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*** For the truly curious: "good elephant" is a literal translation of the Chinese characters for "seems like" (好象). This is just one example of why word-for-word translation is an epically bad idea.

** And "Obi-Wan, may the force be with you" becomes "ratio tile, the wish power are together with you."

** [http://dbowgett.users.btopenworld.com/ Someone] created a hybrid version of "Backstroke of the West" and ''A New Hope'', resulting in a version where C-3PO is extremely foul-mouthed, Darth Vader is a neurotic who can't handle his duties, Grand Moff Tarkin and Chief Bast are lovers, as are Luke and Obi-Wan (although the latter seems afraid of commitment), and both Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt are doing business dealings with the Presbyterian Church.

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031201321/http://dbowgett.users.btopenworld.com/ Someone] created a hybrid version of "Backstroke of the West" and ''A New Hope'', resulting in a version where C-3PO is extremely foul-mouthed, Darth Vader is a neurotic who can't handle his duties, Grand Moff Tarkin and Chief Bast are lovers, as are Luke and Obi-Wan (although the latter seems afraid of commitment), and both Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt are doing business dealings with the Presbyterian Church.

** And then there's a [[Gag Dub|dubbed]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiB7yG5sLR0 version.]

** "Darth Plagueis becomes "reaching the man cloth space", who could use the "original dint" to create life. He became more and more strong and big, until he lost his power and died. After teaching all skills whole only to [his] disciple, cloth space's land killed him to let him going to bed. Also, "Speaker D" (Palpatine) is both the Speaker and Prime Minister of the senate, as well as the governor of the city of Coruscant (which is redundant) and a West. The Presbyterian Church seems to be behind the Hopeless Situation Warriors (which are renamed Heroes Ground later on for no apparent reason) but they may or may not be using them to usurp D. D later goes on to form "The Empire of the First Choice." Evidently, D gets the choice.