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"Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"

Originally Aired: January 28, 2007

Snowmaker

If anyone finds a video of that list of those who died in the Star Wars movies, could you post a link please?

boogieman03

The Star Wars tribute was the best part.

MrX

As one of the few that has liked most of this season, this ep was a stinker.

cornflakeguy

And it had at least two mistakes.

Greivous was not a 'droid' and the character played by Jimmy Smits did not die...not on screen anyway. One would assume he could have died in Episode 4 when Alderaan was destroyed by the Death Star.

What abut Shmi? And Owen? And Beru?

Now that I think about it...that "Star Wars" list was stupid seeing as how it's woefully incomplete and incorrect. What was the point of it?

The Cow

What was he then?

Ranger

think greivous was half alien / half droid. kind of a nit pick.

the moe triplets were pretty funny.

probably reason why i like the episode was that it had a sort of halloween treehouse feel to it with the three different tales.

cornflakeguy

He was what Vader would have eventually been turned into as time went by. Much more machine than man. That's what the big reveal was when Obi Wan discovered biological organs. As the flesh fails, technology would take over.

This is straight from the Star Wars.com DataBank:

A twisted melding of flesh and metal, General Grievous' body is a deadly weapon forged by the cutting edge developers of the Confederacy. Grievous' living matter was encased within his precision-engineered artificial body; inside the hardened carapace beat the heart of a remorseless killer. A pressurized gut-sack held his vital organs, while his skull-like mask contained his living eyes and brain. Making the horrific amalgam more unpleasant was a persistent wet, hacking cough coming from his ravaged lungs.

So why The Simpsons took the extra step to say "General Grevious (droid)" was overkill. They should have just said "General Grevious" and thats it.

slop101

This was a solid episode, with many laughs, the least of which was the Star Wars gag.
That was more like something the manatees would pick for a Family Guy cut-away.

Is everyone here that big of a Star Wars nerd, where just throwing in a reference to it constitues a funny joke to you? sheesh...

Ranger

oh lord, now we're quoting the star wars databank.

the "prevenge" bit was comedy gold.

Chew

Great homage to Batman, right down to the camera shot on the pearls.

Overall, rather m'eh episode.

Charlie Goose

Best laugh was Moe in the frying pan.

"Crepes?.......SUZETTE!"

CPA-ESQ.

I liked the Batman spoof.

Loved how they did a throw back to the Batman episodes of the 60's! All the Villians and Snake with his puns


Even my Girlfriend said that Jimmy Smits didn't die - That was a reach, but the people of Alderon should have been mentioned

Snowmaker

Bail Organa (Jimmy Smitts) was on Alderaan when it blew up.

Groucho

Where's the love for the one Ewok who died?

boogieman03

I don't know about many laughs, but it was merely an ok episode.

As for the Star Wars reference, it was funny to me cause it caught me off guard. Even then, it wasn't that funny.

CPA-ESQ.

Do we know for sure that he died - was it mentioned in the movies? or is this from the Star Wars Universe? My GF wouldn't be that up on the entire Star Wars Universe.

cornflakeguy

Yeah, guys, I know. I was well aware of when I was molding that last post that I was becoming the Star Wars Geek of the thread.

Yet I continued.....*sigh*.

The only reason that I was compelled to point all that out is because of conversations I've had with many folks that did not know/realize that when that "compartment" on Grevious opened it revealed organs. Most folks going in though he was 100% droid, end of story.

Yet we all know he was not. [/starwarsgeek]

ScandalUMD

They took the extra step so that people like me who only saw EP 3 once might remember who he is.

And by the way, what's up with the names of the villains in the new Star Wars movies? Count Dookie is Darth Tyrannus? The emperor is Darth Sidious? This guy is General Grievous? Were they just naming characters with the thesaurus?

Seriously, are they so light on character development that they have to actually give the bad guys adjectives as names?

Maybe if they do a sequel trilogy, the bad guy will be Baron Shitty von Asshole, aka Darth Douchebag.

GoldenJCJ

Owen was mentioned but my first thought after that bit was how incomplete that list was and I immediatley forgot about it. My second thought was what was the point of doing the Star Wars bit?

I thought it was an OK ep. This was the first time Bartman was mentioned in many years (harking back to the good ol' days of the Simpsons) if I'm not mistaken.

mmconhea

I think the writers finished writing the episode (which was a great one) and said, "now, how do we keep the internet nerds from bashing this one, like they do every week? Distract them with something...Maybe get them to talk nonstop about it"
And they threw that in at the end.
{looks at above posts}
and it apparently worked!

bunkaroo

Don't take this personally, but the point may have been to prompt a response very similar to yours.

And yes, even my fiancee and I said "What about Beru????"

Michael Ballack

For the people criticizing the star wars list, you sound like the wow fans bashing south park after "Make love not Warcraft". It's a joke! Stop being real life comic book guy. I'm a pretty big star wars geek, and I found it funny despite any flaws.

cornflakeguy

Yeah but "Make Love not Warcraft" is funny...

milo bloom

Eh, not really. In the early years, the staff of The Simpson's were pretty savvy with their SW references. In recent years, they've just become petty jabs at something popular. That's why I don't find it funny, because it simply isn't. The joke would have been funny if it the list had been accurate, because that's the best kind of humor: finding the funny things in what really is. If you're going to make shit up, then make it up entirely. Don't do it half-assed.


As for the episode, is The Count of Monte Cristo seriously like that? There are serious gaps in my classical literature studies, and this seemed fairly interesting.