Funny / Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Part I

• Arriving back at the cave he calls home, Obi-Wan is greeted by a Jawa named Teeka who declares that with the credits he earns he should buy soap.
  • Teeka offers to sell Obi-Wan a toy ship for 100 credits. When Obi-Wan tries to haggle it down to 50, the Jawa goes for 75 and claims that "I have a tribe to feed".
• Teeka then gets excited when Obi-Wan mentions he's having problems with his vaporator, due to parts being stolen. Teeka just happens to have some... namely Obi-Wan's.
  Obi-Wan: Teeka, if you're going to steal my parts and sell them back to me, could you at least clean them? As a courtesy.
  Teeka: Cleaning costs extra.
• While also deeply sad, Obi-Wan's advice to the Jedi who finds him is hilariously blunt and to the point.
• Leia's comeback to her cousin Niano, while Awesome, is also pretty funny given how he has absolutely nothing to say to her in return!
• Leia mournfully apologizes to her mother for running away from the ceremony and promises not to do it again, then gives her mother a big hug... only for her mother to roll her eyes and say "You know I can feel you doing that." Leia gives an unrepentant grin, now holding the toy her mother had just confiscated.

Part II

• Haja prefaces his fake Jedi mind trick by saying, "This is a Jedi mind trick." The whole time, he's so over-the-top that veteran Star Wars fans are calling bullshit well before Obi-Wan shows up.
• Once Haja as the passage squared away via "Jedi Mind Trick" for the woman and her son, he very clearly, and very unsubtly, nonverbally indicates he's waiting for payment. When the woman gives him her money, he puts on a show of humble embarrassment as he says "Oh, you didn't have to!"
• There's a bit of schadenfreude in seeing Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi near-immediately unmasking Haja as a fake.
  Haja: What do you know of the Force?
  Obi-Wan: I know it's a bunch of remotes and magnets.
  • The fact that Obi-Wan pulls a blaster, which fans know he once considered an uncivilized weapon of choice, on Haja is both jarring and unexpectedly hilarious.
• When Obi-Wan fights the spice gang while looking for Leia, it immediately becomes apparent how out of practice he's gotten in the last 10 years. He gets hit immediately after trying to spring an ambush and injures his hands knocking out the Zabrak so badly that he stops fighting.
  • Made funnier when you remember that one of his oldest foes is a Zabrak.
• When Leia tries to run off ahead to the port, she instantly runs into a large alien who seems rather annoyed over a kid getting in their way. She is rather intimidated, and can only nod when Kenobi tells her she has to do exactly as he says.
• Upon Obi-Wan's rescue, Leia has just one question:
  Obi-Wan: Your father sent me.
  Leia: Where's the army? ^note  Leia had told Vect earlier Bail would send an army to get her.
• Leia first telling Obi-Wan he looks kind of "old and beat up", then asking him to prove he's a Jedi by making her float. Obi-Wan is anything but amused, to say the least — he has a fantastic blink and you'll miss it eye roll that just screams "Oh greaaaaaat". She even gives an adorable twirl, which just makes it funnier.
  • She later tells him he's giving himself away the more he tries to hide, to which an incredulous Obi-Wan is somewhat taken aback that he just got lectured by a ten-year-old.
    Leia: You think the less you say, the less you give away, but really, it's the opposite.
    Obi-Wan: How old are you?
    Leia: Ten!
    Obi-Wan: You don't sound like you're ten.
    Leia: [very pleased] Thank you!
  • Made even funnier when you remember that Obi-Wan was in the maternity room when she was born, so he knows exactly how old she is.
• Obi-Wan tells Leia that they should pose as father and daughter to avoid being noticed. Leia snarks back that she'd be more convincing as his granddaughter.
  • Leia in general seems to have inherited the Skywalker snark and the Amidala stubbornness, which makes it especially exhausting for Obi-Wan as, while he may have years of experience dealing with each separately, he now has to deal with both in a small package.
• While picking out a new disguise for Leia, Obi-Wan sees her trying on some gloves. He informs her they don't need them, she doesn't even pause, and, without missing a beat, Obi-Wan gives in and buys her the gloves.
• When Haja is informed Obi-Wan is a Jedi, his reaction is to sigh "well, that's embarrassing" as he realizes he was trying the con on the real thing.
• When Obi-Wan's image gets sent out to bounty hunters in the surrounding area, they seem more annoyed that their dice game got interrupted than anything else. When Obi-Wan notices this, his body language practically screams "Of course, like this wasn't complicated enough already?!"
• A bit of Black Comedy comes into play when Obi-Wan sees Leia holding her damaged droid, Lola. He warns her that it better not make a sound, and Leia sadly informs him that Lola is broken. Obi-Wan's response?
  Obi-Wan: Good.
• Leia shows she’s just as much of a take-charge kind of gal that she’ll be on the Death Star when she lectures Obi-Wan and demands he follow her… even though she doesn’t know where to go.
• This exchange:
  Obi-Wan: [Padmé] was fearless. And stubborn too.
  Leia: I'm not stubborn.
  Obi-Wan: Yes, you are.
  Leia: I'm not!
• Haja Estree learns that Obi-Wan is a Jedi, and that the Inquisitors are after him. He decides to help the Jedi and promises to delay his pursuers as long as he can. This consists of facing off against Reva and declaring that he is the Jedi she is looking for, with a hammy delivery like he's in a superhero movie. She not only has no time for his theatrics, she doesn't even have time to threaten or seriously harm him, using the Force to extract what she wants from his mind and walking away.
  • When Reva Force-pushes Haja against a wall, he remarks that it probably wasn't magnets.
  • During the confrontation, Reva has a mixed look of both bewilderment and borderline rage, as if she’s caught between thinking "What the hell am I seeing right now" and "You’ve got to be joking."
  • When he catches up to Obi-Wan and promises to help, Haja shows off his Hero-Worshipper status when he, awestruck, says "You remembered my name?" Yes, Haja, it's literally been about an hour - of course he remembers your name!
  • Before that he defends himself with "Have I made some bad decisions? Sure. Do I feel bad about it? Sometimes. Do I like credits? Yeah, so much you can buy with credits..."
• "Where's the army?" Leia, you have so much to learn about Jedi.

