Banning droids from the cantina makes sense from a business perspective. Droids don't eat or drink; they'd just be taking up space that could be used for paying customers. (it's kind of mean, but droids are third- or fourth-class citizens in Star Wars)

No droids: As a child of the '80s, I always assumed it was because the cantina was busy and droids took up space that paying customers could occupy.

I just always figured that the bounty hunters and smugglers who frequented the cantina didn't want things that could record them spying on what they were saying and who they were meeting.

According to Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina, Wuher did not allow droids into the cantina because they were not pay customers meaning the cantina did not provide oil baths for droids.

I cannot believe you referenced Bea Arthur from the Christmas Special! George Lucas just hired a Private Investigator to trace your IP Address!

Mando wasn’t looking for Guild work, he was looking for work. There is a difference. He just killed a bunch of guild members, he wasn’t looking to get work from the same group. There’s other Bounty work outside of the guild.

Han didn't shoot first. Han was the *Only One* who shot.

I know it's not canon anymore, but the old book, Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina, was excellent. Gave a ton of background on the patrons and such. It at least deserved a shout out! But fun list overall.

Wuher: I have great respect for the Jedi, as they saved me from the Battle Droids many years ago Also Wuher: *snitches out Obi-Wan and Luke to the stormtroopers*

As a bartender, I find the idea of 102 patrons being considered a lot to be utterly laughable.

Han did not shoot first because that would imply that Greedo shot second, he did not. Greedo didn't get a shot off before Han shot him. Han shot.

I always thought a reason for "no droids" was the danger of unstable assassin droids. That lead to increased prejudice against all droids.

*'Hello There! This is a wretched hive of scum and villainy we must be cautious!"*

Droids not being allowed is part of the technophobic themes employed in the original trilogy. "Don't be too proud of this technological terror." "Let the Wookie win." and Luke turning off his targeting computer are also examples of this motif.

Han shot and killed the bounty hunter in the original release. Then Lucas changed it to bounty hunter being able to squeeze off a shot before going up in smoke. And then Lucas changed it to bounty hunter calling on Macaulay Culkin for some reason, shooting, and then Solo blasting him. In the movie SOLO, by the end you find out how Han learned a valuable lesson of reacting first. And he remembers that lesson many years later in the cantina....by shooting the bounty hunter.

"Han shot first" And... I immensely liked

Droids can record their surroundings and broadcast/share those recording to outside parties. Not something you'd want in a cantina filled with the wretches and scum of the universe. It's like bringing mobile devices into a club full of Arkham's supervillains after Batman activated the total cell surveillance system after Dark Knight.

HOW COULD YOU NOT MENTION THE STYLE OF MUSIC THE BAND PLAYS!?!?!? It’s JIZZ! Real thing and is also now canon.

It was alluded in the book “Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina” that droids were not allowed in the cantina because a droid had been used to blow up a target in the cantina before. This may be in connection with the running gag of IG-11 (an assassin droid) continuously saying he was going to self-destruct in a an episode of The Mandalorian t.v. show decades later. I am surprised this video did not mention that book at all.

The bar keep says that he "doesn't serve their kind", meaning the droids. Well, of course he bloody doesn't - _robots don't drink._

Han shot Greedo. Greedo didn't do shit.

Fascinating. I read a little about the Cantina in novels but I feel I barely scratched the surface. You even mentioned a real world commercial referencing the place about drinking and driving. Great work! 🙂

3:05 I'm old enough to have seen this broadcast. It can't hurt me anymore.

I always thought Wuher, the bartender, was a clone from the Clone Wars and he didn't like Droid because he had to fight them years ago. Why doesn't he look or sound like a basic clone? Maybe he got surgery to change himself? Maybe he is one of the Bad Batch and changed his name and changed his look? As it turns out, I was partially correct. It was because of the Clone Wars. The simplest reason is Droids don't drink booze. Still fun to think about it all. Where did he go after the Battle Of Endor? He coulda retired, took over as the night shift bartender? He got over the past and stopped hating robots? Thanks for this video, it's awesome.

Excellent list! I like how you included all the sources too. Now I have more stuff to look up. 😎

This is the 3rd WhatCulture vid hosted by Sean Ferrick that I've seen in the last 24 hours (the other two being on WhoCulture and TrekCulture respectively) and I'm all for it 😄 Keep up the good work Sean! Great article!!!

