By Chris Snellgrove | Published
There are few alien creatures in Star Wars that fans hate more than the Ewoks. Some look down on these little dudes because such lucky bears seem inappropriate Return of the Jedithe culminating final act of a critically acclaimed film trilogy. Some look down on the Ewoks because they represent George Lucas's perfect transition from storyteller to toy salesman. Some of the die-hard fans, on the other hand, resented the Ewoks because they replaced the fearsome Wookies that were written in earlier versions of the script.
Granted, Ewoks there is offensive to Return of the Jedi: they are just beautiful and strange stupid that it's amazing to think that they could, Viet Cong style, defeat the Empire's most highly trained, most heavily armed Stormtroopers. However, outside of that movie, Ewoks can be pretty funny, especially when they put on weird, public displays of cuteness. Don't believe it? Then it's time to go back to a long, long time ago, for a special Halloween episode Today Show when a drunken Ewok kept stomping on Al Roker's leg on live TV!
Meet the Galaxy Horniest Ewok
If you don't often watch i Today ShowI don't blame you. Most of the time, the show is about silly people exchanging empty smiles while discussing trivial topics, all to avoid offending their target audience: adults who have become synonymous with the couch. However, every once in a while, this aging talk show gives us a very clever moment. That is exactly what happened in 2009, when the Today Show aired a Halloween special that was all about Star Wars. We get to see Al Roker dressed as Han Solo, which might be reason enough to watch this surreal clip from the past.
The whole episode was light-hearted, which is probably why the producers put in a few Ewoks. The Ewoks were wildly out, acting like Gremlins as the hosts demonstrated how to get the decorations and wine right for a Halloween party. Things get worse when one of the Ewoks approaches the owner, and is told, “Down, boy, down! Down. Sit, sit! Good dog.” While you're still reeling from the strange space prejudice, something out of control happens: a suspicious Ewok tries to escape with a martini while another apparently starts. to fumble one of the hosts. “What are you doing behind me?” he cries, before commenting that “there are badly frisky.”
When He Can't Stop Reigning
Believe it or not, all that weirdness was an appetizer leading up to the main course. The brown Ewok who was seen holding his hips earlier begins to demonstrate his moonwalking skills to a delighted Al Roker. When Roker points out his moves, the Ewok one-ups things by doing a stanky freaking leg. He continues to dance as he lunges towards the man and, without warning, begins to yank the Roker's leg! After the suspect backed off, a laughing Roker could only say, “That's how I feel dirty.”
Crazy enough, the brown Ewok wasn't made to make everything as distorted as possible. He got down and started doing push-ups. When a guest demonstrates the creature's calisthenics, it stops doing push-ups and starts in earnest. crouching on the ground covered with grass. This is the last “straw” for Roker, who jokes that his guests are leaving Better Homes and Gardens he should be happy to witness all this before he goes to commercial.
Honestly, this is probably my favorite Star Wars media of the last 20 years. Everything is possible a stranger as the clip goes on, and it's amazing to see the Ewoks in a way we've never seen them before: drunk, sedated, and with obscenity with horns. It's pretty obvious that Al Roker was expecting it there is none of this, and it's hard to stop laughing while being molested by the most hated alien in all of Star Wars, all on live television. However, I can't help but ask Today Show the knowledge of the hosts of this galaxy far, far away. Roker was not to be impressed by the moonwalk. Well, in the forest moon of Endor, everything go to the moon!
