George Lucas

The dark side of Free Country, USA

The dark side of the Force

The works of George Lucas and Lucasfilm, especially the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, have left a profound impact on filmmaking and pop culture, and Homestar Runner is no exception.

References

Star Wars

• Character Cards — The Unguraits resemble the Jawas from A New Hope.
• Hairstyle Runner — "Padawan dork" refers to the fact that padawans, Jedi apprentices in Star Wars, often wear their hair short with a long, thin ponytail.
• Strong Bad's Message Bored — The page title for when the board was overloaded was "There's Too Many of Them!!!", a popular Star Wars quote. Its most notable use was by Lieutenant Telsij during the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi.
• Email Greeting Cards — Strong Bad's card for web cartoonists reads, "Thinking of you...And how terrible your stupid Star Wars spoofs are."
• Email video games (DVD commentary) — Matt Chapman mentions "the original Star Wars game", possibly referring to the 1983 arcade game Star Wars.
• Email for kids (DVD commentary) — Jonathan Howe's comment that the new Star Wars episodes are not suitable for children refers to the fact that the then-recently released Revenge of the Sith was rated PG-13, whereas all previous Star Wars movies were rated PG.
• Biz Cas Fri 2 — The shareholders' mug has a picture of Mike Chapman as a child dressed as Luke Skywalker.
• Halloween Potion-ma-jig — Homestar Runner mistakenly assumes that Bubs is dressed as Lando Calrissian from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
• Email myths and legends — One of the fence drawings is a TIE fighter.
• The Municipality's logo is modeled after Darth Vader's mask.
• Email what i want — Strong Bad asks the sender, Talon Jendro, if George Lucas came up with his name. He also mentions that he came from a "computer-generated planet", in reference to the abundance of CGI effects in the Special Editions and Prequel Trilogy of Star Wars.
• Email the movies (DVD commentary) — Homestar and Mike mention the ASCII re-creation of the original Star Wars.
• Email Accent — Strong Bad's "mesa" joke is a reference to the distinctive speech patterns of Jar Jar Binks.
• Strong Badia the Free — Using the glowstick on the katana causes Strong Bad to say, "Glowing swords used to be cool, until someone ruined my childhood", referring to both lightsabers and negative fan reaction to the Star Wars Special Edition and prequel trilogy.
• W00tstock - 18 Jul 2013 — Strong Bad talks about fans wearing costumes of Jango Fett, Boba Fett and Princess Leia, and Homestar references Lobot, all characters of the Star Wars franchise.
• Fan Costumes 2015 — Strong Bad references how one of the people is dressed as an X-wing Pilot using one of Luke Skywalker's lines from the Death Star battle scene.
• Haunted Photo Booth — Homestar waves his glowing bat around and makes lightsaber noises.
• Halloween Hijinks — Strong Bad, imitating Homestar's usual costume compliments, compares Homsar's costume to BB-8 after having been run over by a sandcrawler.

Indiana Jones

• Email morning routine — Strong Bad calls Strong Sad "Interruptor Jones".
• The System is Down — "We've got our top men working on it 'round the clock," said by Strong Bad, is a reference to what the government representative says to Indiana Jones about the status of the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Email best thing (DVD commentary) — Strong Bad mentions the "Grail diary" from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
• Email pizza joint — In response to the lengthy name of "Strong Bad's Strong Badian Pizz—", The Ugly One (in a sarcophagus) declares "I belong in a museum!", in reference to the Indiana Jones film series.
• Strong Badia the Free — While in the Homsar Reservation, asking Strong Sad about the tuning fork will get him to say, "Oooo, that looks like a rare Homsar artifact! It belongs in a museum!" echoing Indiana Jones's famous line.
• Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective — Strong Bad saying that the paintings in the office "belong in a museum!" is a reference to the Indiana Jones film series.
• 8-Bit is Enough — When asking Strong Bad to help him find his lucky quarter, Homestar comments, "I hear you're the best digger in Cairo", a modified quote from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• 2 Part Episode: Part 2 — Subtlefuge's description of Swampslash's abilities is similar to Indiana Jones's false statement regarding Marcus Brody in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "He speaks a dozen languages... He'll blend in — disappear..."

Other

• Email montage — The "Where are they now" photos and text at the end of the email are a likely reference to the ending of the 1973 film American Graffiti, where it was first used.
• Email hygiene — Gene employs THX special effects artists to operate a fake fire in his bedroom.
• The House That Gave Sucky Tricks — Marzipan dresses as Captain EO, Michael Jackson's title character of a Disney theme park movie executive-produced by Lucas.

See Also

• LucasArts
• Disney
• Steven Spielberg
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Stanley Kubrick
• Telltale Games