Revenge of the Sith & Gilmore Girls

It's amazing in life when two of your favourite things intersect somehow. Toffee and chocolate in a Skor bar. Video games and dancing in DDR. Beauty and personality in Larissa. And now, Star Wars and Gilmore Girls.

On a recent episode of Gilmore Girls, there was this hilarious exchange between Luke and Lorelai about what happened at the end of the latest Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith.

I didn't think of this particular plot hole at the time, but I suppose the writer of this episode of Gilmore Girls had to get something off his chest.

The scene begins with Luke and Lorelai entering Luke's coffee shop, and here's the conversation that follows:

Luke: ...and they have those flashlight thingies.

Lorelai: Yeah, that's the right name for those - flashlight thingies.

Luke: And Jedi powers of mind control, and they can move things, so they're telekinetic, and they hover on their jet saucers over molten lava, and they can jump and fly around, like they're in Cirque du Soleil.

Lorelai: Oh, coffee please!

Luke: But what gives one Jedi Knight the edge over the other? Huh? The ultimate advantage? They stand on a mound of dirt and declare "You can't win, I've got the high ground".

Lorelai: Dude, if he said it, that's the way it is! It's a fictional world!

Luke: He's four feet up a little slope! And that wipes out all the other guy's powers - to fly, jump around, move things around with his brain, use his flashlight thingy?

Lorelai: You've got to learn the right term for that flashlight thingy.

Luke: This has been buggin' me!

Lorelai: For months! We saw that movie months ago! You've got to let it go!

Luke: I can't!

Lorelai: George Lucas owns San Fransisco now. That's a city. You can't argue with a man who owns a city!

Luke: All the other guy has to do is scurry onto land, and run up a hill a bit, and then he has the high ground. I mean, they can fly jet pods, but they can't scurry?