COMEDY COMMENTARY: THE PHANTOM MENACE (Feat. Nora Gnabasik & Nicholas Szabo)

Brian is joined by stand up comic Nora Gnabasik and comedy writer Nicholas Szabo to give our collective commentary of the BEST WORST Star Wars movie, The Phantom Menace! Full disclosure, this movie is long AF...

Show Notes:

00:00:30:00- Intro

00:07:10:00- Racists In Space

00:09:20:00- “Is that… reeeegal?”

00:10:40:00- The raptors of the droid world

00:12:40:00- Kiera Knightly is Natalie Portman

00:17:00:00- Nora wants to jump McGregor’s bones

00:19:45:00- George Lucas’ writing method

00:21:30:00- How Nick gets out of a conversation

00:23:30:00- Nora psychoanalyzes everyone.

00:25:30:00- Star Jar Binks

00:29:30:00- You can’t rent Star Wars

00:30:30:00- Jar Jar stole his lines from the Olson Twins

00:32:00:00- Star Wars is for little boys in the future.

00:35:00:00- Rey’s character is just pandering to women

00:37:15:00- Padme may be a pedophile.

00:39:00:00- A New Hope’s deleted scenes

00:40:20:00- Was Luke Han Solo’s son?

00:46:45:00- They’re all slaves

00:48:00:00- Anakin’s mother has zero emotion

00:49:00:00- Qui Got Jinn is a hippie jedi

00:49:45:00- George cast Jake Lloyd after he watched Jingle All the Way

00:52:00:00- What was happening with Anakin’s mom?

00:57:00:00- Watto is the Fiddler on the junk yard

00:59:00:00- All these kids are lubing up

01:00:00:00- The Topher Grace cut

01:02:00:00- Qui Gon left for a pack of cigarettes and never came back

01:05:30:00- The basset hound infiltrates

01:09:00:00- The Force is a magnet

01:11:00:00- Rey is Darth Millennial’s sister

01:14:00:00- Rey is an Obi Wan

01:17:30:00- Ani is free but screw you mom

01:19:00:00- Kenobi was placing bets on the Skywalkers

01:20:00:00- John Williams is composing his ass off

01:21:00:00- Nora attempts to save the movie

01:22:30:00- The Star Wars universe never invented wheels

01:26:00:00- Nora plugs herself! Then has to go…

01:29:00:00- Brian realizes that Lucas screwed with the movie AGAIN

01:32:00:00- Floating senators are the future

01:33:30:00- E.T. is outraged on the senate floor

01:35:30:00- Yoda/ Dookoo fight vs. Kenobi/ Vader old people fight

01:38:00:00- Yoda’s voice explained

01:39:00:00- Mace Windu shows his true Samuel L. Jackson

01:40:30:00- Well done steak and ketchup

01:43:00:00- The rent is too damn high on Naboo

01:44:00:00- The theory of Sith Jar Jar Binks

01:50:30:00- Wait… why are they fighting?

01:53:00:00- Lucas was surrounded by yes men

01:53:30:00- Droids were more cost effective than slaves

01:55:00:00- A double sided lightsaber???

01:55:30:00- George Lucas impressions are just Kermit the Frog impressions of Jimmy Stewart

01:57:30:00- When the producers watched it for the first time

01:59:00:00- Everyone was rotoscoped

02:01:00:00- What’s the function of the laser grid?

02:01:30:00- The worst VFX shot ever

02:02:30:00- Lucas didn’t read any of his dialog out loud

02:04:30:00- How did Qui Gon die from that?

02:06:30:00- Ima poof you

02:07:00:00- The callback to Return of the...