Rifftrax Star Wars Original Trilogy vs Star Wars Prequels

This is a Rifftrax compilation video featuring all of the Star Wars prequel (and Holiday Special) references in the original Star Wars trilogy!

[@animatedink2529]

"I stood next to your mother as she died" - R2-D2 That seriously is the grandest dark comedy statement of all time

[@kellyweingart3692]

Luke:"How did my father die?" Kevin:”Without dignity"

[@kellyweingart3692]

"Is that Naboo?"

[@hypno-scream5652]

When did he say that? I need to know!

[@kellyweingart3692]

"Sure... Natalie Portman"

[@kellyweingart3692]

“Reminds me of a certain director”

[@madamefluffy4788]

'Oh, genius! Thrawting Darth Vader by sending the plans to a planet covered in sand. He hates that!' Oh shit! That is epic and makes fantastic sense. XD

[@madamefluffy4788]

***** Anyone who hadn't seen the prequels (specifically, Attack of the Clones) wouldn't get the joke.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Madame Fluffy so? Most people have seen them and do get the joke, plus it's a huge meme. who cares about the few people who wouldn't get it?

[@Xehanort10]

Well it is coarse, rough, irritating and gets everywhere.

[@trevholmes186]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a filmmaker said "I will create a character named Kit Fisto".

[@marniJo13]

These guys are awesome. If I won the lottery I would give them a ton of money to keep these coming

[@lordofthedrums93]

"Die like you did by the lake on Naboo!" had me rolling.

[@DediJ8k]

I wish the MST3K cast could just live in my brain and riff my life. That would make me happy.

[@faithfulgrl]

💡DediJ8k ......and 9 years later, I would still watch it. Every Thursday night, whether I want to or not....... . . . . .📺🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌠🌌🌌 🗼< oops, that was the The Thunderer 🚀

[@ThePurpleSpartan]

"You guys keep retconning it up over there." Sometimes things are way more humorous (and sad) way after they are said.

[@trier4952]

"use the force, Luke...I've run out of lubricant."

[@CorgiScarab]

Thank you very much Senator Binks and his "Meesa Gets A Fair Turn Uh Mui Mui" Bill - Oh my god...

[@TheXabl0]

The Holiday Special jokes are always burns

[@michaelshay3157]

"Darth Vader Hates Sand" Should be a t-shirt

[@jedimasterham2]

Love the great Star Wars Holiday Special references!

[@ElvenRaptor]

I lost it at the "Bea Arthur" joke!

[@DoctorFetus]

"Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is the alteration of previously established facts in the continuity of a fictional work." - Wikapideia

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Caleb Deville your spelling of Wikipedia is hilaaaaaaarious. its all fucked and goofy in like ten different ways. that is all.

[@crashandersen602]

1:10 I love the jokes that make Bill laugh like the Predator.

[@autobotproductions1244]

I love how we make fun of the names in the prequels, when A New Hope has a guy named Porkins

[@draymanonj]

Thats right, I'm Padme's baby daddy! You should have seen what went on by the lake on Naboo! LMFAO thats the best riff ever hands down.

[@BRAWGWill]

11:53 "Oh great, you just stepped on the Prime Minister of Naboo" CRACKS ME UP EVERY TIME.

[@Doctor699]

Sounds like they watched the series in order, lol, love the sarcasm.

[@WVMothman]

Revenge of the Sith was my favorite, it was like watching an episode of General Hospital.

[@BBBHuey]

Lol! Everybody hates Gungans xD

[@Sitharos]

Love the Chad Vader appearances! 😂

[@LadyAstarionAncunin]

"Die like you did by the lake on Naboo" sent me. 😂

[@Wintermute01001]

What's sad is that I know who Nute Gunray, Watto, Wickett W. Warrick, Kit Fisto, Poggle the Lesser, and Dexter Jettster are.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Wintermute01001 lets see..Nute is from the trade federation..Watto is easy, hes actually a character haha, Wicket.. an ewok? Kit Fisto is the weird fishy Jedi with the tentacles, Poggle the Lesser is the separatist insect leader from Geonosis who had the death star plans and walked with a cane. No clue who Dexter is.. the diner guy?

