There may be no dealership in history morebeloved than Star Wars . While not everyone considers themselves a devotee , there are plenty of people who do , even if no one can agree on which movie are really unspoiled . What we can hopefully all agree on , though , is that a great Star Wars parody is almost as in force as the real thing .
Because the enfranchisement is so dear by so many , there have been tons of capital parodies over the years . We ’ve pull together a list of seven of the best sendup in the history of Star Wars , ranked from jolly dependable to undeniably bully .
7. Hardware Wars
The original Star Wars parody , and one of the more apart today , Hardware Warswas release just a year after Star Wars hit theaters . The short film was made for just $ 7,000 , and while it decidedly shows its budget , it was also a beautiful associate to Star Wars for buff who just could n’t get enough of the original film .
Much of the humor ofHardware Warsrelies explicitly on the August 15 that you have seen the original movie , but its jokes about Ham Salad and the Red Eye Knights never conk out to elicit a chortle , even if they are a bitty bit obvious .
6. Spaced
Edgar WrightandSimon Pegghave made literal masterpieces together andSpacedwas where it all set off . AlthoughSpacedwas lay out in a moderately grounded realness in which a valet de chambre and woman decide to start living together even though they barely bed one another , it also had time for flight of fancy .
Given how significant Star Wars is to Pegg and Wright and to the serial ’ characters , several of those flights of fancy involve the enfranchisement in one room or another . That ’s not to mention all the statement the characters get into over the prequels .
5. Robot Chicken
Robot Chickendecided to dedicate an entire episode to parodying Star Wars , and fans should be beaming that they did . Although the series does n’t even attempt any sort of overarching patch or premise , almost every individual joke here works , from C-3PO setting off a metal sensor and adopt it ’s his keys to Luke having a “ Yo Mama ” battle with Palpatine and ultimately defeating him .
Are some of the jokes of the present moment ? For sure , but few Star Wars parodies have come up with more great musical theme that poke sport at the original trilogy without indicate that Star Wars is stupid .
4. Saturday Night Live — Undercover Boss
Adam Driveris one of the more successfulhosts in the history ofSaturday Night Live , and his Undercover Boss sketch , in which he pretends to be a regular employee on Starkiller Base when he ’s actually Kylo Ren is one of his very best efforts . Every jest in this sketch lands , peculiarly the ones in which Kylo is but ineffectual to stop his rage at everyone around him .
The miracle of this vignette is that Driver is able to play Kylo Ren as a serious quality in the films , and in a resume like this , he ’s able to call on the dials just enough so that the character reads as comedic instead of pestilent serious .
3. Phineas and Ferb
One of the more under - discourse Star Wars parodies , wheneverPhineas and Ferbtook on a subject , it was almost guaranteed to do something clever with it , and Star Wars was no exception . Instead of just hash over the story ofStar Warswith the brothers taking on the primal part , the serial decided to leave those original characters intact and just wobble the view a laRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead .
This view shimmy allows for some authentically original jokes , but the overall effect is to make a loving testimonial to one of the most beloved franchises in the history of movies .
2. Spaceballs
Mel Brooks has made fishy movies thanSpaceballs , but that ’s not a knock on the film ’s caliber . The film ’s takeoff of the Star Wars story is a magnificent combination of the most obvious kinds of Star Wars jokes ( the scoundrel has a giant helmet ) , and the kinds of even sillier jokes that only Brooks could pull off .
Spaceballsis totemic for many , and with upright rationality . It may be the definitive sendup of Star Wars , one that gets what made the series so heavy and also knows incisively how to stab fun at its many estimate .
1. The Blue Harvest Series — Family Guy
Seth MacFarlane is obviously a huge sci - fi swot ( ifThe Orvillewasn’t enough of a cue ) , and hisFamily Guyparodies of Star Wars seem to aver that he experience exactly how to make fun of the series without stepping over a line . The premise of the parody is that Peter is retelling the story of Star Wars after the power has go out , with some obvious embellishment .
What amount across , though , is just how much MacFarlane unfeignedly have it away Star Wars . Blue Harvest is great precisely because it drop so much of its clock time paying tribute to Star Wars , even as it also pokes a little bit of merriment .
