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C-3PO & R2-D2 in STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return Of The Jedi (1983)

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A short-lived mascot for Tang, the tangbot.

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AHSOKA

S1.E7 ∙ Part Seven: Dreams and Madness

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Daily Yellow Character 67;

C-3PO from Star Wars

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day 16 └[∵┌]

C-3PO from Star Wars

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I'm... I'm stuck!

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Anyone else want B2EMO to meet other Star wars droids?

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Move aside whatever I last said was the funniest thing in Star Wars; THIS is the funniest thing in Star Wars

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http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.com/search/label/Star%20Wars

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if any promising tycoon philanthropist wants to give me $20 for free so i can buy the politely sitting guy my ko-fi is in my bio

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith (2005)

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C-3PO | Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Part I

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Monthly Muppets: The Muppet Show: Star Wars (May the 4th Special Commission for WeirdKev27)

May the fourth be with you all you happy people! It’s that special time again to celebrate all things Stars and Wars. 

Star Wars holds a special place in my heart: I grew up with the original trilogy, even still having the gold VHS box set I grew up with, and saw each of the prequels in theaters with my dad, brother and my dad’s best friend and my geeky mentor Don. I grew up with both versions of the clone wars, read the timothy zahn trilogy, piled up a bunch of books I never read, gladly grabbed star wars tales from my middle school library. I even TRIED watching the holiday special. Twice... tried being the key word but even with rifftrax and Emma’s help, we had to bail out. 

Point is this franchise is special to me.. yet i’ve also kept it at arms length recently. As for why... you can probably guess....

Yeah after the decent start of Force Wakens and the utterly awesome Last Jedi, we got.. this thing, a pandering, bloated mess with Palpatine alive for some reason that seemed so paranoid about Last Jedi being divisive that it over corrected, strangling out every great part of that film to try and appease angry fanboys. Because Disney suddenly decided they cared about that despite their treatment of owl house, ducktales and other shows showing they very much don’t care about us when they aren’t trying to bilk us for money. 

Thankfully from what i’ve heard the Mandolorian exists and I WILL try it, I just procastinate a lot, so the franchise is on the mend but this wound has taken a long time to heal.. but just talking about my longtime love of the franchise here has helped a lot. So naturlaly even with those wounds still fresh, when Kev, who normally dosen’t do this segment, asked to fund this month’s monthly muppets to tie in with may the fourth, I was more than game, having never watched this episode. 

For those of you who just sat through that wondering what monthly muppets is, it’s my monthly look at all things muppets thanks to my good friend emma (usually). So for this month i’m taking a look as the galaxy far far away comes to the “strange variety show planet” of the muppet show.

Oddly enough we haven’t actually TALKED about the muppet show on this segment yet, but it’s easily one of the best things tv ever hocked at us like a majestic loogie: The creativity, well timed jokes, awesome music numbers and great guests are well known. I myself first saw the show when my Nibling was a baby and my brother bought the dvd’s to watch with them. See like most of my generation I found the muppets via the movies, so while I had heard of the muppet sohw this was my first exposure and it was glorious. While I didn’t recognize most of the guest stars, the creativity, humor and sheer craftsman ship was there from day one. It even gave me a deeper respect for Lou Rawls, who I already liked for his garfield themes but got to see just how much his music slapped. The show sadly stopped getting dvds after season 3 but luckily all but two episodes (one due to copyright and another because the performer is a monster and we’ll leave it at that) present. So now we all can enjoy muppets anytime and the fun of the accidentla corprate synergy of this tremendous episode. So join me under the cut as a galaxy far far away does vaudville, this is the muppet show with special guest star wars!

Since the star wars stuff takes up most of the episode and is basically one long storyline leading into the finale, a two part pigs in space for the ages, i’m going to cover all the OTHER stuff first and then leave the chewy goodness for the finale. 

                                               Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong

This one is a bop, a fun 50′s greaser classic sung by a shepard to a bunch of sheep.. who spend the rest of the episode randomly showing up places, as you do when your a muppet. Overall a fun little ditty. 

                                                 Muppet News Flash

We get two great muppet newsflashes, one where the Newsman gets eaten by sheep and another where Venus falls on him... so normal day for the newsman. I assume muppets are just like mutants and have a bunch of eggs and 5 powerful muppets waiting on standbye to ressrecut them. They’ve gone through like.. 999 newsman at this point. What’s one more? 

