It would have to be if the remains of Spaceball-1 fell to Earth, just moments before they were hovering over Druidia.
shareAs a kid I had no idea what "planet of the apes" was. I thought that scene was supposed to be Scott and Todd Howard from Teen Wolf 1 & 2!
shareNope, I think according to this movie the planet of the apes isn't Earth. Heston was looking at the remains of Megamaid, not the Statue of Liberty.
shareParodying something doesn't always conform to easy explanations, or make sense.
Statue of Liberty and Megamaid are, indeed, two completely different structures (albeit visually similar).
Technically, "Planet of the Apes" characters can't know for 100% certainty it's the SAME Statue of Liberty - there's always a possibility that another planet constructed a visually very similar statue before the apes took over.
Therefore, it's not NECESSARILY Earth in -either- movie.
I always kind of assumed that the ape people lived on Druidia.
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Or maybe there was a worm hole fairly close to Druidia, and the blast sent the head of Spaceball 1 hurling through space and into the worm hole. When they emerged it was a much later time, in a far away place.
shareWell.....I think the confusion comes from the spoiler for the first Planet of the Apes movie (which was really earth in the future at the end of that film).
Seeing that this is "Spaceballs," the setup of the galaxy is much goofier. Either Druidia is right next door to their own version of Planet of the Apes (which in this case would not be Earth), or the head and hand of Mega-Maid was thrown a few light years in the explosion and they ended up in another solar system with the Planet of the Apes. They don't say in the movie, so I'm just gonna roll with it.
I think everyone is overthinking it. Of course, that may be what the previous posters are intending to imply. Internet posts have a great deal of difficulty being subtle.
shareI always assumed that Spaceballs was implying that The Planet Of The Apes WASN'T Earth.
In Planet Of The Apes, Charlton Heston saw The Statue Of Liberty and finally realised/accepted that he was on Earth. In Spaceballs, Megamaid landed on the planet. As Megamaid strongly resembled The Statue Of Liberty, I assumed the implication was that Charlton Heston's character in Planet Of The Apes had been mistaken, and seen what he thought was The Statue Of Liberty, but it was in fact Megamaid.
Not a retcon, just a joke in a spoof movie.