A Family Guy joke that aged PERFECTLY (Star Wars)

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

This was just for fun. Im NOT explaining the Death Star weakness Plot from a new hope and obviously, Galen didn't make the death star weakness for "aesthetics" (it was pretty clear in the movie). Point was the weakness was intentionally put there by people who worked on the death star in both the parody and the movie where as before disney bought star wars the hole wasn't put there intentionally to blow the death star up. It was accidental, not planned, and not predicted by family guy. No one knew anything before rogue one

[@slickadooie]

Nah Seth mcfarlane is a time traveler he set this up

[@joshhelberg]

​​@@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIALt's Darksaber I believe. I might be confusing it with one of the old Guide to the Gaxalys books about ships and vehicles.

[@TorturedMongoose2003]

I don't want to be that guy... But you know you mispelled rogue right... The spelled it as rouge which is a color...

[@uku4171]

Yea it's funny

[@gillespage5489]

Dorkly's The Death Star Architect Speaks Out is 10 times better than that though

[@nexiuz2233]

After all…if there’s no hole, there’s no goal. That architect was a man of culture

[@matttan8066]

I mean he did beat a hole in his movie polar

[@ItsPREPP98]

​@oliviabuller7389what the actual fu-

[@Danny15877]

Man of porn addiction

[@DONKEYKONG260]

I mean Im sure other things were going through his head but yeh funni meme words

[@randombonapartist]

and to be clear, it was made for a goal

[@rodneydangerfield7029]

George was so chill. When Mel Brooks asked him about parodying star wars, George said yes. All George asked was that Lone Star was not dressed as Han. So Mel dressed him like Indiana Jones instead lol

[@ObsessedCollector]

And no merchandising was allowed. Hence the merchandising! merchandising! merchandising! scene.

[@corny387]

​@@ObsessedCollector I'm still trying to find Spaceballs the Flamethrower! to no avail...

[@danielandjenny9]

Spaceballs is one of the greatest films ever haha

[@BEdwardStover]

George also said no products, so no real products but a crazy amount of products that appear only in the film, as if there were commercials in it, that both parodied Star Wars and gave the Star Wars producers new ideas for new things to sell.

[@BEdwardStover]

It also led to an uptick in sales of Star Wars figurines.

[@Alloy682]

To be fair. Having only an exhaust port be 3 meters wide on a station the size of a small moon is amazing.

[@nehcrum]

Not remembering to put a freaking fenced cover on it makes it a lot less amazing.

[@Soupsandwich69]

There are probably thousands of other exhaust ports on the Death Star, but only the one had that weakness

[@dontbeorbeevil]

@@Soupsandwich69 budget limits

[@foxxygradius7858]

Yeah! 3 meters is about the size of a... Like... Uhhh... I feel like there's a creature I could compare this to that everyone would obviously know what I'm talking about but it's slipped my mind.

[@SeahorsesJay]

​@@foxxygradius7858 I wanna say "wamp rat" but I have no idea why or what that even is

[@azerial]

As a person who worked 10 years on a Star wars video game, there's nothing that is released to the public without Lucas's approval.

[@Sjorsje]

Cool, what'd you work on and what was your occupation?

[@azerial]

@@Sjorsje Star Wars: The Old Republic. I started as a manual QA and quickly advanced to being an Embedded QA, then eventually a Software Developer in Test, and finally as a Software Engineer specializing as a release engineer.

[@TheICFArchitect]

Parody is protected by copyright law and requires no approval from anybody. Seth asking for approval was just a sign of respect.

[@spud_tato]

​@@azerialthat's awesome! My older brother would spend hours and hours a day on that game and dropped out of highschool just so he could play games like that lol

[@mac888spectral7]

​@@TheICFArchitectHe asked because Fox made him. The random Star Wars references on the show were getting out of hand and Fox was becoming fearful of a lawsuit. Seth and a couple of other people who worked on this parody talked about it somewhere on the DVD, maybe the commentary.

[@lukethegoldenminecart1297]

Technically speaking, the exhaust hole did actually have a purpose it was meant to get rid of heat from the Death Star's core. The Empire never considered it a weakness because they didn't believe the rebels would be crazy enough to attack a battle station of that size. So, while it was intended to be a flaw in the plan in canon, it was before that part of a more practical part of the Death Star's overall function

[@Zack_Wester]

Plus whit something as big as the Deathstar I think they was more worried about other More oblivius weakbesses they found about. This is like lets put 3 bolts and reinforce the front door that was made of standard wood and not solid hardwood oak kind of deal. Completely slipping there mind about the backyard basement window. (the exaust) here been that the alarm system 1 did not activate on the basement window. (no worries your now in the basement but you can´t walk anywhere cameras pointing everywhere plus all the doors in the building have alarms). but guess what sabotage designer put a wire under the window that you can cut after you climb in (into the one blindspot) and cut it. nulling all the door and window security, all the cameras, all the alarms and so on. the person breaking in must just be under 1.6 meters 5.2 feet.

[@thehobo00]

ThErMaL eXhAuSt PoRt

[@dragonweyr44]

Were there other exhaust ports located around the station that DIDN'T lead to the total destruction if you shot into them?

