If Lucas actually used any of these lines, you can bet he went Han Solo later that night.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
these are the balls you're looking for
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
remember your failure at the cave
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
The force is strong with this one *points to pink lightsaber*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
ok guys.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
but Daaaaaaaaaaaaaad
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
"Slimy? Mudhole?"
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
"I thought these things smelled bad...on the outside"
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
"I am your father"
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
lucas cgi'd the sex scenes into that anecdote later
― da croupier, Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
it's just a matter of green wall paper, really
― da croupier, Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Well, I guess you don't know everything about women yet."
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
If he really likes you, you're invited back for a hot dog picnic in the arboretum
― da croupier, Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Apartment IV: A New Home --crab lifting a goat (weatheringdaleson)
Winner
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 May 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yRNXFhboBI&
― Number None, Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
barf
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
couldn't watch more than a minute tbh
― Number None, Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus.
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
i'm reminded of shatner on snl, his remarks about taking a fun diversion and turning it in to a colossal waste of time.
― a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
i think that looks kind of fun, actually
"its a wrap" made me lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
no.
― goole, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
This feels like right-wing comedy (i.e. something with the vague structure of a joke for people with no discernable sense of humor).
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
No offense to your LOLs, HOOS.
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm so tired of all these Star Wars.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
It's funny because the Emperor is an evil, serious guy in the movies but here he's talking like he's a normal person! Funny!
No, no it's not. It's just tired.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Quite apart from the writing, i'm pretty sure that's the ugliest animation i've ever seen
― Number None, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
this is what star wars fans asked for tbh
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
like 30 years of terrible internet memes and "haha r2d2 ovenmitts!!!" and rewarding seth macfarlane and kevin smith and seth green and jon stewart and south park for "More like on the ICE PLANET HOTH" jokes and this is what you get.
i feel sorry for anyone who's mad at this and/or didn't see it coming.
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
oh noes everyones otaku
I'd kinda like to see the critical community punk Lucas by really embracing this and encouraging him to focus his energy on more comedic projects. Just to see how nightmarish it could get.
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Happened already:
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/65/MPW-32621
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
TBF, that dead guy's weird penis is kinda funny.
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Please note that utility data for the entire campus is also included. This was the only data made available with the application, and in order to accurately estimate and verify savings, individual building meter data will need to be obtained from the campus.
^^^this, far and away. its one thing to churn out crappy product, lots of aging directors do that (hell, young ones too!), but deliberately screwing up your past work - so that NO ONE can ever enjoy it again, that's a whole other level of unforgivable.
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:44 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what a weird quote
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:45 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg this (and the consequent utility data posts) killing me all over again right now
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
thank you, internet
It it still so, so perfect. I will treasure this thread forever for that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
far and away
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
like 30 years of terrible internet memes
woah hang on there were internet memes 30 years ago?
― a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
OK, so I'm actually at Star Wars Celebration, where that clip premiered, right now (although I wasn't at that panel) (also STFU Whiney). That show is basically going to be Robot Chicken except with actual long form story lines and regular animation. It's Seth Green and his whole crew doing it.
Anyway, what I was going to say is I went to a panel this morning to discuss and preview season 5 of "The Clone Wars" animated series, with Dave Filoni and Joel Aron, the supervising director and VFX supervisor. After they talked for about 45 minutes and showed a bunch of clips, completely unscheduled, George Lucas showed up, and the entire room went absolutely apeshit. Fans may grumble a lot, and obviously this is a crowd more predisposed to react positively, but you'd have thought God Himself had walked onto that stage,
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
PS little kids fucking LOVE Star Wars, if they want to make more kiddie shows for them it's no skin off my back.
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
Now I'm going to go watch Dennis Muren and John Knoll talk about the 3-D conversions for the movies.
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Nice one, Phil! :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
That show is basically going to be Robot Chicken except with actual long form story lines and regular animation. It's Seth Green and his whole crew doing it.
I'm trying to think of a show pitch that I could possibly have a more viscerally-negative reaction to. Maybe, like, an educational show for toddlers hosted by The Situation.
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
The secret beauty of the building meter data is "what a weird quote" from s1ocki. It's such a blank, blase acceptance of this as being plausibly related to Star Wars, however odd it might seem.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
I actually liked Robot Chicken, it was good for LOLz. But yeah they've been doing that schtick for like 7 years now. Most of the impact of the 'jokes' on that show was how sort of fresh it was to see Star Wars taken out of its usual melodramatic context. Nowadays there are a zillion commercials of Yoda saying something about soft drinks and the brand of Star Wars as self-knowing parody is over-saturated.
Maybe these things are actually funny, there's no way for me to objectively tell anymore because I've experienced over 10 years of Adult Swim-style Serious Sci-Fi Character Says Something About His Laundry. It's not something you just see on late night stoner TV programming. It's ubiquitous. SW humor needs to bring something else to the table to make it stand out.
For a while it was simply that nobody had done SW humor much, so that was enough. Now, I sort of actively hate these people. They are building 'comedy' careers out of writing things that require zero wit and humor. One could write a season's worth of this show in an afternoon, not even trying. Just find an iconic moment:
1) plug in a different pop-culture reference2) have a character break his character and complain about something for a few seconds3) invoke the awkward silence
Little kids will love this stuff, and good for them, they love the prequels too. Lucas was right when he said SW is made for little kids because even if it wasn't in the 70s, it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is now.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
this is 85% of Adult Swim programming since Space Ghost
― jjjdoom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Which is why it annoys me so much! Space Ghost is almost 20 years old!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
I believe you're thinking of the Strawman Network.
― Old Lunch, Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
star wars jokes were starting to seam really fucking haggard 20 years ago, long before robot chicken was even a gleam in seth green's eye
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
one of my unused thread ideas i've been kicking around for years and years was "people with careers in comedy that were built at least partially on star wars references/parodies"
― 7 years of pussy for prison riot (some dude), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
― jjjdoom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:17 AM (6 minutes ago)
i think that's true to some degree, but it can be done well or poorly. venture bros. at it's best made the formulaic geek-joke stuff work by writing decent characters, coming up with interesting ideas and actually being sort of funny. robot chicken is the nadir of the approach. zero attention to anything but dumb non sequiturs and gross-out gags.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link