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===Film===
===Film===
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Starts with Luke noticing the door controls.<br>
Starts with the rancor emerging from its keep.<br>
Ends with Luke being escorted out of the basement<br>
Ends with Luke about to be eaten by said rancor.<br>
Also known as the saddest moment in the movie.
The rancor is the first giant monster in Star Wars.
===Podcast===
===Podcast===
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*Luke may have had flashbacks to The Death Star door controls.
*Cold-open: [[8-DAY-GREEDO]] call - Jabba's Palace pop-up book and some of the superb back-story relating to the gamorrean guard that is eaten by the rancor.
*The door should be harder to open. How the doors actually work.
*Alphabeatical week on The Star Wars Minute.
*The big gate should have been closed.
*The rancor puppet is awesome.
*Noticing door controls as a rare Jedi power.
*Multiple methods were trialed to create the rancor.
*Luke shooting every door control that he sees.
*It is surprising that the rancor was not redone in the special editions. The compositing looks terrible. Adjustments have been done in the most recent version of the movie.
*Did Luke use a Force throw to ensure that he hit the door control?
*The gamorrean guard that gets eaten may be the most pitiful character in the Star Wars movies. Even the other guards are laughing. He was the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer_Pyle Gomer Pyle] of the unit.
*The door moves dangerously quickly. The doors on The Death Star are also very fast.
*The guard does a double take, squeals and runs.
*The dog-like rancor noise as it is killed by the door is very upsetting for any pet owners. Other noises that could have been used.
*The pop-up book mentioned in the cold-open and the back-story. The last pop-up in the book is Luke cutting open the dead rancor and the gamorrean guard, who is alive, jumping out holding something that he was looking for on behalf of Jabba.
*All of the patrons watching on take more double-takes at the rancor's death.
*Rancor meat may have been served at Dengar's wedding reception.
*How long is the chain that Leia is attached to?
*In the shot of Jabba's minions laughing there is a Greedo just standing there motionless with his arms out.
*There are a few new humanoid characters shown in the minion reaction camera shot; they're wearing robes like almost every human in Star Wars.
*The quality of Rodian acting.
*Jedis find robes made out of Terrycloth to be very versatile.
*Mentioned: Transformers.
*Lando pushes a yak-face out of the way as he runs off to get Han and Chewie for Jabba. The back-story of the yak-face character and the rarity of this character's action figure.
*Luke makes no effort to save the guard but does not take advantage of the rancor being distracted. He just stands there and watches.
*A deleted scene in which yak-face argues with another character and C-3PO translates both sides of the argument.
*The rancor attacking Luke. Luke won't taste as good as the gamorrean guard.
*Malakili:
*Luke just waits to be picked up - then rancor moves very slowly, like a frame at a time.
**Played by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brooke Paul Brooke] who was also in a Bond movie.
*Are there any other creatures in the keep? The bone is picked very clean.
**Paul Brooke has been in a lot of other movies as well.
*Other ways of dying in the rancor pit.
**Malakili sobs were dubbed by Ernie Fosselius, the creator of Hardware Wars.
*A cut scene in which Luke Force jumps up to the grill over the pit and then gets knocked down by jawas.
**Fosselius co-wrote the song Lapti Nek and also voices other characters in Star Wars.
*Jabba looks like an italian mob boss.
**The Smokey Robinson song "Sobs of a Rancor Keeper".
*Rancor facts:
*Malakil's crying gives the movie some emotion.
**Not native to Tatooine.
*Malakili trivia:
**Repto-mammals (half reptile and half mammal). Wampas are also repto-mammals.
**Is a slave owned by Jabba.
**A rancor called Tosh was once taught to read and write.
**Is a former circus worker.
**Ben Burtt used a Dachshund to provide the sound effects for the rancor.
**Was Jabba's animal handler.
*The rancor toy was very cool. It was a large toy and had arms that could be moved up and down.
**Owned a Jaffe Stick which was given to him by some Native Tatooiners after he did a favor for them.
  Adam was once in a bar and saw a toy rancor behind the bar.
**Opened a restaurant after leaving Jabba's Palace.
  He asked the bartender if he could play with it and so the bartender handed it over.
*Possible Malakili spin-off ventures.
  He sat there for quite a while playing with the rancor toy.
*A comic book story of Malakili getting the rancor as a baby and raising him over the years. This results in them having a very close relationship. In the comic book the rancor just suffers a head injury from the door and survives.
*Toys and board / card games in bars.
*The age of the rancor and Malakili.
*Check out the Alphabeatical podcast.
*In a draft script Luke says that he didn't want to kill the rancor because it was only a small one.
*How rancors are born.
*The floor of the rancor pit is sand. How this is managed to keep it clean.
*Malakili was constantly picked on by Jabba.
*Mentioned: Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome.
*The gamorrean guard being stuck inside the rancor.
*Where there rancor keepers surprised when Luke opened the door and walked in on them?
*We're in Jabba's Palace for the rest of the week.
*[[Support the Show]].
*[[Support the Show]].
==Quotes==
==Quotes==
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*'''John:''' <In a Bronx accent> Yeh, your problem is your doors are too slow.
*'''Pete:''' I knew Greedo, I worked with Greedo - Beedo your are no Greedo.
*'''Adam:''' That's his long-con. '''Pete:''' Well, he is pretty long.
*'''Alex:''' They shot the puppet... '''Adam:''' They shot a puppet?! '''John:''' Oh no.
===Meta Minute===
===Meta Minute===
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Revision as of 00:51, 1 April 2017

