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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Unbelievably, this is a '''''plot point'''''. The Count de <s>[[Do Not Call Me "Paul"|Money]]</s> Monet tells King Louis that he looks exactly like the piss boy. Naturally, both characters are played by [[Mel Brooks]] himself.
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: "It's good to be the King!" is often misquoted without the 'the' in shout-outs by other works.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** A group of cavemen is led by Sid Caesar.
** The Ethiopian slave Josephus is played by tap-dancer Gregory Hines.
** [[John Hurt]] is Jesus!
** One of the two Jews describing how they were tortured by the Spaniards is everyone's favorite Jewish stand-up comic, Jackie Mason.
** [[The Golden Girls|Bea Arthur]] cameoed as the lady in the vnemployment booth.
** Cloris Leachman as Madame Defarge.
** Hugh Hefner in Ancient Rome mentioning his invention of the centerfold.
** [[Van Halen|David Lee Roth]] has a line during the Spanish Inquisition musical number.
** And [[Madeline Kahn]] is Empress <s>Nymphomaniac</s> Nympho!
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: '''[[Orson Welles]]''' is the narrator.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The role of Josephus was written with [[Richard Pryor]] in mind, but he was unable to accept due to his infamous freebasing accident in 1980.

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