TELE-VADER

The only reason I bother recording the Super Bowl is for the commercials. (So be prepared for a lot of posts analyzing several of the blipverts and their place in the TV Universe. Just warning ya.....)

This one has already been leaked for about a week now, and just in my small circle of friends on Facebook it's already been passed around quite a lot:

So a little kid dressed as Darth Vader shouldn't be a Zonk, since "Star Wars" is part of the movie universe, right?

Wrong. Especially in Skitlandia and the Tooniverse, "Star Wars" is part of the TV Universe. But it is mostly through other commercials that Darth Vader has made his presence known in the main Toobworld.....

We know that R2-D2 and C-3PO, along with Luke Skywalker, were brought forward in time through a wormhole and they ended up at the Muppet theatre. We saw that happen on 'The Muppet Show'. (And somehow Luke and actor Mark Hamill turned out to be related.) Although it aired after the "first" movie (now known by the boring title "A New Hope"), this happened after the (now) sixth movie. The two droids struck out on their own and could later be seen at movie theatres, fast food restaurants, and other Toobworld locations.

As for Darth Vader, he also found his way from the distant past in the movie universe to the "present" day in Toobworld. But this must have occurred for him after the events of "A New Hope" and he made it back to his own universe before the events of "The Empire Strikes Back".

While in the TV Universe, it looks as though Lord Vader tried to fit in with society.....

And when it came time for him to return to the "Cineverse", it looks as though a few characters from Toobworld followed him back......

Somebody else must have also come through the vortex and, as with the mysterious Time traveler who came from the Future to guide Gene Roddenberry in sharing the secrets of Starfleet, that somebody mentored George Lucas in memorializing that far-off galaxy from long ago with the "Star Wars" movies.

Perhaps to better prepare Earthlings when the "real-life" characters crossed over into Toobworld. And that's why TV characters can refer to "Star Wars" as a movie and as "real" people.....

Hey, these peyote buttons are tasty! But they're making me kind of thirsty.....

BCnU!