[@ShawAnthoni]

I think the message here is if you don't pay your designers well they will make "aesthetic choices" that could get your fully operational battle station blown to smithereens .

[@BEdwardStover]

No heat is waste heat. In space, you battle the cold, not heat. That is a planetary problem.

[@ProcInc]

The thing is though it wasn't actually sabotage until Rogue One claimed it was. A 2m thermal exhaust for a space station the size of a moon is actually impossibly amazing engineering rather than a design flaw

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

I know, i just that it was cool coincidence and kinda funny that the throw away line from family guy aged to the point to where it can make you think about rouge one if someone chooses. I never thought it was planned by any means.

[@SYLin-rs8ob]

@@Toeso_Losoyep. You'd actually be hard pressed to find an example of an exhaust that doesn't have some sort of curving/backtracking piping. Edit: i posted this and immediately remembered that chimneys exist but my point still stands lmao

[@redacted8843]

dawg its literally the biggest plot contrivance in the entire series 'impossibly amazing engineering' lmao

[@honeysauce5244]

​@@redacted8843it doesn't help that exhaust pipes blow air OUT!! HOW COULD A MISSLE GO DOWN WITHOUT BEING THROWN OUT.

[@Vaultyboi22]

And lets think about realistically. The force is seen as a mythological thing, not actually real. (Yes i know that's absurd because the clone wars literally just happened with Jedi being on every other planet, but that's how the force was seen) And without the force, you would have to fire a torpedo, not a bomb specifically a torpedo, which has thrust to get through the vent exhaust, at precisly a 90° angle to be able to go straight through that hole. Do you have any idea how impossible that is? It's so impossible that hal jordan, one of the best pilots in all of fiction, wouldn't be able to make the shot if he tried 1 quintillion times.

[@WisnuNurAlam]

One of the best thing about Star Wars pre-disney was how chill Lucas when people asked him if they can parodied his beloved series. Gary the stormtrooper is still the best thing that came out from parody.

[@LaurenGlenn]

They had some groundrules but otherwise Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and Weird Al did some great stuff with the material

[@samuellanghus1455]

@@LaurenGlenn Don’t forget Spaceballs!

[@priestesslucy]

​@@samuellanghus1455so what does that make us?

[@samg1158]

​@@priestesslucy..............I'M SURROUNDED BY (I don't want to get in trouble)!

[@mipmapp5207]

@@samg1158 "KEEP FIRING, (I don't want to get into troubles)!"

[@cernismirtkamennoeserdce9221]

The Animaniacs also made a parody episode back in the 90's when in tatoine they ask Luke, what do you do for a living, he answers "I am a farmer", and what do you grow in the dessert? , he answered "sand" then points to a dune and says, " this year we had a bountiful harvest"

[@ikemkrueger]

Awesome. xD

[@Fryether]

They were moisture farmers

[@HellaGust]

@@Fryether Seems like a desert planet would be the *worst* place to farm for moisture.

[@ThunderingSkies-w8h]

​@@HellaGustiirc they had specialized technology thar harvested every oittle bit of moisture from the surrounding air and also dug deep into the sand underneath. No matter how dry a desert is, there will always be moisture deep underneath the upper layers. The heat only dictates how deep down the moist sand is.

[@tonyblake7569]

​@@HellaGustor the best. Even if it's hard to do they'd make enough money, because who wouldn't want to buy water in a desert?

[@Somegoy]

The robot chicken star wars bits, specifically the palpatine ones, are some.of the funniest stuff ever created. The phone call between Vader and Palpatine when the death star gets blown up is so good "What the hell is an aluminum falcon?!" 😂😂😂

[@santiagogabaldon6596]

The escalator bit was also God tier to me.

[@VadulTharys]

Gary the stormtrooper

[@BEdwardStover]

Robot Chicken does evil funny.

[@snoodude]

whispering: (Oh my God, he's _crying_ XD)

[@mariebelladonna437]

(Ring ring) "Go for Papa Palpatine!" "You've been flying around for two weeks trying to find a signal?? Ugh, you must smell like feet, wrapped in leathery burnt bacon!" 😂😂😂😂

[@savagepanda8458]

The weakness wasn’t the exhaust port, but rather the fact the reactor would implode easily.

[@leogetz3570]

The old "banana in the tail pipe trick"... gets em everytime

[@ordinary_deepfake]

Werd

[@RobertJohnson-bj5lk]

Oh, that Axel Foley. 🚗🍌

[@aaronavery6048]

Yeah ... Docking... Wait what

[@therealsapdad1942]

Plot twist: the Rogue One writers stole the whole concept from family guy

[@dragonmaster613]

That's more likely, given it had a purpose before Rogue One claimed it was deliberate sabotage.

[@mike814031]

I don't get it in the first place, am I the only one missing something? I don't see how watching it in the current time changes anything

[@scubasteve3032]

Probably more true than we realize.

[@Bowser66]

@mike814031rogue one came out after blue harvest, so it looks like BH predicted something previously unknown about the design of the Death Star. More likely the writers of rogue one used the joke as part of their writing later.

