The Clone Wars - S3E15 - "Overlords"

0:20 - Narrator:  "A transmission has been intercepted far beyond the Outer Rim, deep in the Crelythiumn system."  This line contains the same words that are used in Vader's interrogation of Captain Antilles in A New Hope [5:44].  Vader asks, "Where are those transmissions you intercepted?  What have you done with those plans?" to which Antilles replies, "We intercepted no transmissions."

0:56 - Rex (to Anakin):  "Sir, we are at the rendezvous point, and there's no sign of you on our scanners."  Luke also uses this expression during the Battle of Yavin at the end of A New Hope; after Red Ten asks Luke if he sees any fighters, Luke replies, "No sign of any- wait, comin' in point three five" [1:51:59].

0:59 - Anakin:  "Oh, come on.  That's impossible.  Something's wrong.  We're at the exact coordinates where the distress signal originated, but there's nothing here.  Rex is at the exact same coordinates, and he's not here."  In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke also says, "That's impossible" [1:51:21].

1:21 - Obi-Wan (after the shuttle loses power):  "Not good."

Ahsoka:  "Everything's dead, even the life support."

These lines have some similarity to what Anakin says to R2 after they land in the droid control ship in The Phantom Menace:  "Everything's overheated.  Oops, this is not good." [1:58:57].

2:01 - Obi-Wan:  "Everyone strap yourselves in."  Han Solo uses this same expression in A New Hope:  "Go strap yourselves in; I'm gonna make the jump to lightspeed" [56:46].

3:49 - Obi-Wan (in response to Anakin's asking if Obi-Wan or Ahsoka heard Daughter speaking):  "I didn't hear anything."  In The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon has a similarly dismissive "I don't sense anything" [3:07] in response to Obi-Wan's bad feeling.  The resemblance here, which is probably just coincidental, is more in the delivery than specific diction.  At 3:28, Obi-Wan says, "I don't see anything" after Ahsoka points out a reflection, but this is said in a different manner.

3:57 - Anakin (to Daughter):  "Who are you?"  This too is probably just coincidental, but in The Phantom Menace, Jar Jar Binks has essentially the same line ("Whosa are yousa?" [29:00]) delivered with equal stresses on "Whosa" and "yousa," which is the same way Anakin says it here.

5:59 - Obi-Wan (to Anakin):  "Are you alright?"  In The Phantom Menace, Anakin asks Qui-Gon, "Are you alright?" [1:17:31].  In Attack of the Clones, Padmé asks Anakin, "Ani, are you alright?" [50:02], and later a clone trooper asks Padmé, "Are you alright?" [2:05:54].  In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin asks the Chancellor, "Are you alright?"[11:49], and a bit later, Mace Windu asks him, "Chancellor Palpatine, are you alright?" [24:53].  Padmé also asks Anakin, "Are you alright?" [1:27:59].  In A New Hope, Luke asks Obi-Wan this [59:16] and Biggs asks Luke [1:46:44], and in The Empire Strikes Back, Luke asks, "Rogue Two, are you alright?" [30:31].  Luke also asks Han, "Are you alright?" when they're captured by Jabba in Return of the Jedi [28:31].

6:08 - Anakin (to Obi-Wan, referring to the Daughter):  "I'll follow her and find out how to get off this rock."  Luke uses the same expression in A New Hope; after C-3PO asks if there's anything he can do to help, he replies, "Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest, or teleport me off this rock" [19:58].

7:48 - Obi-Wan (after Ahsoka asks what the Brother was):  "I'm not quite sure."  In A New Hope, after Luke sees R2-D2's message and asks who Leia is, C-3PO gives basically the same response:  "I'm afraid I'm not quite sure, sir" [21:35].

The Clone Wars - S3E14 - "Witches of the Mist"

2:12 - Count Dooku holds two lightsabers to Savage in the same way that Anakin does to Dooku in Revenge of the Sith [14:08], although none of the shots really match:

3:52 - Dooku (to Savage):  "Concentrate."  Yoda also says this (to Luke) in The Empire Strikes Back [1:08:40 and 1:16:38].

