
The Saga Begins
Song by Don McLeanWikipedia
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Search complete. 23 mentions across 9 episodes found for "The Saga Begins".
Sep 25, 2026
Game Scoop! 872: 343 Reasons to Give Halo to Activision
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56:00Daemon HatfieldHOST
Oh, and I...
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56:01Daemon HatfieldHOST
His, uh, encore was, uh, The Saga Begins, which is the Phantom Menace song, and, and Yoda.
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56:07Justin DavisHOST
Mm-hmm.
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56:07Sam ClaibornHOST
Okay, that's a lot of different-
Are We Not Cats?! Hair-Eating Horror + Darkwing Duck Returns And AI Gene Wilder
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4:52Johnny SpoilerHOST
I haven't heard that one.
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4:55Johnny SpoilerHOST
The Saga Begins.
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4:55Johnny SpoilerHOST
We know that's a recap of Star Wars Episode I.
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4:58Johnny SpoilerHOST
Set in the tune of American Pie.
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5:03Johnny SpoilerHOST
That one's pretty good.
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5:05Johnny SpoilerHOST
The Star Wars one is pretty good.
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5:06Johnny SpoilerHOST
The Saga Begins.
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5:06Johnny SpoilerHOST
That one's pretty good.
Game Scoop! 872: 343 Reasons to Give Halo to Activision
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47:12Sam ClaibornPANELIST
Can I-
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47:13Mark MedinaPANELIST
His, uh, encore was, uh, The Saga Begins, which is the Phantom Menace song, and, and Yoda.
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47:19Justin DavisPANELIST
Mm-hmm.
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47:19Sam ClaibornPANELIST
Okay.
Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast #471 The Weird Al Tournament Part 1
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83:07Jordan LoweHOST
Back in the closet, she goes.
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83:09Jordan LoweHOST
So we are into the next region of the bracket, top seed of that region, The Saga Begins.
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83:15Jordan LoweHOST
Classic retelling of episode one, The Phantom Menace, in a version of American Pie by Don McLean.
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83:26Weird Al YankovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
see him hitting on the queen though he's just nine and she's 14 yeah he's probably gonna marry her some I know he built C-3PO, and I've heard how fast his pod can go.
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85:29Weird Al YankovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I don't think this one's a contest.
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85:32Weird Al YankovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's why I let out that pained
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85:51Evan BevinsGUEST
gasp because I mean the saga begins I'll let you guys talk about how amazing it is and we'll probably talk about it a lot more but confessions part I think I've heard confessions part two maybe once or twice instead of like making this about food or something unrelated Weird Al listened to that song I was like let's just keep it going one of the worst things I have one of the worst lyrics I have ever heard uttered in music, is Usher complaining about, look, me telling you I got this girl pregnant, this is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.
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86:27Evan BevinsGUEST
I hope you can appreciate that I'm man enough to tell you the truth.
S6E64: The Carbon Scoring of Sly-Fi Spooktober
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95:10RockyHOST
Started the whole conversation.
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95:11RockyHOST
Yeah, one day we'll discuss the genius that is fucking Weird Al within the realm of Star Wars with songs like Yoda and The Saga Begins.
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95:19RockyHOST
The motherfucker has delivered his fucking Star Wars cred.
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95:23MarsHOST
Yeah, I just watched The Saga Begins again the other day.
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95:26MarsHOST
Like, it's fucking outrageous.
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95:31RockyHOST
Yeah, Al is the nerd king before there were nerd kings.
Weird Al Yankovic Concert - 8/27/16
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2:53BradHOST
Canadian Idiot, Wanna Be Your Lover, Medley 2, Eat It, I Lost on Jeopardy, I Love Rocky Road, and Like a Surgeon.
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3:03BradHOST
White and Nerdy, Word Crimes, Amish Paradise, We All Have Cell Phones, The Saga Begins, and Close the Show with Yoda.
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3:14BradHOST
So song breakdown, zero off of the self-titled Weird Al Yankovic album, but one in the four-song medley and one in the nine-song medley, zero songs off of Weird Al Yankovic in 3D, however two in the four-song medley, two songs from Dare to Be Stupid and one in the four-song medley, zero from Polka Party, one from Even Worse, one from UHF, one from Off the Deep End, zero from Alapalooza, however, one in the Nine Song Medley, one from Permanent Record, Al in the Box, one from Bad Hair Day, and one in the Nine Song Medley, one from Running with Scissors, and one in the Nine Song Medley, one from Poodle Hat, two in the Nine Song Medley, two from Straight Out of Linwood, one from Alpocalypse, and one...
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4:15BradHOST
in the nine song medley, and then six from Mandatory Fun, two in the nine song medley, and then one unreleased song.
14 MINS LATER
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18:35BradHOST
Bounty hunters, stormtroopers, snowtroopers, and even Darth Vader.
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18:41BradHOST
And then Weird Al led the crowd into the We All Have Cell Phones spoof, which again came from that Michael Stipe interview.
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18:51BradHOST
And then he closed the set, The Saga Begins, which is American Pie by Don McLean, and Yoda, a parody of Lola by the Kinks.
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19:01BradHOST
But that ended with a serious, and I guess I'm just going to call it scatting, with some percussion.
The Nielson Show - September 2nd, 2026 - Hour 1
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24:15Lieutenant EricHOST
Barry the Cheater in the Paris Jewelers inbox.
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24:17Lieutenant EricHOST
He didn't play the Jurassic Park song, the Encore Yoda and the Saga Begins were amazing, but no Jurassic Park song.
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24:22Lieutenant EricHOST
But the show was absolutely amazing.
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24:25Lieutenant EricHOST
I have a problem with his song Yoda, actually.
The Nielson Show - September 2nd, 2026 - Hour 1
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24:15EricHOST
Barry the Cheater in the Paris Jewelers inbox.
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24:17EricHOST
He didn't play the Jurassic Park song, the Encore Yoda and the Saga Begins were amazing, but no Jurassic Park song.
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24:22EricHOST
But the show was absolutely amazing.
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24:25EricHOST
I have a problem with his song Yoda, actually.
Bonus: Concert Catchup (Billy Idol, Simple Minds, Human League, & More)
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34:22CK-1HOST
That would have been incredible.
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34:23CK-1HOST
And then the crowd loved when he did The Saga Begins, which I hate so much.
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34:30AK-47HOST
You were like kind of cowered down in your seat when that one came on.
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34:33AK-47HOST
I was like,
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34:34CK-1HOST
what? So this is my opinion.
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34:50CK-1HOST
The saga begins, it's a long, now it's not as long as the actual American Pie song, but still, he doesn't really make that many quips about the plot to one of the worst blockbuster movies of all time, The Phantom Menace.
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35:06CK-1HOST
He just goes through the plot of the movie.
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35:09CK-1HOST
So because I hate the prequels and I hate American Pie, but he made up for it because it flowed into Yoda.