On no, Solo
March 28, 2010 4:43 AM   Subscribe

 
That's awesome.
posted by delmoi at 4:55 AM on March 28, 2010


Dramatic Undertones in Cute Rodents (SLYT)
posted by knave at 5:00 AM on March 28, 2010


Dramatic Undertones in Cute Rodents AND Star Wars!

beat that, bitches!
posted by HuronBob at 5:10 AM on March 28, 2010 [2 favorites]


Hahaha!!!
posted by Fizz at 5:27 AM on March 28, 2010


*palm on >insert expletive< here face here*
posted by infini at 5:40 AM on March 28, 2010


prototype?
posted by infini at 5:42 AM on March 28, 2010


Secret of comedy?

Sirens!
posted by djgh at 5:54 AM on March 28, 2010


That doesn't deserve to be as hilarious as it is.
posted by zardoz at 6:00 AM on March 28, 2010 [8 favorites]


I remember seeing a VHS version of this circa 1993.
posted by DU at 6:12 AM on March 28, 2010


Secret of comedy?

no, jean pants
posted by infini at 6:17 AM on March 28, 2010


Oota goota, Solo?
posted by steef at 6:24 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


The aristocrats.
posted by availablelight at 6:26 AM on March 28, 2010


Thanks, that was hilarious. These were funny too:

Kissing Flashback
Star Wars - the Kiss
Chewbacca Tries to Warn Luke and Leia...
Incest In Star Wars!
posted by nooneyouknow at 6:28 AM on March 28, 2010 [2 favorites]


What the heck is that... bumper music from the A-Team?
posted by crapmatic at 6:40 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


This is good.
posted by Atreides at 6:47 AM on March 28, 2010


What the heck is that... bumper music from the A-Team?

A youtube commenter said it was from Kill Bill, and that sounds about right.
posted by delmoi at 6:59 AM on March 28, 2010


Another youtube commenter said it was from Ironside and that sounds about righter.

(Though used in Kill Bill as well)
posted by MUD at 7:06 AM on March 28, 2010 [2 favorites]


What the heck is that... bumper music from the A-Team?

It's the start of the Theme From Ironside by Quincy Jones that Tarentino appropriated for Kill Bill
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 7:08 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


WhyYouShouldPlanYourTrilogyInAdvance, indeed.
posted by EvaDestruction at 7:13 AM on March 28, 2010 [9 favorites]


Well, duh.
posted by fuq at 7:25 AM on March 28, 2010


It kind of sounds like that opener to CHiPs... first season I think before they went all disco.
posted by crapmatic at 7:28 AM on March 28, 2010


I don't really get this. I haven't seen Star Wars in a while, but isn't this exactly what happened in the movie (plus new music)?
posted by 2bucksplus at 7:41 AM on March 28, 2010


Yes, 2bucks, but the end music implies other connotations. Therefore, hilarity.
posted by Xoebe at 7:44 AM on March 28, 2010 [2 favorites]


Also 2bucksplus, when someone says Knock Knock to you it is generally understood to be the beginning of a ritualistic form of humor called the knock knock joke. You should reply by saying who is it and then wait for a response. At the response you should then smile or chuckle slightly. This note brought to you by the Council for the Humor Impaired.
posted by Babblesort at 7:50 AM on March 28, 2010 [6 favorites]


It wouldn't have worked so well if Harrison Ford didn't mug so outrageously for the camera. Genius!

Probably the hardest part of this guy's job is dealing with that one scene. there's got to be some internal memos trying to explain this all away.

And the mud wrestling scene in Splinter of The Mind's Eye. Heh.
posted by warbaby at 7:54 AM on March 28, 2010 [4 favorites]


Who's scruffy looking?
posted by rusty at 7:58 AM on March 28, 2010


I was wondering when someone was going to bring up Splinter of the Mind's Eye. It was certainly the first thing I thought of when I watched the link in the post. (You think that was bad, Han? Wait until she tells you about ....).
posted by immlass at 7:58 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


Undertones?
posted by jscalzi at 8:07 AM on March 28, 2010


Undertones?

