• There were female jedi. Plus the force is strong with Leia.

• I believe you mean hyperbole. "Hyperole" would be extremely amped Mexican celebrating.

• Because only men can be Jedi.

• This movie reminds me of a worry i have about my kids -- will there be unaltered versions (no CGI) of episodes 4-6 even in existence by the time they're old enough to watch?

• This makes me wish my parents had taken the time to talk to me about Star Wars as a kid. I grew up during the time between the OT and the prequels. After a number of interruptions, I finally managed to watched the whole trilogy in my teens. My TEENS, dammit! No child should have to wait so long only to have to watch it himself in his room one weekend.

• Exactly what I came here to post! I am a HUGE Star Wars and Star Trek geek, and my obsession with both goes way deeper than most men I know. :)

• "The Phantom Edit"

• I believe that a hyperole is something the Spanish invented for bullfighting... But I may be wrong.

• Calling them "younglings" would defeat the purpose of this video.

• I made sure the church I had my boys baptized in wouldn't frown on my belief in the force. Same story, different special effects.

• My husband married me for my star wars collection.

• soooooo glad I have boys. you poor thing.

• Great stuff -- but would have been that much better if the kid in the last shot was revealed to be wearing a "Jar Jar" T-shirt...

• What. What? Latin teacher that wants to show them Star Wars AND THEY DON"T LIKE IT?? Whhhhyyyyyyyyyyy??? Hopefully, they watched Harry Potter or something (because I have two of the Harry Potter books in Latin and it's CUTE!)--not that Harry Potter is on the same level, but WHAT COULD THEY POSSIBLY PASS UP STAR WARS FOR???

• I agree, as a woman I will teach my children about Star Wars. My parents raised me right. Star Wars was always on during big holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. My brother and I would park in front of the television and watch it. Actual conversation: "Dad, what is the Force?" "It's like Jesus, but with lightsabers." "Oh." I was 12 when Episode 1 was released and my father forbade me to like it by speaking like Jar Jar for a month: "YOUSA GO TO BED, ANNI, UNLESS YOUSA EATS YO VEGETABLES!" "MESA NO BELIEVE YOUSA DONE YO HOMEWORK, ANNI." T_T My name isn't "Anni" Dad!!!! T_T *weeps*

• Ahahahahahaaaaaaa, love the Billy Madison shout out.

• If you look around online, you can find a fan-edited version of episode 1 that fixes the pacing and minimizes jar jar...

• I'm still waiting for the release of the un-mastered prequel trilogy... you know, the version without all the stupid shit.

• As a new dad, I have actually had this conversation with my wife and friends.

• @pomonachic No need to borrow VHS - there is a readily available 6 DVD set that has the original trilogy remasters on one trio of discs and the untainted originals on the other trio of discs.

• And what, exactly, is "hyperole"?

• I am just really glad that my early childhood occurred after the original 3 movies and before the newer 3. When I have children, I will borrow my parent's old VHS versions of the original 3 and show them to my children. In the intended order. And I will not tell them that Vader is Luke's father. Empire tells it better than I ever could.

• Great, but why only guys! Us girl geeks and their daughters love this stuff too!

• They should have referred to the kids as younglings, at least

• It's so funny!!! I like it.

• HAN SHOT FIRST

• I'm not super into Star Wars [my mother didn't raise me like these parents, unfortunately], so I can't care about Wars as much as I care about Trek. Even I think this should be standard, not even just for Star Wars but most nerdy properties. I'm going to start collecting cartoons I watched as a kid on dvd and move my kid from the oldest game system I can find then up slowly. Because dammit how else can they appreciate how far things have come? and how far others have fallen? Child rearing= Serious business!

• ZING! LOL

• Yeah me too.

• Can anyone share the hat pattern? Adorable!

• O'Doyle Rules!!

