Space Anglicans

To clear our palates after The Godfather Part 2, we watched Mel Brooks's Spaceballs, a sendup of the Star Wars franchise, last night. Although there are no upper-class women with The Look in it, my wife warned me that it would lower my IQ by 20 points for some period of days.

A scene I'd ignored in previous viewings was the wedding. This is probably because I hadn't watched the film since Anglicanorum coetibus, and I'd either taken the denomination of the archbishop for granted, or I hadn't given it much thought. But he's clearly an Anglican. The Spaceballs Wiki says he's in the First Intergalactic Temple (Reformed) of the Druids, but he's vested as a bishop, and since he's conducting a royal wedding, he must be an archbishop.

But also, according to the Wiki, in the second attempt at holding the wedding,

The [Archbishop] decides not to risk their wedding becoming interrupted by giving, "the short, short version," in which he simply asks the bride and groom, "Do you?" Lone Starr and Vespa excitedly answer, "Yes!"[.]

This can be nothing other than a reference to the multiple options for the liturgy in the Episcopalian 1979 Book of Common Prayer. And the planet Druidia is portrayed as a Middle Earth-like place, where any sort of religion would have to be comfortably Anglican.

Except that, by the late 20th century, there wasn't much you could do with Anglicans, even space Anglicans, except turn them into a joke. This was one of the grave miscalculations behind Anglicanorum coetibus.If nothing intervenes, I'll have more to say about this.