Phantom Menace Minute 79: Spider Chair
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Date
March 10th, 2016
Summary
Nute sits in a strange, mechanical walking chair, which approaches Sio Bibble and several other Naboo officials.
Guests
Notes
Film
- "Anakin Skywalker, meet Obi-Wan Kenobi"
- Artoo is the only one to grasp the significance of the meeting
- Jake Lloyd/Anakin's brown-nosed delivery of "Pleased to meet you!"
- Spider chair
- Cut line: "Let's hope Watto didn't get the last laugh"
- Rumors of underwater villages
Podcast
- 8-DAY-GREEDO call from Mark invoking Ring Theory to compare minute 79 of TPM to minute 79 of the Star Wars Holiday Special
- What makes Anakin think Obi-Wan is a Jedi?
- Pete's closed loop time travel theory of Artoo's omniscience
- How did the Sith and the Jedi know the proper training for lightsaber dueling?
- The Jedi assume the Sith are extinct
- Ryan gives us the first day of cellular biology
- Midichlorians are supposed to be mitochondria
- Endosymbiotic Theory of the origin of mitochondria
- Mitochondrial DNA
- Mentioned: Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books
- Shoutout to fellow paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould and the idea of non-overlapping magisteria, Rehtul Minnau (Nathan Hamill's character)
- Callback to (Which episode?): George Lucas himself proposed that maybe the Jedi are wrong about Midichlorians
- Referenced: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, a classic Slinky commercial
- Why only rumors? If there was tension between the Naboo and the Gungans, why don't they sell out their enemies?
Meta Minute
- The way that Pete has Anakin asking various objects if they are also Jedi is reminiscent of the popular children's book Are You My Mother?
Quotes
- "So here's a good way to ruin Star Wars." - Pete
- "If I can tackle it, or be stepped on by it, you're good." - Alex
- "Perfectly regal." - Pete
- {Normal voice} "You're a Bigfoot, aren't you?" {As Jar Jar} "Uh-huh!" - Pete
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2016/03/10/phantom-menace-minute-79-spider-chair/
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