Jedi Minute 88: Ewok Army

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Date

May 6th, 2015

Summary

The Ewoks chatter a moment between themselves. Then Paploo jumps up and scampers into the underbrush.

Guests

Tony Thaxton

Notes

Film

• Starts with the fleet going into hyperspace and ends with Paploo mounting a speeder bike.
• Another 'Yub nub'.
• Leia is wearing a watch.
• Another instance of Threepio being shut up by someone's hand.

Podcast

• Telephone game/telephone sandwich.
• Han speaks Ewok?
• Tony doesn't mind the Ewoks, but was surprised when he first learned that some people hate them.
• Referenced: Freedom Fries, "Hip Hop Hooray".
• Referenced: "Cannonball" by The Breeders.
• Han trying to break up with Leia.
• Paploo
  • is Kenny Baker in there?
  • Paploo's Y-shaped stick.
• What Pete and Alex would cosplay as.
  • Ewok costumes.
• The 501st but for Ewoks. An Ewok Army.
• Threepio volume control.
• Is she still 'Princess' Leia? Is she ever the queen?
• What do the Stormtroopers think of the Ewoks? Are they like raccoons or bears?

Meta Minute

• 22:43 podcast episode length.
• Another call in the moisture vaporator series.
• It just so happens we get a scene in TFA that establishes Leia's new title.
• Threepio was present at the secret wedding of Anakin and Padmé on Naboo.

Quotes

• Tony: It's the 'aloha' of Ewok.
• Tony: Does he [Paploo] have a third leg? Pete: One would hope not.
• Tony: (paraphrasing C-3PO) Naboo? I couldn't backpack.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/05/06/jedi-minute-88-ewok-army/

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