Star Wars PSA's

These Star Wars public service announcements by College Humor are actually pretty funny!  Color me surprised.  I'm actually pretty pleased that they restrained themselves from making some sort of Admiral Ackbar "Trap" reference, although it seems that they couldn't refrain from a "Keep Calm and Carry On" spoof.   Oh well.  They are still pretty great.

Ha ha, in tiny print it says "Paid for by the Endor Department of Parks and Recreation."  I would watch that show.  An ewok Ron Swanson would be hilarious.

It was specieisim! And anti-robotism!  R2D2 almost died fighting, shouldn't he at least get a purple heart or something? 

I don't know what's coming out of that cup, but it sure ain't blue milk.  It looks like how Hutts are born.

Anyway, I thought these were pretty great.  Stay tuned!

Do it for Science

As I'm sure many of you are aware, Portal 2 came out just a couple of weeks ago. (PS--it was awesome). Check out these posters made by flickr user wd.farmer that capture the 50's style feeling of the game.
By the way, I love repulsion gel. I love all the gels, actually. I hope that when the Portal 2 DLC is released (and if PSN ever goes back online) that it will deal with all of the different gels. They were so much fun.

If these were available in poster sizes I would probably buy the whole rainbow. Definitely check out the rest of the posters, they are awesome. I can hear Cave Johnson's voice in my head as I read all of these.

Lesson 101: Star Wars

These minimalist posters are really cool. I would love to hang them all over the house! At the same time, they look like really old covers to really old boring textbooks. You know, if they made textbooks about Tatooine. Can't you just imagine some poor kid on the border planets being forced to take "Tatooine Early History--From 157-1597: The Rise of the Sand People." Alright, that sounds pretty cool. But you know, to some backwater kid who spends all of his days writing graffiti on moisture vaporators I'm sure it's pretty boring. "Moooooom, why do I have to study the history of the stupid Sand People? I want to go pick up some power converters!" You know how it is.


::Read in boring, monotone lecture voice:: The forest moon of Endor is home to many small creatures known as Ewoks. The topography of the moon, as well as the constant threat of predators, leads the natural inhabitants to create their cities high in the treetops. First we will discuss the Ewok Rebellion on 1295....
Let us take a look at the different kinds of ice crystals the sixth planet of the Hoth system has to offer....

Bespin is a giant gas planet. (pause while the audience snickers at a fart joke). One of the main mining materials comes from....

Okay, I think all I've proven here is that anything about Star Wars is interesting, even if it is talking about the Ewok Rebellions of 1295 (I just made that up, but it sounds awesome).

You can check out the rest of this guy's work over on his Flickr page. It sounds like he might be offering prints eventually, so if anyone is interested be sure to keep an eye out! Stay tuned!

Disney has a sense of humor!

Well, sort of. Check out these posters that were supposedly used to boost employee spirit for the Star Wars weekend (as if someone couldn't get excited about Star Wars on their own). However, these posters could be interpreted as being anti-Star Wars if you take a closer look at them. Here they are, with my take on them.

This one says, "Make fun of short people! They can't ride our rides!" I mean, is it really the Ewoks fault that they are so short? Haven't they already been persecuted enough by Stephen Colbert? On a side note, Colbert says that Ewoks are perfect they way they are--bite sized.*



Now Disney is making fun of fat Gamorrean guards. Aren't they ugly enough without Disney shoving their ridiculous standards of beauty in our faces? It's mostly muscle mass though, at least that's what Jabba told me**.

Poor Stormtrooper. He's going to starve to death unless he can find a way to take his helmet off. And judging how the stormtroopers acted over on the forest moon of Endor, I think it's a good bet he'll starve to death. They got beaten by a bunch of Ewoks who couldn't even ride the rides at Disneyworld!

This one is my favorite. It says to me, "Come on kids, have fun at Disneyworld! Watch as a murderous father tries to kill his own son! It's the most magical place on earth!" Also, the lightsaber being on makes me very nervous. All it takes is one little flick of the wrist and Darth Vader's head will be cut in half. Plus you can see the lightsaber from a good distance away, thereby losing your sense of surprise. Although I guess a giant tall guy dressed in all black with a cape doesn't blend into the crowd very much. Am I over analyzing this? Probably. But is it really funny to capitalize on a father's murderous rage towards his son? I guess the answer would have to be yes.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed these posters, even with my very pointed and astute observations about them. I hope everyone is having a nice week! Stay tuned for more cool stuff coming soon.


via Superpunch.


*Okay, he didn't actually say that. But I'm sure he would if someone asked him how he felt about the Ewoks height.

**Okay, he didn't actually say that. But I'm sure he would if he weren't dead and fictional.