A three-minute detour into a galaxy-themed day care, where the smallest Simpson goes to war over a missing pacifier.

What is The Force Awakens from Its Nap about?

Left at a Star Wars-themed nursery for the afternoon, baby Maggie Simpson finds herself surrounded by toddlers already sorted into rival factions. When her pacifier is snatched by a rival infant named Gerald, the short turns into a miniature standoff played almost entirely through gesture and expression, since none of the combatants can talk. Every prop in the room borrows from the Star Wars universe and is remade in nursery scale: building blocks stand in for hardware, a crib becomes a fortress, and the fiercest weapon on hand is sheer toddler stubbornness. The chase for the pacifier winds through the day care's play areas before Maggie settles the score on her own terms.

About the cast

The short carries no credited voice cast; its comedy is carried entirely by physical animation and sound design rather than dialogue. It is directed by David Silverman, a longtime animator on the Simpsons franchise, whose credits stretch across the show's television run and its feature spin-offs. The absence of spoken lines is itself part of the joke: infants, after all, communicate through everything but words, and the short leans into that fully.

Context & significance

Released in 2021, the short belongs to a run of stand-alone Maggie Simpson shorts that pair the franchise with other pop-culture universes, here dropping Springfield's youngest resident into a fully realized Star Wars pastiche. At three minutes, it plays as a self-contained gag rather than a chapter in any ongoing story, closer to a classic silent short than a typical Simpsons episode. Family and animation fans looking for a quick, dialogue-free comedy will find the pacing brisk and the visual gags dense for such a short runtime.

Watching The Force Awakens from Its Nap on Ktime

The short streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself is free to browse without signing in. K-Time's interface is built around Farsi navigation and search, so Persian-speaking households can find shorts like this one without switching languages. No purchase or offer is attached to watching it; a paid subscription unlocks the rest of the catalogue.