The Acolyte: 20 Moments That Will Live In Infamy

Revisit the series as I chronicle the 20 cringiest moments

[@PatchesMalone]

The Death Star itself wishes it could have done half as much damage to the galaxy that Leslye Headland achieved.

[@artinist]

Good one

[@glitterkitty1979]

Top comment 👌 👍 👏

[@kamau506]

@@PatchesMalone 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@winstonchurchll]

😂

[@PaulOtis3]

"The Death star is responsible for 12 million deaths with 6 million being Jedi"😂

[@guygadbois3010]

'Wookie with a metal detector' is the only thing I'll remember from this entire show.

[@lucymiau5700]

It will become an iconic Cosplay.

[@Mangolorian-je3eo]

Parry Gripp song incoming.

[@ManDom878]

😅😅😅

[@valley_robot]

They are used in the comics

[@jonathonmenth3901]

@@valley_robotmetal detectors are used in the comics?

[@aesiddoway]

The power of one cringe moment. The power of two. The power of maaanyyyy.

[@Fistfullofpizza]

The power of soy. The power of cringe. The power of money. Where did the $180M go?

[@OvalRock]

'The Power of Many' - not much use against 'The Power of One (Jedi)'

[@AllanRamires1988]

I believe this is the #1 cringiest moment from the entire show. I literally stopped watching and cancelled disney+ on the spot. ps: I then returned a few days later and finished the episode

[@kamau506]

@@aesiddoway power of too many

[@noahmaldonado5461]

The power of few viewers

[@bertvanbeterbed9702]

Never have I been so involved in a show I have never watched and never will. What happened to Star Wars is so tragic that all we can do now is laugh the trauma away. It even puts the Christmas Special in a better light. At least that one tried to entertain its viewers, instead of "making them uncomfortable". Good riddance The Acolyte, the worst content Star Wars has ever produced.... so far....

[@mihmo2663]

I actually looked forward to Wednesday mornings to see the recaps. So many youtubers are making livable incomes over trashing Disney.

[@dragonshiny7321]

​@@mihmo2663but it's sad. Why make bad shows that loses views over time when making great shows would yield more income, both for the company and the youtubers

[@M82RKY]

Same, thank god for KZbin so I didn’t have to put up with the nonsense😂

[@fundhund62]

How can you call The Acolyte the worst Star Wars content ever produced when you haven't watched it? That's beyond stupid.

[@bertvanbeterbed9702]

@@fundhund62 okay

[@dr.medieval1131]

The Acolyte makes me long for the quality Shakespeareian acting of Jar Jar Binks.

[@Chebab-Chebab]

"To be-sa, or not to be-sa. That is the muy-muy importante question, boyo."

[@This_awesomeguy64]

@@Chebab-Chebabperfect.

[@krikeydial3430]

Jar Jar does not get enough credit for being a gay character.

[@Surfword]

I love jar jar Binks no really he's awesome

[@KabukeeJo]

So ends this chapter of Soy Wars

[@wolfen8622]

I wish

[@atomicdancer]

And not short enough it was.

[@This_awesomeguy64]

“Soy wars” I like it,suits Kennedy

[@JoshuaG]

"She Wars & She-colyte" suits Kathleen Kennedy as welll 😂😂😂

[@andrewbrennan2891]

I don't care what anyone says The Acolyte has given ,me hours and hours of entertainment - well not the show itself, obviously but the reviews etc on youtube have been laugh out loud great.

[@acidviperOG]

Yep, the show is hot garbage but it's giving unintentional comedy material

[@cooperlambeau8744]

had me in the first half, not gonna lie... actually that's a lie. I have zero faith that anyone would actually like the show.

[@EricStraw]

Damn straight

[@zetester98]

Certain scenes were comedy gold by themselves. I couldn't stop laughing during the last episode's awkward kung-fu fight with tacked on choirs.

[@monolith4653]

The Sith in SW represents the evil traits in humanity, hate, greed, lust or Ego etc. This is what happens when the "Sith" tries to write SW.

[@williamholmes7529]

Remember, Lesley Headspace has the emails and the Polaroids, wink, wink 😉

[@vespenegas261]

Darth Blackmail

[@davidrowntree8250]

Can we all take a moment to acknowledge how much Echo has improved in his script writing and delivery? Dudes getting funnier with every video

[@IstariAzul777]

I briefly confused echo for the d+ echo lol. Agreed tho! This guy is friggin hysterical

[@cattrucker8257]

Ironic, the real tradecraft improvement in writing, production and delivery doesn't happen in the shows, it happens in the reviews of shows.

