In television terms, the clip show is a show that features nothing really new except for a couple of setup scenes where the main characters all start to reminisce about a past event in their life, followed by convenient scenes from an episode that just happens to contain the very thing they were reminiscing about. It’s not quite a rerun, but it might as well be, and therefore, it’s probably disappointing to the vast majority of viewers who tuned in to see a brand new episode.
“Does everybody remember that time Chandler got his head stuck in Phoebe’s bra right before jury duty?”
**wavy dissolve to an archived clip***
And so forth…
Why do I bring this up?
Because I was supposed to review something that didn’t show up, so I had to pull an article straight out of the darkest hole I own. So sit back and shaddup, ya wise guy.
With the completion of the bounty hunters, which was my number one most-wanted group of scum ever since the news broke of a six-inch Star Wars line, my “most wanted” list has been freed up considerably. New contenders have risen to close the gap. New contenders that I have mentioned many times before, but never all in the same place. Clip Show!
Lobot
What more can be said about the creepiest human-robot thing that ever forgot to blink? At this point Lobot’s absence is more a crime against nature than a simple hole in a toyline. Lando is getting lonely. Lobot would get Lobought multiple times. I’m so eager to get one I just bought his Pop! Vinyl figure. Yeah. I’m that guy that’s that much of a Lobot fan. There’s no support group for this. There’s just a group that puts on their earmuffs really weird and stands around challenging each other to a staring contest.
Hammerhead
The Cantina Aliens are another group that I’d love to start checking off the “Giant List of Six Inch Wants” and Hammerhead comes out at the top of that list. And as I detailed in this article, regardless of what his packaging says, I’ll be calling him Hammerhead until the end of time.
Nien Nunb
Yet another dude (like Lobot) whose greatest moments were while he was standing or sitting beside Lando, Nien Nunb‘s absence is growing more and more glaring with each passing day. He hits pretty much every mark that would make for a cool toy, and I have to believe that, like with many others on this list, it’s just a matter of when. But seriously…when?
When?!?!?!
Ponda Baba/Dr. Evazan
They’re two people but they’re taking up only one slot because they’re like the bacon and eggs…of murder! See, bacon and eggs go together like…ok, I don’t know where I was going with this. Probably a cereal killer joke? I don’t even know, man. It doesn’t have to make sense. Clip show! Regardless, let’s get these two heartless bastards out ASAP, because Luke’s not going to threaten himself! He’s just going to die alone on an island. This got super-depressing very fast.
Weequay
Getting the recent Skiff Guard Lando has made me even more anxious to get a Weequay, which, as I detailed in this article, is the name of a species and not actually a name name. The entire opening chunk of Return of the Jedi is chock full of nonstop awesome, culimating in the psycho lightsaber powermurder bonanza of Luke versus Jabba’s gaggle of goons. I’d buy a lot of these guys. A lot. And other Skiff people too, but especially Weequay.
Clip show!