10. Star Wars Help Desk
When I'm not working on manuscript edits or writing witty articles for WhatCulture.com, I am paid fairly well to work something like this guy's job, so I can relate. Poor TK-2588 thought "this job would be exciting - being a key part of the Empire's greatest weapon" and instead sees his life turn into a litany of problems with the old IT Crowd favorite of an intergalactic "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" TK-2588's interview is full of amusing things: there's some posh dude whinging about his Earl Grey being not quite right; there's a snotnosed kid named George Lucas asking how to back up his files for Episode III. And my personal favorite is when he complains about a guy with a "slight weapons malfunction" in the prison section who couldn't even give him his operating number. It all begins to be very clear why the film features the Galaxy's only chain-smoking stormtrooper. It is my belief that every adult needs to have had a crappy job that pays the bills and not much else - it's part of life. And in reflecting this awful eternal truth, Star Wars Help Desk shows that the Empire was more evil than we could have possibly imagined.