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Jews In Space!

A thin slice of History of the World Part 1, in which Mel Brooks envisions the future of The Tribe. We heard from a projectionist buddy that back in the Phantom Menace-hyped days of 1999 this clip was edited in right after the 20th century fox fanfare for a special midnight premiere of Episode One, with a long enough trailing blackout after the clip to make the crowd a little uneasy and start to boo before the "long ago in a galaxy far far away" text appeared. This didn't happen, and it certainly didn't happen somewhere in the vicinity of Vermont. Also, no one wryly remarked that they liked "the short one better" while leaving the theater after seeing Episode One.

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