The classic Spaceballs moment! In Mel Brooks’ 1987 sci-fi parody masterpiece, President Skroob (played by Brooks himself) orders his troops to search the desert for the escaped Princess Vespa. His exact command: “Tell them to comb the desert! Do you hear me? Comb the desert!” Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) and Colonel Sandurz take the order completely literally — no idioms here. Instead of “search thoroughly,” they send out Spaceball troopers carrying massive, oversized hair combs (the classic Afro-