[@loganb7059]

I can totally see him explaining its existence as an “aesthetic choice.”

[@dr.veronica6155]

I've thought about this a lot, but the Empire could have easily fixed that issue with the first Death Stat if they'd let another engineer look at it. It could have been exactly the same in every way, up to and including the exhaust port, but simply add a few grates to the exhaust port, spaced equally on the way down it. That way, it can still act as an exhaust port like it was meant to, but it can also have something to stop projectiles from firing down it.

[@Jotari]

Another engineer looked over, nodded his approval while the first engineer sweated bullets and then invited him out for a drink where they discussed how much they both hated how the empire murdered their families.

[@williamlangeii4012]

A laser isn't a projectile, it's light. Can't stop light with a grate.

[@paulblake1164]

@@williamlangeii4012 It was a Proton torpedo, not a laser that had to be used to start the chain reaction. Plus there was a shield kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioDKpZ1mZbejbtU

[@prestonexzabe2997]

Can’t stop light with a grate? Explain

[@Sableye666]

Snake: You intentionally designed it with a weakness? Otacon: I like to think of it as a character flaw.

[@Batmanrox1234]

The other great thing when Mel brooks pitched Spaceballs Lucas loved it so much he actually brought the same team that helped with Star Wars to help make sure that this movie was authentic to space

[@nam6128]

One of george lucas's only request for spaceballs was that in respect of star wars the main character was not to dress as han solo, so they had him dress like indiana jones so that he'd still be in a Harrison Ford costume 😂

[@itsjust2hard]

@@nam6128 He also requested that they do not sell action figures, but prior to that request they had already made mock-ups of action figures, which they then used as props in the actual movie.

[@doughesson]

@@itsjust2hard Merchandizing !

[@GratefulforFreePress]

@@doughesson Spaceballs the flamethrower! Perfect for the kids

[@alclay8689]

Holy shit that's the best face I've heard all day

[@karlthorsten9118]

Old canon: Design oversight, it was to vent heat. It was resolved in the Death Star II by having hundreds of smaller exhaust ports across the entire station. New canon: Deliberate weakness. I like both. Both work out very well.

[@Flaky1990]

Agreed, also both make sense as there's no possible way that you can reasonably review the design of a moon-sized space station for flaws. There's likely hundreds of different people who only ever saw their specific parts and never the whole picture.

[@nickmeale1957]

Both could be current canon if you think about it

[@battlesheep2552]

​@@Flaky1990honestly the new canon makes more sense not by having a reason the flaw is there, but giving an explanation on how the rebels could have found it when they only had the plans for like a day

[@wokeupinapanic]

@@battlesheep2552it also explains the admirals comments about “we’ve analyzed their attack patterns and have found a weakness” or whatever. The scene is designed to show Tarkin and the empire’s hubris… but it also shows that, upon further review, there was an exploitable design flaw that was pretty egregious. Still works both ways, but the angle and implications of the sabotage make it kind of more satisfying IMO. Idk that the empire would have seen their attack patterns and been concerned at all unless the oversight was like, extremely glaring once identified. Which, for sabotage, seems legit. A simple design flaw wouldn’t even really register. It would be like “it’s a thermal exhaust port, who cares if it’s straight” compared to “why is that thermal exhaust port a perfectly straight line to the reactor core??”

[@jasonreed7522]

​@@Flaky1990it can also be both at once, the saboteur could have intentionally left in design flaws he noticed that would be unlikely to be cought in the less detailed reviews by others. I i now wonder how long a "page turn" for the completed design of something that big would take. (Page turns are when you go through every single page of a design/drawing package. Depending on project size they can take several hours. I bet the deathstar's final page turn took months to geth through, assuming they don't implicitly trust an AI/Droid to rapidly process everything.)

[@kevinthetruckdriver353]

As a person who found Star Wars IV: A New Hope very boring when I saw it at the theaters (1977) was curious why was this hole in the Death Star. It wasn't exactly a tailpipe for the exhaust. Anyway, Iperfer Star Trek. But here's a connection between Star Wars & Star Trek. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The Enterprise shoots a torpedo looking for the tailpipe on a Change cloaked Klingon ship. Sorta like Star Wars IV: A New Hope hole.

[@user-xt8gc9sv7o]

In a different universe Peter played Darth Vader.

[@TimeKillerGuy]

I remember the old robot chicken gag about the hole, being 1, a torpedo doesn’t curve at a sudden 90 degree angle.

[@TheDarkMaster312]

dorkly also made that same joke, saying only a wizard could make that shot.

[@TimeKillerGuy]

@@TheDarkMaster312 them damn wizards

[@blackwoodsecurity531]

fun fact, there were torpedoes designed to launch backwards out of a torpedo boat, then make a 180* turn and head towards the right direction.

[@diamondcreepah]

I think it was eckhartsladder who came up with the theory of the torpedo being force guided, since Luke stopped using the guidance computer and instead relied on the force like obi wan told him to

[@topsykrets2438]

I never watched star wars but isn't that scene explained by obi wan telling luke to use the force to guide the torpedos?

