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This is a list of references to Star Wars in television.

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[edit] 10 Things I Hate About You (2009)

  • In "Light My Fire" a character says "Pleasure it is to meet you", to which another responds "Aw, how cute. You talk like Yoda".

[edit] After You've Gone

  • In "Bad, Bad Old Days" Jimmy refers to Diana's new Scottie dog as a "small Scottish Ewok".

[edit] ALF

[edit] American Dad!

[edit] Anderson Cooper 360

  • On a special edition of AC360 during the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama, the team talked about Microsoft Photosynth (which was used to create a virtual 3-D image of the moment Obama was sworn in) to which Anderson Cooper said it sounded like something out of Star Wars. It was implied that he felt "synth" sounded like "Sith".

[edit] Angel

  • In the season one episode "Sense and Sensibility," Cordelia tells Angel: "No! I don't care what horrible thing is about to happen --asteroids are hurtling towards Earth, unspeakable evil is rising in the San Fernando Valley, Jar Jar is getting his own talk show, whatever -- I don't want to hear about it. Not 'til you ask us how it went."
  • In the season four episode "Calvary," Gunn refers to Angelus as "Darth Vampire."
  • In the episode "Soul Purpose," Spike tells Wesley: "No offense, Mr. Vader, but I've got no itch to join the evil Empire."
  • In the season five episode "Damage," Andrew describes the insane Slayer Dana: "Tortured, traumatized, driven insane by Yoda knows who."
  • In various seasons, Charles Gunn has been known to state I have a bad feeling about this.

[edit] Animaniacs

  • The episode "Star Warners" is in its entirety, a parody of the original trilogy, with various Animaniacs characters playing the roles of various characters in the movies.

[edit] Aqua Teen Hunger Force

  • In the episode "diet", Master Shake claims to be from Tatooine, and that he went for his medical checkup on Alderaan every year, he then claims to be from the Dagobah system. Then he pretends to talk to R2-D2.
  • In the episode "Pink Man", a Wookiee pretending to be a werewolf from Mos Eisley asks the Aqua Teens to help him blow up the moon, later Frylock uses a lightsaber which he refers to as a lightwaver to fight the Wookiee who reveals his name as Drewbacca, and near the end of the episode the Mooninites cook Yoda in a microwave. The episode then ends with a Star Wars-style credit roll. The episode also features scene changes and music similar to Star Wars.

[edit] Arrested Development

The spoof of Star Wars Kid on Arrested Development.
  • In the episode "Amigos", Lucille Bluth tells Annyong to "go see a Star War".
  • In the episode "The Immaculate Election", George Michael Bluth acts out a lightsaber duel on film, which is later played in front of his school, a reference to Star Wars Kid. This video is referenced again in "Sword of Destiny" and "The Ocean Walker".
  • In the episode "Out on a Limb", Buster Bluth learns who his true father is, and later loses his hand, a possible reference to the end of The Empire Strikes Back.

[edit] Attack of the Show!

  • Star Wars is referenced in multiple sketches during the show. One recurring sketch is "Boba Fetish", which features a man wearing Boba Fett's helmet and bondage gear engaging in various Star Wars-related sexual fetishes.

[edit] Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • In the episode The Guru, Aang halts his training to unlock his chakras when seeing a vision of Katara in trouble, and despite Guru Pathik's warnings of the dangers of not completing the chakra opening process, he goes out to save his friends. This parallels Luke leaving Yoda when seeing the visions of the trouble on Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back. The show also features Mark Hamill as the voice of Fire Lord Ozai.

[edit] Back to the Barnyard

  • In the first episode, Otis makes a reference to Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star.

[edit] Batman: The Animated Series

  • In the episode Legends of the Dark Knight Firefly uses what is described in DVD commentary as a "flame saber", after one commentator has called it a lightsaber, due to similar design.

[edit] Batman Beyond

  • In the episode Revenant, students at Hamilton Hill High School believe that its halls are haunted by the ghost of a dead student. When four girls were accosted by the "spirit," they flee and run into their friend Maxine Gibson, who refers to the ghost as their "phantom menace."
  • The episode Sentries of the Last Cosmos, about a science fiction video game, features many references, and spoken lines include "Is Jar-Jar lame?", "I can't shake him!" and "It all started a long, long time ago in a cosmos far from Earth".

[edit] Battlestar Galactica (2003)

[edit] Beverly Hills, 90210

  • In the episode "Home and Away" some of the lyrics in David Silver's rap song make a reference to Jedis and Yoda.
  • In the episode "Mr. Walsh goes to Washington" Steve comments that Andrea's premature baby, before meeting her, how she could look like Yoda.

[edit] The Big Bang Theory

  • In the first episode it is mentioned that Leonard has Darth Vader shampoo and Luke Skywalker conditioner. When Penny is using Leonard and Sheldon's shower Leonard lies and says that they belong to Sheldon in order to avoid embarrassment.
  • In "The Big Bran Hypothesis" when Leonard thinks there is an intruder he emerges from his bedroom brandishing a Luke Skywalker FX Lightsaber, using as it as a flashlight and possibly to strike an intruder with.
  • In "The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition" Sheldon claims he enjoys the game of mimicry and says he has been working on Admiral Ackbar. He tries to prove it with a swift cry: It's a trap! and prompts Penny to imagine him with a giant squidhead.
  • In "The Vegas Renormalization", the four male characters were playing a game which involved trying to guess a player's chosen character from a sci-fi film. Raj correctly guesses Leonard's chosen character C-3PO by asking "Do you kind of look like a shiny Sheldon?". Later in the show Penny tried guessing Sheldon's character by asking "Are you Star Wars?".

[edit] BoBoBo-Bo-BoBoBo

  • In one episode, BoBoBo is told by Tuna to use the fleece, a spoof of "use The Force."

[edit] Bones

  • In the episode "The Princess and the Pear", while weilding an Excalibur movie prop, Doctor Sweets exclaims "An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age". Later, whilst at a science fiction and fantasy convention, Sweets is growled at by a Wookiee due to wearing a Star Trek uniform.

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • The show's theme music is performed by Nerf Herder, named after Princess Leia's comment to Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • In episode 2x01, "When She Was Bad," Willow and Xander play "Guess the Quote," which includes Obi-Wan's "Use the Force, Luke" line from A New Hope.
  • In episode 2x03, "School Hard," Spike refers to Angel as "his Yoda."
  • In episode 3x19, "Choices," Buffy comments that "Faith's turn to the dark side of the Force has pretty much put the proverbial kibosh on any away school plans for me."
  • In episode 4x01, "The Freshman," Xander attempts to quote Yoda from Episode I: The Phantom Menace in reciting Yoda's "Fear is the path to the dark side" line to Buffy.
  • In episode 4x04, "Fear, Itself," Xander asks Oz if he "feels a disturbance in the Force".
  • In episode 5x17, "Forever," Ben refers to the demon monks of Glory as "Jawa rejects".
  • In episode 6x04, "Flooded," Warren quotes Obi-Wan by saying "The Force can sometimes have great power over the weak minded".
  • In episode 6x05, "Life Serial," Andrew paints an image of the Second Death Star on the side of a van, to the disgust of Warren and Jonathan. Later in the same episode, while spying on Buffy, the three accidentally set off the horn, which plays the Imperial March.
  • In episode 6x06, "All The Way," Willow and Tara attend a Halloween themed dance at the Bronze, where they encounter a couple dressed as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia.
  • In episode 6x09, "Smashed," Spike attempts to get help from Warren, Andrew and Jonathan by threatening to destroy their Boba Fett action figure.
  • In episode 6x13, "Dead Things," Andrew and Jonathan fight each other with plastic lightsabers.
  • In episode 6x18, "Entropy," Warren refers to Jonathan as "Padawan."
  • In episode 6x21, "Two to Go," Andrew tells Jonathan that "You were out of the Trio a long time ago… in a Galaxy far, far away." Later in the episode, Andrew says that "we've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers, and not one of you bunch has the midichlorians to stop her."
  • In episode 7x07, "Conversations with Dead People," Andrew and the First (as Warren) quote Obi-Wan and Yoda's dialogue from Empire as Luke leaves Dagobah.
  • In episode 7x10, "Bring on the Night," Andrew compares himself to "Vader in the last 5 minutes of Jedi with redemptive powers minus a redemptive struggle of epic redemption which chronicles…”
  • In episode 7x11, "Showtime," Andrew says after having been tied to a chair for an episode or two, "I'm bored. Episode I bored."
  • In episode 7x12, "Potential," as Andrew explains to Dawn about having a legacy that she's unaware of, Xander says, "Say Skywalker and I'll smack you." Later in the same scene, Andrew begins explaining how Dawn's new found Slayer potential can be seen as a metaphor to womanhood, but is interrupted by Xander, who says "I'll pay you to talk about Star Wars again."
  • In episode 7x18, "Dirty Girls," Andrew describes Faith as having been seduced by the dark side.

[edit] Chowder

  • In the Dread Lead Farful episode, while training Schnitzel in a mountarage Mung Daal pops up and says "Stronger, you are getting" to which Chowder pops up and retorts "Silly, you are talking."
  • In another episode Mung Daal is harvesting a fruit and can be heard to say "stay on target!" A reference to Gold Leader leading his squadron down the Death Star trench while under Imperial attack.

[edit] Charmed

  • In the Episode, Enter the Demon, Phoebe says "What's on the training schedule for today, Lightsabers?"
  • In one episode, Paige mentions a "Jedi Master Warlock".
  • In the episode Chris Crossed, Wyatt used a power similar to Force Choke.
  • In the episode That Old Black Magic, at one point, Kyle calls Leo "Obi-Wan".
  • In the episode Legend of the Sleepy Halliwell, Paige, when talking about Gideon says, "Who does he think he is, Obi-Wan Kenobi?".
  • In the episode Prince Charmed, a demon says to one of his followers, "I find your lack of faith disturbing".

[edit] Chuck

  • In the season one episode, Chuck vs. the Sandworm, Sarah presents Chuck with a photoshopped picture of them at Comic Con, dressed as Han Solo and Princess Leia. In the same episode, Sarah also shows up in the Princess Leia slave outfit at Chuck & Ellie's Halloween Party.
  • The season one episode, Chuck vs. the Wookiee, got its name when the casting director noticed the villain (Iqbal Theba)'s hirsuteness and changed the episode title from "Chuck vs. the Speedo" to "Chuck vs. the Wookiee".
  • In Season 2, episode 12, Chuck vs. the Third Dimension, the letters "IG-88" appear on screen when a package is revealed to be a bomb.

[edit] Clerks: The Animated Series

  • There is a "token black character" named Lando who makes sporadic appearances.
  • Yoda and Obi-Wan show up as Force ghosts and snub Charles Barkley, who says, "That's cold, Obi-Wan"
  • In episode 1.1, a letter is read from someone named Richard Vader.
  • In episode 1.2, Dante, Randal, Jay and Silent Bob are trapped in a freezer. Dante remarks that it is "Hoth cold", while Randal replies "Move around. Make more Star Wars references. It helps to stay warm". Later on, Jay says "Man, it's cold in here, like that planet Hoth in Empire", to which Dante replies "We already made that Star Wars reference". Jay then remarked that if they all had lightsabers, they could cut open Silent Bob and crawl inside him to stay warm.
  • In episode 1.3, Leonardo Leonardo's servant says while Leonardo Leonardo is lying in bed "If any of my parts or circuits would help, I would gladly donate them."
  • In Episode 1.4, George Lucas is called to the stand during Dante's trial. Randal, acting as Dante's lawyer, then grills George Lucas about the plot holes between The Phantom Menace and the Original Trilogy.
  • In Episode 1.6, people are seen standing in line for the autograph of "the guy who cleaned the latrines during the Episode I location shoot". Also, two guys come in with an invitation to a Halloween party. On the invitation, it says "no Darth Mauls, please". A third reference is Randal and Dante discussing why Princess Leia is not Queen of Alderaan, to which Dante said "Her mother had been dead before Alderaan blew up, so wouldn't she be Queen already?" Randal states the whole movie is flawed, like stating for example why do the lightsabers stop where they do. Dante attributes it to the Force, and Randal says "Ah, that's your answer for everything".

[edit] Codename: Kids Next Door

  • Primitive versions of many Star Wars vehicles are seen in the show, made of wood or school buses.
  • Episode #49, "Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G", is, in its entirety, a parody of The Empire Strikes Back.
  • In episode #54, "Operation: E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.S", the K.N.D. attack a middle school, the battle being similar to the death star trench run of "A New Hope". Numbuh One's final escape from the middle school is a parody of the Millennium Falcon's escape from the Death Star in "Return of the Jedi".

[edit] Code Monkeys

  • In the first episode, the character Dave makes a reference to Star Wars when he notes that "you can cut [a donkey] open like a tauntaun and live inside it".
  • In The Revenge of Matsui during Dave's talk with Yogetsu there is a lightsaber and Darth Vader's mask burning in the background.
  • In E.T. while Dave is giving ideas to Jerry to make the E.T. game he mentions "he's from Tatooine".
  • In Vegas, Baby! Dave and Jerry talk to former Gameavision CEO Steve Wozniak, who is driving Luke Skywalker's land speeder from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
  • In E.T. while Dave falsely describes the movie E.T. he says "well he fights kids with a lightsaber"
  • In The Revenge of Matsui after Harrison Ford stabs Dave he says" Han Solo cut me, awesome Jerry take a picture"

[edit] The Colbert Report

Main article: Stephen Colbert
  • The first episode of The Colbert Report took place on the day Peter Mayhew received his American citizenship. At the end of the episode, Stephen Colbert brought this point up, stating that the day was a type of new beginning for Peter Mayhew, in that he received his US citizenship, just as it was a type of new beginning for the show, "in that it is, in fact, the actual beginning of the show." He then stated it was the sworn duty of the United States to claim as many Star Wars actors as possible ("except for Alec Guinness, who died before we could get to him") and ended the show with, "goodbye, or as Chewbacca would say it, 'raaaaaaaargh!'"
  • On the 31 January 2006 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen admonished eBay sellers, pointing out an autographed picture of "Stephen Colbert" he purchased from the site - which, in reality, was a picture of Lando Calrissian, although "strangely enough, that's my actual signature."
  • On the 02 March 2006 episode, Stephen mentions Star Wars during his "The DaColbert Code" segments, which is later repeated on a later episode.
  • On the 29 March 2006 episode, Stephen mentioned in the intro, "Brute Bartlett says that George Bush is ruining Ronald Reagan's legacy. He must not mean Star Wars, since George Lucas already ruined that."
  • On the 03 April 2006 episode, Stephen said that "clones make a lot of people nervous," to which 'The Word' added, "Yoda, for one."
  • On the 20 April 2006 episode, when guest Ralph Nader said that corporations holding the rights of people was like robots holding the rights of people, Stephen responded by saying, "What do you have against droids? Star Wars, the whole saga was about the droids, droid oppression."
  • On the 17 May 2006 show, when talking about the 'betrayal' of his 'black friend,' Alan, Stephen said, "I always knew Alan was as dashing as Billy Dee Williams. But I never figured he'd be my Lando Calrissian."
  • On the 10 August 2006 show, Colbert profiled California's 6th congressional district, which contains the Skywalker Ranch. He mentioned Skywalker Ranch and George Lucas, and briefly pretended to fight enemies in front of a greenscreen. After this, fans across the internet began creating their own special effects for the greenscreen scene, and a few days later, Colbert made it official with. Stephen Colbert Greenscreen Challenge. See Colbert to Reveal Greenscreen Winner at StarWars.com. At the awarding of the winning entry on October 11, Lucas himself arrived on the show and presented an entry made by ILM. At the end of the episode, Lucas and Colbert entered a lightsaber fight that ended with Lucas killing Colbert.
  • The spoof-cartoon "Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert's The New Tek Jansen Adventures" spoofs Star Wars several ways, including the opening scrawl, incorrect use of "parsec" and scenes mirroring the Millennium Falcon docking at the Death Star.
  • On the November 2, 2006 show (Episode 170), Colbert interviews Ron Reagan, a proponent of stem cell research. According to Colbert, "His dad had Star Wars, he's got Attack of the Clones."
  • On the 11 January 2007 show (Episode 195), Colbert relates the effects of Apple's new iPhone to Princess Leia's metal bikini.
  • On the June 28 2007 show (Episode 281), Colbert states that because Unity08 is having its convention online, only "computer nerds" will attend. Hence, the chosen candidates will be Doctor Who and Chewbacca.
  • On the October 3, 2007 show (episode 318), Colbert wonders if Matthew Reinhart will have the "balls" to stick to an October 9 release date for Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy or if he would "crumble like a B1 battle droid." Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!) was released on the same day.
  • On the January 21, 2009 episode, Colbert began to look forward to the 2012 elections, using a logo in the Star Wars font, and a clip that edited President Obama to look like Jabba the Hutt, Nancy Pelosi as Salacious Crumb, and Harry Reid as Princess Leia in her bikini.