[@joesinister]

"I stood next to your mother as she died" so fucked up. And yet so hilarious.

[@deejtechno22]

I turned this on at work and had to shut it off because I was laughing out loud.

[@termingyou]

Great work on this compilation!

[@aidenlocarnini4571]

for some reason, I think cloud city and the sunset in the empire strikes back is really pretty

[@artistsanomalous7369]

10:53 Yes, _Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace_ , AKA the one you thought was the worst _Star Wars_ film until you were proven SEVERELY wrong 16 years later...and again 18 years later...and again 20 years later...

[@TheSoloTrooper]

Is that Naboo? Maybe that’s Naboo. OH THAT’S GOTTA BE NABOO.

[@cliffbooth1029]

Idc I was 3 when I saw this in the theatre and it blew me away

[@jeffeastwood15]

"Oh, if only Art Carney or some holographic version of Starship were here -- they'd know what to do!" Any plans to upload the original trilogy?

[@wcharliewilson7004]

'Chad Vader', heh, Where's 'Chip Hitler' when you need him?

[@kjhuang]

When did R2 have a flamethrower? Are they referring to his rockets that ignited some kind of oil in Revenge of the Sith?

[@MrOnomatopoiea]

I think that yes, Lucas definitely relied far too much on CGI rather than character development when making the prequels but at least when they were released in the theaters, I genuinely enjoyed them and looked forward to the next installment!

[@MakThaNife]

You were unique then.

[@DocLantern85]

I think George Lucas got the name Padme from "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", a book written by Joseph Campbell from which Lucas got many ideas for Star Wars. It was from the quote "Om Mani Padme Hum", which means "The Heart is in the lotus" or "the heart of the lotus". Something like that.

[@anonagain]

Padme is Sanskrit for "lotus flower" - "Om mani padme hum" is the most common mantra in Tibetan Buddhism.

[@Mst3kfanatic1]

Whenever I watch return of the jedi I always end it right before the celebration in the village, because I can't bear to look at how they replaced Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen.

[@helpimarock66]

Whenever I watch jedi, I skip all the scenes with the Ewoks.

[@Mst3kfanatic1]

***** *slow clap* congratulations you replied to a comment posted a whole year ago.

[@johnharbinger4637]

Mst3kfanatic1 *slow laugh* as I respond to comment 4 months old. didn't expect that one did you :o

[@KentuckyWallChicken]

Episode 6 is my favorite movie in the entire series, but I'd give any amount of money if they would just change the ending back to the way I first remembered it.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

I mean, it's shitty to the original actor, but it does make a lot more sense.. That was the last form he had where he was heroic, the one he identified with, his body after that wasn't how he saw himself. Plus, when watched as all 6 movies it makes way more sense to bookend the final one with the actor we saw play him not some random dude we saw for 2 seconds.

[@hawkeyepierce2608]

Nooooo, "that's my line' LOL

[@albedoshader]

No! Eat your fried Gungan!

[@paxhumana2015]

Nagneto, I wish that YOU had never happened, yet here you are, just like the Star Wars prequels and herpes.

[@kathleengreen2659]

You just described my teacher for half the school year

[@StarWarsStory]

1:26 No! Eat your fried Gungan....

[@frankgutierrez6016]

I'm your Father. That right I was hitting that Nabooty!

