Star Wars Minute 52: Shady Secondhand Goods

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Date

August 13th, 2013

Luke sells his landspeeder, pursued by the Empire's sinister agents.

Jabba the Hutt does not appear in this minute
- Unless you count "Marvel Comics Jabba" who is walking through.
CZ-3 returns(?)
- Still looks goofy
- This time he is played by Anthony Daniels
Homeless Jawas
Garindan, the Empire's sinister agent

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Is Tatooine part of the Empire? Do the stormtroopers have jurisdiction to open locked doors?
City vs. desert Jawas
This scene of Threepio and Artoo in the Star Wars Radio Drama takes place in a used droid lot.
- And the sale of the Landspeeder is gone into in more detail.
Long shot of Luke selling the speeder
Although Wookieepedia will probably tell you differently, Greedo is back from the dead the very next minute after he was killed.
Character/creature design plays into our anthropocentrism - good guys are human or cute, bad guys are weird-looking aliens.
Referenced: Yosemite Sam from Loony Toons
Mentioned: 94, Secret Rebel Agents

23:18 podcast episode length
The alien who buys Luke's landspeeder is named Wioslea. She is on the original SWM shirt.
Contrary to popular belief, goldfish have excellent memory, far exceeding three minutes[1].
The hosts circle back to analyze the Jabba scene from the Special Edition in SW Special Edition Minute 54: Boogie
The hosts request that someone keep track of the secret Rebel agents. Sounds like a job for the SWM wiki!

Pete: It's the part of the movie where I've been sleeping with your wife and now we have to have dinner and be all civil. It's like, 'So... uh-'" Mike: "Alex is mine! Alex belongs to me! Now that I'm here and I have a few things to say."
Pete: "See, who says there aren't enough women in Star Wars?"