Use the Farm, Cuke

Speaking of ideologically questionable yet amusing appropriations of Star Wars for "educational" purposes, I sure got a kick out of Grocery Store Wars by the Organic Trade Association. Though my nostalgic Gold Standard for Lucas parody remains Hardware Wars, which, Kroger Babb-like, was shown at my elementary school, for educational reasons that remain elusive yet undeniable.

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[Jeff]

Hardware Wars is one of the holy three, which also contains PorkLips Now and Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind.
These three were normally shown with Bambi Vs. Godzilla. I know at one point they were all distributed on one reel to schools that showed movies for fundraising purposes.

[scape]

...reasons that remain elusive yet undeniable.

One Friday our 6th grade class was treated to a double feature of Hardware Wars followed by An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge. We even got cupcakes afterwards. I'm grateful but still baffled.

[panurge]

Anything is better than "Thumb Wars." God, who thinks that thumb crap is funny, anyway?

[Chap]

The short films mentioned were distributed by a company IIRC called Pyramid Films, which sold educational films--and those. Schools got this catalog with eleventy eduflicks and three pages of these.

Hardware Wars is on DVD--and the "foreign version" and director's commentary are hilarious...

[Stevo Darkly]

I enjoyed this. The puns were amazing.