Banning droids from the cantina makes sense from a business perspective. Droids don't eat or drink; they'd just be taking up space that could be used for paying customers. (it's kind of mean, but droids are third- or fourth-class citizens in Star Wars)
Even before any explanation was ever offered I thought your comment as well as the fact that droids could translate and even record the illegal activities that were occurring in the cantina were reasons enough for the policy.
I just always figured that the bounty hunters and smugglers who frequented the cantina didn't want things that could record them spying on what they were saying and who they were meeting.
@@boruff68 True. In hindsight, this was a statement made highlighting injustices in the 50s and 60s . However, my 5 year old brain comprehended it differently
According to Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina, Wuher did not allow droids into the cantina because they were not pay customers meaning the cantina did not provide oil baths for droids.
My first thought too. But I dismissed it, because with all the different alien races present, a translator is definitely required for many negotiations.
I know it's not canon anymore, but the old book, Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina, was excellent. Gave a ton of background on the patrons and such. It at least deserved a shout out! But fun list overall.
All the new What Dismal stuff is weak B/S. 'Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina' is your go-to source. What Dismal have cherrypicked details from the EU, (like Chalmun, who only appears as an EU character, and is never seen) despite saying that it's non canon. I stand by droids not being allowed in the cantina due to certain telepathic alien species, like Gotal, and H'Nemthians being able to pick up the electronic fields generated by droids, and finding the sensation unbearably irritating. I was also amused by what Wuher did with Greedo's corpse.
Yes Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina will always be canon. Droids? Of course you would never want droids in a bar. THEY DON"T DRINK AND THEY JUST TAKE UP SPACE!!!
I thought that may have been from “History of the World Part 1”?! I’ve never seen the Christmas special and it’s been more than a decade since I’ve seen History of the World Pt1 though.
Wuher: I have great respect for the Jedi, as they saved me from the Battle Droids many years ago Also Wuher: *snitches out Obi-Wan and Luke to the stormtroopers*
@@almaztech It was kind of both, really. I think Garindan (the plague doctor looking guy) was the one who called the Stormtroopers, but when Han, Luke and Obi-Wan were sitting at the table discussing their plans and the troopers entered the cantina, Wuher pointed them out to the troops.
@@behindthescenesphotos5133 And Wuher's action may not have even really been considered snitching. Troops asked him about a disturbance, he just pointed out the ones involved, having no idea who this old dude with the lightsaber and the farm boy were. He was smart enough to not try to cause problems with the local garrison
Mando wasn’t looking for Guild work, he was looking for work. There is a difference. He just killed a bunch of guild members, he wasn’t looking to get work from the same group. There’s other Bounty work outside of the guild.
Droids not being allowed is part of the technophobic themes employed in the original trilogy. "Don't be too proud of this technological terror." "Let the Wookie win." and Luke turning off his targeting computer are also examples of this motif.
I always figured it was because droids don't drink. An earlier explanation was to protect the anonymity of the customers and shady goings-on from scanners, recording devices, etc...
Han shot and killed the bounty hunter in the original release. Then Lucas changed it to bounty hunter being able to squeeze off a shot before going up in smoke. And then Lucas changed it to bounty hunter calling on Macaulay Culkin for some reason, shooting, and then Solo blasting him. In the movie SOLO, by the end you find out how Han learned a valuable lesson of reacting first. And he remembers that lesson many years later in the cantina....by shooting the bounty hunter.
@Anne O'Nymous in order for one to have shot first there had to be a second shot there was only one shot therefore Han did not shoot first he simply shot
@Anne O'Nymous this 'first' word has another meaning. You're using it as 'before', most people use it as a position like 'first' 'second' 'third'. So you and OP are both right
It was alluded in the book “Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina” that droids were not allowed in the cantina because a droid had been used to blow up a target in the cantina before. This may be in connection with the running gag of IG-11 (an assassin droid) continuously saying he was going to self-destruct in a an episode of The Mandalorian t.v. show decades later. I am surprised this video did not mention that book at all.
I always thought Wuher, the bartender, was a clone from the Clone Wars and he didn't like Droid because he had to fight them years ago. Why doesn't he look or sound like a basic clone? Maybe he got surgery to change himself? Maybe he is one of the Bad Batch and changed his name and changed his look? As it turns out, I was partially correct. It was because of the Clone Wars. The simplest reason is Droids don't drink booze. Still fun to think about it all. Where did he go after the Battle Of Endor? He coulda retired, took over as the night shift bartender? He got over the past and stopped hating robots? Thanks for this video, it's awesome.