Funny that you mentioned Bea Aurthor's X-Mas Special appearance. ThanX for the history!

Ashoka never met greedo she fought the neimodians and battle droids during this episode.

Was the droid bartender actually confirmed as EV-9D9, Jabba’s dungeon droid or just the same model? I don’t remember seeing the 3 eye lights in Mandalorian.

Greedo never shot at all. Han shot him, full stop... Han didn't shoot first, he is the only one who shot at all.

When the mandalorian walked into the cantina, the Droid detectors were not on the walls at the entrance.

No Sean. Han did not shoot first. That implies Greedo shot at all, when everyone over the age of thirty remembers. Han shot. Greedo died. There was no second shot. The end.

I was addicted to death sticks and spice before the empire.

Star Trek preceded Star Wars by 11 YEARS (Trek's 1966 to Wars' 1977), so let's keep that firmly in mind.

Thank you for the video!😁👍🏿

always thought that han shooting greedo pre-emptively was apart of his character ark from self interested bandit to the unexpected hero... but hey... what do i know... if lucas want's to devalue his own writing... guess you can't stop him.

You forgot Richard Pryor worked there as a server.

I like how the flipped bar tables stopped the lasers while typical bullets would go right thru.

Good stuff man.

I remember from my childhood a Star Wars anti Marijuana ad. It had c3po and R2 , R2D2 was holding a burning joint , 3PO was saying "Put that marijuana down, it can hurt you" or the equivalent Does anyone else remember this? When you mentioned the drunk driving ad, it occurred to me I might be closer to finding out about this Marijuana ad I mentioned.

really interesting vid thank you

The cantina where the mandolorian went was in Mos Espa, as mentioned in the show. So the bartender in Mos Eisley is likely still at the cantina there.

Now that was fun very nice

#10 Ahsoka didn't even go to the Cantina. That was the kidnapped victim's father and brother that went there. (at least one of them, 2 were kidnapped in that episode and held in two different locations) She rescued the one on the Trade Federation ship.

No, Han didn't "shoot first".... Han shot the ONLY shot!

My Lego version arrives this week. Can't wait!!!!!!!!!

Numerous scrapped combustion chambers from Rolls Royce engines hang above the bar as prop pieces. One like these was eventually used to make the assassin droid IG-88's head.

11 , the country teasers ( a great band from the uk ) have an album about the empire strikes back that makes all kinds of comparisons between Star Wars locations and UK locations , any true fan needs to hear it

The style of music being played by Figrin Dan and The Modal Nodes is called jizz. Beings that play that style of music are called jizz wailers.

Freedom shot the wall near Solo"s head if you look closely.Solo already had his gun pointed at him accurately under the table.Solo knew he was going to try to kill him so he shot 1st.Greedo shooting the wall was just a reaction to getting shot as he was about to pull the trigger.Simple.

Could you guys do a video on the Mon Calamari capital ships?

Some of the drink made of body remains too

Love the Village in Tunisia . Rammed earth and Mud . What you do when you get tired of Cold Damp Caves .

1977 Star Warts Holiday Special was ahead of its time. It showed grandpa Wookie using VR set to watch dancing star wars girls.

We need a full analysis video essay on which of the 12 drinks tasted the best

Very interesting

I always thought of the 'we don't serve their kind here' as an obvious reference to their servile status within the empire. Essentially droids are slaves.

Its crazy to me how people have tied all these small characters together and made complex back stories.

Oh man, you guys should do a whole video on BT-1, the droid that wanted to kill any human he comes across.

I had no idea there was so much detail about this place

I always thought droids were not allowed because they dont drink

You forgot that Richard Pryor was the the bartender on a SNL sketch.

Am listening

Welcome to this jumping joint with aliens having happy hours.

Droids are not allowed, because Bartender knows Bender. xD

I just realized a wooden table can stop a laser blast. So why do Stormtroopers wear armor made from the same material as their action figure counterparts?

You know you're in Mos Isley when an arm gets lopped off in a bar brawl and everyone turns a blind eye! 😂 *Shrugs* Hey, nothing to do with me! 😂

I like the notion of han shooting an assassin It makes him look like he's not an absolute dunce

In a tragic backstory he had a Federation Droid doll as a kid that was stolen from him...by a droid

A New Hope was released in '77 not '79. I was 16, got my drivers license and had a job. Saw it every week that summer till haying season.