[edit] Corner Gas

  • In episode 15 of season 6, entitled "R2 Bee Too", Officer Davis Quinton bids on what he thinks is the original R2-D2 on eBay. After selling his ski-boat to pay for his bid, he is disappointed to receive only a garbage can, a flashlight, a slide whistle, some miscellaneous lumber, and a "letter of authenticity" signed by "George Lukas" (sic) and written on a pizza box.

[edit] Countdown with Keith Olbermann

[edit] Coupling

  • In the episode Size Matters, Patrick, Jeff and Sally are poking fun at each other's political parties. Patrick tells Sally "You're the evil Empire!", and begins humming the Star Wars theme, while Jeff hums The Imperial March. Patrick then starts talking to Sally in the voice of Darth Vader, holding a glass over his mouth for better effect.
  • In The Melty Man Cometh episode, the Melty Man is a clear reference to Darth Vader, speaking with a Vader like voice and his hand showing with a Vader-like glove. Patrick also says to the Melty Man "You killed my erection!" As a reference to The Empire Strikes Back, the Melty Man replies "No, Patrick, I *am* your erection!" When the Melty Man is first described by Jeff and Steve one of the descriptions is Darth Vader without the helmet.
  • At the beginning of the episode Naked, the text "A long time ago, in a relationship far away..." is displayed.

[edit] Curb Your Enthusiasm

  • In the episode "The Bowtie," Larry David responds to a query of "what starts with a J and ends with an I" with "Jedi."

[edit] Cyberchase

  • In an a "Cybercase For Real" segment while a child is fixing valves in an interactive space shuttle exhibit, Bianca tells her to "Use the Force" while holding up three fingers on each hand.

[edit] The Daily Show

  • On the December 6, 2001 episode, Matt Walsh said that the Taliban complex at Tora Bora had one weakness—a thermal exhaust port.
  • In one episode, the Imperial March was used in accompaniment to footage of G8 leaders.
  • On the February 13(?) 2006 episode, Ed Helms lists "that metal egg Darth Vader sleeps in" as a part of Dick Cheney's entourage.
  • On the February 16, 2006 episode, Jon Stewart mocked the Republican Party's decision to edit scenes from A New Hope to make a promotional movie depicting themselves as fighting against "an evil Democrat Empire," to which Stewart replied, "You control the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court - you're not rag-tag rebels fighting against the Empire, you are the Empire! Besides, Star Wars references are so lame..." In response, a hologram of Princess Leia appeared, repeating, "I know you masturbated to me in the Seventies."
  • On the April 17, 2006 episode, a segment on Donald Rumsfeld was titled "War Wars" using the Star Wars font.
  • On the April 20 2006 episode, Jon Stewart referred to "President Bush's long-term adviser, Emperor Palpatine - I mean, Karl Rove..."
  • On the April 26, 2006 episode, John Hodgman says that Lobot is one of President Bush's historians chosen to chronicle the Iraq war.
  • On the January 25, 2007 episode, Jon Stewart attempted to address Dick Cheney as a "kindred spirit" by donning a Darth Vader mask. Attempting to stay in character, Stewart quipped, "I can crush people's throats with my mind... but you... if I pulled the [bleeped] you've pulled, I'd be in the Sarlacc pit faster than you could say Greedo! The writers have assured me that that makes sense."
  • On the April 16, 2007 episode, Jon asks Andrew Card to come over to the light side, because the Force was strong in him. Andrew responds by saying "May the Force be with you."
  • On the October 10, 2007 episode, Lynne Cheney presented Jon Stewart with a figure of Darth Vader. (Her husband Dick has been compared to Vader in the past.)
  • On the October 11, 2007 episode, footage of the Destruction of Alderaan was used in the "Prepare to Die: Showdown With the Sun" segment.
  • On the November 6, 2008 episode, footage of the Endor celebration of the destruction of the Death Star was used to illustrate celebration of Barack Obama's election.
  • On the January 20, 2009 episode that covered the inauguration of President Obama, Jon noted that former Vice-President Dick Cheney's temporary wheelchair (required due to a back injury when leaving) made him look like a supervillain. He stated the only way for him to look more evil would be to play the "Star Wars Imperial March" and pet a white cat (a reference to James Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld). In the following day's episode, a clip was edited to show Cheney in his wheelchair, passing Obama's presidential motorcade, with the Imperial March playing. Cheney in his wheelchair appeared again the following day, with the Imperial March yet again accompanying. Later, Jon said that Cheney "was this" and showed a clip from The Empire Strikes Back in which Vader says "If you only knew the power of the dark side." New Vice-President Joe Biden, meanwhile, is illustrated with a clip of Dark Helmet from Spaceballs, removing his mask as he exclaims, "I can't breathe in this thing!"
  • On the January 29, 2009 episode, during a discussion about robots, Jon wondered if man and robot could together form a clone army which could be used to conquer Tatooine. A few minutes later, there was a mention of General Grievous.
  • On the February 10, 2009 episode, Jon compliments Sam Stein, journalist for the Huffington Post, with "Well done, young Jedi."
  • In the May 21, 2009 episode, Bill Kristol says he sides with Darth Vader over Luke Skywalker, and Stewart mocks him.
  • In the June 12, 2009 episode, Stewart shows a clip of the Galactic Senate while doing a report on the recent European Parliament election.

[edit] Danny Phantom

[edit] "What You Want"

While Danny and Tucker are buying skateboard wheels at a swap meet, there is a Darth Vader helmet on display.

[edit] "Maternal Instinct"

Danny's mother, Maddie Fenton, uses a device resembling a green double-bladed lightsaber to defeat a horde of attacking ghost animals.

[edit] "Control Freaks"

The slogan for Circus Gothica is "Cross over to the Dark Side".

[edit] "The Fenton Menace"

The episode title is a direct reference to "The Phantom Menace" despite the episode not having any reference to Star Wars whatsoever.

[edit] "The Fright Before Christmas"

A series of toys entitled "Space Wars" come to life, and the action figures in question bear strong resemblances to Chewbacca, R2-D2, and stormtroopers.

[edit] "Reality Trip"

This double-length episode features many Star Wars cosplayers at the San Diego Comic Fab (A reference to the San Diego Comicon). Danny also uses the Reality Gauntlet, a la Jedi Mind Trick on the Guys in White and says, "He's not the ghost you're looking for" in order to have them leave his family and friends alone.

[edit] "Urban Jungle"

The episode features Mark Hamill voicing the villain Undergrowth, and has various references to Star Wars, like Danny being healed in a tank after being found frozen and unconsious.

[edit] Dark Angel

  • In the Episode "Borrowed Time", Max and Alec steal an extremely rare copy of Star Wars: Episode 7.

[edit] Dexter

[edit] Dexter's Laboratory

  • In the episode "The Muffin King", Dexter's Dad attempts to steal a batch of muffins Dexter is guarding, he enters the kitchen from the shadows, saying "Dexter...I am your father!" to which Dexter replies "Nooo! This cannot be possible! Oh, wait...Yes, you're right." Dexter's Dad then says "So join me, come to the muffin side. Don't resist Dexter, it is your destiny.", and then controls him to make him get the muffins.
  • Originally, Dexter's archnemesis, Mandark, had a lab with a Death Star attached to it.
  • The password to enter Dexter's lab is "Star Wars".
  • Dexter's computer once told him the odds of failing, to which Dexter replied "Never tell me the odds."

[edit] Di-Gata Defenders

  • The primary antagonist, Lord Nazmul, is possibly a reference to Kueller in that he used to be a good guy, has a skull for his head (a reference to his Hendanyn death mask), has mystical powers, and has a subordinate named Brackus (a reference to Brakiss).

[edit] Dirty Jobs

  • Before going into a bat cave, Mike Rowe is warned of high levels of carbon dioxide and ammonia. After putting on the breathing mask he asks the camera, "Do I look like Darth Vader?" and then starts quoting lines from Star Wars.
  • While herding heifers into a pen, Mike looks at the prodder he is given to coax them in and calls it a lightsaber.

[edit] Doctor Who

[edit] Drake & Josh

There is parody in one episode called "The Battle of Panthatar".

In this episode Drake & Josh are banned from a party and sneaks in with a "Red SkyNaut" outfit which is very similar to a Stormtrooper armor, once inside they recreate a battle sequence with lightsabers from the movie "Galaxy Wars".

[edit] Drawn Together

"Senator Sith Lord" using Force lightning
Foxxy Love using a lightsaber to light a cigarette
Captain Hero's dream of a wedding

[edit] Season One

[edit] Season Two

[edit] Season Three

[edit] Duck Dodgers

  • In a chapter where the young cadet and Duck Dodgers "die", they appear in the shape of ghost of the Force like Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episodes V and VI.

Throughout the same chapter other references are made: Dodgers shows plans of the Invictus (similar to the Death Star) and when the cadet asks him where he got them he says from, quote, "this cute little robot". The robot is two boxes and a trash can that look like R2-D2. The end of the same chapter could be a comparison to the end of Episode IV.

  • The Samurai Jack parody episode has the Aku parody character reveal that he is Dodger's father and offers him to join him to rule the galaxy as father and son. When Dodgers refuses, he is zapped with lightning.
  • Another reference to star wars is in the episode where duck dodgers and cadet get really old, duck dodgers says (to a REALLY young martian commander) "don't you 'mama dada' me! or i'll slice you to bits with my laser saber!", an obvious reference to the lightsaber.

[edit] E!'s 25 Most Memorable Swimsuit Moments

  • For the number 2 spot, the announcer said, "Calling Bo Derek 'hot' is kind of like calling Darth Vader 'temperamental.'"

[edit] Earth: Final Conflict

  • Several episodes feature Lightsaber-like weapons called "Energy Knives" which have short blades like shoto.

[edit] Everest: Beyond the Limit

  • In the episode Into the Death Zone, one of the climbers admits, "I've succumbed to the dark side."

[edit] Everybody Loves Raymond

  • In the episode "Working Girl", Ray Barone states to brother Robert "I sense a disturbance in the Force" moments before their mother walks in.
  • In an episode when Robert starts dating a younger woman, Raymond tries to explain to Robert that Debra is upset about that. Robert says that she seemed fine and Raymond says "there a side of Debra that you don't see...Darth Debra"

[edit] Extreme Trains

  • In the episode following Union Pacific's refrigerator line from Wallula, Washington, to Schenectady, New York, while cleaning the inside of a steam locomotive in Scranton, Pennsylvania, host Matt Bown is wearing a mask for dust and says to the engineer, "Bruce, I am your father."

[edit] La Familia P.Luche

  • In the episode "La tele", Federica and Ludovico watch the TV of the neighbors with binoculars, and Ludovico says "...aqui es cuando le dice, Luke, soy tu padre" ("here's when he says: Luke, I am your father"), obviously a reference to The Empire Strike Back.

[edit] The Fairly Oddparents

  • The TV movie "Abracatastrophie" begins with a parody of Star Wars, starring Darth Vader and Jar Jar Binks. It includes the famous "I am your father" line, to which Cosmo pulls off the mask and adds, "Your Godfather!"
  • In "Hard Copy," Timmy makes a magical copy of everything in his catalogue, including "Space Wars" toys, resulting in "Dark Laser" attempting to take over the world. Dark Laser reappears in "Escape from Unwish Island" and "Mission: Responsible". In the same episode, "Hard Copy", there are several droideka-like robots deployed by Dark Laser, two of which are destroyed when Wanda activates her lightsaber (which is her wand) to deflect the blaster bolts fired at them. Also, Timmy pilots a "Starfighter" while wearing a helmet that clearly resembles a Rebel Pilot's helmet; later, Cosmo flies in at the last minute to save Timmy and Wanda in his own fighter (a green pet carrier), much like Han Solo's sudden reappearance in the Death Star battle in A New Hope.
  • In one episode, Wanda uses her magic to freeze Cosmo in carbonite because he looks hideous at the moment. Later in the episode, both Cosmo and Wanda are frozen in Carbonite.
  • In an episode where Timmy tries to lose his buck teeth, one of the nicknames given to him by this feature was Chewbacca.
  • In another episode, Mark Chang throws a ball at Chester, breaking his teeth, and the dentist said "I feel a disturbance...In my wallet!"
  • In one episode there is a character resembling a stormtrooper.
  • Another episode features a scene in which Timmy is skating through the dense jungle, with Cosmo on his back saying "Learn to skate in harsh environments, you must," a reference to when Yoda trained Luke in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • In the TV movie "Wishology: The Exciting Middle Part", Jorgen Von Strangle says "I sense a disturbance in the Fairy Force, as if thousands of voices suddenly cried out at once." which is referring to a quote made by Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope.

[edit] Fallen

In this ABC Family miniseries, angels and nephilim use lightsaber-like weapons with blades made out of fire, and use swordfighting choreography that strongly resemble the lightsaber duels from the Star Wars movies.