I believe canonically, business has dried up somewhat in Mos Eisley since Jabba died, as shown by the lack of the prior bustle when Din visited the spaceport; so there is speculation to be made that he either quit or was laid off, with the droid brought in as a cost saving measure, the two could even be connected.
No Sean. Han did not shoot first. That implies Greedo shot at all, when everyone over the age of thirty remembers. Han shot. Greedo died. There was no second shot. The end.
Droids can record their surroundings and broadcast/share those recording to outside parties. Not something you'd want in a cantina filled with the wretches and scum of the universe. It's like bringing mobile devices into a club full of Arkham's supervillains after Batman activated the total cell surveillance system after Dark Knight.
OR taking your camera equipped smart phone into a change room! (Which is ILLEGAL here, but no1 seems to give a shit! When I complained all I was met with was aggro & threats of violence, or suggestions I needed to be put in a mental hospital! )
Fascinating. I read a little about the Cantina in novels but I feel I barely scratched the surface. You even mentioned a real world commercial referencing the place about drinking and driving. Great work! 🙂
This is the 3rd WhatCulture vid hosted by Sean Ferrick that I've seen in the last 24 hours (the other two being on WhoCulture and TrekCulture respectively) and I'm all for it 😄 Keep up the good work Sean! Great article!!!
What's really shocking is you could watch 3 videos from the WhatCulture brands and not one of them was hosted by a guy named Adam. With a few exceptions, it seems like being named Adam is a job requirement at WhatCulture.
always thought that han shooting greedo pre-emptively was apart of his character ark from self interested bandit to the unexpected hero... but hey... what do i know... if lucas want's to devalue his own writing... guess you can't stop him.
#10 Ahsoka didn't even go to the Cantina. That was the kidnapped victim's father and brother that went there. (at least one of them, 2 were kidnapped in that episode and held in two different locations) She rescued the one on the Trade Federation ship.
I remember from my childhood a Star Wars anti Marijuana ad. It had c3po and R2 , R2D2 was holding a burning joint , 3PO was saying "Put that marijuana down, it can hurt you" or the equivalent Does anyone else remember this? When you mentioned the drunk driving ad, it occurred to me I might be closer to finding out about this Marijuana ad I mentioned.
Was the droid bartender actually confirmed as EV-9D9, Jabba’s dungeon droid or just the same model? I don’t remember seeing the 3 eye lights in Mandalorian.
@@Poizenne It's time to revisit the book "Tales from Jabba's Palace". I vaguely remember what happened to her but hell, it's been nearly thirty years since I read it.
11 , the country teasers ( a great band from the uk ) have an album about the empire strikes back that makes all kinds of comparisons between Star Wars locations and UK locations , any true fan needs to hear it
Freedom shot the wall near Solo"s head if you look closely.Solo already had his gun pointed at him accurately under the table.Solo knew he was going to try to kill him so he shot 1st.Greedo shooting the wall was just a reaction to getting shot as he was about to pull the trigger.Simple.
Numerous scrapped combustion chambers from Rolls Royce engines hang above the bar as prop pieces. One like these was eventually used to make the assassin droid IG-88's head.
I always thought of the 'we don't serve their kind here' as an obvious reference to their servile status within the empire. Essentially droids are slaves.
@@michaelmckinnon1591 He may have been going for his gun, but in the original Star Wars, he didn't shoot at all. I don't even think he was going for his gun to shoot. He wanted the bounty that Jabba put on him. From Empire, we know that it was preferred to keep him alive. The "new" edits both weaken his character and don't make sense. Han was the only one to shoot. He was a cold-blooded killer. He redeemed himself. Like the Darth Vader arc, it shows that everyone is capable of change, improving, and becoming a good person.
I always thought the 'No Droids' thing was a nod to the bad days of slavery, "We don't serve their kind here" being just the sort of thing that was said even in 1960's America.
