The whole "walking carpet" thing is an excellent example of why films are important cultural artifacts, and windows into the time they were created. There is no way that line would be in SW if the movie were made today, for the reasons described in this thread. But those were different times, and such comments weren't considered questionable then. This, George, is one reason why we preserve them.

I'm surprised Lucas didn't remove/change the line for the same reason he made Han shoot second.

And to answer the original question... in my opinion, SW was the better movie.