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Master of the Tune
The R2D2-Southpark Connection
A couple of recent threads about people's favorite SW characters reminded me of a theory I have: Kenny from Southpark is based on R2D2. Here's why:
1) Kenny from Southpark is named Kenny. The guy who helmed R2 in the movies was also named Kenny.
2) Kenny from Southpark dies a gruesome, different death in every episode. R2 has been shot by Jawas, eaten by a pond creature, electrocuted at Bespin, shot by a stormtrooper in ROTJ, crashed in a junkpile aboard Grevious' ship in ROTS, kicked down by bigger droids, shot by Darth Vader's TIE fighter, etc...
3) It's very difficult to decipher Kenny from Southpark's muffled words, and he's usually saying something really filthy. R2 speaks in an unintelligible series of beeps, and has been told by C3PO to "watch his language."
4) They're both short.
Anybody else ever noticed these similarities? It wouldn't be a surprise if it were true, given that Trey Parker and Matt Stone ARE huge SW geeks [
] To my knowledge they've never admitted it, but then again, it's just a theory.
"Chaka, call off Dawson, will ya?!"
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hey, that's pretty good!
how about this theory?
Lucas has some odd issues with women, ***uality and family in general:
first, Leia is the only significant female in the whole original trilogy.
luke and leia are siblings but neither know it and are attracted to one other until the end.
Vader is leia's dad but he is "insensitive to her needs" to say the least and tortures her and her boyfriend while plotting to kill her brother/his son.
Luke shows no interest in his absent mother until he lets leia in on everything.
Anakin is a small child when he falls in love with a teenage queen (the conversation between them on the ship going to tattoine is just plain SICK).
the entire imperial army are clones.
anakin skywalker was immaculately conceived(!).
Lando Calrissian originally had a back story that said he is a clone.
prequel hero Obi wan seems to have no family, friends, lovers, home, or past whatsoever.
Lucas is virtually obsessed with dismemberment: Shmi skywalker's husband is lame from a previous adventure, anakin/vader loses his hand twice and loses his head in a dream, luke loses his hand and arguably loses his head in the same dream, darth maul is bisected, Jango Fett is decapitated, Windu loses his hand, Dooku loses both hands and his head. droids and troopers are dismembered throughout all 6 films.
the story of the skywalkers is essentially about attaining, losing, and regaining manhood.
ROTJ, filmed during Lucas' divorce, begins with the heroes narrowly escaping a giant carnivorous vagina in the sand.
lastly, remember that lucas introduced the world to the "lightsaber", the ultimate male ego/phallic power symbol which glows, slices through anything it touches, and makes that cool ass sound when you wave it around (can YOUR wee wee do that?).
hypothesis:
I strongly suspect Lucas lost his ability to be a father in his famous age-17 car wreck. He has said his troubled relationship with his real father and the life support machines in the hospital inspired darth vader. His wife left him in 1981for a mexican carpenter after they had argued about only being able to adopt children. He made ROTJ a lot softer than everyone expected, threw in teddy bear warriors and Jabba's court (more like fraggle rock than a gangster's lair), and now has literally hundreds of millions of "adopted children" that might as well just call him "daddy". Not saying he's impotent but I bet he's shooting blanks down there and this has inspired most of star wars.
"Size matters not. Look at me! Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not! For my ally is the force, and a powerful ally it is!"
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Master of the Tune
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dbraxton9
lastly, remember that lucas introduced the world to the "lightsaber", the ultimate male ego/phallic power symbol which glows, slices through anything it touches, and makes that cool ass sound when you wave it around (can YOUR wee wee do that?).
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Nope, The Captain doesn't make any sounds, but he does make a lot of my decisions for me []
"Chaka, call off Dawson, will ya?!"
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Sith Warrior
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I am entertained in ways I would not have suspected by reading forums abour light sabers
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Incidentally, while my son is now potty training, i am glad he has not yet made the correlation to swinging it around... there is enough mess without that aspect added to the equation
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That was great! Both are too true! That was the best post I've seen yet on off topics here! How'd you guys think of that!?!
True, true, mine doesn't go woosh woosh either but their is definitely a "force" that guides me![]
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And let's not forget that "Vader" is German for "father" (though pronounced differently).
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D'oh!! That's my problem. I have just enough knowledge to shoot myself in the foot.
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