I've always looked at it from a racist point of view, but with Americans and Mexicans and how Americans don't like Mexicans because they are taking their jobs. I mean think about it, in the day and age where robots are as smart as r2d2 and c3po I think many bartenders jobs were on the line, and him allowing them in would be like training your replacement
I don't understand all the HATE for the Christmas Special. Yes I agree looking back as an adult it was silli, goofy, and had all kinds of other flaws when comparing to the rest of the Star Wars media. However I think people loose sight of the time period it was released. We didn't have the internet much less youTube. The only things we got to SEE of star Wars were maybe a commercial or a random magazine article. We were starving for ANYTHING Star Wars. My family had very little money so I had maybe 6-8 action figures. I made my own vehicles and even built my own Death Star play set out of cardboard. When that show came on it was the greatest thing I had seen since the movies themselves. Nobody I knew had even heard of a VCR and so I did the next best thing. I got one of those tape recorders with the buttons on one end, stood it in front of the tiny speaker of our( I'm guessing 17") television and recorded the audio from the show. I listened to that tape for years lip syncing the starship song and reliving the show through my imagination. That show has and always will be one of my best and favorite memories in my otherwise drizzled childhood. So I think all the hate is misplaced and just perpetuated by people forgetting when it was from and who it was for, us kids who dreamed of being in the Star Wars world. I wish it was released and I could have a copy of it to play and show my kids even along with some of the other obscure things published back then like commercials and toy ads..
I just realized a wooden table can stop a laser blast. So why do Stormtroopers wear armor made from the same material as their action figure counterparts?
I just commented that too but forgot to mention the wailers part. I’m really surprised they missed that tidbit, which is also canon. Jizz is, not sure about the wailers.
At about 8:42 the video implies that Star Wars influenced the creating of Star Trek which is strange considering that Star Wars a new hope came out in 1977 where as Star Trek came out in September 1966 the first episode being called the man trap (first two episodes also did not have William shatner in it)
Agreed. In the original trilogy they made him out to be a real tough guy who was not to be trifled with. In the latest trilogy they make him out to be some bumbling idiot.
Dude that’s even worse. That means his parents were probably Separatists loyalists and where killed anyways. Then again they don’t seem to care about collateral damage
"The inside and the outside were nowhere near each other" my first though on hearing that was that it was a TARDIS. But I always knew what the real reason was, but it was a nice quick thought
@Anne O'Nymous yes, sorry, it might not be true, i thought i heard that somewhere, and then on Spector Creative's video about Snaggletooth's figure, he showed a sketch sheet that showed the creatures in their infant form, so maybe they were made by the special effects crew, and maybe they found the masks and worked them into their creature line up? it's hard to say now.
According to the book Tales from Jabbas palace *book name??* I remember EV-9D9 was a robot with a humanoid brain, and was destroyed not long after Jabbas barge was from one of her prior droids she tortured. I'm remembering this from long ago, so questioning how she was a bartender later on. Yes I know it's now legends, so why her story is now different.
There was a short story book that had the bartender escaping jabbas palace after someone set off a bunch of the droids to go crazy and start attacking all biological life him and some others shimmed through a airduct and the bartender was talking to his friend and mentioned he wasnt going to let droids whenever he got his own bar it also said he was the owner of the cantina
In the book a certain point of view it tells you how the dude that owns it was made an orphan during the clone wars. If you havent read the book or heard the audiobook you definitely need to
I had always assumed droids weren't allowed because letting drinking, paying customers bring in big pieces of clunky electronic equipment with them was a waste of space that could accommodate other drinking, paying customers. I can't imagine bars and restaurants making a habit of allowing me to tote a big screen TV in and plunk it down at a table or barstool. Maybe if all the droids were the size of laptops.
the Tibana? sisters never got action figures? or at least they didn't in the Kenner days because they were models and wouldn't sign their likenesses away for the rights to be used as action figures
Only Han shot, shooting first implies a second shot. Holiday Special says Bea Arthur works there, but the Richard Pryor Show says he worked there too lol 😝
Banning droids from the cantina makes sense from a business perspective. Droids don't eat or drink; they'd just be taking up space that could be used for paying customers. (it's kind of mean, but droids are third- or fourth-class citizens in Star Wars)
Even before any explanation was ever offered I thought your comment as well as the fact that droids could translate and even record the illegal activities that were occurring in the cantina were reasons enough for the policy.
They’re not citizens. They’re devices. Is an Amazon Echo a citizen?
