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Video: Star Wars floats at the Rose Parade

posted at 4:30 pm on January 2, 2007 by Allahpundit
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There actually is news value to this: it’s the greatest concentration of American kitsch in history. The only way to improve upon it would have been to put it on ice.

With Scott Hamilton and Brian Boitano as Luke and Han, respectively.

Update: I know you’ve all seen it, but it’s de rigueur here. Smigel’s finest hour.

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Hey, Star Wars is an undeniable part of American culture–who are we to mock?

/no comment

Bob's Kid on January 2, 2007 at 4:46 PM

Thanks – I woke up too late yesterday to see this live.

jeffshultz on January 2, 2007 at 4:49 PM

Hey – we Jawas don’t approve of your scornful mockery.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Good Lt on January 2, 2007 at 4:51 PM

The terrorists have won.

AP, methinks thou dost protest too much. Latent Star Wars junkie, are you? It’s ok, you can come out, noone will ridicule you…

Freelancer on January 2, 2007 at 4:52 PM

What would Brian Boitano do?

mojo on January 2, 2007 at 4:53 PM

Triump. Love him.

Rich on January 2, 2007 at 4:56 PM

Well George Lucas was the Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade, so it only seems appropriate that the parade organizers would request a “Star Wars” segment for the parade.

Fatal on January 2, 2007 at 4:58 PM

Vader would know how to take care of Jihadists..

Viper1 on January 2, 2007 at 4:59 PM

Viper1…Vader really doesn’t seem like the “pre-sort the Jihadi’s from the non-Jihadis” type. My best guess is he would turn everything from the Morocco-Libya border to the Pakistan-India Frontier into one large glassware exhibit. And then do eight hours in the sleep-chamber peacefully.

52Ranger on January 2, 2007 at 5:12 PM

And that’s assuming he wasn’t P.O.’d at the Moroccans.

52Ranger on January 2, 2007 at 5:13 PM

that is so my video of the day.

BWAHAHAHAH!!!

One Angry Christian on January 2, 2007 at 5:27 PM

This officially represents a new era in Jock/Nerd relations.

Peace in our time!

Verbal Abuse on January 2, 2007 at 5:36 PM

That was a pretty impressive crowd of UNARMED storm troopers (darned New York politics!). :)

I likes me some Twilek lasses, though. Odd how they were all pretty much the same color, though. Septuplets?

Merovign on January 2, 2007 at 5:40 PM

Thees ees a beeauteeful blog……….

Kid from Brooklyn on January 2, 2007 at 5:40 PM

Vip, Ranger: Yeah, we saw what Annakin thought of the SandPeople in Ep2.

Tony737 on January 2, 2007 at 5:42 PM

LOL. That was awesome.

Chris L. on January 2, 2007 at 6:18 PM

Mark my words. In 5000 years Star Wars will BE an established religion. There will also be one based on The Lord of The Rings.

See link

I wonder if the founders in the UK are having any problems with the Muslims. How long will it be before we read a headline that a Jihadi beheads a Jedi Knight on the outskirts of London.

Agrippa2k on January 2, 2007 at 7:30 PM

That was a pretty impressive crowd of UNARMED storm troopers (darned New York politics!). :)

Umm, Rose Parade. Pasadena. California.

Possibly the same PC politics involved, though.

Freelancer on January 2, 2007 at 8:56 PM

C’mon now…who among us doesn’t like Star Wars?

As for Triumph…That has got to be one of his funniest…my fav is still the Hawaii weather stint..

JetBoy on January 3, 2007 at 6:56 AM

As a hard core LOTR fan (the term “Loremaster” is not out of the question. Misspent youth and all that) I feel dirty for laughing so hard at this. Bravo for Lucas, I guess. This is, in many ways, his Triumph (a la Caesar) and for coming up with such an American saga I guess he rates it (although I am convinced that twenty years from now certain lines will be edited from Episode III in order to aid in consistency and eliminate annoying political commentary. For the love of God, the man simply cannot write dialog!)

Militant Bibliophile on January 3, 2007 at 10:53 AM