[@fieryphoenix586]

"I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2 meters wide. THAT THING WASN'T EVEN FULLY PAID OFF YET!!!" -Palpatine, 0 ABY

[@Darceus2000]

And don’t get him started on his credit rating. 😂

[@Ash.Attack]

Such a crazy thing to consider it would of cost quintillions of credits

[@SeviathTheHumanDrago]

"You get you asthmatic aluminum ass back here or I'll tell everyone what a little bitch you were about edemame or Panama whatever her name is....oh God he's crying. Hehehehe."

[@michiganrailfan2141]

"Now get your 7-foot-2 asthmatic ass back here, or I'm gonna tell everyone what a whiny bitch you were about Padamamay or Panda Bear or whatever the hell her name is." -Also Palpatine, 0 ABY

[@Harmthuria]

“OH, just rebuild it. And who’s gonna give me a loan, jackhole, you? You got an atm on that torso light right of yours?”

[@purpledevilr7463]

I prefer the Dorkly video explanation. It’s an exhaust port, for a moon-sized ship. An it’s the size of a womp rat. Think about what that it. And it had a 90 degree turn at the end. This torpedo turns 90 degrees, goes straight down not touching the walls, all the while being pushed OUTWARDS by the exhaust, because that’s what exhaust is.

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

That's fair

[@Daytruin]

Obiwan did tell Luke to use the force instead of using a targeting computer. my thought was that Luke was the only one capable of making the shot because he would need to guide the torpedo in at the right angle using the force. He had practiced all his life not knowing he was using the force and training all that time shooting wamp-rats on his planet all that time. This is the same as anakin being the only human able to do pod racing back when he was a kid because his reflexes where the result of using the force.

[@Ranguvar13]

Also it was ray shielded - lasers don’t work, that’s why they needed a torpedo which was a risky proposition.

[@sashmiel6566]

Additionally they figured out what was happening, that even an officer brought it up to Tarkin.

[@MyNameIsRuin2119]

Wasn’t the whole point, that Luke used the force to make the torpedo do a 90 degree turn?🤨

[@TheStormCave]

I mean it’s the only way to fill such a plot hole. Lucas probably didn’t even get involved with such a small line. It’s just a solution that makes the most sense.

[@blingosvengefulghost5266]

It was an exhaust port, like a tail pipe. It was basically a miracle Luke pulled it off.

[@benjaminaskren9075]

Naw, cause space magic!

[@donalde3227]

Nooooo. Egzaust ploRts. 😂 Exost plorts exaustPLORTS.

[@LeslieHarvey607]

​@@donalde3227 What

[@mightyactionx9391]

Yeah, shots aren't supposed to descend smoothly against an exaust that's pushing an opposite pressure back.

[@NoCluYT]

@@mightyactionx9391tbh it was like a ball of energy. Nothing would be pushing against it. The only problem was the timing since he was in such an unstable situation

[@kevindashid]

I still stand by that Dorkly bit where the guy says it’s an exhaust vent. It’s pushing exhaust gases out and if a laser was shot into it, the laser would have been pushed out. Unless the one shooting the laser is some sort of space wizard

[@TrueMohax]

Well it wasn’t a Laser and the Rebels probably accounted for the blow back considering they chose a specific weapon for the task.

[@robbiewood68]

"Secondary exhaust port." Not the primary.

[@PTSD_Guts]

I don't doubt there's more to it, i've honest to god never watched Star Wars, but isnt the point of a laser to be that it's made of light and won't be effected by wind

[@SpectralKnight]

Also he fires "torpedoes" (i assume they mean missiles)

[@Songer80]

@@SpectralKnight torpedoes. They call it torpedoes in star trek too. I don't know why they call it a torpedo. It makes more sense to call it a missile. If anyone know the reason, can you please explain.

[@axelwulf6220]

Source lore, the original designer of the station was basically Dr. Emmett Brown's evil counterpart, Dr. Bevel Lamelisk Wild eyed and erratic, and occasionally absent minded

[@McCakeson]

I remember the death star plans in revenge of the sith

[@totalnerd5674]

Bevel Lemelisk, I believe his name was, if you are talking about Legends

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

And Kyle MF Katarn killed a Death Star's worth of troopers in the game where getting the plans was essentially the prologue mission. And he wasn't even a Jedi yet

[@Alknix]

Rick Sanchez?

[@NinjaTyler]

I remember he made the original death star plans on paper, which was unheard of being done for thousands of years or more at that point because he was so paranoid about the plans being stolen or copied if they were digital, hell I think he did it in a form of disappearing ink too for extra redundancy.

[@Raiju1997]

And that is why you get an engineer to build your super weapon, not an architect.

[@cyka_blyat1233]

Without the architect they cant build the death star, the only problem about the engineers is that they didn't notice that the death star has a weak point on the blueprint that architect made and they immediately just made it without asking any questions

[@RW77777777]

or a marine biologist

[@ALLrobotsAreSad]

Or Salesperson for a latex manufacturing company.

[@notTHATJohnSmith]

Or an importer/exporter. 😉

[@simonatford1]

But what if your super weapon is also a building? If the Death Star was just a big gun you would be correct but it also served as a space station.

