Star Wars Minute 77: Issues with the Trash

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Date

September 17th, 2013

Leia, Chewie, Luke, and Han find themselves in a garbage room.

Starts with Princess Leia jumping into a garbage chute and ends with Han inside the trash compactor trying to shoot his way out.
Han refers to Chewbacca as a "woolly oaf".

How does Leia know that this is a garbage chute? Maybe she smelt it while in her cell and asked the Stormtroopers about the foul stench.
How does Leia know that Han Solo is a fly-boy? Maybe Luke told her when he introduced the whole cast and ran through the story up until that point.
Han shouldn't have ignored Chewbacca's sense of danger after smelling something bad.
Chewbacca's relationship status with Han. A favorite pet? A noble pet? Han kicks him in the butt at this point.
Luke's look at Han after Han's comment about Leia. The 'love triangle' begins and Luke starts getting annoyed at Han. Luke's growth as the hero also continues - although he is acting a bit like an annoyed teenager.
How far is the drop / fall from the prison corridor to the trash compactor? Luckily there is a lot of foam trash for them to fall on. Also, what is this trash and where does it all come from - especially the water.
Referenced: The Wilhelm scream.
The Stormtrooper costumes seem to remain remarkably clean in this sequence. Also, the actors were wearing wet suits under their costumes in this scene.
An imagined future in which all of the characters develop typhoid as a result of their time in their garbage.
The line "What an incredible smell..." is funny - both ha-ha funny and strange funny. What does the line mean?

12:54 podcast episode length.
Cold-open: 8-DAY-GREEDO caller with a question - Why don't the Stormtroopers just follow our heroes into the trash compactor or at least shoot them in there? The hosts humorously respond to this question later in the podcast.
This is a special minute - Minute 77 of a movie that was released in 1977.

Alex: As Leia to a Stormtrooper "What is that foul stench? Is Governor Tarkin here to see me?"
Alex: The jerk store called... (Referenced: Seinfeld).
Pete: All trash action!