Tag: spoofs

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Daily Satire

Malingering Spiritual Malaise Spurs Demand For Even More Star Wars Sagas:

“I need an Obi Wan right about now.” Pitifully murmured D.C. resident Sandy Hope. “In today’s insane world of terrorist attacks, global warming, incurable diseases and horrible natural disasters, I need to believe that there is an immortal authority filled with gentle all-seeing wisdom and boundless benign compassion, preferably with a really cool-o British accent that bespeaks of established reputation and tasteful social credibility. I need my Star Wars again! *SOB!*”

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Is it Halloween yet?

Bonnie’s pics from this year’s ILM party. Yeah, there are a ton of awesome costumes, but my hat is off to the cardboard stormtrooper and working (?!?) digital camera.

Sabrina Fried writes her latest ‘Fried Circuits’ column about Star Wars costumes.

R2-D2 among the Northern Iowan’s last-minute costume ideas

Meanwhile, the incomparable Cleolinda has a Halloween present for her many readers: The Prestige in Fifteen Minutes

(P.S. random Googlers: Looking for the pumpkin stuff? It’s here!)

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Video Monday

Under the Tusken Sun. You knew someone would eventually make this fan film…

I’m not a huge Family Guy fan, but they have done some amusing Star Wars riffs, some collected here by Stewie’s Playground.

Judge the Cinemax ‘Fix You’ promo for youself.

The Ballad of Han, Luke & Leia. It’s a filk! It’s a video! It’s both!

And to wrap us up, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on TV – the tail end of I Love The 80’s: 1983 containing their Return of the Jedi riff and Micheal Ian Black’s He-Men monologue, which me VH1’s bitch for longer than I feel comfortable admitting. Contains actual praise for Mark Hamill’s acting! Bonus: 1980, Olympic hockey, That’s Incredible! and ESB.

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Video Monday

Trailer for 5-25-77. That’s an upcoming movie I haven’t heard of for a long time…

The Phantom Menace, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, and Return of the Jedi in 60 seconds, with Attack of the Clones and Empire Strikes Back in 10.

British Phantom Menace spoof. I believe this is from French and Saunders – that’s Jennifer Saunders as Qui-Gon, anyway. Some of the funny must have gotten lost in the trip over the Atlantic, but screenshots of the Queen Amidala scene have been amusing me for years so I had to link it. Sorry. This action figure parody of game show The Crystal Maze may amuse more.

Ewoks and Stormtroopers, just because:
– Injured stormtrooper.
– Ewoks cartoon promo.
– Return of the Jedi trailer.
– Classic Clip: Stormtrooper hitting his head.

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Fandom giveth, and LFL taketh away

Several Star Wars videos on Youtube have been removed due to requests from Lucasfilm. This isn’t a new phenomenon by any means, but it appears the number of users and videos affected is fairly large this time, and not limited to direct DVD rips like the bloopers I linked Monday, but also older fanvids and the like. Surprise. Not.

Hopefully this means less emo Anakin vids. That development I could certainly get behind. Now if only there was a way to filter out all the eighth graders ‘practicing’ with lightsiders…

On the plus side, episode 2 of Chad Vader – Day Shift Manager went up last night. Most parody works, which are the majority of what we link, should be safe. But be warned that any and all videos we link are subject to vanish without warning.

ETA: It was all a dream mistake.