The Simpsons' parody of Star Wars, Maggie Simpson in The Force Awakens From Its Nap, trolls the four rules of Star Wars. As part of the annual Star Wars Day celebration on May 4th, Disney+ released its newest short film starring Maggie, which takes place in Jabba's Hut Jedi Preschool (after the youngest Simpson refuses to attend the Ayn Rand School for Tots).
After Marge drops Maggie off, The Force Awakens From Its Nap goes for broke with tons of Star Wars jokes and homages. Just about every type of alien in the Star Wars galaxy attends preschool in Springfield, where a Obi-Wan Kenobi uses his lightsaber and the Force to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Ashoka dips children in carbonite to give them a time out. General Grievous confiscates Maggie's beloved pacifier but she befriends BB-8, who helps her find another one. Unfortunately, BB-8 is killed by a toddler Darth Maul, and Maggie duels the Sith with her pacifier until baby Maul drops a bookcase on Simpson and kills her. BB-8 is especially distressed by how Maggie's demise could tank The Walt Disney Company's profit margin. Thankfully, Maggie returns as a Force Ghost and joins BB-8 to gaze upon the twin sunsets of Tatooine.
Maggie's resurrection as a Force Ghost reinforces what the littlest Simpson presents as "Star Wars Rules", boiled down to four tropes that crawl over Obi-Wan, Chewbacca, Han Solo, Mace Windu, old Luke Skywalker, C-3P0, Anakin Skywalker, and Boba Fett. The Simpsons' writers Joel H. Cohen, Al Jean, and Michael Price are clearly die-hard Star Wars fans, although not every Star Wars trope is weaved into the comedy short - no one says "I've got a bad feeling about this", for instance. Still, The Simpsons are on point with what they picked as Star Wars' four rules.
1) Beloved characters never really die. Maggie coming back to life reinforces how becoming a Force Ghost is essentially a "get out of death free" card for Star Wars' Jedi characters. In fact, even non-Jedi can inexplicably come back from death as Han Solo's (Harrison Ford) cameo in The Rise of Skywalker proves. Boba Fett was killed by the Sarlaac in Return of the Jedi until The Mandalorian walked it back, and even Chewbacca's death in The Rise of Skywalker was nothing but fake-out. Luke Skywalker said "No one's ever really gone" and Star Wars means it since even the younger version of Luke found new life with his cameo at the end of The Mandalorian season 2.
2) No handrails. Probably the strangest aspect of how the Empire designs its space stations, bases, and Star Destroyers is their refusal to install handrails for the safety of their personnel. In fact, the Empire seems to love placing hard-to-reach control panels above bottomless pits and chasms that mean certain death for anyone who trips and falls, especially since there are no handrails to grab onto.
3) Droids do not need to be plugged in. Droids are wonders in the Star Wars universe that are often unappreciated by many of the characters who live in the galaxy, but just about all Droids exist with independent power sources. Unlike most real-world tech, Droids don't need to be plugged in to be powered up or recharge their batteries. When a Droid is plugged in, there's usually a reason and a cause-and-effect, like when Threepio lost his memory in The Rise of Skywalker.
4) Every episode must have at least 2 sunsets. This 'rule' seems incorrect; each Star Wars movie in the Skywalker saga is an Episode but not all contain sunsets. A New Hope has the original twin Tatooine sunset at the beginning, Revenge of the Sith ended the prequels with a Tattoine sunset, and The Rise of Skywalker also ended the sequel trilogy with Rey (Daisy Ridley) and BB-8 watching the twin suns descend on Tattooine. When Luke died in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he also saw a binary sunset on Ahch-To. The Simpsons' Star Wars Day short may have been more accurate to state the rule that 'every trilogy must have at least 2 sunsets'.