- A few streaming versions (like on Amazon Prime) replace the song Good Enough by Van Halen with She Ain't Lonesome by Steve Fisher during the diner scene.
- On some home video releases (the 2006 collector's edition released worldwide, for example), the Wilhelm Scream sound effect is missing from the remixed English audio track (and some others). It should be heard during the jailbreak scene from the fourth guard Barf deflects laserblasts back to.
- The 2005 Collector's Edition DVD is low-toned
- The American TV-version censored most of the sexual innuendo in the movie, including the infamous, "How many assholes we got on this ship, anyhow?" joke. Also gone was Dark Helmet's killer line, "I'll bet she gives great helmet!"
- The British version excluded a brief scene where President Scroob is urinating. Spaceball Commanderett Zircon contacts the President during the act on what is referred to as an 'unlisted wall'. Also shown is a roll of Spaceballs the Toilet Paper. The 'unlisted wall' scene, cut from the original British release, is included in the version shown on the BBC. The F-word is still omitted from this version.
- The letterbox on the DVD version zooms in during the "Alien" scene so the puppet stick and track lines are no longer visible.
- The UK DVD reinstated the f-word. It is rated "12".
- The UK version was edited to remove the f-word, uttered when the ship's self-destruct cancellation button wouldn't work. In 2000, the film was resubmitted to the BBFC and rated 12 in its uncut form.
- In a CBS airing (and likely all US airings), every instance of the word "asshole" in the famous "how many assholes have we got on this ship?" scene is replaced by "moron".
- Both the U.S. MGM laserdisc and DVD are misframed, cropping the right side of the screen slightly (in both the widescreen and full-frame versions).
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