[@barry013]

My personal favorite was the Wookie Jedi looking, presumably, for someone’s wedding ring, using a 1980’s metal detector, in a field. Perhaps a new series featuring the Wookie Detectorist is on the cards…

[@ArtooDetour]

The Wookie had been looking for the keys to the ship for seven weeks!

[@bring-out]

lol

[@Johnsmith-ko9yj]

I know why the Jedi is evil, not enough masculine straight White men.

[@user-kz5gw7xe4o]

You don't have to be a straight white male to be a straight white male. You could be black, female, and gay, but if you vote for Trump you are a straight white male ON THE INSIDE (meaning evil). Being a person of color or some other marginalized class means you vote democrat and conform to left-wing ideology.

[@NoalFarstrider]

It's crazy how they literally made the lesbians and the women look horrible to the point the green Jedi is gaslighting and blaming men IN THE SHOW. So it's no wonder they blame straight men in real life as well.

[@squidmanfedsfeds5301]

Basically their dads left them

[@jimjam51075]

My takeaway is that the more diverse the Star Wars show/film, the lower quality it is. Good job, Disney.

[@JoakimOtamaa]

​@@jimjam51075 Fits to everything really. When something is praised for inclusivity and diversity, Imma skip that shite.

[@ryanm.6005]

"The bluster of queef smog" I've never been so disgusted and yet so amused by a statement in my life.

[@AliceBowie]

I just started the video, but just reading those words makes me want to pukebarf.

[@jamied1579]

Queef Smog - something Leslye and her lovers spend too much time huffing...

[@jamesdalton2014]

@@jamied1579 Excellent name for a band though.

[@ericgarcia4745]

I can't wait till they make a show about padawans doing a "me too" on Yoda and Jedi attorneys uncovering the sith behind it all. So stunning and brave

[@EinFritzMitX]

In all honesty, that sounds alot better than what we got recently.

[@Kendro311]

It was an actual deconstruction of SW on every level. Seeing her turn a light saber red like it was a mood ring made me feel ill.

[@AliceBowie]

Holy shit, lightsabers ARE mood rings. It's just that jedi always are chill and sith are always pissed. (Honestly, when Phantom Menace came out, I hated that they gave Maul a red lightsaber. Before that lightsabers weren't color coded, it just happened that anakin's was blue, vader's was red, and Luke's was green. It was still open-ended. The more they nail the lore down, the smaller the universe gets. I know they already had the kyber crystal thing, but still.)

[@mrplayfulshade1038]

​@@AliceBowie"....That's not how the force works!"

[@This_awesomeguy64]

@@AliceBowie”ah my lightsaber is green-and now it’s blue-that made me annoyed so now it’s red oops I’ve calmed down so it’s green again!”

[@Playmaker_103]

"Jediabetes" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PaulaBean]

The power of 1 The power of 2 The power of 180.000.000

[@scarman7866]

The power of over 9000!!!!!!!!!

[@Riyu_Anordam]

The power of 50 million power in rise of kingdoms

[@Seetiyan]

The power . . . is yours!

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

_The power of 1_ All powers of 1 equal 1.😉 _The power of 2_ Which power? The 2nd which is 4, the 7th which is 128 or the 10th which is 1024? 😉

[@PaulaBean]

@@jensphiliphohmann1876 What power of 2 you ask? Well, the power of two witches! 🤪

[@NotsoBigPapaCraig]

I miss the days when Jar Jar was the worst thing in Star Wars.

[@ExtraterrestrialsareReall]

My condolences to all those that watched the acolyte. It can't be unseen, but it can be forgotten.

[@WatchtowerSeven]

Oh yes, it'll be forgotten because I can already sense a new show/movie coming out which will be 10 times as worse.

[@heyj64]

... Sorry, what were we talking about?

[@andygeorgeparkinson2515]

My psychiatrist says it could take years of therapy to get over it 😳😱

[@MrsMacLover]

2 facials in a Star Wars Show. groundbreaking stuff.

[@Johnsmith-ko9yj]

May I thank you for watching it so I didn't have too, respect.

[@AliceBowie]

I hope in season 2, Osha gets surgery to change her gender and skin color, and goes to Naboo to become Palpatine, becomes a Senator.

[@IstariAzul777]

Thanks to the pioneering efforts of that thank u next girl from boca Whiteface is totally ok

[@lauras.2314]

And I hope there isn't a second season 😂

[@Kaiju_Chaos]

Considering the backlash, likely not. You don't attack your target audience.

