Okay.  Where have I heard this reference before?

“The supporters of this measure are going to be similar to the lounge scene in Star Wars,” says John DiLorenzo, who is representing utility ratepayers in a lawsuit against the city.

Answer:  Most recently with the big Fluoridation fight to describe the unlikely mis-mash of activists leading the opposition to fluoridation.

Except usually it’s a reference to the “barroom scene”, or “bar scene” in Star Wars.

Actually I’m sick of this reference.

Here’s what a quick google search uncovers.

The 2012 Republican presidential field was compared to the motley crowd in the famous bar scene from Star Wars.
And from the other partisan slashing side.
Scanning McClusky’s “You’re So Lame” list of 24 liberal goals, Jordan Lorence, a senior counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund cracked: “It’s the legislative equivalent of the barroom scene in Star Wars.”
The Heritage Foundation does us a favor of illustration, by including a youtube clip of the scene.
CPAC is the Star Wars Bar Scene of…
If Dean’s events sometimes look like the bar scene from Star Wars…

And wikipedia brings out…
The scene is also frequently referenced in political discussions, such as in referring to the United Nations General Assembly as “the Star Wars bar scene.”

I’ve become tired of the reference point.  I want a new one.  Someone needs to make a new to-go pop cultural reference point to displace “Star Wars bar/ bar-room / lounge scene”, so that the next municipal grass-roots coalition against an entrenched bureaucratic process can be described by something else… or, failing that, something else in the lexicons of popular culture needs to be uncovered and popularized.

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