fi movies and TV. Barf’s line just calls attention to the goofiness and I guess it’s a button on the scene, because the real jokes are the plaid color and the fact that the Spaceball 1 totally overshoots Lone Star’s ship, which never seems to happen in these movies.