Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/15/ewoks-without-fur-are-absolute.html
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They eat people. Ewoks are terrifying.
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I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to realize that “Ewok” is just a play on “Wookie.” Damn you George Lucas!
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Oh fuck. I was THIS years old 
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I think what’s more disconcerting is that Warwick Davis never seems to age.
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Yeah. They really put the wok into Ewok.
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Maybe we are just Ewoks without fur…
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All this time I thought it was a play on the name of the Miwok, the indigenous people who inhabited the region of California where Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch is now located.
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Any and all Star Wars flicks have become horrifying after watching The Phantom Menace. I hate the lot of them now.
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I wasn’t aware of this factoid, and it seems quite plausible. I don’t claim to know the facts here; my “revelation” about the species name came about randomly when I was thinking about Star Wars a few days ago.
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Both sound like totally plausible explanations to me.
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Agreed. I can’t even watch the originals without sneering at how awful some of the dialogue is. What once seemed quaint and a little dated was just revealed to be Lucas’s incredibly poor writing and incomprehension of people. Plus, because everyone realized the yet-unwritten story evolved from Star Wars (originally wasn’t even called ep IV) to ESB, it was easy to overlook a lot of the weirdness around Luke/Leia. Afterward, it just felt creepy.
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Fuzzie-Wuzzie was a bear. Fuzzie-Wuzzie had no hair. Fuzzie-Wuzzie wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
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I don’t know what’s weird about it: it’s a common trope in the mythologies he was drawing on, but he didn’t actually have them get it on, as they would have in a proper myth…
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I was going to post this until I learned today it’s a racist poem originating from British wars in Sudan, referring to black African hair.
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I did not know that.
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Huh, the background looks complicated. Rudyard Kipling’s 1892 poem “Fuzzy-Wuzzy” refers to the British wars in Sudan but makes no mention of a bear. The children’s rhyme “Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a Bear” came from a 1944 children’s novelty song and doesn’t appear to connect to the Kipling poem in any way beyond the title phrase.
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