Skeleton Crew Episode 6 brought back the classic section of Star Wars

This article contains Spoilers For Episode 6 of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, “Zero Friends Again”.

“Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” is a great addition to the series. It’s a show for all ages with a great cast, an exciting space adventure with pirates, and it’s part “Treasure Island” and part “The Goonies.” The show follows a group of children who are lost in space and try to return home – except their home is no ordinary world, but a mythical planet containing eternal treasure. Along the way, the kids meet a cunning pirate who can use the Force, a robot whose name sounds like Smee from Peter Pan, and a lot of wonderfully strange little men.

In the series’ latest episode, “Zero Friends Again,” the kids – having just been abandoned by their “pirate friend” Jude (Jude Law) – must work together in hopes of escaping… The Pirate Bay has been transformed into a luxury holiday destination Where they find themselves stuck. Meanwhile, Judd is arrested by his old special crew and forced to stand trial. While trying to defend himself by invoking the ancient pirate tradition of negotiation, Judd made an expletive, convincingly promising his old band of pirates that he would give them more than they wanted if they let him live. Specifically, it will give them “an entire ‘kriffing’ galaxy” in the form of the children’s mythical home planet, Attin.

Now, one doesn’t need to be familiar with every “Star Wars” comic book or video game ever produced to figure out that “kriffing” is an obvious alternative to “f***ing.” That the kid-friendly “Skeleton Crew” is the first “Star Wars” movie or TV show to use the word makes its inclusion here even more fun. However, although the word may seem random or improvised, it actually has a long history in a galaxy far, far away.

The word “kriffing” first appeared in 1997 Expanded Universe “Star Wars” (or as it is now officially known, Legends) A Vision of the Future novel by Timothy Zahn, itself the second book in Zahn’s Star Wars: Throwing Hand trilogy (a follow-up to the author’s original Thrawn trilogy, also known as the Heir to the Empire trilogy). Technically, this is the second time we’ve heard the word in “Skeleton Crew,” too, as we also heard it in the second episode when two of the series’ young protagonists, Neil (Robert Timothy Smith) and Wim (Rafi Cabot-Conyers), ask for some… Food at the pirate haven of Port Borgo, and the hot-tempered cook uses an expletive when the kids don’t immediately think to pay him.

Now, “Star Wars” has featured the use of swear words since the first movie, especially “damn” and “hell.” However, it is the European Union that has introduced a lot of swear words and phrases that sound closer to science fiction – except in strange languages ​​that use expletives such as “bantha poodoo” – such as “sculag” or “farkled”. In the world of live-action, it was “The Mandalorian” that “Star Wars” brought a new phrase into the zeitgeist with “dank Farrik,” a term often used in the show and Inspired by Samuel L. Jackson’s mouthpiece. With “Star Wars Rebels” already introducing “karabast” and now “Skeleton Crew” bringing kriffing back into the mix, what expletive should “Star Wars” use next? My money is on either “kark” or “crank”.

New episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will be released every Tuesday at 6pm PT on Disney+.