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Hardware Wars
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In 1977 a little movie called Star Wars was released. Seven months later came an unlikely follow-up.Hardware Wars was released in 1978, and was written and directed by Ernie Fosselius. It is a Short Film parody of A New Hope, expressed as a movie trailer. It's not just a low budget, straightforward spoof, though — the underlying gimmick is that all of the spaceships and even some of the characters have been replaced by household appliances and tools: the R2D2 Expy is a canister vacuum, the Millennium Falcon is represented by a steam iron, Star Destroyers are flying toasters and hand-cranked egg beaters, even Stormtroopers have turned into "Steam Troopers", and more. The silliness simply must be seen to be believed.George Lucas is apparently on record saying that Hardware Wars is his favorite Star Wars parody. The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson liked it enough to slip an homage into the film. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Ernie Fosselius is the guy giving the mission briefing at the end. | |
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Visual Pun: The "Tractor Beam." | |
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Cool Shades: 4-Q2 is wearing a pair in the trash compactor scene. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The Country music house band in the Mos Eisley-Expy bar is singing a song about the actual Obi-Wan Kenobi. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: During a scene on the Desert Planet, in the background can be briefly seen a woman in a bathing suit, picking up her beach towel and walking away. | |
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The Unintelligible: Darph Nader. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: The whole damn thing. Planet Basketball, for starters, is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Disney Acid Sequence | |
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Disney Acid Sequence: The funky special effects when Ham Salad makes his ship go into "Dyna-space". We're treated to about a minute of weird kaleidoscopic imagery and strange noises. | |
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Well, Excuse Me, Princess! | |
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Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Almost word for word....and a Shout-Out to Steve Martin. | |
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Special Effect Failure | |
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Special Effect Failure: Invoked as part of the overall Stylistic Suck: They wanted you to see the strings on the models, and used more lighting on the strings to this end. They wanted you to see the flashlight as a flashlight, and the beam as its light scattered off fog. Anne-Droid's hairstyle consists of literal giant cinnamon buns on the sides of her head (which Chewchilla The Wookie-Monster eats at one point with much gusto! OMMM NOMNOMNOM....).note In what seems like either an homage or a coincidence, Cookie Monster's own Star Wars parody has a gag in which he tries to eat the princess' hair (Oreo-like cookies). | |
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Hong Kong Dub | |
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Hong Kong Dub: Even though it's an American film, the dubbing of the dialogue doesn't quite match the movement of the character's mouths. Likely deliberate, see the Special Effect Failure example below. | |
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Logo Joke | |
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Logo Joke: 20th Century Foss and "ZZZ: The audience is tired of logos" for the THX logo in the 1997 special edition. | |
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No Animals Were Harmed | |
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No Animals Were Harmed: Or killed, for that matter. | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack: Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries accompanies pretty much the entirety of the film. It's surprisingly appropriate. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: lampooned:note Pun on Lampshaded. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Let's see... Artie Deco, Ham Salad, Anne Droid, 4Q-2, Darph Nader, and let's not forget Chewchilla the Wookiee Monster. Not to mention the name of the Bar Band: Slim Chance and Derange Riders. In a meta-example, the film studio is credited as "20th Century Foss". | |
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May the Farce Be with You | |
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May the Farce Be with You: The last lines in the film. Given that it came out shortly after the real Star Wars, it's probably safe to call it the Trope Maker. | |
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Medium Awareness | |
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Medium Awareness: This exchange. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The Darth Vader Expy is called "DarphNader". The 1997 "Special Edition" with more special effects, in response to the revamped 20th anniversary re-releases with extended scenes added to the original trilogy installment. | |
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Opening Monologue | |
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Opening Monologue: "Meanwhile . . . in another part of the galaxy . . . later that same day." | |
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie | |
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie: Hardware Wars is presented as a trailer. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: One of the droids says "Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into". The C3-PO Expy looks like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. The Chewbacca Expy is an utterly adorable brown Cookie Monster from Sesame Street.note Ernie Fosselius created 20 original animated short subjects for Sesame Street. The Obi-Wan Expy is named after Augie Doggie from Hanna-Barbera's Quick Draw McGraw. The hologram with Princess Anne Droid's message comes out of Artie-Deco's vacuum-cleaner hose in a similar manner to Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie. Ham Salad angrily replies to Anne Droid with a Steve Martin catchphrase (see Well, Excuse Me, Princess!). The lounge singer's "I'm Proud to Be Old Obi-Wan Kenobi" is a parody of Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee". The "S Raw Rats 77" graffiti is "Star Wars" spelled backwards with its initial release year. At one point Anne Droid says to Darph Nader "You talkin' to me?" a'la Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Fluke's reaction on being given the flashlight is "Gosh! Wow-ee! Jeepers, golly willickers!" | |
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Expy | |
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The Darth Vader Expy is called "DarphNader". | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: For Rule of Funny....The Luke Expy is even more dorky, whiny, naive and goofy and he talks like a 50's sitcom kid (see the Gosh Dang It to Heck! entry). | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Fluke Starbucker's "Golly!" and "Jeepers!". | |
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Aside Glance | |
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Aside Glance: Augie Ben Doggie gives us one after the particularly awful (intentionally so) special effect of simulating a light saber with a flashlight in stage fog. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: The film is presented as a movie trailer, so they never actually get around to the ending. | |
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Expospeak Gag | |
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Expospeak Gag: The lengthy explanation of what must be done to take out the Death Star-Expy. When it's met with "huh?" the man sums it up as: Pull the plug. | |
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Tagline | |
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Tagline: "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks goodbye", and "May the Farce Be With You". | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: Gratuitous to the extreme. A picture of a naked woman lying down appears out of nowhere during the "Blow Up The Death Star-Expy" exposition. | |
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Obi-Wan Moment | |
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Obi-Wan Moment: Spoofed. Augie Doggie stays to fight Darph Nader, and the rest of the cast sarcastically call him a martyr as they leave. | |
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