Overtones require tongue, at least.
posted by steef at 8:40 AM on March 28, 2010


At the time it was written, the familial relationship between Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader had yet to be revealed. Therefore, some inconsistencies are evident and unavoidable. Most noticeably the sexual tension depicted between Luke and Leia in this book, which in retrospect would be considered inappropriate in most countries. (Although Lucas claimed to have had the Star Wars saga mapped out even at this early stage, the fact that he allowed this plot element to remain in Foster's novel has been cited as evidence that he hadn't yet decided on the characters' true backstory.) However, Lucas has stated before, that this tension was on purpose, to show that the two had feelings for one another, but that they did not know exactly what type of feelings

Ewww....
posted by Artw at 8:59 AM on March 28, 2010 [4 favorites]


warbaby's link made this post. It also neatly explains how the whole incest thing arose, because the early spinoffs weren't vetted for continuity. "It's very, very wrong," Chee says of that scene in Splinter.
posted by localroger at 9:01 AM on March 28, 2010


This wikipedia article badly needs an "in popular culture" section...
posted by Artw at 9:14 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


I guess you can count me in with the "I don't get it" side, with regard to that Youtube vid. Yeah, the sexual tension between Luke and Leia is there in the first two movies, and yeah, once it's revealed that they're siblings you're all "Eww".

But we've known that since 1983. I don't see what the sirens add... help me out here.

The Continuity Guy article, on the other hand, is great.
posted by dammitjim at 9:21 AM on March 28, 2010 [3 favorites]


For me it's all about the look on Harrison Fords face.
posted by Artw at 9:28 AM on March 28, 2010 [6 favorites]


I don't really get this. I haven't seen Star Wars in a while, but isn't this exactly what happened in the movie (plus new music)?

In general, a joke -- no matter how funny -- ceases to be funny when explained. But basically there's a big contrast between what we're expecting (just a montage of subtle "undercurrents" or something) and what we get, which is a re contextualizing of Han's reaction, which with the flashback and the music makes him seem freaked out, rather then somewhat confused and elated.
posted by delmoi at 9:28 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


This is why it's funny: The music they used was used in Kill Bill as "CRITICAL FLASHBACK SIGNIFIER". In Kill Bill, the music always accompanied a flashback that put Uma Thurman's present into perspective with the additional implication of "UH OH!"

So they're using it here also as CRITICAL FLASHBACK SIGNIFIER. Previously, without the music, we thought that Harrison Ford's expressions were happiness, because now he can totally get it on with Leia guilt-free. But with the new addition of CRITICAL FLASHBACK, it re-contextualizes his expressions as that of confusion and concern over what he had seen before (in the flashback, with the "UH OH!" music).
posted by amethysts at 9:39 AM on March 28, 2010 [5 favorites]


Midicloribeans.
posted by Artw at 9:42 AM on March 28, 2010 [6 favorites]


Yeah, Splinter of the Mind's Eye freaked me out.

also SPOILER
Leia dies, doesn't she? That book made me feel oogy in a bunch of different ways.
posted by angrycat at 9:44 AM on March 28, 2010


MetaFilter: Someone has to be able to say, "Luke Skywalker would not have that color of lightsaber."
posted by Strange Interlude at 9:46 AM on March 28, 2010


The great (and totally NSFW) webcomic Sexy Losers had an early strip on this subject.
posted by Saxon Kane at 9:59 AM on March 28, 2010 [4 favorites]


Okay, while I agree that generally a joke ceases to be funny after explanation, the Kill Bill/flashback reference was what I was missing (having not seen it). My faith in your collective senses of humor is restored.
posted by dammitjim at 10:25 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


Speaking of strange flashbacks, I read Splinter of the Minds Eye when my fourth grade teacher gave it to me. I was totally freaked out when they described the kiss and all of the tongue action. Tongues in each others mouths, WTF? Queue theme from Ironside.
posted by cgk at 10:28 AM on March 28, 2010


