Many shows have a few references to
Star Wars. It's a popular film series, so the majority of the audience is likely to understand it. However, some shows go a step further, and have an entire
episode that revolves around references to
Star Wars,
Luke I Am Your Father scenes,
Big NOOOOOOOs, and thinly-veiled
Captain Ersatzes of Darth Vader. The focal or point-of-view character usually plays the part of Luke Skywalker, since episodes frequently take most references from primarily
A New Hope and
The Empire Strikes Back. The episode
need not be a parody, and in many cases is an
Homage. Compare
Charlie And The Chocolate Parody.
Trope Name is based on parodies of the title to
A Very Brady Christmas.
Examples
Anime
Live Action Television
- The episode of That 70s Show set when Star Wars is first in theaters, naturally. Contains intentional references to only Episode IV, for obvious reasons.
- The dodgeball episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide includes Cookie joining The Dark Side and gaining a roboticized voice and heavy breathing from his dodge ball face shield, an Image Freeze echoing the end of the master-vs.apprentice fight in A New Hope, and a dodgeball called The Force, among others.
Newspaper Comics
- Fox Trot had an arc where Jason sent a script to George Lucas that had him inserted into the series as Luke's Marty Stu younger brother.
- Bloom County once had an extended dream sequence that parodied Star Wars, with Binkley as Luke Skywalker and other cast members playing various Star Wars characters.
Video Games
Webcomics
- User Friendly did an arc "a long time ago, in another incarnation" parodying A New Hope, with the Dust Puppy in the Luke role and the Crud Puppy in the Vader role. The Dust Puppy, however, takes a backseat to Eric S. Raymond
("May the Open Source be with you!") and Lan Solaris, cocky pilot of the Millennium Bug.
Western Animation
- Robot Chicken had two Star Wars specials.
- The Fairly Oddparents had an episode that combined the usual A Very Star Wars Parody fare with allusions to Attack of the Clones when Timmy wishes for a copy machine that makes things real. The Abra-Catastrophe special also had a limited example in the opening dream sequence.
- Family Guy did the episode "Blue Harvest", a parody of Star Wars and the in-production title of Return of the Jedi.
- A parody of The Empire Strikes Back is slated for the 2009-2010 season, with a Return of the Jedi parody also in the works.
- Done in an episode of Muppet Babies but far Too Soon; Luke and Leia are treated as the Official Couple.
- The final episode of Pinky and the Brain was a Star Wars parody featuring the cast of Animaniacs, the show that it spun off from.
- Tiny Toon Adventures did this in its first regular episode in syndication.
- Codename Kids Next Door had one episode revolving around it. There was a parody of the Darth Vader fight on a catwalk and they even parodied "Use the Force" with "Use the soup."
- Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends combined it with a superhero spoof—the villain turned Bloo into a Vader copy and made him fight Mac on a catwalk with a dramatic "unmasking".
- The Venture Brothers loves throwing in Star Wars references, but the second season episode "Love-Bheits" really takes it over the top and almost becomes nothing but a Star Wars parody episode.
- The Super Mario Bros Super Show did one of these parodies, actually called 'Star Koopa'. It actually had Bowser as Darth Vader, the other characters as other Star Wars characters and 'Lightplungers'.
- The Chipmunks Go to the Movies, in which each episode was a parody of a well-known film, never actually did a Star Wars episode, but there was a few seconds of Star Wars in the title sequence, with Alvin as Luke, Simon as C3PO, Theodore as R2-D2, and David as Darth Vader.
