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Tribute to Nien Nunb and other Star Wars Bit Parts
Nien Nunb writes "This Star Wars feature tries to give the little guys a leg up, like the aforementioned Nien Nunb, who only shows up for one action sequence, but he was copilot of the ship that destroyed the second Death Star. Star Wars is full of forgotten faces like his and you can see all their wretchedness here."
*Swoon*
Itchy's sex fantasy was DIAHAN CARROL??
That's almost as bad as those damn SciFi channel popups! **twitch twitch**
AIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!
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We don't need no Net Explorer We don't need no Thought control
Erik Schmoll : he made a 2 second appearance as the toilet paper delivery boy in Lethal Weapon III
Raymond Swzarznik : the much acclaimed actor how played the back of the 56th passenger in Airplane II: the Sequel.
Eugene Smith : the driver of the first Chevrolet passed by Drew Barrimore in Charlie's Angels.
Joseph Sixpack : the 6th left buttock from the right in "Anal orgy IV"
Good work guys, it's about time your talent and the talent of the approx. 500.000.000.000 people like you are recognized !
Forgotten Characters:
No. 1 - "That Little Kid Who Played Anakin and said 'Yippee' A Lot"
I'd like to forget but I just can't.
:)
My namesake, TK-421.. The ill-fated stormtrooper who gets shot by Han Solo, and ends up with a bad transmitter...
TK-421 Fan Club
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
Am I the only one who thought that the jedi master shown briefly in The Plotless Menace with the 6 foot long neck would be toast in any kind of lightsaber duel?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
The torture of it all.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
i agree, and i have another question, i heard of this obscure called "R2-D2" or something... does anyone know who he/she is?
Takes the cake for me, as far as bit parts go. You can tell the guy always wanted to get into movies, and this was his BIG CHANCE. He crammed as much of his life as possible into those three words. But ya know, three words just doesn't have enough space to pack that much into, especially those three.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
This story was featured nearly a year ago at x-entertainment (see that link for the story without the page-by-page popups).
Aha! I was just thinking this sounded like an XE article. Postings have tapered off there lately, but at one time I was reading that site every day. My favorite is Mr. T and Undertaker Ice Cream: Recipe for Disaster. It had me falling down laughing...at work unfortunately.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
That happened because Lucas based the alien languages in real (obscure) languages, and Mr. Numb's is based in some African dialect that translates to this bizarre elephant statement.
From http://www.rpi.edu/~wysmuj/files/journal.txt
ELEPHANTS,NEIN NUMB AND FEET (curiosity) (*)
Lucas used several linguists to create languages for the aliens. The one which Nein Numb speaks is based off a Kenyan dialect. By accident or design, one of his lines ends up sounding like, "One thousand herds of elephants are standing on my foot" in this language.
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
In fact, his greatest enemies weren't bad guys with lightsabers; they were clotheslines, and doorframes, and chandeliers, and low-flying Star Destroyers.
It was not uncommon for Star Destroyer commanders to lurk in orbit, just hoping to catch this guy out on the streets so they could "buzz" him. Great morale booster for the crew, although Long-Neck tended to get a bit irritated.
Sometimes, at those wild and wicked late-night Jedi parties, Mace Windu and Obi Wan would pull his neck really, really tight, and then Yoda would pluck it like a guitar string. Depending on how tight Mace and Obi pulled, Yoda could play a pretty awesome version of Neal Young's "Rockin' in the Free World."
"The dead do not shoo-bop-aloo-bah." -- Kai, 'Lexx'