[@seanchaney3086]

I grew up in the era of the Prequel Trilogy. I remember a couple of years before TPM came out, they had the SW Special Edition which was shown in the movie theaters.....then the TPM comes out, and I watched it like 7 times that Summer. The OT is amazing, because it defines an era, but the PT era was a great time for Star Wars, too. The Clone Wars anime and series was epic! It was a great time for creativity, stories, comics, novels, and games. The movies got progressively better. I see flaws, but I also see things which really stand about about the PT which I appreciated about it, and I thought more about the good things than the flawed things. The OT is great, but not at all perfect. Not as flawless as the hyper-fanboys want you to be about it. The previous generation may have despised a lot of the PT, but the generation who lived through it loved it, until it became a fad to hate the PT. These clowns that want to remake the PT utterly disgust me. They don't know how to appreciate good things when they see it. They just knit pick it to justify what they want to believe in their minds. It's time for a new era in SW. Don't trample on another one which made a great contribution to the mythos and cultural interaction. Long live all of SW.

[@cjaiezza]

And you know what's worse? Now these fan boys are hating on the sequel trilogy. It's only just fucken started!!!!!

[@treasure4069]

Christopher Aiezza I thought force awakens was okay but people need to stop comparing one movie to a whole trilogy

[@tristanhartup4936]

Must have been an incredibly awkward family reunion.

[@horaciosi]

(01:10) Bill's longest laugh lol

[@BlueWizardViolinist]

8:21 ouch, that one's a real hard nut xD

[@williamcrow9713]

Anakin's "I hate the sand" rant in episode 2.

[@albedoshader]

KF-jelly... Tested and approved by Kit Fisto. Available anywhere in the Outer Rim-Job.

[@kellyweingart3692]

LOL😂😂😂😂

[@DavidHulse-gy3ys]

00:47 He also wrote the whole back story of Dominic Toretto

[@TMX1138]

What is 4:47 - 4:52 a reference to? The Holiday Special? If so, what part of the Holiday Special was it?

[@DavidSavinainen]

R2 never had a flamethrower. He burned down some Super Battle Droids, but only by first drenching them in oil, and then ignite them with his flyingrocketjetpackwhateverthings.

[@Wrathful2000]

I don't understand all the sand jokes, but they're funny.

[@christopherjudge8901]

Lando is wearing Hans shirt and vest O.OL

[@Depth217]

Alright, here's my positives of the prequels: 1. The Clone Wars series (both but especially the latter) 2. Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan 3. Qui-Gon 4. Christopher Lee as Count Dooku 5. Seeing Yoda fight 6. Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine 7. Duel of the Fates 8. Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan 9. Order 66 (once you've watched TCW) 10. CGI Yoda (hey it beats that crappy puppet they had in Phantom Menace) 11. Occasionally the political stories were interesting

[@Depth217]

Oh for sure. Duel of the Fates is probably one of the best battle themes I've ever heard. Lee could make anything look good but yeah, Dooku on his own is pretty bland. They developed him a tiny bit more in The Clone Wars, like showing him in peril a few times and his attempts to overthrow Sidious.

[@BeowulfNorther]

Nathan Snyder yoda fighting doesn't go against anything he stood for. he told Luke not to rush but the three times he fights is saving Obi Wan and Anakin from Dooku..so totally reasonable, when he kills the clone troopers who are enacting order 66, and when he fights the emperor.. none of that goes against his character at all, and Jedis can fight, hes just a goofy old hermit when he meet him in empire/jedi

[@ElPayasoMalo]

@@BeowulfNorther The Yoda introduced in The Empire Strikes Back is has never been a fighter.

[@Culturewatcher]

The age before the sequels

[@ceasar9460]

its official im the only one who likes episode 6 more than 4

[@helpimarock66]

Fair enough. I like 4 better, but it does have some cheesy and cliched moments (even for the time it came out) and while 6 is by no means as good as any from the original trilogy, I admire it for taking a lot of risks (not by making it darker, but for some good plot elements/characters).

[@ceasar9460]

Alex Greggary thats pretty much why i like it

[@hegelbot]

Jedi has got some really good scenes in it, the fight and dialogue before the emperor is arguably the most dramatic scene in the trilogy, the battle in space is terrific visually as well. People can say what they want about the ewoks, and rehashing the death star, but the final scenes of jedi really pay off the whole trilogy, the father and son are reunited, the evil is driven out Vader, redemption, and loss. Great stuff.

