- Crosses the Line Twice:
- The destruction of Alderaan? Not funny. Darthenshmirtz in the foreground of said destruction, upset that the worth of his time share on Alderaan has suddenly dropped to zero? Hilarious.
- Just the fact that Vader chokes an Imperial officer to death is horrifying on its own, but choking one for failing to bring some socks of all things? Black Humor as its finest. It helps that it's a Phineas and Ferb special.
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Vanessa the Twi'lek for obvious reasons.
- Isabella also appears to be quite popular, for being a highly contrasting yet believable alternate to her canon series self.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Several jokes are made about the Death Star having a built-in Self-Destruct Button. Rogue One would later provide a canon explanation for the weakness that made the special's wisecracks come off as darker than intended: the weakness was deliberately installed by the main engineer (who the Empire enslaved to create the Death Star in the first place) in the hopes of it being destroyed before it could be used, and every single member of the titular crew, including said-engineer's beloved daughter, died to get the schematics for the Rebel Alliance in order to have that flaw exploited.
- Jar Jar is mentioned as having retired, but Aftermath: Empire's End reveals that he was booted off the Senate for giving Palpatine the emergency powers that allowed Palpatine to turn the Galactic Senate into the Empire, got exiled from Otoh Gungan again and is currently living at a refugee center on Naboo, working as a clown and feeling immensely guilty for what he did.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Surprisingly, the special predicted a lot of details about the direction of the Star Wars franchise, seventeen months before The Force Awakens hit theaters:
- The main plot of this episode is about a defecting Stormtrooper and showing how the Death Star plans were stolen, foreshadowing The Force Awakens and Rogue One, the first two Star Wars movies created under Disney. Baljeet also mentions having joined the Empire by accident, which is strangely similar to how we see Han Solo's new backstory in how he became an Imperial pilot.
- Phineas and Ferb's multi-branched lightsabers, especially given the Memetic Mutation the trailer of The Force Awakens caused after seeing Kylo Ren's crossguard lightsaber. Rebels also introduces the Inquisitor lightsabers, which are lightsabers that can turn into double-bladed lightsabers which can spin, similar to how one of Ferb's lightsabers spins.
- It seems that Ferb still has some Dark Side in him, since the person who voices him, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, makes a cameo as First Order Officer Thanisson in The Force Awakens.
- The vulnerability in the Death Star is explained as it being based on one of Darthenshmirtz's inventions, and like his main show counterpart always does he included a self-destruct device by design. Rogue One established that the designer doing it on purpose actually is the canon explanation, though for reasons beyond incompetence.
- An egotistical Evil Genius who wears a cape, craves Vader's approval, and wants to be taken seriously as a bad guy only to get humiliated repeatedly. Are we talking about Darthenshmirtz or Director Orson Krennic?
- A young girl from a multi-ethnic background who is also a badass space pirate who clashes with Han Solo and inadvertently helps him recover his need to do the right thing and help the Rebel Alliance: Captain Isabella of the Centennial Chihuahua or Enfys Nest from Solo?
- Phineas, representing Obi-Wan, duels Ferb, who resembles Darth Maul after being blasted by the Sithinator, foreshadowing their rematch in Rebels.
- Improved Second Attempt: This is generally seen as the better crossover compared to Mission Marvel due to the longer runtime allowing for a more epic story, humor that's more snappy, the characters largely staying more like how they usually are, and being a non-canon Universal-Adaptor Cast episode rather than trying to tie it in with the normal Danville setting.
- Magnificent Bastard: Darth Ferb is created when the heroic Ferb is blasted by Darthenshmirtz's Sithinator. Immediately upgrading and outfitting the Sith-inator to galactic-wide proportion, Darth Ferb offers Phineas a chance to join him in creating an entire army of Sith. When Phineas rejects his offer, Darth Ferb expertly tricks out his lightsabers on the fly to duel and overcome Phineas with all manner of trickery. Even when Candace and Perry intervene, Darth Ferb's mastery of the Force enables him to near-victory, and he is only barely beaten after cleverly destroying Phineas's lightsaber to leave the boy powerless.
- Nausea Fuel: Buford eats the hoagie after it was drenched in sewage.
- Take That, Scrappy!: When two Rebel Soldiers find R2-D2 without the disc containing the plans for the Death Star, one of them suggests they "blame Jar-Jar".
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