[edit] Family Guy

"Lucasfilm has been... unbelievably supportive of... the show. And again, a lot of companies are very uptight, and they [Lucasfilm], you know, have the enlightened viewpoint: 'Hey, the more our stuff is out there....'"
―Seth MacFarlane[src]
  • In "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", Peter is on a newscast with his segment, "What Grinds My Gears". In one of his segments, he says "Know what really grinds my gears? When I can't find the droids I'm looking for." It then shows two stormtroopers sitting in armchairs who say, "Yeah, what's up with that?"
Lois has reservations about Meg getting laser eye surgery, and for good reason.
"You're not helping!" The Emperor encourages Cleveland to strike Quagmire down.
  • In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", Cleveland is fighting Quagmire, and is about to finish him off. Palpatine is seen observing, and pronounces his satisfaction at their fighting: "Good, let the hate flow through you." Lois then shoves him, saying, "You're not helping!"
  • In "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do", the Griffins are in Asiantown trying to escape from Joe (who is piloting an armed helicopter). They flee into the sewers and Joe follows by blowing a larger hole into the ground so that his copter can make it through. As he flies into the sewers, the camera is in his POV, reminiscent to the Death Star trench run from A New Hope (along with a similar score to that scene). Suddenly twin TIE/ln starfighters appear from each side of the camera, and Joe shoots them down with sound effects similar to starfighter lasers.
  • In "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", Peter conducts the Sand People Choir in a cutaway. When the Sand People run away, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears and says "The Sand People are easily frightened, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers." Peter nods and is pleased, as this means the choir will sound better with additional singers.
  • In "Sibling Rivalry", Stewie contracts chicken pox from his half brother Bertram. When Stewie returns to the playground to confront him, Bertram quotes Darth Vader in A New Hope, saying, "I sense something, a presence I have not felt since..."
  • In "You May Now Kiss The...Uh...Guy Who Receives", Peter talks about how he once saved Luke Skywalker on Hoth. It cuts to Hoth where Han uses Luke's lightsaber to cut open the belly of the tauntaun for warmth. However, instead of the tauntaun, it is Peter who is opened up (though he is still alive and well). Han asks if this is still okay, and Peter replies that it was just his fat that was cut open.
  • In "Emission Impossible", when Peter and Lois decide to have another baby, Stewie goes into Peter's testicles and destroys sperm ships in a parody of the attack on the Death Star, which both of Peter's balls are shown to look like.
  • In "Let's Go to the Hop", Lois discovers a toad in Chris's laundry and decides something must be done. To combat the new drug trend, Peter goes undercover as a high school student named Lando Griffin.
  • In "Brian Sings and Swings", Meg walks in on Chris in the bathroom while his hair and cap is being placed on his head, with a sample from The Imperial March being played in the background. This is a reference to The Empire Strikes Back, when Vader's helmet is placed on his deformed head in the presence of Admiral Piett.
  • In "Peterotica", Carter Pewterschmidt is being sued by an attorney for publishing Peter's erotic novels (which has led to a man crashing his car while listening to an audio version of it). Not interested in paying up, Carter activates a control that opens a hole in the ground. The attorney falls through and battles a rancor. He kills it just as Luke does in Return of the Jedi. Once he gets out of the hole, Carter says "I didn't realize Greenberg was a Jedi name."
  • In "Mother Tucker", a cutaway shows Darth Vader working as a meter maid, issuing a parking ticket. After being accosted and talking it over with his wife, Karen, Vader goes to the bank to apply for a loan to build the Death Star. When the banker says that he doesn't believe that would be in the bank's best interest, Vader lies and says instead that he wants to open a sports bar.
  • In the beginning of the episode "PTV", when Stewie has a sword-vs-rubber-chicken fight with Osama Bin Laden, their initial movements match those of the start of Yoda's duel with Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones. After this, the shows opening credits run in the style of the Naked Gun movies, and one of the scenes shown is the Battle of Hoth.
  • In "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas", Stewie has a dream, in which he fires a blaster at Santa, who deflects the bolt with his hand. Later in the episode, when Peter believes Lois is angry at him for accidentally donating all the family's gifts to charity, he says, "Lois, if you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
  • In "Chick Cancer", a cutaway recerates the scene in A New Hope when the Rebel commander describes the battle plan and Luke says to another pilot, "It's not impossible. I used to bullseye Womp Rats with my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters." After this, the other pilot pulls Luke aside and the two argue about Luke humiliating him. The argument is in the style of Curb Your Enthusiasm and includes the show's theme music at the end.
  • In "Peter's Two Dads", Peter sees a Force Ghost of his father shortly after his death accompanied by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. After each character makes a comment, Anakin Skywalker walks on scene and says "And I'm Hayden Christensen!", a reference to his insertion into the final scene of Return of the Jedi.
  • In the episode "Barely Legal", Stewie mentions the time when the Palpatine figured out the formula for great Star Wars dialogue. This leads to a cutaway scene showing Palpatine sitting on his throne saying "Something, something, something, dark side. Something, something, something, complete..."
  • In the episode "Airport '07", after Quagmire crashes a plane, Nien Nunb is shown laughing in the co-pilot's seat.
  • In "Saving Private Brian", Stewie wonders why Emperor Palpatine has a desk in Revenge of the Sith.
The poster for Blue Harvest
  • In "Blue Harvest", Peter retells the story of A New Hope. The entire episode, being twice as long as any usual episode, is a direct parody of this film, with several Family Guy characters playing specific roles from the film.
  • In "Padre de Familia", while talking about illegal immigrants, Peter says, "They are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take them away!", mimicking Darth Vader's line and voice from A New Hope.
  • In "The Former Life of Brian", Stewie wanted to get his face painted as Darth Maul during a birthday celebration in a park. However, the painters had not heard of him, so they painted him like a kittycat instead.
  • In the episode where Lois becomes mayor, one of the reasons she gives for raising taxes is to stop the fake situation where "Darth Vader tried to buy yellowcake uranium from unwed teenage mothers." The town citizens applaud this tax raise as one man says "All those things sound bad."
  • Family Guy returns to the original trilogy with "Something, Something, Something Dark Side".
  • In Road to Germany, when Stewie, Brian, and Mort lure a group of German soldiers into an alley, with promises of caricatures, in order to beat them up and steal their uniforms, the sounds of the scuffle are similar to a scene from Star Wars IV: A New Hope and even includes the sounds of a blaster firing.
  • In Tales of a Third Grade Nothing, Palpatine visits a big band club where Brian sings with Frank Sinatra, Jr.
  • In PTV, Stewie tries to stop Osama bin Laden from sending a hostile message to the United States. A fight scene ensues where bin Laden attacks Stewie with sword, while Stewie defends himself a rubber chicken. The fight scene is incredibly similar to Yoda and Dooku's fight in Attack of the Clones.
For external cultural references, see the Wikipedia article.

[edit] Farscape

  • In the episode "I, E.T." after Moya lands on a planets surface, John Crichton and the crew go outside and John comments that the planet looks "Kinda like Dagobah", and explains that "that's where Yoda lives". When the others ask who Yoda is, John says "Oh, just a little green guy. Trains warriors".
  • In the episode "PK Tech Girl," Aeryn Sun kills a Sheyang, with explosive results, and quips, "Sorry about the mess." The line is an allusion to Han Solo in A New Hope, although it becomes a recurring line for Aeryn throughout the series.
  • In the episode "Crackers Don't Matter," Pilot asks John about the alien they've taken on board. "Do you trust him?" John replies, "You see him? He's blind. He's got a big head, but he's blind. Barring the Yoda factor, if he gives us any trouble, we lock him up."
  • In the episode "Look at the Princess Part 2: I Do, I Think," John and Chiana do an "I love you"/"I know" exchange, but more friendly than romantic.
  • In the episode "Green Eyed Monster," the crew encounter a giant spacefaring creature. John says, "That's no moon. It's a budong!" – a reference to A New Hope.
  • In the episode "Losing Time," John is trying to communicate with the DRDs, tiny droid-like creatures that communicate with buzzes and beeps. "You understand any of this?" he asks Chiana. "No." "All right, we don't understand the R2-D2 crap," John tells the DRD. "We're gonna use the Star Trek system. One blink for yes, two blinks for no."
  • In the Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars mini-series, at one point, John refers to Scorpius as the "Dark Lord". And later John mentions the Death Star.

[edit] Firefly

  • Joss Whedon states on the Firefly DVDs that the Millennium Falcon was one of his primary inspirations for the series and that Han Solo was the inspiration for the character of Mal. On the Serenity Collector's Edition DVD documentary "A Filmmaker's Journey", actor Nathan Fillion says that when playing Mal, he tried to copy Harrison Ford's mannerisms.
  • In the DVD commentary for the episode Objects in Space, Joss Whedon stated that bounty hunter Jubal Early was inspired by/based on Boba Fett. Likewise, his spaceship was designed to resemble Slave I.
  • Several other plot points are similar to those found in Star Wars, notably the Anglo-Sino Alliance (Empire), the Independent Faction (Rebels), Blue Sun (Black Sun), and Unification War (Galactic Civil War).
  • The Starlight Intruder is seen in the background in the episode Shindig.
  • In the pilot episode of Firefly, an Imperial Shuttle can be seen flying in the background of the scene when Inara docks her shuttle with Serenity.
  • A Han Solo in Carbonite statue is visible in the engine room behind Kaylee's hammock in the episode The Message.
  • Through the run of the series there are several incidents where Mal 'shoots first', in the director's commentary Whedon claims that this is a reaction to the infamous changes made to A New Hope. Notable incidents include one in the first episode where Mal shoots a law man who is holding River Tam hostage in the head mid-sentence, and another where he kicks the right hand man of a local villain into the path of one of Serenity's engines, causing him to be sucked through it and killed.

[edit] Flight 29 Down

  • While Taylor was going through of what she describes of the main characters are good at she says to Jackson "....you're like some kind of Yoda..."

[edit] Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

  • In "Challenge of the Superfriends", Bloo gets transformed into a Darth Vader looking character and after the transformation Nemesis does a spoof of "Lord Vader" "Yes master" "Rise." Later in the same episode, Bloo tells Mac that "I am your father."
  • In one episode Bloo steals the Foster's bus in order to go through a toll road. Going through it Mac throws change to go into the toll booth, but it just hits the window, to which Bloo replies "Negative, it didn't go in. Just impacted on the surface." The line said when the first proton torpedo launched at the Death star missed.
  • In one episode a mirror reflection of Bloo says, "Run Bloo, Run," similar to a line in A New Hope when Obi-Wan says, "Run Luke, run."
  • The episode "Store Wars," the title is a play on Star Wars.
  • In "The Bloo Superdude And The Magic Potato Of Power" Bloo says "Most nicely Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of fun and frivolity." Similar to the line in A New Hope when Obi-Wan says "Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." Also in this episode Wilt is dressed like Obi-Wan.

[edit] Freakazoid!

  • In an episode where a Freakazoid fan is chasing him, they come to a convention where they encounter Mark Hamill. The fan chases Mark and tells him: "Come with me and join me", imitating Darth Vader.

[edit] Friends

[edit] Futurama

  • in the episode The birdbot of ice-catraz when Bender gets an electric shock, he beeps just like R2.
"Stop exploding, you cowards!"
  • The police carry nightsticks that are meant to look like lightsabers. While they ignite like lightsabers, and make similar noises, they are blunt weapons (like nightsticks) rather than superheated blades.
  • "When Aliens Attack" has several visual references to Star Wars during the space battle.
  • In "The Lesser of Two Evils," a movie theater in the "Past-O-Rama" is apparently showing "Star Wars 9: Yoda's Bar Mitzvah."
  • The episode "Crimes of the Hot" features a droid that looks like C-3PO. The droid offers to kiss the professor on the forehead, then the professor destroys the droid by crushing it, as the droid is being crushed, it says "Oh Dear" several times. Later in the episode, the professor says "The Jedis are going to feel this one!"
  • In "Where No Fan Has Gone Before..." when discussing the "Star Trek Wars," Zapp asks, "You mean the vast migration of Star Wars fans?" and then Nichelle Nichols answers, "No, that was the Star Wars Trek."
  • In yet another episode they are on a ship, and almost get eaten by a giant space slug while passing by an asteroid.
  • At the beginning of the episode "Brannigan, Begin Again", Fry and Bender can be seen playing Dejarik.
  • In the episode, "Raging Bender", when the crew goes to the movies, Fry suggests that they see "Galaxy Wars", an obvious reference to Star Wars.
  • The character of Elzar is a reference to Gormaanda from The Star Wars Holiday Special.
  • In the episode, "War is the H-Word", when Fry and Bender are in military training, Fry trains using a Lightsaber, using it against a training remote. When he cuts the remote in half, candy falls out of it. This clip was also featured in "The Birth of the Lightsaber" featurette on the 25 anniversary trilogy DVD.
  • In the episode, "A Clone of My Own", Professor Farnsworth is sent to a Death Star-like station called the "Near-Death Star" where he, and all elderly people, are placed in a Matrix-like virtual reality.
  • In the episode, "The Why of Fry", Fry helps the Nibblonians attack a Brainspawn space station called the Infosphere, which strongly resembles the Death Star.
  • In "30% Iron Chef", the character Spargel teaches Bender how to cook. Spargel is a parody of Yoda, and Bender's training scene is a parody Jedi training (Spargel making a potato float, and Bender using a lightsaber to peel it). Spargel also mentions the "dark side of cooking".
  • In "Where the Buggalo Roam", at one point, the Martians take out Bow and Arrows, and the arrows look like lightsaber blades (with similar sound effects).
  • In "The Sting", When Hermes sees that Leela is awake, he exclaims, "Sweet Three-toed Sloth of Ice Planet Hoth! She's awake!".
  • In "Futurama: Bender's Big Score" several different Star Wars vehicles appear, including a TIE/ln starfighter modified to be smaller and to bear the Star of David, a fleet of over a dozen solid, gold-plated Death Stars that have a disproportionate "Achilles' exhaust shaft" and whose beams are composed of three purple tributary beams (the Death Star's armor is incredibly weak and highly susceptible to laser fire).
  • In "Futurama: Bender's Game" the famous "I am your father" scene is acted out in reverse between Greyfarn (Professor Farnsworth) and Ignus (Igner).
  • In "Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder" The Feministas use a lightsaber-like device to cut a hole to get into the Planet Express Ship. Also The League of Mad Fellows and the Dark One's abilities are similar to a Jedi/Sith's force powers, for example, when the Dark One kills Frida Waterfall, it is similar to Force Choking; both the Dark One and the League of Mad Fellows can read minds, like most force-sensitive beings; and The Dark One can persuade people to do things, such as Leo Wong, which is similar to Force Persuasion.

[edit] Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda

  • In the episode "Chaos and the Stillness of It", the androids Rommie (Lexa Doig) and Doyle (Brandy Ledford) encounter enemies onboard the Andromeda Ascendant. Attempting to stop them, Rommie waves her hand and says "these are not the droids you're looking for." When asked later by Doyle what she did, Rommie replies "I don't know, but it didn't work."
  • The show features a weapon called a Force Lance, which resembles a lightsaber hilt.

[edit] Glenn Beck

On the July 16th, 2007 airing of Glenn Beck, during a discussion about bringing religion toys to Wal-Mart stores, Glenn asks an interviewee whether his kid would rather play with Darth Vader or David and Goliath.

[edit] Good Eats

Alton Brown discusses how to properly cook a turkey in one hour with a Wookiee in a 2006 episode.

  • In one episode, while discussing cutting boards, Brown rebers to glass cutting boards as "Dark Lord of the Sith of cutting boards".

[edit] Green Cross Code Public Information Film

  • A 1982 Green Cross Code PIF featured a Green Cross Code "droid" aiding a pair of schoolchildren in crossing the road. (This may have been inspired by the fact that the Green Cross Code Man in other commercials was played by David Prowse.)

[edit] Green Wing

[edit] Grey's Anatomy

  • In the "Freedom" episode, a young man encased in concrete tells Doctor Miranda Bailey that he feels like Han Solo encased in carbonite. She surprisingly reveals her extensive knowledge of Star Wars when she tells him: "You need to be proud of the whole picture. Han Solo is not a loser. Yes he got encased in carbonite, but that’s not what he's remembered for. He's remembered as the guy who made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. And who braved the subzero temperatures of the ice planet Hoth in order to save someone he cared about from the big ugly Wampa. He is remembered as the guy who swooped down at the last minute and blasted Darth Vader out of the sky so that Luke could use the Force and destroy the damn Death Star. Princess Leia saved him from the carbonite. And they fell in love, and they saved the universe, and had twin Jedi babies that went on to save the universe again. That's the whole picture. The carbonite was just a piece." When she is done talking, the surgeons stare at her in surprise, and she asks them if there is anything wrong with her being interested in science fiction. They all quickly say "no" and return to their work.