4:03 - Savage (to Dooku):  "What you ask is impossible."  Luke says something similar to Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back:  "You want the impossible" [1:11:21].  Moff Jerjerrod, speaking to Vader and referring to the Emperor, has the same complaint in Return of the Jedi:  "But he asks the impossible" [4:21].

4:37 - Savage (to Dooku):  "I hate you!"  Vader says this to Obi-Wan near the end of Revenge of the Sith [2:00:15].

6:50 - Anakin salutes Brother Viscus after he releases him.  Perhaps coincidentally, in Return of the Jedi, Luke gives a similar salute before feigning a jump into the Sarlacc pit [32:32], and Han and Lando salute each other after Han lends the Millennium Falcon to Lando [52:20].

17:22 - Obi-Wan (to Anakin, about Savage):  "We'll take him together."  He also says this (also to Anakin) in Attack of the Clones, referring there to Count Dooku [2:04:54].

The Clone Wars - S3E13 - "Monster"

20:31 - Knox screams, "No!" after his master is struck down.  The same situation is in The Phantom Menace (Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon) [1:59:48] and in A New Hope (Luke and Obi-Wan) [1:32:24].  While the context is different, Vader also screams, "No!" in Revenge of the Sith [2:08:43], and Luke does so in The Empire Strikes Back [1:51:30].

The Clone Wars - S3E12 - "Nightsisters"

17:00 - Ventress:  "I can smell his [Count Dooku's] stench a parsec away."  This is somewhat similar to what Leia says to Tarkin in A New Hope:  "I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board" [57:17].

The Clone Wars - S3E11 - "Pursuit of Peace"

[I don't have anything to say about this episode yet, but I didn't want to skip over it.  This post is acting as a place holder, and I'll update it in the future if I find something to note.]

The Clone Wars - S3E10 - "Heroes on Both Sides"

The title of this episode comes from a line in the opening crawl of Revenge of the Sith:  "There are heroes on both sides."

5:12 - Padmé:  "If only I could talk to Senator Bonteri."

Ashoka:  "Who's he?"

Padmé:  "He is a she.  A senator in the Confederacy of Independent Systems."

This is the same sort of confusion that Obi-Wan and Anakin experience with Zam Wesell in Attack of the Clones.  Anakin explains:  "I think he is a she, and I think she's a changeling." [22:28].

5:44 - Ahsoka:  "Well, Master Skywalker and I hold what we call 'aggressive negotiations' all the time."  In Attack of the Clones, Anakin says to Padmé:  "And when I got to them, we went into aggressive negotiations" [53:01], which he explains means "negotiations with a lightsaber."  Padmé also uses the phrase later:  "I call it aggressive negotiations" [1:54:08].

8:06 - Battle droid:  "Move along, please.  Move along."  In A New Hope, a sandtrooper has a similar line when, prompted by Obi-Wan's influence through the Force, he directs Luke into Mos Eisley:  "Move along.  Move along." [43:51].

8:26 - Mina Bonteri (to Padmé):  "Hello, old friend."  She also calls her "my old friend" a bit later [12:25].  Perhaps coincidentally, this same phrase is applied to Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones when Palpatine suggests him as protection for Padmé:  "an old friend, like Master Kenobi" [6:34].  Count Dooku also uses the phrase when he calls Mace Windu "my old Jedi friend" [1:50:24] and just "old friend" [1:56:05].  In Revenge of the Sith Obi-Wan says, "Goodbye, old friend" to Anakin as he leaves for Utapau [51:13], and Yoda refers to Qui-Gon as "an old friend" [2:09:56].  In A New Hope, Leia uses the phrase sarcastically to refer to stormtroopers when she says that she and Luke "ran into some old friends" [1:31:33]; in The Empire Strikes Back Yoda says that through the Force, Luke will see "Old friends long gone" [1:17:05]; and in Return of the Jedi Luke says, "I have a promise to keep to an old friend" [37:37], and Han calls C-3PO "an old friend of mine" [1:11:53].

13:18 - Visually, the Separatist Parliament seems to have been inspired by the British House of Commons:

20:27 - Padmé (about Mas Amedda's claim that the Separatists offered peace negotiations as a tactic to get the Republic to lower its defenses):  "No, that's not true."  Luke has a similar line in The Empire Strikes Back when Vader tells him about his father:  "That's not true.  That's impossible." [1:51:21].