Part III

• After making an Are We There Yet? remark, Leia asks Obi-Wan if he can use the Force to make the ship go faster, Obi-Wan's reply? "That's not how it works." A funny Call-Forward to Han telling Finn, 'That's not how the Force works!' when the latter suggests using the Force.
• When looking for directions, Obi-Wan tells Leia flat out that she is not to speak to anyone. Naturally, the very first being they meet, Leia does all the talking, sweet-talking her way into getting them a ride.
  • When their ride turns out to be an Empire-loving hauler, Leia declares "We love the Empire!" in the most Bad "Bad Acting" way possible.
  • Then a handful of stormtroopers hitch a ride alongside them. They're looking for a Jedi, and he's right in front of them! "We'll find him. We always do."
  • Obi-Wan accidentally calls Leia by her real name instead of the fake one they gave the stormtroopers. It's a tense scene, but Leia's quietly baffled reaction is humorous.
• Something darkly funny about Obi-wan's reaction when he and Leia take out the patrol and disable the security fence...and then a transport of troops shows up and he has a "oh, come on!" look on his face.
• There's something hilarious about how Vader and Obi-Wan first meet again after all these years. As Obi-Wan is wandering through the quarry, he eventually comes across Vader standing in front of him, igniting his lightsaber with a menacing stance. It looks like Obi-Wan is going to do the same... only for him to turn and run after a moment of standing there. The way Vader turns off his lightsaber after Obi-Wan runs is just the icing on the cake, as if he's thinking "Really? Ten years of hunting down my old master for that?"
  • Also, just like in Rogue One, Vader turned off his life-support temporarily just to make a dramatic entrance.
  • As terrifying as the context is, the fact that Obi-Wan and Tala were able to escape indirectly because of Vader's own doing (i.e. the minerals Vader ignited to torture Obi-Wan by fire are re-ignited to block the Stormtroopers' approach) also counts. Not for the last time will Vader have his target just within his grasp, yet manage to get away from him because he did something Awesome, but Impractical.
• How petty is Anakin Skywalker? He chooses to, albeit briefly, subject Obi Wan to the same fate he had: burning alive.

Part IV

• A small one, but when Reva tells Leia to reveal where the Path is because, quote, "We're all on the same side", Leia asks if she should get her father's permission first. "We're all on the same side, right?" Reva spends about a solid minute trembling with anger, stumbling over her words, and clearly trying to suppress a swearing fit before responding.
• When Reva tries (ineffectually) Force-probing Leia's mind, Leia defiantly keeps her composure and asks, "Is this a staring contest?"
• The combination of Reva's exasperated "You know what? We're doing this." and Leia's raised-eyebrows Oh, Crap! reaction when Reva makes good on her threats is a nice bit of Gallows Humor.
• The disguise Obi-Wan tries to use to escape Fortress Inquisitorius is an officer's hat and a shabby oversized poncho that he's using to hide the obvious bulge of Leia against his side, presumably hoping that the Fortress's staff will be too caught up in responding to the alarm to pay attention to him. It works, up until Reva arrives and calls attention to him and Tala.
• Somehow, with an Inquisitor leading a pack of stormtroopers after someone she openly yells as "Traitor!" there are still some Imperial officers just walking around like it's another day at the office. That includes a couple who walk right in between the trio and the troopers with rifles up. In combination with the famous "This is going to take a while." scene from The Mandalorian, one suspects that this sort of drama is common in the culture of the Empire and lives on in the First Order.
• Darth Vader is so insanely pissed off after Obi-Wan and company's escape that he actually runs (or at least power-walks) into the Inquisitorius meeting room instead of just looming around ominously like usual. Apparently the thought of executing incompetent subordinates is the one thing that helps Vader get the lead out!
• It's also somewhat hilarious that despite the Inquisitorius being as dreaded as ever, it underwent the same hallway flooding problem TWICE in 5 years time. You'd really think someone would do something about the glass security after Cal went through it. Not to mention, despite being considered so impenetrable, a Padawan and a rusty Jedi, and another rusty Jedi alongside a spy get in and out with relative ease.

