Meet the Bacca Family
In their Tree House on Kashyyyk, the Bacca Family await the return of Chewbacca for the annual Life Day holiday / celebration. This is riveting stuff, and immediately we are made sympathetic to the young son of Chewbacca, Lumpy, who passes the time by running around the house with a toy spaceship. Clearly he is trying to divert atention from the true angst ridden pain of missing his father and living under an oppressive Imperial regime. Poor little sod. Of course, Itchy, the grandfather just reads porn.
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Are all grandfather’s the same?
I’m looking forward to the days when I can clothes line mine.
Very good, but by God, the horror of 33 years past is returning!
Interspecies porn at that.
Love. IT!!! X D
grandpa’s unchanging expression+lumpy making funny noises as he adorably runs around the house= cuteness and awesome-ness.
and is it just me, or do the lines look different?
Good point – they look a bit jagged. Probably just the way the image was saved off.
Yeah, I only saw it when I looked at it on my work computer. It must have been something to do with the file compression when it was saved and uploaded. I re-saved it and it now looks fine.
Perfect
never not funny. you both rule.
Nice cartoon, particularly enjoy BMS but doesn’t it sound like the Bacca family have been voiced by vuvuzelas?
Jesus – I just watched some of it. Worse than I remembered. Incredibly lacking in excitement.
The very long opening title shows Mark Hamill as one of the ‘Children of the Damned’, Harrison Ford reminds me of myself, as a youngster sat in a cardboard box playing spaceships (weird how the cockpit shakes), and Carrie Fisher appears to have just taken a happy pill – anything to escape the humiliation!
Shit – but I have to say, it made me feel young again! I waited a week to see it that Christmas and was so embarrassed watching it. I was actually hoping my family – who’d heard nothing but “SW this, SW” that ad nauseum – would leave the room so I wouldn’t have to make excuses.
LOL! I have my own little review of the Holiday Special that I’m saving until we’re a few strips in. Oh the humility!
I think a couple of the family were in the room as I awaited the big moment! Probably curious to find out what all this Star Wars fuss was about.
I seem to recall shrinking further and further down into the chair. Once I was alone – I could enjoy it more – uninhibitedly. Less judgmentally. You know, like a sort of guilty pleasure.
I wonder if Ford ever watched it? Harrison that is, not John.
i would imagine he would have watched about 10 min of it and stopped , thats probably why he docent talk about star wars much.
He didn’t want to do Return of the Jedi, you know? He offered Lucas the compromise of Solo being killed early into the film – as a noble sacrifice for his friends. No dice. And no wonder that he looks so out of place and inactive in it.
I dont think that he didn’t want to do it but he was thinking of the story and he thought someone needed to die. It couldn’t be luke,Leia,killing Lando would just be odd since he is a new character , killing the droids or chewbacca would just be underwelming , so who is left ? Solo !
I never thought he looked out of place or inactive, he was the one who blew up the shield generator. They needed Lando to blow up the Death Star and having Leia doing it by her self would just feel out of place, I know she can take care of her self well enough but I cant see her leading an assault.
Wow. I never saw this as a kid. I guess the crap began long before Episode 1, didn’t it?
1978 I believe.
Yep – though Lucas ‘disowned’ it. I wonder how much of it was actualy his fault?
What was Malla baking anyway, Wookie Cookies?
I’m sure that somewhere in the expanded universe they are over explained, along with everything else.
Can anyone find anything, in any of the movies, that has not had at least 1 book, or article, written about it, that greatly over-emphasize something trivial as being of great significance?
I like to read Wookepedia sometimes, but come on who cares that on July 6th “X Wing: Iron Fist”; “Galexy of Fear: Clones”; “Hard merchandise”; and “Clone Wars Gambit: Siege” were all published?
BTW why doesn’t this Most Triumphant comic have a Wookepedia article (if I was more computer Literate I would write one)? After all “Tott Doneeta” (whoever he is) got an article so this comic (which is way cooler) needs one!
Sorry; just ranting.
Yes! We want to know why too! LOL
And I agree. To much minutiae in the STAR WARS universe actually takes away from the fun. When everything is explained there’s no room left to play and very little mystery.
BMS RANT WARNING:
Part of what creates a fan of a product / universe is leaving things for the fans to piece together themselves, making them work and dig for answers. But when those answers become endorsed as some sort of all encompassing multiversal canon it becomes a load of B.S. Sure, you can fit the comics and the games and the movies and television all into one universe (albeit messily) but why does that HAVE to be accepted by fans as if it is THE Star Wars Universe that we must all abide by. For example, who cares, honestly about obscure characters from games or comics and how that changes our perception of the characters in the OT?
The one true universe for Star Wars, that everything else must be judged by, is the Original Trilogy. All other canons are separate and you follow those if you so choose. But the OT is the originator and the pure heart of it all. Fans have a right to build upon the OT as do, unfortunately, many of the people involved creatively in Star Wars today who show more fanaticism than professionalism. I can’t blame their enthusiastic hearts, but being given a ticket to play in the Star Wars sandbox doesn’t mean you can change the rules.