• Unfortunately they don't point out that the original film (or as kids today like to call it "Star Wars Episode 4") was a possible gateway film. Many kids upon getting hooked on "A New Hope" moved on to experiment with the "Star Wars Holiday Special". A lot of souls were lost to that evil blotch of nature. This kind of PSA could have saved people back in '78. Shame. Damn shame.

• Thank God my parents weren't nerds. I'd probably hate everything nerdy, including Star Wars.

• This made me LOL, then cry, then LOL a little more. If I ever have kids I don't know what they'll think. My wife is a high school Latin teacher, and she offered to show all 6 movies to her classes, so they could write essays on how Star Wars is kind of like ancient Rome. THEY SAID NO, THEY DIDN'T LIKE STAR WARS!!!! Anyway... Makes me sad when I think about how much standards have dropped, and instead of trying to make timeless tales, even the greatest movie makers and storytellers decide to try to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

• Awesomely funny...and yet...extremely relevant and a very serious issue for most of us.

• Dude, it was dry humor, not a serious statement. Relax, Mr. I-don't-get-sarcasm.

• Cool

• Dude, it was a bit not a serious documentary. Calm down, Captain I-don't-get-hyperole.

• That video is...humiliating. Because while I am far from the uber-Star Wars geek (I have never been to a SW convention, I have no Lego Star Wars sets despite liking Lego as well, I have never read a Star Wars novel, etc.), that video (with the exception of the "abuse kids to make them hate Jar-Jar part") is me. I showed my son A New Hope first. I waited to show him Empire until he was old enough to be surprised about Vaderdad. He still hasn't seen Return, because I am pacing him at a year per movie, so he doesn't burn through it all at once. I've had to talk to him about why the Empire is strong, and what's bad about the Dark Side...So, basically, putting me on camera is comedy. How embarrassing.

• ... am I weird because I totally take this video seriously? They all made dead accurate sense to me.

• I detect a weekend contest coming out of this article.

• Kids need instruction, and examples, in order to learn. That's why you should beat the nearest one whenever you see Jar-Jar.

• "I didn't start early enough with this one. I wish I had." I hear you dude. They wind up liking the prequels. Honestly, I don't know what else I could have done. I DID try getting them into the movies. My oldest daughter would watch them here and there, but it was always "I wanna watch 'Ariel' or 'Puppy-mation'" (just you try and get a 2 year old to enunciate "101 Dalmations" - little brat wouldn't even try). We took them to see the remastered versions (don't you judge me) when they came out for that "cinematic experience" but nothing seemed to take. You know what it finally took to get any sort of superficial interest? Teenage hormones and goddamn Hayden Christensen in "Revenge of the Sith." "Ooooh, he's so hot - now I'm a 'Star Wars'fan!" Not enough booze in the world when you hear that, I tell you. Not nearly enough.

• Where was this 10 years ago after Episode 1 came out? I really could've used it! The ending almost made me cry.

• And I suppose the kids should just snort crack all day long because that's what they like better!? Or they can just torture kittens because it's their choice!? Or, God-forbid, that it's perfectly fine that they think cartoons made when today while they are little are somehow JUST AS GOOD than the cartoons that were made when I was little!? <b>NO SIR!!!! FUCK YOU, YOU SICK FUCK!!!</b>

• Little kid turning to his dad, "He's not Luke's father." and look on dad's face...priceless. Going to have the talk with my kids tonight. BTW, watching the original Tron with them in anticipation of the new one. Wow, it's been awhile and I can't believe my 3 year old is diggin it!

• For God's sake people, it's not about you, it's about them. Yes, having them watch in the order of 4,5,6,1,2,3 isn't such a bad idea, but for goodness sake, let your kids enjoy Star Wars in their way, even if it means watching the Special Editions and they prefer the prequel/Clone Wars stuff. "But daddy, I like Jar Jar Bin-" "NO YOU DON'T!"

• "Until you've walked a mile in my shoes..." I noticed he had a shoebox at his feet too.

• Remember kids Yoda is strong because he's wise not because he can use a light saber

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