[edit] Hallmark Gold Crown Commercial

  • In this commercial, a lady wants to say something to a man at a dinner table but cannot. She then tells him that someone else might be able to say it better. Chewbacca appears at the table and roars, while the man opens a Star Wars themed electronic card.

[edit] Hannah Montana

  • An episode features a potato chip shaped like Darth Vader's helmet.
  • An episode features a "Use your Jedi powers" mention.
  • An episode features a stuffed moose, dressed up like luke sywalker and a guy dressed up like a moose says "Moose Skywalker,may the forest be with you"
  • The episode where she has to decide between Jake and this other guy. Lilly askes Miley if she and Jake have codenames for each other and Miley says "It's Anakin and Queen Amidala"
  • In the episode featuring the Jonas Brothers, Miley says "It's the Return of the Joni," in reference to Return of the Jedi.
  • On the episode "O Say can you remember the words?", Robby Ray says, "I clocked him 58 miles per hour on [Jacksons] roller skates, in a Yoda costume".

[edit] Heroes

  • In the Season 1 Finale, Ando and Hiro Nakamura (played by Masi Oka) talk about Hiro's love for Star Wars, Star Trek, and other science fiction before leaving to finish his mission. Hiro also seems to wield his sword like a lightsaber.
  • Masi Oka also worked on the Star Wars prequels before being cast in this role.
  • Sylar (Zach Quinto) uses his telekinesis in a manner similar to Force grip and other Force powers.
  • While not a reference, Claire's brother (a minor character) bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Luke Skywalker.
  • In Episode 3 of Season 2, an amnesiac Peter Petrelli utilizes a power not unlike Force Choke on an Irish thief, holding the victim aloft against the wall/ceiling before setting him free after nearly choking the life out of him, giving him a taste of what could be considered the dark side of the Force.
  • In "Angels and Monsters", Hiro compares The Angry Skunk Bar to the cantina.

[edit] Highway to Heaven

In "One Winged Angels", Mark reminds Jonathan that God could have made all humans emotionless "R2-D2s", but didn't.

[edit] Home Improvement

In one episode, Tim Taylor says of an old torque wrench that was handed down from generation to generation, "It's the Yoda of my tool bench."

[edit] Honda Ridgeline Commercial

One variant of a 2007 Honda Ridgeline commercial shows a man at a dinner table cutting a turkey with essentially a small blue lightsaber acting as a knife.

[edit] House

  • In the episode Cane and Able, a patient believes they have been visited by aliens. When dealing with this case, Gregory House sarcastically mentions Tatooine and the hyperdrive.
  • In the episode Que Será Será, a morbidly obese man is being treated, and House refers to him as Jabba, a reference to Jabba the Hutt.

[edit] House of Mouse

  • In the segment "How to be Groovy, Cool and Fly", Goofy is taught about the various fashions of the past five decades. When it reaches the second of half of the 70's section, it focuses on sci-fi epics, with Goofy entering the scene in a Princess Leia getup, complete with buns. Right after Goofy utters "I have a bad feeling about this!", a green bladed lightsaber pops into his hand. As Goofy activates it and swings it around, he cuts off the scenery causing it to fall on him, along with a black spotlight on his head. As he tries to get the light off, he breaths a la Darth Vader.

[edit] How I Met Your Mother

  • In the episode "Slutty Pumpkin", Ted (Josh Radnor) mentions that he's met a woman who loves Star Wars. When asked by Marshall (Jason Segel) about the woman's take on Ewoks, Ted responds "loves them." The two then launch into a debate about the merit of the Ewoks' role in the Battle of Endor, a common argument among Star Wars fans.
  • In the episode "Drumroll, Please", Ted meets a woman named Victoria (Ashley Williams) at a wedding. The two suggest that they use false name in order to prevent each other from finding out more about them. Ted picks Lando Calrissian as his fake name.
  • In the episode "Mary the Paralegal" Ted takes Mary (Erinn Bartlett) to a date to an awards show. During the date, Mary comments on Sandy Rivers (Alexis Denisof) hair, saying that she wonders if he puts it on in the same way that Darth Vader put his helmet on in The Empire Strikes Back. Ted responds that he can't believe that she commented on someone he hated by referencing something he loved.
  • In the episode "World's Greatest Couple", we see among the personal effects of Barney's home a mannequin dressed in Phase II clone trooper armor, bearing the markings of the 501st Legion. When Lily points out that if Barney's other quirks don't drive away women, "there's always your life-size Storm Trooper" to which he responds "No, that's just awesome!"
  • In the 4th season premiere "Do I Know You?," Ted has his new fiancée, Stella, watch Star Wars for the first time because it is important for him that she likes his favorite movie. ALthough she tells him she loved it, she confesses to Marshall that she did not like it.
  • In the episode "Three Days of Snow" Barney & Ted meet two coeds from Arizona Tech and the brunette comments that the weather reminds her of Hoth. Ted immediately calls dibs on on her.
  • In the episode "How I Met Everyone Else", Barney compared himself to Yoda, though stating that "instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro'. I'm Bro-da."
  • In the episode "The Rough Patch," one of the four biggest arguments between Barney and Robin revolves around the issue of whether or not Stormtroopers are cool.

[edit] I Bet You

  • In the episode "Surfing" a surfboard instructor tells one of the hosts to surf like a Jedi Master.

[edit] iCarly

  • In one episode, Freddy and Spencer are fencing. Freddy wins and Spencer responds, "Okay kid, don't get cocky...."
  • In the TV Movie iGo to Japan, Sam is hungry and Carly listens to her stomach and says it sounds like Chewbacca.
  • In another episode, Sam and Freddie are calling someone and Freddie has to make his voice sound like Spencer but his voice goes too deep and Sam says, "You are supposed to be Spencer, not Darth Vader!"
  • In the show there is a film series called Galaxy Wars a parody of Star Wars.
  • In the episode iRue The Day,Spencer buys a prop from Galaxy Wars which the cockpit

resembles a Y-wing's and the wings resembles a X-wing's.

  • Though the show has the film series Galaxy Wars,there are direct parodies of Star Wars.

[edit] Jay and Silent Bob's MTV Spots

  • In one of the Jay and Silent Bob spots for MTV, Jay and Silent Bob get thrown out of a comic book store and are called "a pair of scruffy looking nerfer-herders" and "laserbrains" by the owners.

[edit] Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

A broken C-3PO look-alike.
Jayce holds a lightsaber.
  • In the episode "The Vase of Xiang", a broken droid which looks like C-3PO can be seen lying on a scrap heap in the market place on Igzas.
  • In the episode "The Hunt", the hero, Jayce, uses a weapon that is reminiscent of a lightsaber with a cruciform hilt. Lightsabers also appeared in Ulysses 31, another Jean Chalopin show.
  • The character of Herc Stormsailor is clearly modeled on Han Solo. Both are freighter captains who only get involved because of money, but later come to care about the cause they're fighting for. Even their ships, though different in appearance, are similar in that both the Millennium Falcon and the Pride of the Skies have a habit of breaking down at the worst times.
  • In the episode "Underwater, Underpaid", Flora and Herc have a conversation which is reminiscent of the one between Leia Organa and Han Solo in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back:
Flora: "I'm not talking to you."
Herc Stormsailor: "And why not?"
Flora: "Because you're mean, impatient, selfish and scruffy."
Herc Stormsailor: "Who are you calling scruffy?"

[edit] Jeopardy!

In honor of the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, the May 29, 2007 episode of the show had a special Star Wars-themed category of answers. In preparation for the episode, the Jeopardy! "Clue Crew" were allowed access to the Lucasfilm Archives at Skywalker Ranch and had access to unrevealed materials that formed the basis of their answers.[1]

[edit] Jimmy Neutron

  • In the show, a Wheel Bike vehicle is used by Jimmy, but the wheel bike in Star Wars was created after the one in Jimmy Neutron.
  • A bizarre version of a lightsaber is seen with a slit like medieval swords.
  • In a short scene, Jimmy says "speak" to his dog, and the dogs answers, "Luke, I am your father" in a Darth Vader voice.
  • In one episode, Jimmy's dad is explaining to him he must pick up his pants. His dad says, "Luke Skywalker picked up his pants. The Force was definitely with that guy's pants."In that same episode Jimmy installs a microchip in his pants so they put themselves away and the microchip malfunctions. When his teacher notices his odd dancing movements because of his malfunctioning pants Jimmy tells her, "Umm, I sense a disturbance in my pants."
  • In the episode "Incredible Shrinking Town", Sheen says to the aliens that they are not the kids they're looking for and to move along.
  • Also in the episode "Incredible Shrinking Town", on the aliens' "swim suit magazine" the writing on the cover uses entirely Aurebesh characters.
  • In the episode "League of Villains", one of the LoV members suggested that Jimmy should be frozen in carbonite.
  • There's a whole episode that takes part after the film, called "The Eggpire Strikes Back"

[edit] John Ritter - Of Sound Mind & Body (1980)

"John Rittr, playing a movie theater manager, says "May the Force be with me! Die, Lord Vader!", and then acts out lightsaber pantomime with humming sounds.

[edit] Justice League

  • In the episode "Hearts and Minds", after Green Lantern John Stewart loses the ability to use his Power ring, Katma Tui teaches him how to use it again, at one point she says "You must relearn what you have learned" (similar to Yoda's "You must unlearn what you have learned"), in response, John says "Now you sound like Yoda". Also, in this episode, Katma wears a metal bikini (which she referred to as a brass bikini) very similar to the Slave Leia costume.
  • The episode "Secret Society" briefly features a bar named "Obie's". This may be a reference to Obi-Wan.
  • In the episode "Starcrossed", the Thanagarians can be seen using holograms very similar in appearance to Star Wars holograms (with the flickering, monochrome appearance).
  • Similar holograms can be seen being used on Apokolips in the episode "Twilight".

[edit] Justice League Unlimited

  • In the episode "The Once and Future Thing: Part 2" members of the League fight opponents that wield weapons very similar to Double-bladed lightsabers and Lightwhips.
  • The episode "Far From Home" briefly features a holocron-like device.

[edit] Juuken Sentai Gekiranger

  • Gekiranger Gou Fukami is similar to Mace Windu in a number of ways. While Mace uses a purple Lightsaber, Gou transforms into a violet colored ranger. In addition Gou practices a fighting style that frequently forces him to fight fiercer and evil, similar to Mace and Vaapad.

[edit] Kappa Mikey

  • In one episode, a cutaway shows Guano in a Stormtrooper suit, and in the trash compacter, in a reference to A New Hope.

[edit] King of the Hill

  • In the episode "Mutual of OmAbwah", Bobby and Jospeh pretend to be Yoda (Bobby) & Master Jospeh who has a green lightsaber, They are in the clone wars and have to get to the garage door before it closes, Bobby dosn't make it and breaks the door.

[edit] Kojak

[edit] Late Night with Conan O'Brien

George Lucas appeared as a guest on the talk show on May 1, 2007. Among other Star Wars references, Lucas, when asked Admiral Motti's full name, responded "Conan Antonio Motti."[2]

On July 19, 2007, Jar Jar Binks was referenced during a "preview" of Goya's Ghosts, starring Natalie Portman.

[edit] LEXX: The Series

  • In the episode "Woz", the crew of the LEXX encounter The Dark Lady (Lenore Zann), whose costume appears to be based on that worn by Lumiya.

[edit] Legion of Super-Heroes

  • In the episode "Brain Drain", when Brainiac 5 explains the Coluan alignment process, he orders Computo to display "video file TK-421", a reference to the stormtrooper with the same codename.

[edit] Life on Mars

  • In one episode Sam Tyler gives a false name, Luke Skywalker, as his identity.

[edit] Little Britain

  • When Jeremy Rent offers Dennis Waterman the role of "Obi-Wan's cousin Kenneth" in the new Star Wars film, Waterman states that he has never heard of Star Wars, although he is very familiar with Howard the Duck.
  • In Little Britain Live, Linda Flint calls a female student with extremely hairy armpits "Chewbacca". Linda then goes on to impersonate a Wookiee growl.
  • During the second episode of series 2, Linda Flint greets a student with black T-shirt depicting two TIE fighters.
  • In the second episode of the third season Don orders a Vindaloo and in the following stream of phrases shouts Vader's: You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor!
  • In the fourth episode of the third season Marjorie proposes Jabba as a name for a child, whom she thinks will be fat once born.

[edit] Loonatics Unleashed

  • In "The Heir Up There" the Royal Tweetums says "I'm three and a half parsecs old"
  • Sylth Vester's armour, scars, helmet, disfigured face (though back was only seen), and that he is not entirely evil is very much like Darth Vader.
  • Queen Grannicus's personality is actually like Darth Sidious.

[edit] LOST

[edit] Season 1

  • Confidence Man
    • Hurley calls Jack's calming of a hyperventilating asthma patient "a Jedi moment".
  • Exodus
    • As final preparations are being made on the raft, a frustrated Michael corrects Jin, exclaiming "this one goes there, that one goes there!"
    • This is the first episode that Sawyer is heard calling Jin "Chewie".

[edit] Season 2

  • Orientation
    • When Jin, Michael and Sawyer are stuck in a pit, Sawyer asks Jin: "Help me up Chewie!" Sawyer refers to Jin as "Chewie" several other times throughout the series, making light of his inability to understand English.
  • Fire + Water & Dave
  • One of Sawyer's many nicknames for Hurley is "Jabba" because of his obesity. In the episode Dave, Hurley beats up Sawyer while repeating all of the nicknames he received from Sawyer, including "Jabba".
  • Hurley's imaginary friend Dave asks him, "What, do you think they really blew up the Death Star?", implying that the polaroid taken of him is a special effect.

[edit] Season 3

  • Not In Portland
    • When Alex, Kate, and Sawyer travel to the prison camp where Carl is being held, Alex ties Sawyer's and Kate's hands loosely with rope. She takes them up to the prison guard outside the prison and claims she's captured the escaped prisoners. Sawyer then breaks loose from the rope and knocks the guard down and says "Don't get mad at me because you were dumb enough to fall for the old Wookiee prisoner gag."
  • The Brig
    • When Sawyer is in the brig with Locke's father, he asks him if he's ever been to Jasper, Alabama. Cooper replies: "Don't tell me I'm your daddy" than Sawyer says: "No. You killed my daddy".
    • Sawyer strangles Anthony Cooper with a chain, the same way Princess Leia kills Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi.

[edit] Season 4

[edit] Season 5

  • Some Like It Hoth
    • The episode name is a direct reference to Hoth.
    • In 1977 Miles and Hurley, who time-travelled to there from 2004 and 2007 respectively, are discussing Miles' relationships with his father. Miles notices that Hurley is writing something in his notebook and discovers that it is the script of The Empire Strikes Back, which Hurley saw "like, 200 times": "Exterior--Hoth. A little spy robot thingy zips through the atmosphere and crashes into the snowy planet below. That's when Chewbacca shows up and blasts it away with his crossbow laser. He shakes his fury fist in the sky in triumph. Chewbacca--Raaar." Hurley plans to finish the script and to send it to George Lucas with a few "improvements". Later, referring to Miles being unwilling to talk to his father, he says: "In Empire, Luke found out Vader was his father, but instead of putting away his lightsaber and talking about it, he overreacted and got his hand cut off. I mean, they worked it out eventually, but at what cost? Another Death Star was destroyed, Boba Fett got eaten by the Sarlacc, and we got the Ewoks. It all could've been avoided if they'd just, you know, communicated. And let's face it. The Ewoks sucked, dude."[1]

[edit] Love, Inc.

