Star Wars: The Next Generation
December 9, 2010 Remember Katie, the little girl with the Star Wars water bottle who's been unofficially adopted by every geek on the Internet? Well, in Katie's honor, tomorrow is Wear and Share Star Wars Day!
This is a day to rock your Star Wars clothing or accessories, and also to donate a Star Wars or other geeky toy to your local shelter or hospital. Cool, right?
Now, for this special occasion Jen has asked me, Number 1, to write a Star Wars themed post. What Jen doesn't realize (and what I'm not going to tell her), is that I've never seen Star Wars. Ever. But I've seen Spaceballs a whole bunch of times, so I figure this'll be no biggie.
Ok, so, the movie is set in space, "the final frontier", sometime in the future. Luke Skywalter is the pilot for the Star Ship Firefly.
("Oh I'm sorry, we don't make Star Wars cakes at this bakery, but we'll happily make you one with plenty of 'space'." [Yeah. Seriously.])
"We will destroy Hans Solo by playing checkers."
RD2D, CP3O, and Spider-Man.
Slimer.
Slimer tells Luke to "use the force," but Luke doesn't know what that means so he shoots him. (First.) Luke and his gang then go back to the Enterprise to fight Dark Vader and rescue Princess Leia. Again.
But the ship is now underwater, which makes it impossible to turn on their Life Savers.
Dark Vader thinks it's unfair that Luke brought friends to help him fight, so Vader calls a friend of his own:
Accio pixie power!!
But wait! Slimer pops up from the dead and casts lightning into Vader's helmet. Pew! Pew!
Vader falls to the ocean floor, and Slimer says, "You killed my father; prepare to die!" Then he crosses the tachyon streams to open a wormhole which sends Vader back to Gozer.
And they all live together on the island until John Locke finds himself dead in the coffin.
THE END
Thanks, Amanda K., Anony M., Autumn P., Amanda N., Sarah, Jessica H., Ruth K., and Mattie T. And as the brown coats say, "Live long, and may the force be with you." So say we all.
UPDATE from Jen: Don't miss today's CNN article on Katie, with quotes from yours truly!
Reader Comments (232)
To the Cake Wrecks crew - you guys are awesome! To Katie - that hat is awesome! I just might have to figure out how to knit one now.
This is HYSTERICAL! Love the tink-vader alliance! While I couldn't wear Star Wars to work today I'm going to rock it like it's no one's business tomorrow! (And go looking for a water bottle with Luke and Yoda!)
Primarily posting because my wv is "holodica". Isn't that where Darth Vader and Tinkerbell hold their fight simulation training? The holodica on board the Firefly D?
the cakes were funny - but the text... priceless :) love it!!!
Oh dear... I keep saying that I'm not into sci fi, and was proud of my successfully avoiding Star Wars until several friends conspired to inflict 3 episodes on me some few years back. The sad thing? I got far too many of the references to be able to keep claiming that! I really am far more of a geek than I realized-- but that's probably because of the friends to whom I'm comparing myself.
That was one very funny post!!
PS If you truly haven't seen Star Wars yet, then don't give in-- what was once innovative is now beyond dated, so you can't get past the cheesiness of the special effects, the lame acting and plot. Think of how something like Lost is going to seem 30 years down the road, to the next generation. It's a real let-down. You had to see it when it was still new and fabulous. Instead, indulge in all the wonderful things that are it's legacy.
Love Katie's Leia hat :)
Is it just my bifocals playing tricks? seriously...Luke Skywalter?? really...have no interest in reading all 200 comments but did no one else catch that?
Wow... just, wow...
That was so full of Geek, I'm speechless.
Hey Anonymous,
The whole point of the post is that Number 2 got all the geek references deliberately wrong.
This may be my all-time favorite post simply because of the sheer amount of geek!
Now THAT was funny. Thank you John :)
This is my contribution to Katie and Wear and Share Star Wars day: http://www.lifeisforthebirds.com/archivepages/maytheforcebewithkatie.html
I. Want. Katie's. Cap!
WHERE CAN I GET KATIE'S HAT?!? Oh, and great post! RD2D. bwah ha ha!!
While not the best well cake I've seen...(ha!)
Any girl who wants both Tinkerbell and Darth Vader on her birthday cake sounds pretty cool. :D
Great post!
Even better than Jim Halpert on The Office explaining Battlestar Galactica.
"It's about this guy, Dumbledore Calrissian, who's got to take The Ring back to Mordor."
Simply stated, I love CW (and Epbot, of course, since i'm handing out blog love). Today's post was absolutely outstanding. I loved every line, and was very happy w/the multiple tie-ins...and ending w/John Locke in the coffin, I snorted, out loud, slightly embarassing but true. Thank you for making my day, LOVE!
Best. Post. Ever.
HA! That's awesome!
OMG so many geek references, so little time!! LOVE your blog, lady!!!
When I saw the first cake, I absolutely believed it was Howard Cosell, famous sporscaster. I couldn't imagine why someone would want him on a cake. See his photo on Wikipedia.
I laughed so hard I cried! LOL that was an epic and amazingly awesome story. And I miss LOST.
Am I the only who noticed it's supposed to be R2D@ instead of RD2D?
HAHAHAHAA!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE! Best refs EVAR!
Even though 200 people already said it, let me also say that this post rocked with awesome!
I love this blog so much!! I do have to point something out that was bugging me though, it's R2D2, not RD2D.
this was just awesome reading, thanks for today's cheering-up!
By the way it's R2D2 not RD2D... And Darth Vader is chilling with spiderman too. Love your blog!!!
This is my favorite post ever!
Mandy
The vogon planet is actually called vogsphere.
Oh wow! My two favorite things on ONE cake. Tinkerbell and Star Wars. That is epic.
With every sentence I read I was going "Ow, ouch, ooo, that hurts...OW!" But hysterical when you know all the references!
"Use the force, Harry."-Patrick Stewart
Can you do a Firefly cakes post?