Did you know Adult Swim was putting on a second episode of Robot Chicken Star Wars? I’m not sure many people knew, because I sorta stumbled onto it while flipping through my DVR guide the other night.
Not everything clicked with me, but there were some definite highlights:
Stormtrooper’s Take Your Daughter to Work Day — I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing jokes centered around this odd office “holiday.” The scene with Obi Wan using the Force on the Stormtroopers and not affecting the daughter was great.
Mouse drives the tiny robot — Remember that tiny black robot-thingy in Cloud City, where Chewie growled and made it squeal, turn around and roll away? Turns out it was being driven by a mouse. Short clip but funny.
Racing At-Ats — This wasn’t really all that funny until Vader pops up as a hologram at the end, asking for a status report on the invasion, and the At-At driver puts a cup over him.
Vader instructs bounty hunters — The best part of this clip was Vader wondering if that odd-looking steampunk-like robot was paying attention to anything he had to say.
Dinner with Darth Vader — This was a continuation of the scene from the movie where, in Cloud City, Han Solo, Chewie and Leia are brought into a dining room of sorts where Vader’s sitting. Remember the door closing behind them, and we never saw what happened next? Well, this was it. Best part of the episode by far.
“This deal is getting worse all the time!” — What did Lando mean by his deal with Vader “getting worse all the time?” What kinds of things was he asked to do before? Well, now you know.
Cloud City apartment hunting — Cloud City is a huge, huge place. Must be a lot of people living there, right? Better hope you don’t have an interior view. Also, the satellite TV sucks.
Emperor’s bad day — One of the final acts of the show, and I’d say this was the second best behind the dinner scene. Pretty much any scene with the Emperor is priceless.
Best quotes of the show:
Emperor to Darth Vader: “I can’t hold your hand anymore — a hand I gave you, I might add!”
Giant Emperor hologram to Vader: “You look so tiny down there, like a little, mean pepper shaker.”
Lando: “I’ve gotta say, Boba, this is one beauty of a ship. Not crazy about the name, though.”
Woman (at a restaurant): “I’ll have the calamari.”
Akbar: “Well! I guess I’ll have the insensitive bitch, with a side of fuck you.”
What were your favorite scenes?
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Nov 17, 2008 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
“Remember that tiny black robot-thingy in Cloud City,”
I think you will find that little robot thingy was yelled at on the Death Star and not Cloud City.
You selected a repeat clip as the best one. “Dinner with Darth Vader” was in their first SW special.
I think you will find you are incorrect on that one. It may have been on the DVD of it (which I haven’t seen) but the broadcast version of the first Star Wars Robot Chicken DID NOT have Dinner with Vader.