[@JoshSweetvale]

This was already in the books. Seth and his writers are gigantic nerds so they probably took inspiration. See also: Kyle Katarn, the badass who was erased to give us the 'diverse' cast of Rogue One.

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

It wasn't in the books, soooo many people told me it's in the books, yet no one can give me a specific book. From what i read in legends, specifically the book "star wars death star" it was an accident, a female architect almost unknowingly took care of the problem but was then called onto some other business and by then it was too late. Kyle katarn story was from the video game dark forces, and he only stole the death star plans, the game never mentioned anything about sabotaged

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL Fair

[@boxingjerapah]

I'd forgotten how great these are. Brilliant.

[@AtlasFlynn]

General Dodonna says "The target is 'a' thermal exhaust port (implying multiple) just below the main port" It was ray shielded which could only be penetrated by advanced weapons the Rebels should have. Plus almost all of them died and Luke had to use the force to hit it

[@bigbrothertw]

yeah ok nerd

[@paulblake1164]

yes, and Darth told Conan Antonio Motti the guy he force-choked in episode 4 Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet or even a whole system is insignificant next to the power of the Force and is what Luke used to destroy the Death Star without his targeting computer! So Darth was only telling the truth! just in case "the force is strong with this one!"

[@fbwhitey]

What an odd take away from that quote. If I said "I have a bathroom on the first floor of my house" I'd be very surprised if anyone came away thinking "Ah, so he's saying he has multiple bathrooms then"

[@khatdubell]

@@fbwhitey Honestly, if you have a house with multiple floors, i'd hope you have at least two bathrooms. if not, 1-800-u-haul.

[@jasonreed7522]

​@@paulblake1164the original quote is from a military briefing on the drsign flaws of a space station, so we can assume that the technical language rules of STEM are in use. In STEM we draw a clear distinction between the meaning of "a/an" and "the". "A" means "one of x" (possibly infinite); and "the" means "the one and only". (Most commonly used to talk about critical points on a function like maximums, minimums, inflection points, axis crossings, ect.) Because the language used was "a secondary exhaust port" we can assume that other secondary exhaust ports exist and atleast 1 primary exhaust port exists. Admittedly in common/vernacular english this importance of "a" and "the" is almost non-existent and in many cases you can completely drop them and still be understood. Take the following 3 sentences: A bathroom is on the first floor. The bathroom is on the first floor. Bathroom is on the first floor. By changing the determiner or omitting it the critical information doesn't change, but the implications do.

[@babychicken2645]

I just hate that the missiles instantly execute a perfect 90° turn straight into the hole.

[@maeve4686]

Well, suggest you watch real bombing runs with jets. Tho it still bemoans the lack of gravity in space that has to be made, but in '77, we viewers knew about this as we'd been inundated with scenes from the Vietnam War & WW2 movies. Made sense to us. I saw Star Wars opening day when it was just one movie. I remember being really confused when it was announced that it was now a trilogy & the first movie was renamed SW A New Hope...nothing like seeing a fab movie on a 50'x30' screen...😅

[@youwayo]

It’s a torpedo…

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

Maybe they were guided somehow? Most likely, actually.

[@jorundcoalforge6277]

Galen Erso was a scientist in harnessing Kyber Crystals, not an architect. However, he blended the need of the machinery that harnessed the power into the overall systems of the Death Star.

[@josephperez2004]

He did say though in his message that he basically made himself indispensable to the project, so that may indicate he basically took over the whole thing as project head just under Kranick.

[@zipgow]

Erso was a fool. He didn't want to make the Death Star but completed it to near-perfection because they might hurt his dead wife or his daughter in hiding? And even though he was friends with the rebellion, he didn't tell any of them what the design flaw was? A better plot for Rogue One would be Rebels rescuing Erso's family from the Empire so he would give them the plans for the Death Star.

[@chrisd9700]

@@zipgow Nah Rogue One's plot was perfect as is. He intentionally embedded himself in the project so that he could CREATE the weakness that the Rebels could use to destroy the Death Star. It wouldn't matter if he just gave the Rebels plans if there was no weakness to exploit. They'd be fighting a moon in that case. Also, do you really think The Empire, especially Palpatine, wouldn't be watching the lead architect of the Death Star like a hawk? When could he possibly speak with the Rebels without being caught?

[@k1productions87]

@@zipgow The Death Star was going to be completed with or without Erso. Just, without him, there wouldn't have been the weakness to exploit. As for what that weakness was, exactly when would have had time TO tell them before actually making it? That's exactly what "the Pilot" was delivering. The message telling the rebellion about it, now that it was finally in place and exploitable.

[@BobSmith-zq6gz]

Watching the youtube "interview with the architect" is hilarious. "Exhaust ports don't suck things in!" "I didn't know I had to plan for SPACE WIZARDS!"

[@sherpajones]

Erso was not an architect, he was an engineer. The difference is important.

[@mryellow6918]

An architect of mechanics.

[@michaelhayes8519]

"An aesthetic choice by the architect" Means the seeds for rebellion were sown from the start 😎

[@rosebud3066]

Me over here wondering: WHY DID THEY NOT JUST WELD SOME GRATES IN THERE

[@pirateraider1708]

I think they did. The torpedoes just ripped through them like paper.