@@mikedevore9791 Droids are too logical to a voted for Trump. A charismatic leader who appeals to emotions wouldn't be able to sway droids very well.
The Romulans HAD the right idea!
@@JohnSmith-ns6dp Amazon is a scam!
I just always figured that the bounty hunters and smugglers who frequented the cantina didn't want things that could record them spying on what they were saying and who they were meeting.
recording technology absolutely only existed on droids during this time.
Actually, it's because droids don't tip.
No droids: As a child of the '80s, I always assumed it was because the cantina was busy and droids took up space that paying customers could occupy.
Thats what I thought!
Hay can’t droids get an oil change ?
I would have posted the exact same thing if I hadn't seen your post.
True,but the bar keep says they don't SERVE their kind...,but yea ,NOT a paying customer.
@@boruff68 True. In hindsight, this was a statement made highlighting injustices in the 50s and 60s . However, my 5 year old brain comprehended it differently
According to Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina, Wuher did not allow droids into the cantina because they were not pay customers meaning the cantina did not provide oil baths for droids.
My first thought too.
But I dismissed it, because with all the different alien races present, a translator is definitely required for many negotiations.
I know it's not canon anymore, but the old book, Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina, was excellent. Gave a ton of background on the patrons and such. It at least deserved a shout out!
But fun list overall.
I don't give a $h!t what anyone says-- I *STILL* consider that more canon than about 99% of the trash Disney-Wars okayed.
Eh, given what's considered canonical... go with what you like. Headcanon beats corporate canon for the individual any day.
All the new What Dismal stuff is weak B/S. 'Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina' is your go-to source. What Dismal have cherrypicked details from the EU, (like Chalmun, who only appears as an EU character, and is never seen) despite saying that it's non canon. I stand by droids not being allowed in the cantina due to certain telepathic alien species, like Gotal, and H'Nemthians being able to pick up the electronic fields generated by droids, and finding the sensation unbearably irritating.
I was also amused by what Wuher did with Greedo's corpse.
Read "from a certain point of view" youll enjoy that
Yes Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina will always be canon. Droids? Of course you would never want droids in a bar. THEY DON"T DRINK AND THEY JUST TAKE UP SPACE!!!
I cannot believe you referenced Bea Arthur from the Christmas Special! George Lucas just hired a Private Investigator to trace your IP Address!
I THOUGHT SHE LOOKED FAMILIAR! Good looks!
HA HA HA!
I was going to comment the Christmas Special reference, but I didn't want to get tracked down, since I own a copy on DVD.
@@wolfshanze5980 BURN it! Burnt it now, while you still can!
I thought that may have been from “History of the World Part 1”?! I’ve never seen the Christmas special and it’s been more than a decade since I’ve seen History of the World Pt1 though.
Wuher: I have great respect for the Jedi, as they saved me from the Battle Droids many years ago
Also Wuher: *snitches out Obi-Wan and Luke to the stormtroopers*
Oh, it was him! I thought that it was that weird creature that had a black death doctor mask.
Anyway, that's typical of Tatooine.
@@almaztech It was kind of both, really. I think Garindan (the plague doctor looking guy) was the one who called the Stormtroopers, but when Han, Luke and Obi-Wan were sitting at the table discussing their plans and the troopers entered the cantina, Wuher pointed them out to the troops.
Garouf Lafoe (the human seen talking to the sandtroopers outside) initially snitched. Wuher pointed them out after that.
@@almaztech I always thought that Garindan guy looked like he was from Spy vs Spy XD
@@behindthescenesphotos5133 And Wuher's action may not have even really been considered snitching. Troops asked him about a disturbance, he just pointed out the ones involved, having no idea who this old dude with the lightsaber and the farm boy were. He was smart enough to not try to cause problems with the local garrison
Mando wasn’t looking for Guild work, he was looking for work. There is a difference. He just killed a bunch of guild members, he wasn’t looking to get work from the same group. There’s other Bounty work outside of the guild.
Scab
@@scuzzymcticklish199 Indeed, but the guild mentality is what KILLS an industry from growth & innovation!
As a bartender, I find the idea of 102 patrons being considered a lot to be utterly laughable.
Surely this dude never worked a bar on mad friday 😂😂
Imperial regulations
@@andrewgates9333 Glactic Pandemics, & all that!
