Some real talk from the land of television: The only time a true TV fan knows a movie exists is if it that movie gets mentioned on a TV show. The only time we know a movie is a huge hit is if it's mentioned on multiple TV shows. And the only time we know a movie has taken over the world is if it's mentioned on hundreds of TV shows, many decades after it was first released.
Hello, Star Wars.
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Yes, in the world of television, there's no franchise quite like it. The films are a perfect frame of reference for many small screen stories -- and at this point, allusions to George Lucas's world are so common you probably don't always recognize that they're happening. (How many times have you heard "I have a bad feeling about this"?)
But while sorting through the hundreds of moments in which Star Wars snuck onto our TV screens, it became clear that there's a trick to crafting a truly great reference: Don't force it.
Our picks below for 15 of the best Star Wars references on TV all adhere to this rule. Scroll through them and see if you agree.
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