Despite both Star Wars and The Witcher currently seeing success on streaming services, it's hard to imagine a meaningful way for the disparate science fiction and fantasy properties to interact. But that didn't stop Reddit user DJMisha from trying, and capturing the Internet's imagination in the process.
On Monday, December 23, DJMisha uploaded a video to the r/witcher subreddit aptly named "Someone had to do it" parodying a scene from episode 4 of The Mandalorian on Disney+. In that episode, Baby Yoda almost sends the titular Mandalorian's ship careening out of control by pressing buttons at random.
In DJMisha's version of the scene, pushing those buttons instead activates the ship's hologram projector to play "Toss a Coin to your Witcher" from Netflix's recent original series The Witcher starring Henry Cavill, based on the series of books from the 90s and good will garnished from games like CD Projekt's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from 2015.
The Mandalorian finished its first season's eight-episode run on Friday, December 27, just about a week after Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker hit theaters to middling reviews. Also, just about a week after the first season of The Witcher hit Netflix on December 20.
DJMisha's post has nearly 150 comments on Reddit and has been upvoted 99 percent as of Sunday, December 29. However it has also seen life on other social media platforms like Twitter where Lauren Hissrich, the Executive Producer for many recent Netflix properties including The Witcher, The Umbrella Academy, and Daredevil, showed the video some love.
As another Reddit user going by the moniker zar4er pointed out in a (not so subtle) piggyback off user Spicy_Grandmam's top comment regarding the mash-up being a "B A N G E R," the video has at least one more easter egg for fans of The Witcher video game series.
At the end of the sequence, when Mando sits Baby Yoda on his lap to keep the curious foundling from pushing any more buttons, one of the ship's display screens depicts a map of the playable areas in CD Projekt's original action role-playing game The Witcher from 2007.
DJMisha's take on the button pushing scene is not the first of its kind. Many similar mash-ups exist all across the Internet, with a particularly memorable one that features Baby Yoda turning on Toto's 1982 song "Africa" having received over 2 million views on Randorian's YouTube channel since December 2, 2019.
That said, it is still commendable how quickly and effectively DJMisha jumped on the zeitgeist of both Star Wars and The Witcher streaming shows at once, and getting attention from the people behind some of those properties is an impressive feat.