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Date

February 9th, 2015

Summary

A few screams, and the guard is swallowed with a gulp.

Guests

John Skrzypek and Adam Santiago

Notes

Film

Starts with the rancor emerging from its keep.
Ends with Luke about to be eaten by said rancor.
The rancor is the first giant monster in Star Wars.

Podcast

  • Cold-open: 8-DAY-GREEDO call - Jabba's Palace pop-up book and some of the superb back-story relating to the gamorrean guard that is eaten by the rancor.
  • Alphabeatical week on The Star Wars Minute.
  • The rancor puppet is awesome.
  • Multiple methods were trialed to create the rancor.
  • It is surprising that the rancor was not redone in the special editions. The compositing looks terrible. Adjustments have been done in the most recent version of the movie.
  • The gamorrean guard that gets eaten may be the most pitiful character in the Star Wars movies. Even the other guards are laughing. He was the Gomer Pyle of the unit.
  • The guard does a double take, squeals and runs.
  • The pop-up book mentioned in the cold-open and the back-story. The last pop-up in the book is Luke cutting open the dead rancor and the gamorrean guard, who is alive, jumping out holding something that he was looking for on behalf of Jabba.
  • Rancor meat may have been served at Dengar's wedding reception.
  • In the shot of Jabba's minions laughing there is a Greedo just standing there motionless with his arms out.
  • The quality of Rodian acting.
  • Mentioned: Transformers.
  • Luke makes no effort to save the guard but does not take advantage of the rancor being distracted. He just stands there and watches.
  • The rancor attacking Luke. Luke won't taste as good as the gamorrean guard.
  • Luke just waits to be picked up - then rancor moves very slowly, like a frame at a time.
  • Are there any other creatures in the keep? The bone is picked very clean.
  • Other ways of dying in the rancor pit.
  • A cut scene in which Luke Force jumps up to the grill over the pit and then gets knocked down by jawas.
  • Jabba looks like an italian mob boss.
  • Rancor facts:
    • Not native to Tatooine.
    • Repto-mammals (half reptile and half mammal). Wampas are also repto-mammals.
    • A rancor called Tosh was once taught to read and write.
    • Ben Burtt used a Dachshund to provide the sound effects for the rancor.
  • The rancor toy was very cool. It was a large toy and had arms that could be moved up and down.
 Adam was once in a bar and saw a toy rancor behind the bar.
 He asked the bartender if he could play with it and so the bartender handed it over.
 He sat there for quite a while playing with the rancor toy.
  • Toys and board / card games in bars.
  • Check out the Alphabeatical podcast.
  • Support the Show.

Quotes

  • Pete: I knew Greedo, I worked with Greedo - Beedo your are no Greedo.
  • Alex: They shot the puppet... Adam: They shot a puppet?! John: Oh no.

Meta Minute

  • 20:58 podcast episode length.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/02/09/jedi-minute-26-hes-gonna-git-you/


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