[@redsoxu571]

People were so quick to get on that actor for his Anakin Skywalker Death Star flub that the response tended to miss the larger fail: that someone centrally involved in the production of this show felt that there was a moral quandary involved with the killing of the personnel of a military-only instillation that itself was specifically designed to be a Weapon Of Mass Destruction - one that had in short order had already been used to wipe out the billions-large civilian population of a pacifist planet. I don't want to hear ethical arguments from the sorts of people who would promote such nonsense, nor do I want them at the storytelling controls of IP they did not themselves create. Ye gods!

[@davidkamerath7749]

I totally agree. We may as well mourn the loss of dozens of SS guards because they were just doing their jobs

[@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2]

"BEST SEASON EVEEEERRRR" -Emilia Clarke Mother of Dragons. She had no idea future show would do even "better" LOL 🤣🤣🤣

[@iantercero5380]

House of Dragons? Yes, it sure did.

[@CST-ft9dv]

"...tongues wagging and not just between the sheets at home." OMG I died!

[@matthewbowen5841]

I think the "genital mounds" line is even better

[@lotuschamp7796]

Just watching the reviews was traumatic enough, I wouldn't even pirate this shit..

[@Jean-ClaudeGodDamn]

Yass, yass!

[@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2]

Funny how youtube wrote "translate to english" under your comment 🤣 Makes no sense even for google.

[@John.Angell]

Oh my God the Jediabetes guy looks like Lardass from Stand By Me.

[@russ254]

His Star Wars name is Soy Buffet

[@m626m]

A young Big Pussy

[@JamezGrimm]

Limiting this list to only 20, must have been quite the challenge

[@mbgowhary]

Let's give the acolyte some credit. it kept us entertained for weeks by giving all these golden memes

[@tywanharrison1225]

This needs to be focused talked about and spread around. Didn’t Sol have an unexplained obsession over Osa to make her his padawan out of no where for no reason. Ever since he first saw her. Right ok and didn’t the greenbean lady say at the end them memories were from when the twins were 8 years old. Didn’t Sol saw he loved Osa is the reason he didn’t tell the Jedi counsel while she was force chocking him. So a grown man has an unexplained love obsession over a 8 year old made and produced for 180 million by Disney. This steams from a woman who was harvy Weinstein assistant who was arrested and convicted for these following activities. Cancel this sick woman lesyle headland. Cancel Disney.

[@erikrogers8214]

And she killed him off

[@SammEater]

I think the most memorable moment is that they truly thought this was a morally grey story. NO, Disney, NO! It wasn't a morally grey tale, even though you tried your "best" at making the Jedi act out of character what you showed on screen still validates what they did to the witches, they were 100% in the right and were just defending themselves from crazy Dark Side users.

[@victorcates9330]

If you look at the scene were the mother turns into a smoke demon (or however you describe it), they animated that presumably from a description. Unless the description of what she turns into was neutral, they must have had words on a page like 'threatening' or ghost. If an animator is told to turn the character into a ghost, it seems reasonable to assume they mean something more in the range of a banshee than Casper the friendly ghost. The only option you have for that character design is they asked for it or it's some kind of misunderstanding. If they have to backfill to explain events (that make no sense), then they're amateur writers. Audiences can only react to what's on the screen.

[@user-vn1no7ws2b]

I reeeeeally loved how the sith just want to freely go around the Galaxy killing anyone they want without the bad Jedi disturbing them. Poor sith 😢

[@mechgouki7999]

Damn! My dog left a big pile of acolyte on the carpet!

[@JohnDoeRando]

Had to change my daughter; she acolyted her diaper.

[@mechgouki7999]

@@JohnDoeRando That's a little drastic. Acolyte happens to us all.

[@DeanoTube]

The only spins the body positive Jedi can do are wheel spins in the McDonald's drive thru

[@jlovebirch]

As always, superb, incisive writing with epic takedowns, but delivered at such break-neck speed that it's nearly impossible to digest each pithy critique before we crash into the next flurry of brilliant verbiage.

[@reedr7142]

You should be Echo’s understudy. That was fantastic.

[@stuartscott8099]

You could easily do a Part 2 to this titled 'Another 20 Times We Almost Died From Cringe'

[@GlGAPEPE]

Imagine letting your kids watch this show

[@dirufanboy1971]

Yas! YAAAAS! It's FINALLY over. I can now erase it from my memory and pretend it never happened.

