# Another Happy Landing "Another Happy Landing" is a Star Wars catchphrase from a throwaway Obi-Wan Kenobi line in Revenge of the Sith. Star Wars prequel meme pages turned it into image macros and YouTube supercuts across 2016 and 2017. ## Origin The line is spoken in Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith, which released May 19, 2005[4]. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) crash-lands a starship carrying Anakin Skywalker and Chancellor Palpatine onto Coruscant, then turns to his passengers and deadpans "Another happy landing"[3]. The clip sat mostly ignored as meme material for over a decade. Facebook prequel-meme communities picked it up in early 2016, starting with the group The Planet Core-core, which paired an Obi-Wan screencap with a Vox article about astronaut Scott Kelly on March 1 of that year. A dedicated page called Happy Landings-core launched a few weeks later on April 14, 2016, and grew past 61,000 followers within a year[3]. - **Platform:** Star Wars: Episode III (film) / Facebook (viral spread) / YouTube (breakout) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview "Another Happy Landing" is a Star Wars catchphrase pulled from a throwaway line by Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith. Fans latched onto how flatly he delivers it after a crash, and the phrase turned into a running joke via image macros of a tired-looking Obi-Wan and audio edits that trigger the line on every ship landing across the saga[1]. The joke works on the mismatch between the crash and Obi-Wan's bored, mildly annoyed reaction. Urban Dictionary sums up the usage as one of many "obi-one liners," a phrase used to note a barely successful ship landing[2]. Star Wars prequel fans lean on it as a general-purpose caption for anything that barely worked out. ## How It Spread The catchphrase broke out of the Facebook meme scene on January 6, 2017, when YouTuber Triton Tributes uploaded "Star Wars But Everytime A Ship Lands Obi Wan says Another Happy Landing," a supercut that plays the audio over every landing scene in the saga[1]. Within five months the video passed 420,000 views and pulled a write-up from the British paper Express. Text and image formats spread alongside the video. On February 7, 2017, Urban Dictionary user Lunpland69 added a definition calling the phrase one of many "obi-one liners"[2]. On April 28 of the same year, Reddit user Sovietekk built the line into an image macro caption, and the post pulled over 21,600 upvotes and 280 comments in three days[3]. ## How to Use Pair a still image of a tired or unimpressed Obi-Wan from Revenge of the Sith with a caption where "another happy landing" reads as ironic understatement. For video edits, drop the audio clip over footage of a rough arrival or awkward landing. The joke typically lands hardest when the accompanying visual shows something that clearly did not go well. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Another Happy Landing? It is a Star Wars catchphrase spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith after he crash-lands a starship on Coruscant, later reworked into image macros and audio edits[3]. ### Where did Another Happy Landing come from? The line was said by Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith, which released May 19, 2005[4]. ### What does Another Happy Landing mean? Urban Dictionary defines it as an "obi-one liner" used to note that a ship landed successfully, usually in an ironic or barely-made-it sense[2]. ### How do you use Another Happy Landing? People typically caption a still of an exhausted Obi-Wan with the phrase, or splice the audio into a video where any ship, vehicle, or person makes a rough landing[1]. ### Is Another Happy Landing still popular? The meme peaked in 2017 with the Triton Tributes YouTube supercut, which passed 420,000 views in five months[1], and it stayed in circulation through Facebook prequel-meme pages during 2016 and 2017[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYAqzPBT94]() 2. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Another%20Happy%20Landing]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/another-happy-landing]() 4. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/another-happy-landing Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library