  • In the episode "Bosom Buddies," Denise refers to her boyfriend Greg's way of ending a conversation as a "Jedi mind trick."

[edit] MadTV

  • In a two-part skit featuring Ms. Swan, Mark Hamill cameos as her crime-boss father. As he tries to convince her to join the family so he could profit from her beauty salon, she grabs a lightsaber and pokes him with it. He slaps it away with his hand and forces her off a balcony. He then quotes the famous, "Join me.." line and the "I am your father" line, before Ms. Swan falls off the balcony.
  • One skit involved a parodied Jane pauley from Dateline visiting George Lucas at Skywalker Ranch to see behind the scenes of works in progress. The skit involves visiting areas around the tiny ranch, including meeting with a proposed new character called 'Jar Jar Mimah' in reference to the criticism tha Jar Jar Binks was a racial stereotype of African Americans.

[edit] Married... with Children

  • In the episode "Married... With Aliens" involving Al seeing aliens, Kelly tells him he got a phone call from the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot wondering if he could make poker at Darth Vader's house (and the Klingons were also invited). At the end of the episode, a scroll not unlike Star Wars' plays, announcing how Al Bundy saved Earth and 100 planets from destruction by a comet as his socks were used as fuel for the alien ships to push the comet away.

[edit] Men in Black: The Series

  • In episode 2, K pulls a lightsaber like device from a weapons locker.

[edit] The Mighty Boosh

[edit] Mind of Mencia

  • Carlos Mencia, playing the role of an Indian running a 7-11 in a skit, refers to a man purchasing cigarettes and speaking with a vocalizer as "Death Vader".

[edit] Monster Garage

  • In the episode where the crew attempts to cross a De Lorean DMC-12 with a hovercraft, one of the crew members puts a rubber mat on his head, upon which another mechanic comments "You look like an Ewok!"

[edit] Moonlighting

  • In Season 2, Episode 22 (Funeral For a Door Nail), David Addison and the corrupted lawyer that's bent on escaping fight with two brooms like lightsabers (the brooms are even colored red and blue) and the Star Wars main theme plays during the fight.

[edit] Muppet Babies

[edit] Season 1

  • Gonzo's Video Show
    • The kids borrow Nanny's video camera and make a parody of Star Wars.

[edit] Various

  • The opening scenes of the show depict the Millennium Falcon flying in space.
  • Nanny go on vacations, but the kids are worried about the substitute. Gonzo imagines that the new Nanny will be Darth Vader (who is wearing Nanny's stripped socks). He teach them about lightsabers.
  • One episode parodies Star Wars, among several other famous science fiction franchises—including Star Trek, Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future.

[edit] The Muppet Show

Gonzo the Great as Dearth Nadir
  • In 1979, a "Pigs in Space" sketch featured a villain called "Dearth Nadir," who was described in menacing tones by the narrator as he approached facing the camera. When the the narrator asked, rhetorically, what his true identity was, Nadir turned his head, revealing a large curved nose in his helmet, identifying him as Gonzo the Great. "The world will never know!" he shouted.
  • Mark Hamill was featured as the guest star in 1980 soon after The Empire Strikes Back's release. Along with R2-D2 and C-3PO, they were searching for Chewbacca, who was "held prisoner by a bunch of weird turkeys." They hijacked the cast of the skit the Pigs in Space to "borrow" the ship for the search. "Dearth Nadir" reappears as a villain in this episode.

[edit] My Wife and Kids

  • In the episode "Snapping and Sniffing", Janet calls Michael "Obi-Wan Kabaldi" after he holds an exaggerated speech about standing up for his family.

[edit] Mystery Science Theater 3000

A model Millennium Falcon can be seen behind Joel Robinson and Crow during the episode Lost Continent
  • The set for the early seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured hundreds of complicated "sciencey" objects glued onto the walls and spray-painted a monolithic gray to give the Satellite of Love a mock-futuristic feel. Among the objects was a genuine Kenner model of the Millennium Falcon. Ordinarily, these objects were too small to be identified on video, but the Falcon would occasionally appear prominently in a close-up shot. The Millennium Falcon can be seen as well in later seasons, as can a plastic cutout of Darth Vader's head.
  • In episode K12, Fugitive Alien, Tom Servo says "Hey, aren't those X-wing fighters from Star Wars?" upon seeing two X-wing-like spaceships.
  • In episode 104, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Servo and Joel brainstorm what the spaceship looks like. Eventually, Servo says, "It's any piece of alternative reality we choose it to be." Joel replies, "That's no alternative piece of reality. That's a battle station!" paraphrasing the "That's no moon" dialogue from A New Hope.
  • In episode 110, Robot Holocaust, Joel reacts to Torque lifting a rebel by the throat by saying "I saw Darth Vader do that once." Later, as Klyton the effeminate 'freebot' is attacking a guard robot, Crow shouts, "That's for R2-D2! That's for C-3PO! That's for Julie Newmar! And that's just cause I wanna!"
  • In episode 204, Catalina Caper, the robots are saying their prayers. "And God bless Data and his really cool robot named Lal," says Tom Servo. "And R2-D2 and all the extras in Westworld," adds Crow.
  • In episode 302, Gamera, Crow mocks the strange bond between the giant monster Gamera and the little boy "Kenny." During a close-up of Gamera, Crow does a James Earl Jones voice and intones, "Kenny, join me, and together we will rule the univ – oh." Servo asks, "Darth Turtle?"
  • In episode 303, Pod People, there is a shot of a small glowing cave that rather resembles Yoda's hut. Tom Servo begins impersonating Yoda. "Luke! Use the Force! Finish your training you will!" Later in the film, Trumpy is frightened by a toy robot and causes it to spark. Joel observes "carbon scoring all over my droid."
  • In Episode 318, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, the episode opens with Tom Servo and Crow engaging in an "ontological discussion about the nature of puppets" and their "symbiotic relationship to man." After touching on Big Bird and H.R. Pufnstuf, the conversation turns on the definition of "puppet" and how it differs from a costume.
Tom Servo: "Remember the puppet paradigm. Feet plus inarticulated mouth means costume!"
Crow: "What about Yoda?"
Tom Servo: "Well, Yoda was a humanly articulated floating armature creature used in combination with radio contorted servos and air bladders, uh..."
Crow: "What about it? Puppet or costume, Tom? Come on!"
―Tom Servo and Crow arguing[src]
  • Tom then admits he doesn't know how to classify Yoda. The end of the movie features a long sequence that can be described as either an homage or blatant theft of the trench run from Star Wars. Joel innocently asks "Where have I seen this before?" to which Servo responds, "Oh, I don’t know. Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?"
  • In episode 408, Hercules Unchained, Joel says, "You know, this kind of reminds me of The Empire Strikes Back, except it's not very good."
  • In episode 410, Hercules Against the Moon Men, as soldiers march through a barren desert region, Crow paraphrases C-3PO's monologue from the early scenes of A New Hope—"Not that way, Artoo. You'll be breaking down in no time"—while Servo whistles in a passable imitation of R2-D2.
  • In episode 412, Hercules and the Captive Women, Joel spots an odd-shaped chandelier in the background. "Hey, look behind him. There's the Millennium Falcon."
  • In episode 414, Tormented, the ghost of Vi stands shouting Tom Stewart's name while he sleeps. Joel says, "Help me, Obi-Wan. You're my last hope." At the end of the episode, Joel and the bots try to cheer themselves up with happy thoughts, and one of Tom Servo's happy thoughts is "And we all get to go to the Valley High Drive in our pajamas and watch the Star Wars triple feature dusk to dawn!"
  • In episode 418, Attack of the Eye Creatures, a spaceship blows up, followed by a rapid jump-cut to a policeman in an entirely different location saying "What the—" The movie never specifies how the policeman knew about the explosion. Crow reacts by saying "There's a great disturbance in the Force."
  • In episode 420, The Human Duplicators, the bots discuss the revelation that Dr. Kolos (Richard Kiel), creator of the androids, was an android himself. "I thought it was really great that Richard Kiel finally came out in the end and confessed that he was indeed an android," says Joel. "I mean, it's not like we didn't know it all along..." This prompts a discussion of other famous robots "coming out."
Crow: "Have you seen this week’s issue of Robot Nation, hmm?"
Servo: "Aha. You know, I always had a hunch about him."
Crow: "Yep. Look at that. Every one of 'em. Twiki, the girl from Small Wonder, Robbie the Robot, Al Gore..."
Servo: "You know, I hear that having dinner with R2-D2 is just like admitting it."
―Crow and Tom Servo[src]
  • In episode 513, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, during a shot of an artificial respirator, Mike does a Darth Vader impersonation: "Luke, join me or you'll star in Corvette Summer." Corvette Summer was the movie Mark Hamill starred in immediately after the original Star Wars, and is often regarded as not very good.
  • In episode 516, Alien from L.A., Crow makes the snap-hiss-sizzle sound of a lightsaber when Professor Arnold Saknussemm turns on his flashlight in a dark tomb.
  • In episode 519, Outlaw, Crow refers to the "hunter" hired to track down Cabot as "Boba Fett."
  • In episode 601, Girls Town, Mike describes Fred (Mel Tormé) as "like a youthful Jabba the Hutt."
  • In episode 604, Zombie Nightmare, Gypsy's poem to Adam West begins, "I used to like you when you were a Caped Crusader / Way more than even Darth Vader."
  • In episode 611, Last of the Wild Horses, Dr. Forrester, returning from an alternate dimension, says, "It's as if all my intestines cried out at once and were suddenly silenced."
    A perfectly innocent (and unofficial) Star Wars sign about to be blown up in Laserblast
  • In episode 706, Laserblast, Billy Duncan passes a Star Wars billboard and blasts it with his laser. "So there's just a sign that says 'Star Wars'?" asks Mike. "Reminding one of the movie Star Wars," Servo answers. The billboard does not show any of the actual promotional Star Wars posters, merely the words. (Laserblast was released in 1978, the year after Star Wars.) After the sign explodes, Crow complains, "I hadn't finished reading that." Later, during another Billy Duncan laser-blasting spree, Crow says, "Mark Hamill in Falling Down."
  • In episode 804, The Deadly Mantis, Crow says, "It was as though millions of monkeys cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
  • In episode 806, The Undead, the witch Livia conjures a vision in a glass, which appears as a ghostly apparition of the maiden Helene. As it appears, Crow says, "Help me, Obi-Wan Ke – oh, different movie."
  • In episode 809, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Crow refers to Arlene's father as "Jabba the Husband." Later, as the werewolf peeks from behind a tree, Servo narrates, "1943: An Ewok makes it behind German lines."
  • In episode 813, Jack Frost, a Russo-Finnish co-production, the hero Ivan briefly sees a vision of the heroine Nastinka, prompting Crow to say, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenoboski."
  • In episode 821, Time Chasers, as the "hero" Nick Miller gets stuck in a tree, Servo says, "Maybe he'll be torn apart by Ewoks."
  • In episode 907, Hobgoblins, a dull scene with security guard McCreedy and his trainee Dennis has dragged on for a while when Servo exclaims, "Okay, so what, now he becomes a Jedi knight? Why am I sitting here?"
  • In episode 910, The Final Sacrifice, Mike describes the movie's antagonist Satoris as "Canadian Villain: Garth Vader." At the end of the movie, The Lost City of Ziox rises. During one shot, it is seen in silhouette, and the main central temple rather resembles Darth Vader. Tom Servo does his Vader impression: "Luke, it is your destiny." He then does two cycles of Vader-breathing.
  • In episode 913, Quest of the Delta Knights, the heroes are chased through a tree-village. One of the men shouts out, "I'm coming!" in a high-pitched voice. Mike asks, "So the Ewoks grew up to be big, stupid men?"
  • In episode 1010, It Lives by Night, Servo says, "Could this be my Yoda-like mentor?" when characters stumble upon an old drunk in a barn.

[edit] MythBusters

[edit] National Geographic Presents

  • In the episode "Tornado Intercept", the lead storm chaser sits on top of his tornado-proof vehicle, earlier stated as being inspired by the vehicles of Star Wars, wearing the Darth Vader Voice Changer, and screaming, "Nooooooooo", after several weeks without luck finding tornadoes.

[edit] NCIS

  • In the season 3 episode "The Voyeur's Web", Finch, the suspect of the episode, has an extensive Star Wars collection that he later attempts to sell on eBay.
  • In the season 5 episode "Dog Tags", Agent DiNozzo calls Agent McGee "Probie-Wan Kenobi".

[edit] Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

  • In the episode "Lockers", Coach Dirga says to Cookie, "I don't care if your locker is on the ice planet of Hoth."
  • In the episode "Dodgeball", Cookie gets a tape recording helmet, which is similar to Darth Vader's helmet, and turns to the "dark side" and elimates all of Ned's friends.
  • In the same episode, there is a ball that Moze uses which is called the "Force". She also hears the words, when she joins back in the game "use the Force, Moze".
  • In the episode "Bad Habits", Ned screams "No!!" just like Darth Vader.
  • In one episode, Moze says "C'mon, R2" to Cookie, referring to his need and love for technology.
  • In one episode Ned refers to Martin as Dork Vader.

[edit] The New Batman Adventures

  • In the episode, "Mad Love," the Joker voiced by Mark Hamill impersonates a dentist when Commissioner Gordon goes to a dental appointment. Batman comes to the commisioner's aid, at which point the Joker tosses a grenade into the commissioners lap and says "May the floss be with you," before fleeing.

[edit] NewsRadio

  • In the episode "Space," a standalone episode based in a nonspecific future time, Catherine Duke reads a news item about the attack on the Death Star:

"Tragedy struck today in Sector 9 as rebel terrorists blew up the Death Star killing thousands. The Rebel Alliance, a fringe group of Anti-Empire fanatics, has claimed responsibility for the terrorist act. Fortunately Lord Vader escaped without harm. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims."

[edit] Nip/Tuck

  • In season 4, episode 3 "Monica Wilder", when Christian Troy sees himself naked in a youtube video, he angrily states "I look like Jabba the Hutt!"
  • In season 5, at the beginning of episode 2 "Joyce & Sharon Monroe", Joyce Monroe explains her work on the Walk of Fame "I am working for tips. I made more than even Chewbacca and Superman!" Later that episode, Sharon Monroe states "But McNamara/Troy did her boobies, Chewbacca told me so!"


[edit] The Office

  • In "The Fire", Michael insists on calling himself a mix of Mr. Myogi and Yoda. He later tries to imitate Yoda, which Ryan mistakes for Fozzy Bear.
  • In "Halloween", Dwight dresses up as a Sith Lord, and acts as such dispite being mistaken as a monk.
  • In "The Negotiation", Dwight rejects a beer from Jim, stating that Han Solo didn't save Luke from the TIE Fighters for a free beer.
  • In "Business Ethics", to annoy Dwight, Jim claims that Battlestar Galactica has strange creatures such as Wookiees.