"Han shot first"
And... I immensely liked
Han didn't shoot first. Han was the *Only One* who shot.
That's how you win a gun fight.
Same thing.
Solo is a bit of an ASBO!
Solo, a stone cold killer until Leia melted his heart.
@@willng1256 not really. it was kill or be killed. do what you have to do on the outer rim. Likely would do it as old Solo if it wasnt for disney.
Droids not being allowed is part of the technophobic themes employed in the original trilogy. "Don't be too proud of this technological terror." "Let the Wookie win." and Luke turning off his targeting computer are also examples of this motif.
I think Luke turned off his targeting computer because he no longer needed it and he used the Force instead.
@@stepanvaculik8614 and the fact the computers weren’t calibrated enough for a target of that size.
Lucas was alluding to Vietnam War.
I always figured it was because droids don't drink. An earlier explanation was to protect the anonymity of the customers and shady goings-on from scanners, recording devices, etc...
Too much reliance on technology is a pathway to the Dark Side. “I find your lack of faith disturbing”
I always thought a reason for "no droids" was the danger of unstable assassin droids. That lead to increased prejudice against all droids.
I was hoping the "IG-88" head hanging above the bar would have some tie in to the No Droids policy.
I mean there was a war where they shot up half the Galaxy
Droids lives matter
Han shot and killed the bounty hunter in the original release. Then Lucas changed it to bounty hunter being able to squeeze off a shot before going up in smoke. And then Lucas changed it to bounty hunter calling on Macaulay Culkin for some reason, shooting, and then Solo blasting him.
In the movie SOLO, by the end you find out how Han learned a valuable lesson of reacting first. And he remembers that lesson many years later in the cantina....by shooting the bounty hunter.
Han did not shoot first because that would imply that Greedo shot second, he did not. Greedo didn't get a shot off before Han shot him. Han shot.
Beat me to it
r/ihadastroke
@Anne O'Nymous in order for one to have shot first there had to be a second shot there was only one shot therefore Han did not shoot first he simply shot
@Anne O'Nymous If you are answering in the comment writer, you can't read
@Anne O'Nymous this 'first' word has another meaning. You're using it as 'before', most people use it as a position like 'first' 'second' 'third'. So you and OP are both right
It was alluded in the book “Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina” that droids were not allowed in the cantina because a droid had been used to blow up a target in the cantina before. This may be in connection with the running gag of IG-11 (an assassin droid) continuously saying he was going to self-destruct in a an episode of The Mandalorian t.v. show decades later. I am surprised this video did not mention that book at all.
3:05 I'm old enough to have seen this broadcast. It can't hurt me anymore.
I always thought Wuher, the bartender, was a clone from the Clone Wars and he didn't like Droid because he had to fight them years ago. Why doesn't he look or sound like a basic clone? Maybe he got surgery to change himself? Maybe he is one of the Bad Batch and changed his name and changed his look?
As it turns out, I was partially correct. It was because of the Clone Wars. The simplest reason is Droids don't drink booze. Still fun to think about it all. Where did he go after the Battle Of Endor? He coulda retired, took over as the night shift bartender? He got over the past and stopped hating robots? Thanks for this video, it's awesome.
I believe canonically, business has dried up somewhat in Mos Eisley since Jabba died, as shown by the lack of the prior bustle when Din visited the spaceport; so there is speculation to be made that he either quit or was laid off, with the droid brought in as a cost saving measure, the two could even be connected.
HOW COULD YOU NOT MENTION THE STYLE OF MUSIC THE BAND PLAYS!?!?!? It’s JIZZ! Real thing and is also now canon.
Had yo make sure this one was in the comments lol
And let's not forget the Jizz Wailers, singing upbeat jizz songs
I'm sure you love jizz. Alot.
I realized it was just ragtime not too long, the stresses are all on the off beat
@@Miakel i saw this comment coming
The bar keep says that he "doesn't serve their kind", meaning the droids. Well, of course he bloody doesn't - _robots don't drink._
*'Hello There! This is a wretched hive of scum and villainy we must be cautious!"*
No Sean. Han did not shoot first. That implies Greedo shot at all, when everyone over the age of thirty remembers.
Han shot. Greedo died. There was no second shot. The end.
I was there in 1977. I remember it well.
