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Many shows have a few references to ''[[Star Wars]]''. It's a popular film series, so [[Small Reference Pools|the majority of the audience is likely to understand it]]. However, some shows go a step further, and have an entire ''episode'' that revolves around references to ''[[Star Wars]]'', [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] scenes, [[Big No|Big NOOOOOOOs]], and thinly-veiled [[Captain Ersatz]]es of Darth Vader. The focal or point-of-view character usually plays the part of Luke Skywalker, since episodes frequently take most references from primarily ''[[A New Hope]]'' and ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' ([[First Installment Wins|primarily the former]]).

 

 

Compare [[Charlie and the Chocolate Parody]].

 

** The English dub added more in-jokes.

* The little known series ''[[Dotto! Koni-chan]]'' has an awesome parody of the three movies.

 

* "[http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2004-229 May The Farce Be With You]", a [[Donald Duck]] / [[Mickey Mouse]] comic.

** Zé Carioca of all people also had one of these.

* [[Spider-Man]] had an [[Alternate Continuity|Spidey Super Story]] featuring [[Doctor Doom]] as the obvious Vader, involving a giant metal planet. For some reason.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Most films in the [[View Askewniverse]] have [[Star Wars]] references thanks to [[Kevin Smith]]'s [[One of Us|geeky obsessions]]. Most evident in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' which has the title and features a lightsaber duel with Mark Hamill at its climax ("Don't [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] with the Jedi master, son!"), complete with his hand being cut off and him remarking "not again." The same film has a Carrie Fisher cameo, though her scene has no Star Wars references.

 

* A book in the children's series ''Space Brat'' spoofed this ("Planet of the Dips"). Among other things, there is a Yoda-like hermit in a swamp with a similar-sounding name, and his advice to the main character is "Use the farce, Blork!"

 

** As a result it became one of Eric defining gags.

* The dodgeball episode of ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' includes Cookie joining [[Face Heel Turn|The Dark Side]] and gaining a roboticized voice and heavy breathing from his dodge ball face shield, an Image Freeze echoing the end of the master-vs.apprentice fight in ''A New Hope'', and a dodgeball called The Force, among others.

* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' got in on the act when Mark Hamill was a guest on the show. He showed up as himself ''and'' Luke, with R2D2, C3PO and Chewbacca along for the ride, while Piggy played Leia and Gonzo played Vader.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Even better]], the very next comic has George Lucas telling Binkley that they have six more films, and should get to them by 1998. In the collected edition, Berkeley Breathed remarks "[[The Phantom Menace|I was one year off.]]"

 

 

* [[Lo Zoo di 105]] has ''Merde Stellari'', "Star Shits".

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The entire ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Star Wars]]'' series of video games could be seen as an officially licensed Star Wars parody.

* The ''[[Space Quest]]'' series has a number of ''[[Star Wars]]'' references, including a desert planet reminiscent of Tatooine which you crash your [[Escape Pod]] on after your ship is captured by aliens, a defective R2-like droid, a Bow Tie fighter from the Cologne Wars on the garbage freighter in the third game, Imperial Probe Droid-like sentry bots, a [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Roger, I am Your Son]] revelation, Obi-wan and Darth Vader dueling in the back ground, et. al. The box for ''SQ 4'' even says "May the farce be with you!".

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[User Friendly]]'' did an arc "a long time ago, in another incarnation" parodying ''A New Hope'', with the Dust Puppy in the Luke role and the Crud Puppy in the Vader role. The Dust Puppy, however, takes a backseat to [[wikipedia:Eric S. Raymond|Eric S. Raymond]] ("May the Open Source be with you!") and Lan Solaris, cocky pilot of the Millennium Bug.

* ''[[Worse]]'''s initial setting is a very ''Star Wars''-esque universe.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has had three Star Wars Specials.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' did ''[[Family Guy Presents Laugh It Up Fuzzball]]''. For the ''entire original trilogy''.

** With a [[Take That]] to the Prequel Trilogy at the end, where Peter breezily dismisses them with "Eh, I think ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' is doing them."

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' had one episode revolving around it. There was a parody of the Darth Vader fight on a catwalk and they even parodied "Use the Force" with "Use the soup." Another episode stole the trench run from ''A New Hope'', and another episode had a parody of the Death Star scene in Episode 4. On a gigantic [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake|cake]], no less. The episode's climax was a parody of the Super Star Destroyer's destruction - it really [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cut a slice into Father's plans]].

** The School Bus Imperial Walkers and the Sled Snowspeeders in a giant Hoth/Snow Day battle.

* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' loves throwing in ''[[Star Wars]]'' references, but the second season episode "Love-Bheits" really takes it over the top and almost becomes nothing but a ''[[Star Wars]]'' parody episode. Nobody told the Baron that Dean in his Leia costume was a [[Memetic Mutation|trap]], though.

* The ''[[Super Mario Bros.]] Super Show'' did one of these parodies, actually called 'Star Koopa'. It actually had Bowser as Darth Vader, the other characters as other ''[[Star Wars]]'' characters and 'Lightplungers'.

** [[Super Mario Galaxy|"May the Stars shine down on you..."]]

* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks|The Chipmunks Go to the Movies]]'', in which each episode was a parody of a well-known film, never actually did a ''[[Star Wars]]'' episode, but there was a few seconds of ''[[Star Wars]]'' in the title sequence, with Alvin as Luke, Simon as C3PO, Theodore as R2-D2, and David as Darth Vader.

{{quote|Homer... use... the forks! [[Fork Fencing|Use the forks!]]}}

* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "Boogey Nights", the Boogey Man launches a giant disco ball to eclipse the sun so that his fellow nightmare creatures can party in the daytime as well and terrorize humanity forever. The Powerpuff Girls fly out to the disco ball in a dead-on parody of the attack on the Death Star. In the end, Buttercup flies out of the sun like the Millennium Falcon, winging two demons on Bubbles' tail with her heat vision, allowing Bubbles to fire a heat-vision blast that destroys the <s> Death Star</s> disco ball.

* ''[[Futurama]]'' has been known to do this from time to time, the first reference being Hanukkah Zombie's preferred mode of transportation a TIE Fighter whose wings are shaped like dreidels. Bonus points in that Hanukkah Zombie is voiced by [[Mark Hamill]].

* ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'' episode 13: "Abandon all Hope."

 

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