# Leave an Empty Chair at the Table for Yoda -- A Star Wars Seder **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904 "2013-03-25T12:09:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/1 "2013-03-25T12:09:06Z")
The Star Wars Seder from Haggadot dot com: [http://haggadot.com/search/node/Star%20Wars#overlay=view-video/186861](http://haggadot.com/search/node/Star%20Wars#overlay=view-video/186861) I found out about this from the morning fluff column in the Wall Street Journal. They have a HJarry Potter clip and a Lego Exodus, too. I think they’re trying to make it “relevant” to kids. Or just scrrewing around. The clip is here, too: [Star Wars Seder - Sci-fi Seder - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muNC3wfSj3A) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/2 "2013-03-25T12:12:55Z")
Not to be confused with Darth Seder (not from that site): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WK6nD0pyN6k/maxresdefault.jpg "Darth Seder") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK6nD0pyN6k) Or this Battlestar Galactica/Stargate/Star Trek/who knows what hybrid: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/i84-6mJyAY8/maxresdefault.jpg "Futuristic version of Passover story - Sci-fi Seder") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i84-6mJyAY8) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/3 "2013-03-25T12:16:06Z")
I shouldn’t have started browsing YouTube. There’s a lot of them. I like this one, which has the Bugs from Starship Troopers as the Ultimate Plague of LOcusts: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BFJa7Aq2Shs/maxresdefault.jpg "Passover Plagues - Sci-fi Seder") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJa7Aq2Shs) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/4 "2013-03-25T12:17:42Z")
Harry Potter and the Four Questions [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EWVue17whuE/maxresdefault.jpg "Harry Potter and the Four Questions - Harry Potter Seder") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWVue17whuE) ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/5 "2013-03-25T12:18:56Z")
Funny, he doesn’t look druish. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/6 "2013-03-25T12:34:49Z")
What the heck is a Seder? ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/7 "2013-03-25T12:45:08Z")
Actually, Battlestar Galactica is heavily inspired by Mormon/LDS cosmology. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/8 "2013-03-25T12:53:11Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Actually, Battlestar Galactica is heavily inspired by Mormon/LDS cosmology. No kidding. In his _Saintspeak Dictionary_\*, Orson Scott Card said that it ruined Missionary work, saying that it made potentioal converts giggle when hearing about the BoM from LDS Missionaries, saying “Sorry, but that reminds me of the silliest sort of science fiction.” \*OSC’s LDS-themed answer to Ambrose Bierce’s _The Devil’s Dictionary_. The first thing of his I read, long before I learned he was a science fiction author. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/9 "2013-03-25T13:24:29Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > What the heck is a Seder? It’s the Passover dinner, which includes a retelling of the flight out of Egypt. About 20 years ago when I was in grad school, one of my profs would do creative Seders. I didn’t attend, but know that one of them included a rapped version of the Four Questions. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/10 "2013-03-25T17:48:35Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > What the heck is a Seder? Part of the Jewish Passover celebration. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/11 "2013-03-25T18:03:13Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > What the heck is a Seder? I think most of the people answering this are being whooshed. If not, **GuanoLad** should just look at my posted links, since their point is to answer that question. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/12 "2013-03-25T18:15:26Z")
Was that the 5th (0th?) question? (And I can’t watch the videos right now - please tell me that a Star Wars Seder has someone asking why that Jedi Knight is different from all other Knights?) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-an-empty-chair-at-the-table-for-yoda-a-star-wars-seder/653904/13 "2013-03-25T23:46:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > If not, **GuanoLad** should just look at my posted links, since their point is to answer that question. I did look, it didn’t tell me anything at all. They weren’t being whooshed, it is apparently part of a culture I know absolutely nothing about.