Stormtrooper: The Death Star was MY Idea

Greg Tito

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Stormtrooper: The Death Star was MY Idea

In a parody of the Windows 7 commercials, TK-421 claims that he came up with fully armed and operational space station.

Even though Windows 7 was probably the best OS to come out of Microsoft's Redmond offices in 15 years, the marketing campaign was kind of lackluster. Random people extolled what they thought was good ideas for their computer and ended with the tagline, "I'm blah blah, and Windows 7 was my idea." While it didn't see as many parodies as the "I'm a Mac" commercials, the Windows 7 campaign was not above derision. But no entity has hilariously skewered the commercials as well as SneakyZebra has with a lowly stormtrooper talking about his concept for the Death Star that's "wipe out the middle man" by blowing planets up from space.


"I'm TK-421, and the Death Star was my idea," he says.

Sneaky Zebra actually made three Star Wars-themed Windows 7 parodies. The Darth Vader version isn't quite so funny, unless you find the phrase "pimped-out spaceball" hilarious, but the Chewbacca one is great if only because we have no idea what he's saying.


Kind of makes me nostalgic for the Star Wars Holiday Special and Chewbacca's family celebrating Life Day. Check out the rest of Sneaky Zebra's videos on their YouTube page [http://www.youtube.com/user/sneakyzebra].

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Sniper Team 4

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Technically, the Death Star was created by Qui Xux in the middle of the Maw Cluster, along with a few dozen other super genius science people. She thought they were making it to mine planets, since she was always locked away working on projects that she loved. And...I'm being a Star Wars nerd again. Sorry.

I like the Storm Trooper one.
 

Not-here-anymore

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Sniper Team 4 said:
Technically, the Death Star was created by Qui Xux in the middle of the Maw Cluster, along with a few dozen other super genius science people. She thought they were making it to mine planets, since she was always locked away working on projects that she loved. And...I'm being a Star Wars nerd again. Sorry.
Best. Response. Ever.

...What? I appreciate a good bit of Star Wars nerdery. Though I may need to somehow read the entirety of wookieepedia. I got in trouble the other day for spelling Kashyyyk with only 2 'y's.
 

Hero in a half shell

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That was great, I loved the "Pimped out Space Ball" line, even though I new it was coming, and Chewbacca's was good, especially the flashback.
Those Windows ads were dumb though, especially the one about the nerd who had to sit outside his dorm room on his laptop because his roommate was 'entertaining' girls. I thought Microsoft out of all people would be trying to dispel the nerdy-geek stereotype.