Watto

“I’m actually going to do something very odd, and agree with Tim.” - Matt

Released Date: February 19, 2011

Run Time: 33 minutes

Episode Summary
The character introduction began this episode, and immediately roled into Tim’s “3 facts” presentation. The 3 facts Tim specifically listed were:


 * 1) Watto’s species is known as a Toydarian
 * 2) Watto was voiced by Andy Secombe.
 * 3) There were early accusations of racial stereotypes in the Phantom Menace and Watto was one exampled used in those accusations.

There were several long discussions about the character outside facts included a discussion about the realism of the CG character and the accusations of Watto (and other prequel characters) possibly being stereotype caricatures made during the release of The Phantom Menace.

Notable Moments
This is the first prequel character focused episode, Matt and Dave stated early their dislike for the prequel trilogy.

First mention of “The Movie Theater” all panelists work at together.

Matt used the phrase “Asian Frog Guys” to describe Nemodians, a reference to the 2008 web-series by NeoZAZ called “Fan Film: The Series”.

Dave reported the first email interview on the show with Andy Secombe, the voice of Watto.

All four trivia questions had the same answer.

Website Segment
Embarrassingly, Matt reported about Watto’s entry on the site Jew or not Jew, following the conversation of the racial stereotype accusations.

Trivia
This episode featured the second set of questions from the round of trivia. The source material from this series was the original Star Wars Trivial Pursuit cards.

Trivia Results
Matt - 1 Point

Tim - 1 Point

Chris - 1 Point

Dave - 1 Point

Overall Trivia Total
Matt - 1 Point

Tim - 2 Points

Chris - 2 Points

Dave - 2 Points

After Show Content
Tim was reminded or a random sound effect he used to make during the time the panelists worked together at the movie theater, eventually remembering and re-enacting the sound effect.