[edit] Orange commercial

  • Darth Vader and two stormtroopers enter a room with five movie producers. Vader proposes his new idea for a three-hour movie about Vader and the dark side. Then one producer asks: "What made you think that people would be interested in that?"
    Vader:"Search your feelings"
    Producer #1:"Well, my feelings are that I already have Episode III to promote and I can't use two dark movies. The numbers just don't work."
    Vader (uses Mind Trick on one of the producers):"This is the perfect project for you"
    Producer #2: "This is the perfect project for us"
    Producer #1 slaps Producer #2 and #2 says: "Sorry, master."
    Producer #1: "Your Jedi mind tricks won't work on me. Around here, I am the emperor, this is my Galaxy and in my galaxy I need product.
    Vader:     "The Force is strong here".
    Producer #3:     "No, the phone is strong here"
    Producer #1 (simulates Vader's low voice with his hands):     "Never underestimate the power of the Orange side. Why don't you join us?"
    Producer #4:    "We can combine forces to bring order to the industry"
    Producer #1 mumbles the Imperial March.
    Vader:    "Join you?! Never!" and now all the producers join Producer #1's Imperial March.
    Producer #1: "Bye, bye, bye Darth Vader" (on the beat of the Imperial March).

[edit] The O.C.

  • The character of Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) is a fan of the films, and mentions them many times during the series.
  • The theatrical trailer for Episode III premiered during the March 10, 2005 episode, with an introduction by Adam Brody. The episode included several references to Star Wars, all written in for Fox's Star Wars celebration.
  • George Lucas appeared as himself in the episode "The O.Sea", doing so at the request of his daughters, who were fans of the show.
  • The day the Star Wars: Episode III video game came out Seth and Ryan play it.

[edit] Peep Show

  • 1.1: Jeremy likens his toaster to the trash compactor in A New Hope: "That's like the crusher in Star Wars…but, red hot".
  • 1.3: Mark cites "can you feel the Force?" as a rhetorical question while trying to explain the concept to Jeremy.
  • 2.1: Mark thinks, "If you ask me Skywalker was bloody lucky turning off his guidance system", referring to the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope.

[edit] Phineas and Ferb

"Just like beggar's canyon back home."
  • In the episode "Out to Launch" while navigating an asteroid field, Phineas says, "Just like Beggar's Canyon back home." In the same episode, Agent P is captured by Dr. Doofenschmirtz and frozen in ice, much like Han Solo in carbonite. The giant hand space station is also a reference to the Death Star.
  • In "Attack of the 50 Foot Sister!," Baljeet appears to Phineas and Ferb in a hologram, and ends his talk with them by saying Help me, Phineas and Ferb; you're my only hope, an obvious reference to A New Hope.
  • In "Backyard Aquarium," Doofenshmirtz pretends to use the force on Agent P and says "Just kidding. But I made you look, didn't I?" As well as that, their entire fight is a reference to lightsaber duels, especially Yoda's and Dooku's in Episode II.
  • In "Perry Lays an Egg," the boys fly a Landspeeder to carry all the baby supplies.
  • In "The Chronicles of Meap," Star Wars is referenced an obscene amount of times.
    • Mitch tells Meap "I am not your father," clearly referencing Episode V's iconic line.
    • Ferb says "That's no cloud; that's a space station," referencing the similar line in A New Hope.
    • Phineas responds to the preceding line by saying "I've got a good feeling about this."
    • Throughout the episode, Phineas refers to a "cute interference," referencing a scene in Episode V.
    • Isabella says "I'm endangering the mission; I shouldn't have come!" quoting the same line spoken by Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi.
  • In "At The Car Wash," Candace comes out of the car wash with the same "doughnut hairstyle" as Princess Leia.

[edit] The PJs

  • In one episode, Tusken Raiders are parodied via sewer people, and even when described are stated as being extremely skittish and yet would return in greater numbers.
  • In one episode Thurgood prevents his wife from giving away his first Star War's book, claiming it was signed by Chewbacca with his signature growl.

[edit] The Powerpuff Girls

  • In the episode "Boogie Frights", when the Girls went to destroy the Giant Ball of Discotheque, it is like the battle in the Death Star in A New Hope.
  • In the episode with the girls' birthday, one of the guests is princess Leia in her Episode IV clothing and haircut.

[edit] Power Rangers: S.P.D.

  • In the episode "Wired Part II", whenever parts of the scene were shot from a first-person view of the cyborg Sophie, Aurebesh characters could be seen scrolling down the left side of the screen. Aurebesh characters could also be seen when there was a close-up shot of Sophie's eyes.

[edit] Primeval

  • In first episode, a boy wields a role-play Darth Vader lightsaber against an attacking prehistoric creature.
  • In second episode, a character makes reference to a first edition The Empire Strikes Back poster signed by "Luke Skywalker" and David Prowse.
  • In the sixth episode Conner compares himself to "Han Solo" but Nick Cutter remarks that he was more like "R2D2"

[edit] Prison Break

  • In the season 4 episode "The Mother Lode", Michael tells Sara that on his sixth birthday, he was expecting to get the Millenium Falcon as his gift, but instead got a birdhouse kit, which was packed in a similarly sized box.

[edit] Quantum Leap

  • In the season 2 episode "Jimmy", Sam recites the beginning of the opening crawl of A New Hope.

[edit] ReBoot

  • In "The Tearing", while in a flight simulator game, Bob orders his suadron mates to proceed at "proceed heading 1138." The line is said once again, by a CPU pilot, in the episode "To Mend and Defend."
  • The episodes "The Episode With No Name" and "Return Of The Crimson Binome" take place in a system that looks remarkably like Mos Eisley. (Specific references to Star Wars occur in the former episode with the appearance of two binomes wearing the Stormtrooper armor and a dewback during the opening minutes, and the bar Matrix visits being a parody of Chalmun's Cantina.)
  • In Season Four, Episode 6 (Life's a Glitch), the characters are sent into a game featuring a cartoony Sonic the Hedgehog/Crash Bandicoot hybrid Rocky Raccoon. In this updated version of the game (Rocky was featured in Season Three), Matrix turns into Darth Vader. He later tells Little Enzo (in Vader's voice) to "use the sauce".
  • In that very same episode, Phong took the form of a cup of yogurt and announced "Yogurt, I am." This is also a reference to the character Yogurt in Spaceballs.
  • Also, Little Enzo takes the form of a vaguely-young Anakin marionette, complete with the dirty-blond hair and slave costume. His acting skills become incredibly stilted, parodying Jake Lloyd's acting style.
  • A pod racing-esque sequence is featured in that episode as well.

[edit] Red Dwarf

  • In "Duct Soup", Kryten calls Kristine Kochanski, who has a white bedsheet draped over her body and is wearing pair of earmuffs on her head in the style of Princess Leia's A New Hope cinnamon bun hairstyle, "Princess Leia", and tells her that "Luke Skywalker went that way, ma'am."

[edit] The Red Green Show

  • In "Silver Project" episode, Red talks with Winston Rosschild and calls him the C.O., C.E.O. and C-3PO of Winston's business.
  • In "Movie Project" episode, Red says that Old Man Sedgewick is calling himself Oki from Kenoki. Red says that Old Man said "feel the fork, Luke" and tried to get Red to fight him with a LifeSaver candy roll.
  • In "Bottled Water" episode, Red makes a robot to get his drinks. He says he could call the robot C3PU or R2 Detox.

[edit] Rescue Me

"What Star Wars thing?"
  • In Episode 1: Guts, Tommy Gavin tries to spy on his ex-wife. He wakes his son Connor, who follows him. Tommy accidentally draws attention from his wife, who asks why he is there. He says that Connor wanted his "Star Wars thing".

[edit] Robot Chicken

  • One episode features a sketch in which Palpatine gets a collect call from Darth Vader, informing him of the destruction of the Death Star.
  • Another features a parody of the "I am your father" scene from The Empire Strikes Back in which Darth Vader informs Luke Skywalker of a number of the more unlikely and/or controversial events that occurred in the movies that later came ("And the Empire will be defeated by...Ewoks!" "That's...very unlikely.").
  • One episode features President Bush being told he has a high midi-chlorian count, then shows him using the Force in several situations, and having a lightsaber duel with Abraham Lincoln.
  • One episode portrayed a science-fiction convention which ensued in a battle versus Star Wars fans and Trekkies.
  • One episode features Darth Vader and Michael Flatley dancing.
  • Robot Chicken: Star Wars is a Star Wars-themed special that features the voices of George Lucas, Mark Hamill, and others.
  • One episode parodies the surprise trap in Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back. Billy Dee Williams revised his role as Lando Calrissian in this sketch.
  • There is another which features a janitor who encounters people falling to their death: first the two halves of Darth Maul, then Mace Windu, and, finally, Emperor Palpatine.
  • One episode shows Luke coming up to an AT-AT like in The Empire Strikes Back, when Luke tosses the grenade inside the AT-AT, however, it shows a Stormtrooper sitting on the toilet, noticing a hole in the floor from which the grenade had just come.

[edit] Roseanne

[edit] Roswell

  • On the show, the aliens homeworld is called Antar.
  • In the episode "Ch-Ch-Changes", at one point, Michael sarcastically says to Maria "Let me guess, you ran into George Lucas at a video store and he wants you in his next movie".
  • In the episode "Monsters", Maria refers to Isabel as "Queen Amidala"

[edit] Samurai Jack

  • We can see many ambient similarities to Star Wars through the series, while there are a lot of references to Episode IV in "Chapter XLV: Scotsman Saves Jack (part 1)", including the Scotsman saying "I have a bad feeling about this" and claiming that the seaport where he and Jack go is a "wretched hive of scum and villainy". At the end of the chapter, Jack and the Scotsman bargain with a ship captain to buy passage aboard, with a dialogue very similar to the one between Luke, Obi-Wan and Han at Mos Eisley Cantina.
  • "Chapter XLVIII: Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess" is another episode with a heavy amount of references to A New Hope, with the titular royalty arriving on Earth in a ship resembling the Tantive IV, a C-3PO-like robot who ends up being destroyed by Aku, Aku "sensing a presence he hasn't felt in a long time", as well as the princess remarking that a disguised Jack is "too short to be a demonic minion" when he arrives to rescue the two.
  • Chapter XVIII contains several references to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In the third destroyed city you see a robot destroying several Jawa-like robots, a kind of Tusken Raider and an R5 unit.
  • Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Samurai Jack, went on to animate the Clone Wars cartoons.

[edit] The Sarah Jane Adventures

[edit] Scrubs

  • In the episode "My Two Dads", J.D. imagines a lightsaber duel between Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso, with Cox as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Kelso as Darth Vader, J.D. as Luke, Elliot and Carla as Leia, Turk as Han Solo, and the Janitor as Chewbacca. Like the duel in A New Hope, it ends with Cox sacrificing himself.
  • In the season 5 episode "Her Story II", J.D.'s girlfriend Julie arranges a meeting between J.D.'s friend Turk and Billy Dee Williams, the actor who portrayed Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars films. This prompts the following conversation:
Turk: "Ahh-hah-hah! Lando Calrissian! Come here."
Billy Dee Williams (laughing): "You can call me Billy Dee."
Turk: "Yes, Lando, yes."
  • In the episode "My Therapeutic Month", J.D. and Turk mock-lightsaber duel with biscotti. J.D. then proceeds to call Turk "Obi-Brown," and is in return called "Luke" by Turk.

[edit] seaQuest DSV

  • The pilot episode was directed by Irvin Kershner. In the episode, the antagonist (an enemy sub commander) says of the protagonist (her mentor, the seaQuest's commander) that "it's time the student became the teacher."
  • The SeaQuest is surrounded by probe minisubs that resemble remotes, as do the seaQuest's central module.
  • One of the guest stars of the season 1 finale was Kristoffer Tabori.

[edit] Seinfeld

  • In The Truth, Jerry says "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away."
  • In some other episodes, the recurring quote in all films, "I have a bad feeling about this", was frequently used.
  • In The Calzone, Elaine Benes dates a guy who made a bet that Dustin Hoffman was in A New Hope, and Jerry's comment about the bet was, "A short Jewish guy against Darth Vader? I don't think so."
  • In The Puerto Rican Day, Cosmo Kramer makes a reference to the first and second Death Stars.

[edit] The Simpsons

Lisa is led by three figures in the clouds, including Darth Vader.
  • At the end of "Bart the General," Bart declares that the only good wars are the American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars trilogy.
  • In "Old Money," Darth Vader is seen waiting in line to win Grandpa's money.
  • In "I Married Marge," Homer and Marge go see The Empire Strikes Back. On walking out, Homer comments "Who would have thought that Darth Vader was Luke's father?", thus ruining the movie for everyone in line. Later in the episode, Homer tells Marge she's "as pretty as Princess Leia, and as smart as Yoda."
  • In "Bart's Friend Falls in Love," Milhouse has a model X-wing starfighter hanging from the ceiling in his room.
  • In "Lisa the Beauty Queen," one of the hairstyles Lisa samples is Princess Leia's hairstyle from A New Hope.
  • In the episodes "Marge Gets a Job", "A Star is Burns" and "Gump Roast", The Imperial March is played in scenes with Mr. Burns.
  • In "Marge vs. the Monorail," Mayor Quimby says "May the Force be with you" to Leonard Nimoy, prompting annoyance.
  • In "Lisa's Rival," Ralph Wiggum wins a diorama contest with Star Wars action figures in their original packaging. Principal Skinner is amused and confesses that Chewie is his favorite character. Ralph later breaks his figures, and says, "I bent my Wookiee."
  • In "The Springfield Connection," a concert plays Star Wars music. Homer comments "Laser effects, mirrored balls… John Williams must be rolling around in his grave." John Williams is not dead.
  • In "'Round Springfield," Darth Vader appears in a cloud along with Mufasa from the Lion King, and James Earl Jones himself, the voice actor for the two characters. Jones announces, "This is CNN."
  • In "The Springfield Files," Chewbacca is one of the aliens featured in a FBI lineup.
  • In "Burns, Baby Burns," a Darth Vader mask can be seen in the background of a mask shop.
  • In "Mayored to the Mob," Mark Hamill appears as Luke Skywalker in a science fiction convention, knocking down cardboard stormtroopers with a plastic lightsaber. When a riot breaks out over who should play Obi-Wan Kenobi in a skit with Hamill, Homer saves both Hamill and Mayor Quimby from the enraged mob. Later, Quimby and Homer go see a musical starring Hamill. When Homer defends him from the fans, Hamill says "Homer! Use the for..." Homer then says "The Force?". Hamill then replies "No, the Forks! Use the forks!"
  • The Comic Book Guy uses a lightsaber in "Treehouse of Horror X"—causing him to die in shock of removing the collectible from its packaging.
  • Yoda appears as the priest in the wedding of a leprechaun and a gypsy fortune teller in the episode "Treehouse of Horror XII".
  • In "Treehouse of Horror XIV," Comic Book Guy is seen using a lightsaber. Later in the episode, Professor Frink's father steals Comic Book Guy's butt, complete with a tattoo of Jabba the Hutt.
  • In the episode "The Regina Monologues," Bart dreams of R2-D2 playing a bass after he finds a 1000 dollar bill.
  • In "Co-Dependent's Day," the family go to see the new movie Cosmic Wars: The Gathering Shadow, which is a spoof of The Phantom Menace. Comic Book Guy is ahead of them in line cos-playing in a eBay-bought outfit, the actual plaid clothes of the director Randall Curtis (a spoof of George Lucas), with expandable pregnancy panels added to fit his rotund figure. The movie is horrible, with an extremely long and boring Senate debate scene and annoying character named "Jim-Jam" (Jar Jar Binks) introduced, so Marge convinces the children to write Randall a letter of complaint. Their only reply is to be written off with free Jim-Jam cereal(which is simple alphabet cereal with more J's, as Curtis says later on) and merchandise. The family later decide to visit California, and the kids crash Cosmic Wars Ranch, where they meet Mr. Curtis himself. They convince him that better technological FX are no replacement for good storytelling, and the director agrees to go back to his roots, which is old western and samurai movies; he rides off on a tauntaun to the video store. The entire first act is seen as a prime example of Lucas bashing in pop culture.
  • The "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" segment of "Treehouse of Horror XVI" features Apu dressed up as R2-D2.
  • In, "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em...," Duel of the Fates is played when Bart and Principal Skinner are fighting atop a bus, as well as when they are fighting in the hospital. Also, Bart and Skinner are fighting with sticks as if they were lightsabers, star wars music also plays in the background while this takes place.
  • At the end of "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times", the screen reads, "This episode is dedicated to all who died in the "Star Wars" films". The list includes: Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Greedo, Uncle Owen, Stormtrooper #5, Jango Fett, General Grievous (Droid), Stormtrooper #22, Dak, Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi, "Whoever Jimmy Smits Played" (Bail Organa), Hutt, Jabba the, Sy Snoodles (Despite the fact that she managed to survive Jabba's exploding sail barge) "Unfortunately, not Jar-Jar Binks," and "everyone on both Death Stars when they blew up".
  • In "You Kent Always Say What You Want," Kent Brockman has a picture of himself posing with R4-G9.
  • In "The Fat and the Furriest", Marge says "I have a bad feeling about this."
  • In " It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge, Patty and Selma say "The Bitterness is strong in this one" which is a play on the line, "The Force is strong in this one."
  • There's an episode when a duel between Bart and Principal Skinner begins, and is playes "Duel of the Fates

A Simpsons video was released in the UK, titled "Bart Wars: The Simpsons Strike Back". It includes a showcase of many Star Wars references.