[@cpeplinski]

Getting it down to 20 had to be tough

[@Impulset0]

List could've easily been 40 or 50 points. Some of my favourites: Tommen Baratheon commits suicide for no reason. Mae changes teams midway through her episode long stroll through the forest then immediately forgets she did so once she's aboard Sol's ship Basil betrays the Jedi and Sol does nothing about it. Instead of Qimir, Osha, and Mae escaping together Mae decides the best course of action is to stay behind and erase her memory. (???????) Sol who just stood toe to toe with a (maybe) sith gets force choked to death by failed Jedi out of practise for years. I could go on all day.

[@Bawheidbob]

Thanks for good memories, good ole Hoggle

[@DainRiffgin89]

I would also add Qimir skinny dipping, along with Osha looking at his “saber”. As for Yord’s actor saying Anakin blew up the Death Star, that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that is him defending his moronic position that there is no good and evil in Star Wars (and that’s his favorite part), by trying to equate Darth Vader’s evil with Luke killing “millions and millions” of people. Never mind that the Death Star the Luke blew up had already destroyed a planet with 2 BILLION people on it. That told me everything I needed to know.

[@peterphan227]

Jediabetes: "May the Fork be with you."

[@crooster1]

Word of the day kids, "Queefsmoke"

[@JonasGrumby-OO]

Warning: queef smog.

[@tatooinenative860]

Just 20? That’s generous of you bro.

[@rogerlebel1580]

This was the funniest review ever, I haven’t watched the show and don’t need to now

[@trevorwgratton3354]

Dori Doreau: "They asked for a million dollars, a private plane, and an end to the 'Star Wars' program." Sledge Hammer: "Yeah well, three movies were enough." - TV show "Sledge Hammer!", 1986.

[@bobcranberries5853]

Omg I’m so glad I didn’t watch this! Your description is exactly exactly my way of thinking.

[@kaukase539]

We thought Jar Jar Binks was cringe….we know better now 😢😢😢

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

Jar Jar is the new Darth Vader, compared to this new stuff.

[@MerrimourTheRed]

great video as usual big shout out from Canada eh all of these new shows stink I miss the 80s so much mang

[@michaelracine3986]

The final nail in the coffin of the most successful franchise in history! The Acolyte is a disgrace to Walt Disney, George Lucas, Star Wars lore, and every fan. The house of mouse is burning to the ground while Iger and Kennedy fiddle…

[@Mega-G-Star]

Great video production & jokes, awaiting now for the next 20 moments.

[@subtwo2418]

Beautifully and perfectly written video sir 😎👌🏼

[@ereini0n]

Force choking should never have worked on an actual Force user 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@anthonykeane4984]

Though never fully explained it was always implied that force powers were difficult to use on fellow force users . Hence why jedi carried a weapon essentially to deal with other force users . Force powers are for dealing with normies. Jedi aren't wizards 😂😂

[@mpaice]

Please give us the runner-up 20 cringe moments. And then another 200.

[@UninvitedGhost]

“If it can’t be great, it shouldn’t exist.” -Damon Lindelof

[@sofaking1627]

Echo Chamberlain has to be the best name for a youtube channel I've ever seen.

[@jaxkommish]

So glad I don't care what they do with or to Star Wars anymore. Much more enjoyable to watch the House of Mouse crumble each day than build up any hope for good content in the future.

[@romeoinferno]

1:57 "perhaps the fire was started and sustained by a blaster of queef smog" - Echo Chamberlain😂😂😂

[@georgemeyers1245]

It's Force Fire Obviously! Burns right through stone. 🤣 Hell, they have force everything else. Great take as always☮️

[@Seetiyan]

You mean, Thread Fire? 🧵🔥😏😆

[@buzzhonky]

I disliked how new abilities or powers were introduced only for a scene. Dark dude can apparently teleport now, oh okay cool. And he can wipe memories? Oh... kay, cool? And why couldn't they all leave together at the end? Literally why? All the time it took them to cry and hug and talk about wiping memories they could've been back on their ship and gone. 😮‍💨 The force choke was grotesquely audacious; literally no one could just *speak* what they needed to say. The entire show is nullified for needing to exist if anyone could literally just speak to each other like adults and not toddlers or with the expectation that other people can read their minds. Although it is written by women so 🤷‍♂️ There's more, but it's beating a dead horse. Fuck this tripe. Not a single episode should've left the writer's room in the shape the script was in. Juvenile and pathetically incompetent.