My bottomline is that I don’t have to ACCEPT some fan writer’s answer (likely some throwaway line in some book or comic published in the three decades since the first trilogy was released) as the official word that defines and settles an argument. I also don’t have to accept that Walrus Man’s real name is Ponda Baba. I do go with that, along with a lot of other bits and pieces of the Expanded Universe canon here on BMS, because sometimes there’s some good stuff to play off– but BMS is just a parody, afterall. We don’t matter in the scheme of things! 🙂
Yep, I agree. I can appreciate the OT as films – and entertainment. I don’t need anything more from it. I don’t need it to be expanded or made somehow more real. If the original film was a once-off, the only one, that’d be enough for me.
I don’t need endless books and films and theorizing about who La Gioconda/Mona Lisa ‘was’ either. It’s a terrific, totally original piece of work in itself and stands up on its own merits. Though admittedly – I will confess, the mystery is appealing!
I can understand that but aren’t there somethings that you want explained ? Like Luke’s lightsaber ?
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Twas ever thus. Not just in Star Wars. But in Star Trek, Doctor Who, Aliens et al. Games, books, comics are they canon or not and does it matter or not? Over here in the UK the executive producer of Doctor Who once wrote a Doctor Who spoof for a charity telethon and has namechecked it in the regular series. Does that make the spoof canon? Not in my eyes, but is really doesn’t matter. You are right, all these ‘stories’, especially those much loved like Star Wars, need ‘gaps’ in them which the fans fill. We, the fans, are inspired (you and Leanne especially as BMS proves) by the gaps as well as the stories themselves. Keep up the good work.
Ya know I hear a bunch of Junk about Lucas and Star Wars from people I know but I am never gonna stop Loving every single star wars movie and im never gonna stop watching them. Star wars is timeless and nothing anyone says can make me stop watching star wars everyday(yes im that much of a noob/fan).
No one ever called you a “noob/fan” . You have your right to like them as well as we have the right to criticize them. Do not take people who criticize Lucas or the prequels or whatever they say as tho they do not still like/love Star Wars because the only people who really take any sort of fuss about it are the most loyal fans. Look at BMS, Rod/Leanne have expressed there opinion about Lucas and other star wars subject matters through a negative light at times but they are still doing BMS because they still like Star Wars even after all of its flaws and fuckups that have occurred throughout its life.
Sam is right, no one here (at least neither Leanne or myself) have any problem with anyone liking any aspect of the Star Wars Universe in any medium. But we do also think that whatever the current majority consensus of what cuts it as SW canon is only, really, fan-canon. The bottomline will always be the original trilogy and everything else will and should always be seen as something separate. That’s our view only, of course. If you don’t agree that’s fine. I was just having an indulgent BMS rant.
And Sam is, of course, right. Do you think we love the Holiday Special? Of course not? Is it a guilty pleasure… well… I suppose in a way… although it’s more like a sick sado-masochistic pleasure… without any pleasure… hmmm. 😉 We love Star Wars and we love the situations and characters. We find humor in it, but at the same time we love the drama too. So… we may not (at this time) plan to do anything with the prequels, but that’s because we’re not fans of them and we want to celebrate our personal faves first and foremost. But please, don’t feel discouraged by what we do and say. Hopefully, for the most part, we never forget our sense of humor and what we all have in common. 🙂
Oh and I should add, just to clarify, that I (Rod speaking) actually do like a few things about the Holiday Special, but I’ll cover those in my review of the holiday special in an upcoming blog update. It’s old school Star Wars… it has its charms!
Hate on the Holiday as many people may, and rightly so, it did certainly do a couple of good things.
A: Introduced Kashyyyk. Gave us a pretty good look at it, honestly.
B: Noted that Chewbacca DID in fact have a family, and something worth fighting The Empire for.
C: Also, introduced Life Day. While it was pretty lame here, Life day was freaking AWESOME on Star Wars Galaxies. Seriously.
I suppose if you satirised the Prequels it’d all look pretty negative. What you’re doing now shows genuine and obvious affection.
I have a lot of respect for what Lucas has done – Star Wars is his and no one really has the right to tell him what to do with it. Some fans sound as if SW actually belongs them because they’ve invested so much of their lives into it, even insisting (the nerve) that Lucas should never be allowed to have any more input. What?!?!
To me, the best thing would be for him to just stop EVERYTHING. It would be better in my opinion. A bit like dinosaur rock bands that keep ‘reuniting’ after most of the members have died, releasing poor quality work. It just dilutes what’s gone before. Diminishing returns. Other directors have made a wide variety of good films – always moving on. Robert Wise did ‘West Side Story’ and it was definitive (if you like that sort of stuff) did he make a sequel? No: he made one of the greatest ever horror movies, a non-musical, in Black and White called ‘The Haunting’.
But, it’s up to him. He created it. He owns it. I didn’t go to the Clone Wars in the cinema (thank God) and I’ll continue to vote with my feet and wallet in future.
I still haven’t watched the whole thing – I just can’t force my way through it. I just tried again and can only get as far as the Jefferson Starship credit!
The only thing I can remember besides Leia singing in the special was the Grandpa getting an orgasm and Luke in the Boba cartoon looking like David Collings.
I blame April entirely for making me sit through it.
Also, Lumpy getting his face bashed in = genius.
Wow – never saw that one before. Very bad/surreal/campy/wierd… I don’t even know what to say to the “Grandpa watching porn” sequence…
I love it. Great to see the rest of the Bacca family.