No words. Should’ve… sent a poet.
Update: Some people cannot see the video which should be embedded in the blog post. For those who can’t, this is the video.
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June 18th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
We watched that last night. It was so funny, we watched it again 30 minutes later when it was rebroadcast, and we DVR’d it. Laughed so hard, I blew blue milk out my nose.
Oh, and coincidentally, I’m reading Contact. Great book, and pretty good movie.
June 18th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
The bit with the walrus guy in the Cantina was priceless.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
brilliant
June 18th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I thought it was quite funny. My favorite part was the bit with Qui-Gon and Obi-wan when they dropped the lightsaber…so great.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Hulk Hogan?! Him, Mark Hamil, and George Lucas in one theatrical presentation is too much awesomeness.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Chewie as the Fonz FTW.
June 18th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
What the hell is an aluminum falcon? LOL
June 18th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
You rock, Phil! Funny as Hell Michigan!
June 18th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
*****
J/P=?
June 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
June 18th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
One question. That janitor guy. First he cleaned up Darth Maul’s corpse. Then he cleaned up someone else’s . And finally he cleaned up The Emperor’s corpse. Who was the guy in the middle supposed to be? I can’t remember that part from any of the movies.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
What on earth is this all about?
The blog post says:
“No words. Should’ve… sent a poet.”
There is no link to anything, and no clue what is referred to.
????
June 18th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
That was so…wrong.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:06 am
@Brian: I think the guy in the middle was Mace Windu. Watch for the purple lightsaber.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Palpatine. Death Star. Under construction. Priceless
June 19th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Did they actually have to get permission from George Lucas to do this?
This one GL picked to be a winner http://www.atomfilms.com/film/tauntauns.jsp
June 19th, 2007 at 2:52 am
ROTFL! hahahaha…Take me to your leader…
June 19th, 2007 at 3:15 am
Bit hit and miss really, just that the hits were really spot on. Had more fun watching this than seeing ep 1 + 2 anyway.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:36 am
…..Panda Bear, or whatever her name was…..
Blue and white milk out of my nose…
June 19th, 2007 at 5:13 am
The video is not working. Stuck on “loading components”.
Anyone have a URL to try a workaround?
June 19th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Thanny, go to http://www.superdeluxe.com – that’s the home site. You can navigate to it from there (probably will still be on the main page).
June 19th, 2007 at 7:01 am
[...] Star Robot Chicken Wars [...]
June 19th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Phil — thanks for the link. The “Contact” quote is perfect.
Gaijin51 — Phil’s quoting Jodie in “Contact”, when she travels through the wormhole and realizes there’s a hell of a good universe next door.
(Which is a quote from e.e. cummings. I’ll stop there.)
June 19th, 2007 at 8:28 am
[...] (Spotted on Bad Astronomy Blog.) [...]
June 19th, 2007 at 8:29 am
[...] (link) (Thx to Bad Astronomy Man) [...]
June 19th, 2007 at 8:50 am
“That movie was terrible. I waited the whole movie to see the alien and it was her god**** father?” – Mr. Garrison
June 19th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
rickb… funny how so many people just don’t get that ending, isn’t it?
As for the Robot Chicken stuff, I’d seen the “go for Papa Palpatine” bit some time ago on YouTube, and thought it was hilarious. It’s still one of the best segments in the whole special, but there were quite a few good ones. I’m going to watch it again now.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
This is an Adult Swim video. You can see it at the video site. Quality is also better, and split into episodes.
June 19th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
[...] folks at work were buzzing about this, and here I find it blogged on Bad Astronomy also. If you haven’t watched this… you really need to. The link from BA is not working [...]
August 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
[...] Posted June 18th @ 10:52 pm by aaron Absolutely hilarious! It’s long, but so worth it. (via Bad Astronomy) [...]