Shouldn’t Darth Vader Have His Own Bathroom?
Boy, Koreans sure know how to market cellphones. While we philistines in America might show off the phone’s functionality or at least have an attractive girl in a pink dress passive-aggressively mocking other phones, the Korean know what makes consumers buy, and that’s Darth Vader teleporting into a women’s restroom. This ad brings up so many questions: 1) Did Lucas really approve this? 2) What the hell is “Warp”? 3) Really, shouldn’t Vader have his own bathroom, being the Dark Lord of the Sith and all? 4) Do you expect to see anything funnier than Darth Vader’s pee-pee dance today? Because I sure don’t. Kotaku has a few other ads, all with Vader, but with less toilets, right here.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.