Funny that you mentioned Bea Aurthor's X-Mas Special appearance. ThanX for the history!
oof. That Holiday Special was the absolute worst. That being said: Happy Life Day!
@@rabbitr0n thanx! :D
Droids can record their surroundings and broadcast/share those recording to outside parties. Not something you'd want in a cantina filled with the wretches and scum of the universe. It's like bringing mobile devices into a club full of Arkham's supervillains after Batman activated the total cell surveillance system after Dark Knight.
recording and broadcast technology absolutely only existed on droids during this time.
A droid could record through the walls if if it wanted to
OR taking your camera equipped smart phone into a change room! (Which is ILLEGAL here, but no1 seems to give a shit! When I complained all I was met with was aggro & threats of violence, or suggestions I needed to be put in a mental hospital! )
Fascinating. I read a little about the Cantina in novels but I feel I barely scratched the surface. You even mentioned a real world commercial referencing the place about drinking and driving. Great work! 🙂
Han shot Greedo.
Greedo didn't do shit.
Greedo picked the wrong table.
He should know enough to keep clear of drunk Corellians.
He took it like a champ
Greedo did evacuate his bowels after he MISSED.
First or not, HE MISSED.
After Episode 7 it could be said, "Greedo died first"
Star Trek preceded Star Wars by 11 YEARS (Trek's 1966 to Wars' 1977), so let's keep that firmly in mind.
This is the 3rd WhatCulture vid hosted by Sean Ferrick that I've seen in the last 24 hours (the other two being on WhoCulture and TrekCulture respectively) and I'm all for it 😄
Keep up the good work Sean! Great article!!!
What's really shocking is you could watch 3 videos from the WhatCulture brands and not one of them was hosted by a guy named Adam. With a few exceptions, it seems like being named Adam is a job requirement at WhatCulture.
Greedo never shot at all. Han shot him, full stop... Han didn't shoot first, he is the only one who shot at all.
Ashoka never met greedo she fought the neimodians and battle droids during this episode.
I was addicted to death sticks and spice before the empire.
I was addicted to them before it was cool! :p
always thought that han shooting greedo pre-emptively was apart of his character ark from self interested bandit to the unexpected hero... but hey... what do i know... if lucas want's to devalue his own writing... guess you can't stop him.
I like how the flipped bar tables stopped the lasers while typical bullets would go right thru.
#10 Ahsoka didn't even go to the Cantina. That was the kidnapped victim's father and brother that went there. (at least one of them, 2 were kidnapped in that episode and held in two different locations) She rescued the one on the Trade Federation ship.
I remember from my childhood a Star Wars anti Marijuana ad. It had c3po and R2 , R2D2 was holding a burning joint , 3PO was saying "Put that marijuana down, it can hurt you" or the equivalent
Does anyone else remember this? When you mentioned the drunk driving ad, it occurred to me I might be closer to finding out about this Marijuana ad I mentioned.
When the mandalorian walked into the cantina, the Droid detectors were not on the walls at the entrance.
The cantina where the mandolorian went was in Mos Espa, as mentioned in the show. So the bartender in Mos Eisley is likely still at the cantina there.
Was the droid bartender actually confirmed as EV-9D9, Jabba’s dungeon droid or just the same model? I don’t remember seeing the 3 eye lights in Mandalorian.
I wondered too. I thought she was destroyed when the gang escaped Jabba's barge.
@@Poizenne It's time to revisit the book "Tales from Jabba's Palace".
I vaguely remember what happened to her but hell, it's been nearly thirty years since I read it.
You forgot Richard Pryor worked there as a server.
11 , the country teasers ( a great band from the uk ) have an album about the empire strikes back that makes all kinds of comparisons between Star Wars locations and UK locations , any true fan needs to hear it
Freedom shot the wall near Solo"s head if you look closely.Solo already had his gun pointed at him accurately under the table.Solo knew he was going to try to kill him so he shot 1st.Greedo shooting the wall was just a reaction to getting shot as he was about to pull the trigger.Simple.
Numerous scrapped combustion chambers from Rolls Royce engines hang above the bar as prop pieces. One like these was eventually used to make the assassin droid IG-88's head.
No, Han didn't "shoot first".... Han shot the ONLY shot!
