sorry for the screencaps but i couldn’t find a video of this intro to last night’s show. colbert is a genius.
Episode MMXII
AMERICA STRIKES BACK
It is a dark time for America, but not in a racist way. Democratic minions have driven universal health care through Congress, and now threaten to do the unthinkable: be re-elected.
Hungry for power, DARK LORD OBAMA — again, not “racist” dark, just evil — has summoned a hurricane to scatter the Patriotic Alliance.
But all is not lost. A group of freedom fighters led by Mitt Romney and his billionaire mentor Obi-Wan [REDACTED] have established a new secret base in the remote, humid city of Tampa…
Ted has decided not to take GNB's offer to design the headquarters again...
Ted: I do not want to work for GNB again. Those guys are evil. No offense, Marshall.
Marshall: Dude, none taken. Yes, GNB is, uh, the Empire from Star Wars, but the Death Star is gonna get built either way, and don't you think the architect of the Death Star is pretty psyched to have that thing on his space resume. I mean, yes, his design was flawed in the sense that a single bullet fired into a particular vent would explode the whole thing...
Ted: For all we know, that was the contractor's fault.
Marshall: ... But that won't happen on your watch. You know why? Because you're Ted Mosby, and you're gonna design the most beautiful, ventless, Rebel-proof building in Manhattan…with clearly marked emergency stops for every trash compactor on the detention level.
Later on at MacLaren's...
Ted: I’m telling you no architect would ever design a giant exposed vent right over a Death star’s core reactor. That’s space architecture 101. It had to be the contractor.
some of the many star wars gems from the daily show.
2 of my favorite lines:
“i got news for ya. if we’re gonna do the star wars analogy, the democrats are at best ewoks.”
“by the way i believe that’s from the reality show sarah palin’s hoth. she claims she can see tatooine from her house.”
NERD SLAM. BOOM.
epic orchestration of the Star Wars theme, barked in key by dogs. needs no words.
(Source: New York Magazine)
dcu:
Some days random mash-ups of Batman and Darth Vader are just important.
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Yup, that’s the Penguin crossed with Jabba the Hutt… deal with it.