[@VaderTheWhite]

I also think Episode VI is better than IV. I think the Ewoks just put people off too much.

[@horaciosi]

ceasar You're not alone. Ep.VI is my favorite.

[@jayo1212]

It still only indicates that the Jedi knights were around for over a thousand generations. They said that the Republic stood for a thousand years, as in it held together for that long. Therefore, it could have been around longer, and might simply have had trouble with corruption and instabilities before that time frame. But even in those times, the Jedi were guardians of peace in it.

[@BlueWizardViolinist]

2:02 YUP!

[@trinityj1]

In addition to what beardedartisan said (which is very true) Lucas did not direct ESB or RotJ, neither was he the primary screenwriter for either. ANH was good because of the wringer the script through with Lucas' filmmaking friends (including many uncredited rewrites), the collaborators who elevated it, and how hard it was to make. Back then Lucas realised he wasn't a writer and had no grasp of character or dialogue, and he sought the help he needed. He seems to have forgotten at some point.

[@ErichoTTA]

11:08 and again thirty-two years later and again thirty-five years later and again thirty-eight years later.

[@TMX1138]

Can you update this video with Episode VII's RiffTrax?

[@TheT4xid3rmist]

No I can't

[@TMX1138]

***** Why not?

[@TheT4xid3rmist]

TMX1138 Because I haven't listened to the rifftrax for it and I haven't really had a desire to make any new rifftrax videos.

[@Werewolf_Korra]

Was that James Earl Jones during episode v?

[@tammichenard1024]

Chad Vader

[@kentcox5788]

MY SECRET SANTA IS DARTH (SHAFT !! BABY!!) VADER !!!!

[@holsson85]

2:04 you're sooo not going to get that joke if you haven't seen the Christmas special!

[@beardedartisan]

I would even dispute the "anymore". Reading about the making of the original trilogy, it's clear how much influence other executives / artists had on those films and how they changed many of Lucas's original ideas for the better. The major problem with the prequels is that everyone was too afraid to stand up to Lucas and challenge his terrible decisions.

[@lastEvergreen]

We will see Lucas again, but not yet...not yet. -Gladiator

[@corestone7197]

Did no one else notice these aren't the prequels? This is Episodes IV, V & VI (4, 5 & 6) the original films. The prequels are Episodes I, II & III (1, 2 & 3).

[@corestone7197]

Ahhhh OK I see that this is Riffs from the prequels which were placed on the original trilogy by the video maker. But still, making the title, 'Rifftrax vs Star Wars Prequels' says to me that the video is going to be the prequels. Just a bit confusing. I think, 'RiffTrax vs Star Wars (Prequel Riffs put to Original Trilogy Video)' would be a less confusing title.

[@horaciosi]

When did R2 had a flamethrower?

[@BeowulfNorther]

horaciosi beginning of Revenge of the Sith. he jet packs up into the air and torches the oil slick to kill separatist robots. probably what theyre talking about. BB8 actually has the little butane torch though haha

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

This commentary shows that the prequels don't tie up to the originals well at all. It's like George Lucas never even made Star Wars, and was just given a very sparse outline of the originals before he made the prequels. Oh well I still enjoyed the lightsabre battles!

[@thejackedupreviewshow6924]

no hassle Gunguns were just mirrors of the Ewoks and it's like he decided to outdo some of the lesser dialogue by a greater extent in the newer films.

[@da-vidcargill4975]

really research the canon lore it ties in perfectly the fact r there u r not looking hard enough

[@daAnT1990]

What's your deal with the Midi-Chlorians?? They are just a mean to measure the force... It's not like it taking the magic off of and you can't "take" them like vitamins!!

[@jeremiahvanderhelm4953]

***** That's the most beautiful description of the problem with Midi-Chlorians I've ever read.

[@daAnT1990]

***** well I grew up with DragonBall so I've got no problem with that... ^^

[@lorenvburrell]

Is this a serious post? Are you seriously irked about them making fun of the midi-chlorians?

