Happy Chewbacca

May 20, 2016 11:44 AM

It's the simple joys.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul (41 comments total)

I couldn't understand based on the description I'd seen on social media why people were sharing this so often. Now I get it - that freaking laugh. It's the simple joys indeed.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:49 AM on May 20, 2016 [7 favorites]

I love her so much. By 2:45 into the video I was crying laughing.

I hope she drives all over town in that mask.

And would really really like my antidepressants to work half that well.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 11:50 AM on May 20, 2016 [16 favorites]

Yes, it truly is the simple joys in life...
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 11:50 AM on May 20, 2016

OMFG DYING
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:52 AM on May 20, 2016

I'm watching this, and the cynical part of me is going "ok, get to the point... this is dumb and kind of annoying..." and then she puts the mask on and loses her shit and then I start losing my shit and now I understand what the fuss is about.

Simple joys, indeed.
posted by bondcliff at 11:57 AM on May 20, 2016 [12 favorites]

So great. Best of the web.
posted by amanda at 11:57 AM on May 20, 2016 [4 favorites]

I love her! I am so glad she shared this with her friends on the Internet! Now I am her friend on the Internet!
posted by agatha_magatha at 12:12 PM on May 20, 2016 [14 favorites]

If everyone took their cues from this woman the world would be a better place, and have so many happy chewbaccas.
posted by mcstayinskool at 12:14 PM on May 20, 2016 [9 favorites]

I want to send her How to Speak Wookiee: A Manual for Intergalactic Communication.

(Parenting fun: letting your toddler "talk" with himself by mashing the Wookie and Zombie book in turns).
posted by filthy light thief at 12:15 PM on May 20, 2016

I love the way that the whole time she's talking and laughing, the mask keeps making the Chewbacca growl she loves so much.
posted by Gelatin at 12:23 PM on May 20, 2016 [6 favorites]

She is so awesomely gleeful - maybe best laugh ever - and that mask is uhhhhh dope.
posted by Bob Regular at 12:44 PM on May 20, 2016

CONFINSCATE
posted by hanov3r at 12:47 PM on May 20, 2016 [3 favorites]

But the mask isn't movie quality. But that's OK.
posted by hanov3r at 12:51 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

LOVE HER SO MUCH!
posted by Sophie1 at 12:51 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

4 PM on Friday? I take this as a cosmic sign that it's time to start my weekend. +1 would watch again.
posted by COD at 1:02 PM on May 20, 2016

We need to get back to Kashyyyk for Life Day... STOP LAUGHING!
posted by lagomorphius at 1:46 PM on May 20, 2016

I love it. It's a feedback loop of roaring and laughing.
posted by brundlefly at 1:51 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Metafilter - making my Facebook feed redundant or avant garde, depending on the time of day.
posted by Chuffy at 1:56 PM on May 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

I thought "how funny could it be?" Then I watched.

PURE MIRTH. BURY ME NOW.
posted by datawrangler at 1:56 PM on May 20, 2016 [4 favorites]

On a side note, I, personally, have not laughed like she is laughing here, in a long time. She wins the Internet today.
posted by Chuffy at 1:57 PM on May 20, 2016

This was shared on my FB feed by the sorts of people who post all kinds of crap that makes me roll my eyes so I didn't watch it until I saw it here.

Now, I wonder if those FB people feel this kind of unbridled joy about the vacuous inspirational quotes or "heartwarming" videos of some person being nice to an old folk that they are always posting. And I guess if those things make them as happy as this woman's video makes me, then I am happy for them for being able to be so gleeful, all the time.
posted by sparklemotion at 2:11 PM on May 20, 2016 [3 favorites]

This is delightful, and it was in fact worth every penny.
posted by Lyn Never at 2:13 PM on May 20, 2016

I couldn't watch it all the way through. I'm too jealous of her level of joy!
posted by Charles_Swan at 2:27 PM on May 20, 2016

Oh man. I laughed until I cried. It reminded me of the time we got one of those dumb Pete the Repeat Parrot toys - so much unbridled glee!
posted by angeline at 2:29 PM on May 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

Remember the other time a Star Wars-related amateur video went viral? "The Star Wars Kid". I'm so happy (and relieved) to see her getting so much positive response.
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:31 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

I just want to buy my own Chewbacca mask, go find this woman, and have delightful Chewbacca-mask-wearing adventures with her.
posted by sarcasticah at 3:48 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

She has the perfect hair for it, too. All Chewbacca costumes should have that haircut.
posted by Mchelly at 4:19 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Nothing gives me more pleasure in life than watching someone joyfully and completely lose their shit like this.
posted by zebra at 5:17 PM on May 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Beat me to it. This is the best.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:33 PM on May 20, 2016

I love her. I too was laughing out loud with her, clutching my sides by the end.

A++ would have her buy herself a children's toy again.
posted by kandinski at 7:28 PM on May 20, 2016

This is so wonderfully joyful.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 10:10 PM on May 20, 2016

And she's being imortalized....
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:26 AM on May 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Now she doesn't have to share. (Kohl's FB video)
posted by gladly at 8:04 AM on May 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

Best. Of. The. Web.

Rrrrraaawwwwrrrrrr
posted by zippy at 8:49 AM on May 21, 2016

I rarely have nice things to say about corporate social media, but +1 to the Kohl's folks for doing something great for this family in exchange for all the free publicity she gave them.
posted by anastasiav at 11:33 AM on May 21, 2016

I kept thinking, "this is going to make those Donald Trump rallies a barrel of laughs!"
posted by sneebler at 6:40 AM on May 22, 2016

Brief NPR interview
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:38 AM on May 22, 2016

This is great.
posted by LobsterMitten at 12:44 PM on May 22, 2016

Okay, not everybody loves Chewbacca Mask Lady... (but then, this webcomicker has a long history of getting things wrong)
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:10 PM on May 22, 2016

Things keep looking up for Candace. She was on The Late Late Show with James Corden, including an apperance by a special guest star!
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 12:04 AM on May 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

brb running to Kohl's...
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:18 AM on May 28, 2016