[edit] Skunk Fu!

  • In the episode "the Art of Brainwashing", when Skunk, Rabbit and Mantis are surrounded by Ninja Monkeys, Rabbit says "I prefer a little action over this sneakin' around stuff!", which is a play on one of Han Solo's lines.

[edit] Smallville

  • In the episode "Thirst", vampires led by Buffy Sanders (Brooke Nevin) bring Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) into their midst. By episode's end, Clark Kent (Tom Welling) has turned her back to normal, using a compound known as "LuthorCorp Project 1138". In addition, Carrie Fisher made a special guest appearance as Pauline Kahn, editor of the "Daily Planet".
  • In the episode "Exposed", Lois Lane (Erica Durance) goes undercover at a strip club to help Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) with a story. When she encounters Clark at the club, she attempts to keep her cover by dancing seductively near him, saying that "you're going to get me fired if you keep looking at me like Jabba the Hutt."
  • In the episode 5-08 “Solitude”, Clark has just beaten Fine in the FOS and is now talking to Chloe in front of the fire. Clark says to her that Professor Fine said Human beings are insignificant and couldn’t be depended on. He obviously hadn't met her, Her response was “Please, robo-professor knows as much about Human nature as R2-D2.”
  • (See link below for a much more in-depth listing)

[edit] Some Assembly Required

  • In Episode 6, Brian Unger considered the German BMW plant one thing that "meets Star Wars".

[edit] South Park

Chef's transformation is reminiscent of Anakin's transformation to Darth Vader.
The Chewbacca Defense in use
  • In the episode "Pink Eye," Cartman makes fun of Kyle's costume, shouting, "Why don't you go back to Endor, you stupid Wookiee!" Kyle responds, Wookiees don't live on Endor!" and Cartman mocks him.
  • In the episode "Chickenpox," Cartman reads out loud from his paper on the subject of "How I would make America better":
"I hope that one day, America could be more like Endor, where the Ewoks live. Endor is very cool… They have trees and Ewoks and barbecues which is why I like Endor more than America. It's cool…"
―Eric Cartman
  • In the episode "Clubhouses," Cartman and Kenny's clubhouse is named "Ewok Village 2000."
  • The "Chewbacca defense" is a legal strategy used by Johnnie Cochran in the South Park episode "Chef Aid". In this episode, Cochran (or rather, an animated character parodying the real-life lawyer) shows the jury a picture of Chewbacca and gives a speech about how the fact he is talking to them about Chewbacca during the trial "does not make sense." He continues this line of defense with increasingly silly reasons why talking about Chewbacca during a trial does not make sense. His speech confuses the jury to the point that one juror's head explodes. In popular culture, especially on the Internet, the term "Chewbacca defense" has come to mean any legal strategy which attempts to overwhelm its audience with irrelevant arguments to obscure the truth. The defense is based upon the 'fact' that Chewbacca resides on Endor, which is ironically false. (Wookiees being from Endor was a misconception that first appeared in the earlier episode "Pink Eye.")
  • The episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space" parodies a great deal of Star Wars; for example, Sally Struthers is a parody of Jabba the Hutt, and Kenny is frozen in carbonite, much like what happened to Han Solo in Empire Strikes Back.
  • In the episode "The Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers", the kids of South Park (dressed as Lord of the Rings characters) come together to discuss the problem of having a porn video. After some of the kids come with ideas, a kid with a Stormtrooper helmet on says "Perhaps we can use it to strengthen our starcruisers." Cartman responds "Kevin, goddammit."
  • In the episode "The Return of Chef", the title character is killed off and refashioned in a manner similar to Anakin Skywalker's transformation to Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith. Of particular note is the character, now called "Darth Chef", is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz, the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.
  • Yoda appears in Imaginationland. In the episodes Imaginationland: Episode II and Imaginationland: Episode III, Stormtroopers, Darth Maul, and Luke Skywalker all appear as residents of the titular world.
  • In a very obscure reference to the original television broadcast of The Star Wars Holiday Special from the South Park episode "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics," a parody of a recurring bumper from New York's WCBS-TV 2 featuring anchor Rolland Smith saying, "Fighting the Frizzies…at eleven" was repeated several times during the episode, and parodied again in the credit sequence.[2]
  • In the episode Fatbeard, one of the kids in Cartman's pirate band uses a toy lightsaber to force a French crew to surrender. Both the French crew and the US Navy believe the toy to be a real lightsaber.
  • The China Probrem features a Stormtrooper being assaulted by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
  • In the episode "Go,God,Go XII" Cartman goes to a toy shop in the 2500s to buy a Crank Prank Time Phone.When he finds the price is 6000 credits he says,angrily,"What the hell do I look like a correlian miner!?!?
  • Satan's assistant, Kevin, resembles Emperor Palpatine.

[edit] Spaced

  • 1.1: "Beginnings". In an early scene, Tim asks Daisy how things are going. She replies, "Same as always", to which Tim responds, "That bad, huh?" in a parody of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo's dialogue in Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi.
  • 1.4: "Battles". A clerk at a dog pound says that if a dog is not sold, "we put them down…all of them". Daisy then screams, "Noooooo!" in a parody of The Phantom Menace trailer.
  • 1.5: "Chaos". Tim invites Brian round to watch the Star Wars Trilogy. Tim cries in joy as the Yub Nub song plays, and brings up his theory that the Imperial officer who decided not to shoot down the escape pod containing R2-D2 and C-3PO in A New Hope is responsible for everything that later occurs in the film. This leads to a discussion on chaos theory. Later, during the planning of Colin's rescue, the following dialogue occurs, as a parody of the scene in the Rebel briefing room where Luke Skywalker and "Fake Wedge" comment on Jan Dodonna's plan:
Tim: "Now, we're going to go over the fence here. It's about two meters high, so we're going to have to do a bit of climbing."
Brian: "That's impossible."
Mike: "It's not impossible. I used to climb over my, uh, neighbor's fence when I was a kid; it was about two meters."
Later in the episode, Tim assigns the group callsigns: he is "Han", Mike is "Luke" (to which Mike objects, asking if he can be "Han" instead), Daisy is "Leia", Brian is "Chewie" and, as Tim is running out of names, Twist is "Jabba". Twist asks if Jabba is "the Princess", to which the others hastily respond, "Yes". A remix of the Imperial March plays throughout this scene.
  • 1.7: "Ends". An argument between Tim and Daisy concerning Tim meeting up with his ex-girlfriend ends with the following dialogue, as a parody of the dialogue between Luke Skywalker and Han Solo prior to the Battle of Yavin:
Daisy: "Right, well, take care of yourself, then."
Tim: "Thanks."
Daisy: "I guess it's what you're best at, isn't it?"
  • 2.1 "Back". Tim says he had some things to "work out" with George Lucas following the end of series 1; we then cut to a sequence wherein Tim burns his Star Wars collection in a parody of Luke Skywalker burning his father's armor on Endor. Later, when Tim, Daisy and Mike arrive home to find the government agents waiting with Brian, Brian says, "they arrived right before you did." Tim responds with, "you Lando!"
  • 2.2 "Change". Tim rants at a young boy about the "jumped-up firework display of a toy advert" he believes The Phantom Menace to be, after the boy asks for a Jar Jar Binks doll. His boss, Bilbo Bagshot, then chastises him for his irrational hatred of the film, reminding him that the Ewoks were just as "rubbish" as Jar Jar, but Tim doesn't mind them. In comparison with Jar Jar, Tim says, the Ewoks are like Shaft. He is fired, but a woman at the DSS takes a shine to him because he didn't like The Phantom Menace. Later, when Tim overcomes this problem, rival comic book store owner Derek, whom Tim now works for, says "well done, Tim. You've taken your first step into a larger world", parodying Obi-Wan Kenobi's line to Luke Skywalker in A New Hope.
  • 2.5: "Gone". Following a confrontation with Tim and Daisy, Duane Benzie (Peter Serafinowicz) finds and steals their house keys, declaring "At last, I shall emerge the victor. At last, I shall have revenge", as a parody of his famous line as Darth Maul: "At last we shall reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge".
  • 2.6: "Dissolution". The final scene parodies to the final scenes of The Empire Strikes Back. Mike and Brian set off in Mike's van to find Marsha, prompting the following dialogue, held over walkie-talkies:
Mike: "When we find Marsha, we'll contact you."
Brian: "We'll, er, we'll find her Daisy…promise you."
Tim: "We'll see you at the rendezvous."
[Mike yawns, which, over the radio, makes him sound like Chewbacca]
Mike and Brian drive off as the closing music of the film starts. The sound of the Millennium Falcon departing is also used for Mike's van. The last shot is of Tim with his arm around Daisy, both looking out of the window of their flat, just as Luke and Leia look out of the window of Redemption. The scene irises out, and the music segues into the Star Wars end theme as the credits roll in the familiar Star Wars style against a starry backdrop.
  • The documentary "Skip to the End" features an epilogue for the show, featuring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson in character as Tim and Daisy. Tim says he loves Daisy, to which she replies, "I know", possibly as an homage to the repeated lines spoken by Han Solo and Leia Organa. Finally, Tim calls their baby Luke, presumably after Luke Skywalker, though Daisy replies, "Tim, we're not calling her 'Luke'".

[edit] SpongeBob SquarePants

  • In Missing Identity, Spongebob eats the pet food "Snail Po". The taste is so horrible that when he retches afterwards, a sonic wave spreads which reaches the Snail Po factory. The businessman Peterson suddenly clasps his head, and when a lady asks him what is wrong, he said, "I don't know. I felt... a disturbance," parodying the Destruction of Alderaan. The sonic wave is the "million voices crying for help".
  • In the episode Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V, Barnacle Boy crosses over to "the dark side" and wears a cape similar to that of Darth Vader.
  • In "The Gift of Gum",there is a robot named Robo 2.0,simalar to R2-D2.
  • In "Dunces and Dragons",Princess Pearl's hairstyle looks like Leia's

[edit] Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Major Kira using a familiar disguise in DS9 series finale
  • On his way to space station Deep Space 9 in 2369, the Bajoran criminal Ibudan chartered a space flight out of Alderaan Spaceport.
  • The Breen race wear costumes that resemble the Ubese armor worn by Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. And in fact, in the series finale, What You Leave Behind, Major Kira emulates Leia by using the Breen armor as a disguise.
  • In the episode "Treachery, Faith and the Great River," Nog describes a Ferengi concept called the Great Material Continuum, which he says is "the force that binds the universe together," likely a reference to Obi-Wan Kenobi's dialogue in A New Hope.

[edit] Star Trek: Enterprise

  • The Xindi superweapon is a large, spherical station/ship with a beam weapon capable of destroying an entire planet. Its appearance and function strongly resemble the Death Star.
  • One episode features a ship called the ISS Avenger, which was named as an homage to the Star destroyer Avenger.
  • The episode Kir'Shara features a holographic device that contains ancient Vulcan teachings called the Kir'Shara. The Kir'Shara is shaped like a Sith Holocron, and it's purpose (containing ancient teachings) is similar to the purpose of holocrons.

[edit] Star Trek: The Next Generation

  • The name Vader can be seen on a gravestone in the episode "Sub Rosa" (see here).
  • in "Encounter at Farpoint", the drug dispenser worn by Q is labeled "Army R2D CPO" a reference to R2D2 and C-3PO (see here).
  • In "Up the Long Ladder", a computer display shows a list of old colony ships and their purposes. One of these ships shows its purpose as "Diplomatic Mission to Alderaan."

[edit] Star Trek: Voyager

  • The names of some Star Wars species are also used for species on the show, such as Quarren and Bothans.
  • One episode features a character named Kashyk.
  • One episode mentions a species called the Nar Shaddan, an obvious reference to Nar Shaddaa.

[edit] Stargate Atlantis

[edit] Stargate SG-1

  • In the season 6 episode "Memento", Colonel Ronson remarks "That old man better be right, or this will be a real short ride", a reference to A New Hope.
  • In the season 7 episode "Fallen", the scene of the F-302 destroying the power core is a humorous homage to Return of the Jedi, complete with similar visuals and terminology. There is also a subtle Star Wars reference in the dialogue as they prepare to launch the F-302: "Airstrike, this is command base, you are go for takeoff", O'Neill: "Yeah, I thought we where going with red leader on this one". Red Leader (or Red 1) being the callsign of Luke Skywalker's wing commander at the battle of Yavin.
  • In the season 9 episode "Crusade", Vala (who has become pregnant without sexual intercourse) asks if anyone has heard of a child being conceived without a father, and Teal'c immediately mentions Darth Vader but is cut off when Vala asks "how did that turn out?"
  • In the season 10 episode "200", a mock scene depicts the never before seen Furlings as four-foot tall koalas, with a high-pitched voice and living in a village similar to the Ewoks in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, though unlike their Star Wars counterparts, the Furlings possess knowledge of advanced technology.
  • In the movie Continuum, Daniel Jackson ironically remarks "Oh, we have him now" when faced with the seemingly insurmountable odds they face compared to the fact that they have the benefit of surprise. This is a reference to Darth Vader's line in A New Hope, "I have you now".
  • Throughout the run of the series, Jack O'Neill would refer to humans acting without SGC authorization (such as the NID) as 'darksiders', and to incidents where SGC members or allies would turn on them as "turning dark side" in reference to the dark side of the Force.

