May the Farce Be with You: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Charlie and the Chocolate Parody]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'' did this.

* The opening of ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' is blatant. And then [[Subverted]]: TIE fighters don't have missiles. And they don't [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|hit the heroes.]]

 

* "[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.

* There's a scene in ''[[Reign of Fire]]'' where some of the survivors in a [[Post Apocalyptic]] world with little left in the way of entertainment act out ''Star Wars'' to entertain the kids.

 

* 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!"

 

* An episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'' set when ''[[A New Hope]]'' is first in theaters. Eric worries about losing Donna to another guy, resulting in a dream sequence that puts the cast in ''Star Wars''. The best part is Red as Obi-Wan: "Jedi Knight? More like Jedi [[Catch Phrase|dumbass]]."

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

* ''[[Spaced]]'' also featured numerous shot-for-shot parodies of moments in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies. They were particularly cutting about the prequel trilogy—but ironically, because they had been so complementary about the original movies, they were granted the rights to use original music, etc in their parodies of the trilogies.

* ''[[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]] ==

* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' is based on the premise of a group of [[Tabletop Games|tabletop gamers]] playing out the ''Star Wars'' prequels as a campaign in a generic science fiction game system, in a world where the actual ''Star Wars'' movies never existed.

* ''[[Blue Milk Special]]'' is a direct parody of the original trilogy. It is currently only up to Empire Strikes Back.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** [[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.

* Another reference to a lightsaber duel occurs in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'' episode "Brown Evil", between Grim and Hos Delgado.

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has ''loads'' of ''Star Wars'' inspired references, although the line between parody and [[Homage]] in this case is often hard to determine. Two episodes where this plays important parts of the plot are "The Scotsman Saves Jack" and "Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess".

 

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