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IRP Episode 035 – Star Wars Episode II: The Effect of the Shows

Kail AndersenPosted on March 2, 2014 Posted in Episodes No Comments

IRP Episode 035 – Star Wars Episode II: The Effect of the Shows

IRP Episode 035 - Star Wars II

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! JOIN JAR-JAR JOEY, BOBA PAUL, DARTH UDDER, AND JEDI GIORS FOR A STAR WARS SEQUEL FROM A RAMBLE FAR FAR AWAY…

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Click “PLAY” Below to Hear the Segment of Your Choice	SHOW NOTES Click if You DARE
Aah!!!! Not The Second Episode of Star Wars! (2 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:00:24)	For Some Reason, We Sound Like Cattle Pablo’s Message To Ching Wow…We Don’t Need To Know About Your Louis Vuitton Purses We’re The Terrorists! Our Sponsor Is Christmas Yoda
PreRamble – We Each Put In Our Own (5 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:02:25)	Wannabe Is Now A Bitcoin Owner As He Bought A Tenth Of A Bitcoin For $65 Google’s Auto-Awesome With Christmas Lights And Raindrops On Windows Marvel’s Battle Of The Atom…Like An X-Men Christmas Carol Let’s All Eat At The Poontang Grill Geek And His Misinterpreted Holiday Lyrics Santa Claus…That Freakin Pervert-Pedophile-Man
Intro To Star Wars II (2 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:07:25)	Use Your Extends For Another 4 Inches Wow, It’s Christmas In The Middle Of February! All Inside Jokes, All The Time
TOPIC-01: The Never-Been-Done-Before Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:09:25)	Wannabe Gets All Prospectory The Ship That Keeps Going And Going Parodied By Spaceballs George Lucas Was An Editor And Had A Good Sense Of Timing And Motion Motion Tracking Computerized Cameras For Zooms And Swooshes And Swoops And Pans The Models Became Characters In The Movies Star Wars Gave Credibility To Sci-Fi, Which Before Star Wars Was Just God Awful… …Except For 2001…That Was Ahead Of Its Time Star Wars: White Knight Vs. Black…Good Vs. Bad…The Heroes Journey
TOPIC-02: The Character Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:13:26)	Boba-Fett…A Small Character That Became Huge His First Introduction Was In The Christmas Special In An Animated Segment Boba Has A Rag Tag Costume That Was Pieced Together While Adventuring Lucas Wanted The Used Look…A Used Universe The Ten Great Design Decisions Of Star Wars
TOPIC-03: The Merchandising Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:17:27)	Studios: We Just Want Our Cut, Take The Rest And Make T-Shirts Or Whatever Why No THX-1138 Merchandising?…Because It Sucked The Figures Didn’t Come Out Until Months And Months After The Movie Lucas…Good At Timing, Merchandising, World Building….Directing…Not So Much Pod Racing Video Game…Pretty Awesome Jizmo?
TOPIC-04: The Pop-Culture Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:21:27)	Kids Who Loved Star Wars Became Adults That Loved Star Wars ILM and Skywalker Sound Established and Bled Into Other Media Star Wars Porn?….Star Wars Has Everything! E.T. Meets Yoda Hidden R2’s In Movies…Close Encounters…Raiders…Others We Don’t Know E.T.s In The Phantom Menace Star Wars Really Encapsulated The 1980’s
TOPIC-05: The Spin-Off Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:25:27)	The Lack Of Star Wars Kept Those Who Loved It Clamoring For More Early Stuff: Marvel Comics, Splinter Of The Mind’s Eye Book, Droids Cartoon… Maybe Lucas Felt Burnt By CBS And The X-mas Special…Never Doing That Again In The Late Eighties, Star Wars Fans Only Really Had The Bantha Tracks Newsletter Like ’85 to ’92 There Was Nothing…What Was Lucas Doing Then?…Making Howard The Duck
TOPIC-06: The Expanded-Universe Effect (6 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:29:27)	J.K. Rowlings Wrote A Detective Book??? The Young Indiana Jones Was High Quality TV…Not Your Average A-Team It Took A Few Years Before The Tech He Wanted For Star Wars Was Available The Book “Heir To The Empire”…Lucas: I Approve This Trilogy Rumors Of Prequels And Sequels…Oh My! Wannabe Wants An Official Star Wars Timeline Ya Kinda Get The Feeling George Lucas Dislikes Criticism A Really Good Fan Made Star Wars Short…Even Had Stunning Special Effects
