We do in Andor, though. The season two episode where they engineer a “riot” and a massacre shows the Stormtroopers as being pretty damn effective.
In Clone Wars where the clones are still the heroes there’s a running joke that the droids they fight against have faulty programming so they almost always miss
Inna and I are (re)watching Breaking Bad and are 1 episode from finishing. In one scene, the neo-nazis drive away, their license plate clearly visible. It says…
NZ45B8
Obviously, NZ=Nazi. And B8 is 88 (Heil Hitler). And after thinking about it, it’s obvious what 45 is - Trump (45th President).
Not bad for an episode released in 2013! 
Last weekend, was watching Star Wars: A New Hope with someone (two someones, in fact) who’d never seen it before. And I think I spotted something.
Early on, when Luke and Owen are checking out the Jawas’ wares, which of course includes R2D2 and C-3PO, Owen chooses the red droid, and calls to it. Red starts trundling across the sand, then abruptly shorts out. “Guess we gotta take the blue one!” I could be wrong, but I think Artoo caused the red number to short out. Am I right?
Yes, and made obvious in the Star Wars radio drama that was released about a year after A New Hope. BTW, the radio drama is well done. It includes a scene where Vader is interrogating Leia, using drugs that make her think he’s a person she trusts. Creepy AF!
Probably not - R2 doesn’t seem to have any wireless capability. Throughout the series, if he wants to interact with a computer, he has to trundle up to it and physically interface with it. Also, at this point he still has a restraining bolt, which probably limits his ability to destroy his owner’s other possessions.
Of course, Star Wars being Star Wars, the red droid has a whole backstory. Presented in Star Wars Tales, a comic anthology of stories set in the Star Wars universe, “Skippy the Jedi Droid” describes the red unit as a force-sensitive droid who, just as he’s being purchased by Uncle Owen, has a vision of a future in which Luke doesn’t buy R2, never gets off the farm, and the Rebellion is crushed when he’s not there to destroy the Death Star before it blows up Yavin. Realizing that the fate of the galaxy is at stake, he sabotages his own motivator, so Uncle Owen has to buy R2 instead.
(The story was never actually canon - a lot of the stories in the Star Wars Tales series were satirical takes on the setting. “A Death Star is Born” is, for my money, the highlight of the series, but it would also canonize Huckleberry Hound as a thing that exists in-universe. Or maybe it was Snagglepuss? I can’t find a scan of the page on line.)
Interesting. Both those explanations are believable, but of course they can’t both be true!
Anything in there about all the innocent, independent contractors who were killed when the second Death Star was destroyed?
Hey, they knew what they were getting into.
That clip is perfect for this thread. That roofer explains that he turned down a job because of the risk involved, but passed it along to a friend. What an asshole! He got his friend killed. Before the body was cold he probably stole the friend’s tools and was banging his wife.
“What a wookie!”
Or- were they? Because it seems like it was complete, but had the appearance of half completed, as a trap. Also droids were mostly used-
As was confirmed during development of the first Death Star, construction advanced most efficiently when the working surface allowed for sufficient space for the greatest possible number of self-replicating construction droids.
You are correct if the roofer never told his friend who the job was for and why he turned it down. If he did inform him and his friend went ahead and accepted the job anyway, he was aware of how it could turn out for him.
Hardly. Yes the main power core was operational along with the superlaser. But it had no shields and no engines.
The original was also, well, a space station. It had hangars for ships and barracks for troops and so on, all of the things you’d need for a functioning (mobile) military base. The skeleton of the second one couldn’t have had all of that.
Also, while the superlaser was at least somewhat functional, it might not have been entirely so. It’s a lot easier to destroy a Mon Calamari cruiser than an entire planet.
It’s still a pretty jerkish thing to do. “I think I’ll give this rabid wolverine to a friend of mine. If he decides to pet it and dies a horrible, painful death, it has nothing to do with me.”
On the tv show 30 Rock Tracy had an entourage of Dot Com and Grizz.
I was aware that the character Grizz was played by actor Grizz Chapman. I had always assumed that Grizz was a nickname the actor chose to use as his screen name.
Today I learned that the actor’s legal name is Grizzwald.
Just to keep it weird, the character’s real name is Griswold. But it’s his last name not his first name.
I can, and it is in fact Yogi Bear.
That looks oddly prescient…
“Your honor, I would like to state that I am not a cat.”
I just noticed that “No Time at All” from Pippin has a quick nod to “Put on a Happy Face” from Bye Bye Birdie:
Now when the drearies do attack
And a siege of the sads begins
I just throw these noble shoulders back
And lift these noble chins
This isn’t about a creative work, exactly, but at my ripe old age I just realized the joke behind Addams Family’s Uncle Fester’s name 
To the extent that I thought about it, I just thought it was funny sounding. I’ve certainly known the meaning of the word ‘fester’, and have even used it as an insult - “you’re a festering boil upon the buttocks of humanity” - but somehow never connected the two. Duhhhh.