The third all-new installment* of the hugely popular Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies airs tonight on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It is an hour long special. I have all of them on my DVR so far. I will be catching up on the past ones while waiting for tonight’s episode.
Thanks. Saw him on TDS but forgot. Just set my DVR.
They’ll also be showing the first two right after it for those of you that haven’t seen them, like me.
It’s a trap!
Thanks for reminding me! I loved the first two but never got a chance to see them when they first came out.
Edit: 6,000th post, woo!
Thanks for the reminder. Just set my DVR.
Which is the title of Family Guy’s Return of the Jedi parody, which I saw just the other day.
It was much better than Something, something, something, Dark Side.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Is there any way to stream this online, or are those of us with internet but no cable screwed?
After watching it last night, I have a nagging silly question…
As Emperor Palapatine is falling down the ‘chute’ to his death - they ‘freeze-frame’ in mid-drop and he begins his narration while (I think) the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” plays in the background - I’m almost certain I’ve seen that concept of bookend narration during a freeze-frame in some movie or another but I just can’t place it - is it a parody of a definite movie scene (well, two scenes, since later he finishes the narration and continues falling)?
I think it’s just a commonly used narration device (could probably find it on TV tropes). I’ve seen it most recently in Megamind but have seen it dozens of other times.
I was disappointed with it. I enjoyed the other ones a lot more.
Yeah, definitely the weakest of the three, though I admit there were some laugh-out-loud moments for me. Loved the Bob A. Feet clip.
I saw this episode by pure chance, and I’ve never watched Robot Chicken before. Are the other Star Wars episodes a bunch of sketches from all the Star Wars movies, or is just this one like that?
I actually ended up falling asleep to it, so I missed the last 15 minutes or so. It just wasn’t doing it for me, and I generally like Robot Chicken.
It’s a parody of American Beauty’s framing device.
That’s all of Robot Chicken. Quick little sketches acted out in stop motion, usually with action figures.
So yes, all three Star Wars specials are just a complication of quick sketches. The first Robot Chicken Star Wars was really a mix of all Star Wars movies. It included a few sketches they had already done, as well as a lot of new material. The second and third ones focused almost solely on Empire and Jedi, respectively.
Edit: I only caught the last ten minutes or so, but I enjoyed what I saw. I like the excuse that Boba Fett was really drunk at the beginning of Jedi and that’s why he went down like a chump.
Not really–when AB did it, the device was already decades old, plus Kevin Spacey is narrating as a corpse, while Palpatine isn’t (yet). Just having a narrator/flashback device isn’t enough to cite the Mendes film as a specific reference (and the Who song isn’t on that film’s soundtrack).
The emperor going up the escalator as all the Storm Troopers saluted him had me in stitches.
“Uncle Owen! This droid has a bad motivator!”