[@annmarsh9119]

I saw the very first Star Wars Movie im 1977. Even the special effects were stunning back then.

[@Solitude47152]

Yes so did I. A smash hit the likes of which we have never seen before.

[@RobinMcBeth]

An aesthetic choice is not the same as a deliberate point of failure.

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

Sure

[@davidarnold1225]

The Family Guy trio was great, and the Robot Chicken treatment was also superb. I have the t-shirt that says "What the hell is an aluminum falcon?" 😄

[@screenname8267]

My understanding of RO was that the weakness wasn't the vent, it was the chain reaction setup. Erso wanted the weakness used before it was completed. The exhaust port was one of thousands in the Death Star (the book shows pilots asking if they are in rhe correct trench because they cannot find the right port) and the only one that led to the area where the chain reaction could be started.

[@occam7382]

You're absolutely correct. The actual weakness Galen implanted was that the main reactor (which was basically a fusion reactor enhanced by kyber) would be unstable so that any unusual flucuation in energy (such as, just as a random, nonspecifc example - a proton torpedo exploding right on top of it), would cause something akin to a nuclear meltdown that would then cause a chain reaction throughout the station, destroying it from within.

[@MrGodsNomad]

Any fan should know that when making the Death Star mold it was imperfect and it made the vent port that was worked into the story later. At the time it was a happy accident with no real plan behind it.

[@JWonn]

People think George had this meticulous master-plan of how everything fit together in his mind from the beginning, he didn't. He had a general idea of what he wanted to do with the over-arcing plot, but he would frequently change things mid-production if he liked something else better. For example, the sith had red lightsabers because red symbolized evil and blue/green symbolized good... then Samuel L Jackson wanted a purple lightsaber, and now we have the whole rainbow.

[@NinjaTyler]

​@@JWonnor how it was only supposed to be blue sabers but filming outdoors with blue skies turned that impossible so Lucas added green sabers to the lore to make day shooting possible.

[@shaftomite007]

Never understood how the lasers bent to fly down the hole. Still don't.

[@Raletia]

They were torpedoes. Still a crazy turn though.

[@cypvh74]

You think maybe the writers of Rogue One were influenced by the family guy joke? I’m thinking it’s a high probability.

[@noahdean9685]

Too bad Disney won't allow Seth to do the other Star wars movies in family Guy!

[@CelticAkumathefirst]

Family Guy walked so Rogue One could run into a death trap.

[@williampeck3739]

Fun Fact: The exhaust port has somewhat of a blue hue, which after being noticed by the production team actually led to the working title of the film, Blue Harvest. Got'em.

[@em3460]

Well it would have been designed to be there by an architect regardless, so not a big coincidence.

[@tntthekill]

A long time ago, before rogue one changed canon, the deaths tar would have exploded without it instead of managing to focus and shoot its laser. It's an exhaust port, it exists for a reason

[@k1productions87]

It was AN exhaust port. It wasn't THE exhaust port. There were several of them, even in the same general area. Multiple trenches stretch out from the polar region, each with a primary exhaust port at its end (as said in A New Hope - "a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port). This trench just happened to have that extra small port. Potentially intended as some kind of relief valve - or just a redundant port specifically to place the weakness in, on Galen Urso's part. But at no point was it ever stated as being the only exhaust port, or even a critical one. Just that a precise hit would set up a chain reaction that would destroy the station. PLUS the damned thing was shielded. If anyone thought to put some extra turrets around, or actually launch multiple TIE squadrons (seriously... that thing must have literally MILLIONS of TIE's in its many hangers), they could have easily overwhelmed any attack, even with the supposed weakness. And even after all of that... with the weak defense, the few TIE's, and the weak point sitting there... the bomber attack failed, the fighter attack failed, and it all came down to the very last ships they had left, all hinging on ability with The Force... AND a certain scallywag watching his back at the last minute. Planned weakness or not, its a miracle it even worked at all.

[@TheTrentReznor]

Needed a better weakness to be planted than a tiny hole ( just big enough for a middle type projectile to go into) and curve down, as the weapons shot don’t go straight through, they somehow dip down after going through the vent. Must be ‘’ the force’’ the best and most versatile plot armor ever conceived for film. Any problem..just apply- The Force😳💯💤. No prob too big nor small for a ‘’ Force Fix’’🤣🤣🤣🤣. Surging the vac um of space by Carrie Fischer- the Force😳🤣🙄. Darth Sidious fall from hundreds or thousands of meters high- the force🙄💯. Hayden Christiansen scoring Natalie Portman…THE FORCE💯🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@oobaka1967]

If I remember correctly, Galen was forced to build the space station against his will. He decided to make it vulnerable but not make it too obvious.

[@JuneEclipse]

-Marek..?

[@JWonn]

Yes, but I'm fairly certain the plot of Rogue One was just written that way to address a plot hole that people had been making fun of for years. George Lucas is all a bout symbolism, narrative structure, and exciting action sequences, he doesn't obsess over world-building specifics. The Death Star had a fatal flaw because he wants the hero to win the day by the skin of his teeth. George doesn't want the good guys to win by attrition, because that doesn't make for good cinema.