Part V

• Despite this episode being particularly grim (with no shortage of casualties), it's cathartic in a Black Comedy way to see the refugees of the Path get away from Vader by tricking him into Force-dragging and destroying a decoy ship, only for them to subsequently fly unscathed. The fact that throughout the episode, it gets hammered home to us how Vader's impatience continues to drag him away from important victories actually helps diminish his intimidation factor. Despite being the Tin Tyrant he is, the sand-hating, Fearless Fool Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy of Attack of the Clones is still there.
  • It also helps as a Call-Forward to Rogue One where — as shown in his climactic fight where he absolutely wipes the floor with rebels, only to let the Tantive IV get away from him — he still has not learned this lesson.
  • Also to A New Hope, where his eagerness to destroy Obi-Wan means he ignores his "more powerful than you can possibly imagine" claim.
• The first Grand Inquisitor showing up to sass Reva and rip off her Grand Inquisitor badge as she lies wounded and broken on the ground is the darkest of dark comedy.
  Grand Inquisitor: Hello, Third Sister.

Part VI

• During the scene where Vader insists on pursuing Kenobi's ship instead of the ship filled with surviving Jedi, Force-sensitives, and other Path members, the Grand Inquisitor can be seen sucking his cheeks and biting his lip in silent frustration in the blurred background.
• Kenobi's Bad Boss bully from Part I gets a well-deserved Laser-Guided Karma from Reva. One almost wishes that he'd then tried mouthing off like the woman in the first episode and given Reva an excuse to use her lightsaber on him the same way.
• Luke gets his proper introduction accompanying Owen as he goes to a local shop for a new belt for their speeder... because as his uncle put it, "a certain somebody" broke the last one.
  Shopkeeper: (laughs) Your uncle is a patient man.
  Owen: I am not that patient.
• Leia is given Tala's holster and is disappointed that it's empty. Obi-Wan has to stop an eye-roll when he says, "Well, I'm not going to give you a blaster, Leia. You're ten years old."
• Just like in the last episode, Vader's obsession with Obi-Wan provides a lot of Black Comedy in tense moments. When Obi-Wan takes a separate ship and speeds away in a different direction, Vader immediately demands his crew to follow Obi-Wan without a beat. The Grand Inquisitor protests, correctly pointing that one Jedi Master is not worth a ship full of the Path refugees, only to be rebuked by Vader. You can even see the Grand Inquisitor rolling his eyes to Vader's decision. And then the scene cuts to the entire Star Destroyer changing course from the refugee ship, reminding us all that underneath that scary armor and voice is still the same immature, tantrum-throwing Padawan learner of Obi-Wan.
• The scene where Vader buries Obi-Wan under tons of rock is darkly funny when you realize that the tables have turned and Vader now has the high ground.
• Considering how often Jedi training seems to feature making rocks float, it's a bit amusing to see both Obi-Wan and Darth Vader finally use it for offense.
• A brief one in an absolutely terrifying scene: When Reva comes to kill Luke, Owen says "Ben's not around to help us." Beru snippily says "and whose fault is that?" Owen glares at her. It comes off hilariously petty, like they're arguing about who left the dishes out.
• Speaking of an Ascended Meme, what's the first thing Obi-Wan says upon meeting Luke? "Hello there."
• Leia's mother comes in to see if she's ready, and seems shocked that she actually is, no tricks or swapping with a handmaiden. And then she notices an addition to her outfit.
  Breha: Is that a holster?
• Before Leia speaks with her adopted father, Bail himself can be seen wobbling in place. There's an allusion that he might've drank a bit after her return.
• Qui-Gon certainly took a while to show up after being alluded to for the entire series (even if he is a Force Ghost). His first words to his former Padawan in 23 years (both chronological and real-life ones), after everything that Obi-Wan's gone through (especially the last few days)?
  Qui-Gon: Well, took you long enough.
  Obi-Wan: I was beginning to think you’d never come.
  • Their tone makes them sound more like they're annoyed with each other for being late to a meeting than happy to be reunited.
• The last we see of Darth Vader is him back in his castle on Mustafar throwing a massive Anakin-signature childish tantrum over Obi-Wan's escape and raving like a lunatic to a visibly-baffled Emperor Palpatine about how he's totally going to hunt Obi-Wan down. Palpatine's response after, presumably, listening to his apprentice rant like this for several minutes without end, and then blankly staring at him, completely unimpressed? "You seem agitated, my friend".
  • The fact that Palpatine even deigned to call Vader about the fallout of his hunt for Obi-Wan is also humorous if you read it as essentially a supervisor checking on a distracted/trouble-making employee. For readers of recent Star Wars comics like Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, they will recognize how Palpatine trying to motivate/placate Vader while the latter is too steeped in his desire to rampage is a quasi-Running Gag throughout their master-apprentice relationship.

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