[edit] Static Shock

  • In "Shebang", Hotstreak goes on a fiery rampage after being disappointed in "Space Battles: Episode 9".
  • In the episode "No Man's An Island", Static and Hotstreak travel through a forest on vehicles that look very similar to speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi. When a group of villains find them, a chase scene commences very similar to the chase scene in the movie. In addition, a slight variant of the Imperial March plays.


[edit] The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

  • During an episode Judge Robinson sees a girl named Lizzie in Princess Leia style hair, in which he says 'Princess Leia! May the Force be with you!'.

[edit] The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

  • During the episode "Volley Dad," Cody mentions that the fridge is as small as R2-D2.

[edit] The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (TV animated series)

  • In one episode, Star Koopa, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad are traveling through outer space onboard a spacecraft known as the Flying Pizza, and are on their way to help the Mushroom space colonists. The colonists are in trouble, due to the fact that Darth Koopa is threatening to blow up their planet. However, Mario's group is unaware of the fact that they are being pursued by Darth Koopa's Koop Star. "Star Koopa" is an parody of A New Hope, with several characters and vehicles, such as Darth Vader (Darth Koopa, King Bowser Koopa's alter-ego, a version of Bowser with Vader's helmet, lenses and cape), Grand Moff Tarkin (Mouser, a boss in Super Mario Bros 2's Game ), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Obi-Wan Toadi), the stormtrooperss (Stormtroopas, Koopa Troopas, enemies of Super Mario's games that wear costumes similar to those of Darth Vader's Imperial Stormtroopers), the X-wing Starfighters (Mushroom Starfighters) and TIE/ln starfighters (Stormtroopa Starfighters), being spoofed.

[edit] Supernatural

  • In the fifth episode of season two, titled "Simon Said", Sam and Dean track a psychic that can coerc people into doing whatever he says. This ability sparks familiar chords with Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope where Obi-wan Kenobi uses a similar method to evade capture from a group of Stormtroopers, so familiar in fact that the characters make references to the movie when the ability is used; Dean shouts "He full on Obi-Wan-d me! It’s mind control, man!" when the psychic 'convinces' him to give him his car and, later, when the psychic helps Sam and Dean in finding some files in the county office he convinces the guard to go get a cup of coffee, throwing in the line "These aren't the droids you're looking for." for good measure.

[edit] Teen Titans

You don't need to see Beast Boy's identification
  • In "Episode 257-494," super-nerd Control Freak takes the Titans into various TV shows, where he displays the powers of each genre. In a sci-fi series called "Clash of the Planets," there are numerous Star Wars references, including Control Freak becoming a Darth Vader-like figure with a lightsaber (the saber featured two different-colored blades ignited side by side) and telling his nemesis "I am your father." Beast Boy, an avid fan of "Clash," attempts to use mind powers mirroring the Jedi mind trick. Temporarily donning Raven's robes and waving his hand, he intones, "You don't need our identification."

[edit] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)

  • In the episode "Trouble with Triceratons" Professor Honeycutt considers two people that look a lot like Han Solo and Chewbacca to smuggle them off the planet.
  • In the episode "Triceraton Wars" Michelangelo and Raphael quote Han's and Luke's dogfighting lines from A New Hope.
  • In the episode "Reflections" Michelangelo quotes the "I am your father" line from The Empire Strikes Back.
  • In the episode "The Lesson" Michelangelo tells a story to April O'Neil, jokingly starting the tale by saying "It was a dark and stormy night in a galaxy far far away..."

[edit] Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

  • In the pilot episode on January 13, 2008, a reference to Luke Skywalker is made.

[edit] Thank God You're Here

  • In episode 01, in an improv skit featuring Jennifer Coolidge, when asked who she would take on a dinner date, she replied Chewbacca, because "he's tall, hairy, and a good listener."

[edit] That '70s Show

  • In episode 120, A New Hope, after seeing Star Wars, Eric dreams he's Luke Skywalker and that Princess Leia (Donna) has been hanging out too much with Darth Vader (Donna's friend David). From then on, he is forever smitten with the trilogy, and talks about the movies endlessly, particularly Luke.
  • In one episode, Eric mentions how Luke Skywalker would do things, to which Red expresses his displeasure of any mention of Luke. Red and Kitty then discuss the sexual orientation of Luke, with Eric exclaiming "Luke Skywalker is not gay".
  • In episode 137, Young Man's Blues, a reference is made to Boba Fett. However, since That '70s Show is set in the 1970s, this reference could only be to The Star Wars Holiday Special, which premiered in the 70s, and marked Fett's first appearance. Also, at the very end of the episode, Red tries to teach Eric the names of some common tools, while Eric in return tries to teach Red the names of the central characters of Star Wars.
  • In episode 725, Short and Curlies, Donna gives Eric his going-away present as she dresses like Princess Leia for Eric's pleasure. He tells her to say, "Use the Force, Eric."
  • In episode 517, Pioneer Days, Red shouts at Eric for building the Millennium Falcon instead of a normal falcon. Red says that it "better not be a Star Wars thing" otherwise he would kick Eric's ass. Eric replies by saying it is a special type of falcon and then mutters under his breath that it is a falcon which made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs.
  • In episode 511, The Girl I Love, Eric plans to see the Laser Floyd show, and exclaims "Lasers! Like in Star Wars!".

[edit] Tim and Tom

  • One of the Sandcrawlers has graffiti displaying "EMPIRE WUZ HERE!"
  • Luke licks his father's lightsaber and cuts his tongue.
  • Han does not shoot Greedo, but pretends to. A monster eats Greedo, and Han runs out and tells the audience to disregard Greedo's death and say that he shot first.
  • Dr. Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba leave after Evazan angrily reveals his dislike of everyone in the bar.
  • Near the ending, Sebastian complains to Tim about copyright infringement. Tim reassures Sebastian that he'll make sure George Lucas is mentioned and credited as the creator of the Star Wars Saga. Sebastian asks him how, and Tim states that he just did. Sebastian calls Tim an idiot and leaves. Tim starts singing the Imperial March song.

[edit] Tiny Toon Adventures

[edit] Total Drama Island

In an episode of the Canadian cartoon series Total Drama Island, Chris wears an outfit which is obviously a reference to a Rebel pilot's uniform.

[edit] Top Gear

In the third episode of series 12, James May refers to Mika Häkkinen as "Yoda" when Häkkinen is teaching him how to drive like a Finn.

[edit] The Transformers

Nightbird wields a lightsaber.

[edit] Tripping the Rift

  • There is a fight scene in one of the episodes where the hero and his arch nemesis fight with what looks like lightsabers. The name of the arch nemesis is "Darph Bobo", "Darph" being a parody of the title "Darth".

[edit] Ulysses 31

Ulysses of Ulysses 31 with his lightsaber and energy shield.
  • The hero, Ulysses, uses a weapon that is reminiscent of a lightsaber. The sound production team of the show even borrowed some of the original lightsaber sound effects, such as the snap-hiss of ignition. Lightsabers also appeared in Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, another Jean Chalopin show.

[edit] Unhappily Ever After

  • When Jack is losing a basketball contest to his son, Mr. Floppy appears in the sky and says "Luke! Luke!" Jack then says "Obi-Wan?" Mr. Floppy tells Jack "to use the force - kick him in the groin."

[edit] The Venture Brothers

  • Near the end of the episode "Are you there God? It's me, Dean", the Monarch jokes that he is Dean Venture's father, a clear reference to Darth Vader's famous line.
  • During the episode "Tag Sale - You're it!", Dr. Venture is holding a garage sale. Monarch Henchamn #21 purchases a lightsaber from the sale, and later attempts to use it against Brock Samson. After flailing around in a method very similar to the Star Wars Kid, he is shocked to discover that the lightsaber merely passes through Samson like a hologram.
  • In the episode "Past Tense", the college student living in Dr. Venture's old dorm room has a poster of Boba Fett on his wall.
  • In the episode "Return to Spider-Skull Island", Dr. Venture has a dream in which he learns he has a long lost twin brother, during which the vision tells him, "There is another Venture."
  • In the special episode, "A Very Venture Christmas", Dr. Orpheus discusses made-up holidays, such as Christmas and Wookiee Life Day.
  • In the episode "Hate Floats", Brock Samson tells their robot H.E.L.P.eR. to "fly casual".
Henchman #21 squares off against Brock Samson.
  • At the end of the episode "Escape to the House of the Mummies Part II", Hank Venture is shivering in the cold Arctic wind. His bodyguard, Brock Samson, cuts open the corpse of the time-displaced Edgar Allan Poe to keep Hank warm, remarking "...and I thought he smelled bad on the outside!"
  • In the episode "Victor. Echo. November.", Henchman #21 goes to the bathroom, exclaiming he's "taking a Count Dooku." Additionally, at the end of the episode, Billy Quizboy is testing his mechanical hand, and the scene is identical to the tests performed on Luke Skywalker by 2-1B.
  • The episode "Love Bheits" is full of Star Wars references. All members of the Venture family dress as Star Wars characters from A New Hope (Specifically Ben Kenobi, Chewbacca, and Leia) except Hank, who dresses as Batman. While trying to land the X-1, Dr. Venture repeatedly tells Brock Samson to "lock in the auxiliary power". Baron Underbheit is seen resting in a chamber that is a clear reference to Darth Vader's meditation chamber. Brock and Hank carry out a conversation very similar to Han and Luke's "suicide mission" conversation before the Battle of Yavin. Also, Brock (dressed as Chewie) carries H.E.L.P.eR. (their broken robot) on his back, very similar to how Chewbacca carried C-3PO in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • In the episode "I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills", Henchman #21 tell Dr. Girlfriend that she is their only hope. He then says "Thank the maker" after farting. When Hank and Dean do not believe that Myra is their mother, she tells them to "search your feelings; you know it to be true."
  • Another episode filled with Star Wars references is "Showdown at Cremation Creek Part II". Nien Nunb makes an appearance as the copilot of the X-1. The Phantom Limb's ship bears a strong resemblance to the LAAT. Brock says the line, "Great shot kid, that was one in a million!" The dream-battle between Dean and the Monarch is very similar to the one between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Grievous. During the David Bowie/Phantom Limb fight, Hank remarks, "It's like Dracula fighting Yoda in there!"

[edit] Veronica Mars

  • The coffee shop where Veronica works in the second season is named "Java the Hut". Veronica Mars herself is played by Kristen Bell, who also stars in the movie Fanboys.

[edit] V.I.P

  • In the episode "The K-Files", Tasha Dexter refers to a supposedly disguised Kay Simmons as "Darth Kay-der.
  • Mark Hamill guest stars in the episode "The Uncle From V.A.L.", the ending of which references the medal awards ceremony at the end of A New Hope, down to Vallery Irons (Pamela Anderson) having her hair done up in Princess Leia's iconic cinnamon style buns.

[edit] Video on Trial

[edit] What I Like About You

  • In one episode, Valerie accidentally reveals a spoiler about the book The Great Gatsby to a man in a coffee shop. The man then counters the spoiler by revealing that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.
  • In one episode, Valerie's husband wants to have a Star Wars wedding. Valerie is disappointed, but agrees with the plan. Throughout the episode, other minor Star Wars references are made.

[edit] What's New, Scooby-Doo?

  • An episode is titled The Vampire Strikes Back.

[edit] The Whitest Kids U'Know

  • A reference is made to "Star Wars VII".

[edit] Wizards of Waverly Place

  • In "Alex's Choice", Justin said "These are not the droids you're looking for", which is what Ben Kenobi said to a Sandtrooper in Episode IV.
  • In another episode Alex asks Max what he was doing with his mom's black dress. Max answers "It's a Darth Vader cape. You people have no imagination"
  • In the episode "Wizard School Part 1", the intercom calls out to Justin Russo , "Will Justin Russo report to the Lost and found. We have your cape and lightsaber"
  • In another episode, Alex brings Babe Ruth out from a baseball card. Justin is opposed to it and Alex replies, "Oh, come on! If it was a life sized Obi-Wan, you'd be all for it!" Justin responds by saying, "Life-sized Obi-Wan? I'l be right back" letting you infer he is going to get an image of Obi-Wan.
  • In the episode"Wizard for a Day" Justin wears a suit that resembles Han Solo's.

[edit] Wheel of Fortune

  • In one episode, "A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY" is a puzzle answer, under the category "Quote."

[edit] Whose Line Is It Anyway?

  • Many of the improvisations feature Star Wars references.

[edit] Will & Grace

  • In the Season 1 episode "The Unsinkable Mommy Adler", Jack rents Star Wars for Will, Grace and himself to watch one night, to further his investigations on the sexuality of the droids. Will tells him that "C3PO isn't gay, he's British", to which Jack argues with the (fake) Star Wars quote, "'R2, R2, my circuits yearn for you!' Big space queen." Also, Grace complains about Jack's choice in repeatedly renting Star Wars, stating she's "dreaming of Jabba the Hutt". Jack replies that that is because she lives with him, in keeping with Jack's constant quips about Will's alleged weight problem.
  • During a season 5 episode (aired in late 2002), Grace comments on a newspaper article reporting that fans have already started lining up for the next Star Wars film. She then states she will wait until it comes out and push in right in front of them. Another Season 5 episode is titled "May Divorce Be With You".

[edit] Wolverine and the X-Men

  • In the series premiere, Wolverine calls Beast "Chewie" in a reference to Chewbacca.

[edit] The X-Files

  • In the episode "The Erlenmeyer Flask," the last episode of season one, Mulder tells Deep Throat, "From day one this has always been on your terms. I've gone along, been the dutiful son. But maybe this time we can just cut out the Obi-Wan Kenobi crap, and you can save me the trouble."
  • In the episode "Small Potatoes," Amanda Nelligan claims the father of her baby is from another planet. When interviewed by Agent Mulder, she says, "I didn’t say he was an alien. I said he was from another planet. His name is Luke Skywalker. He’s what’s known as a Jedi Knight." After a stunned silence, Agent Scully asks, "Did he have a lightsaber?" She replies, "No, he didn’t bring it." In reality, the father is Eddie Van Blundht, a mutant able to imitate the appearance of others with delicate control of his muscles. In a later scene, Eddie, disguised as Mulder, interviews Amanda; as he leaves, she tells him, "May the Force be with you."
  • In the episode "Vienen," Agent Mulder and Agent Doggett discuss the burns of a deceased Mexican oil worker, a case in which Mulder believes that there's a connection between the burns and the radioactive alien "black oil". Doggett says that "five years ago you and Agent Scully investigated a case of a World War II plane salvaged from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Where a substance was brought to the surface, which you described as a highly contagious virus of extraterrestrial origin, that has radioactive properties and can take over a man's body, and is part of an alien conspiracy to colonize the planet, if I'm not mistaken," to which Mulder replies "And you'd love to help, but you left your lightsaber at home."

[edit] X-Men: Evolution

  • Toad, unknowingly taking orders from Mystique, infiltrates the Xavier Institue and is attacked by the automated defense systems. He makes it inside, only to begin chasing Nightcrawler through the halls, and calls the teleporter "wookiee boy."

[edit] The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report, headed by Stephen Colbert, referenced Star Wars in his "Green Screen Challenge". This challenge was for his fans to send in ideas for Stephen to do in front of a green screen. Many ideas were submitted, but the idea that one was for Stephen to fight a monster in front of a green screen with a lightsaber. Users submitted ideas, like him fighting George Bush. Finally, Stephen Colbert released the results, and showed the end product.


[edit] Notes and references

  1. ↑ The Empire Strikes LOST - The Official Star Wars blog
  2. ↑ The Star Wars Holiday Special tribute site
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