[@SynthApprentice]

If he wanted to make it vulnerable, and he didn't want to make it too obvious, then why did he put so many huge laser turrets to defend it?

[@MouldMadeMind]

​@@SynthApprentice he put them everywere.

[@k1productions87]

@@SynthApprentice The same turbolaser defense was lined in ALL of the trenches - several of them branched out from the polar regions, each with a main exhaust port at its end. THIS trench just happened to have the smaller port below it.

[@carcrashheart]

"A long time ago, when George Lucas had the rights to Star Wars..." Ah. The good old days.

[@RicoX-17]

....before the dark times....before Kathleen Kennedy.

[@TheGhostOfRazgriz23]

Darth Kennedy

[@k1productions87]

Well... remember,... days of George Lucas still gave us the Holiday special, the Ewoks and Droids spinoffs, and the Prequels. This was also the man who thought Jar Jar Binx was comedy gold. The same man who added CG gophers and CG monkeys to Indiana Jones 4

[@jor.jasper]

I always thought this was a dig at George himself. like, he was the “architect” of the whole movie, and giving the death star a weakness was his “aesthetic choice” for an tidy and quick ending.

[@bradfraser3216]

this is one of the funniest conversations and family Guy history to me, it was awesome that they rehashed it in later movies

[@IexoPeoa]

It was supposed to be a joke, leave it to Disney to take it seriously, and make themselves the joke.

[@friendlyneighborhoodcomrade]

Damn, imagine mistaking a proton bomb for a plasma bolt and then calling it a laser.

[@TsukiNaito1]

I wouldn’t call it a perfect alignment, but it's a great coincidence. 😂

[@scribeofrebirth1431]

This joke aged like fine wine!

[@DaveBermanKeys]

This is great stuff. I’m loving these vids recently! Great job, Chimey!

[@SystemZ3RO]

It's a common misconception that the exhaust port was the weakness of the Death Star. However, its actual weakness, one that the Empire still failed to correct with the DS2, was the reactor itself. It was designed in such a way that it could be easily destabilized and trigger a chain reaction. The exhaust port was just the only direct access to the reactor until the DS2 gave ships direct access to the core. The only safe guard they installed for it was a reactor shield to protect any incoming blasts from the outside, but never corrected the reactor architecture design flaw itself.

[@B1_1_9_7_5]

Family Guy have predicted the Queen's death the Boston Marathon and now this

[@TheRenterGuy]

Aged like wine.

[@pittfan0707]

The death star was designed by the CIS.

[@abdurrehmankhan5837]

But Galen was an architect that probably altered the design slightly when they were building it.

[@franzkrieger9611]

only the skeleton with the laser was designed by the cis I think, i heard aomething like that

[@TheTylerRobison]

I think NCIS had a hand in it as well

[@TheNYCGoldenGlover]

Like Lucas always says "It rhymes" George stole most of Star Wars from Flash Gordon and 50s sci-fi. Seth McFarlanes "Family Guy" is just one rip off after another from the 80s Disney bit a plot point from McFarlane. It rhymes

[@kadian299]

You missed a golden “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away” opportunity

[@King_Baldwin_of_Jerusalem]

"Parody becomes reality"

[@nimzi4479]

George Lucas decided to put into place "Where there's a hole, there's a goal"

[@Milk8012]

Sethy boy predicted the future

[@Attmay]

The funniest part was the fact that Rush Limbaugh and Helen Reddy were both in the first one.

[@GMZohar14]

No Bothans were harmed in the making of this video

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

Considering it wasn't the 2nd death star this is true

[@pirubix]

I love when people who don't understand the basics of engineering make fun of this. If there were no exhaust ports, all the excess thermal energy would stay inside, frying the workers, and eventuality cause catastrophic failures.

[@BEdwardStover]

You realize space is cold, right? Excess heat is a planetary problem. In space, there is no waste heat.

[@Dragonite_Knight]

@@BEdwardStover Thing is space is a the closest thing to a perfect vacuum. It is the perfect insulator since almost all of heat transfer is touch based. Sure everything in space is at almost absolute zero, but there also like only one atom per cubic meter. This means the only effective way you have to cool something down in space is highly inefficient black body radiation. Once you have heat the only way you can get rid of it is to either dump it into a heat sink before venting it or put out huge radiators to increase the black body radiation you put out. That's why in all hard sci-fi with space battles the primary concern is heat management so they don't boil themselves.

[@thiagogoncalves7389]

​​@@BEdwardStover I guess the radiators on real spacecraft are just an aesthetic choice, then.

[@LordTyrone13]

Imagine that, a joke being explained to you, being funny AND aging like fine wine.

[@drtaverner]

I hate that they retconned an intentional weakness into the Deathstar.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

To think... all they needed to save the Death Star was a sheet of plywood.

[@happilyham6769]

The Family Guy parodies of Star Wars original trilogy is one of the greatest things ever made ever. Period. I would love to see the rest of them parodied but it will never happen. Those days are gone.