[@daAnT1990]

Loren Burrell Of course I'm serious.... I think that the prequels are some fucked up shit but the Midichlorians are not one of the Major(!) problems one should have with those "movies"...

[@Soc1alBK]

daAnT1990 Yes they are. It completely takes away the mysterious nature of the Force and makes it totally stupid.

[@punkminkis]

Hayden Christenson at the end: worst retcon ever

[@joeskis]

11:27 TIE Bomber, do you see it?

[@horaciosi]

(4:47-4:53) That's actually a reference to Return of the Jedi, not the prequels

[@TheT4xid3rmist]

horaciosi Yeah I know but it was just part of the theme of a previous joke. I figured why not add it in.

[@ImAFatNerd90]

How is episode IV a prequel?

[@JackDeHearts]

The way it was always intended...

[@KentuckyWallChicken]

I was slightly ok with Episode 1 (except for Jar-Jar. And Qui-Gone Wrong. And Anakin.) I was fine with Episode 2, and I've never seen Episode 3, and likely never will.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

That's pretty BS Disney had robots take down some of the star wars rifftrax.. these are the defenition of fair use, although I guess since it's clips posted by a third party and not rifftrax maybe that's why

[@KenoshiAkai]

They don't call him Kit Fisto because he likes the ladies....

[@kalsikherensk8440]

The reason the prequels failed was purely down to execution. George can form good worlds and overall narrative, but he's best not to actually direct actors in the 'talking' bits. Aside from execution [hell, with a bit of tweaking to his voice/get rid of the clumsiness and have him previously 'exiled' for maybe some scandal with boss nass's daughter, Jar-Jar could have been decent.], the prequels had not much to make them BAD movies. But on a less subjective note, anybody who thinks the holiday special is better than any of the prequels deserves to be thrown either to the sarlacc, or thrown into the mustafar lava lakes.

[@BeowulfNorther]

Kal'sik Herensk yeah he's used to cg characters, so he just constrains the shit out of his actors to act exactly how he wants them too, without any wiggle room. your description is spot on, hes got a great imagination just don't let him direct. the prequels had a lot of cool stuff he just mismansged shit having full control without any checks and balances.

[@corestone7197]

OK I'm still confused, I'm hearing riffs from the original trilogy in the proper places in this video. So the vid maker didn't use all riffs from the prequels. Just weird. Figure out what this is and give it a proper title and description lol.

[@gregstarjedimaster2389]

gosh they do take the piss out of the prequels

[@stagelinedpro]

I just noticed that each there is a 16 year gap between each star wars trilogy.

[@ChefMattReviews]

+Stage Lined actually the gap between the prequels and episode 7 in just over 10 years

[@stagelinedpro]

ChefMatt Reviews Oh yeah, i was thinking about the gap between episodes 1 and 7. Oops.

[@ouroborosbrotherhood5143]

because ewith every new generation o skywalkers their is a whiny 16 year old that wants to skip the awkward junior and senior high school years :/ cant really blame them :/

[@bobdoe3559]

How do you know he came up with the name

[@davincent98]

Ah Return of the Jedi. The movie you thought was the worst Star Wars movie ever until you got proven wrong 16 years later And again 19 years later And again 22 years later And again 25 years later And again 32 years later And again 34 years later And again 35 years later And again 36 years later.

[@wwb16]

the fandom will always be like that

[@zombiTrout]

Kit Fisto, must be a prison nickname.

[@docdave15]

Kit Fisto? Magneto!

[@Lilcutiepie95]

Bea Arthur heheh the holiday special

[@musicwarrior3755]

1:36 Anyone else feel that wasn't a retcon and was just Obi-Wan trying to hide facts about his past life from Luke?

[@PhilBagels]

musicwarrior Nope.

[@bromodragone8405]

Eh, sending the plans to a sand planet wont do any good. Darth Vader's suit protect him from the sand and the suns' heat. He once came to Tatooine specifically to kill an entire village of Tusken Raiders. And yes, that is canon.