The Clone Wars - S3E9 - "Hunt for Ziro"

13:52 - Obi-Wan:  "We must be cautious."  He also says this (to Luke) in A New Hope [42:44].

The Clone Wars - S3E8 - "Evil Plans"

9:04 - C-3PO (to Cad Bane):  "I don't know what you're talking about."  Perhaps coincidentally, Leia also says this (to Vader) in A New Hope [7:56].

9:10 - C-3PO:  "I am a protocol droid, human-cyborg relations."  He uses the same phrase when he introduces himself to Padmé and to R2-D2 in The Phantom Menace ("I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations" [39:03 and 39:26]), to Luke in A New Hope ("And I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations" [20:25]), and to Lando in The Empire Strikes Back ("I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations" [1:21:31]).  He's about to say the same thing in Return of the Jedi, but EV-9D9 interrupts him, so he gets only as far as "I am C-3PO human-cy-" [11:21].

9:41 - C-3PO:  "I am fluent in over six million forms of communication."  He says almost the same thing in The Empire Strikes Back ("I am fluent in six million forms of communication" [18:38]) and twice in Return of the Jedi ("I am fluent in over six million forms of communication and can readily-" when he's interrupted by EV-9D9 [11:29] and "I am fluent in over six million forms of co-" when he's interrupted by Han Solo [1:11:10]).

14:17 - Cad Bane (to R2-D2, referring to C-3PO):  "Your friend Goldenrod turned out to be a huge waste of my time."  In The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo also uses this moniker:  "Hurry up, Goldenrod; you're gonna be a permanent resident!" [34:30].

15:24 - Padmé:  "Where can 3PO be?"  Luke has a similar line in A New Hope as he's trying to raise C-3PO on his comlink:  "Where could he be?" [1:22:12 and 1:23:19, the second followed by "3PO!"].  C-3PO himself has a similar line a bit later in A New Hope:  "Where could they be?" [1:29:33].

16:13 - C-3PO:  "We'll be deactivated for sure."  He has two similar lines near the beginning of A New Hope:  "We'll be destroyed for sure!" (referring to himself and R2-D2) [2:50] and "You'll be deactivated for sure!" (referring just to R2) [6:39].

The Clone Wars - S3E7 - "Assassin"

5:47 - Yoda:  "Always in motion is the future."  He also says this in The Empire Strikes Back [1:17:54].

14:56:  One of the citizens of Alderaan (far left) in the applauding crowd has clothing and a hair style that are apparently meant to be reminiscent of Leia's in A New Hope.

16:55 - Padmé:  "And if you strike my voice down, know that a chorus of thousands shall rise up in its place."  The first part of this resembles what Obi-Wan says to Vader in A New Hope:  "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" [1:30:48].

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At 2:37, there's a very brief musical cue of Yoda's theme, and at 8:35, Leia's theme is heard, which Dave Filoni mentions in the episode featurette on the Star Wars website.

The Clone Wars - S3E6 - "The Academy"

5:32 - Cadet Lagos:  "I have a bad feeling about this."

17:01 - Satine:  "Ashoka, it's a trap."  Admiral Ackbar says, "It's a trap!" in Return of the Jedi [1:35:03], and Leia says it twice in The Empire Strikes Back [1:39:50].

17:25 - Almec:  "Set for stun."  In A New Hope, one of the stormtroopers aboard the Tantive IV also says this [6:24], and in The Empire Strikes Back, it's part of Vader's instructions to Admiral Piett:  "Prepare the boarding party, and set your weapons for stun" [1:57:09].

The Clone Wars - S3E5 - "Corruption"

[I don't have anything to say about this episode yet, but I didn't want to skip over it.  This post is acting as a place holder, and I'll update it in the future if I find something to note.]

The Clone Wars - S3E4 - "Sphere of Influence"

13:21 - Greedo's dice have the same design as Watto's in The Phantom Menace [53:40]:

17:18 - Senator Chuchi:  "Where's your sister?"

Che Amanwe:  "I don't know; we were separated."

There's a similar exchange in Return of the Jedi where Han asks Luke, "Where's Leia?" and Luke explains that "We got separated" [1:02:15].