This article includes failed For “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” episode 6, “Zero Friends Again.”
“Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” is a fantastic addition to the franchise. It’s a show for all ages with a fantastic cast, plus it’s a thrilling space adventure with pirates that’s part “Treasure Island” and part “The Goonies.” The show follows a group of children lost in space trying to get back home – except that their home is no ordinary world, but a mythical planet of eternal treasure. Along the way, the kids meet a scheming pirate who can use the Force, a droid whose name sounds like Smee from “Peter Pan”, and lots of wonderfully strange little boys.
In the series’ latest episode, “Zero Friends Again”, the children – who have just been abandoned by their pirate “friend” Joad (Jude Law) – must work together in hopes of escaping Pirate Cove, What has become a fancy vacation spot is where they find themselves stuck. Meanwhile, Joad is captured by his old personal entourage and forced to stand trial. As he tries to defend himself by exposing Parley’s old pirate tradition, Joad leaves a scornful note, in which he promises his old pirate band that he will let them live if they let him live. Will give far more than they ever wanted. Specifically, he would give them “the entire ‘creeping’ galaxy” in the form of the children’s famous home planet Aten.
Now, one doesn’t need to be familiar with every “Star Wars” comic book or video game to understand that “criffing” is the obvious form of “f***ing.” The kid-friendly “Skeleton Crew” must be the first “Star Wars” movie or TV show to use that term, which makes its inclusion here all the more fun. Yet, as random or ephemeral as this term may seem, it actually has a long history in a galaxy far, far away.
Dank Farik! History of Oaths in Star Wars
The term “criffing” first appeared in the 1997 novel “Star Wars” by author Timothy Zahn in the Expanded Universe (or, as it is now officially known, Legends) novel “Vision of the Future”, which is a sequel to Zahn’s “Star Wars :The second book in “Hand of Thrawn” duology (the follow-up to the author’s original Thrawn novel trilogy, aka the “Heir to the Empire” trilogy). Technically, this is actually the second time we’ve heard the term “skeleton crew”, as We also heard it in the second episode when the show’s two young heroes, Neil (Robert Timothy Smith) and Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), are on the run from the pirates of Port Borgo. Orders some food at the shelter and when the kids don’t think of paying him immediately the angry cook abuses him.
Now, “Star Wars” has featured the use of profanity since the first film, specifically “damn” and “hell”. However, it is the EU that introduced a lot of the naughty words and phrases that sound more sci-fi-ish – except for foreign languages that use slang like “bantha poodu” – like “skulag” or “farkeld.” In live-action, it was actually with “The Mandalorian” that “Star Wars” brought a new phrase into the zeitgeist with “dank freak,” a term often used on the show and in reference to Samuel L. Jackson’s own potty. Was inspired by mouth. “Star Wars Rebels” has already introduced “Karabast” and now “Skeleton Crew” is bringing criffing back into the mix, what expletive should “Star Wars” use next? My money is on either “Kark” or “Crink”.
New episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” air Tuesdays at 6PM PST on Disney+.