Freedom shot and missed Han then shot and killed
Thank you. Was about to point that out, but you were faster 😄
@@hklegomaster No! Greedo didnt Shot. Greedo shoot- Han dead
My Lego version arrives this week. Can't wait!!!!!!!!!
I always thought of the 'we don't serve their kind here' as an obvious reference to their servile status within the empire. Essentially droids are slaves.
Han did NOT shoot first. That implies Greedo fired second. Han fired the ONLY shot.
Its crazy to me how people have tied all these small characters together and made complex back stories.
Excellent list! I like how you included all the sources too. Now I have more stuff to look up. 😎
A New Hope was released in '77 not '79. I was 16, got my drivers license and had a job. Saw it every week that summer till haying season.
Some of the drink made of body remains too
Han did not shoot first. Han was the only one to shoot.
Yup. I have to point this out everytime someone brings this up.
So true
Greedo shot first or was going for his gun when Han shot
@@michaelmckinnon1591 He may have been going for his gun, but in the original Star Wars, he didn't shoot at all. I don't even think he was going for his gun to shoot. He wanted the bounty that Jabba put on him. From Empire, we know that it was preferred to keep him alive. The "new" edits both weaken his character and don't make sense. Han was the only one to shoot. He was a cold-blooded killer. He redeemed himself. Like the Darth Vader arc, it shows that everyone is capable of change, improving, and becoming a good person.
@@michaelmckinnon1591 Greedo was holding his gun and pointing it at Han for the entire scene. Have you seen the film?
Love the Village in Tunisia . Rammed earth and Mud . What you do when you get tired of Cold Damp Caves .
1977 Star Warts Holiday Special was ahead of its time. It showed grandpa Wookie using VR set to watch dancing star wars girls.
We need a full analysis video essay on which of the 12 drinks tasted the best
Han didn’t shoot first. Han shot Greedo and Greedo died.
I always thought the 'No Droids' thing was a nod to the bad days of slavery, "We don't serve their kind here" being just the sort of thing that was said even in 1960's America.
I've always looked at it from a racist point of view, but with Americans and Mexicans and how Americans don't like Mexicans because they are taking their jobs.
I mean think about it, in the day and age where robots are as smart as r2d2 and c3po I think many bartenders jobs were on the line, and him allowing them in would be like training your replacement
You got it in one.
I always thought droids were not allowed because they dont drink
It's the reason
Why is it an issue if Han shot first? It's not like he did not know who he was dealing with.
I don't understand all the HATE for the Christmas Special.
Yes I agree looking back as an adult it was silli, goofy, and had all kinds of other flaws when comparing to the rest of the Star Wars media.
However I think people loose sight of the time period it was released.
We didn't have the internet much less youTube.
The only things we got to SEE of star Wars were maybe a commercial or a random magazine article.
We were starving for ANYTHING Star Wars.
My family had very little money so I had maybe 6-8 action figures.
I made my own vehicles and even built my own Death Star play set out of cardboard.
When that show came on it was the greatest thing I had seen since the movies themselves.
Nobody I knew had even heard of a VCR and so I did the next best thing.
I got one of those tape recorders with the buttons on one end, stood it in front of the tiny speaker of our( I'm guessing 17") television and recorded the audio from the show.
I listened to that tape for years lip syncing the starship song and reliving the show through my imagination.
That show has and always will be one of my best and favorite memories in my otherwise drizzled childhood.
So I think all the hate is misplaced and just perpetuated by people forgetting when it was from and who it was for, us kids who dreamed of being in the Star Wars world.
I wish it was released and I could have a copy of it to play and show my kids even along with some of the other obscure things published back then like commercials and toy ads..
As a 6 year old I loved that PSA.
I just realized a wooden table can stop a laser blast. So why do Stormtroopers wear armor made from the same material as their action figure counterparts?
Droids are not allowed, because Bartender knows Bender. xD
That band is just the best music in the entire galaxy
The style of music being played by Figrin Dan and The Modal Nodes is called jizz. Beings that play that style of music are called jizz wailers.
I just commented that too but forgot to mention the wailers part. I’m really surprised they missed that tidbit, which is also canon. Jizz is, not sure about the wailers.
Have you seen the video Eckharts Ladder did about the festering jizz box?
