The Film
- Awesome Music: Provided by Rush.
- Best Known for the Fanservice: The thing people remember most about this movie was Kristen Bell dressed as Slave Leia.
- Fridge Brilliance:
- Linus was the only one of the group who was allowed a special advanced screening of Episode I. After he finished watching the movie the group asked him how it was, he didn't answer. Later on when sitting with Eric, Linus says "....you gotta keep the flaws. Crappy effects, real puppets. That's what makes it so good, ya know?" - which alludes to what many die-hard fans didn't like about the prequels is that they were over-burdened with special effects and lacking on story, etc.
- Hutch sneaks beers into the screening of The Phantom Menace. Based on how most long-time Star Wars fans reacted to that movie, they'd need them.
- Funny Moments:
- Windows finds out that his online girlfriend is really eleven years old. His response? "I'm a PEDOPHILE! I'm a PEDOPHILE!!"
- "I'm William Shatner, I can score anything"
- Hutch asking the Trekkies what "I'm going to die a virgin" is in Klingon, and one of them responding in fluent Klingon.
- "Han Solo is a bitch!"
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- A real-life version of this movie's plot happened in January 2013 with the Star Trek franchise. Daniel Craft's dying wish was to see the unreleased at the time Star Trek Into Darkness, the second film in J. J. Abrams's rebooted Trek series, with Abrams granting Craft's wish just before he died at the age of 41. Harsher because it may make the fight scenes with the "Lucashounds" and Trekkies a little harder to watch; Heartwarming because it hammers in that the Star Wars & Star Trek fandoms are Not So Different, despite their claims otherwise.
- Then in November 2015, another real-life example of the movie's plot made it to the news
. Arguably even harsher, since it concerns an upcoming (and much anticipated) Star Wars movie, making it a direct parallel.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The fights between the "Lucashounds" and Trekkies became this after it was announced in 2012 that a third Star Wars trilogy would be entering production, helmed by J. J. Abrams, the man who also directed the films that resurrected the Star Trek film series.
- If the film had been made a decade later, it could have been seen as a Whole Plot Reference to Rogue One.
- Ernest Cline would later go on to pen a pair of novels, Ready Player One and Armada, both nostalgic works which take fandom of the 70s and 80s as a running theme. Ready Player One is even being made into a Steven Spielberg movie.
The Webcomic
- Crosses the Line Twice: We can easily terminate the problem.
- Nightmare Fuel: You will never see Miyamoto-san the same way.
- Forced Meme: "Squirrels are nature's drug-dealers." It never caught on.
- Growing the Beard: The comic was discovered by Something Awful, which critically slammed it into the ground for various reasons. Scott read through the responses, then went away for a while afterwards. When he came back the whole comic was drastically improvement, demonstrating how he took the complaints to heart. Since then the comic has been received very warmly.
- Memetic Mutation: Paul entering the house and interrupting SOMETHING going on before slamming the door has become the punchline to many a webcomic edit (including a number from Awkward Zombie). The latest in the line is a Portal 2◊ parody.◊
- Old Shame:
- Schedule Slip: The comic has a tendency to occasionally go dead for months, before temporary springing back to life. It currently seems to be dead, as there have been no updates since early 2015.
