Yoda Jokes

January 29, 2016 3:15 PM

FUNNNNNYYYYY JOOKKKKEEEE!!
posted by Foci for Analysis (21 comments total)

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posted by effbot at 3:57 PM on January 29, 2016

I'm sorry, but Han Solo has better jokes, and they're DAD Jokes.

Anyway, Weird Al put it best.

Also, I bought the shirt.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:15 PM on January 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

The fake laughter kills it for me.
posted by I-baLL at 4:18 PM on January 29, 2016

This is the best Yoda joke:

5 afraid of 7 was, for what reason, hmm?

Because 6 7 8!

posted by Faint of Butt at 4:25 PM on January 29, 2016 [23 favorites]

"Have hand stuck up there, talk like this you will!"
posted by eriko at 4:31 PM on January 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

Speak like Yoda he did not, killed it for me that did.
posted by oheso at 4:38 PM on January 29, 2016 [4 favorites]

The animation is cute but for some reason these were funnier to me when they were coming out of nowhere in the middle of Arin and Danny playing some truly sadistic Mario Maker levels. Incredibly difficult Mario Maker is what the latter's referring to when he mentions "both of these things at once."
posted by sparkletone at 4:41 PM on January 29, 2016 [3 favorites]

NO NO NO, IT'S LIKE THIS:

"A car I would drive..heh-heh-heh...what kind it would be, hmmmm?"

FIRST GAG IN THE SET AND THEY COULDN'T GET THAT ONE RIGHT
SO SIMPLE IT WAS - THAT IS WHY THEY FAIL
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:04 PM on January 29, 2016

Do or do not, but trying this is.
posted by eriko at 5:45 PM on January 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

There have been many definitions of Generation X, but I think none are more accurate than "a person who heard Weird Al's 'Yoda' and did not know that it was a parody of another song."
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 5:57 PM on January 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

The animation is cute but for some reason these were funnier to me when they were coming out of nowhere in the middle of Arin and Danny playing some truly sadistic Mario Maker levels. Incredibly difficult Mario Maker is what the latter's referring to when he mentions "both of these things at once."

Yeah, definitely, the Game Grumps Animated segments are never as great as the bits in context - it's like hearing the "Heynong Man" bit from Comedy Bang Bang out of context, it just feels like an in joke and doesn't have any of the buildup and ongoing interactions between performers. Game Grumps is basically an over the top version of playing games as a kid at 3 am with your friends while sleep deprived and subsisting on caffeine and candy, and the bits on their own don't have that whole context where they spring up improvised during a bunch of other silliness.
posted by jason_steakums at 6:23 PM on January 29, 2016

It's from this video (playlist link), start at just past one minute because there's an in-video commercial first. Joke Yoda starts later, about five minutes and fifteen seconds in.

And super mario maker is the bomb, you guys. For real.
posted by sandswipe at 6:47 PM on January 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

"Heyyyy, Ben!"
"WHAT, Uncle Lando?"
"So, I hear you're serious about training in the force."
"Well, DUH, Uncle Lando!"
"It's all good, it's all good. You know what happened when Yoda tried to train your Uncle Luke?"
"I... I think I do. Mom told me."
"Did she tell you why Yoda couldn't train Luke the right way, slugger?"
"Because Uncle Luke wanted to help his friends instead of train to be a Jedi?"
"No. We would never have defeated the Empire and their Sith if he hadn't."
"Then why, Uncle Lando!"
"Because when it came to Jedi training... he was a little short that day."
"Uncle Lando... "
"GET IT?"

Cue opening theme to The Force Awakens.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:28 PM on January 29, 2016 [3 favorites]

A parsec is a unit of distance, just sayin
posted by the_blizz at 9:48 PM on January 29, 2016 [3 favorites]

The worst of the web.
posted by crossoverman at 2:49 AM on January 30, 2016

If Yoda you can not parse, syntactical sense your jokes do not make.
posted by Splunge at 7:02 AM on January 30, 2016

Tough crowd.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 10:27 AM on January 30, 2016

Canonically, in the Star Wars universe, parsecs are a unit of meaningless bullshit.
posted by idiopath at 11:14 AM on January 30, 2016 [6 favorites]

As in "there are too many parsecs in Episode I, we could fix this by ditching Jarjar."
posted by idiopath at 11:15 AM on January 30, 2016

Agreed that this video isn't great without the background context. But I went and watched the video it came from, and about fell over laughing. So... thanks!
posted by Solon and Thanks at 1:34 PM on January 30, 2016 [2 favorites]

Yes, thanks for telling me that the jokes are way better in context. I nearly died laughing. Here it is, for those that haven't seen it yet.
posted by tickingclock at 11:26 AM on January 31, 2016