Jizz 🤭
At about 8:42 the video implies that Star Wars influenced the creating of Star Trek which is strange considering that Star Wars a new hope came out in 1977 where as Star Trek came out in September 1966 the first episode being called the man trap (first two episodes also did not have William shatner in it)
I like the notion of han shooting an assassin
It makes him look like he's not an absolute dunce
Agreed. In the original trilogy they made him out to be a real tough guy who was not to be trifled with. In the latest trilogy they make him out to be some bumbling idiot.
In a tragic backstory he had a Federation Droid doll as a kid that was stolen from him...by a droid
Dude that’s even worse. That means his parents were probably Separatists loyalists and where killed anyways. Then again they don’t seem to care about collateral damage
"The inside and the outside were nowhere near each other" my first though on hearing that was that it was a TARDIS. But I always knew what the real reason was, but it was a nice quick thought
You forgot that Richard Pryor was the the bartender on a SNL sketch.
This content was more interesting than Episodes 7,8 and 9 combined! At a fraction of the cost and no virtue signaling!
Thank you for the video!😁👍🏿
Oh man, you guys should do a whole video on BT-1, the droid that wanted to kill any human he comes across.
Han not only shot first, he was the ONLY ONE WHO SHOT!
Welcome to this jumping joint with aliens having happy hours.
Vibing
I had no idea there was so much detail about this place
You know you're in Mos Isley when an arm gets lopped off in a bar brawl and everyone turns a blind eye! 😂 *Shrugs* Hey, nothing to do with me! 😂
most of the aliens from the Cantina were made up of old hollywood monster masks found in a warehouse
@Anne O'Nymous yes, sorry, it might not be true, i thought i heard that somewhere, and then on Spector Creative's video about Snaggletooth's figure, he showed a sketch sheet that showed the creatures in their infant form, so maybe they were made by the special effects crew, and maybe they found the masks and worked them into their creature line up? it's hard to say now.
Now that was fun very nice
The head of IG-88 is a recycled prop from behind the cantina bar. That prop is actually a scrap Rolls Royce jet engine part.
According to the book Tales from Jabbas palace *book name??* I remember EV-9D9 was a robot with a humanoid brain, and was destroyed not long after Jabbas barge was from one of her prior droids she tortured.
I'm remembering this from long ago, so questioning how she was a bartender later on. Yes I know it's now legends, so why her story is now different.
The Christmas Special was the BEST! I totally believe Mel Brooks was one of the writers, incognito😂
Good stuff man.
There was a short story book that had the bartender escaping jabbas palace after someone set off a bunch of the droids to go crazy and start attacking all biological life him and some others shimmed through a airduct and the bartender was talking to his friend and mentioned he wasnt going to let droids whenever he got his own bar it also said he was the owner of the cantina
In the book a certain point of view it tells you how the dude that owns it was made an orphan during the clone wars. If you havent read the book or heard the audiobook you definitely need to
Sphere Of Influence was not the 4th episode of SWTCW, it was actually in the 3rd season.
Tales from the Disney focus group.
Could you guys do a video on the Mon Calamari capital ships?
Apparently there were some "deals" made outside the cantina as well. Luke sold his speeder there.
I had always assumed droids weren't allowed because letting drinking, paying customers bring in big pieces of clunky electronic equipment with them was a waste of space that could accommodate other drinking, paying customers. I can't imagine bars and restaurants making a habit of allowing me to tote a big screen TV in and plunk it down at a table or barstool. Maybe if all the droids were the size of laptops.
Ah yes, Mos Eisley Cantina: the epitome of everything people love about Star Wars.
the Tibana? sisters never got action figures? or at least they didn't in the Kenner days because they were models and wouldn't sign their likenesses away for the rights to be used as action figures
yep
Mos Eisley. A wretched dive with Wasabi peas and karaoke.
Am listening
Only Han shot, shooting first implies a second shot. Holiday Special says Bea Arthur works there, but the Richard Pryor Show says he worked there too lol 😝
That was my favorite Richard Pryor Show episode. So fucking hilarious!
He who pulls his gun first has initiated a 'call out'. One or both may get shot after that; it's a fair fight.
I need a copy of Star Wars Complete Locations now!
There’s a pub just like near where I live.
Yes
I assumed the "no droids" rule was due to fiscal reasons. Chalmans has limited standing room and droids don't eat or drink.
You and I need to work on our definition of "need."