That CRITICAL FLASHBACK SIGNIFIER was a pretty accurate rendition of my response when Luke and Leia's relationship was revealed, and I found it pretty oogy that all the previous canoodling was just sort of papered over.
posted by Jimmy Havok at 10:35 AM on March 28, 2010


any video with that noise in me is not worth wawtching
posted by rebent at 10:35 AM on March 28, 2010


Actually those "feelings for one another" that they had, as siblings who have never seen each other before, being confused for sexual tension wouldn't be unusual. Wish I could find it now, read an interesting article on adopted siblings who had "love of my life!" type relationships only to call it off when they found out they were blood related.
posted by dabitch at 10:47 AM on March 28, 2010


Yeah I don't think there's anything wrong with explaining a joke.. I know how it can cease to be funny if you didn't find it funny in the first place.
posted by amethysts at 11:09 AM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


that should say DON'T know.
posted by amethysts at 11:10 AM on March 28, 2010


dabitch: "Actually those "feelings for one another" that they had, as siblings who have never seen each other before, being confused for sexual tension wouldn't be unusual. Wish I could find it now, read an interesting article on adopted siblings who had "love of my life!" type relationships only to call it off when they found out they were blood related."

Yeah, there's usual an inhibiting factor that keeps you from seeing your siblings as potential sex / marriage candidates known as the Westermarck effect. Unfortunately this only would have occurred if Luke and Leia had grown up together, which they didn't; so that's one natural barrier against that kind of attraction down.
posted by PontifexPrimus at 11:21 AM on March 28, 2010


C. f. OMG Kitty.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:44 AM on March 28, 2010 [7 favorites]


really? best of the web?? yikes.
posted by docjohn at 11:44 AM on March 28, 2010


Undertones? Wait, was this scene left out of other people's copies of Star Wars?
posted by kmz at 12:17 PM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


Actually those "feelings for one another" that they had, as siblings who have never seen each other before, being confused for sexual tension wouldn't be unusual.

"Hey Yoda? When I think of Leia I feel all, hot, frustrated, it makes it hard to focus."
"Sense the Force within her, you do."
"Yoda? Is that what you feel when you sense the Force within me?"
"Speak no more of this. Carry me on your back you will."

(Insert siren music)
posted by yeloson at 1:15 PM on March 28, 2010 [4 favorites]


I see your incestual overtones video (which was hilarious, I've never seen Kill Bill and I still got the joke, it's friggin' obvious) and raise you this, posted to Facebook today by a friend of mine: Donny and Marie Osmond as Luke and Leia, featuring Kris Kristofferson as Han Solo. BEHOLD.
posted by DecemberBoy at 2:35 PM on March 28, 2010 [6 favorites]


DecemberBOY: NOOOOOO!
posted by flippant at 3:26 PM on March 28, 2010


Is that Paul Lynde as Grand Moff Tarkin?

(and there, by the way, is a sentence that you would probably need a very nearly infinite number of monkeys to see again.)
posted by jenkinsEar at 5:23 PM on March 28, 2010 [1 favorite]


(and there, by the way, is a sentence that you would probably need a very nearly infinite number of monkeys to see again.)

But, how can something be nearly infinite? Infinite is a tricky thing to think about, but it is certainly not a numerical value. Isn't 10 as "very nearly infinite" as 10,000,000,000,000 because both numbers are equally non-infinite?

P.S. IT'S A TRAP!
posted by fuq at 7:10 PM on March 28, 2010


What, exactly, is wrong with (non-procreative) sibling incest?
posted by overyield at 6:09 AM on March 29, 2010


What, exactly, is wrong with (non-procreative) sibling incest?

Is this where you tell us you kissed your sister?
posted by grubi at 6:53 AM on March 29, 2010


The music at the end makes the whole video!
posted by The Fly at 11:36 AM on March 29, 2010


If by "undertone" you mean glaringly obvious, yes.
posted by Mental Wimp at 4:21 PM on March 29, 2010


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