                                                 Six-String Orchestra

This was my favoirite bit of the episode. Scooter sings an earnest song about a guitar player who just wants to be good enough to play with others one day, with Electra mayhem naturally filling the role of the rest of the band, first in this weird chroma key you see, then in a full on number. IT’s heartfelt, adorable and perfectly fits scooter. The song itself is also really good,w tiht heo ther intsturments coming in as he lists them perfectly and the whole thing just being a standout in an episode that’s already standout for obvious reasons. It really encapuslates why I love the muppets so much: a lot of their charm comes from self awarness and slapstick chaos.. but it has a heart. It’s telling we can go from Mark Hamill and a Gargoyle Gargling Gershwin to Scooter playing his heart out adorkably. Top shelf sketch i’ll certainly go back to. 

                                              The Star Wars

As I said, and unusually for muppet show, the wraparound with star wars takes up most of the time. This is because the star wars cast spend most of their time back stage and hamill does only ONE onstage segment. 

It still works though: the sheer NOVELTY of having Luke, Threepeo and R2 crash the muppet show is great and how they do it is just as impressive: to my shock, keep in mind i’d never seen this one before, the episode opens with “Angus Mcgonagle, 5 seconds mr mgongagle” and even without the title I would’ve known this guy’s gig is toast. Still finding a muppet in that spot is delightful and Angus naturally dosen’t go away: he’s an argyle gargoyle who gargle’s gershwin and he’s going to gargle dammit! It’s a fun runner.. and later has one of the best comedic payoff’s i’ve seen from the show as you can see above. 

As for WHY Mark Hamill, beloved movie star, jedi and voice actor is gargling gershwin and why he’s here at all, Hamill asked to be able to be both himself AND Luke as, like with the rest of the star wars cast, he was afraid of being typecast after this. And as always jim was happy to make his guests comfortable, so they explained it as Hamill being luke’s cousin. And honestly t’is a brilliant way to have their cake and eat it too: this way they could have a human counterpart to the non-human star wars cast, but still have someone to do muppety shenanigans outside of the star wars bit. Again Mark dosen’t do any proper musical numbers like most guests till the end.. but he still gets to play off the muppets.

The best bit is him doing impresssions.. which comes from real life. Mark did a Kermit impression and Jim’s reaction was “that’s good, who is it?”, which morphed into FOzzie and Kermit simply not getting it here. We also get mark hamill GLORIOUSLY singing off key and revealing he can gargle gershwin, which is as delightful as it looks. 

The Star Wars stuff itself is fun as Luke charges through the set, refuses to pariticpate int hes ong and dance and the two casts play off each other perfectly. From R2 wanting to dance, to threepeo’s befuttlement it’s all fantastic. We also get some call forwards to Empire, which this episode was clearly promoting as it premired a few months after this: Luke wears his Bespin outfit (which everyone compliments and asks whose his tailor which while shameless promotion.. is also accurate. Luke’s empire luke slaps. ) and they talk about revealing Dearth Nadir’s identity... 

which given the nose is pretty obviously disgraced former president Richard Nixon!

This leads us into Pigs innnnnnnn spaccceeeeee where the Star Wars trio, on the search for chewie (sans Han who wasn’t paid enough for this ) which as usual has some funny bits. And I keep saying that not because i’ts unremarkable but because this is the muppet show: every inch is stuffed with funny gags that are just that: funny. Though we do get some accidental incest involving Piggy dressing up and impersonating leia to try and flirt with luke

And what coudl save them all? Why a song and dance number with Kermit finally getting his wish with the rest of the star wars cast dancing and mark hamill coming out to show his talent. Sadly luke didn’t sing his own signature number... 

But still it’s a heck of a finish. Overall this episode is fantastic, a nice tribute to both the hype around star wars at the time and a good old splash of muppet magic, give it a watch and may the fourth be with you. 

Next Month: It’s pride which means we’re taking a break from the usual muppets to dance magic dance.. yes folks it’s LABYRINTH! 

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I still think that train scene from the Clone Wars ep (destroy malevolence) was a reference to the scene in AOTC where C3PO falls on the SRT Droid but I could be wrong

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UUGGGHHHHHH not even five min in and fucking threepio is here?