Attack of the Clones Minute 65: Wheel Theory

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Date

February 10th, 2017

Summary

Anakin and Padmé ride a rickshaw through the streets.

Guests

Ralph Attanasia & Asterios Kokkinos

Notes

Film

• Starts with Animé landing in their silver spaceship, and ends with Watto seeming to recognize his former slave.
• New Padmé outfit: Tatooine cloak and attire (#10).

Podcast

• Referenced: They Live (1988)
• Why don't the guys record all five episodes in one sitting (as opposed to coming back each day)?
• Much love for Steele Saunders. He's so cool; he's like the opposite of Asterios and Ralph.
• Asterios does more impressions.
• Space Jimmy Smits in Rogue One.
• How Toydarians stay up in the air.
• More of Ralph's Propulsion Problems (R.P.P).
  • Referenced: "O.P.P" (Naughty by Nature).
  • The Robo-rickshaw floats but has to be pulled by a robot with wheels.
    • Very few vehicles in Star Wars have wheels.
  • Floating engines vs. forward momentum engines.
• The Rickshaw driving robot
  • RIC-920 general labor droid.
  • Referenced: 420.
• Characters named 'Data' in The Goonies and Star Trek.
• Mentioned: Pete the Jawa, referenced: Revolution 9.
• Constant changing of outfits for female characters in the Prequels.
  • Compare to Leia's outfits in the Original Trilogy.

	Outfit	Film
1	Classic double bun	Star Wars
2	Medal Ceremony	Star Wars
3	Hoth	The Empire Strikes Back
4	Bespin	The Empire Strikes Back
5	Bespin escape	The Empire Strikes Back
6	Medical suite	The Empire Strikes Back
7	Boushh	Return of the Jedi
8	Slave	Return of the Jedi
9	General	Return of the Jedi
10	Forest	Return of the Jedi
Padmé had more outfits in TPM alone than Leia had in the entire Original Trilogy

• Absurd expanded universe story about Pacithhip and Ketwol toy talk.

• Watto's hat.
  • Reference to Luke's Gilligan hat.
• We love Watto, and it's hard to see him covered in flies. This is some of the best acting in this movie.
  • He should be in the film more.
  • His character arc was complete last movie, so what is he doing in this movie?
    
• Buy Asterios' book Toys '4' Cheap.
• Call 8-DAY-GREEDO, and review the show on iTunes.

Meta Minute

• 36:17 podcast episode length.
• Edward James Olmos is back.
• Wheeled vehicles in Star Wars are known as "groundcars". The Juggernaut was a type of canonical groundcar. Although wheeled vehicles are rare, wheeled droids are common, as R2 droids propelled themselves with wheels.
• Misquoting that famous line from The Empire Strikes Back as "Luke, I am your father" is an example of the Mandela Effect.
• The origin of R2-D2's name comes from the filming of American Graffiti. Apparently, in-universe, his name means "Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2" [1].
• Rickshaws were invented in Japan, circa 1869. The first known use of the word 'rickshaw' was around 1887.
• The ninth Padmé outfit was brought up in minute 60.

Quotes

• Asterios: ...it looks like they hit your [Ralph's] face with a brick, and then they took the brick that had some of your face on it and just finished it off on my face.
• Asterios: (in dreadful imitation of an Aussie accent). Put anotha Prequel on a barbie. Cuz I'm gonna roast these films. Roastery-dostery doo, mate.
• Pete: (singing) ♪ Part-time Krampus ♪
• Alex: Is that a [real] wheel theory?
• Alex: I would never joke about an Eopie.
• Pete: ...No. I am your fart-horse.
• Alex: (Paraphrasing Short Round) <robot voice> NO TIME FOR LOVE DR. JONES. GET ON BOARD.
• Ralph: It was gonna be one of my weird labyrinthine jokes that takes forever and doesn't pay off so you just go ahead and shout about something. Asterios: That's my whole life.
• Ralph: Anything I was going to say has been swept away by this tide of madness.
• Asterios: I'm trying to assign any meaning to a meaningless shapeless void!
• Pete: It's always nine-twenty somewhere.
• Ralph: Don't let the guys from Alphabeatical find out you're doing their material. Pete: That's alright, they're on hiatus; they won't ever find out.
• Ralph: They're [Pacithhip legs] tiny. They're about the size of this—nobody tell them how big I indicated.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2017/02/10/attack-of-the-clones-minute-65-wheel-theory/

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