TOPIC-07: The Han-Shot-First Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:35:28)	Down With Revisionist History! The End Dogfight Of A New Hope Was Much Better And Clearer In The Special Edition Han Not Shooting First…It Not Only Sucked, It Looked Bad ROTJ: Updating The Ghost Of Anakin…Blinking Ewoks… …But The Worst Is…Nooooooooooo!
TOPIC-08: The Prequel Effect (6 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:39:28)	Gimme an S, Gimme a U, Gimme a K…Wait A Minute…Geek Can’t Spell Lucas Was Probably Surrounded By Yes Men Phantom Menace Was Pretty Bad…Like Watching A Galactic C-Span It Was Just The Wrong Mixture Of Dry Politics And Dumb Kid Stuff ROTS…Anakin Went Dark Too Easily…Rumor Was They Actually Already Re-Filmed That Part A Re-Edit Is Needed…All The Prequels Into One Good Movie Other Problems…Weak Overall Designs, Flat Characters, No Conjunctions
TOPIC-09: The Generational Effect (6 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:45:29)	Do We Just Like The 1st Trilogy Because We Grew Up With It? Kids Love The Prequels And Clone Wars And Think The Originals Are Boring As Crap Got So Excited With All He Could Do, He Forgot About Story And Character… Lucas Actually Wanted Spielberg To Direct Jedi…But It Was Not Allowed The Upcoming New Movies Will Bring Up A Different Generation
TOPIC-10: The Jar-Jar Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:51:48)	Me Sooo This, Me Sooo That Trying To Make Jar Jar Be A C-3PO, A Sort Of Comic Relief R2 & 3PO Originally Based On The Hidden Fortress: The Server & His Squat Companion Lucas Must Have Thought: A New Set Of Films Needs A New Bumbling Sidekick He’s Actually The One Responsible For Starting The Empire
TOPIC-11: The Midichlorians Effect (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:55:49)	Is Star Wars More Fantasy Or Science Fiction? The Force Was Originally Very Buddha-Like…Midichlorians Made It All Sciencey Geek Says Fantasy, And Midichlorians Demystify It Lucas Just Uses Too Much Exposition, Show! Don’t Tell! Balance Of The Force Prophecy…Not One Jedi Could Figure Out That Was Bad News
TOPIC-12: The Disney Effect (6 min) PLAY (jump to ‘0:59:49)	Before Disney Took It, We All Thought Star Wars Was Over And Done With Disney Buying Star Wars Was Not As Big News As That There Would Be A Star Wars 7 Ultimate Crossover For Disney…Star Wars, Indie, And Marvel Patton Oswalt In Parks And Recreation Does An Awesome Star Wars Filibuster Wannabe A Bit Upset About An Issue With A Disneyland Commercial The Future Of Tomorrowland…Star Wars Land…Nice!
The Star Wars II Conclusion (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘1:05:59)	We Hit Star Wars, And We Hit It Hard! Geek’s Topic Next Week: Decentralization…I’m Sure It Will Work Out Fine Not Jar Jar Wannabe…Wannabe Calrissian!
A Long Time Ago, In An Outtake Far, Far Away… (4 min) PLAY (jump to ‘1:10:10)	Pablo’s Star Wars Trivia Knowledge: Useless Or Useful..You Decide!

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Last reply was March 4, 2014

iamramblingnow

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It’s a sequel, it’s a prequel, it’s a special edition! No! It’s Star Wars 2!

Dive deeper than Jar Jar’s bongo… http://t.co/vpuJmELaf9

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dgiors

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My latest podcast IRP Episode 035 – Star Wars Episode II: The Effect of the Shows http://t.co/IsVhuwXXRR

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Jolly Llama

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Is it just me who finds it funny that jarjar speaks with a jamaican accent and drives a bongo??

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David W. Carr

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Incoherent Ramblings

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Are you suggesting he smokes a bong-o?

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Jolly Llama

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Suggesting? Nonono.
Meesa no making da suggesting. Meesa say it outright… jarjar been asmoking da lillypads..

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iamramblingnow

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