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  • Better on DVD: You get all the jokes that had to be cut from syndication and none of the commercial breaks.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: The original movie's score is used almost verbatim.
    • Lampshaded by Chris/Luke during the Binary Sunset scene. "Ladies and gentlemen, John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra!"
  • First Installment Wins: Blue Harvest is largely regarded as such. Helps that, unlike the other two, the crew did it because they wanted to, as oppossed to a corporate mandate forcing them.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • You know the scene where Peter/Han has various Stormtroopers dig their own graves using their own helmets as shovels and then line them up to be killed, that he did in order to "make the film darker"? Well, the 2012 Essential Guide to Warfare kind of shows that the Ewoks during the battle essentially did something similar.
    • The episodes had two year gaps between them. After "It's a Trap" aired in 2011, Peter said that The Cleveland Show could handle the Prequel Trilogy. Fast forward two years, and The Cleveland Show was cancelled that year.
    • In "Blue Harvest", Obi-Wan/Herbert runs off only to quickly come back, sarcastically asking what kind of person would do that. Luke Skywalker did just that in The Last Jedi after he crossed the Despair Event Horizon.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Quagmire's German voice actor (Hans-Georg Panczak) was Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy.
    • Osama Bin Laden saying "Still Alive" after popping out of the Tatooine desert? Fast forward three weeks...
    • After Lucasfilm was bought by Disney in 2012, production on the specials halted as Disney kept tighter control on the property than Lucasfilm did. In 2019, Disney bought Fox.
    • As Rogue One revealed, yes, the Death Star's weakpoint really was a conscious choice by the architect.
    • In the Return of the Jedi parody, Palpatine is played by Carter, the grandfather of Chris, who portrays Luke. Fast forward to The Rise of Skywalker and the finale is Palpatine facing off against his grandchild.
      • Bonus points for the fact that Carter also portrayed Uncle Owen in the A New Hope parody before portraying Palpatine, with Owen being killed by the Empire like in A New Hope, sort of like how Palpatine not only was responsible for the death of Rey's parents (and his son, more specifically), but also the fact that said son was a failed clone of Palpatine.
    • Also in the Jedi parody, Han!Peter notes how ridiculous it is that they have to destroy another Death Star, vocalizing the "They Copied It, So It Sucks" complaints about Return of the Jedi recycling A New Hope‍'‍s climax. Fast forward to The Force Awakens and the heroes have to destroy yet another Death Star. The Resistance, like Peter, even lampshades it.
    • In Blue Harvest, the Death Star's elevators play a Muzak version of the Imperial March. This was repeated in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
    • Something, Something, Something, Dark Side takes Dak Ralter's line of feeling he could take on the whole Empire himself literally, whereupon he's instantly incinerated by a Star Destroyer. The Last Jedi opens with Poe Dameon taking on a good chunk of a First Order fleet by himself, showing that it is possible.
    • At the end of Something, Something, Something, Dark Side, Chewie notes that they know where Han is going to be taken but decides to wait until rescuing him, a Take That at Return of the Jedi. Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters reveals that they tried to rescue him immediately and came very close before Boba managed to deliver Han to Jabba.

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