At about 8:42 the video implies that Star Wars influenced the creating of Star Trek which is strange considering that Star Wars a new hope came out in 1977 where as Star Trek came out in September 1966 the first episode being called the man trap (first two episodes also did not have William shatner in it)

I need a copy of Star Wars Complete Locations now!

As a 6 year old I loved that PSA.

Why is it an issue if Han shot first? It's not like he did not know who he was dealing with.

Wasn't EV-9D9 on the sail barge that JABBA died on?

Did I miss something with the Star Trek reference? I'm not sure it would be correct to suggest that paramount scrambled after the release of Star Wars given that Star Trek is 11 years older than A New Hope, unless, like I said, I'm missing something?

There’s a pub just like near where I live.

Han not only shot first, he was the ONLY ONE WHO SHOT!

"The inside and the outside were nowhere near each other" my first though on hearing that was that it was a TARDIS. But I always knew what the real reason was, but it was a nice quick thought

Yes

That band is just the best music in the entire galaxy

Mos Eisley. A wretched dive with Wasabi peas and karaoke.

Sphere Of Influence was not the 4th episode of SWTCW, it was actually in the 3rd season.

According to the book Tales from Jabbas palace *book name??* I remember EV-9D9 was a robot with a humanoid brain, and was destroyed not long after Jabbas barge was from one of her prior droids she tortured. I'm remembering this from long ago, so questioning how she was a bartender later on. Yes I know it's now legends, so why her story is now different.

My kind of place.

I don't understand all the HATE for the Christmas Special. Yes I agree looking back as an adult it was silli, goofy, and had all kinds of other flaws when comparing to the rest of the Star Wars media. However I think people loose sight of the time period it was released. We didn't have the internet much less youTube. The only things we got to SEE of star Wars were maybe a commercial or a random magazine article. We were starving for ANYTHING Star Wars. My family had very little money so I had maybe 6-8 action figures. I made my own vehicles and even built my own Death Star play set out of cardboard. When that show came on it was the greatest thing I had seen since the movies themselves. Nobody I knew had even heard of a VCR and so I did the next best thing. I got one of those tape recorders with the buttons on one end, stood it in front of the tiny speaker of our( I'm guessing 17") television and recorded the audio from the show. I listened to that tape for years lip syncing the starship song and reliving the show through my imagination. That show has and always will be one of my best and favorite memories in my otherwise drizzled childhood. So I think all the hate is misplaced and just perpetuated by people forgetting when it was from and who it was for, us kids who dreamed of being in the Star Wars world. I wish it was released and I could have a copy of it to play and show my kids even along with some of the other obscure things published back then like commercials and toy ads..

There was a short story book that had the bartender escaping jabbas palace after someone set off a bunch of the droids to go crazy and start attacking all biological life him and some others shimmed through a airduct and the bartender was talking to his friend and mentioned he wasnt going to let droids whenever he got his own bar it also said he was the owner of the cantina

That's good to know. Thanks. Meters?

In the book a certain point of view it tells you how the dude that owns it was made an orphan during the clone wars. If you havent read the book or heard the audiobook you definitely need to

Mint

Tales from the Disney focus group.

Nothing like some good old traditional jizz wailing. There's something really charming about that Drunk Driving PSA. I say this as someone from a family with a long history with Bill W.

You and I need to work on our definition of "need."

EV-99... Wasn't that the droid in Jabba's palace? The one that oversaw 3PO and R2's assignments?

I had always assumed droids weren't allowed because letting drinking, paying customers bring in big pieces of clunky electronic equipment with them was a waste of space that could accommodate other drinking, paying customers. I can't imagine bars and restaurants making a habit of allowing me to tote a big screen TV in and plunk it down at a table or barstool. Maybe if all the droids were the size of laptops.

Han didn’t shoot first. Han shot Greedo and Greedo died.

The Christmas Special was the BEST! I totally believe Mel Brooks was one of the writers, incognito😂

He who pulls his gun first has initiated a 'call out'. One or both may get shot after that; it's a fair fight.

You had me at Han shot first

A long time ago. in a galaxy far, far away... Just outside Watford.