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Jurgan
Jurgan
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 4:12pm

Freaking brilliant!

MisterAntrobus
MisterAntrobus
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 4:31pm

So much win. Now I want a bumper sticker that says “THE DEATH STAR WAS AN INSIDE JOB.”

Michael in Seattle
Michael in Seattle
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 7:33pm

This is fantastic. :D (Only one flaw: The narrator kept putting a “B” in “Alderaan.”)

Dr. Rocketscience
Dr. Rocketscience
reply to  Michael in Seattle
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 8:36pm

He gets several “facts” wrong (the size of the exhaust port, the pilot who took the failed shot), so I suspect that’s part of the joke.

Jonathan Roth
reply to  Dr. Rocketscience
Tue, Mar 19, 2013 6:44pm

Yeah, that was my thought too. :)

Patrick
Patrick
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 11:03pm

I was about to grumble that Star Wars has been spoofed to death…then I watched this. Bloody brilliant (right down to the “Matrix” soundtrack in the background).

RogerBW
RogerBW
Tue, Mar 19, 2013 11:12am

Oh, yeah, blame the guys in charge, forget about all the little people. Why did the Peace Moon need to be blown up in the first place? Because they were establishing a genuine workers’ soviet!