[@gagepearson3358]

Some of the best episodes they ever made. Parodies done absolutely perfectly! 👌👌👌

[@Theycallmeyoshi1]

Galens weakness was a critical flaw in the main reactor such that a single proton torpedo could take the whole thing out. The death star has like a dozen vents on its north pole including a singular massive one that youd think would be important, but the actually important one isnt the miles wide one, but the tiny one off to one side

[@leafwhite6376]

You: "And one of his Imperial Officers" Me, a nerd: Admiral Motti

[@Boo8087]

I still routinely quote “get estimates, get estimates” 😂

[@buddah1221]

the family guy parodies were so good because the cast and crew were big fan of star wars and because George gave them free reign to do pretty much whatever they wanted with the stipulation that a certain percentage of scenes had to be straight from the films

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

Those was good times and a great childhood, especially with the robot chicken specials, thats some of the ways how i spend Star Wars month

[@Cheltastique]

The weakness of the Death Star placed by Galen WASN'T the exhaust port. It was that the Death Star reactor was extremely prone to catastrophic failure. The exhaust port was the way to access the weakness that the Rebels found AFTER looking at the plans.

[@ivanrivera777]

In the first movies it is said to be a thermal exhaust for the inner core. It was also considered virtually imposible to exploit the weakness given the amount of antiaircraft guns and the difficulty to shoot through it. Many things had to happen for the rebels to explode the death star and they actually had a very small windows of opportunity that will not present itself again. The later explanation that it was placed there on purpose was dumb and just added to please those who didn't even paid attention to the original movies.

[@antant06]

My mind is blown by this linkage between family guy and rogue one! This is amazing 🤩🤩🤩

[@BigJMC]

Tbh who the tf puts a 2 meter exhaust pipe that leads perfectly straight and direct to the core of the death star 💀

[@fryloc359]

You can't convince me that there aren't Hollywood writers who see these and not incorporate them into films.

[@SelfPoisonBand]

Clerks was the first to mention this, in a scene Randall was talking about how there were architects that were innocent on the desthstar when the rebellion blew it up.

[@codefreak8]

Technically, Galen didn't design the vent that would let them destroy the reactor, just the reactor itself. The reason they needed to infiltrate and steal the plans for the Death Star was so they could find a weakness that would let them hit the reactor (which ended up being the vent). Galen just designed it so that, if they could find a way to hit the reactor, it will catastrophically fail.

[@bend3rbot]

Every castle's weakness was it's water supply, poop shoot, and its vents.

[@robertmason837]

Funny thing in Rogue One it turned out that the weakness was put in on purpose by Galen erso as he was not fully in service of the empire, he in my opinion was a rebel.

[@Strange_Armour]

The best Blue Harvest joke was the intro. "A long time ago, before the gays were all in your face about it." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maximaldinotrap]

I think people are ignoring that the weakness wasn't the exhaust vent in Rogue One. Also, it's an exhaust vent, they are not supposed to pull stuff in and the shot was such a miracle that only a force user could reliably pull it off.

[@JAndrewV]

i love the clip of George dancing 😂

[@ovni2295]

The weakness wasn't the Thermal Exhaust Port. It was the instability of the hypermatter reactor. There were actually several ways to exploit the weakness, from a boarding team fighting their way to the reactor and blowing it up, to sabotage, to figuring out a way to trigger the instability using droids or a computer attack, bombarding the main weapons dish with a fleet and putting turbolaser shots down the firing channels, etc. The thermal exhaust port plan was developed because the Rebels only had like, 30 minutes to think of something before they got fried. And it worked! But if they had more time, they could have worked out something different.

[@Palpinator225]

Question: how tf to you vent all of the heat from the amount of power circulating when a laser is made that destroys a planet? Isn’t an exhaust port at that point being just the size of a wimp rat a commendable achievement, meanwhile the Death Star 2 had a hole the size of the melenium falcon that leads directly to the core

[@BrytonBand]

please tell me I’m not the only one who loves this episode specifically for the Mr. Adler PTSD subplot and not the Tweak/Craig fight lmfao

[@Grim_Erudite]

The joke was so good they made it canon. Legend

[@tecumsehcristero]

Seth didn’t need permission. Parody is an essential part of tree speech

[@Barry_Is_H3r3_OFFICIAL]

He still got permission, though

[@uncrownedoak7777]

Those family guy short films are so well done.

[@GokuBlackROSÉ423]

Family guy influencing star wars cannon is unintentionally hilarious

[@neosmagus]

Galen was not 'the death star architect', it was designed by the Geonossians during the Clone Wars. They were struggling to get the laser to work. Galen's specialty was power systems. And he was trying to invent better power generation using kyber crystals. His work was used to help build the laser, and when he found out he ran away, but then by the time of the beginning of Rogue One, Krennic had found him and forced him to work on it. He put a defect into the reactor. It had nothing to do with the exhaust port. Which is why the message was that they needed to target the reactor, but he couldn't tell them how because he didn't have access to the rest of the schematics. Hence the assault on Scarif. It was purely by chance that they found the exhaust port in the plans. Galen probably assumed somebody would need to blow it up from on board the death star.