[@mudcrab3420]

So... they wipe the memory of Evil Twin, but we are also told that Evil Twin and Less Evil Twin are the same person... so... Actually none of this makes sense. Screw this show.

[@caronstout354]

The "Levitating Jedi" is Tommen Baratheon from GoT...from the sublimely awful to the sublimely ludacrous.

[@jonasirw1]

Wow... this vid was incredibly well written... Worth listening to twice

[@tonyp.5985]

I wonder what the name of this channel is? The video editor should include the channel name more often in the video so we don't forget.

[@Face2East]

The fire in space always makes me smile. It's like a homage to the old Flash Gordon tv serial and not give damn enough to ask what the 'sci' in sci-fi actually meant.

[@noahmijo]

Now I need to go see Phantom Menace in the theaters to give me a true vintage Star Wars fix

[@wubbin_is_good]

Another scene I thought was cringe was when Jeki whips out her second lightsaber and wastes precious seconds just to grin stupidly at Qimir.

[@Quazi-moto]

Try as she might, Lesbian Headband will never inspire me to view the Jedi the way she wants me to: As the Je-DEI.

[@Birs_84]

Actually, the Acolyte has only eight bad moments: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 The rest is actually really good and doesn't deserve those catastrophic user reviews.

[@benp7724]

Remember when kylo ren met Queen amidala on alderaan in the empire strikes back

[@ryanharte5400]

The thumbnail had me doubled over. 😂

[@davidneale9113]

The term "queef smog" had me dead.

[@santos.l.halper1999]

20 times is being generous.... Like, WAAAAAYYYYY generous

[@zZiL341yRj736]

They're just setting up Season 2 bro, it's gon' be LIT AF!

[@MattCurrieImprov]

Soyboy white Jedi unalives himself for no reason, what a pleasant message to send.

[@steppahouse]

Glad you all watched it so I wouldn't have to. Hopefully Disney won't greenlight season 2.

[@YH87]

"The power of 1, the power of 2, the power of many" is bonechilling, terribly ridiculous and almost traumatic at the same time.😂

[@AugusCrafting]

Thanks for minimizing the cringe and describing the events with words instead of showing them after the first two... Hhhhhggggg...

[@VinceLyle2161]

Nice editing. Princess Leia's response to the scatological realities of the Jedi in the 10 year coma: WHAT?!?

[@TrueLunacy]

Beautiful breakdown

[@drewdonald6260]

This is why we can't have nice things 😕

[@ZWWWzww]

The local cable company has now dropped “The Acolyte” from its Disney+ advertising including only “Shogun” & “The Bear” as “now streaming!” It seems anything “Star Wars” or “Marvel” is no longer a selling feature for DISNEY+! How utterly sad ☹️!!!

[@phantomloard0138]

finaly the nightmare the battels there finally over.

[@carbonc6065]

Okay, I'll subscribe.

[@smallcd]

The Power of One, The Power of Two, The Power of Incompetenceeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@paulaburrows8660]

There's always another. . . sometime.

[@fliplife67]

For most people they won’t remember this show existed.

[@derfel72]

It can't get any worse, right? The Ache-a-lot writing team: Hold my soy latte...

[@eggsbeatty1786]

It just makes you feel sorry for the actor and the actress and the production crew and the show and the franchise and civilisation 😆I love the way that expanded out to include everything.

[@PinkstonFilms]

This video is comedy gold!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@GravelordWrust]

"Queef smog."

[@Quazi-moto]

He comes up with some gems.

[@DavidLopez-qi8hb]

Thank you acknowledging Darth Plagueis the creeper.

[@jonathanpeterson1984]

This ish is HILARIOUS though for the rest of us dgaf folks😂😂

[@RoBot9491]

How long did you work on that script dude? Bet you felt pretty good about it huh?! Fun

[@elsells1170]

"And then the audience had its turn and never has a symbolic tomato withered, putrified, liquefied, and burst into a slimy, squelchy rottenness more emphatically." Damn, with those words I laughed so hard tears came out my eyes. Fortunately, no slimy, squelchy rottenness. 😂

[@twalker8020]

Fire in Space is ridiculous without oxygen. Spaceships in Space creating thrust to move around especially achieving light speed is also ridiculous.

[@MwahMwahProductions]

'Queef Smog' needs to be made into a superhero movie!😂

[@justinjones5296]

The biggest cringe moment for me was the Osha/Mae hug/poem in the last episode....i wanted to throw up... Also At the end of episode 2 Qimir force pushes Osha to his right....at the beginning of episode 3 she gets up on his left....