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The Thompson Strikes Back (1x11)

Air date: Dec 05, 2006

A parody of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Ethan, Lilah, and Lucas are at an arcade. Ethan gets distracted by an ice cream truck outside and runs out to it with Lucas telling him that it’s winter. Ethan takes no more than one step before he collapses, shivering and unable to move further. A dog approaches him, and Ethan asks “can I... cut you open... and... crawl inside” at which point the dog backs away. Ben Kotarski appears in a ghostly blue form, telling Ethan he needs to go to the Play-All-Night LAN Center, to learn from Bob-o, the gamer master that trained him. Ethan claims it’s too far away, at which Ben curses and walks away in disgust at Ethan’s refusal to let him help him. A white limo then drives by. A window rolls down to reveal Jack Thompson. Ethan rushes back into the arcade to tell Lucas and Lilah that “they found us”. Jack’s blue suit goons make their way out of the limo and into the arcade. A random teen skateboarder skates beside one of the goons with an Xbox controller in hand, and throws it so the controller and its cord wraps around the guy’s legs for several loops, causing him to fall over. The kid can be seen kicking him once while he’s down (a reference to the Snowspeeders taking down AT-AT walkers at the Battle of Hoth). Ethan exclaims they need to “fleeeee!” Lucas suggest he and Lilah take one car and that Ethan meet them at the rendezvous point. Ethan mentions he still wants ice cream. Roll opening At the Play-All-Night LAN Center, Ethan looks for Bob-o. A short, bald man, barely visible from behind the long table due to his height, greets him with “Yoda-speak”. The man mentions he may or may not be Bob-o, but Ethan is already distracted by Battlefield 2142 on an off-screen computer and runs towards it. Lucas and Lilah are on the road, with Lucas cursing traffic. Lilah is horrified to find the white limo pursuing them. The camera switches to an overhead view of the vehicles. Lucas’s g