[@351cleavland]

Kit Fister!

[@anonagain]

mmmm...fried Gungan

[@wwb16]

I am the only one who likes the prequels? cause I do feel like it sometimes

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Haha the skywalker family motto, about doing everything the first time without any training or effort.. No wonder Rey used the Skywalker name by the end..she managed to outdo them in every respect and master advanced jedi skills with zero effort training or hardship.. Fucking hell last jedi was just the worst

[@jayo1212]

That's not an inconsistency. He said there were 1000 generations of Jedi Knights, not the Republic. Big difference there.

[@351cleavland]

Episode 2-Anakin tells Padme about his dislike of sand-he really gets into it. Rifftrax has exploited that on several occasions as the original dialogue was corny and laughable.

[@originalprettybird]

Fisto!

[@helpimarock66]

Watching the original series with all of the crappy, unnecessary knowledge gained from the prequels is such a slap in the face. Why show R2D2 flying in a prequel when he couldn't in the original series? That would just generate a million plot holes. And come to think of it, Only C3PO had his memory wiped at the end of "Revenge of the Sith", not R2D2, and It's been proven that not only do people understand R2D2 perfectly well, but that he engages in active and complex conversation with them, so why the hell wouldn't R2D2 know who luke is? He was there when he was born and named, knows that he has the same last name of the same person (anikin) that he spend nearly two decades (I think) with, and lives in the same spot on the whole friction' desert planet where Anikin found out where his mother lived. Whoops!

[@BlueEyedSexyPants]

Anakin, and R2D2, being Obi Wan's droid would know the importance of keeping it secrets from Luke. He'd been keeping the secret of the events surrounding their birth from Leia for years. We don't know this for sure, but when the rebellion needed it, it's possible that R2D2 was the one that told Leia about Obi Wan's ability to help and probable willingness to join the cause (though Senator Organa or anyone around back then is just as likely to have told her), thus starting the events of A New Hope. The point is that if Leia's parents could keep a secret about her adoption for many years, surely a droid could. As for flying, I don't know; maybe the fuel for his jets was scarce. They were in a war after all, and on the guerrilla side in fact.

[@markuscriticus8278]

BlueEyedSexyPants Still, not sure why they couldn't just have another droid character, beyond pointless fanservice.

[@OttoTorrens]

I thought it was both of them ?

[@Mst3kfanatic1]

how about them retconning the force from being some magical energy and giving it a scientific reasoning.

[@OttoTorrens]

Yeah, leave the science to Star Trek George!

[@monkeymouse]

Newt Gunray is the fake-Chinese talking thing from the prequel; any accident that he's named after Republican politicians (Newt Gingrich and Ronald Raygun)?

[@edgarallanlovecraft5485]

I heard they are going to base a character on a democRAT: musliHomoTraitorsissi

[@monkeymouse]

That the best you got?

[@monkeymouse]

Obama backwards? That wasn't even worth the effort.

[@PhilBagels]

monkeymouse Lucas put as much effort into coming up with names for his characters as he puts into farting. Green, Greedy alien bounty hunter? Call him "Greedo". Roguish loner character? Call him "Solo". Father of the hero, turns to the dark side? Call him "Dark Father". No, that's too obvious, how do you say "father" in German? Alien species with squid-like heads? Call them "Mon-Calamari". Kid becomes an orphan? Call him "Little Annie". Instructor talks about concentrating the mind and focusing and meditating and all that stuff? Call him "Yoga". No that's too obvious - change one letter, and no one will notice. Evil violent guy? Call him "Maul". And how does anyone know what Chewbacca's name is? He can't even for that sequence of sounds with his own voice. How can he possibly introduce himself and say, "My name is Chewbacca"? How can his name be anything other than "AAARRRRGGGGHHH!" The planet where the whole story ends? Call it "Endor". How about this other bad guy? Well, I'm as liberally biased as anyone else in Hollywood, so I'll name him after a couple of Republicans.